Bill > S2280

Introduced Session

This bill relates to county improvement authority contracting powers by validating certain past agreements, contracts, executed instruments, or action taken by county improvement authorities in the State and by authorizing a pilot county improvement authority greater flexibility to enter into certain agreements, contracts, and executed instruments, and to take certain action necessary, convenient, and desirable for the purposes of the pilot county improvement authority. The bill validates any agreement, contract, executed instrument, or action taken or performed as necessary, convenient, or desirable for the purposes of a county improvement authority to carry out any power expressly given in the "county improvement authorities law," N.J.S.A.40:37A-44 et seq., in the two years immediately preceding the effective date of the bill, if the agreement, contract, executed instruments, or act was subject to the requirements of the "Local Public Contracts Law," N.J.S.A.40A:11-1 et seq., (LPCL) or was related to actions of the authority taken pursuant to N.J.S.A.40:37A-55.1. The bill also allows a pilot county improvement authority to enter into any agreement, contract, executed instrument, or take actions necessary, convenient or desirable for the purposes of a county improvement authority provided that the agreement, contract, executed instrument, or action is subject to the requirements of the LPCL or is related to actions of the authority taken pursuant to N.J.S.A.40:37A-55.1. The bill further requires that a pilot county improvement authority that enters into any agreement, contract, executed instrument, or takes actions related to actions of the authority for projects pursuant to N.J.S.A.40:37A-55.1 to enter into a project labor agreement prior to commencing work on the project and pay each worker employed to perform construction work and building services work at the project property a wage not less than the prevailing wage rate for the worker's craft or trade, as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development pursuant to N.J.S.A.34:11-56.25 et seq. The bill specifies that the pilot county improvement authority is to be the county improvement authority established in a county in which at least five municipalities met the criteria in State fiscal year 2020 for urban aid and which has a population greater than 500,000 and less than 700,000, and a population density of at least 5,000 persons per square mile. The bill requires that the pilot county improvement authority report to the Department of Community Affairs on the benefits and effectiveness of the additional flexibility provided to the pilot county improvement authority under the bill.

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Nick Scutari (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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