Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
Sponsored
Became law11
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are at least 21 years of age to qualify.*
Requires all creditors that acquire title to non-owner occupied residential property following foreclosure to notify municipality and common interest community.
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.*
Requires DLPS to incorporate implicit bias in cultural diversity training materials for law enforcement officers; makes mandatory cultural diversity and implicit bias training for law enforcement officers.
Regulates use of body cameras worn by law enforcement officers.
Requires county boards of election to establish ballot drop boxes in each county at least 45 days before election: revises procedures concerning mail-in ballots for 2020 general election.**
Requires BPU, electric power suppliers, and gas suppliers to publish certain information related to filing of customer complaints. **
Limits police presence at polling places and ballot drop boxes; prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop box.**
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are at least 18 years of age or older to qualify for modified benefit.
Modifies Garden State Growth Zone tax exemption program.
Authorizes Capital City Redevelopment Corporation on behalf of State Treasurer to sell surplus real property and improvements located in City of Trenton, County of Mercer; appropriates proceeds of sale.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires each county to establish inmate reentry services committee.
Out of committee17
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Requires Medicaid and health insurance coverage for certain refills of prescription drugs during state of emergency.
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.
Concerns accomplice liability of law enforcement officers who fail to de-escalate and intervene when another officer commits offense.
Establishes position of Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA.
Requires Civil Service Commission establish mentoring program for certain civil service law enforcement applicants.*
Requires Civil Services Commission to undertake various initiatives to increase diversity and inclusivity within law enforcement agencies.
Establishes database to aid in civil service hiring process for law enforcement officers; requires Statewide diversity analysis of law enforcement.*
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission; appropriates $4.2 million in FY 2022 and FY 2023.*
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Requires school report card to include information concerning number of mental health professionals and school safety specialists employed by each school district. *
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
Revises certain restrictions on ownership of medical cannabis alternative treatment centers; expands scope of review of alternative treatment center permit applications and related materials.*
Establishes Kean University as public urban research university.
Appropriates $2 million to CRDA to support costs associated with hosting NAACP National Convention in Atlantic City. *
In committee64
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Establishes a pilot program in DOE to increase the length of the school day and school year and provides tax credits for corporate contributions to fund the program.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances to enforce certain landlord code violations as tax liens.
Permits persons participating in Drug Court and other programs to earn credit against amount owed on certain court-imposed financial obligations.
Provides Medicaid coverage to eligible pregnant women for 365-day period beginning on last day of pregnancy.
Eliminates past conviction of indictable offense as disqualifier for jury service.
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain home visitation program services under certain circumstances.
Prohibits sale of infant walkers.
Authorizes the issuance of Kappa Alpha Psi license plates.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $4.5 million for St. Francis Medical Center.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 180-day period.
Makes $240,000 supplemental appropriation to Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission.
Increases benefit amounts incrementally under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 100 percent for resident individuals who cannot claim qualifying child.
Enhances benefit provided under New Jersey earned income tax credit program by treating a qualifying relative as a qualifying child.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Requires contracts for sales of residential property to address lead service lines.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop and distribute heat stroke pamphlet for athletes at public and nonpublic schools; requires school districts and public institutions of higher education to establish heat illness policy for athletes.
Requires entities at every level of government to conduct periodic studies of racial and ethnic disparities in public contracting.
Creates alternative option to earn barbering license through 1250 hours of training at licensed shop.
Directs AOC to establish implicit bias training for judges and judicial personnel.
Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence sensitivity and response training.
Requires landlord to attach certificate of inspection or occupancy to residential lease.
Requires annual reporting related to economic development and redevelopment activities in federal opportunity zones.
Requires hospitals to report coronavirus disease 2019 demographic data.
Establishes four-year "New Jersey Early Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs for students in grades K through 8.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to certain businesses providing annual physical and mental health screenings to full-time and part-time employees.
Establishes Frontline Health Care Worker Loan Forgiveness Program.
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with certain firearm offenses be detained prior to trial.
Requires each county to establish Reentry, Mental Health, and Addiction Services Coordination Committee to facilitate coordinated provision of mental health, addiction and reentry services to county residents.
Requires subsistence vouchers issued to county inmates upon release be accepted in every county.
Requires school districts to include instruction on conflict resolution as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Deletes references of "postpartum depression" and inserts new references to "perinatal mood disorders."
