A1340 • 2026

Requires Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and publish statistical information about consumer debt lawsuits.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Miller, Cody D.
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and publish statistical information about consumer debt lawsuits.

What This Bill Does

Requires Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and publish statistical information about consumer debt lawsuits.
Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 New Jersey Legislature
Passed by the Assembly (77-0-0)
2026-05-18 New Jersey Legislature
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature
Transferred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee
2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires Administrative Office of the Courts to collect and publish statistical information about consumer debt lawsuits.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1340 ARP Statement 2/12/26

ASSEMBLY REGULATED PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY,
No. 1340

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:
FEBRUARY
12, 2026

����� The Assembly Regulated Professions Committee reports
favorably Assembly Bill No. 1340.

�����
This
bill requires the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) to collect and
publish certain statistical information about civil consumer debt collection
lawsuits in an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature.� The
statistics include:

���� (1)
number of new consumer debt lawsuits filed, including the number filed in the
Law Division, the Special Civil Part, and the Small Claims Section of the
Special Civil Part;

���� (2)
number of consumer debt lawsuits currently pending for three months or more;

���� (3)
number of consumer debt lawsuits where the defendant is represented by an
attorney;

���� (4)
number of consumer debt lawsuit judgments granted, including the number of
default judgments;

���� (5)
number of consumer debt lawsuit dispositions other than the granting of a
judgment; and

���� (6)��
any other statistics concerning consumer debt
lawsuits that the Administrative Director of the Courts deems appropriate.

���� Currently,
the AOC publishes monthly civil case statistics on the Judiciary�s website.�
While the statistics are broken down by certain case types, such as personal
injury, landlord/tenant, and insurance, these statistics do not differentiate
consumer debt collection cases.� This bill implements Benchmarks 23 and 24 by
the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) at Fordham University School
of Law, in its March 2024 report, �The Consumer Debt Litigation Index.��
According to the NCAJ, a basic understanding of the consumer debt litigation
landscape through statistical reporting is required for court personnel,
lawmakers, advocates, and communities to understand the scope of the problems
in consumer debt claims litigation, and to solve or ameliorate these problems.

����� This bill was prefiled for introduction in the
2026-2027 session pending technical review.� As reported, the bill includes the
changes required by technical review, which has been performed.