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S3511 • 2026

Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.

Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Bucco, Anthony M.
Last action
2026-02-12
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.

Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
  • Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

Official Summary Text

Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3511

SENATE, No. 3511

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure
by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning tree experts and tree care operators
and amending P.L.2009, c.237.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2009,
c.237 (C.45:15C-12) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� For the purposes of this
act:

���� "Board" means the
New Jersey Board of Tree Experts established pursuant to section 3 of
[
this act
]
P.L.2009,
c.237 (C.45:15C-13)
.

���� "Licensed tree care
operator" means a person licensed to provide tree care operator services
in the State pursuant to subsection b. of section 7 of
[
this act
]
P.L.2009,
c.237 (C.45:15C-17)
.

���� "Licensed tree
expert" means a person licensed to provide tree expert services in this
State pursuant to subsection a. of section 7 of
[
this act
]
P.L.2009,
c.237 (C.45:15C-17)
.

���� "Tree care operator
services" means and includes tree pruning, repairing, brush cutting or
removal, tree removal, and stump
[
grinding
or
]

removal.�
�Tree care operator services� shall not include stump grinding.

���� "Tree care services"
means tree care operator services and tree expert services as established by
[
this act
]
P.L.2009,
c.237 (C.45:15C-11 et seq.)
.

���� "Tree expert
services" means and includes tree pruning, repairing, brush cutting or
removal, tree removal, stump
[
grinding
or
]

removal, tree establishment, fertilization, cabling and bracing, lightning
protection, consulting, diagnosis, and treatment of tree problems or diseases,
tree management during site planning and development, tree assessment and risk
management, and application of pesticides or any other form of tree
maintenance.�
�Tree expert services� shall not include stump grinding.

(cf: P.L.2009, c.237, s.2)

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill removes stump
grinding as a service for which a person has to obtain a license from the New
Jersey Board of Tree Experts in order to perform.