Bill Text: NJ A3610 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits State agency from entering into certain State contracts that limits ability of State agency to install or run certain software.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3610 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3610-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3610

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits State agency from entering into certain State contracts that limits ability of State agency to install or run certain software.

 

 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the terms of State contracts and supplementing P.L.1954, c.48 (C.52:34-6 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.  a.  As used in this section:

     "State agency" means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission, or other instrumentality within or created by such principal department, and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality, or agency subject to the public contracting provisions of P.L.1954, c.48 (C.52:34-6 et seq.).

     "State contract" means any contract or agreement entered into by a State agency the cost of or price of which is to be paid, in whole or in part, with or out of State funds.

     b.  The terms of a State contract entered into by a State agency for the licensing of software applications designed to run on generally available desktop or server hardware shall not limit the ability of the State agency to install or run the software on the hardware of the State agency's choosing.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that if a State agency enters into a State contract for the licensing of software applications designed to run on generally available desktop or server hardware, the software cannot limit the ability of the State agency to install or run the software on the hardware of the State agency's choosing.