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Bill Text

S3145 

SENATE, No. 3145 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI

District 22 (Somerset and Union)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides additional temporary contracting powers to 
county improvement authorities.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act providing additional temporary contracting 
powers to county improvement authorities.

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

���� 1.��� Any agreement, contract, 
executed instrument, or action taken or performed as necessary, convenient, or 
desirable for the purposes of an authority, created pursuant to the 
"county improvement authorities law," P.L.1960, c.183 (C.40:37A-44 et 
seq.), to carry out any power expressly given in P.L.1960, c.183 (C.40:37A-44 
et seq.) in the two years immediately preceding the effective date of P.L.��� , 
c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall be valid and 
enforceable, if the agreement, contract, executed instruments, or act was 
subject to the requirements of the "Local Public Contracts Law," 
P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) or was related to actions of the authority 
taken pursuant to section 34 of P.L.1979, c.275 (C.40:37A-55.1).

���� 2.��� a.� The Legislature 
finds and declares that as the most densely populated state in the nation, the 
State of New Jersey is faced with the challenge of accommodating vital growth 
while developing available properties and redeveloping under-utilized properties, 
and strengthening the vibrancy of individual communities in the Garden State; 
that the responsibility for meeting this challenge falls most heavily upon 
local government entities to appropriately shape the development and land use 
patterns so that growth and redevelopment become supporting goals, and that 
county improvement authorities are entities capable of targeting such 
development; that county improvement authorities in mid-sized counties which 
are densely populated and have significant numbers of urban aid municipalities 
may be particularly benefited from greater flexibility pursuing individual 
projects; and that the tools necessary to meet the challenge of balanced growth 
and redevelopment in an equitable manner in New Jersey must be made available 
to county improvement authorities and other local government entities as the 
architects of New Jersey's future.� The Legislature therefore determines that 
it is in the public interest to authorize a pilot program to allow one county 
improvement authority in the State to explore the benefits of prospectively 
permitting that authority greater flexibility to enter into agreements, 
contracts, executed instruments, and take actions as necessary, convenient or 
desirable for the purposes of that authority.

���� b.��� (1)������� The pilot 
county improvement authority may for the two years following the effective date 
of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill) enter into any 
agreement, contract, executed instrument, or take actions necessary, convenient 
or desirable for the purposes of an authority, created pursuant to the 
"county improvement authorities law," P.L.1960, c.183 (C.40:37A-44 et 
seq.), provided that the agreement, contract, executed instrument, or action is 
subject to the requirements of the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, 
c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) or is related to actions of the authority taken 
pursuant to section 34 of P.L.1979, c.275 (C.40:37A-55.1).� 

���� (2)�� A pilot county 
improvement authority that enters into any agreement, contract, executed instrument, 
or takes actions related to actions of the authority for projects pursuant to section 
34 of P.L.1979, c.275 (C.40:37A-55.1) shall enter into a project labor 
agreement prior to commencing work on the project and shall pay each worker 
employed to perform construction work and building services work at the project 
property a wage not less than the prevailing wage rate for the worker's craft 
or trade, as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development 
pursuant to P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.).

���� c.���� The pilot county 
improvement authority shall, not later than 30 months following the effective 
date of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill) submit a 
final report to the Department of Community Affairs and, pursuant to section 2 
of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the Legislature on the benefits and 
effectiveness of the additional flexibility provided to the pilot county 
improvement authority by the enactment of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the 
Legislature as this bill).

���� d.��� As used in this section:

���� "Pilot county improvement 
authority" means the county improvement authority created pursuant to the 
"county improvement authorities law," P.L.1960, c.183 (C.40