Bill Text: NJ A5509 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - Substituted by S3594 (2R) [A5509 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A5509-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5509

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 17, 2021

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ANDREW ZWICKER

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen McKnight, Vainieri Huttle, Jasey, Murphy, Assemblymen Freiman, Wimberly and Assemblywoman Downey

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on December 9, 2021, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning the calculations of certain damages in civil actions and supplementing Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  In ¹[a] any¹ civil action arising from personal injury or wrongful death, any estimations, measures, or calculations of ¹[past, present, or future]¹ damages for lost earnings or impaired earning capacity shall not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, ¹[or]¹ gender ¹, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation, as those terms are defined or interpreted under the "Law Against Discrimination," P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1 et seq.)¹.

     b.  In any such civil action, ¹[any reduction] determination¹ of damages ¹shall not be¹ based upon statistical tables alone ¹[shall be deemed to be against the public policy of this State] unless agreed to by all parties in the civil action¹.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately ¹and shall apply only to civil actions commenced on or after the effective date of this act¹.