Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Carol A. Murphy
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires Department of Veterans Affairs to verify unclaimed cremains of veterans, spouses, and dependents; requires funeral director to report to Department of Veterans Affairs possession of unclaimed veteran, spouse, and dependent cremains.**
"Pet Insurance Act."
Modifies regulation of student permits by NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling and establishes oversight of individuals seeking employment as shampoo technicians.*
Criminalizes the use of "signal jammers."
Concerns sexual assault forensic evidence kits.*
Amends certain fire safety statutes to update licensure and equipment requirements and liability, fee, and penalty provisions; expands membership of Fire Protection Equipment Advisory Committee.*
Increases annual assessment on net written premiums of HMOs from five percent to six percent.
Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride-sharing and delivery technology platforms.
"Healthcare Finance Enhancement Act."
Passed the General Assembly7
Upgrades criminal penalties for use or possession of payment card scanning device; requires merchant to take reasonable safety measures to prevent scanning of payment card.
Makes it fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Establishes crime of fertility fraud.
Directs DHS to establish Children's Partial Hospitalization Pilot Program.
Out of committee25
Establishes Women Veterans Coordinator in DMVA.
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
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.
Creates Military and Veterans Affairs Oversight Board.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Prohibits State agency from entering into certain State contracts that limits ability of State agency to install or run certain software.
Exempts certain veterans from field or live-fire range portion of hunter gun safety course.
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Establishes State Commission on Minority Affairs within Department of State.
Revises civil remedies for victims of invasion of privacy due to unauthorized recording or disclosure of sexual or intimate images.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; appropriates $2.5 million.*
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Prohibits use of license plate flipping device; increases penalty for displaying fictitious registration plate number in certain circumstances.
Requires campus police officers to wear body worn cameras.
Allows complaint for guardianship of minor to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18 under certain circumstances; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.
Establishes Office of Professional Corporate Guardians.
Creates New Jersey Board of Paramedicine.
Prohibits approving authority from approving construction of certain warehouses on lot of land within 1,000 feet of historic district.*
Codifies Medicaid coverage for eligible pregnant women for 365-day period beginning on last day of pregnancy.
Clarifies installation of ignition interlock devices for certain DWI offenses.
Enhances enforcement authority over developmental disability service providers; establishes "Residential Facility Quality of Care Improvement Fund" in DHS.
Revises certain references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in statutory and regulatory law; Requires health benefits coverage for certain immunizations recommended by DOH.*
In committee278
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Changes deadline for New Jersey Racing Commission's annual report from end of calendar year to end of State fiscal year.
Provides for uniform regulation of small wireless facility deployment in this State.
Establishes "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Requires movie theaters to provide effective communication devices for individuals with visual or hearing impairment; expands protections under "Law Against Discrimination."
Allows issuance of temporary permits to applicants seeking licensure as teachers from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Establishes "Property Tax Study Commission" to examine New Jersey's property tax structure and develop recommendations for reducing residential property tax burden.
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.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for programs providing mental health, substance use treatment, or services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires State agency to redact a person's handwritten signature prior to publishing documents on agency's Internet website.
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.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
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.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Requires Medicaid preferred drug lists to provide for coverage of buprenorphine for treatment of chronic pain.
Provides representation of Burlington County on SJTA.
Establishes five-year housing advisory plan.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Requires each county and municipality to adopt anti-sexual harassment policy.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Provides that denial of services based on a person's disability or perceived disability by domestic violence shelters is unlawful discrimination.
Authorizes direct shipping by craft distilleries.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
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 task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Revises and updates membership and purpose of Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for all ages.
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.
Exempts Purple Heart recipients from payment of motor vehicle registration, driver's license, and identification card fees.
Permits voter registration at age 16, under certain conditions.
Requires sign language interpreters for sessions and committee meetings of Legislature.
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.
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.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
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.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Provides that law enforcement officers appointed by educational institutions, NJT, and Burlington County Bridge Commission are entitled to certain statutory rights and privileges.
Establishes "5G Network and Development Task Force."
