Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law6
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Establishes NJ State Parks and Open Space Foundation.*
Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning.
Establishes "Working Group to Study Pricing of Motor Fuels by Retail Dealers."
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Vetoed1
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Passed the Senate2
Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to provide tuition assistance for students enrolled at Thomas Edison State University.
Out of committee25
Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation.*
Allows municipalities to adjust deadline to apply for short-term exemption or abatement for dwellings; requires provision of notice to purchasers of dwellings in areas in need of rehabilitation under certain circumstances.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies and permits emergency administration of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray by licensed campus medical professionals and designated persons.*
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Establishes permanent daylight saving time in NJ.
Provides televisions in State buildings shall display closed captioning for programming.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screenings; requires lead screenings as precondition of child's initial entry into school system.
"Homeowners' Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; allows homeowners to claim credit against gross income tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes funding to protect safety of cooperating witnesses; expands Crime Victim's Bill of Rights to provide these witnesses with certain guarantees.
Allows court to authorize domestic violence victim with temporary or permanent restraining order to change locks on residential rental unit.*
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Authorizes issuance of Kappa Alpha Psi license plates.
Directs State Agriculture Development Committee to adopt agricultural management practice for housing certain full-time employees on commercial farms, and establishes such housing as eligible for "Right to Farm" protection.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return.
Makes FY 2023 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $150,000 to Department of State for Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House located in Hopewell Borough (Mercer County).
Establishes "Revolutionary War Park Study Commission."
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
In committee205
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of medical marijuana.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Concerns diversion from criminal prosecution for persons with mental illness under certain circumstances.
Requires application option enhancement for certain federal rental assistance administered by DCA.
Establishes "Opioid Prevention and Rehabilitation Program Fund" and tax on opioid drugs.
Imposes requirements on video visitation service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities; requires correctional facilities to allow contact visits.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Regulates smoking in multiple dwellings; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate construction standards for new multiple dwellings permitting smoking.
Requires health insurance coverage and limits cost sharing for certain birth control methods.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes crime of law enforcement officer choking another person; designated as George Floyd's Law.
Eliminates driver's license suspension for failure to pay parking tickets; requires registration suspension for more than five parking tickets.
Permits use of instant run-off voting in balloting for certain local elective public offices.
Permits persons participating in Drug Court and other programs to earn credit against amount owed on certain court-imposed financial obligations.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Requires new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.
Requires correctional police officers to wear body worn cameras under certain circumstances.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition for four continuous academic years following student's initial enrollment.
Concerns body worn cameras for law enforcement officers.
Requires school districts to maintain supply of nasal rescue medication and oxygen for seizure emergencies; provides for training of designees to administer nasal rescue medication and oxygen when school nurse is not physical present.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Establishes standards for expiration of rental housing affordability controls.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Increases minimum income thresholds requiring filing and paying of gross income tax.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for persons 18 or younger with diagnosed complex medical needs.
Enhances penalties upon corporate violators of housing codes.
Enhances penalties upon certain violators of housing codes.
Establishes gross income tax credit for full-time tuition cost at certain New Jersey institutions of post-secondary education.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Medicaid coverage for self-administered hormonal contraceptives dispensed by pharmacist under standing order.
Requires DHS to implement payment strategy to encourage the use of long acting reversible contraceptives.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Requires State Investment Council to publish reports comparing returns earned by external and internal managers and requiring Council to make recommendations regarding investments.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings under the gross income tax.
Requires persons picking up prescriptions for Schedule II controlled dangerous substances to present identification.
Prohibits State administered pension fund investment in corporations shifting ownership or operations outside the U.S. for tax purposes.
Prohibits State from investing pension and annuity funds in manufacturers or wholesale distributors of tobacco products.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in hedge funds and derivative contracts.
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center being used as polling place under certain circumstances.
Increases from six to 10 the number of motor vehicle penalty points necessary to incur surcharges.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Provides awarding of contracts for professional services by State, county, municipal, and school district through competitive contracting process.
Expands Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Programs to include assistance for water utility bill.
Requires 45 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Prohibits award of State contracts and development subsidies to inverted domestic corporations.
