Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, General Assembly.
Antwan L. McClellan
Sponsored
In committee25
Protects equity accrued by property owner in tax sale foreclosure.
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.
Creates database of veteran separation documents.
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.
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.
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.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers of certain persons with 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.
Prohibits DEP and other State agencies from adopting certain rules and regulations without Legislative approval.
"Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Driver Communication and Disability Protection Act"; revises and establishes process for designating certain disorders through MVC.
Expands definition of qualifying municipality for purposes of urban aid under P.L.1978, c.14.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Authorizes soil conservation districts to have more than five supervisors.
Concerns facilities used by applicants for new motor vehicle dealer licenses.*
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund." and "Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account."*
Out of committee · 6
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening. *
Permits board of education to employ certain veterans in coaching positions in school district's interscholastic athletic program.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
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.*
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Establishes "New Jersey Holistic Representation Model" in Office of Public Defender.
In committee · 109
Provides gross income tax deduction for amounts paid to taxpayers for sale of certain real property interests for conservation purposes.
Requires Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of on-farm dairy processing activities.
Authorizes provision of monetary awards to whistleblowers who report State tax law violations committed by employers in construction industry.
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 the People."
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.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.
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.
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 cost 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.
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 school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Appropriates $34 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Criminalizes interference with monitoring devices on school buses.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
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 registered voters to present identification when voting at polling place.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Requires AG to repeal law enforcement directive restricting law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
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.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Establishes EMS part of PERS; provides enhanced benefits for emergency medical services employees.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Authorizes creation of honorably discharged veteran license plates.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.
Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation.
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 health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is senior citizen or veteran.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.
Provides for full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
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.
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.
Increases penalties for drag racing; provides for impoundment under certain circumstances.
Exempts certain plastic materials processed at advanced plastic processing facilities from State laws regulating solid waste disposal and recycling.
Exempts sales of passenger automobiles to honorably discharged veterans with service-connected disability from sales and use tax.
Requires SJTA to suspend certain tolls on Atlantic City Expressway in certain circumstances.
Requires construction project applicants to disclose project financing.
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.
Codifies Bringing Veterans Home Initiative.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
Establishes "STEM Curriculum Grant Program" for certain school districts; makes appropriation.
Establishes Civil Air Patrol Fund to be supported by annual appropriations of $100,000; appropriates $100,000.
Requires school bus personnel members to call 911 emergency line in potential life-threatening emergencies; requires certain school buses transportating students with disabilities to be equipped with certain safety features; makes appropriation.
Clarifies that amateur sports official is independent contractor for purposes of State employment laws.
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct two sentence oral recitation from Declaration of Independence before opening of school each day in grades three through 12; appropriates $10,000.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to provide toll discount to veterans.
Allows for licensed organizations to conduct raffles remotely and to advertise such raffles; removes maximum value limitations for prizes; allows remote raffles on Sundays; requires quarterly reporting of raffle results.
Permits municipalities to waive interest on certain delinquent property tax payments delivered after required due date.
"Fairness for Coastal School Districts in Development Restricted Areas Act"; provides State aid to certain school districts located in municipalities subject to CAFRA.
Expands definition of terrorist organization; establishes civil action for damages against person that supports terrorism.
Repeals enactment concerning access to and provision of reproductive health care services.
Establishes crime of transnationally organized criminality.
Establishes uniform prevailing wage contract threshold amount for public work.
Lifts ban on State and local law enforcement cooperation with federal civil immigration authorities and creates fund to support cooperation; makes an appropriation; repeals section 3 of P.L.2026, c.5.
"Micro-Reactor Incentive Act"; directs BPU to request proposals to construct micro nuclear reactors in State.
Directs BPU to authorize construction and operation of micro-reactors.
Requires automatic voter registration processes when applying for concealed carry gun permits.
Filed · 1
Removes restrictions on presence of police and law enforcement officers near polling places and ballot drop boxes.