Bill > A618

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This bill would allow a contracting unit under the "Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.), to designate its municipal finance officer, county finance officer, or county purchasing official to serve as a purchasing agent only if the person is a certified municipal finance officer, a certified county finance officer, or a certified county purchasing official, and the person will perform the actual day to day work of a purchasing agent. The bill also provides that the work experience required for certification as a qualified purchasing agent must be performed under the direct supervision of a purchasing agent, or, in the case of a certified municipal finance officer, certified county finance officer, or certified county purchasing official, two years of full-time governmental experience performing duties relative to those of public procurement. Additionally, the bill would specify the content and length of the courses an individual must complete to earn a qualified purchasing agent certificate. Under the Local Public Contracts Law, a contracting unit that designates a holder of a qualified purchasing agent certificate as its purchasing agent may award contracts without public advertising at a higher threshold amount than a contracting unit that designates as its purchasing agent a person who does not hold a qualified purchasing agent certificate.

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Linda Carter (D)*,  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Shavonda Sumter (D)*, 

Assembly Community Development and Women's Affairs Hearing (10:00:00 5/13/2024 Committee Room 12, 4th Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ) (on 05/13/2024)

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