New Jersey S 1657: Prohibits commercial mobile service providers and mobile application developers from disclosing customer's location data to third parties.

Bill Text

S1657 

SENATE, No. 1657 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator ANDREW ZWICKER

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Senator PAUL A. SARLO

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators A.M.Bucco, Space and Greenstein

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes "Energy Infrastructure 
Public-Private Partnerships Program"; amends law concerning NJ 
Infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public 
School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 25 
years.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning energy infrastructure public-private 
partnerships, supplementing Titles 52 and 58 of the Revised Statutes, and 
amending P.L.1985, c.334, N.J.S.18A:18A-42, and P.L.1971, c.198.

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

���� 1. �(New section) Sections 1 
through 20 of 
P.L. , c. (C. ) 
(pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be known and may be cited 
as the "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Act."

���� 2.� (New section) a.� The 
Legislature finds and declares that:

���� (1) It is the public policy of 
this State to assure that the State's energy infrastructure is developed and 
maintained in a manner that assures, to the greatest extent possible, the 
availability of reliable and resilient state-of-the-art energy resources to the 
State and, in particular, to the critical facilities that provide necessary 
lifeline services to the State's citizens and businesses; 

���� (2) The recent occurrence of 
severe weather events, and the current condition of the State's aging energy 
systems underscore the vulnerability of the State's energy infrastructure and 
the substantial and immediate need for the State to improve the energy 
resources available to State, county, and municipal facilities that provide 
critical lifeline services, including hospitals, police and fire departments, 
water and wastewater treatment facilities, shelters, colleges, universities, 
schools, and prisons;

���� (3)� The urgent need to 
decarbonize the energy sector will require a significant expansion of 
intermittent renewable energy sources.� In order to facilitate the expansion of 
solar photovoltaic and wind resources, the State's infrastructure must include 
dispatchable resources at the location of use in order to mitigate the 
significant economic and potential physical damage that could result from poor 
power quality issues.� Grid-edge, on-demand energy generation that is efficient 
and clean is necessary to support the continued development of renewable 
resources; 

���� (4) The reliability, 
resiliency, and efficiency of the State's energy infrastructure will be 
improved if the State encourages the development of the energy-related projects 
contemplated by P.L. , c. 
(C. ) (pending 
before the Legislature as this bill), which will reduce the vulnerability of 
critical facilities to threats posed by weather and other exogenous factors, 
minimize equipment failures caused by deterioration, disrepair, and 
obsolescence, enhance the production and delivery of energy, including clean 
energy resources, improve the energy efficiency of facilities, reduce peak 
demand, energy costs, and greenhouse gas emissions, and promote economic development 
and foster job creation; 

���� (5) The implementation of 
energy-related projects through public-private partnerships will enable the 
State to leverage the capital and expertise of the private sector, which will 
permit needed energy-related projects to be developed, in many instances on a 
self-funded basis, without taxpayer or ratepayer support; and

���� (6) The use of energy 
infrastructure public-private partnerships will contribute to the attainment of 
the goals of the State's Energy Master Plan, which include aggressive 
initiatives to expand the implementation of renewable energy and building and 
transportation decarbonization initiatives, improve energy reliability and 
resiliency, and introduce state-of-the-art technologies that can make buildings 
more energy efficient and reduce energy usage, peak demand, energy costs, and 
greenhouse gas emissions.

���� b.��� The Legislature 
therefore determines that: 

���� (1) It shall be the public 
policy of this State to foster energy public-private partnerships to develop 
state-of-the-art energy-related projects that obviate or minimize the need for 
capital investments in such projects by governmental entities, taxpayers, and 
utility ratepayers;

���� (2) In order to foster the 
energy-related projects contemplated by P.L. , 
c. 
(C. ) (pending 
before the Legislature as this bill), it is necessary and appropriate for the 
Legislature to authorize the use of public-private partnerships that leverage 
private sector financial resources and expertise and provi