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S3520 • 2026

Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.

Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.

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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
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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Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.

Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.

What This Bill Does

  • Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.
  • Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has 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

Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3520

SENATE, No. 3520

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from
sales and use tax.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for
sales of recreational safety helmets, supplementing P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1
et seq.).

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

���� 1.� a.� Receipts from sales of
recreational safety helmets are exempt from tax imposed under the �Sales and
Use Tax Act,� P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1 et seq.).

���� b.��� As used in this section,
�recreational safety helmet� means any helmet or other protective headgear
that: (1) meets the standards prescribed by or pursuant to the laws or
regulations requiring operators of bicycles, unicycles, motorcycles, motorized
bicycles, motorized scooters, roller skates, and skateboards to wear helmets or
headgear; or (2) is designed by a manufacturer to be worn while engaged in the
activity of downhill skiing or the operation of a toboggan, sled, snowboard,
snowmobile, or similar means of transport over snow-covered terrain.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately and apply to sales made on or after the first day of the
third month following enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows an exemption
from the sales and use tax for sales of recreational safety helmets.� The bill
defines recreational safety helmets as any helmet or other protective headgear
that:

���� (1)�� meets the standards
prescribed by or pursuant to the laws or regulations requiring operators of
bicycles, unicycles, motorcycles, motorized bicycles, motorized scooters,
roller skates, and skateboards to wear helmets or headgear; or

���� (2)�� is designed by a
manufacturer to be worn while engaged in the activity of downhill skiing or the
operation of a toboggan, sled, snowboard, snowmobile, or similar means of
transport over snow-covered terrain.