Bill Text: NJ S620 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts reconstruction, improvement or enlargement of hospitals and nursing homes from imposition of affordable housing fees; prohibits calculation of fair share obligation on same.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S620 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S620-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 620

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  ROBERT M. GORDON

District 38 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Exempts reconstruction, improvement or enlargement of hospitals and nursing homes from imposition of affordable housing fees; prohibits calculation of fair share obligation on same.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning affordable housing and supplementing P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.).

 

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

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any regulation of the Council on Affordable Housing to the contrary, no fair share obligation shall result from and no fees by municipalities shall be permitted to be charged pursuant to the "Fair Housing Act," P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.), upon the reconstruction, improvement or enlargement of facilities used or to be used as hospitals or nursing homes.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would prohibit the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) from adopting any regulation which requires the calculation of affordable housing need and the charging of fees to developers, upon the reconstruction, improvement or enlargement of facilities used or to be used as hospitals or nursing homes, by amending the enabling act for the council's powers, the "Fair Housing Act," P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.).  Currently, the statute is silent on the imposition of fees by a municipality for affordable housing purposes.  The Fair Housing Act also does not direct the council to compute fair share housing need in the manner the council has adopted under its regulations.  The bill would exclude from the computations of affordable housing need any units of housing currently deemed required because of reconstruction, improvement or enlargement to hospitals or nursing homes.