Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Carol A. Murphy
Sponsored
Became law8
Revises certain aspects of the New Jersey Individual Development Account Program.
Requires Legislature to adopt and distribute policy prohibiting sexual harassment; requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to complete online training on policy once every two years.
Requires district boards of election to report every two hours number of voters who have voted at each precinct; authorizes challengers to request reported count.
Authorizes parking privileges for certain healthcare workers who render care at patients' home residences.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider. *
Requires Secretary of State to designate one-stop event planning contact person for certain events held in NJ.
Modifies procedure for change to manner of holding certain municipal elections.
Provides limited period for dissolution or reinstatement of revoked or inactive business charters using expedited process, allows for payment of reduced administrative fee, and revises certain business filing fees.
Passed the General Assembly4
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to the ceremony.
Establishes "New Jersey Military Advisory Board."
"Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act"; requires certain school meal information be provided to students' parents; establishes protocols for identifying eligible students for meal programs; prohibits stigmatizing student with bill in arrears.
Establishes "Law Enforcement Addiction Intervention Pilot Program" in Burlington County; appropriates $75,000.*
Out of committee23
Codifies donated leave program for State employees in career, senior executive, and unclassified service.
Transfers county college employees and retirees from membership in SEHBP to membership in SHBP.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
"Antwan's Law"; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School.
Requires disclosure of identifying information prior to sale of horse at auction.
Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.
Requires municipalities to accept complaints and provide certain municipal announcements by electronic means.
Requires certain real estate licensees to complete courses of study concerning fair housing and housing discrimination.
Concerns labor contractors.
Concerns prevailing wage requirements for certain fabrication.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; provides funding for hotline through fire inspection fees and penalties.
Permits school district of residence to provide aid in-lieu-of transportation to pupil attending Marine Academy of Science and Technology provided certain conditions are met.
Establishes owning or possessing animal fighting or dog fighting paraphernalia as crime of third degree; establishes civil animal cruelty penalties therefor.
Concerns remote online notaries public; provides for acknowledgment and proof via communication technology; creates criminal offense.
Requires DLPS to establish training program to prepare law enforcement to interact with autonomous vehicles.
Establishes Task Force on Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities.
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Permits approved private schools for students with disabilities to include in tuition calculation hourly rates for healthcare provider consultants which equal average hourly rates paid by certain public schools serving students with disabilities.
Requires DOE to define expenditures for behavior modification at approved private schools for students with disabilities as allowable instructional cost for purposes of tuition rate setting.
Authorizes issuance of West Virginia University alumni license plates.
"Lindsay's Law"; provides tax benefits to organ and bone marrow donors and their employers, and provides paid time off to donors who are State or local government employees.
In committee132
Requires cost-benefit analyses and local government financial impact findings for approval of long term property tax exemption.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Restores property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contribution Study
Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain totally and permanently disabled veterans for rent constituting property taxes.
Requires DEP to establish maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday during first weekend of August for certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to advertise and promote tours of breweries in the State.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child and dependent care expenses.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Provides for emergency assistance to individuals or families that are homeless or in temporary living arrangement due to domestic violence.
Concerns liability of direct contractors for wage claims against subcontractors.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Prevents parent found by clear and convincing evidence to have committed sexual assault resulting in birth of child from having custody or visitation; provides for termination of parental rights.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Upgrades penalties for violating certain veterinary practice licensure laws.
Prohibits employment discrimination based on credit score of individuals.
Requires school districts to file certain evacuation plans with DOE.
Requires certain public utilities to provide customers notice of certain utility work that could impact traffic.
Strengthens State's assault weapons ban.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for early principal payments on certain home mortgages.
Provides that public school dress code policy will apply to all schools within school district and requires written distribution of dress code to students and parents.
Reduces threshold for filing annual disclosure statement with ELEC from $50,000 in public contracts to $17,500.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Requires DMVA conduct outcomes and efficacy study of veteran to veteran peer support helpline.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Requires Business Action Center to establish "Entrepreneur Learner's Permit Pilot Program" for certain designated industries.
Conditions fiscal year 2019 appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of $250,000 to Board of Nursing to process and eliminate home health aide application backlog.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Exempts handwritten signature from public disclosure; requires redaction when posted on Internet.
Requires municipal accounting of abandoned properties before receiving certain State aid; establishes State database of abandoned properties; requires owners of abandoned properties to document rehabilitation efforts.
Concerns stop construction orders.
Revises civil remedies for victims of invasion of privacy due to unauthorized recording or disclosure of sexual or intimate images.
Provides anti-stigmatization protections to public school student whose school breakfast or school lunch bill is in arrears and requires school district to communicate about arrearages to parent and not to student.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Authorizes HMFA to offer loans for purpose of refinancing certain residential mortgages.
Appropriates $200,000 to DOH for evidence-based evaluation of Charity Care hospital subsidy program.
Establishes New Jersey First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Program; provides gross income tax benefits for certain contributions to and earnings on assets maintained in accounts established under program.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
"Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act"; provides for uniform regulation of small wireless facility deployment in NJ.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor public places.
Establishes five-year housing advisory plan.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Enters New Jersey into Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.
Requires each county and municipality to adopt anti-sexual harassment policy.
Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
Permits, under certain circumstances, person adjudged juvenile delinquent to expunge record for act which would have constituted robbery if committed by adult.
Requires owners of multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to residents moving to lower floors.
"Timothy J. Piazza's Law", upgrades hazing; clarifies that prohibited conduct includes causing, coercing or forcing consumption of alcohol or drugs.
Requires new civics instruction in middle and high schools, requires school districts to use DOE's curriculum guidelines for civics; and requires DOE to provide funding to enhance civics instruction.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Extends validity of temporary instructional certificate issued to military spouse to one year; requires expedited processing of application by military spouse for NJ instructional certificate and reduced fees for military spouse to obtain certificate.
Permits voter registration at age 16, under certain conditions.
Makes various changes to law governing limited breweries.
Provides that student is ineligible for State financial aid upon conviction for hazing.
Authorizes holder of limited brewery license to engage in certain activities.
Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Clarifies that application to collocate wireless communications equipment be reviewed by administrative officer.
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Establishes certain exclusions and credits under gross income and corporation business taxes for contributions to lifelong learning accounts.
Concerns job order contracts for public work.
Requires sexual assault forensic evidence to be preserved for 10 years.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish Jersey Fresh sales pilot program; appropriates $500,000.
Requires replacement of the terms "mother" and "father" with the terms "parent or guardian" on all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications.
