Assembly Appropriations Committee #
Committees do not have individuals websites. Membership and schedule can be found on the Assembly Committees website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Each standing reference committee, within its subject area, is authorized to:
- “a. consider and report bills and resolutions referred to it. Bills and resolutions may be reported to the General Assembly with or without amendments, or by committee substitute;
- “b. determine whether laws and programs are effective and implemented in accordance with the intent of the Legislature by –
- “(1) conducting investigations and studies of public entities responsible for the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “(2) meeting with public officials and citizens responsible for or involved with the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “(3) reviewing books, papers, documents, records and other data pertaining to the application, administration and execution of laws and programs;
- “(4) holding public hearings;
- “(5) issuing reports; and
- “(6) making recommendations to the General Assembly as the committee deems appropriate; and
- “(1) conducting investigations and studies of public entities responsible for the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “c. perform other duties as the Speaker or the General Assembly may direct” (Rules of the General Assembly, 10.5, 2022-2023).
Assembly Budget Committee #
Committees do not have individuals websites. Membership and schedule can be found on the Assembly Committees website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Each standing reference committee, within its subject area, is authorized to:
- “a. consider and report bills and resolutions referred to it. Bills and resolutions may be reported to the General Assembly with or without amendments, or by committee substitute;
- “b. determine whether laws and programs are effective and implemented in accordance with the intent of the Legislature by –
- “(1) conducting investigations and studies of public entities responsible for the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “(2) meeting with public officials and citizens responsible for or involved with the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “(3) reviewing books, papers, documents, records and other data pertaining to the application, administration and execution of laws and programs;
- “(4) holding public hearings;
- “(5) issuing reports; and
- “(6) making recommendations to the General Assembly as the committee deems appropriate; and
- “(1) conducting investigations and studies of public entities responsible for the application, administration and execution of the laws and programs;
- “c. perform other duties as the Speaker or the General Assembly may direct” (Rules of the General Assembly, 10.5, 2022-2023).
- “a. Any bill to appropriate $100,000 or more of State funds or which involves an actual or potential appropriation or expenditure of $100,000 or more of State or other public funds, shall, upon being reported by the committee and prior to second reading, be referred to the Appropriations Committee, an Appropriations Committee subcommittee or the Budget Committee, for further fiscal study, evaluation and report” (Rules of the General Assembly, 10.18, 2022-2023).
Joint Budget Oversight Committee #
Committees do not have individuals websites. Membership and schedule can be found on the Joint Committees website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“The committee shall be the successor committee to the Joint Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transfers and the Subcommittee on Claims organized in the 201st session of the Legislature. The committee shall exercise the authority, and carry out the duties and responsibilities, of the former Joint Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transfers or the Subcommittee on Claims, as appropriate, concerning the review of transfers as prescribed in the annual appropriation act, bond authorization or bond appropriation acts, bond refinancing proposals and claims presented to the Legislature. The committee shall exercise all authority and carry out the duties and responsibilities prescribed in law or in the Joint Rules of the Senate and General Assembly for the former Joint Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transfers, and the Subcommittee on Claims. All references in law, rule, regulation or procedures, or otherwise, to the Joint Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transfers or the Subcommittee on Claims shall mean the committee established pursuant to this Joint Rule” (Joint Rules of the Senate and General Assembly, F-30, 2022-2023).
Legislative Services Commission #
Commissions do not have individual websites. Overview and committee members can be found on the Legislative Commissions page.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“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” (NJ Rev Stat § 52:11-57 (2021)).
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee #
Committees do not have individuals websites. Membership and schedule can be found on the Senate Committees website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Any bill which appropriates or involves an actual or potential appropriation or increased expenditure of $100,000 or more of State or other public funds, shall upon being reported by committee be referred to the Budget and Appropriations Committee for further fiscal study, evaluation and report” (Rules of the Senate, 12.11, 2022-2023).
