Bill Text: NJ SCR99 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates joint committee of Legislature to study report entitled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [SCR99 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-SCR99-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY M. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Passaic)
Senator KRISTIN M. CORRADO
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Creates joint committee of Legislature to study report entitled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Concurrent Resolution creating a joint committee of the Legislature to study the report entitled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):
1. There is created a joint body of the Legislature to be known as the "Joint Committee on New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic." The joint committee shall consist of 12 members of the Legislature. Three members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly, three members shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly, three members shall be appointed by the Senate President, and three members shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate. There shall be two co-chairs of the special committee, appointed from different political parties, one of whom shall be appointed by the Senate President from among the appointed members and one of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly from among the appointed members. Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments are made.
2. The joint committee shall adopt rules for the operation and the conduct of its business, including the selection of a secretary who need not be a member of the joint committee.
3. The joint committee is authorized, empowered, and directed to study the report produced by Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, titled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic." The joint committee, in its endeavor to study this report, shall meet and hold hearings, as it shall designate during the sessions or recesses of the Legislature.
4. The joint committee shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of the State of New Jersey, any political subdivision of the State, and any agency thereof, as may be required and as may be available for that purpose, and to employ any other services as may be deemed necessary, in order to perform the duties provided herein, and within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for that purpose.
5. The joint committee shall report its findings to the Legislature on a routine basis, and may make other reports as it deems necessary or desirable.
6. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This Senate concurrent resolution creates a joint committee of the Legislature to study the report entitled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
The joint committee is authorized, empowered, and directed to study the report produced by Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, entitled "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
The joint committee is to consist of 12 members of the Legislature. Three members are to be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly, three members are to be appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly, three members are to be appointed by the Senate President, and three members are to be appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate. There are to be two co-chairs of the special committee, appointed from different political parties, one of whom is to be appointed by the Senate President from among the appointed members and one of whom is to be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly from among the appointed members.
In creating this joint committee, it is the sponsor's intent to address the concerns and issues raised in the report titled, "Independent Review of New Jersey's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic," which concludes that New Jersey is unprepared for the next public health crisis.
