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NJ Rev Stat § 52:10A-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:10A-2 - Person elected to fill vacancy

52:10A-2. Person elected to fill vacancy  Any person elected at the general election in any year to fill a vacancy in the membership of the Senate or General Assembly occurring for any cause other than expiration of term, shall, upon qualifying into office, receive for the remainder of the legislative year that proportion of the annual compensation payable to members of the Legislature as the number of days remaining in the legislative year following his qualification bears to the total number of days in the legislative year. L.1971, c. 204, s. 1, eff. June 9, 1971.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-1 - President of senate to exercise powers of vice president of council

52:11-1. President of senate to exercise powers of vice president of council  The powers, privileges, duties and remunerations granted to or imposed by law upon the vice president of the council at and immediately prior to the time of the taking effect of the present constitution, shall be exercised, enjoyed and performed by the president of the senate, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the present constitution.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-2 - Officers and employees of senate and their compensation

52:11-2. Officers and employees of senate and their compensation  The officers and employees of the senate, other than the presiding officer, shall be those named herein, and no others, who shall severally receive the annual compensation specified herein, which compensation shall be in full payment of all their services, subject to the deductions provided by section 52:11-4 of this title: Secretary of the senate, twenty-five hundred dollars. Assistant secretary of the senate, twelve hundred dollars. President's secretary, one thousand dollars. Chaplain, three hundred dollars. Supervisor of bills, twelve hundred dollars. Assistant supervisor of bills, six hundred dollars. Second assistant supervisor of bills, five hundred dollars. Journal clerk, one thousand dollars. Assistant journal clerk, five hundred dollars. Second assistant journal clerk, four hundred dollars. Calendar clerk, five hundred dollars. Bill clerk, five hundred dollars. Assistant bill clerk, five hundred dollars. Sergeant at arms, seven hundred dollars. Assistant sergeant at arms, five hundred dollars. Clerk to committee on printed bills, five hundred dollars. Clerk to committee on appropriations, five hundred dollars. Clerk to committee on stationery and incidentals, two hundred dollars. Secretary to committee on appropriations, five hundred dollars. Four clerks to committees, to be assigned to duty by the secretary of the senate, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Four stenographers, five hundred dollars each. Five doorkeepers, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Three gallery keepers, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Four file clerks, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Six pages, two hundred dollars each.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-2.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-2.1 - Sergeant-at-arms; tenure

52:11-2.1. Sergeant-at-arms; tenure  Any person holding or who shall hold the office, position or employment of sergeant-at-arms of the Senate of this State and who has served or shall have served for 20 years or more either consecutively or in the aggregate, shall continue to hold such office, position or employment during good behavior and shall not be removed therefrom, except for good cause shown after a fair and impartial hearing. L.1962, c. 68, s. 1, eff. June 4, 1962.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-2.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-2.2 - Journal clerk; tenure

52:11-2.2. Journal clerk; tenure  Any person holding or who shall hold the office, position or employment of journal clerk to the Senate of this State and who has served or shall have served for 20 consecutive years or more, shall continue to hold such office, position or employment during good behavior and efficiency and shall not be removed therefrom, except for good cause shown after a fair and impartial hearing. L.1962, c. 69, s. 1, eff. June 4, 1962.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-3 - Officers and employees of house of assembly and their compensation

52:11-3. Officers and employees of house of assembly and their compensation  The officers and employees of the house of assembly, except the presiding officer, shall be those named herein, and no others, who shall severally receive the annual compensation specified herein, which compensation shall be in full payment of all their services, subject to the deductions provided by section 52:11-4 of this title: Clerk of the house, twenty-five hundred dollars. Assistant clerk, twelve hundred dollars. Calendar clerk, five hundred dollars. Speaker's secretary, one thousand dollars. Speaker's assistant secretary, five hundred dollars. Journal clerk, one thousand dollars. Two assistant journal clerks, five hundred dollars each. Supervisor of bills, thirteen hundred dollars. Three assistant supervisors of bills, six hundred dollars each. Sergeant at arms, seven hundred dollars. Two assistant sergeants at arms, five hundred dollars each. Bill clerk and one assistant bill clerk, five hundred dollars each. Clerk to committee on printed bills, five hundred dollars. Twelve clerks to committees, to be assigned to duty by the clerk of the house, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Three stenographers, five hundred dollars each. Clerk to majority leader and clerk to minority leader, five hundred dollars each. Twelve doorkeepers, three hundred and fifty dollars each. Fifteen file clerks, three hundred dollars each. Ten pages, two hundred dollars each.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-4 - Record of attendance; deduction from compensation for absences

