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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Sarahana Shrestha

Exempts certain temporary election workers from unemployment, disability, and family leave payroll taxes and benefits, including mail-in ballot processing.

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Bill Summary · A 3025

Summary — Assembly Bill A3025 (2024-2025 session)

Note: the bill title provided with the request appears unrelated to the bill text. The legislative documents for A3025 amend New Jersey’s unemployment/temporary disability law to treat certain poll worker wages differently. This summary reflects the bill text and committee/fiscal documents.

Purpose / Intent

A3025 amends the unemployment insurance definitions (R.S.43:21-19) to exempt wages paid to certain temporary election workers from being treated as "employment" for purposes of unemployment insurance, temporary disability insurance, and family leave insurance. The intent is to ensure that compensation paid to temporary board workers (including those who process mail‑in ballots and who work in the period before and after an election day) does not affect unemployment compensation or trigger payroll taxes and benefit eligibility under those programs.

Key provisions

  • Amends R.S.43:21-19 (definitions) to exclude services performed by a "temporary board worker of a district board of elections" who is paid to discharge election duties (explicitly including mail‑in ballot processing and work during the period before and after election day) from the statutory definition of "employment."
  • Clarifies that wages/“remuneration” for these temporary poll workers are exempt from:
    • Unemployment insurance payroll taxes (contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Compensation Fund),
    • State temporary disability insurance payroll taxes (State Disability Benefits Fund), and
    • Family leave insurance payroll taxes.
  • Provides that these temporary poll workers similarly are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits, temporary disability benefits, or family leave insurance benefits based on the exempt wages.
  • Committee amendments updated terminology (from “member” to “temporary board worker”), expressly included mail‑in ballot processing and pre/post‑election periods, and made technical statutory updates.

Who is affected

  • Primary: Temporary board workers hired by district boards of elections who receive compensation for election duties — notably those who process mail‑in ballots and those who work in the pre‑ and post‑election periods.
  • Employers: District boards of elections (and related entities) will not remit unemployment, disability, or family leave payroll taxes on the exempt wages.
  • State funds: Unemployment Insurance Compensation Fund and State Disability Benefits Fund (and family leave program) will be affected fiscally.

Fiscal impact (Office of Legislative Services)

  • Annual revenue decrease to the Unemployment Insurance Compensation Fund and the State Disability Benefits Fund: up to $200,000 (loss of payroll tax receipts).
  • Potential annual expenditure decrease to those same funds: indeterminate (because exempted workers would no longer be eligible to claim benefits associated with those wages).
  • Agency affected: Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Legislative / procedural status and timeline

  • Introduced: 2024-01-09 (Referred to Assembly Labor Committee)
  • Committee actions and amendments: Reported out of Assembly Labor Committee with amendments (6/6/2024); Assembly State & Local Government Committee substitute reported (2/20/2025); Assembly Appropriations Committee reported substitute with fiscal estimate (3/20/2025).
  • Assembly passage: Passed Assembly 70-7-1 (3/24/2025).
  • Senate: Received in the Senate and referred to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (5/12/2025). (Earlier references show referral to “Corporations, Authorities and Commissions” on 1/23/2025.)
  • Companion / related bills: S900, S3553 (companions), A9299 (prior-session).

Sponsor

  • Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha (primary)

Practical effect

If enacted, the bill would extend to mail‑in ballot processors and related temporary election workers the same payroll-tax/benefit exclusions that current law already provides for poll workers who work on election day or during early voting. The change reduces payroll tax revenue modestly and removes eligibility for covered benefits tied to the exempt wages.

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

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