Sponsored by:
Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that cabinet-level public officials, Attorney General, and county prosecutors may serve in acting capacity for no longer than six months without nomination.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on June 18, 2015, with amendments.
An Act 1[concerning the timeframe] providing time limitations1 for 1certain public officials1 serving in an acting capacity without nomination 1[in a position requiring nomination and appointment by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate]1 and supplementing chapter 14 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. No person shall serve in an acting capacity 1as the head of a principal department or1 in a 1cabinet-level1 position in the Executive Branch of State Government 1, or as Attorney General,1 or as a county prosecutor for a period of more than six full consecutive or intermittent months, when that position is required to be filled by a person nominated and appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate pursuant to any statute or provision of the New Jersey Constitution, if the Governor has not submitted that person’s name in nomination to the Senate to serve in that position. When the name of a person serving in an acting capacity is not submitted in nomination to the Senate prior to the end of that six-month consecutive or intermittent period, the person serving in an acting capacity shall vacate that position at the end of the six months of service in that position.
b. When any person is serving in an acting capacity on the effective date of this section, P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), and the Governor has not submitted that person’s name in nomination to the Senate, the Governor shall nominate that person within 30 days of that effective date, or at the next Senate session, whichever is sooner, or the person shall vacate that position.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.