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Creates "New Jersey Kratom Protection Act."
Revises requirements concerning disqualification from registration as, and duties of, a professional guardian.
Requires Attorney General to establish Human Trafficking Unit in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires collection of deoxyribonucleic acid sample for certain crimes.
Requires placement of portable FDA-approved anti-choking devices in schools.
Amends statutory definition of "abused child."
Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
"Smart Planning Wireless and Water Public Utility Facilities Act"; incentivizes placement of wireless communications equipment on water public utility towers.
Clarifies that application to collocate wireless communications equipment be reviewed by administrative officer.
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Establishes "Law Enforcement Addiction Intervention Pilot Program" in Burlington County; appropriates $75,000.
Establishes NJ Forensic Science Laboratory at Rutgers University-Camden; appropriates up to $500,000.
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on Veterans Day.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to employ three geriatric social workers to serve New Jersey's long-term care residents and makes appropriation.
Requires New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell to study cybersecurity infrastructure and establish cybersecurity guidelines.
Requires all elected or appointed municipal and county officials to complete annual ethics training.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires health insurance coverage of prescribed anti-obesity medication.
Requires DOT to confirm availability and prioritize establishment of park-and-ride options near major warehouse facilities.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Establishes "Enhanced Transit Village Program" to be administered by Office of Planning Advocacy in Department of State and DOT.
Creates New Jersey Dog Trainer Licensure Board.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15 million to DMVA for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for facilities expansion.
Establishes grant program in DOE for school districts to implement animal therapy programs.
Provides for regulation of dental therapists.
Doubles amount of State child tax credit; raises age and income eligibility criteria needed to receive credit.
Establishes Vaisakhi and Bandi Chhor Divas as public holidays in this State.
Requires plaintiff to obtain affidavit of merit in malpractice suit against enrolled agent.
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or promotion of consumer products containing microbeads.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
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 financial institutions to release records to adult protective services when suspecting fraud of vulnerable adult or senior customer; allows adult protective service to release same records to law enforcement agency if necessary.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Requires retail health clinics to develop policies and procedures identifying services provided by the clinics.
Requires Business Action Center to establish "Entrepreneur Learner's Permit Pilot Program" for certain designated industries.
Permits municipalities to publish legal notices in certain newspapers.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for early principal payments on certain home mortgages.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Requires federal funding to be made available to Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to support Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse if needed to offset unanticipated decrease in dedicated revenues.
Establishes "Support for Victims of Domestic Violence Program"; incentivizes certain businesses to provide support to individuals who are victims of domestic violence.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
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.
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.
Expands DCA oversight over common interest communities; establishes trust fund, advisory council, and ombudsman office.
Requires DMVA conduct outcomes and efficacy study of veteran to veteran peer support helpline.
Makes various changes to membership and financial practices of New Jersey Historic Trust.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain totally and permanently disabled veterans for rent constituting property taxes.
Requires forest stewardship plan for certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes "Common Interest Community Task Force."
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on Arts.
Requires certain public utilities to provide customers notice of certain utility work that could impact traffic.
Requires MVC to administer electronic transaction system for used motor vehicle sales within certain time period; authorizes use of same system for private motor vehicle sales.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Requires municipalities to accept complaints and provide certain municipal announcements by electronic means.
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 BPU to hold monthly in-person or virtual seminars to provides customers with certain information concerning electric power and gas suppliers.
Requires certain customer identification to be presented to electric power or gas supplier if customer switches services.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Increases the frequency of permanency hearing from every 12 months to every six months.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Extends validity of and eliminates issuance fee for temporary instructional certificate issued to military spouse; requires expedited processing of military spouse application for NJ instructional certificate and eliminates fee to obtain certificate.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Prohibits administration of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Extends eligibility for tuition benefit to dependents of members of United States Armed Forces who died while on active duty.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.
Provides State recognition of Sandhill Indian Tribe for certain limited purposes.
