SENATE, No. 879

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED MARCH 7, 1996

By Senator LESNIAK

An Act imposing restrictions on the appointment or employment of members of the Legislature and supplementing P.L.1971, c.182 (C.52:13D-12 et seq.).

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

    1. No person who has served as a member of the Legislature shall, for a period of 12 months after leaving that office, be eligible to hold any office or employment in a principal department in the Executive Branch of State Government or with any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by a principal department or with any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency or with any interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party unless the individual who was serving as Governor while the person was a member of the Legislature ceases to serve the term all or part of which was coterminous with the member's service in the Legislature.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would supplement the "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law", P.L.1971, c.182 (C.52:13D-12 et seq.), to prohibit a person who has served as a member of the Legislature from holding office or employment in the Executive Branch of State Government, including an independent authority or interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party, until either (1) 12 months shall have expired since the person ceased to be a member of the Legislature, or (2) the individual who was serving a term of office as Governor while the person was a member of the Legislature is no longer serving that gubernatorial term.

Limits appointment or employment of members of the Legislature.