ASSEMBLY, No. 727

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman R. SMITH

An Act concerning payment for certain State services and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. As used in this act, "State agency" means any department, division, bureau, office, board, commission, council or authority in the Executive Branch of State Government.

    2. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no State agency shall enter into an agreement with a private organization regarding payment for a State service by other than a monetary payment for that service unless the alternate non-monetary form of payment is submitted to and approved by the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee, and the Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee, prior to the proposed agreement being signed and executed. The State agency shall make such a proposed agreement available for public inspection.

    3. After delivery of the service if an alternate form of payment has been approved, the State agency shall make the final accounting available for public inspection and shall file such an accounting with the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee, and the Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee.

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill is in response to the "tickets-for-troopers" agreement between the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and the World Cup Committee. Under that agreement, the authority, instead of the committee, will pay for State Police security costs at the World Cup soccer games and receive approximately 3,000 additional tickets as reimbursement. State Police security costs are estimated to be approximately $1.5 million.

    This bill provides that no State agency shall enter into an agreement with a private organization regarding payment for a State service by other than a monetary payment for that service unless the alternate non-monetary form of payment is submitted to and approved by the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee, and the Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, or its successor committee, prior to the proposed agreement being signed and executed.

Establishes procedure if non-monetary form of payment is to be made for State services.