Not clear on the bass rule change

[JBird]

So the meeting is changed to April and I guess we are all in limbo until then. It is my understanding that we will indeed get a bonus tag, I hope so because I already paid 2 bucks for my 2015 tag. I believe there are 2 options for the bonus fish and they are 28" or better or (what I want) a slot fish 24"-28"

MY QUESTION: Do you have to catch the two non-bonus fish first before you are allowed to keep the 3rd fish? We didn't have this quandry before as all fish were the same length.
Will we have to kill a 43" + cow in order to keep that additional fish?
If this is the case than the bonus tag is basically a total waste time and a disgrace to the idea of conservation, the very reason for these regulation changes.
I hope this is NOT the case as it would encourage angler greed.

Hopefully the bonus tag will let NJ anglers to keep a pair of smaller fish instead of forcing us to take a cow before we are allowed the extra fish. The fish granted to us by the NJ moratorium on commercial striped bass fishing, something I think the out of state cry babies who want a 1 bass limit should remember.