52:11-4. Record of attendance; deduction from compensation for absences  The sergeant at arms of each house of the legislature shall keep a record of the attendance at each session of either house of all of its officers and employees whose compensation is fixed by sections 52:11-2 and 52:11-3 of this title, except: a. The secretary of the senate, the assistant secretary of the senate, the secretary to the president of the senate and the chaplain of the senate; b. The clerk and the assistant clerk of the house, and the secretary and the assistant secretary to the speaker of the house; c. The journal clerks, the supervisors of bills and the sergeants at arms of the senate and the house; and d. The secretaries and clerks of the committees of the senate and the house. Any officer or employee whose record of attendance is required to be kept as herein provided shall, for each day that he may be absent during any portion of a session, be marked absent on the record, unless his absence is excused by the presiding officer of the respective houses or such person as the presiding officers may designate for that purpose. The total compensation of each officer or employee whose record of attendance is required to be kept as herein provided shall be reduced in the proportion that the number of days of unexcused absence, as shown by the record, bears to the number of days that the house of which he is an officer or employee has been in regular session.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5 - One-half compensation payable in advance of session; balance at close of session

52:11-5. One-half compensation payable in advance of session; balance at close of session  The officers and employees of the senate and house of assembly, whose compensation is fixed by sections 52:11-2 and 52:11-3 of this title, may draw from the treasury, at the opening of the regular annual session of the legislature, a sum not to exceed one-half of their fixed compensation, and the balance thereof, less any deductions that may have been charged against them, shall be paid within ten days after the final adjournment of the regular session.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5a (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5a - Findings, declarations relative to plaques honoring Senator Hutchins F. Inge and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander.

52:11-5a Findings, declarations relative to plaques honoring Senator Hutchins F. Inge and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander.  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. In 1966, Dr. Hutchins F. Inge of Newark became the first African-American to serve in the New Jersey State Senate and in 1921, Dr. Walter Gilbert Alexander of Orange became the first African-American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly; b. At the time Senator Inge took office, he had already established himself as a distinguished citizen of our State, having graduated from both the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and Howard University School of Medicine and serving on the staff of Presbyterian Hospital; c. Senator Inge had also served his community with distinction, as a director of the Essex Urban League and the New Jersey Association for Retarded Children, and as a staff physician for the Newark Board of Health's Division of Child Hygiene; d. During Senator Inge's tenure in the Senate, he served as the chairman of the Senate Federal and Interstate Relations Committee, and was a supporter of measures to aid education, transportation, and housing; e. Walter Gilbert Alexander was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on December 3, 1880, and was the son of former slaves; f. At the age of fourteen, he entered Lincoln University as the youngest student in his class and the youngest student that had ever matriculated at that university; g. Walter Gilbert Alexander graduated from Lincoln University magna cum laude in 1899, having won the Bradley Medal in natural science and being honored as the Latin Salutatorian of his class; h. After graduation, he entered the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons, and graduated in June 1903 after winning first prize for his thesis; i. A distinguished physician, he served as General Secretary and later President of the National Medical Association; j. During Assemblyman Alexander's tenure in the Assembly, he served on committees concerning epileptics and public health, and sponsored legislation addressing civil rights and health care; k. In March 1921, Assemblyman Alexander was honored by his fellow lawmakers who asked him to preside over the Assembly for thirty minutes, while a laudatory resolution commending him on his legislative service was read; l. It is fitting and proper that this State honor Senator Hutchins F. Inge and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander by placing plaques in the State House to commemorate their tenure as members of the New Jersey Legislature. L.2007, c.64, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5b (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5b - Display of plaques.

