Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Carol A. Murphy
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to advertise and promote tours of breweries in the State.
"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.
Upgrades certain crimes of misrepresenting oneself as member or veteran of US Armed Forces or organized militia.
Requires employers to provide hiring preference to employees who have reached maximum medical improvement following work-related injury.
Prohibits discrimination against living organ donors in relation to life, health, and long-term care insurance.
Recognizes Howell House in Cape May as Harriet Tubman Museum in New Jersey.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings, and provide notice, by electronic means during periods of emergency.
Extends eligibility for accidental disability and accidental death benefits to certain PFRS, SPRS and PERS members who contract COVID-19 and test positive for SARS-CoV-2.**
Requires school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.*
Passed the General Assembly6
Provides for uniform regulation of small wireless facility deployment in this State.
Requires NJT to provide notice and public hearing for alternate provisions of service related to substantial curtailment of service.*
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to ceremony.
Clarifies that application to collocate wireless communications equipment be reviewed by administrative officer.
Requires separate entrance for certain child care services located in public school facilities and clarifies licensure requirements and DCF enforcement authority for services.
Concerns sexual abuse investigations in State correctional facilities.
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Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to promulgate regulations pertaining to training and duties of Junior Firefighter Auxiliary members.
Enters New Jersey into Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
Clarifies association assessment payment requirements in planned real estate developments.*
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs.
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.
Concerns labor contractors.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs.
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. **
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of essential employees who die in course of employment.
"Smart Planning Wireless and Water Public Utility Facilities Act"; incentivizes placement of wireless communications equipment on water public utility towers.
Revises and updates law pertaining to conservatorship to encourage ethical conduct by conservators and to provide stronger protections for conservatees and proposed conservatees.
Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals.
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Requires forest stewardship plan for certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Reduces allowed diversion of funds from stormwater, water, and sewer purposes to municipal and county budgets; requires municipalities and counties to notify Division of Local Government Services of diversions.
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
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Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain totally and permanently disabled veterans for rent constituting property taxes.
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 school districts to file certain evacuation plans with DOE.
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.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Establishes "New Jersey Military Advisory Board."
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.
Makes various changes to law governing limited breweries.
Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Establishes Task Force on Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities.
"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.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
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.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $200,000 for Delaware River Basin Commission.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Asks Joint Committee on Library of Congress to approve replacing NJ statue of Philip Kearny in National Statuary Hall Collection with statue of Alice Paul.
Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.
Establishes Women Veterans Coordinator in DMVA.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for all ages.
Establishes "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Requires MVC to enter into contract to implement electronic lien and title system; removes authority for MVC to implement system by itself.
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."
Requires New Jersey Racing Commission develop guidelines on postponement of certain events due to severe weather conditions.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish Jersey Fresh sales pilot program; appropriates $500,000.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor public places.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
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.
Requires Medicaid preferred drug lists to provide for coverage of buprenorphine for treatment of chronic pain.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Establishes three-year Medicaid demonstration project to pay for certain drugs according to value-based system.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Appropriates $200,000 to DOH for evidence-based evaluation of Charity Care hospital subsidy program.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Establishes civil action for damages for injury or death of certain animals in certain circumstances.
Allows interment of cremated pet remains in certain cemeteries.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $2 million for Route 539, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst overpass project.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Establishes certain exclusions and credits under gross income and corporation business taxes for contributions to lifelong learning accounts.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Requires movie theaters to provide effective communication devices for individuals with visual or hearing impairment; expands protections under "Law Against Discrimination."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for early principal payments on certain home mortgages.
Conditions fiscal year 2020 appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of $250,000 to Board of Nursing to process and eliminate home health aide application backlog.
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.
Concerns job order contracts for public work.
Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Imposes mandatory forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Requires Business Action Center to establish "Entrepreneur Learner's Permit Pilot Program" for certain designated industries.
Requires certain public utilities to provide customers notice of certain utility work that could impact traffic.
Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
Requires DLPS to establish training program to prepare law enforcement to interact with autonomous vehicles.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Requires sexual assault forensic evidence to be preserved for 10 years.
The "Uniform Criminal Records Accuracy Act."
Authorizes HMFA to offer loans for purpose of refinancing certain residential mortgages.
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
Establishes "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Requires municipalities to accept complaints and provide certain municipal announcements by electronic means.
Requires cost-benefit analyses and local government financial impact findings for approval of long term property tax exemption.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Reduces threshold for filing annual disclosure statement with ELEC from $50,000 in public contracts to $17,500.
Upgrades penalties for violating certain veterinary practice licensure laws.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone for pain treatment without step therapy or fail-first protocols.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.
Exempts handwritten signature from public disclosure; requires redaction when posted on Internet.
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Requires State employees to be trained in disability law and etiquette.
Establishes five-year housing advisory plan.
Establishes "Law Enforcement Addiction Intervention Pilot Program" in Burlington County; appropriates $75,000.
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.
Requires replacement of the terms "mother" and "father" with the terms "parent or guardian" on all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Authorizes issuance of West Virginia University alumni license plates.
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.
Provides that denial of services based on a person's disability or perceived disability by domestic violence shelters is unlawful discrimination.
Designates cranberry juice as State beverage.
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.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Provides that student is ineligible for State financial aid upon conviction for hazing.
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 Internet site.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Establishes "Common Interest Community Task Force."
