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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under \"Right to Farm Act\"."
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description: "Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under \"Right to Farm Act\"."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
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legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
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session: "221"
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identifier: "A 4603"
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citation: "New Jersey A 4603 (221)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGRICULTURE"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Freiman, Roy", "Peterpaul, Luanne M.", "Sauickie, Alex", "Singleton, Troy", "Space, Parker"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2024-06-17T04:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-11-13T05:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/700ecef8-1bae-4ce6-9cd0-f82e9df97841"
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source_url: "https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/leg-databases/"
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source_hash: "518b62f7d93d256687fb770b7f3e160ce81e899f77ce5820dd955c13ed413142"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
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---
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# New Jersey A 4603 (221) — Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/A5000/4603_I1.HTM)
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## Votes
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- Reported favorably out of committee — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported favorably out of committee — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Freiman, Roy — primary (person)
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- Peterpaul, Luanne M. — primary (person)
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- Sauickie, Alex — primary (person)
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- Singleton, Troy — primary (person)
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- Space, Parker — primary (person)
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- Clifton, Robert D. — cosponsor (person)
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- Drulis, Mitchelle — cosponsor (person)
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- Flynn, Victoria A. — cosponsor (person)
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- McKnight, Angela V. — cosponsor (person)
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- Scharfenberger, Gerry — cosponsor (person)
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- Simonsen, Erik K. — cosponsor (person)
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- Speight, Shanique — cosponsor (person)
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- Swain, Lisa — cosponsor (person)
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- Tiver, Latham — cosponsor (person)
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- Torrissi, Michael — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Commerce, Economic Development and Agriculture Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-10-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
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- **2024-12-19T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (73-0-0) `passage`
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- **2025-01-14T05:00:00+00:00** Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
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- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for S3662
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- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (39-0) `passage`
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- **2025-11-13T05:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2025, c.156. `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/700ecef8-1bae-4ce6-9cd0-f82e9df97841`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).
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