Requires electric public utility to notify property owner any time account for electric public utility service on owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with BPU.
Establishes pre-loan counseling requirements and borrower right of rescission for reverse mortgage loans.
Requires public schools to include instruction on cursive handwriting.
Exempts sales of condoms from sales and use tax.
Enhances transparency and accountability of online tax sales.
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Revises requirements for disclosure of a breach of security of certain computerized records containing personal information.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Requires advance notice of water supply discontinuations for non-payment of local government water bills; requires offer of payment plan in certain circumstances.
Requires municipalities to notify affected property owners before implementing compliance plan to reassess valuation of certain properties.
Requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Requires law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement officers with cultural diversity training and develop diversity action plan.
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
Requires health care facilities be built according to Type I or Type II construction standards.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Clarifies intent of Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment.
Prohibits public utility from increasing rates until conclusion of hearing and BPU determination that rate increase is just and reasonable.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of charter school.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.
Clarifies that law enforcement officer who knowingly chokes another person engages in use of deadly force.
Eliminates property tax exempt status of certain school faculty housing.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Subjects most State property to local property taxation beginning on July 1, 2022.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with certain firearm offenses be detained prior to trial.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Mercer County.
Provides that Probation Division would file child support judgment as a lien only when amount of judgment equals or exceeds amount of child support due for a one-month period.
Requires schools to universally provide free meals to all students, regardless of whether students are federally eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Applies provisions of "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act" to proprietary schools and limits eligibility for State student assistance programs to students enrolled in certain proprietary schools.
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Makes FY 2022 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Allows temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that provide hiring bonuses to targeted employees.
Amends eligibility for expungement of criminal records.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Permits holders of certain alcohol manufacturing licenses to offer retail memberships to customers.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires State Investment Council report certain information quarterly; requires council's regulations addressing political contributions apply to federal or national committees and non-State political committees.
Requires contracts for professional services be awarded by certain bi-state authorities pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Establishes greater discretion in court concerning child support related license suspension and credit reporting.
Provides that private passenger automobile insurance rating territories shall not place exposure in territory based on ZIP code under certain circumstances.
Clarifies extension of driver's license, identification card, and motor vehicle registration expiration dates for certain military personnel.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to make payment to school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing upon adoption of resolution by municipal governing body.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires subsistence vouchers issued to county inmates upon release be accepted in every county.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Mandates that certain personnel critical to certain State finance and revenue generating activities are essential employees during state of emergency or government shutdown.
Permits voter registration at polling place on election day.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Requires superintendent to assume responsibilities of principal in certain school districts.
Requires Type I school districts and charter schools to establish citizen budget oversight committee to monitor district's or charter school's financial position.
Phases out State tuition aid grants for students enrolled in proprietary institutions.
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses by expanding income eligibility and increasing credit.
Requires landlord to attach certificate of inspection or occupancy to residential lease.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Expands Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide assistive technology to elementary and middle school students with dyslexia and related conditions.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations regarding Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
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.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning student use of sunscreen and sun-protective clothing at school and school-sponsored functions.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Requires boil water notices to be provided by certain public water systems via direct contact.
Requires certain public contracts for insurance coverage and consulting services to be awarded through competitive contracting process.
Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students in preschool through grade four.
Extends eligibility for certain SDA grant funding to Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Requires proprietary degree-granting institutions to disclose status as for-profit businesses and requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to disclose accreditation status.
Requires State agencies to vacate certain property in Trenton; allows EDA to offer incentives to private entities to locate to that property.
Requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns to appear on ballot; prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns.
Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4 percent over the prior academic year.
Establishes requirements for use of deadly force.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
Provides comparable salary increases and performance advancement adjustments for certain State employees assigned to titles with no range or rate.
Excludes certain unemployment compensation recipients from paying civil service open competitive examination application and appeal fees.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $600,000.
Requires Cannabis Regulatory Commission to annually report number of cannabis applications submitted and permits or licenses issued to certain persons.
Establishes presumption for accidental disability retirement in PFRS that firefighter with Parkinson's Disease has disease as result of employment.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Provides 60-day reduction in highway fuel taxes; makes appropriation.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop pathway to nursing scholarship for health care workers who want to become nurses; appropriates $1 million.