Bars enforcement of provision in decedent's will that would require euthanasia of healthy domestic companion animal.
Authorizes direct shipping by craft distilleries.
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
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 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.
Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires State to reimburse school districts for costs of transporting homeless students.
Prohibits administration of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
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 creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
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.
Revises civil remedies for victims of invasion of privacy due to unauthorized recording or disclosure of sexual or intimate images.
Permits, under certain circumstances, person adjudged juvenile delinquent to expunge record for act which would have constituted robbery if committed by adult.
Requires DMVA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
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
Permits voter registration at age 16, under certain conditions.
Establishes circumstances when court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim in civil action for damages from sexual assault.
Establishes circumstances under which court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim.
Concerns transportation of persons who are under influence of drugs to medical facility by law enforcement officers.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Requires owners of multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to residents moving to lower floors.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
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.
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.
"New Jersey Predatory Alienation Prevention and Consensual Response Act."
Requires State Capitol Joint Management Commission display representation of Alice Paul in State Capitol building.
Provides that persons between 18 and 21 years of age with disabilities are eligible to receive direct support professional services from DHS.
Authorizes counties to establish diversionary program for juveniles to attend New Jersey Youth Challenge Academy.
Requires DEP to establish maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
"The Peter Falk Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning access to persons subject to order of guardianship.
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Establishes task force to study the impact of and response to COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
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.
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 processing of nutrition assistance program benefits via telephone or at point of delivery for grocery delivery service during public health emergency.
Provides gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations during COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes the "School District Shared Service Task Force."
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.
Concerns stop construction orders.
Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
Establishes "Support for Victims of Domestic Violence Program"; incentivizes certain businesses to provide support to individuals who are victims of domestic violence.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
Allows municipality to suspend certain zoning requirements during COVID-19 emergency.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Asks Joint Committee on Library of Congress to approve replacing NJ statues of Richard Stockton and Philip Kearny in National Statuary Hall Collection with statues of Harriet Tubman and Alice Paul.
Establishes "Stray Animal Study Commission."
Increases Fiscal Year 2020 appropriation for Extended Employment services by $2.5 million to ensure rate stability.
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Establishes State Commission on Minority Affairs within Department of State.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Allows teaching experience to be considered for out-of-State individuals seeking licensure from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Exempts Purple Heart recipients from payment of motor vehicle registration, driver's license, and identification card fees.
Permits notaries public to take oath before legislative members during declared state of emergency.
Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.
Exempts certain veterans from field or live-fire range portion of hunter gun safety course.
Revises requirements concerning disqualification from registration as, and duties of, a professional guardian.
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on Veterans Day.
Requires Firefighter 1 certification of candidate who completes military firefighter training and at least 12 months active duty military service in lieu of training course requirements.
Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Authorizes VCCO to make payments to dependents of deceased victims in cases of strict liability for drug-induced deaths.
Makes various changes to membership and financial practices of New Jersey Historic Trust.
Expands DCA oversight over common interest communities; establishes trust fund, advisory council, and ombudsman office.
Requires each State agency make State forms, applications, and other documents available in certain languages, including Gujarati, Korean, and Punjabi.
Requires compensatory time off for correctional police officers and parole officers for work during state of emergency.
Extends eligibility for tuition benefit to dependents of members of United States Armed Forces who died while on active duty.
Establishes State Seal Task Force to review the State seal.
Provides right of action for individuals alleging denial of professional credential by State is result of policy or process causing disparate impact on basis of race or ethnicity.
Criminalizes the use of "signal jammers."
Requires firearm transfer between members of immediate family be conducted through licensed retail firearm dealer.
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Establishes "College Child Care Advisory Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations on providing programs and services for college students who require child care services.
Authorizes certain forms of COVID-19 testing.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Requires insurance carriers offering dental benefit plans to provide certain level of coverage and reimbursement.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt pregnancy policy for law enforcement officers.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Designates each community college in State as provider of allowable services under SNAP Employment and Training Program.
Increases the frequency of permanency hearing from every 12 months to every six months.
Clarifies that law enforcement officers appointed by educational institutions and NJT are entitled to certain statutory rights and privileges.
Regulates dental therapy and licensure of dental therapists.
Requires sign language interpreters for sessions and committee meetings of Legislature.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on seizure recognition and first aid.
Allows issuance of temporary permits to applicants seeking licensure as teachers from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling students with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive student permit to wash hair.
Extends immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments until beginning of 2023.
Prohibits use of license plate flipping device; increases penalty for displaying fictitious registration plate number in certain circumstances.
Establishes "Property Tax Study Commission" to examine New Jersey's property tax structure and develop recommendations for reducing residential property tax burden.
Clarifies that encouraging another person to cause bodily injury, by filming, photographing, or otherwise recording injury-causing act, is form of crime of endangering injured victim.
Requires public agencies report cybersecurity incidents to New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Extends eligibility for Military Dependents Scholarships to students enrolled in approved career and technical education programs and to dependents of certain military members who served in Operation Freedom's Sentinel and Operation Inherent Resolve.
Requires school districts and nonpublic schools to develop emergency operations plans; requires school districts to provide instruction on environmental and natural disasters to students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12.
Permits counties, municipalities, school districts, and fire districts to leave of civil service.
Requires 9-1-1 call takers and dispatchers to receive certain certification.
Requires Attorney General to establish Human Trafficking Unit in Department of Law and Public Safety.
