Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Wayne P. DeAngelo
Sponsored
Became law5
Concerns conditions of employment of certain cannabis employees.**
Permits purchase of service credit in SPRS for period of enrollment in military service academy and in New Jersey State Police Academy, and employment as class two special law enforcement officer.
Requires BPU to procure and incentivize transmission-scale energy storage.
Provides for permit of pool and spa service business as general contractor for pool and spa building and installation and pool and spa service contracting.
Provides for State agency reviews and increases of income thresholds for residential customers to participate in certain utility bill payment assistance and energy efficiency programs.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires public water systems to provide certain notice of boil water notices.*
Directs certain unclaimed electric, gas, and water public utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit public utility assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Requires BPU to develop program to promote certain energy businesses in State.*
Imposes locational restriction on construction of a new crematory.
Out of committee20
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.
Provides tuition fee waiver for certain apprenticeship courses.*
Provides for expansion of county transportation services to include disabled veterans; provides funding source for expansion.*
Requires employers to post information concerning veterans' benefits and services.
Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations; appropriates $750,000.
Changes membership of board of trustees of SPRS to remove requirement that two members be private citizens.
Permits purchase of service credit in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, and SPRS for period of enrollment in military service academy.
Expands Division of State Police rank and grade titles.
Appropriates $393,480,000 from "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.
Requires contractor subject to prevailing wage law to provide orientation meeting to new employee on prevailing wage project.
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for sex offenses committed against minor.
Requires State agencies that administer utility bill payment assistance or energy efficiency programs to review, and potentially increase, income thresholds for residential customers to participate in programs.*
Permits certain local units to enter into project labor agreements for public works projects below the $5 million threshold.
"Citizen's Fund Act"; establishes trust fund for conveyance of certain public entity assets, as permitted, for interest of public benefit plans.
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3 million to NJ Division of State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
Establishes advanced nuclear energy program in BPU.
Requites BPU to establish distributed energy storage programs.*
In committee35
Establishes uniform rates for water and sewer services for residential use based exclusively on metered consumption.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Requires DCA to verify income of low-income home energy assistance benefit applicants.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether microgrid and distributed energy resource deployment will reduce length of power outages.
Requires certain CATV companies to provide Internet service at public libraries with business customer class Internet access bandwidth and circuit capacity proportional to public libraries' needs.
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
Creates cigar night smoking ban exemption at racetracks and off-track wagering facilities.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeship tax credit program.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Allows utility lines necessary for certain solar energy generation facilities to cross municipally-owned preserved open space under certain circumstances.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires owners or operators of public community water systems to perform certain tests for Legionella bacteria.
Requires owners of certain buildings to test drinking water for Legionella bacteria.
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Establishes the "Student Loan Assistance and Home Purchase Act."
Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Requires notification to collective bargaining unit of law enforcement officer prior to release of certain information to the public.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $650,000 to New Jersey Division of State Police for trooper recruitment and retention.
Establishes "Cop 2 Cop Sustainability Fund" to support "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" Cop 2 Cop telephone hotline program; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Program"; amends law concerning NJ infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 25 years.
Requires certain large developments, to be used as retail facility or warehouse, to be designed and constructed to accommodate load associated with solar panels.
Provides cancer and cardiovascular screenings to law enforcement officers; establishes fund; appropriates $20 million.
Allows certain breweries to sell and deliver brewed beer off-premises at retail salesrooms.
Requires DCA to review and amend State Uniform Construction Code concerning parking structures to address increased weight of electric vehicles.
Requires electric public utilities to submit to BPU and implement electric infrastructure improvement plans.
Restructures electric and gas public utility industries.
Exempts from property taxation real property privately owned and leased to certain public entities for public purposes.
Establishes "Community Power Storage Program."
Establishes workforce development training program for advanced transmission technology.
Expands eligibility for disabled veterans' property tax exemption to include certain individuals with close personal relationship to deceased veteran.
Establishes natural gas power plant procurement program in BPU.
Increases penalty for reckless vehicular homicide committed when driving while intoxicated under certain circumstances.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Changes membership of board of trustees of SPRS to remove requirement that two members be private citizens.
Requires contractor subject to prevailing wage law to provide orientation meeting to new employee on prevailing wage project.
Appropriates $393,480,000 from "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.
Expands Division of State Police rank and grade titles.
