NEW JERSEY LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION FOR THE INTERNET
BULLETIN NO. 3
June 2,1994
The Senate State Government Committee will meet this coming Monday,
June 6, starting at 1:00 p.m., in Room 12 of the Legislative Office
Building, across the street from the State House in Trenton. There
is a high probability that the Committee will consider and act upon
S.1068, the bill to make the state statutes and legislative bills
available on the Internet without user charges. The meeting will
probably last about two and a half hours, and the bill may come up
at any time. Members of the public are welcome to attend and sign
up to testify.
If you wish to support this bill, but you are unable to attend the
meeting, and you have not yet written to Senator Bubba or other
members of the State Government Committee, I suggest phoning one
or more of their offices before Monday's meeting:
Sen. Joseph L. Bubba (Chair), (201) 473-1755
Sen. William E. Schluter (Vice-Chair), (908) 788-3800
Sen. Leonard T. Connors, (609) 693-6700
Sen. Richard J. Codey, (201) 731-6770
Sen. Byron M. Baer, (201) 343-3333
The introduced text of the bill follows:
SENATE, No. 1068
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
INTRODUCED MAY 16,1994
By Senator BUBBA
An ACT providing for public access to legislative information in
electronic form, and supplementing P.L. 1979, c.8. (C.52:11-54 et
seq.).
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State
of New Jersey:
1. a. The Office of Legislative Services shall make available to
the public in electronic form the following information:
(1) the most current available compilation of the
official text of the statutes of New Jersey;
(2) the texts of all bills introduced during the two-year
session of the Legislature, including amended versions, as well as
sponsor statements, committee statements, fiscal notes, and veto
messages;
(3) bill-indexing data on all bills pending in the
Legislature, including indexing by subject and sponsor and, where
appropriate, by citation of the section of law to be amended by a
bill;
(4) bill-tracking data on all bills pending in the
Legislature, including the history of actions and current status;
(5) a current calendar of legislative events, including
the schedule of legislative committee meetings, and a list of bills
scheduled for legislative action;
(6) a current directory of the members of the
Legislature, including complete committee membership information;
(7) the texts of all chapter laws beginning with laws
enacted during 1994; and
(8) such other information as the Legislative Services
Commission shall direct.
b. The information specified in subsection a. shall be made
available to the public through the largest nonproprietary
cooperative public computer network.
c. No fee or usage charge shall be imposed by the Office of
Legislative Services as a condition of accessing the information
specified in subsection a. of this section through the network
described in subsection b. of this section.
d. The Office of Legislative Services may offer a fee-based
electronic legislative information service which may include, in
addition to the information specified in subsection a., the
following information and capabilities:
(1) the ability for users to automatically maintain
updated private databases and receive notification of scheduled
action on specific bills or subject matter;
(2) the ability for users to retrieve information by
various means of searching full text; and
(3) archives of bill texts and related information from
prior sessions of the Legislature.
e. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed
as prohibiting a private individual or entity from using the
information specified in subsection a. to provide, either
commercially or on a voluntary basis, services similar to those
provided by the Office of Legislative Services pursuant to
subsection d.
2. This act shall take effect on the second Tuesday in January
1996.
Paul Axel-Lute Rutgers Law Library tel.(201) 648-5977 or -5964
Collection Dev't 15 Washington St. axellute@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Librarian Newark NJ 07102 USA
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