Requires State agencies to vacate certain property in Trenton; allows EDA to offer incentives to private entities to locate to that property.
Establishes Essential Employees Hazard Compensation and Employer Liability Limitation Program; affords COVID-19 liability protections and provides financial incentives to certain employers that provide hazard pay to eligible employees; makes an appropriat
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing or unsealed inner envelope.
Requires new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Establishes program to subsidize purchase price of medical cannabis for registered qualifying patients enrolled in Medicaid or NJ Family Care programs.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregancy-related violate consumer fraud act.
Permits suspension by Governor of wage execution during declared Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency.
Requires AG to establish uniform police training curriculum.
Establishes Crisis Response Support Program to make mental health services available to police departments responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2,000,000.
Concerns body worn cameras for law enforcement officers.
Allows certain students to repeat prior grade level during 2021-2022 school year upon parental request.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.
Changes current system for creation, issuance, administration, and discontinuance of various types of special license plates.
Requires Police Training Commission to establish police officer licensure program.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for school districts concerning students' right to wear articles of faith.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $35 million to "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Revolving Loan Fund."
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Eliminates qualified immunity and sovereign immunity in certain cases.
Requires municipalities to notify affected property owners before implementing compliance plan to reassess valuation of certain properties.
Establishes "Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems" pilot program in DOH; appropriates $2,000,000.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition for four continuous academic years following student's initial enrollment.
Expands "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" and in Juvenile Justice Commission to include Jersey City; appropriates $2 million.
Carried from the Senate
Became law11
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.*
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Requires Medicaid and health insurance coverage for certain refills of prescription drugs during state of emergency.
Requires Civil Services Commission to undertake various initiatives to increase diversity and inclusivity within law enforcement agencies.
Requires Civil Service Commission establish mentoring program for certain civil service law enforcement applicants. *
Establishes database to aid in civil service hiring process for certain law enforcement officers; requires Statewide diversity analysis of law enforcement. *
Requires school report card to include information concerning number of mental health professionals and school safety specialists employed by each school district.**
Revises certain restrictions on ownership of medical cannabis alternative treatment centers; expands scope of review of alternative treatment center permit applications and related materials.*
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission; appropriates $4.2 million in FY 2022 and FY 2023. *
Establishes Kean University as public urban research university.
Appropriates $2 million to CRDA to support costs associated with hosting NAACP National Convention in Atlantic City.*
Vetoed1
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 83
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for municipal, county, and congressional redistricting purposes and for apportionment of regional school district board of education members. **
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Establishes "Broadband Access Study Commission." *
Prohibits municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses.
Directs the development and posting of notices containing information for victims of human trafficking.
Establishes Mental Health Screening in Schools Grant Program in DOE; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires AG to collect, record, analyze, and report certain prosecutorial and criminal justice data.
"Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act"; requires certain school meal information be provided to students' parents; establishes protocols for identifying eligible students for meal programs; prohibits stigmatizing student with bill in arrears.
Requires DOH to license certain qualifying hospitals to provide full service adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization, primary angioplasty, and elective angioplasty services. *
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Directs DOE to develop outreach program to encourage young women and minorities to pursue post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM.
Provides for certain criminal and civil justice reforms, particularly addressing legal consequences associated with certain marijuana and hashish offenses as well as raising awareness of available expungement relief.**
Includes false incrimination and filing false police report as form of bias intimidation; establishes crime of false 9-1-1 call with purpose to intimidate or harass based on race or other protected class.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline SNAP application process for senior citizens and conduct outreach regarding senior SNAP participation.
Establishes compassionate release program for certain inmates; repeals law that establishes medical parole.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to support FIRST Robotics Programs in school districts.
Provides that users of Access Link paratransit service are automatically eligible for and enrolled in motor bus and rail passenger discounted fare program.
Requires employers to provide hiring preference to employees who have reached maximum medical improvement following work-related injury.
Concerns municipal property registration ordinances to address risk of blight. *
Establishes three year Financial Empowerment Pilot Program.
Provides county clerks with additional week to mail ballots for 2020 primary election; requires ballot position draw to occur one day early if statutory date falls on holiday.*
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing of coronavirus disease 2019 and for telemedicine and telehealth during coronavirus disease 2019 state of emergency.
