STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3710

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator MCKEON)

ADOPTED: DECEMBER 18, 2025

These Senate Amendments make the following changes:

      (1)  eliminate the Landscape Irrigation Penalty Enforcement Fund in the Department of Community Affairs, which would have been established by the bill to be a repository for revenue derived from violations of the "Landscape Irrigation Contractor Certification Act of 1991" (act), P.L.1991, c.27 (C.45:5AA-1 et seq.);

      (2)  provide that if the board institutes an action against a person who violates the act, 100 percent of the revenue derived from each civil penalty levied is to be directed and made available to the board;

      (3)  provide that if a local enforcing agency institutes the action, 30 percent of the revenue derived from each civil penalty levied is to be directed and made available to the board, and 70 percent of the revenue is to be retained by the municipality or pilot county in which the violation occurred; and

      (4)  make technical changes.