Requires that workers' compensation judges and administrative law judges be included in database of appointed officials.
Provides one-time payment of $300 to retirees and beneficiaries in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, SPRS, and JRS; makes appropriation.
Appropriates $1 billion to Division of Pensions and Benefits for State-administrated retirement systems and pension funds.
Shortens certain school board members' terms when annual school election is moved from November to April; requires approval of both school board and municipal governing body in order to move school election from November to April.
Increases amounts of property tax deductions for senior citizens and persons with disabilities, and veterans, from $250 to $500.
Establishes grant program for alternate route police officer training.
Expands implied consent law to include blood testing; establishes per se standard for driving under influence of marijuana and certain controlled dangerous substances.
Requires driver's manual to include information on driver's rights and responsibilities during police stop.
Increases benefit amount under New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit program from 40 percent to 60 percent of federal benefit amount.
Allows small private theater used for musical or theatrical performances to acquire alcoholic beverage retail license.
Concerns criminal investigations of law enforcement officers.
Concerns annual reporting requirements of SHBP and SEHBP commissions.
Requires use of federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund grants to reduce increases in premium rates for SHBP and SEHBP for calendar year 2023.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Requires Pretrial Services to recommend pretrial detention of defendants charged with certain firearms offenses.
Establishes Residential Property Repair Program; appropriates $30,000,000.
Upgrades certain crimes related to manufacturing firearms from second to first degree.
Establishes New Jersey Veterans' Organization Building Grant Program.
Establishes three-year pilot program in DOE to support school district programs to increase length of school day or school year.
Requires Department of Agriculture to establish Farm Vitality Planning Reimbursement Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes increased penalties for smoking cannabis or marijuana on public beaches.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Prohibits information from Statewide voter registration system from being published on Internet.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor public places.
Establishes "Task Force for Community Based Juvenile Rehabilitation."
Requires planning board reexamination report to set forth recommendations for the siting of warehouses consistent with State Plan and with warehouse siting guidance policy adopted by State Planning Commission.
Authorizes medical cannabis for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $120,000 from General Fund to DCF for Street Outreach Program of Anchor House.
Requires MVC to accommodate walk-in services on certain days.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Increases statutory mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices, Superior Court Judges, Tax Court Judges, Administrative Law Judges, and Workers' Compensation Judges from 70 to 75.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
Authorizes clinical laboratories to perform tests without individual order from practitioner.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregancy-related services violate the consumer fraud act.
Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million for matching grants for deer fencing program.
Provides child tax credit for taxpayers with children ages six to 11 and increases amount of credit for taxpayers with children under 12 over period of two years.
Requires schools and child care centers to test drinking water for lead every two years and install filters certified to reduce lead levels.
Broadens definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act.
Permits teacher and professional staff member who provides special services retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to City of Trenton for establishment and operation of Locust Hill African Cemetery Museum as independent nonprofit.
Prohibits Commissioner of Education from approving certain tests for teacher certification candidates with extended retake waiting periods.
Requires State Board of Education to reduce clinical practice requirements for certain teacher candidates.
Establishes Teaching Scholars Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues dedicated to anti-smoking initiatives from one to three percent.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Makes FY 2024 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to State Capitol Joint Management Commission for State Capitol Park Complex.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Establishes farm pesticide collection and disposal program.
Requires maintenance of roadways surrounding State capitol complex.
Makes FY 2024 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
Expands child tax credit eligibility to resident taxpayers with children ages six to 11.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law8
Authorizes the issuance of Kappa Alpha Psi license plates.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation.*
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Allows tenant with temporary or permanent restraining order to change locks on residential rental unit.
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Passed the General Assembly1
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 46
Concerns automatic fire sprinkler systems within newly constructed townhouses.*
Requires public agencies and government contractors to report cybersecurity incidents to New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. *
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Requires certain school meal information be provided to public school students' parents and requires school districts to request that families apply for school meals under certain circumstances.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Extends period of time for filing special education due process petitions related to COVID-19 school closures and periods of virtual, remote, hybrid, or in-person instruction.
