New Jersey A 2867: Restores the death penalty for certain murders.

Bill Text

A2867 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2867 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman ROBERT D. CLIFTON

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Extends eligibility for property tax benefits to 
veterans, 100 percent service-disabled veterans, and senior citizens and 
persons with disabilities who pay payments in lieu of property taxes.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act extending eligibility for certain property tax 
benefits to veterans, 100 percent service-disabled veterans, and senior 
citizens and persons with disabilities who pay payments in lieu of property 
taxes, and amending various parts of the statutory law.

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

���� 1.� Section 1 of P.L.1948, 
c.259 (C.54:4-3.30) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.� a.� The dwelling house and 
the lot or curtilage whereon the same is erected, of any citizen and resident 
of this State, now or hereafter honorably discharged or released under 
honorable circumstances, from active service in any branch of the Armed Forces 
of the United States, who has been or shall be declared by the United States 
Department of Veterans' Affairs or its successor to have a service-connected 
disability from paraplegia, sarcoidosis, osteochondritis resulting in permanent 
loss of the use of both legs, or permanent paralysis of both legs and lower 
parts of the body, or from hemiplegia and has permanent paralysis of one leg 
and one arm or either side of the body, resulting from injury to the spinal 
cord, skeletal structure, or brain or from disease of the spinal cord not 
resulting from any form of syphilis; or from total blindness; or from 
amputation of both arms or both legs, or both hands or both feet, or the 
combination of a hand and a foot; or from other service-connected disability 
declared by the United States Veterans Administration or its successor to be a 
total or 100% permanent disability, and not so evaluated solely because of 
hospitalization or surgery and recuperation, sustained through enemy action, or 
accident, or resulting from disease contracted while in such active service, 
shall be exempt from taxation, or from the payment of payments in lieu of 
property taxes required pursuant to a contract between a municipality and an 
urban renewal entity pursuant to the �Long Term Tax Exemption Law,� P.L.1991, 
c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et al.), on proper claim made therefor, and such 
exemption shall be in addition to any other exemption of such person's real and 
personal property which now is or hereafter shall be prescribed or allowed by 
the Constitution or by law but no taxpayer shall be allowed more than one 
exemption under this act.

���� b. (1) The surviving spouse of 
any such citizen and resident of this State, who at the time of death was 
entitled to the exemption provided under this act, shall be entitled, on proper 
claim made therefor, to the same exemption as the deceased had, during the 
surviving spouse's widowhood or widowerhood, as the case may be, and while a 
resident of this State, for the time that the surviving spouse is the legal 
owner thereof and actually occupies the said dwelling house or any other 
dwelling house thereafter acquired.

���� (2)�� The surviving spouse of 
any citizen and resident of this State who was honorably discharged and, after 
the citizen and resident's death, is declared to have suffered a 
service-connected disability as provided in subsection a. of this section, 
shall be entitled, on proper claim made therefor, to the same exemption the 
deceased would have become eligible for.� The exemption shall continue during 
the surviving spouse's widowhood or widowerhood, as the case may be, and while 
a resident of this State, for the time that the surviving spouse is the legal 
owner thereof and actually occupies the dwelling house or any other dwelling 
house thereafter acquired.

���� c.���� The surviving spouse of 
any citizen and resident of this State, who died in active service in any 
branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, shall be entitled, on proper 
claim made therefor, to an exemption from taxation, or from the payment of 
payments in lieu of property taxes required pursuant to a contract between a 
municipality and an urban renewal entity pursuant to the �Long Term Tax 
Exemption Law,� P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et al.), on the dwelling house 
and lot or curtilage whereon the same is erected, during the surviving spouse's 
widowhood or widowerhood, as the case may be, and while a resident of this 
State, for the time that the surviving spouse is the legal owner thereof and 
actually occupies the said dwelling or any other dwelling house thereafter 
acquired.

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