New Jersey S 1881: Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.

Bill Text

S1881 

SENATE, No. 1881 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator LATHAM TIVER

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Eliminates requirement for public school employees to 
maintain State residency.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the residency of public school employees and 
amending R.S.52:14-7.

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

���� 1.��� R.S.52:14-7 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 52:14-7.� a.� Every person 
holding an office, employment, or position

���� (1)� in the Executive, 
Legislative, or Judicial Branch of this State, or

���� (2)� with an authority, board, 
body, agency, commission, or instrumentality of the State including any State 
college, university, or other higher educational institution, and, to the 
extent consistent with law, any interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party, 
or 

���� (3)� with a county, 
municipality, or other political subdivision of the State or an authority, 
board, body, agency, district, commission, or instrumentality of the county, 
municipality, or subdivision, [or]

���� (4)� [with a school 
district or an authority, board, body, agency, commission, or instrumentality 
of the district,] 
(Deleted by amendment, P.L.��� , c.�� ) (pending before the Legislature as 
this bill)

shall have his or her principal 
residence in this State and shall execute such office, employment, or position.

���� This residency requirement 
shall not apply to any person: (a) who is employed on a temporary or 
per-semester basis as a visiting professor, teacher, lecturer, or researcher by 
any State college, university, or other higher educational institution, or county 
or community college, or in a full or part-time position as a member of the 
faculty, the research staff, or the administrative staff by any State college, 
university, or other higher educational institution, or county or community 
college, that the college, university, or institution has included in the 
report required to be filed pursuant to this subsection; (b) who is employed 
full-time by the State who serves in an office, employment, or position that 
requires the person to spend the majority of the person's working hours in a 
location outside of this State; or (c) an officer of the waterfront commission 
of New York harbor, employed by the commission on the effective date of 
P.L.2017, c.324 (C.32:23-229 et al.), who seeks to be transferred to the Division 
of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to section 
4 of P.L.2017, c.324 (C.53:2-9).

���� This residency requirement 
shall not apply to any person who is hired by the New Jersey Transit 
Corporation as an engineer or mechanic, or any other position certified by the 
board of directors as a position of critical need.

���� For the purposes of this 
subsection, a person may have at most one principal residence, and the state of 
a person's principal residence means the state (1) where the person spends the 
majority of the person's nonworking time, and (2) which is most clearly the 
center of the person's domestic life, and (3) which is designated as the 
person's legal address and legal residence for voting.� The fact that a person 
is domiciled in this State shall not by itself satisfy the requirement of 
principal residency hereunder.

���� A person, regardless of the 
office, employment, or position, who holds an office, employment, or position 
in this State on the effective date of P.L.2011, c.70 but does not have 
principal residence in this State on that effective date shall not be subject 
to the residency requirement of this subsection while the person continues to 
hold office, employment, or position without a break in public service of 
greater than seven days.

���� Any person may request an 
exemption from the provisions of this subsection on the basis of critical need 
or hardship from a five-member committee hereby established to consider 
applications for exemptions.� The committee shall be composed of three persons 
appointed by the Governor, a person appointed by the Speaker of the General 
Assembly, and a person appointed by the President of the Senate, each of whom 
shall serve at the pleasure of the person making the appointment and shall have 
a term not to exceed five years.� A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in 
the same manner as the original appointment was made.� The Governor shall make 
provision to provide such clerical, secretarial, and administrative support to 
the committee as may be necessary for it to conduct its responsibilities 
pursuant to this subsection.

���� The decision on whether to 
approve an application from any person shall be made by a majority vote of the 
members of the committee, and those voting in the affirmative shall so sign