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Allows certain airports to carry over certain grant money into future years.*
Permits counties to operate airports as county utilities; provides that bonds for county and municipal airport purposes be issued in accordance with provisions of "Local Bond Law."
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
Designates each community college in State as provider of allowable services under SNAP employment and training program.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Concerns use of tents and other fixtures for outdoor dining on certain property.
Provides for oversight and improvement of administration of unemployment compensation.
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Makes certain changes to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educator grant program.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.*
Expands allowance for developers to carry forward unused tax credits under New Jersey Aspire Program.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."; appropriates $200,000.**
Requires sellers of real property and landlords to make certain notifications regarding flooding.
Requires DEP and Drinking Water Quality Institute to perform study concerning regulation and treatment of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to re-draw tourism map to promote Central Jersey; requires promotion of overnight stays.*
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2023.
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP; makes various changes to FY2023 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.
Allows issuance of alcoholic beverage retail license for use in connection with nonprofit movie theaters that promote arts.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit annual fiscal monitoring report; authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to appoint State monitor of certain institutions; requires higher education chief financial officers complete training; annually appropriates $100,000.*
Changes certain deadlines for primary election.
Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Designates State Office of Emergency Management as State Agency for Surplus Property.
Eliminates fees, liens, and warrants issued for Public Defender services.
Modifies certain provisions of "New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Act" and "Food Desert Relief Act."*
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Clarifies process for administrative appropriations to UEZs.*
Expands eligibility for wildlife fencing programs to farmers leasing farmland; clarifies eligibility and provides for uniform funding levels for grant recipients.*
Waives certain certification and credentialing fees for teachers for one year.
Establishes Mobility and Transportation Innovation Program in DOT; appropriates $2 million.*
Revises various provisions of "New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020," including revisions to New Jersey Aspire Program.*
Vetoed · 2
Establishes sales and events privileges for certain alcoholic beverage manufacturers. *
Establishes teacher certification route for candidates with Montessori teaching credentials.
Passed the Senate · 27
Provides that fusion energy and fusion technology companies are eligible to receive benefits under certain economic incentive programs.
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. *
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.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.*
Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing.
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of property on basis of race, creed, color, national origin, or certain other characteristics.*
Allows canvassing of early votes and mail-in ballots before election day under certain conditions. *
Requires limited liability company disclose certain information when recording deed concerning residential rental property.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Prohibits electioneering within 25 feet of person waiting in line at polling place or ballot drop box; makes electioneering crime of third degree.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.*
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Requires registration of international student exchange visitor placement organizations with Commissioner of Education.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare learning loss report and report on public school operations during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires certain boards of education to select minimum of three financial institutions or pension management organizations to provide tax sheltered annuity plans.
Requires stress testing on State's ability to provide services in various economic conditions.
Requires State Board of Education to permit candidates awaiting teacher certification to submit affidavit to hiring school district affirming certification requirements have been met.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Concerns carbon monoxide detectors in certain multiple dwellings and hotels.**
Establishes State WFNJ Menstrual Hygiene Benefit Program and State WFNJ Diaper Benefit Program; appropriates $2.5 million to DHS.*
Require voting machines to be recertified annually and after software modifications.
Revises NJCLASS Teacher Loan Redemption Program.*
Out of committee · 132
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on election days.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Decouples State tax provisions from federal prohibition on cannabis business deductions.*
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Makes permanent temporary enactment allowing certain alcoholic beverage retailers to sell and deliver alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks; establishes certain sale and delivery privileges for alcoholic beverage manufacturers.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education and DOLWD to establish performance quality standards for career-oriented programs of study offered by institutions of higher education, degree-granting proprietary institutions, and private career schools.*
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for defendants who commit certain firearm offenses under Graves Act.
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
Requires public schools to comply with lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA.*
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
Authorizes establishment of regional economic development partnerships.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish three-year pilot program to increase reading levels of certain students; appropriates $1 million.
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.*
Requires DEP to develop and implement electric school bus program; provides for $15 million in first year and $15 million annually in subsequent two years to DEP, subject to availability, to provide grants.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Creates New Jersey Innocence Study and Review Commission.
