STATEMENT TO

[Second Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1766

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator SINGLETON)

ADOPTED: JUNE 18, 2026

      These floor amendments:

· change "municipal planning board" to "municipal land use board or appropriate municipal land use approval authority;"

· specify that a retail center that contains or previously contained a single unit of retail space of at least 15,000 square feet may qualify as an eligible property;

· specify that demolition is to comply with the Uniform Construction Code’s demolition permit requirements;

· clarify that  municipal land use board or the appropriate municipal land use approval authority is to approve an application to repurpose or redevelop an eligible property designated under a municipal historic preservation ordinance or listed on the New Jersey or National Register of Historic Places only after review by the appropriate historical preservation commission;

· eliminate the requirement that the engineering survey is to be certified by Division of Housing and Community Resources in the Department of Community Affairs and that the engineer is immune from tort liability except under certain circumstances;

· specify that the warranty requirement is to be independent of and supplementary to "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act," P.L.1977, c.467 (C.46:3B-1);

· delete section 3 of the bill and insert a new section 3 that amends the "Long Term Tax Exemption Law," P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) to add a project undertaken pursuant to the bill to the definition of "project" under that statute;

· clarify that construction undertaken pursuant to the bill is to comply with the State Uniform Construction Code;

· modify the effective date to provide that the bill is to take effect on the first day of the 13th month next following enactment, except that:

o the commissioner is to propose rules within 180 days, and adopt rules within 365 days, of enactment and may take any other anticipatory administrative action in advance as necessary for the implementation of the bill; and

o certain provisions of the bill are to take effect at other specified times; and

· make technical changes.