SENATE STATE GOVERNMENT, WAGERING, TOURISM & HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 2736

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  OCTOBER 24, 2024

      The Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 2736.

This bill replaces the terms “alien” and “illegal alien” in the New Jersey statutes with the terms “foreign national” and “undocumented foreign national,” respectively, when referring to a person in the context of the person’s legal status.

     This bill removes from State law the language characterizing persons who are immigrants as “aliens” or “illegal aliens” and prohibits State Executive Branch agencies from using those terms in any proposed or final rule, regulation, interpretation, publication, or other document, display, or sign issued by the agency after the effective date of this bill, except to the extent that they are used in quoting or reproducing text written by a source other than an officer or employee of the agency.