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A1292 • 2026

Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.

Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.

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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Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.

Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.

What This Bill Does

  • Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.
  • Topic: State and Local Government Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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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

Exempts local government entities from annual remediation fees under certain circumstances.
Topic:
State and Local Government
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1292

ASSEMBLY, No. 1292

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)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts local government entities from annual
remediation fees under certain circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act

concerning annual remediation fees and
supplementing P.L.2009, c.60 (C.58:10C-1 et seq.).

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

���� 1.� Notwithstanding the
provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, any local
government entity that acquires ownership of real property through bankruptcy,
tax delinquency, abandonment, escheat, eminent domain, condemnation, or any
circumstance in which the government entity involuntarily acquires title by
virtue of its function as sovereign, or acquires the property by any means for
the purpose of promoting the redevelopment of that property and is exempt from
joint and several liability pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection d. of
section 8 of the "Spill Compensation and Control Act," P.L.1976,
c.141 (C.58:10-23.11g), shall also be exempt from annual remediation fees for
the property imposed by the department pursuant to the "Site Remediation
Reform Act," sections 1 through 29 of P.L.2009, c.60 (C.58:10C-1 et seq.)
and the "Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act," P.L.1997,
c.278 (C.58:10B-1.1 et al.) for any discharge that occurred or began prior to the
government entity�s ownership.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill would exempt local
government entities that have acquired ownership of real property through
bankruptcy, tax delinquency, abandonment, escheat, eminent domain, condemnation,
or any circumstance in which the government entity involuntarily acquired title
by virtue of its function as sovereign, or acquired the property by any means
for the purpose of promoting the redevelopment of that property from any annual
remediation fees for the property imposed by the Department of Environmental
Protection pursuant to the "Site Remediation Reform Act," P.L.2009,
c.60 (C.58:10C-1 et seq.) and the "Brownfield and Contaminated Site
Remediation Act," P.L.1997, c.278 (C.58:10B-1.1 et al.).

���� Under current law, local
government entities that acquire real property in this way are exempt from
joint and severable liability for any discharge which occurred or began prior
to the local government entity�s ownership of the property.� Under this bill,
these local government entities would also be exempt from annual remediation
fees for the property.