Permits educational research and services corporation to act as lead agency or contracting unit for procurement of any goods or services.*

A2100 1R

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2100

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman LINDA S. CARTER

District 22 (Somerset and Union)

Assemblywoman HEATHER SIMMONS

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblyman CODY D. MILLER

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Morales

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits educational research and services corporation
to act as lead agency or contracting unit for procurement of any goods or
services.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Higher Education
Committee on March 9, 2026, with amendments.

��

An Act

concerning educational research and service
corporations and amending P.L.2015, c.140.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2015,
c.140 (C.18A:3B-6.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2. a. The governing board of a
public research university or a State college may join with other public
research universities, State colleges, county colleges, public institutions of
higher education primarily located in the State of New Jersey, and nonprofit
independent institutions of higher education that receive direct State aid, to
form an educational research and services corporation to be operated
exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, within the
meaning of paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of the federal
Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.501).

���� b. (1) An educational research
and services corporation may act as a lead agency or contracting unit for the
procurement of goods or services
including, but not limited to, goods or
services
concerning educational technology systems and related services
1
[
, and
public works,
]
1

by those entities comprising the educational and research services corporation.

���� (2)�� An educational research
and services corporation shall be deemed a local unit for the purposes of the
"Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act," sections 1 through
35 of P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-1 through C.40A:65-35) and may act as a lead
agency or contracting unit for the procurement of goods or services
including,
but not limited to, goods or services
concerning educational technology
systems and related services
1
[
, and
public works
]
1

by municipalities, fire districts, counties, local authorities subject to the
"Local Authorities Fiscal Control Law," P.L.1983, c.313 (C.40A:5A-1
et seq.), school districts, county colleges, State colleges, public research
universities, nonprofit independent institutions of higher education that
receive direct State aid, or any combination of those entities.

���� c.���� An educational research
and services corporation formed under P.L.2015, c.140, shall be subject to all
applicable requirements under all applicable State and local procurement laws,
including, but not limited to, section 1 of P.L.1977, c.33 (C.52:25-24.2),
P.L.2012, c.25 (C.52:32-55 et seq.), and P.L.2005, c.51 (C.19:44A-20.13 et
seq.).

(cf: P.L.2015, c.140, s.2)

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