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Limits extension of mandatory retirement to 90 days from State Police Retirement System during emergencies.
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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.**
Revises law governing training and duties of Junior Firefighters' Auxiliary members.*
Enters New Jersey into Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
Clarifies association assessment payment requirements in planned real estate developments.*
Concerns labor contractors.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of essential employees who die in course of employment.
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs.
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
Limits extension of mandatory retirement to 90 days from State Police Retirement System during emergencies.
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be consumed outdoors in Atlantic City Tourism District.
Revises psychologist training requirements.
Revises permit and license processes for sports pools operators and online sports pool operators; revises definitions of certain sports events; allows for transactional waiver for sports wagering lounge.
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.*
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are at least 21 years of age to qualify.*
Establishes "Broadband Access Study Commission." *
Prohibits municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses.
Directs the development and posting of notices containing information for victims of human trafficking.
Establishes Mental Health Screening in Schools Grant Program in DOE; appropriates $1 million.*
Enhances homeowner notification of foreclosure mediation program requirements.
Reinstates prior property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires some of these hospitals to pay community service contributions; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contribution Study Commiss
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to create Statewide database of certified payroll information for public works projects.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Prohibits act, practice or arrangement constituting stranger-originated life insurance.
Establishes procedures for awarding of design-build contracts.
Establishes advisory council for the brewery, cidery, meadery, and distillery industries in NJ and provides for funding through certain alcoholic beverage tax receipts.
Concerns sign fabrication and prevailing wage requirements. *
Extends economic recovery term under "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act", bars appeal of certain property assessments by Garden State Growth Zone Development Entity.*
Directs DOE to develop outreach program to encourage young women and minorities to pursue post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM.
Requires State Treasurer to submit report to Legislature every six months identifying deadlines for applications for federal funds by State agencies.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Requires provider of electronic communication service to preserve information reported to law enforcement related to endangerment of children for 180 days.
Criminalizes certain payments for referral of patients to substance use disorder treatment facilities.*
Allows State residents who are outside of New Jersey to place wagers on horse races using account wagering system.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to support FIRST Robotics Programs in school districts.
Provides that users of Access Link paratransit service are automatically eligible for and enrolled in motor bus and rail passenger discounted fare program.
Changes designation on official State logo denoting manufacture of products in New Jersey.
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.
Establishes three year Financial Empowerment Pilot Program.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
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 health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Requires DLPS to incorporate implicit bias in cultural diversity training materials for law enforcement officers; makes mandatory cultural diversity and implicit bias training for law enforcement officers.
Designates 9-1-1 operators or dispatchers as 9-1-1 first responder dispatchers.
"Defense Against Porch Pirates Act"; amends theft statute.
Extends certain permits, approvals, and deadlines during COVID-19 emergency.*
Requires hospital to permit individual to accompany woman during childbirth.
Prohibits employer use of tracking device in vehicle operated by employee under certain circumstances.***
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.**
Authorizes the issuance of "coronavirus relief bonds" by municipalities and counties.
Permits modification of scope of work or terms and conditions of contract between non-profit organizations and State agencies for failure to perform due to COVID-19 pandemic.*
Allows deduction of promotional gaming credit from gross revenue on sports wagering.
Establishes requirements for copies of medical and billing records to be provided without charge to Social Security Disability benefits applicants and recipients.*
Enters New Jersey into Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for adult medical day care services.
Requires DHS to conduct biennial survey of SNAP experience.*
Permits expedited licensure in mental health professions for certain out-of-State individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Revises law concerning notaries and notarial acts; authorizes electronic signatures.
Requires long term care facilities and hospitals to maintain minimum supply of personal protective equipment.*
Requires Police Training Commission to contract with crisis intervention training center to provide mental health training to police officers and establish curriculum specific to persons experiencing economic crisis or substance use disorder.*
Establishes Community College Opportunity Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide last-dollar financial aid grants to county college students and Student Success Incentive funding to county colleges.
Creates grant program to encourage school districts to partner with institutions of higher education in training school-based mental health services providers.
Establishes Student Wellness Grant Program in DOE.
Requires DCF to give priority to certain school districts with student mental health counseling centers in awarding grants under School Based Youth Services Program.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to establish long-term care advocacy and educational training program.
Permits school nurse who is retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF.**
Extends time period during which seasonal retail consumption license holders may sell alcoholic beverages following COVID-19 pandemic.
Revises laws concerning delegation of parental or caregiver powers and standby guardianship for minor child or ward.*
Raises from 45 to 57 maximum eligibility age for exempt fireman certificates and membership in New Jersey State Fireman's Association.
Modifies process for obtaining working certificates for minors.
Clarifies classification in this State of criminal offenses committed in other states or under federal law.
Reduces or delays increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 to DHS for temporary 25 percent increase to certain assisted living resident provider in Medicaid.*
Permits use of alternate names by limited liability partnerships.
Appropriates $87,444,690 from "New Jersey Library Construction Fund" to provide grants for construction, reconstruction, development, extension, improvement, and furnishing of New Jersey's public libraries.
Authorizes motor vehicle dealers to sell motor vehicles online and obtain electronic signatures for motor vehicle transactions.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021; modifies terms and conditions for certain loan utilizing federal funds.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to finance aviation and marine infrastructure projects; makes various other changes to bank's enabling act.
