Bill Text: NJ S3735 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Extends certain provisions of P.L.2022, c.9.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - Reported from Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading [S3735 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3735-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JAMES W. HOLZAPFEL
District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)
Senator NICHOLAS P. SCUTARI
District 22 (Somerset and Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Amato and Singer
SYNOPSIS
Extends certain provisions of P.L.2022, c.9.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 20, 2025, with amendments.
An Act concerning the mandatory retirement age of police chiefs and fire department chiefs and amending P.L.2022, c.9.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.2022, c.9 (C.43:16A-5.3) is amended to read as follows:
1. a. A member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), who:
is serving as a police chief of a law enforcement agency or a chief of a fire department on the effective date of [this act,] P.L.2022, c.9; and
will attain the age of 65 years during the period commencing on the effective date of [this act] P.L.2022, c.9 and ending on the last day of the [24th] 1[48th] 60th1 calendar month following that effective date,
may remain a member of the system, notwithstanding the mandatory retirement provision of section 5 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-5), until the end of the calendar year in which the member attains the age of 67 years if the appointing authority approves, in writing, the retention and continued service after the age of 65 years of the police or fire chief as the chief.
b. Within 30 days after the last day of the [24th] 1[48th] 60th1 calendar month following the effective date of [this act] P.L.2022, c.9, the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall submit a report to the Governor, and the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on the effect of this section on the retirement system. The report shall include the number of members who were retained and continued to serve as the police or fire chief, the length of that service after the age of 65 years, and the impact of that extended service on the retirement system.
(cf: P.L.2022, c.9, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
