Bill Text: NJ S3517 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits all locally elected officials from receiving retroactive salary increases as of December 1, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [S3517 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3517-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3517

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 4, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits all locally elected officials from receiving retroactive salary increases as of December 1, 2018.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the salaries of locally elected officials and supplementing Title 40A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  The salary of a local elected official shall not be subject to any retroactive increase.

     b.    Any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order or directive contrary to the provisions of subsection a. of this section shall be void and have no force or effect.

     c.     As used in this section:

     "Local elected official" means any official of a local government whose office is regularly filled at an election by the voters.

     "Local government" means a county, municipality, school district, or any other political subdivision of the State.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to December 1, 2018.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would prohibit all local elected officials from receiving retroactive salary increases.  This bill would apply to elected officials of counties, municipalities, school districts, and any other political subdivisions of the State.  The bill would be retroactive to December 1, 2018.