Bill > S2533

Introduced Session

This bill would require municipalities to electronically publish supplemental payment policies for municipal employees and to provide advanced notice of payments to be made pursuant to supplemental payment policies. The bill would require the governing body of a municipality that maintains a supplemental payment policy for municipal employees or proposes a resolution, or other action, to establish or modify a supplemental payment policy for any individual employee or group of its employees, to publish the policy or policies on the municipality's Internet website, if the municipality maintains an Internet website. If a municipality does not maintain an Internet website, the municipality would be required to submit the supplemental payment policy or proposed supplemental payment policy to the Department of Community Affairs for publication on the department's Internet website. The bill provides that a "supplemental payment" means a payment to an employee of a municipality in excess of the employee's regular compensation or reimbursement to the employee for actual costs incurred by the employee related to the person's employment with the municipality. The bill would require a municipal governing body to approve any supplemental payment to any individual municipal employee by resolution of the governing body at a public meeting. The bill would further require that the municipality: 1) provide advanced notice of the date, time, place, and purpose of the public meeting, and 2) make supporting documentation for the supplemental payment accessible, both as provided for in the bill. By requiring that all supplemental payments beyond standard pay be posted publicly and approved by a municipality's governing body, it is the intent of the sponsor to ensure that municipal taxpayers are made aware of the financial impacts of this additional compensation. The bill would take effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.

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Declan O'Scanlon (R)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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