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4275 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 222nd LEGISLATURE   INTRODUCEDADOPTED FEBRUARYMAY 19,4, 2026     Sponsored by:

MILLER District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)  Assemblywoman   ANNETTE  QUIJANO  District SYNOPSIS20     (Union) Establishes  onlineCo-Sponsored Statewideby: tracking system for certain permits, licenses, certifications, and form applications.

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       An Act establishing an online Statewide tracking system for certain permits and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

       1. 1.    a. a.         Within one calendar year of the effective date of P.L.   P.L.    , c.    (C.   ) , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the New Jersey Innovation Authority and the Office of Information Technology shall establishjointly develop and maintain an online Statewide tracking systemsystem, forcalled certainthe permits,New licenses,Jersey certifications,Permitting andDashboard form(the applications“dashboard”), for certain permits issued by principal departments in the Executive Branch of State government, and any agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, andoffices, officesor underinstrumentalities thewithin purviewor ofcreated suchby principal departments.  The Office of Information Technology shall be responsible for creating the network necessary to maintain the system and providing the computer software, hardware, and security necessary to ensure that the system is accessible only to principal departments, and any agencies,independent commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under their purview, as provided in this section.  The system shall be the official State repositoryauthority, forcommission, informationinstrumentality, regardingor permits,agency. licenses, certifications, and form applications.

     b. b.    (1)  The Statewidepurpose applicationof trackingthe systemdashboard shall include,be butto needimprove notaccountability beand limitedreduce to,delays within the followingState features:permitting process.

     (1)(2)   the(a) abilityThe todashboard assignshall ainclude uniquepermits applicationdesignated numberas toappropriate eachfor permit,inclusion license,in certification,the orsole applicationdiscretion submittedof the New Jersey Innovation Authority and enteredthe intoOffice of Information Technology.       (b)   The permits that may be included in the system;dashboard are those issued in connection with construction;

    manufacturing; (2) interactivity among the principal departments, and any agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under their purview, such that these entities shall have immediate electronic access to all or selected records in the system to receive or transmit all or selected files in the system and to print or review all or selected files in the system;

    energy (3)generation, thetransmission, ability to permit any principal department, and any agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under their purview, to enter information relating to the status of a permit, license, certification, or formdistribution; application on an expedited basis at the time the information is obtained, and to permit the Office of Information Technology to provide technical support to do so whenever needed;

andreal     estate (4)development; any other functions that may be deemed necessary by the Office of Information Technology to implement the provisions of this section.

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    or (1)the provision of goods or services by a principal department in the applicationExecutive number;Branch of State government or agency of the State.

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     (6)d.    (1)        All principal departments in the typeExecutive Branch of permit,State license,government, certification,and any agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, offices, or forminstrumentalities application;within or created by the principal departments, and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality, or agency that issue permits or contribute to permitting processes shall cooperate fully with  the New Jersey Innovation Authority and the Office of Information Technology to support the dashboard, to the extent that available resources will permit.  Cooperation shall include submission of timely data as requested.

     (7)(2)   The Office of Information Technology shall be responsible for providing the numberenterprise assignedplatform for any application and permit data necessary for the dashboard.       (3)   At the discretion of the New Jersey Innovation Authority and the Office of Information Technology, county and municipal governments may also be encouraged to participate in the issuedsubmission permit,of license,data, certification,materials, orand formprocess application,updates ifrelated applicable;to the dashboard.

       (8)2.    The Office of Information Technology, in conjunction with the localityNew whereJersey Innovation Authority, shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the permit,“Administrative license,Procedure certification,Act,” orP.L.1968, formc.140 application(C.52:14B-1 willet seq.), as may be issuednecessary uponto approval;effectuate the purposes of this act.

       (9)3.    theThis receivedbill dateshall oftake theeffect requestimmediately. for the permit, license, certification, or form application;

     (10) the status of the permit, license, certification, or form application;

and      (11) the date on which the permit, license, certification, or form application is expected to be issued or completed, which may be revised by the appropriate department, agency, commission, board, bureau, or office, as necessary.

     d.  Each head of a principal department in the Executive Branch of State government shall be responsible for assessing which permits, licenses, certifications, or form applications shall be included in the Statewide application tracking system, including any permits, licenses, certifications, or applications that are issued by agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under the purview of such principal department.

     To determine which permits, licenses, certifications, or form applications will be included in the Statewide application tracking system, the head of each principal department shall consider the following factors:

     (1) the quantity of each type of permit, license, certification, or form application requested in a calendar year;

     (2) the average duration of the approval process for each type of permit, license, certification, or form application;

     (3) the ease or difficulty of approving a request for each type of permit, license, certification, or form application;

and      (4) any other factor that the head of each principal department deems necessary to make such determination.

     e.  The head of each principal department in the Executive Branch of State government, or their designee, shall be responsible for submitting and updating the information contained in the Statewide application tracking system in a timely manner in a method to be determined by the Office of Information Technology.

     f.  All principal departments in the Executive Branch of State government, and any agency, commission, board, bureau, or office under their purview, shall cooperate fully with the Office of Information Technology and the Chief Technology Officer to implement the provisions of this section.

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately     STATEMENT        This bill establishes an online Statewide tracking system for certain permits, licenses, certifications, and form applications.

     Under the bill, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) has one calendar year to establish an online Statewide tracking system for certain permits, licenses, certifications, and form applications issued by each principal department in the Executive branch of State government, as well as any agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under their purview.  The OIT is responsible for creating the network necessary to maintain the system and providing computer software, hardware, and security.

     At a minimum, the Statewide application tracking system must have the ability to assign a unique application number to each permit, license, certification, or form application submitted and entered into the system;

interactivity among the appropriate principal departments, including immediate electronic access to records in the system to receive or transmit files in the system and to print or review files in the system;

and the ability to permit an appropriate entity to enter information relating to the status of a permit, license, certification, or form application on an expedited basis and to permit the OIT to provide technical support.

     Additionally, the bill provides a list of information that is required to be collected and displayed in the system for each application, such as the application number, the department, the received date, the status, and the estimated date of completion.       Under the bill, the head of each principal department in the State Executive branch will be responsible for assessing which permits, licenses, certifications, or form applications are to be included in the Statewide application tracking system, including any issued by agencies, commissions, boards, bureaus, and offices under their purview.       At a minimum, when making the determination, the head of each principal department must consider the number of each type of permit, license, certification, or form application requested in a calendar year;

the average duration of the approval process for each type of permit, license, certification, or form application;

and the ease or difficulty of approving a request for each type of permit, license, certification, or form application.