---
type: "Bill"
title: "Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry."
description: "Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
session: "220"
identifier: "S 772"
citation: "New Jersey S 772 (220)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "DISABLED", "MINORITY", "WOMEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dancer, Ronald S.", "McKnight, Angela V.", "Pennacchio, Joseph", "Pou, Nellie", "Swain, Lisa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-09-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/857c6cf1-64b2-41a3-9a82-2c7048e3e026"
source_url: "http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/downloads.asp"
source_hash: "4e9467930b0bcae79628f4ad5ef4feb8f871097ec829569370bb1bdf48a14694"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
---

# New Jersey S 772 (220) — Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S1000/772_I1.HTM)
2. **Reprint** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S1000/772_R1.HTM)

## Votes

- Reported out of Senate committee with amendments — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dancer, Ronald S. — primary (person)
- McKnight, Angela V. — primary (person)
- Pennacchio, Joseph — primary (person)
- Pou, Nellie — primary (person)
- Swain, Lisa — primary (person)
- Cruz-Perez, Nilsa I. — cosponsor (person)
- Freiman, Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Haider, Shama A. — cosponsor (person)
- Jimenez, Angelica M. — cosponsor (person)
- Park, Ellen J. — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina — cosponsor (person)
- Ruiz, M. Teresa — cosponsor (person)
- Singleton, Troy — cosponsor (person)
- Speight, Shanique — cosponsor (person)
- Stanley, Sterley S. — cosponsor (person)
- Sumter, Shavonda E. — cosponsor (person)
- Turner, Shirley K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-16T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (38-0) `passage`
- **2022-06-16T04:00:00+00:00** Received in the Assembly without Reference, 2nd Reading
- **2022-06-29T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for A1929 (1R)
- **2022-06-29T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (74-4-0) `passage`
- **2022-09-22T04:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2022, c.112. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/857c6cf1-64b2-41a3-9a82-2c7048e3e026`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).