Requires DEP to conduct public awareness campaign about hunting, and requires posting of orange flag at entrances to State parks and forests when hunting is permitted.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Requires replacement of the terms "mother" and "father" with the terms "parent or guardian" on all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Requires separate entrance for certain child care services located in public school facilities and clarifies licensure requirements and DCF enforcement authority for services.
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.
"New Jersey Predatory Alienation Prevention and Consensual Response Act."
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Provides that persons between 18 and 21 years of age with disabilities are eligible to receive direct support professional services from DHS.
Requires State employees to be trained in disability law and etiquette.
Establishes School Plastics Upcycling Grant Program in DEP to provide proportional awards to eligible schools based on pro rata share of plastics collected, by each school, for upcycling purposes; appropriates $5 million.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.
Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Enters New Jersey into Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.
Establishes three-year Medicaid demonstration project to pay for certain drugs according to value-based system.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
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.
Establishes "Supporting Educational and Entrepreneurial Development (S.E.E.D.) Program" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
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.
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.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Establishes the "School District Shared Services Task Force."
Requires State to reimburse school districts for costs of transporting homeless students.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.
Provides that student is ineligible for State financial aid upon conviction for hazing.
Requires local units of government to provide access to "user-friendly" budget information through link included on home page Internet site.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone for pain treatment without step therapy or fail-first protocols.
Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Allows interment of cremated pet remains in certain cemeteries.
Requires insurance carriers offering dental benefit plans to provide certain level of coverage and reimbursement.
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling students with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive student permit to wash hair.
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.
Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
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 each State agency make State forms, applications, and other documents available in certain languages, including Gujarati, Korean, and Punjabi.
Requires New Jersey Racing Commission develop guidelines on postponement of certain events due to severe weather conditions.
Exempts handwritten signature from public disclosure; requires redaction when posted on Internet.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
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.
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 participation.
Establishes permanent task force to review and guide implementation of process improvement programs for government entities based on Lean Six Sigma management approach.
Requires DMVA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.
Reduces threshold for filing annual disclosure statement with ELEC from $50,000 in public contracts to $17,500.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Requires State Capitol Joint Management Commission display representation of Alice Paul in State Capitol building.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Establishes State Seal Task Force to review the State seal.
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.
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.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Permits notaries public to take oath before legislative members during declared state of emergency.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt pregnancy policy for law enforcement officers.
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to ceremony.
Imposes mandatory forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Bars enforcement of provision in decedent's will that would require euthanasia of healthy domestic companion animal.
Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Requires sexual assault forensic evidence to be preserved for 10 years.
Permits, under certain circumstances, person adjudged juvenile delinquent to expunge record for act which would have constituted robbery if committed by adult.
Authorizes VCCO to make payments to dependents of deceased victims in cases of strict liability for drug-induced deaths.
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.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Prohibits sale of crib bumpers.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Requires 9-1-1 call takers and dispatchers to receive certain certification.
The "Uniform Criminal Records Accuracy Act."
Authorizes counties to establish diversionary program for juveniles to attend New Jersey Youth Challenge Academy.
Requires DLPS to establish training program to prepare law enforcement to interact with autonomous vehicles.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Requires firearm transfer between members of immediate family be conducted through licensed retail firearm dealer.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at certain pharmacies and certain businesses with on site pharmacies.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DOBI to reimburse joint insurance funds for COVID-19 surveillance testing.
Prohibits motor vehicle liability insurance policy from restricting full payment of recovery amounts under covered person's policy.
Establishes New Jersey Forensic Science Planning Commission.
Expands definition of personal data to include use of reproductive health care services and prohibits collection of reproductive health care prescription drugs from Prescription Monitoring Program.
Concerns radon testing in certain schools and institutions of higher education.
Allows teaching experience to be considered for out-of-State individuals seeking licensure from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Allows for issuance of two-year temporary courtesy license for nonresident military spouses in certain professions.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Adds one dental assistant to membership of New Jersey State Board of Dentistry.
Makes FY2025 supplemental appropriation of $8,000,000 to Monmouth County Open Space and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to assist in the purchase of the Stein property in Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey.
