Bill > A837

Introduced Session

This bill would suspend, because of a state of emergency, provisions of law that require county planning boards to act within specific timeframes, in order to prevent automatic approvals from occurring. The suspension would be triggered by the declaration of a state of emergency, and would continue for a 60 day period following a state of emergency. The bill provides that statutory timeframes for county planning board action will not run while a state of emergency declared by the President of the United States or a state of emergency declared by the Governor of this State is in effect, and for 60 days thereafter. Under the bill, a state of emergency declared by the Governor would include a public health emergency declared under the "Emergency Health Powers Act," P.L.2005, c.222 (C.26:13-1 et seq.), and a state of emergency declared pursuant to P.L.1942, c.251 (C.App.A.9-33 et seq.).

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Aura Dunn (R)*,  Gerry Scharfenberger (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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