Requires municipal participation in sheltering homeless individuals.

This bill requires every municipality in New Jersey to either operate or partner with a nonprofit to run an emergency shelter for homeless individuals within its borders, or alternatively contribute a fee based on population to a county fund that supports existing shelters. Municipalities choosing the fee option would pay $5 per resident according to the latest census data, which the county would then distribute annually to shelters based on the number of homeless people each facility serves. The legislation also mandates that all required shelters use a state system to provide real-time information on bed availability and allows towns to use existing occupancy fees to help cover the new costs.