Requires outer envelope for mailing of voted mail-in ballot by voter to include postage prepaid.
Raises pay for election workers to $300 per day; permits counties to provide additional compensation to election workers; appropriates $7,000,000 to Department of State. *
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Establishes "Annual Business Matchmaking Event" in Department of Treasury.***
"New Jersey Works Act"; Permits businesses to create pre-employment training programs in partnership with nonprofit organizations or educational institutions; provides tax credit to businesses that provide financial assistance to pre-employment training programs; makes appropriation.*
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Makes compulsive gambling prevention, education, and treatment program optional penalty for casino gambling by person under legal age of 21; makes fine optional.*
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.*
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for environmental infrastructure projects for applicants with established program to employ, at project or related facilities, local residents or residents of nearby urban aid qualifying municipalities.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Directs Secretary of State to contract with qualified vendor to develop national marketing campaign promoting State's innovation economy; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Requires New Jersey Historical Commission to establish Black Heritage Trail; permits New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation to use funds for markers on certain trail sites; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrator of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.*
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Requires school food authorities to engage in public education campaigns and develop promotional materials to educate parents and guardians of students about existing and expanding school meals programs options.*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.*
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Establishes State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program; appropriates $18 million to DHS.*
Prohibits sale, distribution, import, export or propagation of certain invasive species without permit from Department of Agriculture; establishes NJ Invasive Species Council.**
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if payment of principal and interest on previously awarded loan or loan guarantee is greater than 24 months overdue.
Establishes Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.*
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Requires State agencies update demographic data collection methods on Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian and Indian Diaspora residents of this State.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during hot weather.*
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family day care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes New Jersey Educator Scholarship Program; appropriates $3 million.*
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
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.
Exempts raw, unprocessed honey from DOH cottage food regulations.
Grants child placed in resource family care and resource family parents the right to be notified when case manager or supervisor is assigned to child; grants child in resource family care right to be notified of certain property and benefits.*
Establishes Center for Career Relevant Education and Talent Evaluation of New Jersey at Thomas Edison State University.*
Revises certain restrictions on cannabis establishments' owners; expands scope of review of cannabis establishment license applications and related materials.
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by all supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.
Expands working hours for minors; updates process for obtaining working papers for minors.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires DCA to allow hiring of information technology and cybersecurity professionals pursuant to shared service incentive programs.*
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Allows taxpayers to utilize alternative method of depreciation of certain expenditures in connection with construction of new affordable housing developments.
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Requires NJT to pay certain persons one-and-a-half times regular rate for work during period of commercial vehicle travel restriction issued by DOT.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Enhances customer service experience with Business Action Center in Department of State by collecting and disseminating customer assistance metrics.
Requires NJ Business Action Center to collect and produce certain information to assist small businesses.
Concerns UI benefits during labor disputes.
Requires request for proposal to establish demonstration projects to develop electric vehicle charging depots serviced by distributed energy resource charging centers for certain electric vehicle use.*
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Requires publication online of Senate Journals, Assembly Minutes, and their indexes.
Appropriates $17,288,315 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Appropriates $64.929 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $53,249,310 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Requires mail-in ballot applications to include prepaid postage.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Prohibits seller from imposing certain surcharge for credit card transactions; establishes certain notice requirements regarding surcharge.
Provides exemption from State permit fees to owners of commercial farms rebuilding from natural disaster.
"Fire Life Safety Damper and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Act"; Requires routine maintenance and periodic testing of smoke dampers, fire dampers, and smoke control systems in certain buildings by qualified personnel.
Changes certain General Election deadlines.*
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Relates to which refrigerants are permissible for use within current State Uniform Construction Code and local codes.*
Requires periodic reporting of election results on night of primary and general election and until final tally thereafter; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Establishes Agritourism Fund; requires annual appropriation of $2.5 million from General Fund; appropriates $2.5 million.
Allows municipality to determine if newly appointed individual serving as municipal fire department chaplain will hold rank and receive salary and benefits.
Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victim of crime.
