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A2167
ASSEMBLY, No. 2167
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK
District 18 (Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Lopez
SYNOPSIS
���� Establishes State board to oversee implementation and
evaluation of State pilot programs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
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An Act
establishing a New Jersey Pilot Program Review Board
and supplementing chapter 9H of 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.��� a. �There is established
in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury a board to be known as the �New
Jersey Pilot Program Review Board.�� The board shall be independent of any
supervision or control by the Department of the Treasury except as expressly authorized
under this act, P.L.�� , c.�� (C.�� ) (pending before the Legislature as this
bill).
���� b.��� The board shall consist
of nine members as follows:
���� (1)�� five members shall be
appointed by the Governor, of whom one shall serve as chairperson;
���� (2)�� one member shall be
appointed by the President of the Senate;
���� (3)�� one member shall be
appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate;
���� (4)�� one member shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly; and
���� (5)�� one member shall be
appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly.
���� c.���� In appointing members,
the appointing authority shall select academic, business, and other
professionals who have knowledge, expertise, and practice in at least four of
the following areas:
���� (1)�� accounting and auditing;
���� (2)�� State, county, or
municipal government;
���� (3)�� economic analysis;
���� (4)�� governmental finance and
fiscal management,
���� (5)�� program evaluation;
���� (6)�� cost benefits analysis;
and
���� (7)�� quantitative and
qualitative research methods.
���� The chair of the board shall
be an individual with expertise and experience in cost-benefit analysis,
program evaluation, and research methods.
���� d.��� Members of the board
shall be appointed not later than 60 days after the effective date of this act
and shall hold their initial meeting as soon as practicable, but no later than
30 days following the appointment of a majority of the authorized membership.�
Not more than five members appointed to the board may be from the same
political party.
���� e.���� Members of the board
shall serve for a term of four years, except that of the appointments first
made to the board by the Governor, two of the appointments shall serve for a
term of two years, and except that the appointments first made by the Senate
Minority Leader and the Assembly Minority Leader shall be for a term of two
years.� The term of each member shall be deemed to commence on July 1 of the
calendar year of the appointment and shall expire on June 30 of the second or
fourth calendar year thereafter, as the case may be for the first or subsequent
appointments, but members shall continue to serve during a succeeding term
until the appointment and qualification of a successor.� Any vacancy during a
term shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment but only
for the balance of the unexpired term.� Members shall be eligible for
reappointment to successive terms.� Any member of the board may be removed for
cause by the Governor.
���� f.���� Members of the board
shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursements for
all necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
���� g.��� The board shall meet at
the call of the chairperson.� Five members of the board shall constitute a
quorum, but a lesser number of members may hold hearings.� No action of the
board shall be taken without the affirmative vote of the majority of all the authorized
members of the board.�
The
board shall meet once every six months and at such other times as the chair of
the board may determine.
���� h.��� The board shall hold
annually at least two public hearings each in the northern, central, and
southern region of the State at such times and places as the chair shall
determine.� The board shall invite to testify professional, labor, community,
and environmental organizations, businesses, workers, governmental units, and
other interested parties to discuss the pilot programs in the State.
���� 2.��� a. �The purpose of the
New Jersey Pilot Review Board shall be to evaluate pilot programs enacted by
law to assess whether the programs are being properly implemented and meeting
the programs intended goals, and, if so, to examine whether the program should be
expanded Statewide and to a permanent status.
���� b.��� The board shall:
���� (1)�� review all pilot
programs periodically and not more than a year after the completion of the
pilot program to measure the degree to which the pilot program is achieving its
desired goals and outcomes and the overall effectiveness of the pilot program;
���� (2)�� evaluate each pilot
program using the objective performance measures established and developed by
the implementing department division, or other agency of State government as
set forth in subsection d. of this section;
���� (3)�� solicit both written and
oral comments on the impact of a certain pilot program from the public,
including professional, labor, community, and environmental organizations,
businesses, workers, and other affected persons or entities as the board deems
appropriate, and to consider the views expressed by those parties in any
report; and
���� (4)�� provide a written report
after each review of a pilot program to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2
of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), the Legislature, in which the board shall
provide recommendations on whether or not a the pilot program is being properly
implemented and meeting the programs intended goals and outcomes, and, if so,
whether the program should be expanded Statewide and to a permanent status.
���� c.���� The Department of the
Treasury shall provide primary staff support to the board.� The board shall be
entitled to call upon any department, office, division, or agency of this State
to supply the board with data and other information, personnel, or assistance
it deems necessary for its purposes.� Each department, office, division, or
agency of the State shall cooperate with the board and furnish it with such
information, personnel, or assistance as may be necessary for the board to
discharge its duties.
���� d.��� The department,
division, or other agency of State government responsible for the
implementation of a pilot program shall develop and establish objective
performance measures for each pilot program before the pilot program is
implemented.� The department, division, or other agency of State government
shall develop the objective performance measures in consultation with the New
Jersey Pilot Review Board established pursuant to this act.
���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill establishes the �New
Jersey Pilot Program Review Board� to oversee implementation and evaluation of
State pilot programs.
���� Under the bill, the �New
Jersey Pilot Program Review Board� is established in, but not of, the
Department of the Treasury.� The board will be independent of any supervision
or control by the Department of the Treasury except as expressly authorized
under the bill.
���� The board will consist of nine
members as follows:
���� (1)�� five members will be
appointed by the Governor, of whom one will serve as chairperson;
���� (2)�� one member will be
appointed by the President of the Senate;
���� (3)�� one member will be
appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate;
���� (4)�� one member will be
appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly; and
���� (5)�� one member will be
appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly.
���� Members of the board are
required to have knowledge, expertise, and practice in at least four of the
following areas: accounting and auditing, State, county, or municipal
government, economic analysis, governmental finance and fiscal management,
program evaluation, cost benefits analysis, and quantitative and qualitative
research methods.� Members of the board will serve for a term of four years,
except that of the appointments first made to the board by the Governor, two of
the appointments will serve for a term of two years, and except that the
appointments first made by the minority leaders in each House will be for a
term of two years.� The term of each member will be deemed to commence on July
1 of the calendar year of the appointment and will expire on June 30 of the
second or fourth calendar year thereafter, as the case may be for the first or
subsequent appointments.
���� The board is required to:
���� (1)�� review all pilot
programs periodically and not more than a year after the completion of the
pilot program to measure the degree to which the pilot program is achieving its
desired goals and outcomes and the overall effectiveness of the pilot program;
���� (2)�� evaluate each pilot
program using the objective performance measures established and developed by
the implementing department division, or other agency of State government;
���� (3)�� solicit both written and
oral comments on the impact of a certain pilot program from the public, and to
consider the views expressed by those parties in any report; and
���� (4)�� provide a written report
after each review of a pilot program to the Governor and the Legislature, in
which the board shall provide recommendations on whether or not the pilot
program is being properly implemented and meeting the programs intended goals and
outcomes, and, if so, whether the program should be expanded Statewide and to a
permanent status.
���� The Department of the Treasury
will provide primary staff support to the board and each department, office,
division, or agency of the State is required to cooperate with the board and
furnish it with such information, personnel, or assistance as may be necessary
for the board to discharge its duties.