Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez
Sponsored
Became law7
Exempts shellfish aquaculturists with commercial shellfish aquaculture permit from law prohibiting taking of shellfish on Sunday; requires submission of annual shellfish harvest report.*
Expressly authorizes medical cannabis patients under 18 years of age to have up to four designated caregivers.
Permits appointment of additional alternate deputy registrars.
Requires certain permit holders to complete practice driving hours to obtain probationary driver's license.
Expands allowance for developers to carry forward unused tax credits under New Jersey Aspire Program.
Prohibits water utility from taking certain actions if utility fails to participate in Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
Expands eligibility for wildlife fencing programs to farmers leasing farmland; clarifies eligibility and provides for uniform funding levels for grant recipients.*
Passed the Senate1
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Out of committee26
Establishes "Security Deposit Assistance Pilot Program" in Passaic, Union, Essex, Hudson, Gloucester, Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, and Mercer counties; appropriates $450,000.*
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
"Green Building Tax Credit Act."*
Provides for streamlining of SNAP application process and establishes SNAP application call center; appropriates $750,000.*
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if payment of principal and interest on previously awarded loan or loan guarantee is greater than 24 months overdue.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Eliminates five percent down payment requirement for bond ordinances approved by counties and municipalities.
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
Establishes certification program for zoning officers and land use board administrators.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "noncitizen" and "undocumented noncitizen," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.*
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Establishes penalties for person who commits motor vehicle noise violation.*
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Provides exemption from State permit fees to owners of commercial farms rebuilding from natural disaster.
"Fire Life Safety Damper and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Act"; Requires routine maintenance and periodic testing of smoke dampers, fire dampers, and smoke control systems in certain buildings by qualified personnel.
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Amends definition of "participating county" under County Option Hospital Fee Program.
Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $128.241 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee141
Permits PERS retiree to return to elective public office after retirement under certain circumstances.
Authorizes local governments to impose convenience fees for accepting electronic payments.
Requires plaintiff to obtain affidavit of merit in malpractice suit against enrolled agent.
Permits municipalities having population under 2,500 to withdraw from civil service by ordinance.
Eliminates one percent tax on purchasers of Class 4A commercial property transferred for consideration in excess of $1 million.
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator in DMVA.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
Concerns restaurant tents during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Provides exemption from 3-day cancellation provision of home improvement contract in case of bona fide emergency.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Requires financial institutions to cash payroll checks under certain circumstances.
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
Revises "New Jersey Money Transmitters Act"; provides consumer protections; increases reporting and record keeping requirements.
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Temporarily reinstates property tax exemption for previously exempt non-profit hospital properties; establishes "Non-Profit Hospital Property Tax Exemption Study Commission."
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
Provides limited civil liability immunity to farmers hosting agritourism activities.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
Repeals law that established optional will registry.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
Authorizes placement of involved animal with animal welfare agency or similar entity pending adjudication of alleged animal cruelty violation when not adjudicated in seven days.
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.
Permits local governments to request civil service law enforcement examinations; increases training reimbursement for law enforcement positions; removes certain law enforcement appointees from civil service eligible list; allows county hiring preference for county police departments.
Provides bidder is ineligible to receive new State contract award if current contract is in dispute by State.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Provides tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for certain costs incurred in purchase and installation of certain environmentally responsible business equipment.
Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Requires DOH to develop interconception care resources to enhance postpartum care for women.
Requires hospital laboratories and bio-analytical or clinical laboratories to offer test for hepatitis C to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid tests for hepatitis C.
Provides that routine foot care services covered under certain insurance policies include coverage of services provided by podiatric physicians.
Authorizes provision of adult day health services on remote basis.
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Requires DHS to create English and Spanish-language Internet websites to promote enrollment in affordable health care plans.
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
"Mary's Law"; requires Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide direct payments for purchases of specialized, modified motor vehicles.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
Requires ABC to waive fee for alcoholic beverage COVID-19 Expansion Permit.