Establishes "Supporting Educational and Entrepreneurial Development (S.E.E.D.) Program" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Requires local units of government to provide access to "user-friendly" budget information through link included on home page of Internet site.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Establishes "Common Interest Community Task Force."
Concerns transportation of persons who are under influence of drugs to medical facility by law enforcement officers.
Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
"New Jersey Predatory Alienation Prevention and Consensual Response Act."
Provides that denial of services based on a person's disability or perceived disability by domestic violence shelters is unlawful discrimination.
Directs State Agriculture Development Committee to establish pilot program to allow special occasion events to be conducted on preserved farmland under certain conditions.
Requires Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in DHS to accept permanent change of station order for purposes of satisfying residency requirement for provision of home and community based services under certain circumstances.
"Mary's Law"; requires Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide direct payments for purchases of specialized, modified motor vehicles.
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty service members and veterans of military.
Requires institutions of higher education and public and nonpublic high schools and middle schools to adopt anti-hazing policies; expands activities encompassing criminal hazing and upgrades penalties for engaging in these activities.
Requires NJT to provide notice and public hearing for alternative provisions of service related to substantial curtailment of service.
Requires State employees to be trained in disability law and etiquette.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Establishes three-year Medicaid demonstration project to pay for certain drugs according to outcome-based system.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs.
Establishes civil action for damages for injury or death of certain animals in certain circumstances.
Enters New Jersey into Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
The "Uniform Criminal Records Accuracy Act."
Requires State Board of Education to include instruction on mental health first aid training as part of professional development requirement for public school teachers.
Establishes "5G Network and Development Task Force."
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain State-based charitable organizations.
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Provides for uniform regulation of small wireless facility deployment in this State.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $2 million for Route 539, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst overpass project.
Establishes circumstances when court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim in civil action for damages from sexual assault.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $200,000 for the Delaware River Basin Commission.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Establishes circumstances under which court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim.
Asks Joint Committee on Library of Congress to approve replacing NJ statue of Philip Kearney in National Statuary Hall Collection with statue of Alice Paul.
Bars enforcement of provision in decedent's will that would require euthanasia of healthy domestic companion animal.
Requires Medicaid preferred drug lists to provide for coverage of buprenorphine for treatment of chronic pain.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone for pain treatment without step therapy or fail-first protocols.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.
Permits school districts to define excused absences from school to include illness based on student's mental or behavioral health and requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for defining excused absence for this reason.
Upgrades certain crimes of misrepresenting oneself as member or veteran of US Armed Forces or organized militia.
Establishes Women Veterans Coordinator in DMVA.
Allows interment of cremated pet remains in certain cemeteries.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for all ages.
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Establishes the "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."
Designates cranberry juice as State beverage.
Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
Requires employers to provide hiring preference to employees who have reached maximum medical improvement following work-related injury.
Carried from the Senate
Became law11
Requires disclosure of identifying information prior to sale of horse at auction.
"Antwan's Law"; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School.
Codifies donated leave program for State employees in career, senior executive, and unclassified service.
Permits school district of residence to provide aid in-lieu-of transportation to pupil attending Marine Academy of Science and Technology provided certain conditions are met.*
Increases membership of fire safety commission in DCA.
Concerns prevailing wage requirements for certain fabrication.
Requires certain real estate licensees to complete courses of study concerning fair housing and housing discrimination.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; provides funding for hotline through fire inspection fees and penalties.
Establishes owning or possessing animal fighting or dog fighting paraphernalia as crime of third degree; establishes civil animal cruelty penalties therefor.
Establishes Task Force on Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities.
"Lindsay's Law"; provides tax benefits to organ and bone marrow donors and their employers, and provides paid time off to donors who are State or local government employees.
Vetoed1
Transfers county college employees and retirees from membership in SEHBP to membership in SHBP.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 135
Revises requirements to authorize and access medical cannabis; establishes Cannabis Regulatory Commission; revises permit requirements for alternative treatment centers; and establishes additional legal protections for patients and caregivers.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Permits county governing body, with approval of county board of taxation, to revise real property assessment calendar.*
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.**
Requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in grades preschool through 12 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.*
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
Prohibits offshore oil and gas exploration, development, and production in State waters, and issuance of DEP permits and approvals for activities associated with offshore oil and gas activities.*
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
Directs the Division of Travel and Tourism to publish on its website information of farm-to-table restaurants.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Prohibits employer inquiries about worker's wage and salary experience.*
Requires firearms seizure when certain health care professional determines patient poses threat of harm to self or others. *
Concerns appointment of person to control funeral and disposition of human remains.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
"Extreme Risk Protective Order Act of 2018." *
"Drama Therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight.*
Requires Department of Education to develop guidelines for school districts concerning child trafficking awareness and prevention.**
Establishes Statewide Hit and Run Advisory Program to facilitate apprehension of persons fleeing motor vehicle accident scene; designated as "Zackhary's Law."
"Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act"; permits qualified terminally ill patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner.*
Revises law concerning reciprocity for out-of-State professional and occupational licenses.
Establishes "Dietetics and Nutrition Licensing Act".**
"Recreational Therapists Licensing Act."
Provides that PERS or PFRS member who continues to be volunteer firefighter or emergency services worker after retirement with employer from whom member retires has bona fide severance for compliance with State and federal law.
Expands eligibility criteria for designating certain areas as being in need of redevelopment.*
Prevents criminal defendent from asserting "gay and transgender panic" defense to murder charge in order to reduce charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion.*
Concerns earned sick leave to employees.*
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Committee to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care.*
Exempts certain honorably discharged United States military veterans from initial insurance producer licensing fee.*
Automatically registers to vote and updates voter registration for eligible person when applying for motor vehicle driver's license, or non-driver identification card.*
Enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health condition and substance use disorder parity laws.**
Revises "New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act."
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Establishes "Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Bond Financing Act," authorizing issuance of bonds secured by pledge of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant proceeds, municipal liens, and special assessment; expands "Redevelopment Area Bond Financ
Establishes an apprenticeship requirement to qualify for an electrical contractor's license.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Requires school districts to include instruction on consequences of distributing and soliciting sexually explicit images through electronic means as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. *
Requires school districts to incorporate instruction in grades six through 12 on law and meaning of consent for physical contact and sexual activity as part of Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires DOH to develop New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care.
Requires health insurers to provide plans that limit patient cost-sharing concerning certain prescription drug coverage. *
Establishes reciprocity requirements for out-of-State certified nurse aides to practice in New Jersey.*
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Establishes "Blue Alert System."
