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A1396
ASSEMBLY, No. 1396
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ELLEN J. PARK
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
���� Provides member of General Assembly be referred to as
Assembly Member rather than Assemblyman or Assemblywoman.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
providing that members of the General Assembly
be referred to as Assembly Members, supplementing Title 52 of the New Jersey
Statutes, and amending various parts of the statutory law.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1. (New section) A member of
the Legislature serving in the General Assembly shall officially be referred to
as an Assembly Member.� The legislator shall be addressed as Assembly Member
followed by the legislator�s last name.
���� 2. Section 11 of P.L.1967,
c.271 (C.18A:75-11) is amended to read as follows:
���� 11. New Jersey shall be
represented on the commission established by Article III� of the compact by the
governor, four members appointed by the governor from� among the citizens of
this state who will serve at the pleasure of the governor, and one senator to
be named by the president of the senate and one
[
assemblyman
]
assembly
member
to be named by the speaker of the general assembly.� Legislative
members of the commission shall be appointed for terms coincident with the
terms for which they were elected to the senate or general assembly.� The New
Jersey members will serve without compensation but shall be entitled to be
reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties.� Vacancies in the membership shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointments were made.
(cf: P.L.1967, c.271, s.11)
���� 3. N.J.S.18A:73-22 is amended
to read as follows:
�� 18A:73-22.� There is hereby
established in the Department of State, a division called the New Jersey
Historical Commission to be composed of 17 members as follows:�
���� (a)� The Secretary of State,
the State Librarian and the Chief of the Office of New Jersey Heritage in the
Department of Environmental Protection, or their designees, who shall serve ex
officio; and�
���� (b)� Ten citizens of the State
to be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, all
of whom shall be chosen by reason of their expertise in New Jersey history and
qualified by academic achievement or professional affiliation, who shall serve
for terms of three years and until the appointment and qualification of their
successors except that of the members first appointed two shall be appointed
for terms of one year, two for terms of two years and two for terms of three
years.� Of the four members first appointed pursuant to this amendatory act,
one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one shall be appointed for a
term of two years and two shall be appointed for a term of three years.� Public
members of the commission shall be selected so as to provide a balanced
representation of the various geographic regions of the State.�
���� (c)� Two members of the Senate
to be appointed by the President thereof, and two members of the General
Assembly to be appointed by the Speaker thereof.� No more than one of the
Senate and Assembly members shall be members of the same political party.� Anyone
appointed pursuant to this subsection shall serve as a member of the commission
until the expiration of his term as Senator or
[
Assemblyman
]
Assembly
Member
, as the case may be, during which
[
he
]
the
Senator or Assembly Member
� was appointed.�
(cf: P.L.1990, c.106, s.1)
���� 4. Section 4 of P.L.1963,
c.117 (C.52:14A-4) is amended to read as follows:
���� 4. In the event that the
Governor, for any reason, is not able to exercise and discharge the functions,
powers and duties of
[
his
]
the
Governor�s
office, or is unavailable, the functions, powers and duties of
such office shall devolve in the manner provided in Article V, Section 1 of the
Constitution of the State of New� Jersey.� In the event that the persons upon
whom such functions, powers and� duties devolve, under such provisions of the
Constitution, are not able to� exercise the same or are unavailable, then such
functions, powers and duties� shall devolve upon the Attorney General, for the
time being;� and in the event� that
[
he
]
the
Attorney General
is unable to exercise the powers and duties of such office
or is� unavailable, then upon the
[
State
Highway Commissioner
]
the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
, for the
time being;� and� in the event that
[
he
]
the
commissioner
is unable to exercise the powers and duties of such office� or
is unavailable, then upon such person as the Legislature by majority vote of�
the total number of available legislators and emergency interim successors,
exercising the powers and discharging the duties of legislators not available,�
in both Houses may designate.� Any such official or other person upon whom the�
powers and duties of the Governor have developed shall exercise the same until�
a new Governor is elected and qualified.� No deputy or emergency interim�
successor to the aforementioned offices, including such successor to any�
Senator or
[
Assemblyman
]
Assembly
Member
may serve as Governor.
(cf: P.L.1963, c.117, s.4)
���� 5.� This act shall take effect
immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill provides that a
member of the General Assembly be referred to as an Assembly Member.�
Currently, a member of the General Assembly is addressed as either an
Assemblyman or Assemblywoman.� This bill would remove the references to �man�
and �woman� and use one term to refer to all members of the General Assembly.