Prohibits legislative aide who works, or worked, directly for legislator in district office from making political contribution greater than $30 per election to that legislator; prohibits receipt of such contribution.
This bill restricts political contributions from legislative aides to their employing legislator. It prohibits aides (current or who worked for the legislator within the past two years) from giving more than $30 per election to the legislator's campaign, and bans the legislator or campaign from soliciting or accepting such contributions. Violating these limits is a fourth-degree crime, punishable by up to 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine. The law directly affects legislative aides and campaign committees in New Jersey.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Sep 2024
General Assembly Passage
Jun 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Last action Sep 19, 2024
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MODERATE
This is a first reprint of Assembly Bill 2619 following its passage out of the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee on June 13, 2024. The changes are procedural and technical: a co-sponsor (Assemblywoman Dunn) was added, the bill status was updated to reflect committee action, subsection numbering was reformatted, and the explanatory STATEMENT section was removed. No substantive policy changes were made to the $30 contribution limit for legislative aides.
TECHNICAL
Bill status changed from 'Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel' to 'As reported by the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee on June 13, 2024, with amendments.'
Assemblywoman Dunn added as co-sponsor.
Subsection numbering in Section 1(a) was reformatted from standard (1)/(2) to bracketed amendment markup notation, but the policy content (the $30 per election contribution limit for current and former legislative aides) is unchanged.
The STATEMENT section (a non-binding explanatory summary of the bill) was removed, which is standard when a bill advances through committee.
Floor votes · General Assembly Jun 28, 2024
How they voted
67–2
Passed · 11 other
Total votes 80
Jun 28, 2024
D
Democratic52
90% Yea
R
Republican28
71% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
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Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
2
Committee
4
Sep 19, 2024
Committee
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee
upper
Jun 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (67-2-0)
lower
Jun 24, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
lower
Jun 13, 2024
Committee
Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee
lower
Jun 13, 2024
Committee
Transferred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
lower
2 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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