Authorizes parent or guardian to place security freeze on child's consumer report.
Clarifies that compensation may be paid for expenses related to service animals required due to injuries resulting from crime against victim.
Revises certain functions of New Jersey Firemen's Home and composition of board of managers.
Exempts personal protective equipment from sales and use tax.
"Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Establishes loan program and provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for establishment of new vineyards and wineries.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain compressed natural gas vehicles.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations designated by BPU.
Establishes "New Jersey Net Neutrality Act."
Provides tax credits to vineyards and wineries for qualified capital expenses.
Eliminates veterans' gross income tax deduction requirement that New Jersey National Guard member serve in federal active duty status.
"Home Business Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as permitted accessory uses.
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking and promoting prostitution of child shall not be expunged.
Adds new civil penalties and increases surcharges imposed on domestic violence offenders; establishes "Domestic Violence Victims' Legal Assistance Fund."
Clarifies procedures for resignation, removal, and succession of fiduciaries.
Concerns workers' cooperative societies.
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Requires DOT to compensate local government entities for contractual delay damages resulting from shutdown of transportation projects funded by Transportation Trust Fund; authorizes local government entities to use certain funds for transportation projects.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Allows corporation business tax credits as incentives for redevelopment of distressed shopping centers.
Provides assistance to business accelerators and incubators and startup businesses located within those business accelerators and incubators.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Requires businesses to report email address to Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services.
Clarifies procedures for restoration of driver's license after suspension; authorizes the court to waive imprisonment under certain circumstances.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Clarifies excuse from jury service for members of the military or reserve under certain circumstances; repeals N.J.S.38A:4-6.
Upgrades crime of manslaughter to aggravated manslaughter under certain circumstances.
Limits rescheduling, cancellation, and no-show fees providers of health care services may charge in certain instances.
Revises acreage requirement for plenary winery licenses.
Concerning the "Contractor's Registration Act."
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Permits local health boards to require minimum temperature of 70 degrees from October through April in certain buildings occupied by seniors and disabled persons.
Requires inspection for pest infestation prior to certain demolitions.
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each unit of transitional housing occupied by a veteran.
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each housing unit occupied by a veteran; permits municipalities to satisfy fair share affordable housing obligation through 35 percent set aside for veterans.
Requires video camera on certain school buses with crossing control arms.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Permits charter school to limit admission to single gender, students at-risk of academic failure, students with disabilities, or English language learners.
Establishes "New Jersey College Ready Students Program Act"; provides tuition-free dual enrollment opportunities at county college for certain high school students.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.
Prohibits administration of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Changes allocation of fines collected for motor vehicle violations in certain municipalities.
Authorizes political subdivisions to require recipients of economic development incentives to enter into community benefits agreements.
Requires employers within construction industry to notify employees of certain rights.
Creates "Economic Gardening Program" in Department of State to provide customized services to certain businesses.
Authorizes issuance of craft distillery license to certain other alcoholic beverage manufacturing licensees.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Prohibits emergency homeless shelters from conditioning provision of shelter on enrollment in certain programs.
Requires DCA to continuously maintain open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program pre-applications.
Establishes hospitality business winter preparation purchase or reimbursement program in EDA; appropriates $50 million to EDA from federal funds.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Limits forum of consumer contract disputes to New Jersey.
Provides economic development incentives for remediating and redeveloping legacy landfills, brownfields, and contaminated sites.
Expands municipal authority to license and inspect residential rental property.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Reallocates portion of certain forfeited property as incentive for informants of drug-related offenses and to provide inpatient treatment for certain drug-dependent individuals.
Establishes New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under gross income tax for certain home purchases during qualified periods by first-time homebuyers.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Removes requirement that limited brewery licensees provide tour when selling beer to consumers and permits certain food consumption on premise.
Creates restricted distillery license; permits holder thereof to operate restaurant on licensed premises in Garden State Growth Zone.
