Bill > A1470

Introduced Session

This bill would remove the 2 percent limit on annual increases in the portion of the budget requests, of county constitutional officers, to be raised by property taxation. "County constitutional officers" is the colloquial term for county clerks, surrogates, prosecutors, and sheriffs, because Article VII, Sections I and II of the New Jersey Constitution, specifically reference those positions and provides certain requirements about their term of office. Under current law, in preparation of the portions of their budget requests to be raised by property taxation, the constitutional officers must limit any increase in that portion of a budget request to 2 percent of the previous year's budget request, subject to the exceptions set forth in law. Under the bill, the offices of the constitutional officers, would not be required to adhere to the 2 percent budget request limitation. This bill takes effect immediately upon enactment and first applies to the next local budget year following enactment.

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Antwan McClellan (R)*,  Bill Spearman (D)*,  Erik Simonsen (R), 

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

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