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S4100 • 2026

Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.

Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Gopal, Vin
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.

Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.
  • Topic: Community and Urban Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to volunteer first responders.
Topic:
Community and Urban Affairs
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S4100

SENATE, No. 4100

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 4, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits counties from charging recording fees to
volunteer first responders.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
prohibiting counties from charging recording fees to
volunteer first responders and supplementing N.J.S.22A:4-4.1.

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

���� 1.� a.� For the purposes of
this section:

���� �Volunteer first responder�
means a volunteer firefighter, volunteer member of a duly incorporated first
aid, emergency, ambulance, or rescue squad association, or any other individual
who, in the course of volunteer services, is dispatched to the scene of a motor
vehicle accident or other emergency situation for the purpose of providing
medical care or other assistance.

���� b.� Notwithstanding the
provisions of N.J.S.22A:4-4.1 to the contrary, county clerks and registers of
deeds and mortgages, in counties having such offices, shall not charge the fees
enumerated in N.J.S.22A:4-4.1 to an individual who certifies, in a form and
manner to be determined by the Director of the Division of Local Government
Services in the Department of Community Affairs, that the individual is a
volunteer first responder having engaged in volunteer first response services in
the previous 12 months.

���� 2. �This act shall take effect
on the first day of the third month next following enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits county
clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages from charging county recording fees
to individuals who certify, in a form and manner determined by the Director of
the Divisions of Local Government Services in the Department of Community
Affairs, that they are a volunteer first responder that has engaged in
volunteer response services in the previous 12 months.�

���� The bill is to take effect on
the 30th day next following enactment.