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Codifies regulations defining justifiable need to carry handgun.
Adopts federal definition of armor piercing ammunition.*
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.*
Revises law concerning temporary disability leave.
Amends certain provisions of sexual assault statute to clarify elements necessary for conviction.
Extends pilot program authorizing special occasion events at wineries on preserved farmland; implements reporting requirement.
Requires active supervision of certain professional and occupational licensing boards.
Expands crime of terrorism.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Allows certain joint insurance funds to make certain investments and to form certain investment programs; authorizes school districts and local units of government to deposit public funds into multiple federally-insured accounts.*
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling school clinics to charge certain fees for services rendered to general public.
Requires prescription opioid medications include warning sticker advising patients of risk of addiction and overdose.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Market Preservation Act."
Permits taxpayers to make dedicated prepayment toward anticipated property taxes.
Concerns licensure of persons possessing barbering license in another state or foreign country.
Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.*
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals, establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database, and requires development of emergency medical services stroke care protocols.
Exempts persons providing hair braiding services from licensure requirement, requires registration of hair braiding establishments.
Requires public officer or employee to forfeit pension upon conviction for corruption of public resources, sexual contact, lewdness, or sexual assault when offense involves or touches upon public office or employment.**
Provides for prompt payment of public contracts for purchase of goods and services.
Authorizes municipal tax levy through public question for certain purposes; clarifies ability of local government entities to issue non-recourse bonds; appropriates $100,000.*
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
Imposes motor vehicle penalty points for certain violations of "move over law"; establishes public awareness campaign; designated as "Slow Down or Move Over, It's the Law Act." **
Requires AG and Commissioner of Health to establish suicide prevention training course and informational materials for firearm retail dealers.
"Tommy's Law"; requires NJT to take certain action and adopt policies concerning person injured or killed in incidents involving NJT motorbuses and rail or light rail vehicles.
Allows local government water system employees to reside in all municipalities served by water system.
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 27 in Union County as "Jerry Green Memorial Highway."
Grants veteran discharged under honorable conditions right to peddler's license.
Allows wagering at casinos and racetracks on certain professional and collegiate sports or athletic events.
Clarifies that certain students are eligible for NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship upon initial enrollment at institution of higher education on part-time basis.
Permits individuals to submit TDI and family temporary disability leave claims to DOLWD prior to commencement of leave under certain circumstances and requires timely payment of benefits for such claims.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers; establishes standard contribution level of 3 percent.*
Requires school districts and nonpublic schools to conduct audit of security features of district buildings, grounds, and communication systems and to submit audit to NJ Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and DOE.*
Requires school security training for persons employed by public and nonpublic schools in substitute capacity and for employees and volunteers of youth programs operated in school buildings.*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Allows county homelessness trust funds to be used for code blue emergency shelter services.
Clarifies that employees of renaissance school projects are in State administered retirement systems.*
Appropriates $15,294,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Requires study of safety of school bus passengers in certain emergency situations, including school bus accidents; appropriates $250,000. *
Requires school bus operations in State to comply with certain federal regulations.
Requires public school student to carry identification card at school-sponsored, off-campus activities and requires principal to keep list of students on school buses used for school-sponsored activities in case of emergencies.
Requires safety education training twice per calendar year for school bus drivers and school bus aides.*
Establishes "Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Violence Against Persons with Developmental Disabilities" in DHS.*
Directs NJ State Council on Arts to create and disseminate best practices guide for at-risk youth arts programs; requires council to assist government entities creating programs that adopt best practices.
Prohibits leasing dogs and cats.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $11,300,000 from General Fund to DOE to increase per pupil funding for nonpublic security aid from $75 to $150.
"Applied Behavior Analyst Licensing Act." *
Requires DHS to establish electronic portal to promote surplus food donation collaboration among nonprofit organizations, gleaners, and food retailers.
Requires Chief Technology Officer to establish "Anti-Hunger Link" for all State websites, providing information on emergency food services.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish food desert produce pilot program.
Establishes New Jersey Food Waste Task Force to make recommendations concerning food waste in New Jersey.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to establish public awareness campaign for food waste.
Establishes Farm Liaison in Department of Agriculture.
"Strengthening Gifted and Talented Education Act"; establishes school district responsibilities in educating gifted and talented students.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $1,190,349 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for historic site management grants to certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $8,896,229 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Creates two categories of driver's licenses and identification cards; allows residents unable to prove lawful presence in US to receive permits, and standard driver's licenses or identification cards; permits MVC to increase certain fees.
Requires DHS to ensure medication assisted treatment benefits under Medicaid program are provided without the imposition of prior authorization requirements.
Appropriates $15.696 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Authorizes certain entities to directly bill Victims of Crime Compensation Office for counseling services provided to victims of firearm and stabbing crimes.
Concerns property taxes due and owing on real property owned by certain federal employees or contractors under certain circumstances.
Requires DOH to establish "My Life, My Plan" program to support women of childbearing age in developing reproductive life plan.
Revises requirements for provision of counseling and support services to emergency services personnel.
"Mortgage Servicers Licensing Act."
Requires filing of certain creditor contact information with residential mortgage foreclosure complaint and lis pendens.
Requires DCA to produce and maintain database concerning residential properties under foreclosure.**
Revises statute of limitations for residential mortgage foreclosures.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Requires hospital emergency departments to ask person of childbearing age about recent pregnancy history.*
Establishes $18 hourly Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.*
"Sami's Law"; requires transportation network companies to issue, and drivers to display on vehicles, certain transportation network company identification. *
Establishes new liability standards in sexual abuse lawsuits filed against public entities and public employees.
Modifies powers and duties of New Jersey Infrastructure Bank.
Revises law requiring health benefits coverage for certain contraceptives.
Requires health benefits and Medicaid coverage for breastfeeding support.*
Revises certain penalties for illegal operation of snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike.**
Requires certain long-term care facilities to submit outbreak response plan to DOH.
Expands eligibility for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qualified dairy farmers.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Requires that State employee serve as Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action officer for gubernatorial transitions.
Requires payment of expenses related to background investigations for certain gubernatorial transition positions.
Requires Civil Service Commission establish standardize recordkeeping and retention requirements with regard to unclassified State employees.
Requires Civil Service Commission to establish and maintain hotline for State employees to submit reports of workplace discrimination and harassment.
Specifies certain requirements for State agency review of complaint of workplace discrimination.
Requires certain public employees receive additional training to manage harassment or discrimination complaints.
"Charlie's Law"; requires pharmacy practice sites and hospice programs to furnish patients with information and means to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications.
