Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Assembly, No. 5422 — State of New Jersey (November 17, 2025)

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A Senate Commerce Committee statement to Assembly, No. 5422, State of New Jersey, dated November 17, 2025, reporting the bill favorably with committee amendments. As amended, businesses subject to registration with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services could sign up for a computer-based service, linked to the division's online business filing services, to receive official and authoritative notifications electronically from State agencies. Businesses that accept electronic notification would no longer receive paper versions but must keep postal mailing addresses, and the bill does not override laws requiring notice by postal or certified mail. The bill is identical to Senate Bill No. 4290.

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SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY,
No. 5422

with
committee amendments

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: NOVEMBER
17, 2025

The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and
with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 5422.

As amended, this bill provides businesses required
to comply with any business registration requirement of the Division of Revenue
and Enterprise Service in the Department of the Treasury or any successor
agency the option to register for a computer-based service administered or made available by the
division for the purpose of receiving official and authoritative notifications
electronically from State agencies capable of sending the notifications. The
service is to be linked with the division’s online business filing services and
is to collect and store electronic mail addresses and other contact information.
“Business” is defined in the bill to mean an individual, partnership,
association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, non-profit corporation, or
other legal business entity or successor thereof that files business
registration documents with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services in
the Department of the Treasury, but does not include a government agency.

A business that accepts electronic notification under
the bill will no longer receive paper versions of official and authoritative
notifications from the agencies receiving contact information from the division
but is to maintain postal mailing addresses in accordance with other statutory
requirements. Nothing in the bill is to be construed to supersede or modify
any statutory requirement that a notice be sent by postal mail or certified
mail, where that method is expressly required by law.

The Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services is to
provide the electronic addresses and other contact information to other certain
State agencies that send official and authoritative notices to allow for the
implementation of the provisions of the bill. The business is authorized to
request to the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services a cessation of
electronic notification. If that request is made, the division is to notify
the other State agencies of the request.

As amended and reported by the committee, Assembly
Bill No. 5422 is identical to Senate Bill No. 4290, which was also amended and
reported by the committee on this date.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS :

The committee amended the bill to:

(1) update the definition of “business” and add a
definition of “official and authoritative notification;”

(2) modify how a business will sign-up to receive
official and authoritative notifications electronically;

(3) stipulate that a business is to maintain a postal
mailing address and that nothing in the bill is to be construed as interfering
with other laws requiring businesses to maintain a postal mailing address;

(4) clarify what agencies the Division of Revenue and
Enterprise Services is to share business contact information with to allow all
the requisite agencies to send official and authoritative notifications
electronically;

(5) allow businesses to stop receiving electronic
notifications and require notice of this cessation be sent by the Division of
Revenue and Enterprise Services to the other State agencies; and

(6) require the State Treasurer work in consultation
with the Director of the Division of Taxation and the Chief Executive Officer
of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, in addition to the
Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, to adopt rules and
regulations.

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