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A1900 • 2026

Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.

Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Tucker, Cleopatra G.
Last action
2026-03-16
Official status
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.

Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.

What This Bill Does

  • Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.
  • Topic: 2nd Reading in the Assembly Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-16 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.
Topic:
2nd Reading in the Assembly
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1900 AMV Statement 3/16/26

ASSEMBLY MILITARY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY,
No. 1900

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:
�MARCH
16, 2026

����� The Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 1900.

����� This bill establishes a price preference program for
businesses owned by women who are veterans or who are serving in the United
States Armed Forces that are competing for State contracts.

����� Under current law, certain purchases or contracts
payable out of State funds are publicly advertised and competitively bid on by
businesses.� The State then awards the contract to the lowest bidder.

����� This bill would establish a price preference of up to
10 percent of the amount of the contract to a qualified business owned by a
woman veteran or a woman serving in the military.� If the business meets the
requirements of the contract solicitation and is the lowest bidder due to the
preference, a State agency will enter into a procurement contract with that
business.� If two or more qualified businesses bid on a contract utilizing the
preference program, the business with the lowest bid will be awarded the
contract.

����� This bill defines �woman veteran� to mean a resident
of this State who identifies as female and was honorably discharged or released
under conditions other than dishonorable from active service in a branch of the
Armed Forces of the United States, and defines �woman serving in the military�
to mean a resident of this State who identifies as female and is serving in the
United States Armed Forces on full time active duty status, or who has
completed Initial Entry Training.

����� This bill defines �qualified business� to mean an
independently owned and operated business that has its principal place of
business in the State, at least 51 percent of which is owned and controlled by
persons who are women veterans or women serving in the military, and the
management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women
veterans or women serving in the military, or, in the case of a woman veteran
with a permanent and severe disability, are controlled by the spouse of such veteran.

����� This bill was prefiled for introduction in the
2026-2027 session pending technical review.� As reported, the bill includes the
changes required by technical review, which has been performed.