Vetoed · 7
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to examine feasibility of centralized property tax information system to verify property taxes paid by homestead property tax reimbursement claimants.
Concerns payment of independent contractors.*
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
Establishes expedited construction inspection program.
Requires carriers that offer health benefits plans to provide new or existing subscribers with notification of certain hospital and health system contract expirations.
Clarifies provisions concerning disclosure of existence and content of discrimination or harassment complaints; requires certain disclosures to person against whom complaint is made.*
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Revises requirements to authorize and access medical cannabis; establishes Cannabis Regulatory Commission; revises permit requirements for alternative treatment centers; and establishes additional legal protections for patients and caregivers. *
Requires 30-day grace period prior to accrual of interest on late water and sewer bill payments.
Authorizes special Combat Action Badge license plate program.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
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 certain requirements for domestic violence training for certain judges and judicial personnel.
Requires hospital employees to assist uninsured patients with creating account to apply for insurance coverage through Federally-Facilitated Marketplace.*
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Prohibits public utility from terminating service for nonpayment unless customer is provided certified letter at least 10 business days prior to scheduled termination date.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Requires DEP to update Shore Protection Master Plan.
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Prohibits awarding of public contracts to Internet service providers, unless Internet service providers adhere to principle of "net neutrality."
Requires cable television company to commit to principle of "net neutrality" as condition of approval of applications for municipal consent or system-wide franchise.
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, and possession of controlled dangerous substance U-47700, known as U-4 or "Pink."
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires certain water suppliers to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing and filters under certain circumstances. **
" Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.**
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for ovarian cancer research.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Requires DCA to provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update its low-income home energy assistance program handbook, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Requires motor vehicle inspection stickers to notify drivers of penalty for texting while driving.
Requires public water systems to compile, and submit to DEP, lead service line inventories.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Waives boat safety course requirement for veterans and active duty members of military with maritime training.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $165,950,000 from the revenues and other funds of NJ Transportation Trust Fund Authority.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Revises certain licensure requirements to operate water supply and wastewater treatment systems.*
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastucture strategic plan.
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements. *
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.*
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Requires State Treasurer to submit report to Legislature every six months identifying deadlines for applications for federal funds by State agencies.
Requires PANYNJ and certain commercial airport operators in State to coordinate with law enforcement for investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults; requires airlines and contractors to adopt and maintain policies regarding sexual assaults.*
Criminalizes tampering with school bus recordings; requires schools to have school bus video reviewed and to adopt plan for monthly inspection of cameras and video footage.
Provides nursing home residents with right to timely response to certain complaints, concerns, or requests.
Expands circumstances under which prevailing wage must be paid.
Includes certain armed security officers regulated by "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law" in crimes of assault and disarming an officer.
Amends Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations act to revise increase in Work First New Jersey benefits.
"Michael Anthony Fornicola's Law"; requires hotels to have automated external defibrillators in certain areas.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Concerns information on property condition disclosure statement.
Requires collection and reporting of information concerning crimes against the elderly and disabled.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.*
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water. *
Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow service recipients to terminate service contracts following physician's referral to long-term care facility.*
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.*
Requires DOH and DHS to identify and take appropriate steps to secure federal sources of funding to support maternal mental health.*
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.*
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.*
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or promotion of consumer products containing microbeads.
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and provides enforcement tools related to maintenance of these properties.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires Business Action Center to develop single application form to determine business assistance program eligibility.
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.*
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.*
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
Enhances homeowner notification of foreclosure mediation program requirements; requires notice of residential foreclosure actions to HMFA.
Applies law governing equal employment opportunity and affirmative action to gubernatorial transition staff members.
Requires disclosure by applicants for State employment of previous or ongoing criminal investigations.
Grants authority for human resource management of employees of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to Civil Service Commission.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Requires school districts take certain actions to increase participation in free or reduced priced meal programs; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
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"Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act."
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 24 hours.
Concerns stop-work orders related to prevailing wage and construction worker employment.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Requires board of education to post information about child abuse hotline in each school.
Provides for appointment to board of directors of New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange by Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Creates Clinical Trials Working Group.
Provides for appointment of Student Loan Ombudsman and regulates student loan servicers.*
Prohibits Higher Education Student Assistance Authority from referring defaulted loans under New Jersey College Loans to AssistState Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program for certain actions if authority and borrower have entered into settlement agreement.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Clarifies law concerning circumstances in which members of Pinelands Commission may vote.
Upgrades penalty for failing to report act of sexual abuse against child.*
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Requires training for law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Establishes commission to approve personaliized handguns; requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Creates New Jersey Military Working Dog Handler and Military Working Dog medal.
Establishes Veterans Assistance Grant Program for nonprofit organizations to provide certain services to veterans.
Creates "Economic Gardening Program" in Department of State to provide customized services to certain businesses.
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of "whistleblower" claims; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
Authorizes veterans' property tax exemption and veterans' property tax deduction for honorably discharged veterans of United States Armed Forces who did not serve in time of war or other emergency. *
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Requires data collection and issuance of report on drug evidence testing by New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences.
The "Electronic Construction Procurement Act." *
Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Allows primary caregiver of handicapped person and person with autism to apply for and use handicapped parking.
Requires institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
Requires depository institutions to provide paper account statements to elder adults.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential and prohibit any disclosure, sale, or unauthorized access to subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose informatio
Designates Bog Turtle as State Reptile.
Establishes certain requirements, including allowable fees, for provision of medical records to patients, legally authorized representatives, and authorized third parties.
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact. *
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking; and reproductive health service patients and providers.*
Requires State to use certain energy-efficient outdoor lighting fixtures.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Provides Medicaid coverage for doula care.
Requires certain public facilities and offices to provide on-site lactation room; DOH to provide information about lactation room availability; and DOE to provide information on lactation policies in schools.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.*
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Establishes Transgender Equality Task Force.
Clarifies prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions in health insurance policies.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Clarifies intent of Legislature that attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
Establishes Campus Sexual Assault Commission.
Revises criteria for determining whether a dog is vicious or potentially dangerous.
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Allows individual to receive additional lifetime emergency assistance under certain circumstances.
Permits establishment by county and four-year institutions of higher education of three plus one degree programs for receipt of baccalaureate degree after spending three years at county college and one year at senior institution.
Establishes Working Group on Deaf Education; directs DOE to develop parent resource guide; requires DOE and DOH to collect and report certain data on deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to age 5.*
Establishes "Deaf Student's Bill of Rights."