Authorizes EDA to make grants during periods of emergency declared by Governor and for duration of economic disruptions due to emergency; allows EDA to grant certain business documentation submission deadline extensions.
Concerns time off from work in connection with infectious disease.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings, and provide notice, by electronic means during periods of emergency.
Permits extension of deadlines for adoption of county and municipal budgets under certain circumstances.
Authorizes all licensed health care facilities and laboratories to collect specimens to test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); allows waiver of staffing ratio requirements.
Requires food access information be displayed on websites of 2-1-1 system and executive branch departments during public health emergencies to the extent practicable.
Concerns prohibition of residential tenant eviction and eviction due to residential foreclosure during certain emergency circumstances.
Establishes certain requirements to use telemedicine and telehealth to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Permits professional and occupational licensing boards to expedite licensure of certain individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Limits return of items purchased from retail food stores under certain circumstances.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Provides for employment, retention, and benefits during public health hazard posed by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of certain public employees.
Extends certain permits, approvals, and deadlines during COVID-19 emergency.*
Requires hospital to permit individual to accompany woman during childbirth.
Authorizes the issuance of "coronavirus relief bonds" by municipalities and counties.
Establishes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities.*
Requires certain electronic medical programs to include demographic data entry feature; requires laboratories to record certain patients' demographic information; requires certain hospitals and laboratories to implement cultural competency training progra
Establishes "The Ballot Cure Act" to modify and establish various voting procedures.
Requires Police Training Commission to contract with crisis intervention training center to provide mental health training to police officers and establish curriculum specific to persons experiencing economic crisis or substance use disorder.*
Provides that AOC shall administer program for municipal courts allowing defendents to engage in online plea negotiations, entry of guilty plea, and payment of fine or penalty.*
Requires cost savings study of compassionate release program and elimination of mandatory minimum terms; establishes "Corrections Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention Fund."
Establishes Community College Opportunity Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide last-dollar financial aid grants to county college students and Student Success Incentive funding to county colleges.
Creates grant program to encourage school districts to partner with institutions of higher education in training school-based mental health services providers.
Establishes Student Wellness Grant Program in DOE.
Requires DCF to give priority to certain school districts with student mental health counseling centers in awarding grants under School Based Youth Services Program.
Requires school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.*
Establishes certain requirements concerning State's preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Revises licensure, operational, and reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Establishes additional requirements for DOH to assess sanctions and impose penalties on nursing homes; revises reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Establishes New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Safety.
Establishes minimum wage requirements for certain long-term care facility staff; establishes direct care ratio requirements for nursing homes; requires nursing home care rate study.**
Concerns eligibility for extended unemployment benefits.
Requires Internet websites and web services of school districts, charter schools, renaissance schools, and the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf to be accessible to persons with disabilities. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $58,000,000 for NJ Statewide Body Worn Camera Program.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021; modifies terms and conditions for certain loan utilizing federal funds.
Establishes "New Jersey Foreclosure Prevention Act."
Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold, offered for sale, or leased in the State.
Prohibits State and local entities and private detention facilities from entering into agreement to detain noncitizens.*
Requires public community water systems to inventory and replace lead service lines within 10 years; provides for recoupment of costs by investor-owned public water systems.*
Allows county board of elections to determine location of certain ballot drop boxes under certain circumstances.**
Makes $35 million in federal funds available to EDA to support food and beverage establishments in need.*
Makes $10 million in federal funds available to EDA to support child care providers in need.**
Makes $15 million in federal funds available to EDA to support businesses and nonprofits in need.*
Requires law enforcement to provide written notificaion to parent or guardian of person under age 18 who commits first offense of unlawfully possessing or consuming alcoholic beverage, cannabis, marijuana, or hashish.**
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $10,000.
Provides partial pension and retirement income exclusion for taxpayers with income between $100,000 and $150,000.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA send weekly reports to Commissioner of DOH on status of veterans' homes in State during every future public health emergency; requires such reports through December 31, 2021. *
Requires DMVA veterans' memorial homes to hold quarterly town hall meetings with veterans' guardians.
Requires position of resident advocate at each State veterans' memorial home.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for school security projects in certain school districts; appropriates $66,173,243.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for water infrastructure projects in certain school districts; appropriates $6,608,212.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Fund" for career and technical education expansion in county vocational school districts; appropriates $222,904,769.
