SENATE, No. 494

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

211th LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2004 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Mercer)

Senator JOSEPH CONIGLIO

District 38 (Bergen)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Palaia, Allen and Gill

SYNOPSIS

    Provides that only citizens or persons authorized to work in the US pursuant to federal law may be employed in performing certain State contracts.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

    Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

(Sponsorship Updated As Of: 2/24/2004)

An Act concerning State contracts and supplementing chapter 34 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

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

    1. The Director of the Division of Purchase and Property and the Director of the Division of Property Management and Construction in the Department of the Treasury shall include, in every State contract for the performance of services, provisions which specify that only citizens of the United States and persons authorized to work in the United States pursuant to federal law shall be employed in performance of services under the contract or any subcontract awarded under the contract.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    Recent published reports have indicated that telephone inquiries by welfare and food stamp clients under New Jersey's Families First Program were being handled by operators in Bombay, India, after the contractor moved its operations outside of the United States as a cost-cutting measure.

    This bill directs the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property and the Director of the Division of Property Management and Construction in the Department of the Treasury to include in every State contract for the performance of services provisions which specify that only citizens of the United States and persons authorized to work in the United States pursuant to federal law may be employed in the performance of services under the contract or any subcontract awarded under the contract.