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Bill Text

A689 

ASSEMBLY, No. 689 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GREGORY P. MCGUCKIN

District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Dunn

SYNOPSIS

���� Eliminates payments for unused sick leave earned 
after effective date; limits carry forward of unused vacation leave; requires 
suspension and forfeiture of certain payments; limits use of unused sick leave 
in year before retirement.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning sick leave and vacation leave granted to 
public employees, and amending and supplementing various parts of the statutory 
law.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 44 of P.L.2007, 
c.92 (C.18A:30-3.5) is amended to read as follows:

���� 44.� a.�� Notwithstanding 
any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a board of education, or an agency 
or instrumentality thereof, shall not pay supplemental compensation to any 
officer or employee for accumulated unused sick leave in an amount in excess of 
$15,000 except that an officer or employee who:

���� (1)�� on the effective date of 
P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.), or upon the expiration of a collective 
negotiations agreement or contract of employment applicable to that officer or 
employee in effect on that date has accrued supplemental compensation based 
upon accumulated unused sick leave shall, upon retirement, be eligible to 
receive for any unused leave not more than the amount so accumulated or not 
more than $15,000, whichever is greater; or

���� (2)�� becomes an officer or 
employee after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) and� 
has previously accrued supplemental compensation based upon accumulated unused 
sick leave shall, upon retirement, be eligible to receive for any unused leave 
not more than the amount so previously accumulated or not more than $15,000, 
whichever is greater.

���� Supplemental compensation 
shall be payable only at the time of retirement from a State-administered or 
locally-administered retirement system based on the leave credited on the date 
of retirement.

���� As used in this section, 
"officer or employee" means an elected official; or a person 
appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, or 
appointed by the Governor to serve at the pleasure of the Governor only during 
his or her term of office; or a person appointed by an elected public official 
or elected governing body of the political subdivision, with the specific 
consent or approval of the elected governing body of the political subdivision 
that is substantially similar in nature to the advice and consent of the Senate 
for appointments by the Governor of the State as that similarity is determined 
by the elected governing body and set forth in an adopted resolution, pursuant 
to guidelines or policy that shall be established by the Department of 
Education, but not including a person who is employed or appointed in the 
regular or normal course of employment or appointment procedures and consented 
to or approved in a general or routine manner appropriate for and followed by 
the political subdivision, or the agency or instrumentality thereof.

���� b.��� A board of education, 
or an agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not pay supplemental 
compensation to any officer or employee for accumulated unused sick leave 
earned after the effective date of P.L.�� , c.�� (pending before the 
Legislature as this bill) or after the expiration of collective negotiations 
agreement or an individual contract of employment with a relevant provision 
applicable to that officer or employee in effect on that date, except that an 
officer or employee who on the effective date of P.L.�� , c. (pending before 
the Legislature as this bill), or upon the expiration of collective 
negotiations agreement or an individual contract of employment with a relevant 
provision applicable to that officer or employee in effect on that date, has 
accrued supplemental compensation based upon accumulated unused sick leave 
earned prior to the effective date shall continue to be eligible to receive the 
amount so accrued based on that sick leave that remains credited on the date of 
retirement.� Supplemental compensation shall be payable only at the time of 
retirement from a State-administered or locally-administered retirement system 
based on the leave credited on the date of retirement.

���� c.���� Payment of 
supplemental compensation for accumulated unused sick leave shall be suspended 
if an officer or employee has been indicted for a crime that involves or 
touches such office or employment as defined in section 6 of P.L.2007, c.49 
(C.2C:43-6.5).

���� Supplemental compensation 
for accumulated unused sick leave shall be forfeited if an officer or employee 
is convi