Mandates periodic cancer screening examinations for firefighters enrolled in SHBP. *
Appropriates $440,240 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes "New Jersey Foreclosure Counseling Fund."
Awards school security project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for certain school districts; appropriates $5,150,531.
Permits PERS retiree to return to employment in NJ Legislature after retirement under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $2 million to Legislative Services Commission.
Vetoed · 11
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia. *
Requires reservation of portion of tenant-based vouchers under State rental assistance program for persons displaced due to redevelopment of an affodable housing development; provides displaced persons with affordable housing priority status.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Establishes Bridging the Digital Divide in Schools Grant Program in DOE to provide and expand access to technology and equipment for students in certain school districts.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $10 million for healthcare and residential facility sanitation due to coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriations of $15 million for grants to food banks.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to issue supplemental cash assistance payments to Work First New Jersey recipients under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Authorizes notaries public to perform certain notarial acts remotely.
Establishes NJ Hospitality Emergency Loan Program in EDA to provide no-interest loans to qualified small hospitality businesses; makes $100 million appropriation to EDA from federal funds for qualified small business assistance.***
Allows certain taxpayers to accelerate depreciation of certain expenditures under corporation business and gross income taxes.*
Passed the General Assembly · 50
Authorizes county colleges to establish and operate student dormitories.
Allows persons owing certain court-imposed financial obligations and ordered by court to serve term of probation or diversionary program to earn transformative credit against amount owed by participating in treatment programs, educational or vocational se
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.*
Requires that if school district satisfies in certain evaluations 80% or more of required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, State must return area to local control.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Establishes geriatric parole for certain eligible inmates.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.*
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Extends petition filing deadline by two weeks for all candidates, and waives signature requirements for candidates for party office, for 2020 primary election.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Permits remote application for marriage and civil union license for patients with certain life-threatening symptoms during period of Executive Order 103 of 2020; eliminates waiting period.
Provides that institutions of higher education may permit final-year students in graduate degree programs for mental health care professions to graduate or be matched with residency or clinical programs early.
Clarifies that law enforcement officer who knowingly chokes another person engages in use of deadly force.
Expands municipal court conditional dismissal program to include defendants charged with certain drug offenses; requires defendant's participation in various programs and services; allows dismissal of charges after one-year probationary period.
Implements sentencing recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission to eliminate certain mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment; eliminates mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for crime of official misconduct.*
Permits retroactive modification of certain judgements of conviction, requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.***
Provides for resentencing of certain inmates.
Requires facilities offering COVID-19 tests to provide accurate timeframes for test results; requires DOH to update COVID-19 website with information regarding testing locations that provide COVID-19 test results within 48 hours.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force." *
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Requires DHS to review various aspects of Medicaid managed care program.
Dedicates personal protective equipment to long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospice care providers, health care service firms, PACE programs, and certain community-based providers during public health emergency.***
Requires AG to establish law enforcement officer use of force data collection and reporting system.
Eliminates driver's license suspension for failure to pay parking tickets; requires registration suspension for more than five parking tickets.
Concerns residential community release programs.*
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish Black Heritage Trail; establishes NJ Black Cultural Heritage Commission.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.*
Establishes office in EDA to assist in provision and expansion of broadband Internet service in State to address inequities in accessing broadband service.*
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
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.*
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return. *
Establishes "Food Innovation District Pilot Program." *
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 Commissioner of Corrections to appoint workforce skills training development officer to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.
Requires request for proposal to establish project to evaluate and make recommendations for realignment of correctional facilities and other efficiency measures.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Out of committee · 143
Requires SEHBP and eligible employers that do not participate in the SEHBP to provide certain plans for public education employees and certain public education retirees.
Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Provides for preparation and distribution of written notice to senior citizens concerning risks and prevention of fraud and identity theft.*
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
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.***
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.*
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo explicit and implicit bias training.*
Prohibits tax preparation software companies from charging fee for electronically filing State tax returns.
Requires school districts and charter schools to report discipline data on their websites and to Commissioner of Education; requires DOE to establish database and complete annual report concerning student disciplinary actions.*
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system for electronic reporting of firearm information.
