Requires municipal participation in sheltering homeless individuals.

This bill requires every municipality in New Jersey to either operate its own emergency shelter for homeless individuals or partner with a private nonprofit to do so. Alternatively, a municipality can choose to pay a fee to the county, calculated at $5 per resident based on the latest census data, which the county will then distribute to local shelters based on how many people each shelter serves. To help cover these costs, municipalities are allowed to use existing funds from certificate of occupancy fees. Additionally, all shelters established under this law must use a state system to provide real-time updates on available bed space.