Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Erik K. Simonsen
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
In committee14
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.
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.
Concerns classification of musicians for purposes of State employment laws.
Creates grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Provides for expedited construction inspections.*
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
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. *
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 · 6
"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.*
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.*
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.
Out of committee · 15
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Revises "Athletic Training Licensure Act."
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; outlines role and duties of school counselor; requires professional development for school counselors; establishes position of School Counselor Liaison in DOE.
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Provides for lifetime disqualification from operating commercial motor vehicle and transportation network company vehicle for persons convicted of human trafficking.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
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.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
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.
Allows ticket prices at postseason athletic events to be increased to offset event-related expenses.
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
In committee · 100
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
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.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Provides that in certain cases vacancy in membership of board of education of limited purpose regional school district will be filled by majority vote of board of education of constituent district represented by former board member.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Establishes flexible instructional day program to allow students to continue instruction at home when district must close its schools and to permit district to count flexible instructional days in meeting 180-day school year requirement.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Directs Attorney General to provide annual training to public and nonpublic school students and staff on roles and responsibilities before, during, and after school emergencies.
Requires school districts to institute policies to improve emergency communications to increase school security.
Requires State Police to maintain 24-hour hotline for receiving anonymous tips regarding potential threats to school safety and security.
Requires school districts to implement policy mandating all students and school employees have identification cards.
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.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
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.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
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.
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.
Prohibits elected officers of municipality from accepting employment with municipality in which they hold office.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
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.
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 Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
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.
Dedicates State reserve of certain federal funds to in-person and hybrid school districts.
Redistributes fiscal year 2023 transportation and security aid from remote school districts to in-person school districts.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
"New Jersey Ticket Consumer Choice Act."
Provides gross income tax deduction to surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
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.
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.
Creates database of veteran separation documents.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Provides for priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
Requires development of manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in certain counties within southern New Jersey.
Requires assignment of unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency; appropriates $1.8 million.
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Establishes "Manufacturing Workforce Development Grant Program" for students enrolled at county colleges.
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.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
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.
Establishes certain shellfish aquaculture activities as eligible for Right to Farm protections.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
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.
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.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Removes limit in annual budget requests of certain county offices.
"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."
Creates temporary grant program for electric vehicle fire suppression technology.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
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 deadlines for publishing quarterly crime data, issuance of annual report by Attorney General.