Provides that certain persons who commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact with students who are at least 18 but less than 22 years old are guilty of sexual assault or criminal sexual assault.*
Requires NJ to join U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold Paris Climate Accord.
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Establishes Tuition and Aid Grant Study Commission to examine New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant Program and make recommendations regarding improvements to program.
Prohibits application of fiduciary standard to insurance producers; specifies qualifications of persons providing affidavit of merit in lawsuits against insurance producers.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ apprentices in DOL registered apprenticeships.
Revises certain drunk driving penalties; expands use of ignition interlock devices.*
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Revises certain licensee filing requirements for alcoholic beverage price lists; removes requirement that limited brewery and distillery licensees provide tour when selling certain alcoholic beverages to consumers.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.
Requires AG to conduct survey of untested sexual assault examination kits.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Requires acceptance of universal dentist application for participation form by dental plan carriers.
Requires certain contractors to register under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Requires BPU consideration and approval of amended application for qualified wind energy project offshore in certain NJ territorial waters.
Creates Task Force on Driver Distractions.
Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military serving on active duty and their family members.*
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Expands eligibility criteria in Lifetime Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Programs and includes assistance thereunder for water and sewer utility bills.
Concerns law regarding failure to pay wages.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Permits municipalities to provide information on property tax bills concerning amount of local tax dollars saved through shared services.
Increases membership of fire safety commission in DCA.
Requires newborn infants be screened for spinal muscular atrophy.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Permits certain audiologists to dispense and fit hearing aids.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
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 meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Amends definition of "existing major hazardous waste facility" in "Major Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Act."
Establishes crimes of purchasing firearm parts to unlawfully manufacture firearms without a serial number, manufacturing or possessing covert or undetectable firearms, and manufacturing or facilitating the manufacture of firearms using a three-dimensional
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain underperforming schools under alternate route program.*
Prohibits sale or distribution of flavored vapor products.*
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
Designates Thomas Alva Edison as State Inventor.
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Requires institutions of higher education to offer cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research, or scientific purposes for adoption; designated the "Homes for Animal Heroes Act." *
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide bill credits to volunteer fire companies, first aid, rescue, and emergency squads, and nonprofit homeless and domestic violence assistance organizations.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Premium Security Act;" establishes health insurance reinsurance plan.
Requires school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and contracted service providers to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Establishes Talent Network Program in DOLWD.
"Jake Honig's Law"; removes limits on amount of medical marijuana that may be dispensed at one time and expands access to edible forms, including oils.
Makes New Jersey National Guard members with NGB-22 form eligible for certain veterans' benefits.
Authorizes municipality, county or school district to establish charitable funds for specific purposes; permits property tax credit for certain donations.
Requires school district to report at least biannually to Department of Agriculture number of students who are denied school breakfast or school lunch.*
Requires certain school districts to submit report on nonparticipation in "Community Eligibility Provision" of National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
Expands summer meal program to all school districts with 50 percent or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires "breakfast after the bell" program in all schools with 70% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for attorney's fees and costs received in connection with certain unlawful discrimination, unlawful retaliation, and qui tam claims or actions.
Allows charitable assets set aside from the sale of nonprofit hospital to for-profit entity to be allocated to successor nonprofit charitable entity that is establishing and operating equivalent nonprofit hospital.
Gives State lottery winners option of remaining anonymous indefinitely.
Extends statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse claims; expands categories of potential defendants in civil actions; creates two-year window for parties to bring previously time-barred actions based on sexual abuse.*
Transfers management of PFRS to Board of Trustees of PFRS.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Requires Department of State to develop "New Jersey-Made" designation.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Excludes certain out-of-State businesses and employees from certain taxes, fees, and business registration requirements when temporarily performing in-State work or services during declared disaster or emergency.
Permits incarcerated persons to receive student financial aid.
Authorizes medical marijuana for treatment of any diagnosed condition; revises requirements for physicians to authorize qualifying patients; and revises requirements for alternative treatment center operations and permitting.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is barred from receiving federal contract.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at public beaches and parks.
Requires landlords to count federal military service member and veteran housing allowances as income for purposes of qualifying for rental housing; designated as Securing Electronic Records for Veterans Ease Act.
Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support Affordable Housing Alliance.
"Securing Our Children's Future Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $1,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance certain school, school district, and county college capital projects; appropriates $5,000.*
Requires public schools to administer written screenings for depression for students in certain grades.
Creates civil service preference for peacetime veterans.*
Permits service credit transferred from another State-administered retirement system to apply toward creditable service requirement for retirement in SPRS.
"Charlie's Law"; requires pharmacy practice sites and hospice programs to furnish patients with information and products to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications.*
Establishes "New Jersey Elections Security Act."
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers and carriers from engaging in "clawback" and "gag clause" practices; requires certain disclosures by pharmacists; requires Director of Division of Consumer Affairs to conduct public information campaign.***
Changes title of DEP "conservation officer" to "conservation police officer."
Directs Adjutant General to enter into agreements with legal services organizations to provide legal services to homeless veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness.
Provides preferences for certain businesses applying for workforce development grants.
Requires display of identifying information on rear of school bus so public may report bus driver misconduct.
Clarifies definition of health care service firms and homemaker-home health aides.
Requires Department of Agriculture to promote school meal programs.
Requires school districts to provide daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5; permits denial of recess for violation of code of student conduct but student must be provided restorative justice activities.
Requires correctional police officers receive 20 hours in-service training, including four hours in prevention of sexual misconduct, non-fraternization, and manipulation. *
Requires reporting of inmate abuse by employees of State correctional facilities and establishes reporting and investigation program.
Requires autocycles to be insured by PIP coverage to pedestrians.
Requires "no turn on red" sign to be placed next to or below signal head.
Authorizes reciprocal agreements for enforcement of toll violations with toll authorities from other states; modifies penalties for toll violations.
Requires boards of education and nonpublic schools to provide law enforcement authorities with copies of blueprints and maps of schools and school grounds.
"Medicaid Transportation Brokerage Program Oversight and Accountability Act"; establishes vehicle, staffing, and performance standards, and review and reporting requirements for non-emergency medical transport provided under Medicaid transportation broker
Makes various changes to New Jersey Infrastructure Bank's enabling act.
Requires Attorney General to develop protocol for retaining footage from school surveillance system.
Authorizes creation of Woman Veteran license plates.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Requires boards of education and school bus contractors to designate individuals as certain school bus safety personnel.*
Requires board of education or school bus contractor, within one business day of notification that school bus driver's license is suspended or revoked, to verify to DOE that driver is no longer operating school bus.*
Requires school bus drivers to submit medical certificate to employer to prove continuing physical fitness and to submit to medical examination that includes certain screenings.*
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Requires landlord to provide written explanation for rent increase on tenant of senior citizen housing project.