Requires lead paint inspection on certain residential rental property, including upon tenant turnover; establishes lead-based paint hazard education program; appropriates $3,900,000.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Raises pay for election workers to $300 per day; appropriates $7,000,000 to Department of State. *
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Requires EDA to establish loan program for certain costs of electric-powered school bus purchases by local school districts and school bus contractors.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Concerns counseling for children who were either physically present or who may have seen or heard act of domestic violence.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Clarifies and expands landlord registration procedures; creates certain rights for tenants; makes certain changes concerning tenant notifications, inspections, and maintenance in multiple dwellings; permits percentage of affordable housing obligation to b
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
"Fair Chance in Housing Act"; establishes certain housing rights of persons with criminal records.
Requires that certain realty transfer fee revenues be dedicated to Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.*
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Expands training for judges, law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases. *
Prohibits provision or sale of single-use plastic carryout bags, single-use paper carryout bags, and polystyrene foam food service products; limits provision of single-use plastic straws; appropriates moneys from Clean Communities Program Fund for public
Allows public office holder or candidate to use political contributions to pay for child care expenses related to office or campaign activities.
Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.*
Requires public utilities and local units to provide notice prior to initiating certain infrastructure projects.
"New Jersey Fair Play Act"; allows collegiate student-athletes to earn compensation for use of name, image, or likeness.
Authorizes DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, to provide priority consideration to permit applications for green building projects.*
Requires DEP to evaluate environmental and public health stressor of certain facilities on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications.*
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services. *
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Revises definition of "public works projects" to permit project labor agreements for more projects.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign. *
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers in certain fields to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in certain low performing schools.*
Requires certification of diligent inquiry in residential mortgage foreclosure actions to be filed by attorneys.
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Allows hospitals to construct housing and provide wrap-around services for individuals who are homeless or housing insecure.*
Establishes Commission on Asian American Heritage in DOE. *
Renames "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner"; requires counties to update materials to reflect this title change.
Allocates Amistad Commission in but not of DOE; requires commission to elect chairperson and appoint executive director; requires public schools to include instruction on accomplishments and contributions of African Americans to American society.*
Establishes annual grant program to recognize institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
Concerns business interruption insurance during coronavirus disease 2019 state of emergency.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program; appropriates $25 million.
"COVID-19 Financial Security for Consumers Act."
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of essential employees who die in course of employment.
Concerns employment benefits and coronavirus disease 2019 infections contracted by essential employees.
Requires DOH to implement and oversee Isolation Prevention Project in long-term care facilities during public emergencies.
Authorizes Governor to permit mortgage forbearance and rent payment Provides mortgage payment relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for resident property owners, tenants and other consumers, economically impacted during time of co
Allows local governments and school districts to engage in certain borrowing to aid with COVID-19 response.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges.
Revises requirements for health insurance providers and Medicaid to cover services provided using telemedicine and telehealth; appropriates $5 million. *
Requires public health emergency credits to be awarded to certain inmates and parolees during public health emergency; prohibits contact with victim upon release of inmate awarded credits.***
Extends ballot receipt and election certification deadlines; increases certain messenger and bearer ballot limits.*
Permits health care professionals, health care facilities, and insureds to file certain health insurance claims within 365 days of date of service.
Establishes Clayton Model Pilot Program in DOE to provide school-based social emotional learning to students in grades kindergarten through five at certain public schools.
Establishes civilian review boards to review complaints against police officers.
Expands powers and duties of State Chief Diversity Officer to promote diversity in State government and public contracting.
Accelerates rescinding of certain juvenile delinquency fines and making discretionary post-incarceration supervision due to COVID-19 pandemic.
"Farm Worker Epidemic Health and Safety Act"; concerns public health and certain protections for farm workers.
Establishes requirements for closures of private career schools and institutions of higher education, modifies review process of new academic programs, and requires approval of branch campuses.*
Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Allows long-term care facility employees to accrue paid sick leave.
Establishes Statewide universal newborn home nurse visitation program in DCF; appropriates $2.75 million. *
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
Directs DOE to establish five-year pilot program for issuance of limited certificate of eligibility with advanced standing and limited certificate of eligibility for certain teacher candidates. *
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program;" appropriates $50,000.
Addresses certain landlord expenses in response to COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $300 million.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $800,000.*
Codifies and establishes certain network adequacy standards for pediatric primary and specialty care in Medicaid program.
Expands requirements for health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives to 12 months.
