Bill Text: NJ S3699 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits passage or enactment of legislation with effective or operative date that is contingent upon passage or enactment of other legislation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee [S3699 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3699-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3699

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 16, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  RONALD L. RICE

District 28 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits passage or enactment of legislation with effective or operative date that is contingent upon passage or enactment of other legislation.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the passage and enactment of legislation and supplementing chapter 2 of Title 1 of the Revised Statutes

 

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

 

     1.    The Legislature shall not pass, and the Governor shall not approve or sign, any bill, joint resolution, or concurrent resolution, as applicable, the effective date or operative date of which is contingent upon the effective date, operative date, approval, signing, passage, or enactment of a separate bill, joint resolution, or concurrent resolution.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Legislature from passing, and the Governor from approving or signing, any legislation that has an effective date or operative date that is contingent upon the effective date, operative date, approval, signing, passage, or enactment of other legislation.