Establishes task force within DOE on prevention of sexual abuse of children.
Mandates child abuse and sexual abuse training for all candidates for teaching certification.
Mandates certain training for DOE arbitrators.
Requires DOE to collect information on certain teacher misconduct and report to Legislature.
Requires school districts to notify State Board of Examiners when teaching staff member fails to report child abuse for determination of revocation or suspension of certificate.
Requires Director of Division of Investment to attempt to use qualified minority and women-owned financial institutions to provide brokerage and investment management services.
Requires hotels to provide panic devices to certain hotel employees for protection from unsafe working conditions while performing housekeeping duties.*
Requires health curriculum for public school students in grades kindergarten through 12 to include instruction on mental health.*
Requires health insurance carriers to adhere to certain practices to protect health information related to sensitive services.
Prohibits municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses.
Permits union officials who represent probation officers to participate in all union activities.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Permits use of campaign funds to pay for child care expenses when incurred as direct result of campaign activity.
Requires NJ Division of Travel and Tourism prepare report on State travel and tourism industry recovery since Superstorm Sandy.*
Requires DCA to track natural disaster-related spending by State and local government.
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Establishes five year Apprentice Assistance and Support Services Pilot Program.
Allows certain prior statements by children to be admitted into evidence in child abuse and termination of parental rights cases.
Prohibits State-chartered financial institutions from charging certain fees to small businesses.
Requires State-chartered financial institutions to adhere to certain disclosure and consumer protection practices regarding automatic overdraft protection services.
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Establishes task force to develop State-wide plan to diversify apprenticeships.
Establishes youth apprenticeship pilot program in Department of Education.
Establishes public awareness campaign to promote early conversations about advance care planning and end-of-life care.
Requires certain medical facilities to undertake end-of-life planning and training.*
Requires emergency departments to take certain measures concerning palliative care for patients.
"New Jersey Transit Corporation Employee Protection Act"; prohibits NJT from asserting sovereign immunity in certain situations and subjects NJT to certain federal statutes and regulations.*
Transfers authority over special nutrition assistance programs from DOH to DHS.
Requires certain schools to establish emergency action plans for responding to serious or potentially life-threatening sports-related injuries.
Increases dedication of certain revenues to "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account."
Establishes trail signage program for alcohol manufacturers in New Jersey.
Requires Medicaid coverage for pasteurized donated human breast milk under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $2.94 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Subjects domestic equity investments of the Division of Investment to certain requirements, imposes requirements related to selection of external managers and protection of public sector jobs.
Establishes New Jersey Violence Intervention Program to fund violence reduction initiatives.
Requires certain hospitals to provide hospital-based or hospital-linked violence intervention programs, in order to be designated as Level One or Level Two trauma centers.
Requires Medicaid cover professional violence prevention counseling services.
Requires VCCO's victim counseling service to partner with trauma centers to refer certain victims to violence intervention programs.
Establishes "Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Initiative" in DOH.
Authorizes political subdivisions to set aside 0.5 percent of public works funds to recruit and train women and minorities and promote local hiring.
Establishes goals and incentives for increased use of plug-in electric vehicles in NJ.*
Establishes "Unbanked and Underbanked Consumers Study Commission."
Revises and updates membership and purpose of Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS.
Requires establishment of Work and Learn Consortiums by certain educational institutions to establish certificate and degree programs identified in high labor-demand industries.
Prohibits certain possession, sale, trade, distribution, or offering for sale of shark fins.
Establishes task force to examine and make recommendations regarding implementation of "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires that one public member of EDA be a representative of State's small business community.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide later school start times for high school students.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by campus medical professional or trained employee.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Updates notice of elections requirements to include information for voter to obtain polling place locations.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.*
Establishes perinatal episode of care pilot program in Medicaid.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Provides Medicaid coverage to eligible pregnant women for six-month period beginning on last day of pregnancy.*
Prohibits health benefits coverage for certain non-medically indicated early elective deliveries under Medicaid program, SHBP, and SEHBP.
Establishes maternal health care pilot program to evaluate shared decision-making tool developed by DOH and used by hospitals providing maternity services, and by birthing centers.
Requires DOH to develop interconception care resources to enhance postpartum care for women.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Allows emergency zero interest pension loans to certain public employees who are negatively affected by federal shutdown.
Codifies current practice regarding completion of Perinatal Risk Assessment form by certain Medicaid health care providers.*
Requires receivership appointment application prior to certain foreclosure actions; requires notice of intention to foreclosure on residential mortgage to be filed within 180 days prior to commencing foreclosure; limits reinstatements of dismissed mortgag
Makes certain changes to summary action foreclosure process under "Fair Foreclosure Act." *
Establishes offense of leaving child unattended in motor vehicle. *
"Sign Fabrication Safety Quality Assurance Act."
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams in each county in State.
Establishes pilot program in DCF to study impact of child care services provided by community providers operating in public schools facilities; requires community providers to meet certain criteria. *
Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.
Permits certain firefighter training courses to be taken online; requires tests for courses to be taken in person.
Authorizes certain health care and social service resources to be made available during Code Blue Alert.*
Requires reservation of portion of tenant-based vouchers under State rental assistance program for persons displaced due to redevelopment of an affodable housing development; provides displaced persons with affordable housing priority status.*
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding senior citizens in property tax lien foreclosure; requires notification of certain county offices upon senior citizen property tax lien sale; requires collector to provide requested lien satisfac
Establishes program to increase participation of underrepresented students in New Jersey's science and engineering workforce.
Allows certain preserved farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms.*
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Requires New Jersey State Board of Pharmacy to establish prescription drug pricing disclosure website and certain pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to provide prescription drug price information.
Expands "Law Against Discrimination" to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes.
Concerns labor harmony agreements for hospitality projects.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $1,700,000 for Thomas Edison State University.
Permits Department of Labor and Workforce Development to post information of person who violates State wage, benefit and tax laws.
Requires State to pay difference between federal allocation and total cost of reduced price breakfast or lunch; appropriates $4.5 million.
Clarifies that school district is not required to restrict access to school meals if school meal bill is in arrears.
Extends economic recovery term under "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act; bars appeal of certain property assessments.*
Establishes criteria for distribution of Fiscal Year 2020 funding to Community Food Bank of New Jersey and partner organizations.
