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A1730 • 2026

Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.

Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.

Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.
  • Topic: State and Local Government Fiscal note: This bill has 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 State and Local Government Committee

Official Summary Text

Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.
Topic:
State and Local Government
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1730

ASSEMBLY, No. 1730

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman YVONNE LOPEZ

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sampson, Assemblywomen Morales and Brennan

SYNOPSIS

���� Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund"
in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's
population each federal decennial census.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

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An Act
concerning the allocation of funds each year for
undertaking a full count of the State�s population during each federal
decennial census and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 19 of the Revised
Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� There is established in
the Department of State a �Census Complete Count Trust Fund,� into which shall
be appropriated from the State General Fund the sum of $1 million annually. Moneys
in the fund shall be invested in permitted investments or shall be held in
interest-bearing accounts in those depositories as the State Treasurer may
select, and may be invested and reinvested in permitted investments or as other
trust funds in the custody of the State Treasurer in the manner provided by
law. All interest or other income or earnings derived from the investment or
reinvestment of moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

���� Moneys in the fund shall be
used by the Department of Sate to fund State, local, and community efforts to
achieve the full count of the State�s population in each federal decennial
census. The Legislature may prescribe by law the complete count activities that
shall be eligible to receive funds in the years and months preceding the census
day.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill creates a �Census
Complete Count Trust Fund� in the Department of State for the funding efforts
to achieve a full count of State�s population during each federal decennial
census.

���� Under the bill, the State
would appropriate into the fund from the State General Fund the sum of $1
million annually. Moneys in the fund would be invested and all interest or
other income or earnings derived from such investment or reinvestment would be
credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund would be used by the department to
fund State, local, and community efforts to achieve the full count of the
State�s population in each federal decennial census. The Legislature may
prescribe by law the complete count activities that would be eligible to
receive funds in the years and months preceding the census day.