ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 4745

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  MARCH 19, 2026

      The Assembly Appropriations Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 4745.

      As reported, this bill concerns the early voting period for regular municipal elections in May.

      This bill allows a municipality to pass an ordinance to begin the early voting period for a regular municipal election in May on the 11th calendar day before the regular municipal election.  Currently, the early voting period is required to begin on the fourth calendar day prior to the election and end on the second calendar day before that regular municipal election, providing three days of early voting.  The bill allows municipalities to expand the early voting period to 10 days for regular municipal elections in May in those nonpartisan municipalities that have adopted early voting.

FISCAL IMPACT:

      This bill has not been certified as requiring a fiscal note.