Requires declaration of Code Blue alert when National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
Appropriates $1,350,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $13,902,723 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $21 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $33.915 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Appropriates $36.143 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $5,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $77,450,448 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $8,872,682 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes "New Jersey Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Commission" to provide ongoing review of State and local tax structure, economic conditions, and related fiscal issues.
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Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Establishes fire safety standards and protocols for certain light frame residential construction; requires placards identifying primary structural systems of buildings.
Requires law enforcement agency to issue retired law enforcement officer identification card to certain qualified retirees.
Requires certain community residential facilities have standby emergency power generators.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Revises distribution of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Prohibits water companies from assessing more than one charge per fire hydrant to fire departments, fire districts, or volunteer fire companies for use of fire hydrants.
Requires certain water companies to provide representative of fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company access to fire hydrants for water flow rate testing purposes.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Requires adoption agency, court, or DCPP to maintain child's religious upbringing when placing child in adoptive or resource family home.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
"Disaster Victims Protection Act"; requires Governor to allocate federal and State disaster aid to municipalities in proportion to amount of catastrophic physical damage sustained within each municipality.
Clarifies that authorized persons and entities may administer a single dose of any opoid antidote, or multiple doses of any intranasal or intramuscular opioid antidote to overdose victims, with immunity under "Overdose Prevention Act."
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Allocates at least $100 million from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for coastal and inland Blue Acres land acquisition projects in flood-prone areas.
Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS death benefits; provides retirement allowance to certain survivors of PFRS members.
Provides that PFRS definitions of widow, widower and spouse will include domestic partners of all PFRS members.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Requires institutions of higher education to test for lead in drinking water and disclose test results.
Requires retail establishments to allow persons with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to provide a consumer with a free credit report three times during any 12-month period upon request.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Concerns equal pay and employment opportunities for women.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Prohibits administration of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Establishes Main Street Assistance Program to encourage business development in small municipalities.
Requires county welfare agencies to be open on Saturday mornings.
Requires State to reimburse school districts for costs of transporting homeless students.
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 Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.
Replaces NJ Wine Industry Advisory Council with NJ Wine Board and establishes new duties and authorizes revenue-producing activities.
Expands applicability of "The Truth-in-Renting Act."
Requires Treasurer and Divisions of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by May 15 and November 15 each year.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.
Requires public bodies upon request to provide American Sign Language interpreter at public meetings.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Revises law requiring health insurance coverage for certain contraceptives.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Imposes a wholesale sales tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies.
"Community Mental Health Safety Net Act"; requires DHS to provide cost-based reimbursement on quarterly basis for certain mental health and substance use disorder treatment services through June 2018; makes appropriation.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Adds new civil penalties and increases surcharges imposed on domestic violence offenders; establishes "Domestic Violence Victims' Legal Assistance Fund."
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Revises application deadline for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Imposes mandatory forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Concerns duration of lien of tax under estate tax.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from collecting copayments in excess of certain amounts "clawbacks"; requires certain language prohibiting "gag clauses" in contracts with pharmacists.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
Allows gross income tax deduction for surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Provides exclusive jurisdiction to PERC for certain unfair labor practice claims.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Authorizes members of the New Jersey State Legislature to solemnize marriages and civil unions.
Authorizes notaries public to take oath of office before any official generally authorized to take oaths.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Clarifies that Division of Mental Health Advocacy in Office of Public Defender is required to represent indigent patients in all mental health commitment proceedings, whether related to inpatient or outpatient treatment.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Revises requirements for signage indicating accessible facilities for people with disabilities.
Updates certain provisions concerning legal settlements and persons in mental health facilities to reflect changes in civil union, same sex marriage, and parentage laws.
Establishes 180 days from receipt of notary public commission as deadline for taking oath of office.
Encourages sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide certain mental health benefits for eating disorders under same terms and conditions as for other illnesses and diseases.
Prohibits disclosure of certain religious affiliation information by State or local government agencies.
Requires plaintiff to obtain affidavit of merit in malpractice suit against enrolled agent.
Requires naltrexone and naloxone be offered to certain inmates prior to release from incarceration.
Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Requires Attorney General to provide identity theft passport to certain victims of identity theft.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Establishes procedure for removal of certain abandoned flood control structures causing property erosion.
Directs DOT to add certain portion of Rising Sun Road in Bordentown Township to State highway system.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Criminalizes mental or emotional hazing.
Establishes certain requirements and conditions concerning changes to DHS reimbursement system for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services.
Establishes certain requirements and conditions concerning changes to DHS reimbursement system for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services; appropriates $10 million.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Requires board of education to post information about child abuse hotline in each school.
Prohibits persons convicted of criminal animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Establishes training for law enforcement officers interacting with pregnant women.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for certain retired members of NJ National Guard.
Clarifies that members of volunteer first aid squads that bill third parties do not lose right to use emergency warning lights.
Requires mail-in ballot applications be available at polling places on election day for voting in future elections; requires poll workers to discuss application instructions with applicant upon request.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Establishes "New Jersey Community Health Worker Program" in DOH to facilitate linking medically underserved communities with health care resources.
Transfers Division of Mental Health Advocacy to DHS; re-titles director as Mental Health Advocate; provides diversion for mental health treatment for persons subject to prosecution in municipal court; appropriates $15,000,000.
Bars use of certain funds and nondisclosure agreements to settle sexual assault and harassment claims against certain State officers and employees, members of Legislature, and candidates.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Provides for expedited expungement of marijuana offenses in the event of decriminalization or legalization; establishes the "Expungement Coordinator Program" for certain marijuana convictions.
Establishes the "Advisory Committee on Law Enforcement Handler-Canine Training."
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Prohibits State from investing pension and annuity funds in manufacturers of firearms or firearm ammunition.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to make certain consumer reviews and complaints publicly available.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of carbon monoxide detectors and any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on properties receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Requires parties to certain telephone communications to give notice of intention to record communications in order for communications to be lawfully recorded; failure to give notice violates "New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to consider combined income of all cosigners on application for participation in New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Requires county elections board give notice by Internet posting or mail when polling place location changes unexpectedly before election; requires board develop plan for polling place change notification.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Regulates and establishes certain consumer protections concerning digital currencies.
Establishes system for portable benefits for workers who provide services to consumers through contracting agents.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Requires school districts to provide feminine hygiene products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
Establishes "Registered Apprenticeship Program for State Agencies"; makes an appropriation.
Codifies Executive Order No. 21 of 2018 and directs Attorney General to issue reports concerning guns used in commission of crimes in State.