Provides tax credit to developers for affordable housing projects in certain neighborhoods.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit certain persons unless they pose danger.
The "Farm Labor Equality Act."
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Establishes teen driver orientation program.
Establishes program to provide free tuition under State Tuition Aid Grant Program to certain students who are accepted to public four-year institutions of higher education and elect to attend county college for first two years.
Establishes Task Force on Approved Private Schools for Students with Disabilities to study various issues including improving and streamlining tuition-setting process, funding, and fiscal accountability.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to suspend accrual of interest on certain New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program loans in deferment or forbearance.
Prohibits institution of higher education that provides child care from charging student-parent who receives child care voucher under "New Jersey Cares for Kids Program" an amount for child care in excess of voucher amount.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Establishes Main Street Assistance Program to encourage business development in small municipalities.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Applies certain public contract bid threshold amounts to pay to play and prevailing wage laws.
Applies local public contract bid threshold amounts to local pay to play and prevailing wage laws.
Permits public utilities and cable television companies to operate unmanned aircraft systems to inspect storm or other damage.
Establishes NJ Forensic Science Laboratory at Rutgers University-Camden; appropriates up to $500,000.
Makes various changes to address sexual assault and child abuse and neglect involving military personnel; addresses protection, penalties, enforcement, jurisdiction, and victim compensation matters.
Provides that regional school districts are not subject to State school aid reductions under certain circumstances.
Requires transparency concerning compensation with promotional opportunities and in employment listings.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Requires health benefits coverage of continuous glucose monitoring system for treatment of glycogen storage disease.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for certain out-of-state hospitals that provide services to NJ FamilyCare pediatric beneficiaries.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15 million to DMVA for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for facilities expansion.
Provides for representation of Burlington County on SJTA.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to waive E-ZPass tolls for disabled veteran owned businesses.
Concerns consideration of factors by court at hearing for pretrial detention or violation of condition of pretrial release.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law6
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Provides for streamlining of SNAP application process and establishes SNAP application call center; appropriates $750,000. **
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Establishes penalties for person who commits motor vehicle noise violation.*
"Fire Life Safety Damper and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Act"; Requires routine maintenance and periodic testing of smoke dampers, fire dampers, and smoke control systems in certain buildings by qualified personnel.*
Amends definition of "participating county" under County Option Hospital Fee Program.
Vetoed1
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Codifies and increases under certain circumstances, current minimum Medicaid per diem reimbursement rates for assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.*
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Concerns certification of tax collectors.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Includes duct cleaning as public work subject to the prevailing wage law.*
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty members of Armed Forces, Reserve components, members of National Guard, and veterans.*
Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.
Limits fees charged for copies of medical and billing records.
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Requires sellers of real property and landlords to make certain notifications regarding flooding.
Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.
Modifies certain provisions of "New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Act" and "Food Desert Relief Act."*
Clarifies process for administrative appropriations to UEZs.*
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 47 in Deptford Township as "Officer Robert J. Shisler Memorial Highway."
Establishes Mobility and Transportation Innovation Program in DOT; appropriates $2 million.*
Establishes Social Impact Investment Fund; appropriates $20 million.
Concerns temporary registration certificates and license plates.
Passed the Senate · 7
Revises certain requirements concerning graduation proficiency test and eliminates requirement that graduation proficiency test be administered to eleventh grade students.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.*
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Creates permanent commission to study various statutory definitions of veteran, disabled veteran, and service-disabled veteran.
Requires stress testing on State's ability to provide services in various economic conditions.
Requires DMVA establish Disabled Veterans Transportation Task Force.
Revises NJCLASS Teacher Loan Redemption Program.*
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Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth, and family services organizations.
Authorizes military service members, spouses, and dependents with out-of-state domicile to operate motor vehicles in New Jersey.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.
Provides tax credits for hiring certain military spouses.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Requires limited liability company to disclose ownership information when submitting deed for recording.
