New Jersey A 5594: Concerns sign fabrication, prevailing wage requirements, and project labor agreements.

Bill Text

A5594 

ASSEMBLY, No. 5594 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED OCTOBER 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Modifies scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility 
Act related to economic impact of rules on small businesses and small local 
government units. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

�� 

An Act 
concerning aspects of administrative rule-making that impact small businesses and 
small local government units and amending and supplementing P.L.1986, c.169 
(C.52:14B-16 et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1986, 
c.169 (C.52:14B-17) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� a.� As used in 
this act [, 
"small business"] 
:

���� �Small business� means 
any business, or an affiliate of any business, which is resident in this 
State, independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field, and 
which employs fewer than 100 full-time employees or has gross annual sales 
of less than $6 million.

���� �Small local government 
unit� means a municipality, county, town, township, village, school district, 
or special district with a population of less than 50,000, as determined by the 
most recent federal decennial census or American Community Survey five-year 
estimate.

���� b.� Following the effective 
date of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the $6 
million gross annual sales threshold established by subsection a. of this 
section shall be adjusted triennially by the State Treasurer to reflect changes 
in the Consumer Price Index since the last adjustment, rounded to the nearest 
$100,000.� For the purpose of this section, "Consumer Price Index" 
means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, New York-Northern New 
Jersey-Long Island Metropolitan Area, All Items (1982-84=100), as published by 
the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States Department of Labor.� An 
adjustment to the threshold shall be made only if the percent change in the 
Consumer Price Index for the period specified is greater than zero.� If the 
reference base of the index is changed, the index used to determine the 
Consumer Price Index shall be the index converted to the new base by standard 
statistical methods.� A public notice of such adjustment shall be published in 
the New Jersey Register and on the Department of the Treasury website.

(cf: P.L.1986, c.169, s.2)

���� 2.��� Section 3 of P.L.1986, 
c.169 (C.52:14B-18) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� In developing and 
proposing a rule for adoption, the agency involved shall utilize approaches 
which will accomplish the objectives of applicable statutes while minimizing 
any adverse economic impact of the proposed rule on small businesses and 
small local government units of different types and of differing sizes.� 
Consistent with the objectives of applicable statutes, the agency [, where 
feasible,] 
shall utilize such approaches as:

���� a.���� The establishment of 
differing or less stringent compliance or reporting requirements or timetables 
that take into account the resources available to small businesses and small 
local government units;

���� b.��� The use of performance 
rather than design standards; [and]

���� c.���� An exemption from 
coverage by the rule, or by any part thereof, for small businesses and small 
local government units so long as the public health, safety, or general 
welfare is not endangered; and

���� d.��� The consolidation or 
simplification of compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses and 
small local government units so long as the public health, safety, or general 
welfare is not endangered.

(cf: P.L.1986, c.169, s.3)

���� 3.��� Section 4 of P.L.1986, 
c.169 (C.52:14B-19) is amended to read as follows:

���� 4.� In proposing a rule 
for adoption, the agency involved shall issue a regulatory flexibility analysis 
regarding the rule, which shall be included in the notice of a proposed rule as 
required by subsection (a) of section 4 of P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-4).� 

���� Each regulatory flexibility 
analysis shall contain: 

���� a.� A description of the types 
and an estimate of the number of small businesses and small local government 
units, as applicable, to which the proposed rule will apply; 

���� b.� A description of the 
reporting, record-keeping and other compliance requirements being proposed for 
adoption, and the kinds of professional services that a small business or 
small local government unit is likely to need in order to comply with the 
requirements; 

���� c.� An estimate of the initial 
capital costs and an estimate of the annual cost of complying with the rule, 
with an indication of any likely variation in the costs for small businesses and 
small local government units of different types and of differin