Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Robert D. Clifton
Sponsored
In committee24
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Provides emergency State school aid to certain school districts located in historic communities.
Requires use of direct deposit and Internet for State, local government, and school district employee compensation and certain retirement payments and information.
Permits counties to charge a fee to fund infrastructure through voter approval.
Requires disclosure of original purchase price for land to be sold to a county, county agriculture development board, or municipality for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes Division of Travel and Tourism to accept gifts and grants to promote NJ tourism.
Authorizes NJ Historical Commission to establish program to promote developing historic projects on website and collect donations for projects on behalf of historic site or organization.
Requires omnibus drivers to inspect bus at end of route for passengers with disabilities.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Requires DOT to conduct study and issue report on use of rock salt on roadways.
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Includes certain canvassing and solicitation activities as violation of consumer fraud act.
Disqualifies person with certain number of motor vehicle points from operating school bus for certain period of time.
Requires school buses be equipped with certain technology to avoid crashes.
Requires school bus drivers to pass physical performance test to operate school bus.
Establishes certain requirements concerning resident supervision at residential health care facilities.
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicles when purchasing new vehicles.
Prohibits modification of mufflers and exhaust systems to produce audible sounds; increases penalties for violations.
Prohibits use of fireworks under certain circumstances.
Requires court to consider additional factors in awarding custody of child.
Requires detailed disclosure of information concerning required payments in lieu of property taxes to be provided to purchaser of real property constructed pursuant to financial agreement containing long term tax exemption.
Establishes one-time grant program to support implementation of free, full-day kindergarten programs in certain school districts; appropriates $5 million.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 35 in Laurence Harbor as "James Francisco and Walter Schmidt Memorial Roadway."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Extends annual horse racing purse subsidies through State fiscal year 2029.
Establishes limit on rent increase for certain dwelling sites for modular or industrialized buildings or manufactured homes.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for biomarker precision medical testing.*
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Establishes eligibility requirements for State small business set-aside program.
Modifies list of transportation infrastructure projects eligible to receive loans from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2025.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.*
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Out of committee · 14
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
"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 certain State employees to receive training in cybersecurity best practices.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Establishes crime of doxxing.
Makes certain changes to calculation of minimum loss ratio requirements for health benefits plans in individual and small employer markets.
Establishes "Motor Vehicle Open Recall Notice and Fair Compensation Act"; revises motor vehicle franchise agreements.**
Authorizes certain types of permanent structures, recently constructed or erected on preserved farmland, to be used, in certain cases, for purposes of holding special occasion events thereon.
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.*
Establishes "Jersey Craft Beverage Retailer Promotion and Grant Program" in EDA.*
Appropriates $52,798,268 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and other farmland preservation funds to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 104
Designates, as State and public holiday, September 11 as Patriot Day.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Makes it a crime of the first degree to coerce a patient to request medication pursuant to the "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act" or to forge a patient's request for such medication.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Requires DEP and owners of certain reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures; authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs levels in response to severe weather events.
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.
Provides research and development tax credit under gross income tax.
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Concerns valuation of property condemned for dune construction or beach replenishment.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Requires COAH to administer affordable housing obligations of municipalities based on statewide obligation.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevelopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Prohibits affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Requires issuance of tourniquets to law enforcement officers; requires emergency service vehicles be equipped with tourniquets.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Increases gross income tax deduction for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Revises method for appraisals of farmland to be acquired for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes certain exceptions for emergency personnel operating personal watercraft while providing rescue services.
Extends eligibility for property tax benefits to veterans, 100 percent service-disabled veterans, and senior citizens and persons with disabilities who pay payments in lieu of property taxes.
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 annual appropriations act to extend ANCHOR benefits to certain individuals who make payments in lieu of property taxes.
Includes payments in lieu of property taxes eligible as property taxes under the homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Requires DOLWD to process unemployment claims within two weeks of filing.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Delays fourth round of affordable housing obligations, including present and prospective need and related litigation, until July 1, 2028.
Establishes School Funding Commission to study school funding formula and prepare report that will serve as basis of new formula.
Requires schools to be used as polling places only if other public, private, or commercial locations are not available.
