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A1369 • 2026

Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.

Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.

Firearms
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Park, Ellen J.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.

Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.
  • Topic: Tourism, Gaming and the Arts 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 Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.
Topic:
Tourism, Gaming and the Arts
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1369

ASSEMBLY, No. 1369

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ELLEN J. PARK

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items
as raffle prizes.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning the use of firearms and firearms-related
items as raffle prizes and supplementing the �Raffles Licensing Law,� P.L.1954,
c.5 (C.5:8-50 et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� It shall be unlawful to
offer any firearm or firearm-related item as a prize in any raffle.� As used in
this section, �firearm� shall have the same meaning as that term is defined
under N.J.S.2C:39-1, and �firearm-related item� means any item or paraphernalia
used in connection with the firing, alteration, display, storage, maintenance,
and use of a firearm.�

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits the
offering of any firearm or firearm-related item as a prize in any raffle.

���� Under the bill, �firearm� has
the same meaning as that term is defined under N.J.S.2C:39-1: �any handgun,
rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic or semi-automatic rifle, or any gun,
device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired or
ejected any solid projectable ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet, or any
gas, vapor or other noxious thing, by means of a cartridge or shell or by the
action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances.�
This term also includes, without limitation, �any firearm which is in the
nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature
in which the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide,
compressed or other gas or vapor, air or compressed air, or is ignited by
compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of
an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.�

���� The bill defines a
�firearm-related item� as any item or paraphernalia used in connection with the
firing, alteration, display, storage, maintenance, and use of a firearm.