S4178 • 2026

Requires county and municipal clerks to publish unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.

Elections

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Stack, Brian P.
Last action: 2026-05-11
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires county and municipal clerks to publish unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.

What This Bill Does

Requires county and municipal clerks to publish unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.
Topic: State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-05-11 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires county and municipal clerks to publish unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.
Topic:
State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S4178

SENATE, No. 4178

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 11, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires county and municipal clerks to publish
unofficial list of all persons who filed nominating petitions for primary
election within five hours of deadline to file nominating petitions.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning timely publication of the names of persons
who filed primary election nominating petitions and supplementing chapter 23 of
Title 19 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Within five hours after
the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates to be voted for by
the voters of a political party to the county clerk or municipal clerk, as the
case may be, the county clerk or municipal clerk, as the case may be, shall
publish an unofficial list of the candidates who filed such petitions on the
official Internet site of the respective county or municipality.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires county
clerks and municipal clerks to publish an unofficial list of the names of all
persons who filed nominating petitions for a primary election for a general
election within five hours of the deadline to file nominating petitions.� Under
current law, the deadline for nomination petitions submission for the primary
election for the general election is before 4:00 p.m. of the 71st day next
preceding the day of the holding of the primary election for the general
election.� The bill requires the county clerk and the municipal clerk to
publish the unofficial list on the official Internet site of the county or
municipality.