SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 62
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 27, 2014
Sponsored by:
Senator RONALD L. RICE
District 28 (Essex)
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman CHARLES MAINOR
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER
District 28 (Essex)
Assemblywoman MILA M. JASEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Assemblywoman SHEILA Y. OLIVER
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Cunningham, Gill, Greenstein, Pou, Weinberg, Assemblywoman Watson Coleman, Assemblymen Wilson, Johnson, Mukherji, Garcia, Eustace, Lagana, Assemblywomen Jimenez, Vainieri Huttle, Assemblyman Singleton, Assemblywomen Quijano, Riley, Assemblyman DeAngelo and Senator Ruiz
SYNOPSIS
Creates a joint committee of the Legislature to be known as the Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the Assembly on June 26, 2014.
A Concurrent Resolution creating a joint committee of the Legislature to study issues concerning economic justice and equal employment opportunity.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):
1. There is created a joint body of the Legislature to be known as the “Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity.” The joint committee shall consist of 10 members of the Legislature, from either House, regardless of political party affiliation, who shall be appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly, as appropriate, and nominated as follows: 1[one member] four members1 nominated by the President of the Senate; one member nominated by the Senate Minority Leader; 1[one member] four members1 nominated by the Speaker of the General Assembly; 1and1 one member nominated by the Assembly Minority Leader 1[; two members nominated by the Chair of the Legislative Black Caucus; two members nominated by the Chair of the Legislative Latino Caucus; and two members nominated by the Chair of the Women’s Legislative Caucus]1. All members shall serve without compensation and vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments are made.
2. The joint committee shall adopt rules for the operation and the conduct of its business, including the election of a chair or co-chairs as it may determine from among its members, and select a secretary who need not be a member of the joint committee.
3. The joint committee is authorized, empowered, and directed to conduct a continuing study of issues concerning economic justice and equal employment opportunity in this State. The joint committee, in its endeavor to study these issues, shall meet and hold hearings at places, throughout the State, as it shall designate during the sessions or recesses of the Legislature.
4. The joint committee shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of the Legislative Services Commission. The joint committee shall also be entitled to employ such stenographic and clerical assistants and incur such traveling and other miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the presiding officers of the Houses, in order to perform its duties, and as may be within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for its purposes.
5. The joint committee shall report its findings to the Legislature on a routine basis, and may make other reports as it deems necessary or desirable.