Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Antwan L. McClellan
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Out of committee1
Creates database of veteran separation documents.
In committee20
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
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.
Revises permitting thresholds for certain types of development requiring CAFRA permit from DEP.
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.
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.
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.
Requires DHS to set reimbursement rates for owners or operators of group homes providing individual support services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes procedures for sale of certain State-owned properties used by agencies or organizations providing housing to adults with developmental disabilities.
Requires regional representation for members of BPU.
Permits county sheriffs to certify that law enforcement officer meets certain criteria for renewal of law enforcement license.
Expands definition of qualifying municipality for purposes of urban aid under P.L.1978, c.14.
Permits municipalities that host certain prisons to raise additional revenue through payments in lieu of taxes and certain employer payroll taxes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Provides for purchase of PFRS credit for service as class two special law enforcement officer.
Establishes limit on rent increase for certain dwelling sites for modular or industrialized buildings or manufactured homes.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to permit certain school districts losing State school aid to submit budgets after enactment of FY2025 appropriations act.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for biomarker precision medical testing.*
Establishes Next New Jersey Manufacturing Program to incentivize in-State manufacturing investments and job creation.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $4 million for Hinchliffe Stadium Partners to support stadium, entertainment, and tourism infrastructure at Paterson Great Falls National Park.
Vetoed · 1
Requires State entities purchase five percent of goods and services from Central Nonprofit Agency; requires Division of Purchase and Property establish training protocols for all purchasing agents; grants Central Nonprofit Agency right of first refusal.*
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Authorizes creation and issuance of veteran license plates.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.*
Authorizes soil conservation districts to have more than five supervisors.
Out of committee · 20
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Authorizes creation of honorably discharged veteran license plates.*
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Exempts certain plastic materials processed at advanced plastic processing facilities from State laws regulating solid waste disposal and recycling.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Requires health benefits coverage for additional orthotic and prosthetic appliances under certain circumstances; requires coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances obtained through podiatrists.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers of certain persons with disabilities.
Requires State agencies to make good faith effort towards certain goals to use certified minority and women-owned businesses as prime contractors and subcontractors.
Provides project grant under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education expansion; appropriates $7.65 million.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Appropriates $34 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 107
Provides gross income tax deduction for amounts paid to taxpayers for sale of certain real property interests for conservation purposes.
Criminalizies interference with monitoring devices on school buses.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Requires temporary detention and notification to parent or guardian of underage person who unlawfully purchases or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis.
Requires grading of offenses involving manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin based on dosage units in addition to weight.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
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.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
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.
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Protects equity accrued by property owner in tax sale foreclosure.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
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.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Requires MVC to issue blue envelopes that hold documents required to operate motor vehicle to persons diagnosed with autism.
"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.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Provides for full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Provides gross income tax deduction to surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.
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.
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
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.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.
Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
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 grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation.
Requires licensure for veterinary technicians.
Requires New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education include content on risks of cannabis and marijuana use.
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.
Establishes "Task Force on Supportive Technology for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities."
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.
Concerns removal of abandoned vessels; appropriates $25 million.
Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.
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.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
Creates grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
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.
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.
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
Exempts sales of passenger automobiles to honorably discharged veterans with a service-connected disability from sales and use tax.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."
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.
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 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."
Requires low-speed electric bicycles and low-speed electric scooters to be registered with MVC and to be insured.
Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive after school programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
Requires SJTA to suspend certain tolls on the Atlantic City Expressway in certain circumstances.
Requires person convicted, or fleeing charge, of sex offense in foreign country to register under Megan's Law; requires law enforcement to inquire about immigration status of sex offenders and cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Requires AG to repeal law enforcement directive restricting law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Establishes EMS part of PERS; provides enhanced benefits for emergency medical services employees.
Requires green building standards and impact studies for carbon, traffic, storm water, and schools for certain affordable housing development.
Establishes certification process for non-physicians to perform laser tattoo removal.
Increases penalties for drag racing; provides for impoundment under certain circumstances.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to ensure toll collection monitoring system is functioning properly prior to issuing advisory and payment request and administrative fee.
Establishes "Cyber Security Reserve Corps;" appropriates $500,000.
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Codifies Bringing Veterans Home Initiative.
Requires Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of on-farm dairy processing activities.
Reduces tax rate by 50 percent on sales and use of used motor vehicles.
Directs DEP to use funds from perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination settlement with 3M Company for purchase of equipment to remediate perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination.
Increases threshold from $1 million to $2 million for imposition of certain fees and taxes on certain real property transfers.
Exempts retail sales of used motor vehicles from New Jersey sales and use tax.
Revises formula for State aid to municipalities and counties for public highway projects.
Requires automatic external defibrillators on-site at certain places of public assembly and youth athletic events.