Requires MVC to place designation on motor vehicle's registration information indicating registrant is deaf.*
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on certain days.*
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke via use of smoke evacuation system.*
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.*
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes NJ Fusion Technology Industry Commission.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.*
Broadens eligibility for gross income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Permits non-instructional staff member retired from PERS to return to employment in school district for up to two years without reenrollment in PERS if employment commences during remainder of 2021-2022 and entirety of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years.*
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to issue identification card to Gold Star Family member.
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000.*
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Requires DMVA establish process to qualify veteran as discharged veteran with qualifying condition to receive certain veterans' benefits.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Increases contracting agencies goals for set-aside contracts for disabled veterans' businesses from three percent to six percent; requires liquidated damages provisions.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for programs providing mental health, substance use treatment, or services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Exempts raw, unprocessed honey from DOH cottage food regulations.
Permits alternating proprietorship of certain wineries.
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by all supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Requires DCA provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update program handbook and issue program request for proposal, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program.
Allows planning and zoning board members to satisfy training requirements on Internet.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Authorizes creation of registered nurse license plates.
Extends validity of and eliminates issuance fee for temporary instructional certificate issued to military spouse; requires expedited processing of military spouse application for NJ instructional certificate and eliminates fee obtain certificate.*
Revises method for appraisals of farmland to be acquired for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Reduces NJ Legislature Youth Council residency requirement for certain military children from 15 years to 6 months.
Allows for issuance of two-year temporary courtesy license for nonresident military spouses in certain professions.
Establishes process to identify and facilitate final disposition of unclaimed veteran cremains.*
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Requires conversion of ward in Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to certain systems; provides Adjutant General discretion to require additional room modifications.*
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Requires DMVA to provide mortgage loan counseling under certain circumstances.
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Requires schools and nonpublic schools with lunch programs to provide free lunch to increasing numbers of income-eligible students and, after five-year phase-in, to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of income or federal eligibility.*
Establishes county veteran transportation grant program; appropriates $2 million.
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Prioritizes distribution of 9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund monies; permits use of funds for certain expenses incurred by counties and municipalities for the provision and maintenance of 9-1-1 emergency services.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of US Armed Forces, NJ National Guard, and reserve component of US Armed Forces; creates permanent commission to study various definitions related to veteran status.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Allows taxpayers with fewer than 50 employees to accelerate depreciation of capital expenditures incurred to comply with COVID-19 executive orders.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, homeownership status, marital status, or credit score in certain automobile insurance determinations.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
Provides emergency State school aid to certain school districts located in historic communities.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Eliminates certain requirements for nonprofit organization operating ski area.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Establishes sales tax credit and sales tax holiday for portion of state of emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.
Establishes Gold Star Family Scholarship Program; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Establishes certain shellfish aquaculture activities as eligible for Right to Farm protections.
"Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act"; authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving, psilocybin production, possession, use, and distribution.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to certain undocumented immigrants and children.
Establishes Urban Enterprise Zone Microloan Program in EDA to help certain businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and UEZ-Impacted districts; appropriates $5 million.
Requires certain animals used in testing to be offered for adoption; requires establishment of procedures for assessment and disposition of animals; establishes penalties for noncompliance.
Authorizes counties to establish mentoring programs for, and resell preserved farmland at reduced price to, and beginning farmers.
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Provides child tax credit for taxpayers with children ages six to 11 and increases amount of credit for taxpayers with children under 12 over period of two years.
Provides CBT and gross income tax credits for replacement of abandoned commercial building with new commercial building.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes loan program in EDA to assist businesses owned by individuals with disabilities; appropriates $5 million.
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulators on students with seizure disorders.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Requires State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct study of utilization of disabled veteran-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Reduces statute of limitations from six years to two years in medical fee disputes in workers' compensation matters.
The "New Jersey Online Foreclosure Sale Act;" permits online foreclosure sales for real property.