WASHINGTON -- House Republicans have proposed penalizing New Jersey and other states that won't allow oil companies to drill off their shores.

The House Natural Resources Committee is to hold a hearing Thursday on legislation that would fine states that don't open their offshore lands to drilling, as President Donald Trump has proposed.

It's the latest GOP effort directed against New Jersey.

Other attacks included a tax plan that singled out New Jersey and other high-tax states, a health care bill that would roll back the state's Medicaid expansion, a vote on legislation to strip a spending bill of money for the Gateway Tunnel project, and the refusal to give Sandy victims the same tax breaks as residents of other states hit by hurricanes.

"House Republicans continue to assault New Jersey, whether it's the GOP tax scam, slashing Gateway funding or attempting to blackmail our state into accepting drilling miles away from a $38 billion a year tourism industry," said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th Dist., the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "This disgusting proposal is a direct assault on our way of life."

The state enacted an impediment to Trump's plan in April when Gov Phil Murphy signed legislation that banned drilling in the three miles of ocean water that the state controls along the Atlantic coast. The bill also blocked construction of pipelines, docks and other facilities on the shore needed for drilling.

The Republican proposal would encourage states to oversee oil and gas production on federal lands within their borders by giving them a larger share of revenues. turn over most drilling operations to the states.

States that don't move ahead with drilling or put some areas off-limits to production would have to pay a fee to compensate the federal government for the loss of revenue it otherwise would receive from oil and gas extraction.

"Because these lands are owned by the public, taking these resources off the market represents a cost to taxpayers across the country," a committee memo said. "If a state chooses to forego development in an area with economically recoverable resources, the state will be required to offset the loss in revenue to the federal treasury."

New Jersey's entire congressional delegation is record as opposing Trump's plan to replace the current five-year plan that keeps derricks out of the Atlantic Ocean through 2022 with one that opened 90 percent of the continental shelf to drilling.

New Jersey’s coastal economy is one of the primary drivers of job creation & economic growth in our State & shouldn’t be jeopardized by offshore drilling.



The N.J congressional delegation will be united in its opposition to this legislation. https://t.co/mtcs0581cY — Rep. Leonard Lance (@RepLanceNJ7) June 13, 2018

ABSOLUTELY ABSURD to penalize states who do not want drilling off our shores. Have my colleagues not heard of "States Rights" in deciding their own policies?? Will vigorously fight this & similar idiotic proposals. New Jersey & in particular #SouthJersey DOES NOT WANT DRILLING! https://t.co/i8LeNk64DG — Frank LoBiondo (@FrankLoBiondoNJ) June 13, 2018

At risk for New Jersey is a tourism industry supporting 500,000 jobs, and a fishing industry adding $7.9 billion a year to the state's economy and creating more than 50,000 jobs.

While no decision on allowing drilling off the Jersey Shore has been announced, Republican lawmakers said following a meeting in February that U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke indicated that the area likely would reman off limits to drilling.

Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JDSalant or on Facebook. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook