Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, General Assembly.
Carol A. Murphy
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides for representation of Burlington County on SJTA.
Establishes fee on certain employers that employ individuals who receive health benefits coverage through State Medicaid program.
Passed both houses1
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Passed the General Assembly10
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.*
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Allows for issuance of two-year temporary courtesy license for nonresident military spouses in certain professions.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for persons in crisis.*
Enters New Jersey into Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund." and "Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account."*
Makes it fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.
Establishes crime of fertility fraud.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing and treatments to slow progression of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Out of committee8
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Requires municipalities to provide basic life support services; establishes basic life support services as essential.
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Requires collection of DNA sample for certain arrests. *
Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Authorizes provision of residential mental health services in residential substance use disorders treatment facility or program under specified hospital affiliation and clinical support criteria.
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.
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.
In committee268
Establishes certain requirements for asserting cause of action under consumer fraud act and limits awarding of attorneys' fees.
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 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.
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Establishes "Property Tax Study Commission" to examine New Jersey's property tax structure and develop recommendations for reducing residential property tax burden.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
"Pet Insurance Act."
Requires health insurance coverage of prescribed anti-obesity medication.
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.
"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.
Establishes Safe Haven Homeless Housing Program; appropriates $30 million.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
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.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
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.
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.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
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 pharmacies and certain businesses with on-site pharmacies.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes Office of Professional Corporate Guardians.
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.
Creates New Jersey Board of Paramedicine.
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.
Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride-sharing and delivery technology platforms.
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 of 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.
Prohibits approving authority from approving construction of certain warehouses on lot of land within 1,000 feet of historic district.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $144.2 million to provide additional Outcomes-Based Allocation funding to four-year public institutions of higher education.
Codifies Medicaid coverage for eligible pregnant women for 365-day period beginning on last day of pregnancy.
Establishes a senior citizens telephone chat-line.
Enhances enforcement authority over developmental disability service providers; establishes "Residential Facility Quality of Care Improvement Fund" in DHS.
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.
Directs DHS to establish Children's Partial Hospitalization Pilot Program.
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.
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.
Prohibits State agency from entering into certain State contracts that limit ability of State agency to install or run certain software.
Requires State Capitol Joint Management Commission display representation of Alice Paul in State Capitol building.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Exempts handwritten signature from public disclosure; requires redaction when posted on Internet.
Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Requires sign language interpreters for sessions and committee meetings of Legislature.
Permits voter registration at age 16, under certain conditions.
Establishes Vaisakhi and Bandi Chhor Divas as public holidays in this State.
Establishes State Seal Task Force to review the State seal.
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.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Permits certain State employees to receive unpaid and paid leave to be census enumerators.
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.
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for early principal payments on certain home mortgages.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Amends statutory definition of "abused child."
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Establishes permanent task force to review and guide implementation of process improvement programs for government entities based on Lean Six Sigma management approach.
Establishes certain exclusions and credits under gross income and corporation business taxes for contributions to lifelong learning accounts.
Doubles amount of State child tax credit; raises age and income eligibility criteria needed to receive credit.
Reduces threshold for filing annual disclosure statement with ELEC from $50,000 in public contracts to $17,500.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Establishes NJ Forensic Science Laboratory at Rutgers University-Camden; appropriates up to $500,000.
Requires each State agency make State forms, applications, and other documents available in certain languages, including Gujarati, Korean, and Punjabi.
Establishes State Commission on Minority Affairs within Department of State.
Clarifies that application to collocate wireless communications equipment be reviewed by administrative officer.
Establishes five-year housing advisory plan.
New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15 million to DMVA for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for facilities expansion.
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires each county and municipality to adopt anti-sexual harassment policy.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Establishes the "School District Shared Services Task Force."
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Allows interment of cremated pet remains in certain cemeteries.
Requires Attorney General to establish Human Trafficking Unit in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
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.
Prohibits use of license plate flipping device; increases penalty for displaying fictitious registration plate number in certain circumstances.
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.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Requires all elected or appointed municipal and county officials to complete annual ethics training.
Provides civil penalties for campaign advertisements containing "deepfake" misrepresentations of candidates.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Requires insurance carriers offering dental benefit plans to provide certain level of coverage and reimbursement.
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.
Imposes mandatory forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Requires DVA conduct outcomes and efficacy study of veteran to veteran peer support helpline.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain totally and permanently disabled veterans for rent constituting property taxes.
Creates Veterans Affairs Oversight Board.
Requires DMA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Shifts $45 million appropriation for opioid related care and treatment provided at certain hospitals from Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund to General Fund.
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
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.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
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.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
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 Business Action Center to establish "Entrepreneur Learner's Permit Pilot Program" for certain designated industries.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Provides that law enforcement officers appointed by educational institutions, NJT, and Burlington County Bridge Commission are entitled to certain statutory rights and privileges.
Prohibits sale of crib bumpers.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt pregnancy policy for law enforcement officers.
Requires New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell to study cybersecurity infastructure and establish cybersecurity guidelines.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Authorizes VCCO to make payments to dependents of deceased victims in cases of strict liability for drug-induced deaths.
Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
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 pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Establishes grant program in DOE for school districts to implement animal therapy programs.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Creates New Jersey Dog Trainer Licensure Board.
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.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Establishes "Common Interest Community Task Force."
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Expands DCA oversight over common interest communities; establishes trust fund, advisory council, and ombudsman office.
Revises civil remedies for victims of invasion of privacy due to unauthorized recording or disclosure of sexual or intimate images.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Permits notaries public to take oath before legislative members during declared state of emergency.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Provides that denial of services by domestic violence shelters based on a person's disability or perceived disability is unlawful discrimination.
Bars enforcement of provision in decedent's will that would require euthanasia of healthy domestic companion animal.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Creates "New Jersey Kratom Protection Act."
Permits, under certain circumstances, person adjudged juvenile delinquent to expunge record for act which would have constituted robbery if committed by adult.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to ceremony.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Requires State to reimburse school districts for costs of transporting homeless students.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires movie theaters to provide effective communication devices for individuals with visual or hearing impairment; expands protections under "Law Against Discrimination."
Prohibits administration of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to employ three geriatric social workers to serve New Jersey's long-term care residents and makes appropriation.
Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
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.
Requires, or sanctions, as appropriate, financial institutions to take certain action when senior or vulnerable customers make certain financial transactions.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone for pain treatment without step therapy or fail-first protocols.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Requires sexual assault forensic evidence to be preserved for 10 years.
Requires municipalities to accept complaints and provide certain municipal announcements by electronic means.
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 local units of government to provide access to "user-friendly" budget information through link included on home page Internet site.
Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.
Requires placement of portable FDA-approved anti-choking devices in schools.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on Arts.
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
Requires SHBP coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for covered persons.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
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.
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.
Extends eligibility for tuition benefit to dependents of members of United States Armed Forces who died while on active duty.
Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
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 task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Provides that student is ineligible for State financial aid upon conviction for hazing.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Establishes three-year Medicaid demonstration project to pay for certain drugs according to value-based system.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
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 "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.
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.
Exempts certain veterans from field or live-fire range portion of hunter gun safety course.
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.
Authorizes any member of the Legislature to perform all functions of notary public.
Allows certain appointing authorities in Civil Service to hire from or promote within top five eligible candidates for law enforcement officer titles.
Authorizes parking privileges for certain immediate family members of persons with dementia.
Prohibits fur farming.
Authorizes direct shipping by craft distilleries.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
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.
Authorizes visiting advanced practice nurses who are not certified by endorsement in New Jersey to engage in the limited practice of prescribing medications and devices, if they have appropriate educational qualifications.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
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.
Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
Exempts Purple Heart recipients from payment of motor vehicle registration, driver's license, and identification card fees.
Requires DOT to confirm availability and prioritize establishment of park-and-ride options near major warehouse facilities.
Requires BPU to hold monthly in-person or virtual seminars to provides customers with certain information concerning electric power and gas suppliers.
"Smart Planning Wireless and Water Public Utility Facilities Act"; incentivizes placement of wireless communications equipment on water public utility towers.
Requires certain public utilities to provide customers notice of certain utility work that could impact traffic.
Requires certain customer identification to be presented to electric power or gas supplier if customer switches services.
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.
Concerns parking spaces restricted for persons with disabilities located near youth athletic fields.
Prohibits water companies from assessing more than one charge per fire hydrant to fire departments, fire districts, or volunteer fire companies for use of fire hydrants.
Requires certain water companies to provide representative of fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company access to fire hydrants for water flow rate testing purposes.
Establishes Task Force on Development and Implementation of Multi-Sector Plan on Aging.
Establishes grant program in DOT to subsidize purchase and installation of supplemental catalytic converters.
Requires coverage of clinician-administered drugs without additional financial penalties or certain limitations on location of administration of drugs.
Revises Commission on Women Veterans.
Appropriates $500,000 to New Jersey Ireland Trade Commission.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million from General Fund to DHS to support Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Centers within 9-8-8 Continuum of Care.
Adjusts monthly Medicaid capitation rate for participants in Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly.
Requires forest stewardship plan for certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Expands services provided to homeless youth by street outreach, basic center shelter, and transitional living programs.
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.
