Bill Text: NJ A4145 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires BPU to establish and maintain electronic docketing system providing online document access to public.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-19 - Combined with A4556 (ACS) [A4145 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4145-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ANDREW ZWICKER
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Requires BPU to establish and maintain electronic docketing system providing online document access to public.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring the Board of Public Utilities to establish and maintain an electronic docketing system and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill):
"Board" means the Board of Public Utilities or any successor agency.
"Docket system" means the central, digitized electronic docket system established by the board pursuant to section 2 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
"Official record" means any official record of the board, including, but not limited to, all rules, regulations, orders, notices, and meeting minutes of the board, all annual and other reports produced by the board, all transcribed proceedings of the board, all testimony and comments from board commissioners and staff, all filings submitted to the board, and any written comments from the public as submitted to the board. "Official record" shall not include any pleading, petition, or complaint filed with the board at any date 10 years prior to the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) or any pleading, petition, or complaint determined to be defective by board staff.
2. a. The Board of Public Utilities shall establish, maintain, and update, as appropriate, a docket system that shall contain every official record of the board. Within 90 days of the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the board shall make available on its docket system:
(1) all official records of the board as of the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill);
(2) all pleadings, petitions, and complaints filed with the board within 10 years prior to the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill); and
(3) all official records created and all pleadings, petitions, and complaints submitted to the board thereafter.
b. All documents provided on the docket system as required pursuant to P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be available for online downloading by the public and have online text searching availability. The board shall provide any document required to be made available on the docket system within 24 hours of the date the document is submitted to and accepted by board staff.
3. This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Board of Public Utilities (board) to establish, maintain, and update, as appropriate, a central, digitized electronic docket system (docket system) that is to contain every "official record," as defined in the bill, of the board. Within 90 days of the effective date of the bill, the board is to make available on its docket system: 1) all official records of the board as of the effective date of the bill; 2) all pleadings, petitions, and complaints filed with the board within 10 years prior to the effective date of the bill; and 3) all official records created and all pleadings, petitions, and complaints submitted to the board thereafter. All documents provided on the docket system as required pursuant to the bill are to be available for online downloading by the public and have online text searching availability. The board is to provide any document required to be made available on the docket system within 24 hours of the date the document is submitted to and accepted by board staff.
