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Senate Commerce Committee Statement - Senate Resolution No. 101 (January 21, 2021)

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Senate Commerce Committee statement to Senate Resolution No. 101, State of New Jersey, dated January 21, 2021. The committee reports the resolution favorably. The resolution urges all New Jersey residents to patronize small businesses to support them through the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement cites over 860,000 small businesses in New Jersey and Executive Order No. 107 of March 21, 2020. It also cites a March 2020 survey by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in which 73 percent of businesses reported a significant loss of revenue.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                    STATEMENT TO

      SENATE RESOLUTION No. 101

 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                    DATED: JANUARY 21, 2021

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably Senate
Resolution No. 101.
    This resolution urges all New Jersey residents to patronize small
businesses to support them through the COVID-19 pandemic.
    There are over 860,000 small businesses operating in New Jersey,
which employ an estimated 1.8 million individuals in this State. These
small businesses are the backbone of New Jersey’s economy,
providing services and employment to individuals throughout the State
in such varied industries as finance, health care, the arts, real estate,
food and restaurant, and retail, among many others. On January 31,
2020, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, abbreviated as COVID-
19, as a public health emergency for the United States. COVID-19 is a
contagious, and at times fatal, respiratory disease that can spread from
person to person via respiratory droplets produced when an infected
person coughs or sneezes. On March 9, 2020, Governor Murphy
declared a State of Emergency and a Public Health Emergency to
address the COVID19 pandemic in this State.
    On March 21, 2020, Governor Murphy announced Executive
Order No. 107, which closed all non-essential retail businesses and
directed all New Jersey residents to stay at home to mitigate the impact
and spread of COVID-19. As a result of this Executive Order closing
all non-essential retail businesses and directing all New Jersey
residents to stay at home, small businesses throughout this State face
enormous economic pressure.
    According to a March 2020 survey conducted by the New Jersey
Economic Development Authority, as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic 73 percent of businesses reported a significant loss of
revenue and over half of these businesses anticipated temporary
layoffs. The economic circumstances of businesses and individuals
have continued to worsen during the COVID-19 pandemic, as New
Jersey workers have filed more than 1.65 million applications for
unemployment insurance since the pandemic began.
    Over the course of the late spring and summer of 2020, Governor
Murphy issued several executive orders, which lifted the stay-at-home
order on New Jersey residents and permitted various types of
businesses to begin reopening, but with restrictions in place that have
been costly and burdensome to implement. The restrictions have
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included an initial prohibition on indoor dining, capacity limits for
indoor dining once it was permitted, indoor capacity limits for other
types of businesses, social distancing requirements indoors and
outdoors, and increased safety and sanitization protocols across every
industry.
    The months of closure and the difficulties businesses faced while
reopening have led to continued revenue losses and many permanent
closures Statewide, and most profoundly affected small businesses.
Small businesses are locally owned and operated by our hardworking
family members, our friends, and our neighbors, who need the
patronage of all New Jersey residents to financially recover from the
economic devastation brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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