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Introduced Session

This bill prohibits the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) from entering into any settlement agreement concerning equal employment opportunity or unlawful discrimination unless the settlement agreement is approved by the NJ Transit board of directors. NJ Transit's bylaws only require approval from the board of directors if a settlement agreement involves an amount of money in excess of $500,000. The bill also requires NJ Transit to prepare an annual report that contains the discrimination-related settlement agreements approved in the immediately preceding year, a comparison of discrimination-related settlement agreements approved in the immediately preceding year with the discrimination-related settlement agreements approved in the preceding five years, and an indication of the department or unit subject to the complaint or allegations underlying the discrimination-related settlement agreement. The report is required to be published on NJ Transit's website and submitted to the Governor and the Legislature.

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Bob Singer (R)*,  Loretta Weinberg (D)*, 

Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 03/26/2018)