Bill Text: NJ S3164 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Directs BPU to establish online process for submission of required documents by BPU regulated and licensed entities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-12 - Reported from Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading [S3164 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S3164-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator PAUL A. SARLO
District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Directs BPU to establish online process for submission of required documents by BPU regulated and licensed entities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Economic Growth Committee on December 12, 2011, with amendments.
An Act concerning entities under the regulatory or licensing jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on its official Internet site, a secure online process to allow cable television companies to complete online any documents the board requires by regulation or order to be submitted to it by cable television companies, and electronically submit completed documents for review and approval by the appropriate officer of the board.
b. Subsection a. of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the filing of documents with the board by non-electronic means if such non-electronic filing is required pursuant to court order, federal law, contract, or any other applicable legal requirement.
2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on its official Internet site, a secure online process to allow public utilities operating under the board's jurisdiction pursuant to R.S.48:2-13 to complete online any documents the board requires by regulation or order to be submitted to it by such public utilities, and electronically submit completed documents for review and approval by the appropriate officer of the board.
b. Subsection a. of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the filing of documents with the board by non-electronic means if such non-electronic filing is required pursuant to court order, federal law, contract, or any other applicable legal requirement.
3. a. Notwithstanding the
provisions of any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the board
shall, consistent with federal law, establish, on its official Internet site, a
secure online process to allow entities licensed by or otherwise operating
under the jurisdiction of the board pursuant to P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-49 et
al.), to complete online any documents the board requires by regulation or
order to be submitted to it by such entities, and electronically submit
completed documents for review and approval
by the appropriate officer of the board.
b. Subsection a. of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the filing of documents with the board by non-electronic means if such non-electronic filing is required pursuant to court order, federal law, contract, or any other applicable legal requirement.
4. This act shall take effect on the first day of the 1[seventh] twenty-fourth1 month following enactment, but the Board of Public Utilities may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
