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A1244 • 2026

Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.

Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.

Elections
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 State and Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.

Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.
  • Topic: State and Local Government Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

Official Summary Text

Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.
Topic:
State and Local Government
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1244

ASSEMBLY, No. 1244

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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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

���� Allows appointment of challengers to any election
district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning the appointment of challengers for certain
elections and amending R.S.19:7-3.

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

���� 1.� R.S.19:7-3 is amended to
read as follows:

���� 19:7-3.� The appointment of or
application for challengers shall be filed with the county board not later than
the second Tuesday preceding any election. No person shall be appointed a
challenger under this Title who is not a registered voter in the county in
which the district is located in which such person is appointed to serve
[
, and no
]
.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section or any other law, rule, or
regulation to the contrary, in the case of a congressional or legislative
district, a person who is a registered voter in any county or part thereof
located within the congressional or legislative district may be appointed as a
challenger in any election district in any county or part thereof located
within the congressional or legislative district. No
appointed challenger
shall serve in any district other than that to which appointed except for
challengers appointed by the chairman of a county committee, pursuant to
paragraph 2 of subsection b. of R.S.19:7-1.

(cf: P.L.1999, c.232, s.28)

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

STATEMENT

���� Under current law, a person
cannot be appointed to serve as a challenger in an election district unless
that person is a registered voter in the county in which the election district
is located. This bill would allow a person to be appointed to serve as a
challenger in any election district located within a congressional or
legislative district where the person resides. Under the bill, in the case of a
congressional or legislative district, a person who is a registered voter in
any county or part thereof located within the congressional or legislative
district may be appointed as a challenger in any election district in any
county or part thereof located within the congressional or legislative
district.