l9n/ New Jersey

2024–2025 Session

Assembly Bill 5735

Requires restaurant to disclose mandatory gratuity to patrons.*

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Commerce 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

8 co-sponsors

Cody D. Miller, Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, Shanique Speight, Tennille R. McCoy, Shama A. Haider, David Bailey Jr., Sterley S. Stanley, Andrea Katz

Its course

June 12, 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 5 days

In the General AssemblyJun 12 to Dec 22193 days

Consumer AffairsJun 12 to Dec 11182 days

Commerce, Economic Development and AgricultureDec 11 to Dec 18 · moved on7 days

AppropriationsDec 18 to Dec 180 days

In the SenateDec 22 to Jan 6 · stopped15 days

CommerceJan 6 to Jan 6 · stopped0 days

Votes

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

  • General Assembly, third reading68–3

    Passed · Dec 22 · 1 present

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 Jun 12 – Dec 22

  1. Introduced in the General Assembly and sent to Consumer Affairs
  2. Consumer Affairs recommended it as amended
  3. Sent to Commerce, Economic Development and Agriculture
  4. Sent to Appropriations
  5. Appropriations recommended it
  6. Read a second time
  7. Passed the General Assembly, 68 to 3

In the Senate Jan 6, 2026

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