New Jersey A 3136: Clarifies factors currently used by courts to determine when child support orders can be terminated.

Bill Text

A3136 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3136 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman JAY WEBBER

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman S.Kean

SYNOPSIS

���� Bars certain employees of certain public agencies 
from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on 
leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the participation in the Teacher�s 
Pension and Annuity Fund and Public Employees� Retirement System, amending 
various parts of the statutory law and repealing section 3 of P.L.2005, c.368 
and section 2 of P.L.1989, c.198.

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

���� 1.��� N.J.S.18A:6-48 is 
amended to read as follows:

���� 18A:6-48.� a.� The 
association may select such officers as may be necessary for the transaction of 
its business.

���� b.��� A person commencing 
service on or after the effective date of P.L.� , c.� (pending before the 
Legislature as this bill) as an officer or employee of the association shall 
not be eligible on the basis of that service to enroll in a State-administered 
retirement system.� The enrollment of an officer or employee with less than 10 
years of service credit in the retirement system as of that effective date 
shall be terminated as of that effective date.� An officer or employee with 10 
or more years of service credit in the retirement system as of that effective 
date shall be eligible to continue in the retirement system under the terms and 
conditions of the person�s enrollment if the person continues the service 
without a break.

(cf: P.L.1970, c.104, s.4)

���� 2.��� Section 3 of P.L.1983, 
c.108 (C.18A:18B-3) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� a.� Any two or more 
boards of education may form and become members of a school board insurance 
group.� A board of education may take this action by resolution of the board.� 
Through membership in a school board insurance group, a board of education may participate 
in any joint self-insurance fund or funds, risk management programs or related 
services offered or provided by the group.� The group shall have the power to 
establish a fund or funds for coverages authorized in section 2 of this act and 
to jointly purchase insurance or coverages under a master policy or contract of 
insurance for participating members.� The group shall have the power to take 
other actions necessary to developing, administering, and providing risk 
management programs, joint self-insurance funds, joint insurance purchases, and 
related services.

���� b.��� The bylaws of the school 
board insurance group shall provide that any board of education may join the 
group, provided it agrees to comply with the standards for membership, 
including risk management programs, which shall be established by the group, 
and may be a member as long as it complies with the standards for membership.

���� c.���� A school board 
insurance group may sue or be sued and shall appoint a natural person residing 
in this State or a corporation authorized to do business in this State as its 
agent for service of process.� The group shall notify the commissioner of the 
appointment.

���� d.��� A school board insurance 
group is not an insurance company or an insurer under the laws of this State 
and the development, administration or provision by a group of joint 
self-insurance fund or funds, risk management programs and related services 
does not constitute the transaction of insurance nor doing an insurance 
business.� A group shall not be subject to the provisions of Title 17, Subtitle 
3, Insurance, of the Revised Statutes.

���� e.���� A person commencing 
service on or after the effective date of P.L.� , c.� (pending before the 
Legislature as this bill) as an officer or employee of a school board insurance 
group shall not be eligible on the basis of that service to enroll in a 
State-administered retirement system.� The enrollment of an officer or employee 
with less than 10 years of service credit in the retirement system as of that 
effective date shall be terminated as of that effective date.� An officer or 
employee with 10 or more years of service credit in the retirement system as of 
that effective date shall be eligible to continue in the retirement system 
under the terms and conditions of the person�s enrollment if the person 
continues the service without a break.

(cf: P.L.1983, c.108, s.3)

���� 3.��� Section 3 of P.L.1985, 
c.204 (C.18A:64A-25.35) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� a.� Any two or more 
county colleges may form and become members of a county college insurance 
group.� A county college may take this action by resolution of the board of 
trustees of the county college.� Through membership in a county college 
ins