Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires reports prepared by outside consultants for BPU to display certain information.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning reports prepared for the Board of Public Utilities by outside consultants and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In the event that the Board of Public Utilities employs, retains, or engages outside consultants to prepare a report for the board, the board shall include the total cost of the report preparation and the name of the entity that prepared the report on either the cover of the report or the front page of the report.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to include the total cost of a report prepared for the BPU if the BPU employs, retains, or engages outside consultants to prepare the report. The total cost of the report preparation and the name of the entity that prepared the report is to be printed on either the cover or the front page of the report.
According to the sponsor, untold amounts of ratepayer money is spent every year by the BPU on voluminous reports, many repeating the same information, on the current failed energy strategy. It is only fitting that the ratepayer should be told the cost of these reports and who has received the payment.