A 5546 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Concerns financial powers and responsibilities of Capital City Redevelopment Corporation.*

This bill authorizes the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation (CCRC) to issue grants for projects within the Capital City District. It removes a requirement that the CCRC must recover at least 65% of funds through repayment. The CCRC can now set repayment terms per project to suit economic feasibility. This change increases the CCRC's flexibility in financing redevelopment projects without the fixed recovery percentage.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
General Assembly Passage
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jul 2025
Introduced Apr 10, 2025 Signed Jul 22, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Version Reprint AAP 6/19/25 1R · 5 edits
MODERATE
The Assembly Appropriations Committee amended A5546 to broaden the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation's financial powers by adding explicit loan-issuing authority alongside existing grant authority, and by creating a new nonlapsing revolving fund called the Capital City Redevelopment Loan and Grant Fund. The amendment also narrows the sources of money that can flow into the fund by removing a catch-all provision for 'any other moneys made available from any source.' The bill's stated purpose shifted from simply authorizing grants and removing a 65 percent recovery requirement to a broader framework governing the corporation's financial powers and responsibilities.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded from a narrow focus on authorizing grants and removing a repayment threshold to a broader framework governing the corporation's overall financial powers, including new loan authority and a dedicated revolving fund structure with restricted funding sources.
SCOPE

Subsection y of Section 5 was changed from 'To directly issue grants to projects' to 'To directly issue loans and grants to projects,' explicitly adding loan-issuing authority that was not in the introduced version.

The bill's explanatory statement, which detailed the rationale for removing the 65 percent recovery requirement and explaining the need for grant authority, was removed from the reprint version.

FISCAL

A new section (Section 11) establishes a nonlapsing, revolving fund called the Capital City Redevelopment Loan and Grant Fund. The fund can be invested and reinvested, and net earnings must be used only for the fund's purposes.

The original provision allowing 'any other moneys made available to the corporation from any source or sources' as a fund source was removed. The new fund is limited to three sources: legislative appropriations, loan repayments funded from the fund, and investment income or interest.

TECHNICAL

Multiple instances of 'moneys' were changed to 'monies' and 'such' was changed to 'that' in several subsections. These are stylistic/technical corrections with no substantive policy effect.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 30, 2025 · General Assembly Jun 30, 2025

How they voted

2514
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Jun 30, 2025
D Democratic25
25 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican15
14 Nay 1
93% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
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Actions timeline

Total actions
10
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Jul 22, 2025
Signed into law
Approved P.L.2025, c.114.
executive
Jun 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (25-14)
upper
Jun 30, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (55-25-0)
lower
Jun 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
lower
Jun 19, 2025
Committee
Recommitted to Assembly Appropriations Committee
lower
Jun 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
lower
Jun 16, 2025
Committee
Transferred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Community Development and Women's Affairs Committee
lower
3 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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