Bill Text: NJ AJR95 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes "New Jersey Transit Alternative Revenue Task Force."
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-01 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [AJR95 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-AJR95-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUŅOZ
District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
Assemblywoman MICHELE MATSIKOUDIS
District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Alternative Revenue Task Force."
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Joint Resolution establishing the "New Jersey Transit Alternative Revenue Task Force."
Be It Resolved by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is established a task force to be known as the "New Jersey Transit Alternative Revenue Task Force."
b. The task force shall consist of the following five members:
(1) a person with expertise and experience in real estate development who shall be appointed by the Governor;
(2) a person with expertise and experience in advertising who shall be appointed by the Senate President;
(3) a person with expertise and experience in franchise or small business development who shall be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly; and
(4) two people with expertise and experience in public rail passenger transportation, one who shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate and one who shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly.
c. Appointments to the task force shall be made within 30 days of the effective date of this joint resolution. Vacancies in the membership of the task force shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments were made. Members of the task force shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members of the task force and within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the task force for its purposes.
2. The task force shall organize as soon as practicable following the appointment of a majority of its members, but no later than 60 days after the effective date of this joint resolution. The task force shall select a chairperson from among its members and may appoint a secretary who need not be a member of the task force. The task force shall meet at the call of the chairperson and hold hearings at the times and in the places the task force deems appropriate and necessary to fulfill its charge.
3. The New Jersey Transit
Corporation shall provide stenographic, clerical, and other administrative
assistance and professional staff as the task force requires to carry out its
work. The task force shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail
itself of the services of the employees of any State, county, or municipal
department, board, bureau, commission, or agency as it may require and as may
be available for its purposes.
4. The task force shall study and make findings and recommendations concerning all potential opportunities for the New Jersey Transit Corporation to generate new revenue without increasing fares, including, but not limited to, revenue that the corporation may generate from: real estate holdings; advertising on the corporation's motorbuses, rail cars, and light rail vehicles and at and around the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals; development opportunities at and around the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals; and other revenue generating services that may be provided on the corporation's motorbuses, rail cars, and light rail vehicles and at the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals.
5. The task force shall prepare and submit a report to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the Legislature no later than one year following its organizational meeting. The report shall contain the task force's findings and recommendations required pursuant to section 4 of this joint resolution.
6. This joint resolution shall take effect immediately and shall expire upon submission of the report required to be prepared and submitted pursuant to section 5 of this joint resolution.
STATEMENT
This joint resolution establishes a five member "New Jersey Transit Alternative Revenue Task Force" (task force) to study and make findings and recommendations concerning all potential opportunities for the New Jersey Transit Corporation (corporation) to generate new revenue without increasing fares, including, but not limited to, through: real estate holdings; advertising on the corporation's motorbuses, rail cars, and light rail vehicles and at and around the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals; development opportunities at and around the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals; and other revenue generating services that may be provided on the corporation's motorbuses, rail cars, and light rail vehicles and at the corporation's bus, rail, and light rail stations and terminals.
The task force is to consist
of: a person with expertise and experience in real estate development, who is
to be appointed by the Governor; a person with expertise and experience in
advertising, who is to be appointed by the Senate President; a person with
expertise and experience in franchise or small business development, who is to
be appointed by the Speaker of the General
Assembly; and two people with expertise and experience in public rail passenger
transportation, one who is to be appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate
and one who is to be appointed by the Minority Leader of the General Assembly.
The task force is to prepare and submit a report containing its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature and is to expire upon submission of the report.