52:11-5b Display of plaques.  2. Plaques to honor Senator Hutchins F. Inge, New Jersey's first African-American State Senator, and Assemblyman Walter Gilbert Alexander, New Jersey's first African-American Assemblyman, shall be displayed in the State House at Trenton. L.2007, c.64, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5.1 - Legislator's district office, prohibition against employment of relatives.

52:11-5.1 Legislator's district office, prohibition against employment of relatives.  1. No member of the Legislature shall gainfully employ his or her relative in any position in the legislative office that the member maintains in his or her legislative district. If members of the Legislature jointly maintain a legislative district office, no relative of the members who maintain that joint office shall be gainfully employed in any position in that office. As used in this section, "relative" means the member's spouse or the member's or spouse's parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandparent, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother or half sister, whether the individual is related to the member or the member's spouse by blood, marriage or adoption. L.2003,c.307,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5.2 - Legislators, enrollment in health care benefits, election, limitations.

52:11-5.2 Legislators, enrollment in health care benefits, election, limitations.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a member of the Legislature who elects health benefits coverage based on service in the Legislature shall not enroll as the primary insured for health benefits for which the member is eligible through any other public entity, and shall not accept any amount of money in consideration for filing a waiver of coverage. L.2003,c.308,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-5.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-5.3 - Annual salary for certain executive directors.

52:11-5.3 Annual salary for certain executive directors.  3. The annual salary of the executive director of each full time legislative staff operating under the direction of the Senate President, the Speaker of the General Assembly, and the Minority Leaders of each House of the Legislature shall be fixed and established by the President of the Senate and by the Speaker of the General Assembly, as appropriate, for each director in any amount that the President or Speaker determines to be appropriate for that director, but shall not exceed $175,000 in calendar year 2018 and thereafter. L.2018, c.14, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-20.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-20.4 - Repeals

52:11-20.4. Repeals  13. The following acts or parts thereof are repealed: (a) Chapter 171, P.L.1950; (b) Chapter 11, P.L.1952; (c) Chapter 305, P.L.1953; and (d) Section 22 of chapter 254, P.L.1954. L.1964, c. 20, s. 13, supplementing Laws 1954, Chapter 254.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-42 - Effective date

52:11-42. Effective date  This act shall take effect July 1, 1955. L.1954, c. 267, p. 983, s. 11.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-54 - Short title

52:11-54. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Legislative Services Law of 1978." L.1979, c. 8, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-55 - Legislative Services Commission, Office of Legislative Services

52:11-55. Legislative Services Commission, Office of Legislative Services  There is established in the Legislative Branch of the State Government, to aid and assist the Legislature in performing its functions, an agency of the Legislature, to be known as the "Office of Legislative Services" to be governed by a commission to be known as the Legislative Services Commission, hereinafter referred to as "the commission," to consist of eight members of the Senate to be appointed by the President thereof and eight members of the General Assembly to be appointed by the Speaker thereof for terms coextensive with their respective terms as members of the House from which they shall be appointed. All members shall serve until the appointment and qualification of their respective successors. Vacancies in the membership of the commission shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments were made. No more than four of each group of eight members shall be appointed from members of the same political party. The commission and the agency shall be deemed to be a continuous body and no action taken by the commission or the office shall be abrogated by reason of the termination of the terms of the members of the commission. L.1979, c. 8, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-56 - Organization and meetings of the commission