Permits certain local units to enter into project labor agreements for public works projects below the $5 million threshold.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3 million to NJ Division of State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
"Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act."
Expands prohibitions on employers concerning requirements for employees to attend or listen to communications related to political matters.
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.*
Authorizes certain energy projects involving installation of transmission and distribution wires that cross preserved farmland.*
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Authorizes creation and issuance of veteran license plates.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.*
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Establishes certain medical billing requirements concerning specific nature of charges or expenses for health care services.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.*
Out of committee · 21
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Requires limited liability company to disclose ownership information when submitting deed for recording.
"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.*
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Authorizes creation of honorably discharged veteran license plates.*
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
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.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Requires Administrative Law Judges to be enrolled in Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.
Broadens eligibility for certain civil service and pension benefits for veterans by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Services Grant Program in DMVA; makes appropriation.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey"; appropriates $5 million.**
Requires MVC to utilize legal name including roman numerals on certain documents issued by MVC.
Extends accidental death benefit for survivors of certain SPRS retirees.
Allows seasonal retail consumption alcoholic beverage license holder to exchange license for full-year consumption license.
Requires financial institutions to allow mortgagors to make biweekly and semi-monthly payments and payments to mortgage principal.*
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
In committee · 71
Establishes construction workforce recruitment and training program in DOLWD.
Creates offenses related to election officials; permits election workers to shield personal information from public.
"Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act."
"New Townhouse Fire Safety Act"; requires automatic fire sprinkler systems in new townhomes.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires DOE to include military-connected student identifier in student-level database; requires district inform teacher when military-connected student enrolls in class taught by teacher.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Excludes gains on sales of certain real estate purchases from taxation under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Provides "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" exemption, and clarifies municipal planning or zoning authority, for certain development along commercial corridors in Highlands Region.
Provides for uniform regulation of small wireless facility deployment in this State.
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.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Establishes "5G Network and Development Task Force."
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15 million to DMVA for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for facilities expansion.
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible; requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin; requires insulin manufacturers to submit report to Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Establishes "NJpass Program" to provide discounted fares to eligible organizations; establishes "GO NJ Transit Card Program" to develop transit cards that can be used to purchase any NJT service.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Prohibits vehicles from parking in electric vehicle charging location under certain circumstances.
Required Commissioner of Education to develop emergency notification system to alert students and staff of active shooter on school grounds.
Requires institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
Prohibits four-year public institution of higher education from charging tuition and fees to student who is spouse or dependent child of disabled veteran.
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Requires certain information to increase public awareness and use of voting by mail; requires certain mail-in ballots received by county board within 48 hours be considered valid; requires certain mail-in ballots to be retained.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.
Establishes offense of harassing, intimidating, or bullying minor; establishes diversionary program for juveniles charged with offense.
Eliminates veterans' gross income tax deduction requirement that New Jersey National Guard member serve in federal active duty status.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Revises child pornography law.
Requires notification to consumers of collection and disclosure of personal data by certain entities.
Creates crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires MVC to accept emergency medical technician and paramedic certification cards as two points of documentation for purposes of MVC identification verification program.
Authorizes issuance of license plates series honoring military academies that represent five branches of United States military.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Directs BPU to establish two-year innovative drinking water supply and wastewater infrastructure grant program.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
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.
"New Jersey Ticket Consumer Choice Act."
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
Permits municipalities to hold certain inactive liquor licenses reserved for smart growth developments for an additional five years.
Creates white collar crime registry.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Requires converting portion of Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to ventilation systems; provides Adjutant General discretion for additional room considerations.
Provides accidental death benefit to surviving spouse, surviving child, or surviving parent of a State Police recruit who dies during required pre-service training.
Makes $100 million in federal funds available to DEP for grants to local governments for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects.
Provides for law enforcement officer benefits for certain public employees enrolled in PERS; prohibits hiring by State or county of public employees after age 35 in positions eligible for PFRS.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts experiencing enrollment increases due to conversion of age-restricted housing developments to non-restricted developments.
Establishes EMS part of PERS; provides enhanced benefits for emergency medical services employees.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
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.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials.
Mandates certain child care centers to retain audio-visual recordings for 180 days and requires review of such recordings before recordings can be deleted.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Directs MVC Chief Administrator to enter into driver's license reciprocity agreement with Republic of Ireland.
Modifies various provisions of State's renewable energy incentive programs; requires electric public utilities to interconnect certain solar projects.