Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 4290 — State of New Jersey (November 17, 2025)

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The Senate Commerce Committee of the State of New Jersey, in a statement dated November 17, 2025, reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 4290. As amended, the bill gives businesses subject to registration with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services the option to register for a computer-based service to receive official and authoritative notifications electronically from State agencies. A business that accepts electronic notification will no longer receive paper versions from those agencies but must keep a postal mailing address, and may ask the division to stop electronic notification. As amended, the bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 5422.

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SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No.
4290

with committee amendments

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: NOVEMBER
17, 2025

The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and
with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 4290.

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, Senate Bill
No. 4290 is identical to Assembly Bill No. 5422, 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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