Removes licensing restrictions for expansion of certain inpatient behavioral health units and establishes minimum reimbursement rate for inpatient behavioral health care services.
Establishes "Tom's Friends with ALS Bill of Rights" Act.
Expands responsibilities of Newborn Screening Advisory Review Committee.
Filed1
Provides for regulation of dental therapists.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Authorizes creation of pilot program to offer residential mental health treatment services under specified hospital affiliation and clinical support criteria.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Bans unauthorized restaurant reservation arrangement by third-party reservation service.
Authorizes DOH to establish partnerships in international public health.
"Power NJ Act"; establishes advanced nuclear energy procurement program in BPU.
Passed the General Assembly · 22
Permits 30-calendar day extension to cure period for certain businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Requires AG to review Statewide policy regarding investigation of human trafficking.
Upgrades penalties for certain prostitution crimes; creates crimes of leader of prostitution network and participant in prostitution network.
Broadens public awareness signage to include notices in Chinese and Korean.
Creates "Patient and Provider Protection Act."*
Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying coverage of nonopioid prescription drugs in favor of opioid prescription drugs.
Revises provisions of State law concerning licensure of ambulatory care facility.
Prohibits telecommunications, utility or cable television companies from charging certain customers prior to actual billing due date.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to make changes to certain polices regarding the provision of family support and respite care services for certain eligible individuals.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Directs DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.*
Requires signs to be posted in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Requires law enforcement to notify State Parole Board when parolee violates domestic violence restraining order.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Requires creation of license plates that allow disabled veterans to park in parking spots reserved for persons with disabilities.
Provides that contracts between subscribers and attorney in fact are not related party transactions.
Requires private detectives to register their foreign employers with State Police.
Permits certain for-profit movie theaters to sell alcoholic beverages under specified conditions.*
"Safe Commercial Routes Act - Commercial Driver Human Trafficking Awareness Training"; requires applicants for commercial driver licenses and drivers renewing commercial driver licenses to complete human trafficking awareness training.
Establishes that Superintendent of State Police holds rank of Colonel of State Police; permits appointment of retirant without reenrollment in SPRS.
Clarifies establishments required to display human trafficking public awareness signs.
Out of committee · 31
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault for State-employed civil investigators.
Provides for expansion of county transportation services to include disabled veterans; provides funding source for expansion.
"Dementia Dignity and Advance Care Planning Act."
"Lyme Screening Act."
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 DOH to study cost of establishing long-term health care benefit for certain individuals.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.
Waives certain commercial driver license fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
"Stop Sepsis Act"; requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols, train staff, and establish quality measures.*
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.*
Requires Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services in cases of iatrogenic infertility caused by medically necessary treatments.
Requires DOH to develop Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan.
Protects access to assisted reproductive technology.
Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Modifies child endangerment statute to include AI technology; establishes criminal penalties.
Establishes Deepfake Technology Unit in DLPS. *
Concerns sexual assault complaints.*
Limits perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in menstrual products.*
Establishes requirements for on-demand micro transit programs operating in NJ.
Eliminates statute of limitations for human trafficking and criminal sexual contact prosecutions and eliminates statute of limitations for civil cases arising from human trafficking.*
Requires NJ FamilyCare reimbursement for pediatric medication management services provided for certain children by licensed pharmacist.
Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.
Supplements FY2027 Appropriations Act; makes $10 million off-budget appropriation to NJSHARES - S.M.A.R.T. Program.*
"Polluters Pay to Make New Jersey More Affordable Act"; imposes cost recovery payments on certain fossil fuel companies for funds needed for climate change adaptation; establishes program in DEP to collect and oversee distribution of funds.**
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Establishes "New Jersey Private Contractor Registration Act;" appropriates $1.5 million.*
Makes certain changes to regulation of health care service firms.
Expands criminal and civil penalties for human trafficking, and expands human trafficking training requirements for law enforcement.*
Enters NJ into Athletic Trainer Compact.
Increases personal needs allowance for certain individuals by annual rate of inflation.
In committee · 183
"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.
Authorizes provision of monetary awards to whistleblowers who report State tax law violations committed by employers in construction industry.
Establishes Governor's Survivor Leader Advisory Council in DOH; requires council to create report on human trafficking and 2026 FIFA World Cup; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemption.
Allows certain motor vehicle franchisors to sell, lease, or assign vehicles to employees.
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Concerns definition of veteran for civil service hiring preference.
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.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Eliminates fee for special plates for firefighters and members of first aid or rescue squads.
Requires State Police to establish recovery leave policy for troopers presenting proof of pregnancy.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Increases penalties for denying access to public facilities, NJT, and transportation network companies to service dogs and their handlers.
