Recent Legislative Success


  • Creating e-procurement processes for public projects
  • Supporting tax incentive programs to stimulate vertical construction
  • Enabling Public Private Partnerships for public work projects
  • Standardizing bid documents
  • Enforcing NJ's Prevailing Wage Act
  • Closing loopholes within NJ's Contractor Registration Act
  • Advancing funding for higher education facility expansions
  • Re-authorization of NJ's Transportation Trust Fund
  • Fair adjustments for changed contract conditions
  • Passage of the State's Library Bond Act
  • Allowing expanded use of recycled asphalt pavement
  • Creating NJ's State Infrastructure Bank
  • Passage of Higher Education Bond Act
  • Limiting a contracting unit's ability to withhold retainage
  • Limiting the naming of subcontractors at the time of bid
  • Establishing a standard procedure to withdraw a bid on a local public works project
  • Holding contracting entities accountable for how alternate bids are selected within local public contracts
  • Assisting NJ employers in averting Unemployment Insurance payroll tax increases
  • Prohibiting the restriction on firms from competing for contracts in more than one classification category
  • Establishing universal prompt payment requirements for construction contracts
  • Standardizing the period prior to bid for public entities to issue addenda
  • Requiring construction managers on public school facilities projects to be prequalified
  • Setting tougher penalties for prevailing wage violators
  • Extending the life of certain permits


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