l9n/ New Jersey

2024–2025 Session

Assembly Bill 5583

Prohibits certain public utilities from charging residents of multi-unit dwellings meter-reading fees in certain circumstances.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Economic Growth Committee on January 6, 2026. The 2024–2025 session has ended.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the General Assembly

2 co-sponsors

Clinton Calabrese, James J. Kennedy

Its course

May 5, 2025 to January 6, 2026, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action6 actions on 4 days

In the General AssemblyMay 5 to Dec 22231 days

Telecommunications and UtilitiesMay 5 to Dec 11220 days

In the SenateDec 22 to Jan 6 · stopped15 days

Economic GrowthJan 6 to Jan 6 · stopped0 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislature recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • General Assembly, third reading42–25

    Dec 22

  • General Assembly, third reading74–0

    Passed · Dec 22

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • General Assembly committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Dec 11

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the General Assembly May 5 – Dec 22

  1. Introduced in the General Assembly and sent to Telecommunications and Utilities
  2. Telecommunications and Utilities recommended it as amended
  3. Read a second time
  4. Passed the General Assembly, 74 to 0

In the Senate Jan 6, 2026

  1. Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to Economic Growth
All 6 actions, as published