US state regulation
New Jersey
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for New Jersey - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 48/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 4 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 4
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 4 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
New Jersey is a dense, high-tracker archive: 4 tracked rows and 48/100, with 4 enacted across 2 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 48/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 4
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 4
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
New Jersey legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from New Jersey's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 4 Tracked rows in archive
- 4 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 48/100 Portal tracker score
- #13 Of 51 by volume
- #16 Of 51 by tracker score
- Vermont Nearest volume peer 4 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
Archive-volume peers
State context
New Jersey's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: New Jersey is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
New Jersey enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 2 in 2019
Policy coverage
New Jersey enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from New Jersey's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
New Jersey regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining New Jersey's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive New Jersey's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
78/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- B 4 tracked
80th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 48/100
76th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
New Jersey FLI + Earned Sick Leave
P.L. 2018, c. 10 / P.L. 2008 Effective: 2020-07-01New Jersey FLI: 12 weeks paid family leave at 85% wages. Earned sick: 40 hrs/year for all employees.
New Jersey Minimum Wage
N.J.S.A. 34:11-56a4 Effective: 2024-01-01New Jersey minimum wage $15.49/hr (2025). CPI-indexed annually. Small employers and farm workers on different schedules.
New Jersey Salary History Ban
A 1094 Effective: 2018-01-01New Jersey prohibits employers from screening applicants based on wage or salary history.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with New Jersey
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for New Jersey (FULL · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
FULL MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Vermont · FULL
Vermont tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than New Jersey); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Utah · FULL
Utah tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than New Jersey); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Delaware · FULL
Delaware tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than New Jersey); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Virginia · FULL
Virginia tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than New Jersey); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Texas (MID score pole)
Texas sits near New Jersey on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
New Jersey's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (3 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in New Jersey
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) New Jersey state-rule registry · 2024 New Jersey: 4 tracked · 4 enacted · tracker 48/100 (FULL/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are New Jersey's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.