A 5463 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Requires electric public utilities to submit annual report on voting to BPU.

This bill requires New Jersey's electric public utilities (and their affiliates) to submit an annual report by February 1st to the Board of Public Utilities (BPU). The report must list every recorded vote cast by the utility or its affiliates at PJM Interconnection meetings (including votes not publicly disclosed by PJM), describe the meeting context, and explain how each vote supports New Jersey's energy goals of affordability, reliability, and sustainability. The BPU must then summarize these reports for the Governor and Legislature. This aims to increase transparency about how utilities influence regional electricity decisions using ratepayer funds.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
General Assembly Passage
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Aug 2025
Introduced Mar 17, 2025 Signed Aug 15, 2025
Floor votes · Senate Jun 30, 2025 · General Assembly May 22, 2025

How they voted

298
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Jun 30, 2025
D Democratic25
25 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican15
4 Yea 8 Nay 3
53% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
12
Key actions
6
Committee
3
Aug 15, 2025
Signed into law
Approved P.L.2025, c.129.
executive
Jun 30, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (63-16-1)
lower
Jun 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (29-8)
upper
Jun 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
May 29, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee
upper
May 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (61-12-5)
lower
May 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
lower
5 primary · 11 co-sponsors

Sponsors