New Jersey A 5277: Regulates dental therapy and licensure of dental therapists.

Bill Text

A5277 

ASSEMBLY, No. 5277 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED JUNE 15, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Inganamort

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires annual State aid payments to certain 
municipalities in which significant portions of State-owned and county-owned 
property is located. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act requiring annual State aid payments to 
municipalities in which certain State-owned and county-owned property is 
located and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.� a.� As used in this 
section:

���� �County-owned property� means land 
and improvements owned by a county, including, but not limited to, county 
offices, hospitals, institutions, schools, colleges, universities, garages, 
warehouses, barracks and armories together with abutting vacant land held for 
future development for the same purposes, which is property tax-exempt.� 
�County-owned property� shall not include any real property that is used or 
held for future use for highway, bridge, or tunnel purposes, or any real 
property that is subject to payments in lieu of taxes.

���� �Eligible municipality� means 
a municipality having a population that does not exceed 30,000 persons, 
according to the most recent federal decennial census, within which the total 
acreage of State-owned real property and county-owned real property is equal 
to, or greater than, 10 percent of the municipality�s total acreage.

���� "State-owned 
property" means land and improvements owned by the State, including, but 
not limited to, State offices, hospitals, institutions, schools, colleges, 
universities, garages, inspection stations, warehouses, barracks and armories 
together with abutting vacant land held for future development for the same 
purposes, which is property tax-exempt.� �State-owned property� shall not 
include any real property that is used or held for future use for highway, 
bridge, or tunnel purposes, or any real property that is subject to payments in 
lieu of taxes. 

���� b.� To compensate 
municipalities for the cost of municipal services provided at State-owned 
property and county-owned property, the State shall provide annual State aid 
payments to each eligible municipality, as provided in this section, in an 
amount equal to $500 per acre of State-owned property and county-owned property 
located in the municipality.

���� c.� On or before the January 1 
next following the effective date of P.L.��� , c.���� (C.��������� ) (pending 
before the Legislature as this bill), and each year thereafter, the assessor of 
an eligible municipality shall submit a statement to the Director of the 
Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, on a form prescribed by 
the director, indicating the total acres of all State-owned property and 
county-owned property located in the municipality.

���� d.� Upon review and approval 
of the statements submitted pursuant to subsection b. of this section, the 
director shall calculate the amount of State aid due to each eligible 
municipality.� On or before February 1 of each year, the director shall provide 
written notice to the assessor of each eligible municipality certifying the 
amount of the State aid payment to be provided to the municipality in that 
year.

���� e.� On or before August 1 of 
each year, the State Treasurer shall distribute the State aid payment to each 
eligible municipality from the Property Tax Relief Fund, subject to the 
appropriation of funds by the Legislature.

���� f.� An eligible municipality 
may anticipate the amount of the payments certified by the director pursuant to 
subsection d. of this section as revenue in preparing its annual budget.

���� g.� In the event that an 
appropriation made for any State fiscal year is less than the amount required 
for full payments pursuant to this section, the amount otherwise payable to 
each eligible municipality shall be reduced in the same proportion as the 
appropriation made is to the amount required for full funding.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill would require the 
State to provide annual State aid payments to certain municipalities in which a 
significant portion of land is State-owned or county-owned property.

���� Specifically, the bill would 
require State aid payments to be given to municipalities having a population 
that does not exceed 30,000 persons, within which the total acreage of 
State-owned property and county-owned property is equal to, or greater than, 10 
percent of the municipality�s total acreage.� Under the bill, the State would 
be required to provide an annual payment of $500 per acre of such land to 
eligible municipalities.

���� The bill would require the assessor 
of an eligible municipality to submit an