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Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate Resolution No. 101, New Jersey, January 21, 2021

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The New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee statement dated January 21, 2021 reports Senate Resolution No. 101 favorably. The resolution urges all New Jersey residents to patronize small businesses to support them through the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement says over 860,000 small businesses operate in New Jersey and employ an estimated 1.8 million individuals, and that Executive Order No. 107 of March 21, 2020 closed all non-essential retail businesses. It cites a March 2020 New Jersey Economic Development Authority survey in which 73 percent of businesses reported a significant loss of revenue, and says workers have filed more than 1.65 million applications for unemployment insurance.

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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 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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