Appropriates $3,763,625 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $37.16 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold, offered for sale, or leased in the State.
Provides fast track hiring and advancement employment opportunities by State for persons with significant disabilities.
Provides for employment by State of certain persons with disabilities.
Updates 2-1-1 telephone system information to include all current modes of public transit and information on access and usage.
Changes deadline for New Jersey Racing Commission's annual report from end of calendar year to end of State fiscal year.
Makes $10 million in federal funds available to EDA to support child care providers in need.**
Makes $15 million in federal funds available to EDA to support businesses and nonprofits in need.*
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $10,000.
Provides partial pension and retirement income exclusion for taxpayers with income between $100,000 and $150,000.
Permits nonprofit corporations to allow members to participate in meetings by means of remote communication.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain reasonable and safe distance when overtaking pedestrians and certain bicycles.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2022.
Extends period of municipal stabilization and recovery, with certain modifications, under "Municipal Stabilization and Recovery Act."
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish retail price of certain opioid antidotes.
Establishes order of protection for current or former judge; upgrades and clarifies harassment against current or former judge; bars firearms possession by persons against whom current or former judge order of protection is entered.
Makes $25 million in federal funds available to Department of State for travel and tourism advertising and promotion for recovery from COVID-19 pandemic. **
Requires DOLWD to provide link to New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on website and in emails concerning unemployment compensation benefits.
Requires certain health insurers, Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover opioid antidote without imposing prior authorization requirements.*
Ensures student well-being during school security drills.
Establishes Asian American Pacific Islander Commission.
Expands State corrections officers training to include topics contributing to their core mission of treating inmates with dignity, fairness, and respect.
Renames Dismal Swamp and Dismal Swamp Preservation Commission as "Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve" and "Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preservation Commission."
Authorizes State Treasurer to enter lease for real property and improvements with NJEDA for construction of New Jersey Wind Port in Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County.
Allows veteran's guardian to remove veteran from DMVA veterans' memorial home under certain emergency circumstances.
Requires position of resident advocate at each State veterans' memorial home.
Establishes State supplement for "breakfast after the bell" meals.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for school security projects in certain school districts; appropriates $66,173,243.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for water infrastructure projects in certain school districts; appropriates $6,608,212.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $26,456,996.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Fund" for career and technical education expansion in county vocational school districts; appropriates $222,904,769.
Concerns enforcement of employee misclassification and stop-work order laws.
Streamlines identification of employee misclassification.
Appropriates $500,000 for USS New Jersey Commissioning Committee to support commissioning of boat and assigned personnel.
Appropriates $14,687,510 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Vetoed · 6
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 Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Expands existing EDA loan program to include certain small producers and retailers of alcoholic beverages.*
Expands opportunities for restaurants, bars, distilleries and breweries to provide outdoor dining and permits certain farms to adjust operations in response to COVID-19 public health emergency.*
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
Requires New Jersey Racing Commission to adopt procedures to enforce internal controls; requires annual audit.
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Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Clarifies that persons may execute legal signatures through handwriting, electronic signing, or use of fingerprint, thumbprint, or other identifying mark.*
Authorizes county colleges to establish and operate student dormitories.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMVA for air quality studies to support campaign for award of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets at 177th Air National Guard base.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Requires annual inspection of certain veterinary facilities.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.
Permits union officials who represent probation officers to participate in all union activities.
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.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.*
Establishes "Task Force on Supportive Technology for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities."
Requires AG to report bias intimidation offenses to Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in annual report on hate crime statistics.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; 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.
Allows gross income tax deduction for amounts paid for removal of lead, asbestos, sodium, chloride, and other contaminants from taxpayer's property.**
Establishes State to oversee application for and receipt of federal funds Ombudsman by State agencies.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Establishes "Transportation Services Coordination Task Force."
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Allows certain preserved farms in certain counties to hold 14 special occasion events per year during three -year pilot program; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms.*
Revises certain licensure requirements to operate water supply and wastewater treatment systems.
Criminalizes failure to return erroneous person-to-person electronic payments following proper notification.
Requires NJT to publish on website certain information concerning accessible transportation service routes.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Prohibits insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP from charging fee for paper bills and notices.
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
Makes it aggravated sexual assault or sexual contact for transportation network company or taxicab driver to commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact using coercion or without permission on passenger.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
Concerns participation in certain meetings by means of remote communication during state of emergency declared by the Governor.
Increases penalty for certain acts of trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during publichealth emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visita
Establishes certain temporary and permanent privileges for certain alcoholic beverage licensees; authorizes certain activities, events, and festivals in which certain alcoholic beverage licensees may participate.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force." *
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Permits DOC and DCF to award contracts for medical and dental services to vendors.
Dedicates personal protective equipment to long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospice care providers, health care service firms, PACE programs, and certain community-based providers during public health emergency.***
Requires school districts to include instruction on racial discrimination and social justice as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies for middle school students. *
Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs.
Provides service credit for PERS member for former membership in transit retirement program. *
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish Black Heritage Trail; establishes NJ Black Cultural Heritage Commission.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for environmental infrastructure projects for applicants with established program to employ, at project or related facilities, local residents or residents of nearby urban aid qualifying municipalities.*
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return. *
Makes FY2021 supplemental appropriation of $250,000 from General Fund to State Mosquito Control Commission. *
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.*
Makes $5 million in federal funds available to Stockton University to support North Athletic Complex project.
