Proposes temporary constitutional amendment allowing State constitutional convention convened to reform system of property taxation to propose statutory changes.

SCR75

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 75

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Proposes temporary constitutional amendment allowing
State constitutional convention convened to reform system of property taxation
to propose statutory changes.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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A
Concurrent Resolution
to amend Article IV, Section I of the Constitution
of the State of New Jersey.

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Be It Resolved

by the Senate of the State of New
Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):

���� 1.��� The following proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Jersey is hereby agreed to:

PROPOSED
AMENDMENT

���� Amend Article IV, Section I by
the addition of a new paragraph 1A as follows:

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1A.� A constitutional
convention for the limited purpose of reforming the system of property taxation
in this State, which is convened through voter approval at the general election
held in November 2026 of a law authorizing such a convention, shall have the
authority to propose for voter approval at the general election held in
November 2027, in addition to constitutional amendments, the amendment or
repeal of existing statutes, or the enactment of new statutes, which are within
the scope of the convention's mandate, by a date prescribed in that law and in
the form of one or more public questions, provided that this amendment is
approved by the voters not later than the general election at which the
proposal prepared by the convention is submitted to the voters.� Any such
changes to the statutory law approved by the voters may thereafter be amended
or repealed by the Legislature by law.

���� 2.��� When this proposed
amendment to the Constitution is finally agreed to pursuant to Article IX,
paragraph 1 of the Constitution, it shall be submitted to the people at the
next general election occurring more than three months after the final
agreement and shall be published at least once in at least one newspaper of
each county designated by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
General Assembly and the Secretary of State, not less than three months prior
to the general election.

���� 3.��� This proposed amendment
to the Constitution shall be submitted to the people at that election in the
following manner and form:

���� There shall be printed on each
official ballot to be used at the general election, the following:

���� a.���� In every municipality
in which voting machines are not used, a legend which shall immediately precede
the question, as follows:

���� If you favor the proposition
printed below make a cross (X), plus (+), or check (
T
) in the square opposite the word
"Yes."� If you are

opposed thereto make a cross (X),
plus (+) or check (
T
) in
the square opposite the word "No."

���� b.��� In every municipality
the following question:

CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO ALLOW THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ON PROPERTY TAX REFORM TO
PROPOSE CHANGES TO THE STATUTES

YES

���� Do you approve a temporary
amendment to the Constitution to allow a State constitutional convention to
propose changes to the statutes to reform the system of property taxation?�
The proposed changes would need to be approved by the voters.

���� The purpose of the
constitutional convention would be to reform the current system of property
taxation.� The holding of the constitutional convention would need to be
approved by the voters through a separate ballot question.

INTERPRETIVE
STATEMENT

NO

���� This temporary amendment would
allow a constitutional convention to propose changes to the statutes.� Those
proposed changes would need to be approved by the voters.�

���� The holding of the
constitutional convention would need to be approved by the voters through a
separate ballot question.

���� The purpose of the
constitutional convention would be to reform the current system of property
taxation.� The proposed changes to the statutes would have to be within the
scope of the convention�s purpose.

���� Without this temporary
amendment, the convention would be able to propose only amendments to the
Constitution for approval by the voters.� The convention may want also to
propose changes to the statutes to implement its proposals.

���� This temporary amendment
must be approved by the voters by the time, or at the same time, the
statutory changes proposed by the convention are presented to the voters for
approval.�

SCHEDULE

���� This constitutional amendment
shall become part of the New Jersey Constitution upon approval by the voters
and shall expire three years thereafter.

STATEMENT

���� This concurrent resolution
proposes a temporary amendment to the New Jersey Constitution which would allow
the property tax reform constitutional convention, to be convened pursuant to a
separate ballot question, to propose revisions to the statutes which are within
the scope of the convention's mandate.� Without this amendment, the convention
would only be able to submit proposed constitutional amendments for voter
approval, but not proposed statutory changes that may be needed to help
implement those amendments.� This amendment would become part of the New Jersey
Constitution upon approval by the voters and would expire three years after its
approval by the voters.� Statutory changes proposed by the convention will take
effect upon voter approval if this temporary constitutional amendment
authorizing the convention to propose such changes receives voter approval not
later than the general election at which the proposal prepared by the
convention is submitted to the voters.