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A4631 • 2026

Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.

Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Sauickie, Alex
Last action
2026-03-10
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.

Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.
  • Topic: Telecommunications and Utilities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-10 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list of certain clients.
Topic:
Telecommunications and Utilities
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4631

ASSEMBLY, No. 4631

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits BPU from hiring certain third-party
consultants; requires certain third-party consultants of BPU to disclose list
of certain clients.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning certain consultants of the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

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

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

���� �Board� means the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities, or any successor agency.

���� �Public utility� means the
same as that term is defined in R.S.48:2-13.

���� �Public utility holding
company� means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23
(C.48:3-51).

���� �Third-party consultant� means
an individual or private entity contracted by the board to prepare a report on
behalf of the board.

���� b.��� The board shall not hire
a third-party consultant who has worked for, or contracted with, a public
utility or public utility holding company within 365 days of the date on which
the board approved the contract.

���� c.���� A third-party
consultant shall disclose a list of public utilities with which the third-party
consultant has contracted within the prior three years.� The list shall be
published on the Internet website of each public utility included on the list
in a time, manner, and format to be determined by the board.

���� d.��� The board shall adopt,
pursuant to the �Administrative Procedure Act,� P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et
seq.), rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this
section.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits the New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities (board) from hiring certain third-party
consultants and requires certain third-party consultants to disclose a list of
certain clients.

���� Specifically, under the bill,
the board is prohibited from hiring a third-party consultant who has worked for
a public utility or a public utility holding company within 365 days from when
the board approved the contract.� In addition, the bill requires a third-party
consultant to disclose a list of public utilities with which the third-party
consultant has contracted within the prior three years.� The list is to be
published on the Internet website of each public utility included on the list
in a time, manner, and format to be determined by the board.

���� The
board often hires third-party consultants to provide data to inform the board�s
decision-making, which decisions directly impact public utility customers in
the State.� It is the sponsor�s belief that prohibiting third-party consultants
with potential ties to public utilities from working with the board within a
certain period of time will help ensure that the board receives fair, unbiased
reports from its consultants.

���� Under the bill, �third party
consultant� is defined as an individual or private entity contracted by the
board to prepare a report on behalf of the board.