Prohibits retaliation against inmates in State correctional facilities who report sexual abuse; criminalizes retaliation and failure to report abuse.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint workforce skills training development officer to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.
Requires request for proposal to establish project to evaluate and make recommendations for realignment of correctional facilities and other efficiency measures.
Requires DOC report certain information annually.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Prohibits forfeiture of inmate's commutation credits for minor disciplinary infractions and expands inmate's ability to restore certain forfeited credits.
Appropriates $20 million for HFMA to grant loans to developers of certain affordable housing projects.
Provides $5 million in supplemental funding to New Jersey Horse Racing Commission for horse racing purse subsidies.
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Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
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.
Prohibits public utility from terminating service for nonpayment unless customer is provided certified letter at least 10 business days prior to scheduled termination date.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Requires Director of Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS to evaluate and report on interactions occurring between law enforcement and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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.
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements.
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 persons with disabilities.*
Requires Division of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action create "Model Employer for Persons with Disabilities" program for State government.*
Requires DOH and DHS to identify and take appropriate steps to secure federal sources of funding to support maternal mental health.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo explicit and implicit bias training.*
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Requires NJT to operate Access Link paratransit service during state of emergency under certain circumstances.
Authorizes use of disability benefits for transportation provided by transportation network companies.
Prohibits tax preparation software companies from charging fee for electronically filing State tax returns.
Requires school districts and charter schools to report discipline data on their websites and to Commissioner of Education; requires DOE to establish database and complete annual report concerning student disciplinary actions.*
Requires State agency to redact person's handwritten signature prior to publishing documents on agency's Internet website.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Authorizes creation of Woman Veteran license plates.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Includes certain armed security officers regulated by "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law" in crimes of assault and disarming an officer.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Expressly prohibits invasive examination of unconscious patient by health care practitioner without patient's prior informed written consent.
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on properties receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
Establishes Task Force to Promote Employment by State Agencies of People with Disabilities.
Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.
Requires EDA to establish loan program for certain costs of electric-powered school bus purchases by local school districts and school bus contractors.
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.*
Requires depository institutions to provide paper account statements to elder adults.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Amends statute that criminalizes display of symbols, objects, or graffiti exposing another to threats of violence to specifically include noose, burning cross, or other symbol of hate. *
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisoy Committee." *
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Expands training for judges, law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases. *
Requires certain community residential facilities have standby emergency power generators.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
Requires public water systems to offer drinking water tests to customers in certain circumstances.
Requires property condition disclosure statement to indicate presence of lead plumbing in residential property.
Requires water purveyors to conduct, and report to DEP, water loss audits.
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Creates office to encourage creation of federal jobs and federal infrastructure investment in the State.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Permits physical therapists to perform dry needling under certain circumstances.
"Dominick Marino PFRS Enhanced Benefits for Surviving Spouses Act"; enhances PFRS accidental death benefit for surviving spouse who becomes eligible after effective date by providing for minimum of $50,000 annually.*
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Expands Office of Public Defender representation of juveniles; repeals section 4 of P.L. 1968, c.371.*
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services. *
Requires DOT Commissioner to advertise availability of certain transportation programs and services.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for ovarian cancer research.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Authorizes DOT to establish and administer toll collection and enforcement system on behalf of NJ toll authorities and to enter into reciprocal agreements for enforcement of toll violations with toll authorities from other states. *
Revises definition of "public works projects" to permit project labor agreements for more projects.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Establishes housing of equine-related farm employees in facilities with horses under certain conditions as "Right to Farm" permissible activity; requires State Agriculture Development Committee agricultural management practice that permits such housing.
Provides that executive director of State Agriculture Development Committee is appointed by Governor.
Makes pilot program for special occasion events at wineries on preserved farmland permanent program.*
Creates New Jersey Innocence Study and Review Commission.
"Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act"; requires institutions of higher education to implement mental health programs and services.
Requires plaintiff to obtain affidavit of merit in malpractice suit against enrolled agent.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Requires parent or guardian to notify child care centers if child will be absent; requires child care centers to notify parent or guardian in event of unexcused child absence.
Establishes Commission on Asian American Heritage in DOE. *
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Requires DMVA notify certain veteran organizations and county officers of names of persons buried or cremated in State veteran cemeteries.*
Makes changes to membership and responsibilities of Campus Sexual Assault Commission.
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Establishes annual grant program to recognize institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Establishes certain rights for students with military obligations attending public institutions of higher education and permits late registration for students with military obligations.
Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 health state of emergency.
Requires Medicaid and health insurance coverage for certain refills of prescription drugs during state of emergency.
Permits dogs as service and emotional support animals at State veterans' residential facilities.
Concerns employment benefits and coronavirus disease 2019 infections contracted by essential employees.
Requires DOH to implement and oversee Isolation Prevention Project in long-term care facilities during public emergencies.
Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) consistent with federal guidance; requires health benefits and Medicaid coverage for tests.*
Establishes the New Jersey Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Establishes Employment and Business-Related Tax Deferral Assistance Program in EDA to allow small businesses to defer the payment and remittance of certain employment and business-related taxes during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Provides temporary modifications to payment and use of certain casino gaming taxes and fees; permanently redifines promotional gaming credits to include certain coupons and table game wagers; requires priority funding for senior and disabled transporation
Authorizes Governor to permit mortgage forbearance and rent payment Provides mortgage payment relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for resident property owners, tenants and other consumers, economically impacted during time of co
Revises and updates membership and purpose of Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS.
