Governor Phil Murphy

Governor Murphy Takes Action on Legislation

08/20/2021

TRENTON – Today, Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law:

A-698/S-3964 (Sumter, Mukherji, Quijano/Cunningham, Turner) - Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for municipal, county, and congressional redistricting purposes and for apportionment of regional school district board of education members.

A-5207/S-3361 (Johnson, Reynolds-Jackson, Carter/Weinberg, Gill) – Prohibits State and local entities and private detention facilities from entering into agreement to detain noncitizens