KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to New Jersey

A1231 • 2026

Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.
  • Topic: Transportation and Independent Authorities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.
Topic:
Transportation and Independent Authorities
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A1231

ASSEMBLY, No. 1231

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain
rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project
alternatives.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act

concerning capital projects of the Department of
Transportation and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.� a.� The Department of
Transportation shall not plan for, design, or construct, or use funds for the
planning, design, or construction of, a rock wall between milepost 1.00 and
milepost 1.50 on Interstate Highway Route 80.

���� b.��� For any departmental
project for rock fall mitigation between milepost 1.00 and milepost 1.50 on
Interstate Highway Route 80, the department shall conduct a full analysis of
all feasible options for rock fall mitigation, provided that any such option
shall not include the construction of a rock wall.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits the
Department of Transportation (department) from planning for, designing, or
constructing, or using funds for the planning, design, or construction of, a
rock wall between milepost 1.00 and milepost 1.50 on Interstate Highway Route 80.�
The bill also requires the department, for any project for rock fall mitigation
between those mileposts, to conduct a full analysis of all feasible non-rock
wall options for rock fall mitigation.