Makes FY2025 supplemental appropriation of $400,000 from General fund for grant to nonprofit organization to support purchase of pet food for pet owners undergoing medical care.
Requires public high schools to display public awareness sign on human trafficking.
Makes $3 million supplemental appropriation for bonus awards for certain COVID-19 emergency essential frontline State workers of Local 195 International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
"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 State's non-emergency medical transportation brokerage program.
Revises law on extended employment programs for persons with disabilities.
Requires household members of firearm purchasers to receive background check.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $144.2 million to provide additional Outcomes-Based Allocation funding to four-year public institutions of higher education.
Establishes a senior citizens telephone chat-line.
Establishes framework for appointment of receiver for provider of services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Establishes certain governance and service standards for developmental disability service providers; appropriates $300,000.
Requires continued employment for physicians diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for testing for suspected dyslexia.
Reallocates fines incurred for violations of "Antwan's Law" to local municipality for law enforcement purposes.
Allows municipalities to adopt certain zoning ordinances pertaining to outdoor firing ranges.
Allows gross income tax credits to certain renters whose rent exceeds 35 percent of gross income.
Establishes Red Tape Review Task Force.
Permits certain members of Prosecutors Part of PERS to qualify for service retirement with 20 or more years of service.
Directs MVC Chief Administrator to enter into driver's license reciprocity agreement with Republic of Ireland.
Imposes additional curriculum for Intoxicated Driving Program; requires participation by offenders convicted of, or initially charged with DWI.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans Assistance Trust."
Revises statutory obligations of Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of New Jersey.
Establishes telecommunication fee to support Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care.
Requires municipalities to provide basic life support services; establishes basic life support services as essential.
Excludes salaries and wages for emergency response personnel from municipal appropriations cap.
"Public-Private Alliance to Retain Talent and Expand Regional Health Program Act"; creates grant program within DOH for student-loan and tuition relief and appropriates $5 million.
Requires certain age-restricted communities to provide remote meeting access.
Enacts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Shifts $45 million appropriation for opioid related care and treatment provided at certain hospitals from Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund to General Fund.
Expands services provided to homeless youth by street outreach, basic center shelter, and transitional living programs.
Requires appointment of State Human Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention Coordinator.
Provides for licensure of emergency medical responders and emergency medical technicians and certification of mobility assistance vehicle operators; revises requirements for delivery of emergency medical and patient transportation services.
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Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; appropriates $2.5 million.*
Allows complaint for guardianship of minor to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18 under certain circumstances; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.
Enhances enforcement authority over developmental disability service providers; establishes "Residential Facility Quality of Care Improvement Fund" in DHS.
Clarifies installation of ignition interlock devices for certain DWI offenses.
Revises certain references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in statutory and regulatory law; Requires health benefits coverage for certain immunizations recommended by DOH.*
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Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to professional counselors.*
Extends membership in TPAF to 10 years after discontinuance of service and to 15 years for those who were laid off or had 10 or more years of continuous service upon voluntary termination.*
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Requires VCCO to issue annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Establishes One-Year State Work First New Jersey Menstrual Hygiene Benefit Pilot Program and State Work First New Jersey Diaper Benefit Pilot Program; appropriates $2.5 million to DHS.*
Requires public transportation employees and certain motorbus operators to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.*
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Extends annual horse racing purse subsidies through State fiscal year 2029.
Authorizes school district that moves its annual school election to November to submit separate proposals for additional spending for budget year and subsequent budget year.
Provides DHS and State Board of Medical Examiners to develop and implement process to improve efficiency of reviewing NJ FamilyCare provider applications.
Provides for purchase of PFRS credit for service as class two special law enforcement officer.
Permits temporary appointment of additional members to the Board of Review in the Division of Employment Security.
Clarifies which health care professional may provide documentation to school district of need for home instruction due to student's health condition.*
Establishes limit on rent increase for certain dwelling sites for modular or industrialized buildings or manufactured homes.*
"Freedom to Read Act"; establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; protects school library staff members and librarians.*
Requires MVC to create digital driver's licenses and digital non-driver identification cards.*
Revises process for property tax lien holder to foreclose right to redeem a property tax lien; allows property owner to protect remaining equity.
"Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act."
Establishes Stabilized School Budget Aid Grant Program to restore certain portions of State school aid reductions; permits certain school districts to exceed tax levy growth limitation in 2024-2025 school year; appropriates $44.7 million.*
Eliminates fee for special plates for firefighters and members of first aid or rescue squads.
Establishes criminal penalties for certain violations of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act."
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2025.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2025; makes appropriation.
Makes various changes to powers and duties of NJ Infrastructure Bank.
Appropriates $101,696,535 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects; and for certain administrative expenses.
Increases hours required for individual to obtain licensure as teacher in cosmetology and hairstyling or as massage and bodywork therapist.
Establishes offense of inciting public brawl; upgrades penalty for disorderly conduct in certain circumstances.
Requires AG to establish training program for crowd management and provide resources to municipal police department or force for large gatherings and flash mobs.*
Revises statutes implementing certain property tax relief programs pursuant to recommendations promulgated by Stay NJ Task Force.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus certain real property and improvements in City of Camden in Camden County.
Requires AG to report data regarding shootings that did not result in bodily injury.
Permits court to take additional time to consider pretrial release or pretrial detention when firearm offense is involved.
Concerns rights of juvenile defendants who elect to be tried as adults.
Removes certain limitations on receipt of retirement or death benefits under PFRS under certain circumstances.*
Requires State Police to establish recovery leave policy for troopers presenting proof of pregnancy.*
Modernizes responsibilities of New Jersey Council of County Colleges.
Requires resident and fellow physicians employed by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, who are eligible for coverage in SHBP, to be eligible to enroll and receive health insurance on first day of employment.
Establishes "New Jersey Menopause Coverage Act"; requires health insurance coverage of medically necessary perimenopause and menopause treatments.
Provides medical documentation requirement for certain members of PERS, PFRS, and SPRS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations; removes filing deadline.*
Allows businesses to receive information via email concerning new regulations and economic incentives that affect business.
Directs BPU to study feasibility of developing advanced reactors Statewide.**
Prohibits municipal utilities authority from charging fire district and fire department water service charges for fire protection systems in certain circumstances.*
Permits individuals to establish voluntary nonopioid directives.
Establishes Next New Jersey Manufacturing Program to incentivize in-State manufacturing investments and job creation.
Establishes Air Traffic Controller Loan Redemption Program; supports partnership between public institution of higher education and federal Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative and establishment of Center for Study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena; appropriates $3.5 million.*
Establishes New Jersey Innovation Authority.
Provides for workers' compensation coverage of certain counseling services for first responders and provides that certain mental health related communications are confidential.
Allows certain motor vehicle franchisors to sell, lease, or assign vehicles to employees.
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Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
Requires pay for extracurricular activities to be included in compensation for TPAF purposes.
Extends deadline for completion of school district's annual audit for 2024-2025 school year.
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Authorizes creation and issuance of veteran license plates.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal anxiety.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election.*
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Requires Secretary of Agriculture to establish Farm to School Local Food Procurement Reimbursement Grant Program to reimburse school districts for costs expended in sourcing and procuring local foods for students; appropriates $4,500,000.*
Requires signs to be posted in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.*
Requires upcoming Educational Adequacy Report to include comprehensive review of certain components of school funding in consultation with certain stakeholders and experts.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.
Clarifies consent to being photographed, filmed, or recorded in a sexual manner does not include or imply consent to disclosure of image.
Protects access to assisted reproductive technology.
Requires licensed health care professionals providing prenatal care to offer and screen, upon request, pregnant patients with history of depression for postpartum depression.
Establishes "Mass Violence Care Fund."*
Establishes "Home Security Systems Anti-Burglary Task Force."
Requires Attorney General to conduct study tracking residential burglaries and issue guidance to law enforcement and public.
Allows sentencing to extended term for repeat convictions of receipt of stolen property.
Limits negotiated plea agreements for crime of burglary when firearm involved.
Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Extends statute of limitations for civil cases arising from human trafficking.**
Requires Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services in cases of iatrogenic infertility caused by medically necessary treatments.
Requires AG to review Statewide policy regarding investigation of human trafficking.
Broadens public awareness signage to include notices in Chinese and Korean.
Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Permits 30-calendar day extension to cure period for certain businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
Authorizes majority of Commission on Human Trafficking membership to exercise powers and duties of commission.
Requires appointment of State Dementia Services Coordinator; appropriates $150,000.
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for remediation of collapsed mine shafts and sinkholes on property owned by county or municipality.
Requires health benefits coverage for treatment of lipedema.
Modifies child endangerment statute to include AI technology; establishes criminal penalties.
Revises assessment imposed on nursing homes if permissible under federal law.
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Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Provides for expansion of county transportation services to include disabled veterans; provides funding source for expansion.*
Permits court to order counseling for children in households with domestic violence in appropriate cases; establishes presumption of award of custody to domestic violence victim in appropriate cases.
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.
Requires AG to establish rape kit tracking system.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Requires public and certain nonpublic schools to comply with breakfast and lunch standards adopted by USDA.**
Revises "Athletic Training Licensure Act."
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.*
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Broadens statute that criminalizes cyber-harassment of minor.
Creates offense for electronically sending unsolicited nude images.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Requires Commissioner of Department of Veterans Affairs to develop mobile application to provide guidance on available resources to veterans and their families.*
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.
Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow for service contracts to be paused or canceled following service recipient's admission to long-term care facility.*
Prohibits public officials from accepting virtual currency and non-fungible tokens as gifts.
Establishes advertisement grant program for emerging businesses in science and technology.
Establishes Deepfake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million.*
Makes various changes to "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act" and Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program; repeals "New Jersey Ignite Act."*
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Establishes Firefighter Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.
Requires counties to specify expenditures concerning veterans' services when submitting budget to Division of Local Government Services in DCA.
"Equitable Outcomes in Child Support Collection Act"; establishes procedures regarding collection of child support on behalf of children in custody of DCPP.
Provides gross income tax credit to active members of volunteer emergency service organizations for use of personal motor vehicle in performance of active duty.
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Revises statutory terms pertaining to sexual exploitation or abuse of children.
Limits availability of Child Care Facilities Improvement Program grants funded through Child Care Revitalization Act to licensed child care centers.
Renames Juvenile Justice Commission as Youth Justice Commission.
Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for public body to submit payroll records to DOLWD.*
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Establishes working hours for certain minors employed as professional athletes.*
Establishes penalties for employers who disclose or threaten to disclose employee's immigration status for purpose of concealing violation of State wage, benefit or tax laws.*
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey"; appropriates $5 million.**
Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on public works contract.
Designates State Highway Route 42 and Interstate Highway Route 295 interchange as "Ensign John R. Elliott Memorial Interchange."*
Requires DOE to establish working group on student literacy; mandates universal literacy screenings for kindergarten through grade three students; requires professional development for certain school district employees.*
Establishes "Motor Vehicle Open Recall Notice and Fair Compensation Act"; revises motor vehicle franchise agreements.**
Allows pharmacists to transfer Schedule II attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder prescriptions.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2025.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to create report on human trafficking related to 2026 FIFA World Cup; appropriates $1 million.*
Revises various provisions of film and digital media content production tax credit program.*
Establishes Next New Jersey Program for artificial intelligence investments.
Appropriates $10,067,905 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes, and for certain administrative expenses.
Requires employer to disclose information concerning leave eligibility in hiring package.
Concerns law protecting residential tenants from lead-based paint hazards.
Requires construction project applicants to disclose project financing.
Upgrades cyber-harassment of public servant or family member to third degree crime; requires Attorney General to establish cyber-harassment prevention initiatives; appropriates funds.*
"Climate Superfund Act"; imposes liability on certain fossil fuel companies for certain damages caused by climate change and establishes program in DEP to collect and distribute compensatory payments.
Provides monies for EDA to purchase certain properties from NJT to maximize development potential; appropriates $65 million.
