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A 5130

Provides for the performance of medical services by physician assistants

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Michaelle Solages

A-5130 requires scheduled two-and-a-half hour inspection windows with 24-hour notice, plus a DCA online complaint process to enforce timely inspections and remedy delays.

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Bill Summary · A 5130

Note on bill identification
- The bill number provided (A-5130) and the accompanying documents all concern construction inspection procedures under the State Uniform Construction Code. The title you supplied ("Provides for the performance of medical services by physician assistants") does not match the bill text and supporting documents. This summary addresses the actual A-5130 materials provided (construction inspection rules and complaint/ enforcement processes).

Summary — purpose and intent
- A-5130 adds scheduling and notice requirements for construction inspections performed by municipal enforcing agencies under the State Uniform Construction Code and creates a public complaint-and-enforcement pathway through the Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The stated intent is to give owners, contractors, and other responsible parties greater predictability about when inspections will occur and a mechanism to report and remedy inspection failures or repeated delays.

Key provisions and changes
- Inspection timing and notice
- Keeps the existing requirement that an enforcing agency perform an inspection within three business days of a written request.
- Requires the enforcing agency to provide written notice to the owner, agent, or responsible person specifying a two-and-one-half hour time window during which the inspection will take place. Notice must be provided within 24 hours of receiving the inspection request and not later than 24 hours before the start of the time window.
- If the agency cannot perform the inspection within three business days or during the time window, it must inform the owner/agent in writing within 24 hours and may agree to a different time in writing.

  • Complaint and enforcement process

    • Authorizes the owner, agent, or person in charge of work to file a complaint on the DCA website if the enforcing agency:
    • fails to perform the inspection within the specified time window;
    • fails to provide timely notice that it cannot perform a requested or scheduled inspection;
    • repeatedly fails to perform inspections on scheduled dates or during time windows;
    • repeatedly cancels inspections causing notable disruption; or
    • is otherwise delinquent in its Uniform Construction Code duties.
    • Requires DCA to establish an online complaint system and, after confirming violations, to take corrective action including penalties and other remedies available under the State Uniform Construction Code Act.

  • Agency operations

    • Requires each enforcing agency to establish an internal process to meet time-window obligations or to provide the required 24-hour notice if it cannot.

Who is affected
- Primary: property owners, construction contractors, and others who request or rely on municipal construction inspections (increased predictability on inspection timing).
- Municipal enforcing agencies and local code inspectors: new scheduling, notification, and internal process requirements; exposure to complaints and DCA corrective actions.
- Department of Community Affairs: required to host a complaint-reporting system, investigate complaints, and exercise enforcement authority as needed.
- Private on-site inspection agencies remain an option where delays occur (existing provision retained).

Fiscal and operational impacts
- Office of Legislative Services (OLS) fiscal estimate: indeterminate upfront costs to DCA to build/operate an online complaint/reporting system and indeterminate annual costs to investigate complaints and enforce remedies. Costs depend on whether the system is developed in-house or by third party and on complaint volume.
- Local governments: potential indeterminate annual costs if municipal enforcing agencies must hire staff or change inspection processes to comply with notice/time-window rules.
- If DCA replaces or dissolves a municipal enforcing agency for habitual violations, enforcement costs and associated revenues could shift from local government to the State.

Procedural / timeline aspects and current status
- Introduced: December 16, 2024.
- Passed Assembly (Jan 30, 2025) and Senate (June 30, 2025); substituted for S4128.
- Governor issued a conditional veto (Nov. 13, 2025) recommending amendments (see below). Assembly subsequently received the Governor’s recommendations (Nov. 24, 2025).
- Effective date in bill: first day of the third month following enactment; Commissioner of Community Affairs may take anticipatory action to implement provisions earlier.

Governor’s conditional-veto recommendations (key suggested amendments)
- Expand the time window from 2.5 hours to a four-hour window to allow inspectors reasonable flexibility.
- Exempt municipalities where DCA itself acts as the local enforcing agency and projects where DCA is the sole enforcing agency from the timeframe requirement.
- Revise complaint-related language to reflect that DCA already maintains a complaint-filing system and to refine complaint/penalty processes.

Related/companion legislation
- Companion: S-4128 (identical as reported).
- Prior-session related: A-5012.

If you want, I can:
- Produce a side-by-side comparison of the original bill text and the Governor’s conditional-veto amendments, or
- Draft a one-page explainer for contractors and municipal officials summarizing new operational steps they would need to take.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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