Requires AG to establish training program for crowd management and provide resources to municipal police department or force for large gatherings and flash mobs.
Directs BPU to study feasibility of developing advanced reactors Statewide.
Broadens statute that criminalizes cyber-harassment of minor.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Concerns rights of juvenile defendants who elect to be tried as adults.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.
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.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Establishes that law enforcement officer who chokes another utilizes deadly force.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Creates Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission, Office of Healthcare Affordability and Transparency, and hospital price transparency regulations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
Requires institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
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.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Requires counties to specify expenditures concerning veterans' services when submitting budget to Division of Local Government Services in DCA.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Eliminates fee for filing certified copy of name change order.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Requires employer to disclose information concerning leave eligibility in hiring package.
Restores Department of Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Allows businesses to receive information via email concerning new regulations and economic incentives that affect business.
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.
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 criminal penalties for certain violations of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act."
Modernizes responsibilities of New Jersey Council of County Colleges.
Requires disclosure by applicants for State employment of previous or ongoing criminal investigations.
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.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Provides gross income tax credit to active members of volunteer emergency service organizations for use of personal motor vehicle in performance of active duty.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement of mental health rehabilitation services provided via clubhouse program.
Requires AG to report data regarding shootings that did not result in bodily injury.
Permits individuals to establish voluntary nonopioid directives.
Eliminates sales tax on baby necessities and sunscreen.
Clarifies consent to being photographed, filmed, or recorded in a sexual manner does not include or imply consent to disclosure of image.
Permits court to take additional time to consider pretrial release or pretrial detention when firearm offense is involved.
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.
Requires public transportation employees and certain motorbus operators to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
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.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes Firefighter Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Requires upcoming Educational Adequacy Report to include comprehensive review of certain components of school funding in consultation with certain stakeholders and experts.
Establishes "Home Security Systems Anti-Burglary Task Force."
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Allows sentencing to extended term for repeat convictions of receipt of stolen property.
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 certain high-traffic facilities to obtain permit from DEP and annually implement measures to reduce air pollution caused by facility.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Requires retired law enforcement officers to qualify in use of firearm once a year.
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.
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.
Requires NJT to expand or modify routes and hours of certain transportation services and to solicit input from individuals diagnosed with autism.
Prohibits public officials from accepting virtual currency and non-fungible tokens as gifts.
Establishes advertisement grant program for emerging businesses in science and technology.
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.
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.
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.
Requires DEP to perform certain assessments concerning regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Directs BPU to establish virtual power plant program to reduce peak demand for electric energy.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Limits negotiated plea agreements for crime of burglary when firearm involved.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Requires public utility to charge nonprofit organization residential rate.
Requires appointment of State Dementia Services Coordinator; appropriates $150,000.
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 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.
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.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based on certain factors.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Establishes fund in DEP for Blue Acres acquisition and relocation projects; appropriates $25 million.
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.
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.
Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election.
Requires boards of education, municipalities, counties, and certain other local contracting units to determine and utilize cost-saving practices when procuring goods and services.
Revises assessment imposed on nursing homes if permissible under federal law.
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 homeless persons.
"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.
Requires construction project applicants to disclose project financing.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Creates offense for electronically sending unsolicited nude image.
Permits dogs as service and emotional support animals at State veterans' residential facilities.
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.
Prohibits public institution of higher education from charging tuition to student who is dependent child of veteran who died or is disabled as result of service-related injury.
Codifies Bringing Veterans Home Initiative.
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.
Revises process for submission of annual school district audits.
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.
Requires health benefits coverage for treatment of lipedema.
Establishes Civil Air Patrol Fund to be supported by annual appropriations of $100,000; appropriates $100,000.
Requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on menstrual toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of menstrual toxic shock syndrome.
Establishes advertisement set-asides for eligible local news organizations.
Establishes men's health commission in DOH.
Establishes NJ Council on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
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.
Regulates use of artificial intelligence-based systems for electronic monitoring regarding employment and public services.
Establishes grant program to support costs of presentations on risks of nicotine and vaping in public schools; appropriates $500,000.
"Public School Employees' Health Benefits Trust Act."
Makes various changes to SHBP governance and administration.
Prohibits DOH from conducting unscheduled inspections of emergency medical service transport vehicles under certain circumstances.
Makes FY2027 supplemental appropriation of $455,000 to DOH for NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders.
Strengthens detection of, and support measures for individuals diagnosed with, pancreatic cancer.
Expands oversight and transparency of funds received by State and local entities due to national opioid settlements.
Authorizes volunteer emergency medical technician reimbursement for criminal background checks from Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund.
Dedicates portion of funds in Casino Revenue Fund to DHS for centers providing certain services to State residents with disabilities.