SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 15

 

with committee amendments

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED:  JANUARY 27, 2020

 

      The Senate Labor Committee reports favorably, and with committee amendments, Senate Concurrent Resolution No.15.

      As amended by the committee, this concurrent resolution reconstitutes the “Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity,” which was created by the 216th Legislature, and reconstituted in the 218th Legislature.

      The concurrent resolution provides that the joint committee is authorized, empowered, and directed to conduct a continuing study of issues concerning economic justice and equal employment opportunity in this State. The joint committee, in its endeavor to study these issues, shall meet and hold hearings at places, throughout the State, as it shall designate during the sessions or recesses of the Legislature.

      This bill was pre-filed for introduction in the 2020-2021 session pending technical review.  As reported, the bill includes the changes required by technical review, which has been performed.