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S1193 S1197 SCS
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE, Nos. 1193 and 1197
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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ADOPTED
MARCH 16, 2026
Sponsored by:
Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Senator� JOSEPH A. LAGANA
District 38 (Bergen)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Gopal and Polistina
SYNOPSIS
���� Bans unauthorized restaurant reservation arrangement
by third-party reservation service.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Substitute as adopted by the Senate Commerce
Committee.
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An Act
concerning restaurant
reservations and supplementing P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.).
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Be It Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� a.� As used in this act:
���� �Food service establishment�
means a place where food is provided for individual portion service directly to
the consumer whether that food is provided free of charge or sold, and whether
consumption occurs on or off the premises or is provided from a pushcart,
stand, or vehicle.
���� �Third-party restaurant
reservation service� means any website, mobile application, or other internet
service that: offers or arranges for reserving on-premises service for a
customer at a food service establishment; and that is owned and operated by a person
other than the person who owns the food service establishment.� A third-party
restaurant reservation service shall not include any reservation distribution
channels that are authorized to distribute reservations by way of a contractual
relationship with either the applicable food service establishment or a
contractual designee of the food service establishment who obtained reservation
distribution rights directly from the food service establishment.
���� b.��� A third-party restaurant
reservation service shall not advertise, list, promote, or sell reservations
for a food service establishment through the website, mobile application, or
other platform of the third-party restaurant reservation service without a written
agreement between the third-party restaurant reservation service and the food
service establishment to include reservations at the food service establishment
on the website, mobile application, or other platform of the third-party
restaurant reservation service.
���� c.���� (1) �Any person who
violates, or causes another person to violate, a provision of this act, shall
be subject to a civil penalty that shall not exceed $500 for each violation, to
be collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under the �Penalty
Enforcement Law of 1999,� P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).� A violation by
a person under this act shall accrue on a daily basis for each day and for each
food service establishment with respect to which a violation of this act was
committed.� The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for the
enforcement of the penalty provided by this section.
���� (2)�� Any person charged fees
by a third-party restaurant reservation service that with respect to a
reservation advertised, listed, promoted, or sold in violation of this act, or
food service establishment which a third-party restaurant reservation service
listed, advertised, promoted, or sold a reservation in violation of this act,
may bring a civil action in the Superior Court for:
���� (a) injunctive relief to
restrain or enjoin any activity in violation of this act;
���� (b)�� in the case of a person,
actual damages not to exceed the total fees collected by the third-party
restaurant reservation service in violation of this act or, in the case of a
food service establishment, actual damages as a result of reservations made by
the third-party reservation service that remained unfilled;
���� (c)�� attorney's fees and
costs; and
���� (d)�� any other remedy as the
court may deem appropriate.
���� (3)�� Any action alleging a
violation of this act shall be brought within one year after the alleged
violation of this act occurs.
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.