Revises requirements for health insurance providers and Medicaid to cover services provided using telemedicine and telehealth; appropriates $5 million. *
Permits certain entertainment and retail activity during current public health emergency and state of emergency.
Establishes program to adopt paratransit best practices, requires greater coordination among paratransit service providers, and establishes regional paratransit coordinating councils.*
Increases maximum penalty for certain violations concerning asbestos hazard abatement; allocates moneys from increased penalties to asbestos programs.**
"Farm Worker Epidemic Health and Safety Act"; concerns public health and certain protections for farm workers.
Requires State to enter into contract for COVID-19 testing kits for purchase by institutions of higher education.
Appropriates $30 million to EDA from federal "Coronavirus Relief Fund" to assist food establishments impacted by Executive Order No. 158.
Establishes wine consultant permit.
Requires certain provisions in State contracts for delivery of publicly financed mental health, behavioral health, and addiction services.
Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires Civil Service Commission establish mentoring program for certain civil service law enforcement applicants.*
Requires Civil Services Commission to undertake various initiatives to increase diversity and inclusivity within law enforcement agencies.
Increases strangulation assault to crime of second degree.
Establishes database to aid in civil service hiring process for law enforcement officers; requires Statewide diversity analysis of law enforcement.*
Extends deadline for completion and filing of annual audit report of school district for 2019-2020 school year; establishes deadline for submission of Audit Summary for 2019-2020 school year.*
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission; appropriates $4.2 million in FY 2022 and FY 2023.*
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by four-year public institutions of higher education.
Requires DOE to establish Alternate Route Interstate Reciprocity Pilot Program.*
Revises cybersecurity, asset management, and related reporting requirements in "Water Quality Accountability Act."
Requires in person early voting period for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Adds two members to State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Contractors.
Requires resources be made available to victims of sexual assault.
Adjusts statute of limitations on damage claim for construction defect in common interest community.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Establishes immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Establishes "Stillbirth Resource Center" and regional Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Committee, and programs for the prevention and reduction of incidences of stillbirth; expands list of professionals authorized to provide stillbirth-related care.*
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Resources Pilot Program in DOLWD.
Allows Board of Cosmetology Hairstyling licensees to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Reduces age at which health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45.
"New Jersey Buy American Act"; requires certain State agency highway and bridge construction contracts to include iron and steel products made in U.S.
Appropriates $12 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $30.387 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Permits exemption from civil service law enforcement examination requirement for entry level-law enforcement officers.
Allows deduction from tax of certain expenses when taxpayer's federal paycheck protection program loan is forgiven and excludes those forgiven loans from gross income tax.
Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process. *
Establishes criminal offenses and civil penalties concerning inhumane confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.
Requires NJT to expand or modify routes and hours of certain transportation services and to solicit input from individuals diagnosed with autism.
Codifies same-sex marriage in the statutes.
Requires assignment of unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency; appropriates $1.8 million.
Makes $25 million in federal funds available to EDA to support microbusinesses in need.*
Changes effective date of new law concerning certain State contracts for mental health, behavioral health, and addiction services.
Authorizes special occasion events at certain farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.
Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation. *
Adds two public members to State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and prohibits licensure for individuals convicted of certain offenses.*
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based solely on parent's disability; provides that disability of parent is relevant only to extent that court finds disability is detrimental to best interest of child.
Modifies certain procedures pertaining to school district regionalization; establishes grant program for cost reimbursement of conducting regionalization feasibility studies; and provides financial incentives for regionalization.
Supplements Department of Transportation language provisions in FY 2021 Appropriations Act to provide flexibility for debt service payments.
Repeals statute criminalizing sexual penetration while infected with venereal disease or HIV under certain circumstances; requires that in prosecutions for endangering another by creating substantial risk of transmitting infectious disease, name of defend
Requires MVC to operate hotline to assist with online transactions.
Concerns liability of certain non-profit and governmental employers for unemployment benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency. *
Requires feasibility study to examine establishment of regional medical examiner office facility in Southern New Jersey and collaborative development of new medical examiner education initiatives; appropriates $40,000.
Appropriates $5 million to New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $10 million for grants for certain lake management activities for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes special motion and hearing for dismissal of "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" (SLAPP")
Permits prosecutors to enroll in Prosecutors Part of PERS.
Eliminates premiums and waiting periods for certain NJ FamilyCare enrollees and directs DHS to implement additional targeted outreach initiatives to increase enrollment. *
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to guarantee local government bonds or provide other assistance for certain local redevelopment projects.
Makes permanent temporary enactment allowing certain alcoholic beverage retailers to sell and deliver alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks; establishes certain sale and delivery privileges for alcoholic beverage manufacturers.
"Responsible Collective Negotiations Act."
Establishes child care revitalization fund in Department of Community Affairs; appropriates $100,000,000.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund and Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council; provides for funds received from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
Establishes Office of Food Insecurity Advocate.
Authorizes supplemental State aid to school districts receiving certain federal Impact Aid; makes appropriation.
Makes $135 million in federal funds available to EDA to support eligible entities impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Temporarily modifies taxes and credits of casino licensees; permanently redefines promotional gaming credits to include certain coupons and table game wagers; requires priority funding for senior and disabled for senior and disabled transportation service
Establishes School and Small Business Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program Fund in BPU.