Upgrades, and in some circumstances provides for extended terms of imprisonment for, certain retail theft crimes, addresses gift card fraud, and authorizes new Attorney General initiatives to address organized retail theft.*
Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.
Concerns grade options at public institutions of higher education for service member and dependents unable to complete course due to military obligation.
Enhances protections under Law Against Discrimination for persons serving in military and military veterans.
Appropriates $60 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Upgrades penalties for certain prostitution crimes; creates crimes of leader of prostitution network and participant in prostitution network.
Creates Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission, Office of Healthcare Affordability and Transparency, and hospital price transparency regulations.*
Requires owner or operator of data center to submit water and energy usage report to BPU.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2026.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects in FY2026.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2026; makes appropriation.
Requires key boxes at public school buildings with certain exceptions; appropriates $2.5 million for reimbursement of costs related to key box installation.*
Establishes Chronic Absenteeism Task Force.
Permits awarding of contracts for certain preschool education services by resolution of board of education; extends maximum length of preschool education services contracts to three years.
Eliminates sales tax on baby necessities and sunscreen.
Establishes grant program in DOE for public schools to purchase and install point-of-use filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets.
Appropriates $107,999,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition, park development, and planning projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Provides for publication of required legal notices on government Internet websites and through certain online news publications.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
Establishes new mitigating factor, reduced sentencing, and resentencing for certain defendants who are victims of abuse.
Provides expungement process for certain defendants who are victims of abuse if conviction is substantially related to abuse.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans and Military Spouses Asset Protection Act."
Expands New Jersey's certificate of need exemption list.
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Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Requires State employer to ascertain child abuse or sexual misconduct in employment applications for certain positions involving children; requires background checks for current and prospective employees.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Establishes three-year pilot program in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Union counties for electronic monitoring of certain offenders; appropriates $15 million.*
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Exempts experienced volunteer firefighters from certain requirements.*
Requires annual inspections of certain veterinary facilities.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Requires certain community residential facilities have standby emergency power generators.
"Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act."
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Allows municipalities to transfer inactive alcoholic beverage retail licenses for use in certain redevelopment and revitalization areas; establishes procedure to transfer inactive retail licenses.
Allows certain State professional and occupational licensees to work from remote location under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires annual State debt affordability analysis be included in State Debt Report.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings under the gross income tax.
Allows for credit against contract cost for primary care services managed by health care provider for public employees and their dependents; allows referrals to other providers that have contractual relationship with such health care provider.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee."
Revises definition of child abuse or neglect to include additional perpetrators; establishes requirements concerning provision of services to children who engage in problematic sexual behaviors.
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP under FY 2024 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Revises method for appraisals of farmland to be acquired for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes matching grant program in DCA to support community-based nonprofit organizations that provide shelter services during Code Blue alerts.
Requires retired law enforcement officers to qualify in use of firearm once a year.
Requires health insurance coverage for annual mental health screening.
Requires annual suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
"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.
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.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
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.
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Permits DOC and DCF to award contracts for medical and dental services to vendors.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
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 pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach regarding VCCO.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
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 institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
Establishes "Resiliency and Environmental System Investment Charge Program."
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Exempts customer with account for electronic toll collection system, commonly known as E-ZPass, from certain fees if motor vehicle is stolen.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
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.
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Includes certain armed security officers regulated by "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law" in crimes of assault and disarming an officer.
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based on certain factors.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Establishes fund for DEP for Blue Acres acquisition and relocation projects; appropriates $25 million.
Revises inspection requirements for long-term care facilities.
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.
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.
Requires DEP and Drinking Water Quality Institute to perform study concerning regulation and treatment of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Requires DEP to perform certain assessments concerning regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Requires NJT to expand or modify routes and hours of certain transportation services and to solicit input from individuals diagnosed with autism.
Requires EDA to create needs-matching website for eligible entities.
Requires calculation of national average time needed to approve applications for initial credential in profession or occupation and use of average time as standard in New Jersey.
