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

A1372 • 2026

Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.

Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.

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 Public Safety and Preparedness 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 soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.

Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.
  • Topic: Public Safety and Preparedness Fiscal note: This bill has 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 Public Safety and Preparedness Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.
Topic:
Public Safety and Preparedness
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A1372

ASSEMBLY, No. 1372

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ELLEN J. PARK

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal
identifying information.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act

concerning the solicitation of personal
identifying information and supplementing chapter 21 of Title 2C of the New
Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� A person is guilty of a
disorderly persons offense if the person
solicits,
requests, or takes any action to induce another person to provide any personal
identifying information, as defined in N.J.S.2C:20-1, for the purpose of
obtaining a benefit for himself or another or to injure or defraud another.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the third month next following enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would prohibit a
practice commonly referred to as �phishing.�� Under the bill, it would be a
disorderly persons offense to
solicit,
request, or take any action to induce another person to provide personal
identifying information for the purpose of identity theft.

���� The
bill uses the definition of �personal identifying information� currently used
in the law pertaining to theft, including identity theft.� This definition
includes �any name, number or other information that may be used, alone or in
conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual and
includes, but is not limited to, the name, address, telephone number, date of
birth, social security number, official State issued identification number,
employer or taxpayer number, place of employment, employee identification
number, demand deposit account number, savings account number, credit card
number, mother's maiden name, unique biometric data, such as fingerprint, voice
print, retina or iris image or other unique physical representation, or unique
electronic identification number, address or routing code of the individual.�

���� A
disorderly persons offense is punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to six
months, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.