Increases, from 18 percent to 30 percent, amount of rental payments defined as rent constituting property taxes for purposes of deduction from gross income for property tax payments.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
Requires NJT to provide Wi-Fi service on passenger trains.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Authorizes holder of limited brewery license to engage in certain activities.
Removes criminal liability for law enforcement officers who have investigative encounter with underage person for possession of alcohol or cannabis unless civil rights are violated.
Prohibits use of fireworks on property adjacent to animal shelter, pound, or kennel.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Requires DEP to develop, and solid waste management districts to use, standardized labels for recycling bins.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Requires law enforcement officers and recruits to undergo self-defense training; appropriates $250,000 to Police Training Commission.
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.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Creates temporary grant program for electric vehicle fire suppression technology.
Establishes loan redemption program and gross income tax credit for mental health professionals who serve children and adolescents.
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.
Provides that salary and other costs associated with Commissioner of Education's appointment of State monitor and other staff under "School District Fiscal Accountability Act" will be paid by State.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Amends appropriations act to provide funding for restoration of State school aid reductions for certain school districts; shifts $64,920,000 from certain appropriations for purposes of restoring aid; provides supplemental appropriation of $145,215,047.
Requires AG to repeal law enforcement directive restricting law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Concerns applicability of sales tax to certain horse-boarding charges in New Jersey.
Permits school districts to receive loans from State to support operating budget under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Jersey Vines Program" in Department of Agriculture.
Allows exclusion of certain small business income from taxation under gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Provides gross income tax credits for portion of homeowners' association payments used in fund infrastructure improvements within common interest communities.
Establishes Veterans Assistance for Nutritional Needs Program in DHS.
Requires SADC and any local board acquiring farmland for preservation purposes to provide partial payment to landowner, in advance of settlement, to demonstrate good faith intent to proceed with settlement and acquisition.
Modifies requirements for associations to protect structural integrity of certain buildings; expands timeframes for associations to establish adequate reserves.
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
"Small Modular Nuclear Energy Incentive Act."
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies of cooperation with federal immigration officials.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Modifies cost thresholds for reimbursement of extraordinary special education costs; requires State to bear full cost of nonpublic school transportation for certain school districts.
Requires appointment of State monitor to school districts that receive 70 percent or more of revenue from State aid.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.
Requires certain law enforcement entities and courts to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Requires DEP and New Jersey Infrastructure Bank to provide priority for principal forgiveness on environmental infrastructure project loans to municipalities in coastal areas.
Prohibits certain electric public utility rate increases and requires certain protections for ratepayers.
Expands available protections against fraudulent recording of quitclaim deed.
Prohibits health care professionals from providing gender-affirming health care services to persons under 21 years of age.
Lowers age which family court may waive jurisdiction of juvenile delinquency case.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Directs DCA to establish grants division to oversee grant administration, establish grants application portal, and implement public information campaign.
"Honoring and Listening to Our First Responders Act"; establishes offense of interfering with official duties of first responder under certain circumstances.
Requires employer to provide one additional paid sick day per benefit year to paid first responders for healthcare diagnostic testing.
Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.
Prohibits forcibly feeding certain poultry for production of foie gras.
Modifies definition of Class I renewable energy to include nuclear fission; provides CBT tax credit for production of clean baseload power.
Requires Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of on-farm dairy processing activities.
Requires DCA to resume Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation, and Mitigation program with remaining funds for unmet recovery and rebuilding needs for Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.
Requires governing board of public school to verify employment eligibility of teaching staff members and school employees.
Sets flat gross income tax rate at 5.9 percent tax for all taxable income over $37,500 or $75,000, depending on filing status; exempts taxpayers with less income from gross income tax.
Revises contiguous acre requirement for farmland assessment eligibility under certain circumstances.
Establishes farmland assessment certification for tax assessors, online portal system for farmland assessment applications, and hotline for reporting farmland assessment fraud; increases on-site inspections for farmland under 10 acres in area and rollback tax.
Authorizes County Agriculture Development Boards to establish program to receive and lease donated farmland to new farms, establishes gross income tax credit for farmers who donate land.
Revises certain requirements concerning grants to fund soil and water conservation projects on preserved farms.
Authorizes creation of 25th anniversary of 9/11 license plates.
Designates salt water taffy as New Jersey State Candy.