New Jersey A 4110: Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.

Bill Text

A4110 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4110 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires municipalities and boards of education 
record public meetings and post recordings on Internet. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act requiring municipalities and boards of education 
to record public meetings and post recordings on the Internet and amending 
P.L.1975, c.231.� 

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

���� 1.��� Section 9 of P.L.1975, 
c.231 (C.10:4-14) is amended to read as follows:� 

���� 9.��� a.� Each public 
body shall keep reasonably comprehensible minutes of all its meetings showing 
the time and place, the members present, the subjects considered, the actions 
taken, the vote of each member, and any other information required to be shown 
in the minutes by law, which shall be promptly available to the public to the 
extent that making such matters public shall not be inconsistent with section 7 
of this act.

���� b.��� Each municipality and 
board of education shall cause to be recorded by video recording devices all 
meetings, including any emergency meeting held pursuant to section 4 of 
P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-9), and shall post such recordings on the official 
Internet site of the municipality or board of education.� The minutes of a 
meeting of a municipality or board of education shall include any video 
recording of the meeting made by the municipality or board of education, and 
such recording shall be available to the public on the same basis as other 
meeting minutes and on the Internet site of the municipality or board of 
education.� All recordings of meetings or portions of meetings closed to the 
public pursuant to subsection b. of section 7 of P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-12) 
shall be considered public records 
under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) when originally made, and shall be 
released to the public at the time the meeting minutes, or portions thereof, 
may legally be released to the public.� Only those portions of the recordings 
that correspond to the accessible minutes shall be released.� At that time, the 
accessible recordings, or portions thereof, shall also be posted on the 
official Internet site of the municipality or board of education.

(cf: P.L.1975, c.231, s.9)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect thirty days after the date of enactment, except municipalities or boards 
of education may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as 
shall be necessary for the implementation of this act. 

STATEMENT

���� This bill revises the �Senator 
Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act� to require municipalities and boards of 
education to video record each meeting and to post the recordings on their 
Internet sites.� The bill also provides that the minutes of a meeting of a 
municipality or board of education will include the video recording of the 
meeting.� Portions of the recordings that correspond to the minutes that are accessible to the public shall be released to the 
public at the time the meeting minutes, or portions thereof, may legally be 
released to the public, and posted on the official Internet site of the 
municipality or board of education.