52:11-56. Organization and meetings of the commission  Organization and meetings of the commission. a. The commission shall meet for the purpose of organization in the month of January of each even-numbered year and shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its members, who shall hold office for the duration of that two-year Legislature and after the expiration of the second legislative year until their successors shall be elected and qualify. The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.  b. Nine members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and no matter requiring action by the full commission shall be taken except by the affirmative vote of not less than nine members. The commission may create from among its membership and prescribe the jurisdiction of an executive committee and such other standing and special committees, which shall be composed of members equally divided between the two Houses and the two major political parties, and delegate to such committees, its chairman and vice-chairman and executive director specified authority to act for the commission.  c. In addition to its organization meetings, the commission shall meet at least once in each calendar quarter and at other times at the call of its chairman. Upon the written request of at least nine members the secretary shall notice a special meeting of the commission.  L. 1979, c. 8, s. 3. Amended by L. 1985, c. 162, s. 1, eff. May 2, 1985.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-57 - Duties of the commission

52:11-57. Duties of the commission  Duties of the commission. a. It is the duty and responsibility of the commission:  (1) To carry on the work of continuous revision of the general and permanent statute law of the State, by causing to be conducted a continuous examination thereof and of the judicial decisions construing the same, and by causing to be prepared and to be submitted to the Legislature for its action thereon from time to time legislative bills designed to revise such portions of the general and permanent statute law as in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to remedy defects therein, to accomplish improvement thereof and to maintain the same in revised, consolidated and simplified form under the general plan and classification of the Revised Statutes;  (2) To provide accurate budgetary, fiscal and program performance, evaluation and analysis, legal assistance, information and advice and informatory and research services to the standing reference, joint and special legislative committees and commissions and to the officers and members of the Legislature;  (3) To study the methods, practices and procedures employed by the Legislature and from time to time make such recommendations for their improvement and modernization as the commission shall deem desirable;  (4) Through the Office of Legislative Services to plan, provide for and coordinate administrative, housekeeping and other general services on behalf of the Legislature in the areas of purchasing, data processing, facilities, public educational programs and legislative district offices in accordance with the joint rules governing the operation of the district offices.  b. The commission is hereby designated as the permanent law revision agency of the State and all proposed revision laws and proposals of like character which are developed as a result of any legislative commission or committee shall be submitted to the commission for examination and study and report, including its recommendations, to the Legislature, before being introduced in the Legislature.  c. The officers and employees of the Office of Legislative Services shall, except as otherwise fixed by law, receive such compensation as shall from time to time be fixed by the commission in accordance with a compensation plan to be established by it and as shall be within the limits of available appropriations therefor.  L. 1979, c. 8, s. 4. Amended by L. 1985, c. 162, s. 2, eff. May 2, 1985.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-57.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:11-57.1 - Preparation of racial and ethnic impact statement for certain proposed legislation.

52:11-57.1 Preparation of racial and ethnic impact statement for certain proposed legislation.  2. a. The Legislative Services Commission shall direct the Office of Legislative Services to prepare a racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statement for each proposed criminal justice bill, resolution, or amendment that would affect pretrial detention, sentencing, probation, or parole policies concerning adults and juveniles in this State including, but not limited to, any bill, resolution, or amendment that establishes a new crime or offense; modifies a crime or offense or the penalties associated with a crime or offense established under current law; or modifies procedures under current law for sentencing, parole, or probation, prior to any vote being taken on the bill, resolution, or amendment in either House of the Legislature.  b. The racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statement required in subsection a. of this section shall include, but not be limited to, an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed legislation on racial and ethnic minorities, including whether it is likely to have a disproportionate or unique impact on the racial and ethnic communities in the State and the rationale, if any, for the proposed legislation having an identifiable impact on racial and ethnic persons in this State, a statistical analysis of how the change in policy would affect racial and ethnic minorities, the impact of the change in policy on correctional facilities and services for racial and ethnic minorities, the estimated number of criminal and juvenile justice matters involving racial and ethnic minorities adjudicated each year, and the anticipated effect of the change in policy on public safety in racial and ethnic communities in the State and for victims and potential victims in those communities.  c. State agencies shall make data available to the Office of Legislative Services for the purposes of preparing racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements.  L.2017, c.286, s.2.