New Jersey S 443: Requires DHS to prioritize placement of parents of children receiving services from DCPP in mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.

Bill Text

S443 

SENATE, No. 443 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires annual salaries of certain county officers 
and employees be fixed by ordinance; ordinance not required for compensation 
excluded from pensionable salary.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the fixing of annual salaries of 
certain county officers and employees by ordinance and amending P.L.1972, 
c.154.

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

���� 1.��� Section 100 of P.L.1972, 
c.154 (C.40:41A-100) is amended to read as follows:

���� 100.� a.������ The board shall 
promptly after its organization determine and adopt, by resolution, a set of 
bylaws prescribing its own rules of procedure.� [Said] The bylaws shall not be 
inconsistent with any lawful ordinance or statute[;] .

���� b.��� A majority of the whole 
number of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum[;] .

���� c.���� A resolution shall mean 
any act or regulation of the board required to be reduced to writing, but which 
may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.� The vote upon 
every resolution shall be taken by roll call and the yeas and nays shall be 
entered on the minutes[;] .

���� d.��� The [compensation] annual salary 
of the county executive, supervisor, manager or board president, and of [freeholders] county 
commissioners and the administrative officer and department heads shall be 
fixed by the board by ordinance [promptly 
after its organization].� 
Adoption of an ordinance shall not be required for compensation that is 
excluded from an officer�s or employee�s pensionable salary.

(cf: P.L.1975, c.84, s.39)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill amends the �Optional 
County Charter Law,� P.L. 1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-1 et seq.), to specify that 
county boards are to establish the annual salary of certain county employees by 
ordinance.� The bill provides that adoption of an ordinance is not to be 
required for compensation that is excluded from an officer�s or employee�s 
pensionable salary.