Bill Text: NJ S1202 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires newly hired State employees be New Jersey residents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee [S1202 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1202-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires newly hired State employees be New Jersey residents.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring all newly hired State employees to be New Jersey residents and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Every person employed in the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial Branch of this State, or with an authority, board, body, agency, commission, or instrumentality of the State, including any State college, university or other educational institution of this State, shall have his or her principal residence in this State.
For the purposes of this subsection, a person may have at most one principal residence, and the state of a person's principal residence means the state (1) where the person spends the majority of his or her nonworking time; (2) which is most clearly the center of his or her domestic life; and (3) which is designated as his or her legal address and legal residence for voting. The fact that a person is domiciled in this State shall not by itself satisfy the requirement of principal residency hereunder.
b. Any person employed on the effective date of this act, P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall not be required to have his or her principal residence in the State of New Jersey. Any person who commences service after the effective date of this act shall be required to have his or her principal residence in the State of New Jersey. Any person employed on the effective date of this act who leaves State service and returns after the effective date of this act, shall be required to have his or her principal residence in the State of New Jersey.
2. This act shall take effect on January 1 next following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
Under current law, the Governor, members of the Legislature, the head of each principal department of the Executive Branch and every Justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Superior Court and judge of an inferior court are required to have their principal residence in the State of New Jersey.
This bill will require that all newly hired State employees have their principal place of residence in the State of New Jersey. The employees covered include persons employed in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch of this State, and with an authority, board, body, agency, commission, or instrumentality of the State, including the employees of any State college, university and other educational institution of this State.
This bill only applies to people who begin employment with the State after the bill becomes effective. Current State employees will not be required to have their principal residence in New Jersey. However, any person employed on the effective date who leaves State service and returns after the effective date, will be required to have his or her principal residence in New Jersey.