Establishes Loan Modification and Consolidation Program for certain borrowers in New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Authorizes wagering at casinos and racetracks on results of certain professional or collegiate sports or athletic events.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors to annually report certain manufacturing and dispensing information concerning prescription opioid drugs, medication-assisted treatment drugs, and opioid antidote drugs.
Concerns sexual harassment.
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.
Expands pretrial risk assessment to include history of domestic violence abuse and pending charges.
Provides spouses of military servicemembers with gross income tax credit, up to $500, for professional relicensing fees incurred upon relocating to State.
Creates civil service preference for peacetime veterans.
Requires certain language prohibiting "gag clauses" in contracts between pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacists.
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 certain licensed health care professionals and health care facilities to screen adolescents and young adults for symptoms of depression.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees; revises type of injury needed to qualify for program.
Concerns State criteria for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Establishes annual grant program to recognize public institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Establishes animal abuser registry; prohibits person convicted of criminal animal cruelty violation from owning, keeping, or harboring any animal, and establishes enforcement mechanisms therefor.
Requires annual inspection of certain veterinary facilities.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.
Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.
Requires employers to report certain allegations of sexual assault.
Establishes requirements for home delivery of medical marijuana.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of smart phone and social media usage in school.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Prohibits requirement of advance notice to New Jersey Racing Commission in order to continue horse racing and simulcast activities during state of emergency.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DOH to assist certain mental health and addiction service providers transitioning to fee-for-service reimbursement system.
Prohibits leasing of domestic companion animals.
Requires adoption of policy addressing job-related issues of pregnant firefighters.
Provides that certain persons who commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact with students who are 16 or older are guilty of sexual assault or criminal sexual contact.
Requires shelter, pound, or kennel operating as shelter or pound to offer animal in its care to animal rescue organization for adoption before euthanizing it; extends time required to offer animal for adoption from seven to 30 days.
Requires newly constructed police stations, fire stations, and hospitals to provide newborn safety device, allows affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment if parent leaves child in device.
Authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to impose a fine against an institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
Requires institution of higher education to report allegation of sexual misconduct by health care professional to licensing board for investigation.
Prohibits electric public utilities from discontinuing service or failing to restore service to residential customer if customer has medical need for uninterrupted electric service.
Requires electric public utilities and telecommunications service providers to remove certain wires not in use.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Requires health curriculum for public school students in grades kindergarten through 12 to include instruction on mental health.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of cancer treatments, tests, procedures and prescription drugs covered under health benefits or prescription drug benefits plans.
Prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturer from owning or operating drug rehabilitation facility licensed in State.
Creates rebuttable presumption in workers' compensation cases of respiratory disease of casino employees working in smoking areas.
Amends Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations act to provide $15 million of Expanded Addiction Initiatives appropriation to services for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Clarifies DHS authority over sober living homes, and requires certain sober living homes to be dedicated for use by persons in substance use recovery who have other mental health disorders.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires DOH to commission disparity study and to award medical marijuana alternative treatment center permits consistent with disparity study findings.
Requires written instructions for, and dispensations of, medical marijuana be reported to prescription monitoring database.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for certain Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 90-day period.
Permits licensed security officer employed at public school to wear body vest during employment.
Prohibits attempts by mental health professionals to change sexual orientation of adults.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning persons with disabilities and employment.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to design and make available to public webpage with employment information for individuals with disabilities.
Requires Division of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action create "Model Employer for People with Disabilities" program for State government.
Directs New Jersey State Rehabilitation Council to conduct study to identify trends and gaps in employment of individuals with disabilities.
Establishes Division of Women's Services in DOC.
Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.
Establishes sexual assault victim's right to appeal prosecutor decision not to file criminal charges; directs sexual assault unit in DLPS to review appeals.
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to promulgate regulations pertaining to training and duties of Junior Firefighter Auxiliary members.
Allows pharmacists to dispense additional 30-day supply of hormonal contraceptives without refill order; allows patients to request automatic refills of hormonal contraceptives from mail order pharmacies.
Requires insurance coverage of diapers when medically necessary.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex residents of long-term care facilities.
Extends certain benefits to veterans who received a badge, medal, or ribbon for serving in federal military campaign or expedition.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.
Requires NJT to operate Access Link paratransit service during state of emergency under certain circumstances.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to institute drug take back programs and certain pharmacies to become authorized collectors of unused drugs.
Permits certified animal control officer to enforce municipal animal ordinances; requires such officer to report person suspected of committing animal cruelty to municipal law enforcement officer.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
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.
"Mallory's Law"; revises provisions required in school district's anti-bullying policy; provides for civil liability of parent of minor adjudicated delinquent for cyber-harassment or harassment; and increases certain fines against parents.
Recognizes Howell House in Cape May as Harriet Tubman Museum in New Jersey.
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
Authorizes use of disability benefits for transportation provided by transportation network companies.
Establishes "Transportation Services Coordination Task Force."
Provides that users of Access Link paratransit service are automatically eligible for and enrolled in motor bus and rail passenger discounted fare program.
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Requires NJT to implement education program for services provided to persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and other individuals with mobility needs.
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Directs DEP to develop model ordinance for municipalities to regulate deposit and storage of soil and fill materials.
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Concerns sign fabrication, prevailing wage requirements, and project labor agreements.
Requires institutions of higher education to establish hotline for victims of campus sexual assault.
Requires property condition disclosure statement to indicate presence of lead plumbing in residential property.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DMVA for ancillary transportation for residents of Veterans' Memorial Homes.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DOLWD for continued assistance to State Centers for Independent Living.
Expands membership and responsibilities of State Council of Developmental Disabilities.
Permits use of campaign funds up to $25,000 for child care expenses when incurred as direct result of campaign activity.
Provides certain health care benefits to surviving dependents of accidental disability retiree who participated in 9/11 WTC rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations; clarifies eligibility criteria for recalculation of retirement allowance for such particip
Requires DMVA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans property tax exemption to members of United States Armed Forces who served during Libyan conflict.
Authorizes creation of active duty military license plates.
Establishes "County Jail Rehabilitation and Re-Entry Program" to evaluate county inmate needs; assigns certain county caseworkers to assist inmates in accessing appropriate benefits, treatment, and services.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Requires DOC and DHS to pre-enroll inmates in Medicaid; establishes Medicaid enrollment course for inmates within DOC.
Requires each county to establish inmate reentry services committee.
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Concerns law enforcement officers' ability to possess and carry certain ammunition magazines.
Designates Seeing Eye® dog as State Dog.