ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1148

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED: JUNE 10, 1996

 

      The Assembly Judiciary Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 1148.

      This bill directs the New Jersey Law Revision Commission to arrange for and supervise a recompilation of the general and permanent statutory law of this State into a single document which will be presented to the Legislature by December 31, 1999.

      Under the bill, the commission would (1) prepare the specifications for such a recompilation after soliciting proposals from qualified law publishers, (2) solicit and receive bids from qualified law publishers for the contract to perform the recompilation and to publish the recompiled statutes, and (3) award a contact for the project, based on "the sale price from completed annotated sets of the recompiled statutes" and other relevant factors such as time of completion and work quality, no later than December 31, 1996.