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S 3506

Provides for a personal income tax deduction for certain well water testing

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Alexis Weik

Establishes a state-led crowd management training program and protocols to request mutual aid and resources for municipalities during large gatherings and flash mobs.

REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE
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Bill Summary · S 3506

Note: the documents you provided for S-3506 relate to crowd-management training and resource protocols for local police (flash mobs / large gatherings). They do not match the title you listed (a personal income tax deduction for well-water testing). The summary below reflects the bill text and committee reports in your documents (Senate Bill No. 3506, reprinted and amended).

Summary — S-3506 (2R) — Crowd management training and resource protocols for large gatherings and flash mobs

Main purpose

Require the Attorney General (Office of the Attorney General / Department of Law & Public Safety), in consultation with the State Police, NJ Office of Emergency Management, and the NJ State Association of Chiefs of Police, to (1) establish a training program to improve municipal police capacity to manage large-scale gatherings and flash mobs; and (2) establish and maintain protocols and resources that local police may request when incidents exceed local capacity.

The act takes effect immediately.

Key definitions

  • Flash mob / pop-up party: a gathering of 50 or more persons, typically organized via social media or electronic communication, occurring without advance municipal notice and that impacts public safety.
  • Large-scale gathering: any public or private gathering with greater than 500 attendees.

Key provisions

  • Training program

    • The Attorney General must establish a crowd management and crowd-control training program (in consultation with State Police, NJ OEM, and Chiefs of Police).
    • The program must be made available to municipal police departments/forces located in municipalities that, within the prior 12 months, hosted two or more large-scale gatherings or experienced a flash mob (per earlier text) — committee amendments clarify training content and coordination elements.
    • Required training topics include:
    • General crowd management and crowd control techniques (including juvenile-specific techniques)
    • Strategies for responding to social media activity related to large gatherings/flash mobs
    • Best practices for coordination and resource sharing with county and neighboring municipal law enforcement
    • Best practices for ensuring safety of attendees, the public, and law enforcement

  • Protocols and resources

    • The Attorney General must establish and maintain protocols through which municipal police departments may request assistance when incidents exceed their personnel/resources.
    • Resources to be made available to departments that have participated in the training program (and/or that require assistance) include:
    • Access to social media monitoring tools and intelligence resources provided through the Division of State Police
    • Mobile command units deployable during large gatherings and, if practicable, during flash mobs
    • Personnel support from county and neighboring municipal law enforcement and the Division of State Police, as needed, consistent with protocols, memoranda of understanding, or mutual aid plans
    • Protocols must include a process for exigent, immediate support requests during a flash mob.

  • Rulemaking

    • The Attorney General may promulgate rules and regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act to implement the law.

Who is affected

  • State agencies: Office of the Attorney General (Department of Law & Public Safety), Division of State Police, NJ Office of Emergency Management.
  • Local law enforcement: municipal police departments/forces (especially those in municipalities with repeated large gatherings or flash mob incidents), and county and neighboring municipal agencies that may provide mutual aid.
  • The public: attendees and communities experiencing large gatherings or flash mobs (safety and public order implications).

Fiscal impact / implementation

  • Office of Legislative Services (OLS) estimates an indeterminate annual State expenditure increase.
    • One-time and ongoing costs: developing the training program, establishing protocols and processes, updating curriculum, and providing requested resources (mobile command units, social-media monitoring tools, personnel deployments).
    • OLS cannot quantify costs due to insufficient data on historical flash mob frequency and resource needs; notes some requirements might be absorbed within existing agency budgets but provision of State resources when requested would create variable costs.
  • No executive-branch fiscal estimate was provided in the documents.

Legislative status & timeline (selected)

  • Introduced: June 26, 2024 (referred to Senate Law & Public Safety)
  • Reported with committee amendments by Senate Law & Public Safety Committee: Feb 13, 2025 (1R)
  • Reported with committee amendments by Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee: Mar 17, 2025 (2R)
  • Status (per documents): Referred to Budget and Revenue; reported out of committees with amendments; takes effect immediately upon enactment.

Sponsors and related bills

  • Sponsors in reported text: Senator Paul D. Moriarty and Senator Declan J. O'Scanlon, Jr.; co-sponsors listed in the 2R include Senators Wimberly, Greenstein, and Gopal.
  • Related / companion: A-4653 (companion), A-6095 (companion), prior-session bills S-2238, S-8878.

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