Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, General Assembly.
Erik K. Simonsen
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Permits board of education to employ certain veterans in coaching positions in school district's interscholastic athletic program.
In committee31
Eliminates veterans' gross income tax deduction requirement that New Jersey National Guard member serve in federal active duty status.
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.
Provides in-State tuition status to certain veterans and family members who attend public institutions of higher education during period of mandatory remote instruction due to public health emergencies.
Establishes disabled veteran tenant gross income tax credit.
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.
Concerns classification of musicians for purposes of State employment laws.
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulator on student with seizure disorder.
Creates grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
Provides gross income tax credit of up to $500 to taxpayers who utilize high impact tutoring.
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.
Permits school districts to allow nonpublic school students to participate in resident district high school interscholastic athletics in certain circumstances.
Allows active duty members of United States military to carry firearm at all times.
Establishes maximum size for lands leased as shellfisheries areas along the Atlantic Coast by Shellfisheries Council.
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.
Establishes Civil Air Patrol Fund to be supported by annual appropriations of $100,000; appropriates $100,000.
Establishes "Freedom Flag" as official State flag.
Requires pay for extracurricular activities to be included in compensation for TPAF purposes.
Permits choice district to enroll certain new out-of-district students on tuition basis following termination of district choice program.
"Rental Transparency Act"; requires certain reporting by owner and public availability of rent increase information in multiple dwellings.
Increases ANCHOR property tax benefit for certain senior citizen tenants.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Concerns facilities used by applicants for new motor vehicle dealer licenses.*
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Requires continuation of health benefits dependent coverage for certain children with disabilities who are 26 years of age or older.
Requires study of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund." and "Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account."*
Requires unexpended State aid for nonpublic school nursing services and nonpublic school security services to be used to support nonpublic school transportation services.*
Establishes additional procedures for financial oversight and reporting to ensure fiscal stability of school districts.
Expands duties of executive county business official; establishes processes for fiscal review of school districts by executive county superintendent and Commissioner of Education.
"Jack Reid Law: Protect All Students Act"; prohibits harassment or bullying of nonpublic school students and requires nonpublic schools to adopt anti-harassment and bullying policy.
Out of committee · 8
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening. *
Directs DEP to lift conservation restrictions imposed as condition of CAFRA permit under certain conditions.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Requires Commissioner of Education to take certain action concerning preliminary State school aid notices and school district budgets and creates New Jersey Education Funding Portal; modifies certain provisions in school funding law.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.
Establishes School Security Pilot Program in DOE; appropriates $15 million.*
Concerns enrollment of twins or higher order multiples in public preschool programs.
In committee · 114
Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's placard issued by MVC.
Requires school bus personnel members working with students with disabilities to call 911 emergency line in potential life-threatening emergencies; requires school buses transporting students with disabilities to be equipped with certain safety features.
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
Authorizes Surrogate of every county to establish electronic systems to accept electronic signatures on qualifying documents in probate matters.
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 registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
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.
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.
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.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
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 enforcing agency to conduct inspection of construction in specified time window.
Establishes minimum acreage goal and schedule for prescribed burns in pinelands area and Statewide.
Creates disorderly persons offense for persons who conceal or attempt to conceal their identity while committing another crime or offense.
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.
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.
Establishes deadlines for publishing quarterly crime data, issuance of annual report by Attorney General.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers of certain persons with disabilities.
Requires regional representation for members of BPU.
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.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Establishes New Jersey Veterans' Organization Building Grant Program.
Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum for grades three through five.
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 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.
Prohibits health care professionals from providing gender-affirming health care services to persons under 21 years of age.
Requires governing board of public school to verify employment eligibility of teaching staff members and school employees.
Sets flat gross income tax rate at 5.9 percent tax for all taxable income over $37,500 or $75,000, depending on filing status; exempts taxpayers with less income from gross income tax.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Establishes NJT Office of Customer Advocate and Rider Advocacy Commission.
Increases transparency and accountability for NJT and independence of NJT board members; establishes Office of Customer Advocate; requires greater detail for capital program.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
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.
Requires public transportation employees and certain motorbus operators to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Authorizes creation of honorably discharged veteran license plates.
Creates pilot program to provide corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.
Allows certain public high school student-athletes to substitute study hall for physical education during their athletic seasons.
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.
Establishes State aid reduction cap of one percent for calculation of State school aid.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Provides for full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Provides that salary and other costs associated with Commissioner of Education's appointment of State monitor and other staff under "School District Fiscal Accountability Act" will be paid by State.
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 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.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Provides for priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
Increases penalties for drag racing; provides for impoundment under certain circumstances.
Establishes certain requirements for State and local governments awarding contracts or grants to nonprofit organizations.
Exempts certain plastic materials processed at advanced plastic processing facilities from State laws regulating solid waste disposal and recycling.
Creates temporary grant program for electric vehicle fire suppression technology.
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.
Increases penalty for crime of manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing certain Schedule I and II controlled dangerous substances.
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.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
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.
"Road to Tax Relief Act"; provides credit for sales tax remittances for businesses impacted by public highway projects, including Interstate 80 project; provides tax credits for certain businesses and persons impacted by same projects; makes appropriation.
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.
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.
"Jillian's Law," Mandates institutional commitment for certain persons found not competent to stand trial under certain circumstances.
"Michael 'Mikey' Gioia's Law"; requires field sobriety test and certain chemical tests be conducted when driver is involved in certain motor vehicle accidents.
Filed · 2
Removes restrictions on presence of police and law enforcement officers near polling places and ballot drop boxes.
Prohibits marriages and civil unions between first cousins.