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A3548 • 2026

Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.

Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.

Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Greenwald, Louis D.
Last action
2026-05-07
Official status
Reported and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.

Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.
  • 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. 2026-05-07 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides certain volunteer and other workers with maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of outside employment.
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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A3548 TR

ASSEMBLY, No. 3548

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Drulis and Assemblyman Tully

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides certain volunteer and other workers with
maximum compensation benefit for workers' compensation claim regardless of
outside employment.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Labor Committee with
technical review.

��

An Act

concerning workers� compensation benefits for
certain volunteer and other workers and amending R.S.34:15-75.

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

���� 1.��� R.S.34:15-75 is amended
to read as follows:

���� 34:15-75.��� Compensation for
injury
[
and
]
,

death,
[
either
]
or both, of
any
individual who is a
volunteer
[
fireman
]

firefighter
,
county fire marshal, assistant county fire marshal, volunteer first aid or
rescue squad worker, volunteer driver of any municipally-owned or operated
ambulance, forest fire warden or forest fire fighter employed by the State of
New Jersey, member of a board of education, special reserve or auxiliary
[
policeman
]

police
officer
doing volunteer public police duty under the control or supervision
of any commission, council or any other governing body of any municipality,
emergency management volunteer doing emergency management service, health care
workers, public health workers and support services personnel registered with
the Emergency Health Care Provider Registry pursuant to section 6 of P.L.2005,
c.222 (C.26:13-6) and doing emergency management service for the State, or any
volunteer worker for the Division of Parks and Forestry, the Division of Fish
and Wildlife, the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust or the New Jersey Historic
Trust,
that occurs during the course of performing that individual�s duties

shall:

���� a.���� Be
[
based upon a
weekly salary or compensation conclusively presumed to be received by such
person in an amount sufficient to entitle him, or, in the event of his death,
his dependents, to receive
]

equal to
the maximum compensation
[
by
this chapter
]

authorized
by this chapter regardless of the individual�s outside employment
status at the time of the injury or death
; and

���� b.��� Not be subject to the
seven-day waiting period provided in R.S.34:15-14.

(cf: P.L.2005, c.222, s.34)

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