SENATE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 4373

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  JUNE 4, 2026

      The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 4373.

      As reported, this bill directs the Division of Housing and Community Resources in the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to enter into a memorandum of understanding with any Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organization that administers a financial assistance program for residential utility customers to provide a consolidated, user-friendly Internet website-based application for those programs on the DCA’s Internet website.  Current law only requires the memorandum of understanding to be between the DCA and Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations that administer their own financial assistance program for residential utility customers.

FISCAL IMPACT:

      This bill has not been certified as requiring a fiscal note