Establishes requirements to commence screening newborn infants for congenital cytomegalovirus infection; establishes public awareness campaign. *
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Extends temporary emergency licensure of certain health care professionals.
Authorizes limited breweries and craft distilleries to sell at retail and offer for sampling purposes product bottled and stored off-site under certain circumstances.
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Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
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.
Concerns sexual harassment.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.
Prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturer from owning or operating drug rehabilitation facility licensed in State.
Extends certain benefits to veterans who received a badge, medal, or ribbon for serving in federal military campaign or expedition.
Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Establishes "New Jersey Elections Security Act."
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Creates rebuttable presumption in workers' compensation cases of respiratory disease of casino employees working in smoking areas.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DMVA for ancillary transportation for residents of Veterans' Memorial Homes.
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.
Requires health insurance coverage for annual mental health screening.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
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.
Clarifies prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions in health insurance policies.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex residents of long-term care facilities.
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
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.
Affords civil immunity to certain police officers.
Provides Medicaid coverage to eligible pregnant women for 365-day period beginning on last day of pregnancy.
"Recreational Therapists Licensing Act."
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes and sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of smart phone and social media usage in school.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
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 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.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
"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
"Michael Anthony Fornicola's Law"; requires hotels to have automated external defibrillators in certain areas.
Directs New Jersey State Rehabilitation Council to conduct study to identify trends and gaps in employment of individuals with disabilities.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts; establishes uniform age requirement for kindergarten enrollment; reduces compulsory age of school attendance.
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.
Permits use of campaign funds up to $25,000 for child care expenses when incurred as direct result of campaign activity.
Requires Commissioner of Health to designate special care nursing facility to treat patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders dual diagnosis.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to create public awareness sign to be posted by certain establishments.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Prohibits application of fiduciary standard to insurance producers; specifies qualifications of persons providing affidavit of merit in lawsuits against insurance producers.
Requires State to pay difference between federal allocation and total cost of reduced price breakfast or lunch; appropriates $4.5 million.
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
Requires DCA to track natural disaster-related spending by State and local government.
"Chiara's Law"; prohibits euthanizing animals in shelters or pounds except for health or safety reasons.
Establishes Statewide Hit and Run Advisory Program to facilitate apprehension of persons fleeing motor vehicle accident scene; designated as "Zackhary's Law."
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Creates Clinical Trials Working Group.
Requires adoption agency, court, or DCPP to maintain child's religious upbringing when placing child in adoptive or resource family home.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires data collection and issuance of report on drug evidence testing by New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
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.
Requires DOC and DHS to pre-enroll inmates in Medicaid; establishes Medicaid enrollment course for inmates within DOC.
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.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
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.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Requires certain water suppliers to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing and filters under certain circumstances.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $165,950,000 from the revenues and other funds of NJ Transportation Trust Fund Authority.
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.
Establishes animal abuser registry; prohibits person convicted of criminal animal cruelty violation from owning, keeping, or harboring any animal, and establishes enforcement mechanisms therefor.
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.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DOH to assist certain mental health and addiction service providers transitioning to fee-for-service reimbursement system.
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.
Regulates and establishes certain consumer protections concerning digital currencies.
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.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Requires collection and reporting of information concerning crimes against the elderly and disabled.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Authorizes application for dismissal of a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation " ("SLAPP").
Prohibits attempts by mental health professionals to change sexual orientation of adults.
Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.
Revises certain penalties for illegal operation of snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike.
Prohibits State from investing pension and annuity funds in manufacturers of firearms or firearm ammunition.
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."
Expands circumstances under which prevailing wage must be paid.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DOLWD for continued assistance to State Centers for Independent Living.
Transfers authority over special nutrition assistance programs from DOH to DHS.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ apprentices in DOL registered apprenticeships.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
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 lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Requires public bodies upon request to provide American Sign Language interpreter at public meetings.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Requires training for law enforcement officers and county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Establishes system for portable benefits for workers who provide services to consumers through contracting agents.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
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.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $1,700,000 for Thomas Edison State University.
"Madalyn's Law"; requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of toxic shock syndrome.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of cancer treatments, tests, procedures and prescription drugs covered under health benefits or prescription drug benefits plans.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Requires institutions of higher education to establish hotline for victims of campus sexual assault.
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.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of "whistleblower" claims; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
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 public water systems to compile, and submit to DEP, lead service line inventories.
Expands "Law Against Discrimination" to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes.
Clarifies that age restrictions may not be imposed to exclude disabled persons from housing.
Prohibits requirement of advance notice to New Jersey Racing Commission in order to continue horse racing and simulcast activities during state of emergency.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Requires Medicaid cover professional violence prevention counseling services.
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
"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.
Exempts customer with account for electronic toll collection system, commonly known as E-ZPass, from certain fees if motor vehicle is stolen.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
Requires gubernatorial and legislative candidate and joint candidates committees to adopt anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy.
Permits fire districts to undertake capital projects upon resolution of board of fire commissioners.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Requires MVC to place notation on vehicle's registration certificate indicating registrant is deaf.
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.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires insurance coverage of diapers when medically necessary.
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.
Allows gross income tax deduction for surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Clarifies excuse from jury service for members of the military or reserve under certain circumstances; repeals N.J.S.38A:4-6.
Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for certain retired members of NJ National Guard.
Requires motor vehicle inspection stickers to notify drivers of penalty for texting while driving.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, and possession of controlled dangerous substance U-47700, known as U-4 or "Pink."
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
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 annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.
Provides spouses of military servicemembers with gross income tax credit, up to $500, for professional relicensing fees incurred upon relocating to State.
Requires reporting of animal abuse by certain child protection agency employees.
Adds one dental assistant to membership of New Jersey State Board of Dentistry.
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Increases dedication of certain revenues to "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account."
Clarifies provisions concerning disclosure of existence and content of discrimination or harassment complaints; permits certain disclosures to person against whom complaint is made.
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
Clarifies that members of volunteer first aid squads that bill third parties do not lose right to use emergency warning lights.
Provides exclusive jurisdiction to PERC for certain unfair labor practice claims.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Authorizes special Combat Action Badge license plate program.
Establishes criteria for distribution of Fiscal Year 2020 funding to Community Food Bank of New Jersey and partner organization.
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to provide $25 million of Expanded Addiction Initiatives appropriation to services for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Waives pet adoption fees for certain military personnel and veterans.
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.
Requires licensure of sonographers.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies and certain businesses with on-site 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 2020; makes appropriation.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $16.5 million for direct support professional wage increase.
Requires resource family parent, relative, preadoptive parent, or caretaker to be party to reviews or hearings involving a child under the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families' care.
Concerns payment of independent contractors.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Creates Task Force on Driver Distractions.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Requires landlord to provide written explanation for rent increase on tenant of senior citizen housing project.
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.
Establishes corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain providers of child care that undertake certain quality improvement initiatives.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Requires school districts to provide feminine hygiene products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.
Encourages sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.
Provides for appointment to board of directors of New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange by Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Requires carriers that offer health benefits plans to provide new or existing subscribers with notification of certain hospital and health system contract expirations.
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.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Requires NJT to implement education program for services provided to persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and other individuals with mobility needs.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations regarding Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
Requires school district to report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.
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.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Establishes additional requirements for operation and oversight of animal shelters, pounds, and kennels operating as shelters or pounds.
Requires institutions of higher education to test for lead in drinking water and disclose test results.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes Division of Women's Services in DOC.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes.
Addresses elder abuse in domestic settings under "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991."
Establishes 180 days from receipt of notary public commission as deadline for taking oath of office.
Authorizes notaries public to take oath of office before any official generally authorized to take oaths.
Expands crime of human trafficking to include individuals who benefit financially.
Prohibits electric, gas, or water public utility service discontinuances to residential customers during certain epidemics.
Requires certain disclosures by providers of small business financing.
Concerns certain annual filings by nonprofit corporations and charitable organizations.
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.
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.
Codifies standard for rehospitalization after conditional discharge from psychiatric facility.
Requires hospitals to collect and report data on gender identity and sexual orientation in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Allows emergency zero interest pension loans to certain public employees who are negatively affected by federal shutdown.
Requires licensed providers of long-term skilled nursing care to establish permanent morgue for use in non-emergent periods and supplemental morgue space for use in public emergencies.
Permits certain cities to transfer a portion of its public employees from a locally-administered health benefits program to SHBP.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Prohibits awarding of public contracts to Internet service providers, unless Internet service providers adhere to principle of "net neutrality."
Requires NJT to administer program to adopt paratransit best practices, requires greater coordination among paratransit service providers, and establishes regional paratransit coordinating councils; appropriates $4 million.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes that law enforcement officer who chokes another utilizes deadly force.
Requires DMVA provide central website registry of unclaimed veteran cremains for veteran organization locating services; Requires funeral director report possession of unclaimed veteran cremains.
Excludes unemployment benefits paid during coronavirus pandemic state of emergency from calculation of employer unemployment contributions and payments in lieu of contributions.
Grants immunity from liability to institutions of higher education and certain employees for damages resulting from novel coronavirus disease.
Requires public schools to report all student disciplinary actions; requires DOE to establish database and compile annual report concerning disparities in student disciplinary actions.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriations of $125.575 million for Homestead Benefit - Calendar Year 2020 Program and Senior and Disabled Citizens' Property Tax Freeze.
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
"Sally's Law"; establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
Includes animal cruelty against victim's animal within definition of domestic violence and other types of abuse; establishes immunity for reporting animal cruelty; mandates reporting of animal cruelty in certain circumstances.
Requires revision of State Legislature's anti-harassment policy; specifies investigation of discrimination and harassment complaint process.
Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.
Requires Local Finance Board to make certain findings prior to dissolution of municipal water authority.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of electronic cigarette usage as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires school districts to provide anti-bias instruction as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; requires school districts to designate chief equity officer.
Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Prohibits Internet service providers from increasing service rates during public health emergency or state of emergency; requires Internet service providers to notify subscribers six months in advance of service rate increase.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Authorizes creation of Twin Lights license plates.
Establishes criminal penalties for production and display of false COVID-19 vaccination card.
Requires certain actions by motor vehicle operators when overtaking or passing pedestrians, bicycles, or scooters.
Requires MVC to notify customers of availability of receiving electronic notification of upcoming expiration of certain MVC-issued documents.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Defines cyberstalking and provides criminal penalties for persons who make an electronic threat to kill, do bodily harm, commit an act of terrorism or conduct mass shootings.
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.