Bill Text: NJ A2445 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - Reported and Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A2445 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2445-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Verrelli, Assemblywoman Murphy and Assemblyman Sampson
SYNOPSIS
Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning persons with disabilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Governor shall establish and maintain a voluntary resume bank for individuals with a disability who wish to be appointed to a State board, commission, authority, or a similar State entity that provides for the appointment of private citizens into its membership, which entities shall include, but shall not be limited to, special committees, councils, and tasks forces. The Governor shall maintain an Internet webpage that lists available appointments within such entities.
b. The resume bank shall be accessible to the executive branch and the Legislature. The resume bank shall contain features permitting individuals with a disability to upload or submit their resume to the bank.
c . The resume bank shall contain the following information:
(1) the resume of an individual with a disability who wishes to be appointed to a State board or commission;
(2) the name, address, and telephone number of the individual with a disability;
(3) any pertinent information related to the individual's disability; and
(4) any pertinent information as to particular State boards, commissions, authorities, and other similar State entities that are of interest to the individual with a disability.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill creates a resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Under the bill, the Governor is to establish and maintain a voluntary resume bank for individuals with a disability who wish to be appointed to a State board, commission, authority, or a similar State entity that provides for the appointment of private citizens into its membership, which entities will include special committees, councils, and tasks forces. The Governor will maintain an Internet webpage that lists available appointments within such entities.
The bill provides that the resume bank is to be accessible to the executive branch and the Legislature. The resume bank is to contain features permitting individuals with a disability to upload or submit their resumes to the bank.
Under the bill, the resume bank is to contain the following information:
(1) the resume of an individual with a disability who wishes to be appointed to a State board or commission;
(2) the name, address, and telephone number of the individual with a disability;
(3) any pertinent information related to the individual's disability; and
(4) any pertinent information as to particular State boards, commissions, authorities, and other similar State entities that are of interest to the individual with a disability.
