Requires development of manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in certain counties within southern New Jersey.

A1466

ASSEMBLY, No. 1466

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ANTWAN L. MCCLELLAN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Simonsen

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires development of manufacturing business
attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in
certain counties within southern New Jersey.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

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An Act

requiring the development of a manufacturing
business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for certain areas
and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� As used in P.L.��� ,
c.��� (C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill):

���� "Authority" means
the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

���� �Center� means the New Jersey
Business Action Center created in the Department of State.

���� �Manufacturing business
attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan� or �marketing plan� means
a strategic and comprehensive plan that establishes short-range and long-range
goals, policies, and needs of State government in efficiently allocating its
finite resources towards projects that attract new manufacturing businesses and
retain and expand existing manufacturing businesses.

���� �Secretary� means the
Secretary of State.

���� �Southern New Jersey� means
the counties of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem.

���� 2.��� a. Within one year after
the date of enactment of P.L.��� , c.��� (C.������� ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill), the Secretary of State shall develop and implement a
manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for
areas located in southern New Jersey.� The secretary shall update the marketing
plan once every five years thereafter.

���� b.��� The purpose of the
marketing plan shall be to develop strategies, policies, short-range and
long-range goals, and government reforms that are designed to help attract new
manufacturing businesses to, and retain and expand existing manufacturing
businesses in, areas located in southern New Jersey and encourage the growth of
jobs and capital investment within, and manufacturing business services to,
areas located in southern New Jersey.

���� 3.��� The secretary is
authorized to request assistance from the center and the authority and any
other department, authority, commission, board, office, division, or agency of
the State to provide any information, resources, or other assistance deemed
necessary to discharge the secretary�s responsibilities under P.L.��� , c.���
(C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) to develop and
implement the marketing plan.� This may include, but not be limited to,
requesting assistance from: the authority and the Department of the Treasury
for advice and information concerning manufacturing business funding assistance
programs; the Department of Labor and Workforce Development for assistance in
developing workforce development strategies; the Department of Transportation
and the New Jersey Transit Corporation for information and guidance concerning
public transportation network and infrastructure projects that would most
effectively connect population centers with employers within southern New
Jersey; the center to assist in manufacturing business attraction, expansion,
and retention strategies and advising on smart growth development strategies;
and the Department of Community Affairs for assistance with coordination
between the urban enterprise zone program established by P.L.1983, c.303
(C.52:27H-60 et al.) and the marketing plan.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the
Secretary of State (secretary), within one year of the effective date of the
bill, to develop and implement a manufacturing business attraction, expansion,
and retention marketing plan (marketing plan) for areas located in Atlantic,
Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem counties (southern New Jersey).� The secretary
is to update the marketing plan once every five years thereafter.� The purpose
of the marketing plan is to develop strategies, policies, legislative
proposals, short-range and long-range goals, and government reforms that help
attract new manufacturing businesses to, and retain and expand existing
manufacturing businesses in, southern New Jersey and to encourage the growth of
jobs and capital investment within, and services to, southern New Jersey.

���� The secretary is authorized to
request assistance from the New Jersey Business Action Center (center) and the
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (authority) and any other State
agency to provide any information, resources, or other assistance deemed
necessary to discharge the secretary�s responsibilities under the bill to
develop and implement the marketing plan.� The assistance is to include, but
not be limited to: the authority and the Department of Treasury for advice and
information concerning manufacturing business funding assistance programs; the
Department of Labor and Workforce Development for assistance in developing
workforce development strategies; the Department of Transportation and the New
Jersey Transit Corporation for information and guidance concerning public
transportation network and infrastructure projects that would most effectively
connect population centers with employers within southern New Jersey; the
center to assist in manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention
strategies and advising on smart growth development strategies; and the
Department of Community Affairs for assistance with coordination between the
urban enterprise zone program and the marketing plan.