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A4118 • 2026

Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.

Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Murphy, Carol A.
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.

Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.
  • Topic: State and Local Government Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

Official Summary Text

Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.
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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A4118

ASSEMBLY, No. 4118

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and
paid leave to be census enumerators.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning unpaid and paid leave of absence for certain
State employees who are census enumerators and supplementing chapter 6 of Title
11A of the New Jersey Statues.

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

���� 1.��� a. �As used in this
section:

���� �State agency� means any of
principal departments in the Executive Branch of State government, and any
division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or
created by such department, and any independent State authority, commission,
instrumentality or agency.

���� b.��� In each year in which
the federal decennial census is taken, up to five State employees in each State
agency shall be granted, upon request, a leave of absence to be a census
enumerator during that employee�s work hours.� Upon approval of the request, a leave
of absence with pay for no more than 10 work days during the federal decennial
census year and an additional leave of absence without pay for no more than 10
work days during the federal decennial census year shall be granted to those
State employees to participate in census outreach as a census enumerator.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill permits certain
State employees to receive an unpaid and paid leave of absence to be census
enumerators.� Under the bill, up to five State employees in each State agency
shall be granted, upon request, a leave of absence to be census enumerators
during that employee�s normal work hours.� Upon approval of the request, a
leave of absence with pay for no more than 10 work days during the federal
decennial census year and an additional leave of absence without pay for no
more than 10 work days during the federal decennial census year would be
granted to those State employees to participate in census outreach as a census
enumerator.

���� As used in the bill,

���� �State agency� means any of
principal departments in the Executive Branch of State government, and any
division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or
created by such department, and any independent State authority, commission,
instrumentality or agency.