Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Antwan L. McClellan
Sponsored
Became law2
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
Requires New Jersey Historical Commission to establish Black Heritage Trail; permits New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation to use funds for markers on certain trail sites; appropriates $1 million.*
Vetoed1
Revises permitting thresholds for certain types of development requiring CAFRA permit from DEP.
In committee13
Allocates all revenue from hotel and motel occupancy fee for arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes.
Requires MVC to provide certain vehicle and licensing services in each county in State.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Requires State employees work in person if job requires face-to-face interaction with public; requires State agency provide alternatives if closure is unpreventable.
Creates database of veteran separation documents.
Requires development of manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in certain counties within southern New Jersey.
Establishes "Manufacturing Workforce Development Grant Program" for students enrolled at county colleges.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Removes limit in annual budget requests of certain county offices.
Concerns child custody determinations and proceedings; requires child abuse and adverse childhood experiences training.
Establishes deadlines for publishing quarterly crime data, issuance of annual report by Attorney General.
Allows certain municipalities to establish lower property tax rate on improvements than land.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Provides for expedited construction inspections.*
Authorizes surviving spouse or family member of decedent to use motor vehicle registration certificate of decedent until registration certificate expires.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for professional firefighters not enrolled in SHBP; makes appropriation.
Establishes grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Appropriates $87,783,515 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Passed the General Assembly · 7
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $3 million.*
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Out of committee · 11
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation. *
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Authorizes CRDA to finance transportation projects between Atlantic City Airport and Atlantic City Tourism District.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Requires converting portion of Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to ventilation systems; provides Adjutant General discretion for additional room considerations.*
Establishes School Safety and Security Task Force.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
In committee · 105
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
Provides small businesses with gross income tax or corporation business tax deduction for wages paid to minimum wage employees.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
Directs BPU to allow broadband telecommunications service providers to use poles belonging to public utilities or CATV companies in certain instances.
Allows local units to offer broadband telecommunications service under certain circumstances.
Exempts medical alert devices and services from sales and use tax.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Requires electric public utility to identify communities within service territory where at least 40 percent of residential customers rely on private well water, develop service restoration plan for those communities, and provide watering stations.
Requires MVC to review certain services and provide certain services online.
Permits county clerk to remove voters from vote-by-mail lists under certain circumstances.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA create program for veterans to receive evaluation and treatment for PTSD and total brain injury.
Requires issuance of temporary emergency medical services certifications under certain circumstances.
Extends renewal period for professional licenses issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires public schools to post curriculum plans online; requires school districts to make textbooks or other materials used in implementing curriculum plans available for inspection by parents and legal guardians.
Creates "Unemployment Intake Accountability Pilot Program."
Concerns eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits for certain seasonal employees.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Establishes NJ Business and the Arts Commission to promote art Statewide.
Permits New Jersey Historical Commission to develop manual for counties and municipalities to use to plan celebration of 250th Anniversary of ratification of Declaration of Independence.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support historic preservation.
Permits New Jersey Council on the Arts to develop and promote historical mural program and program for 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence.
Requires licensure for veterinary technicians.
Requires New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education include content on risks of cannabis.
Permits board of education to employ certain veterans in coaching positions in school district's interscholastic athletic program.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to develop career and education guide for post secondary students with disabilities.
Prohibits elected officers of municipality from accepting employment with municipality in which they hold office.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Establishes NJ Military Family Relief Fund; provides for designation on State gross income tax return to permit taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to military family relief fund.
Provides additional home ownership assistance for certain military service members.
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to qualified veterans purchasing franchises.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Medal military recipients.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Directs AG to enter into agreement with U.S. Attorney General to empower certain corrections officers to investigate immigration status of inmates.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires chief law enforcement officer or Superintendent of State Police to notify federal immigration authorities when non-citizen applies for firearms purchaser identification card or handgun purchase permit.
Establishes State Debt Capacity Advisory Commission.
"Murphy's Law"; nullifies Governor's order, rule, or regulation to address declared emergency, or relevant portion thereof, when Governor violates same; creates affirmative defense to prosecution for same violation committed by Governor.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Provides gross income tax deduction to surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.
Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Requires at least one member of BPU to reside in either Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, or Ocean County.
Authorizes payment of just compensation to businesses for losses due to public health emergency closures.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Requires health care practitioners prescribing opioid medications on first-time basis, or to minor children, to limit amount of prescribed medication to seven-day supply, except in certain circumstances.
Requires health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by victim of domestic violence as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage therefor.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Allocates $2.5 billion to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to develop and promote NJ Heritage Weekend.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Authorizes DOT and historic entities to accept gifts and grants for purchase and erection of historic markers and signs.
Requires assignment of unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency; appropriates $1.8 million.
Establishes "Task Force on Supportive Technology for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities."
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Concerns removal of abandoned vessels; appropriates $25 million.
Requires statistics for crimes committed in correctional facilities to be set apart from county crimes or other statistics.
Upgrades penalties for throwing bodily fluid at certain law enforcement officers and correctional employees.
Establishes Inmate Prosecution Unit in DLPS.
Clarifies the newspaper media delivery person and news media stringer are independent contractors for purposes of State employment laws.
Establishes certain shellfish aquaculture activities as eligible for Right to Farm protections.
Directs DCA to establish grant programs for public water systems.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Provides for full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
Requires Attorney General to revise guidelines regarding use of conducted energy devices by law enforcement officers; establishes law enforcement conducted energy device training.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Requires temporary detention and notification to parent or guardian of underage person who unlawfully purchases or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis.
Allows use of fish pumps to remove menhaden from purse seines in certain circumstances.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring student growth objectives to evaluate teachers.
Authorizes persons serving overseas in military to be married or enter into civil union by video conference or other electronic means.
Criminalizies interference with monitoring devices on school buses.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Protects equity accrued by property owner in tax sale foreclosure.
Requires grading of offenses involving manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin based on dosage units in addition to weight.
Concerns evaluation and abatement of mold hazards in common areas of certain residential developments.
Creates grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
Directs municipalities to require at least two van accessible parking spaces in certain parking lots and structures.
Exempts sales of passenger automobiles to honorably discharged veterans with a service-connected disability from sales and use tax.
Establishes pilot program in Division of Taxation to provide income tax credits for the opening of certain homesteads to hunting activities in areas with high number of wildlife incidents.