Establishes one-year pilot program for certain persons with disabilities; appropriates up to $85,000.*
Requires training of cosmetologists-hairstylist, beauticians, barbers, and hair braiders to include working on textured hair.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship.*
Increases child tax credit under gross income tax.
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Revises New Jersey False Claims Act to comply with federal law for purposes of entitling State to enhanced recovery in Medicaid fraud cases.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish matching grant program for certain school districts and schools using federal funds to increase instructional time and accelerate learning.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Requires certain nonpublic schools to provide meals to all students under "Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act"; authorizes limited expansion of income eligibility to qualify public and nonpublic school students for free lunch.
Authorizes school district that moves its annual school election to November to submit separate proposals for additional spending for budget year and subsequent budget year.
Authorizes regional authority to develop and operate regional rehabilitation and reentry center.
Appropriates $15,564,293 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $48 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $128.241 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Revises and clarifies certain expungement procedures.
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Establishes Community Crisis Response Advisory Council and community crisis response teams pilot program; designates "Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act;" appropriates $12 million.*
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Increases penalties for unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing fentanyl.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Establishes fire safety standards and protocols for certain light frame residential construction; requires placards identifying primary structural systems of buildings.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to issue annual report on public contracts awarded to women-owned and minority-owned businesses; requires Division of Revenue to operate Selective Assistance Vendor Information (SAVI) database.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Provides for accidental death benefit if death of TPAF member and certain PERS members is caused by COVID-19.
"Responsible Collective Negotiations Act."
Extends immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments until beginning of 2023.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible and requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin.
Requires children's meals served in restaurants to meet certain nutritional standards.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Requires NJHMFA to allocate certain portion of federal low-income housing tax credits to certain high-opportunity areas.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Legalizes growing or possessing up to six marijuana plants for personal recreational use, and up to 10 plants for personal medical use, by persons aged 21 or older.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, homeownership status, marital status, or credit score in certain automobile insurance determinations.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Prohibits public schools from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Requires certain residential developers to replace lead service lines.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Concerns requirements for local purchasing agents.
Requires financial institutions to release records to adult protective services when suspecting fraud of vulnerable adult or senior customer; allows adult protective services to release same records to law enforcement agency if necessary.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Establishes Co-Curricular Activity Emergency Grant Program to support operations of co-curricular activities at public schools; appropriates $750,000.
Concerns psychological testing of police officers.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Requires DOE to maintain list of textbook vendors that use inclusive material and school districts to use textbooks from those vendors.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $20 million for loan redemption program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Provides emergency State school aid to certain school districts located in historic communities.
Directs DCA to establish online database of affordable housing settlement agreements and other declaratory judgment actions.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Establishes loan program in Department of Treasury for certain entities offering health benefits plans; makes appropriation.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Requires State to use at least half of future federal "Help America Vote Act" funds for voting systems with paper record.
"Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act;" requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Authorizes local units to refinance general obligation bonds irrespective of present value savings for period of one year.
Establishes ranked-choice voting procedure for elections for Governor, State Senate, State General Assembly, United States Senate and House of Representatives, and presidential primaries and general elections for electors for United States President and Vice-President.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under New Jersey gross income tax.
Extends COVID-19 Medicaid per diem rate, and requires Medicaid coverage without prior authorization, for certain partial care behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Requires chief law enforcement officer of municipal police departments to hold two community roundtables on police relations each year.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Provides tax credits to small businesses to offset increase in State Unemployment Insurance contributions.
Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive extended learning time programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Establishes and codifies certain privileges for limited and restricted brewery license holders.
Allows limited brewery license holder to engage in certain activities; establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery license.
Clarifies the newspaper delivery person and news media stringer are independent contractors for purposes of State employment laws.
Waives Civil Service Commission examination application fees for period of three years.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Allows ranked-choice voting options for municipal and school board elections under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Non-College Advancement Act"; makes appropriation.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Requires transparency concerning compensation with promotional opportunities and in employment listings.
Removes obstacles to teacher certification for certain teachers.
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Amends criteria of eligibility for Mental Health Diversion Program.
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Appropriates $9,184,427 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes, and for certain administrative expenses.
Appropriates $87,783,515 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.