Bill Text: NJ A1433 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires professional services contract for legal services on behalf of State agency be memorialized in writing within 30 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A1433 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1433-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK
District 18 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires professional services contract for legal services on behalf of State agency be memorialized in writing within 30 days.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning professional services contracts for State agencies and amending P.L.2005, c.336.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.2005, c.336 (C.52:34-10.8) is amended to read as follows:
8. Contracts awarded for
professional services by a State agency, as defined in section 11 of P.L.2005,
c.336
(C.52:34-10.11), shall be contracts only for services rendered or performed by
a person authorized by law to practice a recognized profession and whose
practice is regulated by law or the performance of which services requires
knowledge of an advanced type in a field of learning acquired by a prolonged
formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from
general academic instruction or apprenticeship and training. Professional
services contracts shall also include those services rendered in the provision
of goods or performance of services that are original and creative in character
in a recognized field of artistic endeavor. Professional services contracts
shall also include contracts for extraordinary unspecifiable services if, after
evaluation and assessment, such services are determined to be such that they
cannot reasonably be described by written specifications. Professional
services contracts for legal services shall be memorialized, in writing, within
30 days of the date on which a State agency reaches an agreement with a
professional firm for the provision of legal services. A State agency shall
not pay a professional firm for the provision of legal services unless a professional
services contract has been memorialized, in writing, within 30 days of the date
on which the State agency reaches an agreement with the professional firm for
the provision of legal services.
(cf: P.L.2005, c.336, s.8)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that professional services contracts for legal services be memorialized, in writing, within 30 days of the date on which a State agency reaches an agreement with a professional firm for the provision of legal services. If a professional services contract is not memorialized, in writing, within 30 days, then a State agency may not pay the professional firm for the provision of legal services.