Establishes NJ State Parks and Open Space Foundation.
Allows gross income tax deduction for amounts paid for removal of lead, asbestos, sodium, chloride, and other contaminants from taxpayer's property.
Waives certain commercial driver license fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols.
Eliminates fee for filing certified copy of name change order.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Permits layoff plans as substitute for employment reconciliation plans for joint meetings or shared service agreements under certain circumstances.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
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."
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Requires redaction and nondisclosure of home address of elected officials and candidates for elected office.
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.
Requires availability of accessible mail-in ballot for voters with disabilities.
Requires copies of certain law enforcement records to be provided to victims of domestic violence upon request.
Establishes nonpublic school transportation program to provide funding to consortiums of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing.
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
Requires boards of education, municipalities, counties, and certain other local contracting units to determine and utilize cost-saving practices when procuring goods and services.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Provides service credit for PERS member for former membership in transit retirement program.
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Designates drug court program as the "special probation recovery court program" in statutes.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
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.
Adjusts certain public contract bid thresholds.
Establishes sales and events privileges for certain alcoholic beverage manufacturers.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification; establishes criminal history record background check process.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Requires public and nonpublic schools with lunch programs to provide free lunch to increasing numbers of income-eligible students and, after five-year phase-in, to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of income or federal eligibility.
Requires certain nonpublic schools to provide meals to all students under "Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act"; authorizes limited expansion of income eligibility to qualify public and nonpublic school students for free lunch.
Provides for retained eligibility for members of NJ National Guard or reserve component called to active federal military service who met fire department maximum age requirement at closing date of civil service examination.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Prohibits retaliation against inmates in State correctional facilities who report sexual abuse; criminalizes retaliation and failure to report abuse.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Permits dogs as service and emotional support animals at State veterans' residential facilities.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during public health emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visitation.
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.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Establishes that law enforcement officer who chokes another utilizes deadly force.
Assigns financial responsibility of educating homeless student to district of attendance.
Establishes Safe Haven Homeless Housing Program; appropriates $30 million.
Requires State Planning Commission to adopt model ordinance for siting certain warehouses and permits conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances and establishes fund in DCA; appropriates $5 million.
Requires DHS and DOH to submit federal waivers to cover menstrual products under NJ FamilyCare, SNAP, WIC and establishes State funded benefit if federal waiver is denied; appropriates $2 million for State benefit.
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Provides for certain pediatric NJ FamilyCare beneficiaries to maintain private duty nursing hours when transitioning to Managed Long Term Services and Supports; codifies and expands appeals provisions for private duty nursing services.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.
Requires Police Training Commission to study gender disparity in police employment and issue recommendations.
Provides certain resources to county prosecutors for enforcement of law regarding failure to pay wages; makes appropriation.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage programs for overburdened communities; makes change to community solar program.
Concerns discrimination based on membership in a labor organization.
Authorizes provision of monetary awards to whistleblowers who report State tax law violations committed by employers in construction industry.
Provides that contracts between subscribers and attorney in fact are not a related party transaction.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other states.
Requires certain high-traffic facilities to obtain permit from DEP and annually implement measures to reduce air pollution caused by facility.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying coverage of nonopioid prescription drugs in favor of opioid prescription drugs.
Eliminates prohibition on paper bags, and allows packaging options, for certain grocery orders for three years; requires program for disposition of reusable bags; extends timeframe for use of certain bags by food banks and pantries.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Increases penalties for denying access to public facilities, NJT, and transportation network companies to service dogs and their handlers.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Restores Department of Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch.
Permits court to order counseling for children in households with domestic violence in appropriate cases; establishes presumption of award of custody to domestic violence victim in appropriate cases.
Dedicates 50 percent of revenues collected from additional fees and taxes imposed on real property transfers valued over $1 million to Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
"Dementia Dignity and Advance Care Planning Act."
Directs BPU to establish virtual power plant program to reduce peak demand for electric energy.
Establishes Civil Air Patrol Fund to be supported by annual appropriations of $100,000; appropriates $100,000.