Limits certain appointment times at MVC locations to obtain REAL ID to senior citizens and persons with certain medical conditions during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires DOE to establish Alternate Route Interstate Reciprocity Pilot Program.*
Expands scope of inmate reentry assistance and benefits.
Makes information related to public health emergency accessible with certain limited exceptions.
Establishes School and Small Business Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program in BPU.
Requires in person early voting period for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Establishes "Sexual Violence Restorative Justice Pilot Program."
Requires law enforcement provide victim of sexual assault with initial incident report; provides victim with option to review initial incident report and submit corrective form.*
Requires resources be made available to victims of sexual assault.
Establishes right of victims to be notified of county prosecutor's charging decision in sexual assault cases.
Requires sexual assault training for prosecutors.
Establishes retroactive date for provisions of P.L.2018, c.165, which clarifies provisions of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act."
Establishes "Stillbirth Resource Center" and regional Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Committee, and programs for the prevention and reduction of incidences of stillbirth; expands list of professionals authorized to provide stillbirth-related care.*
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Resources Pilot Program in DOLWD.
Allows Board of Cosmetology Hairstyling licensees to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Reduces age at which health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45.
Appropriates $11.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare learning loss report and report on public school operations during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Allows deduction from tax of certain expenses when taxpayer's federal paycheck protection program loan is forgiven and excludes those forgiven loans from gross income tax.
Establishes criminal offenses and civil penalties concerning inhumane confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.
Requires training for DOE arbitrators to include issues related to cultural diversity and bias.
Mandates training on culturally responsive teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Eliminates mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment determined by Legislature to be of non-violent nature.
Allows tax credits for nonresidential and multifamily building improvement expenses to reduce spread of COVID-19.*
Requires EDA and New Jersey Redevelopment Authority to issue reports for grant and loan programs not specifically authorized by statute and for statutorily authorized grant and loan programs where report is not required.
Makes $25 million in federal funds available to EDA to support microbusinesses in need.*
Makes $15 million in federal funds available to EDA and New Jersey Council on the Arts to support arts and culture organizations in need.**
Authorizes special occasion events at certain farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires AG to establish Human Trafficking and Underserved Communities Unit.
Requires chief law enforcement officer of municipal police departments to hold two community roundtables on police relations each year.
Eliminates certain juvenile justice fines, fees, costs, and other monetary penalties.
Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation. *
"Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act"; provides alternative process for handling partition actions filed in court concerning real property with multiple owners, at least one of whom had acquired title from relative.
Requires DCF or court to consider placement of children with relatives or kinship guardians when making placement decision; makes changes to certain standards for initiating petitions to terminate parental rights.
Eliminates mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment determined by Legislature to be of non-violent nature.
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Provides financial relief to certain landlords and tenants in response to COVID-19 pandemic, adjusts certain court fees; and makes appropriations. *
Concerns liability of certain non-profit and governmental employers for unemployment benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency. *
Allows certain students who hold T, U, or O visa to qualify for in-State tuition and allows students who hold T or U visa to qualify for student financial aid.
Eliminates premiums and waiting periods for certain NJ FamilyCare enrollees and directs DHS to implement additional targeted outreach initiatives to increase enrollment. *
Establishes Amistad Commission Exemplary Award Program; appropriates $10,000.
"Responsible Collective Negotiations Act."
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund and Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council; provides for funds received from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
Establishes Office of Food Insecurity Advocate.
Makes $135 million in federal funds available to EDA to support eligible entities impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes "Rental Assistance Navigation Program" in DCA; makes appropriation.
Designates Department of Health State office building in Trenton as "Judith M. Persichilli Building."
Authorizes Secretary of State and New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission to share voter and motor vehicle information with state-based non-profit organization for maintaining accuracy of voter registration information.
Establishes School and Small Business Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program Fund in BPU.
Establishes database of certain appointed positions and elected offices.
Allows alternative evaluation in place of basic skills testing requirements for certain teacher certification.
Removes Selective Service registration as requirement for eligibility under State student financial aid programs.
Authorizes municipalities to address certain unlawful operation of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes through seizure and, in some circumstances, destruction of vehicles. *
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Prohibits certain utility discontinuances; establishes Winter Termination Program; requires BPU to include sewer and water public utilities in Winter Termination Program. *
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Increases amount of credit for incarceration resulting from default of court-imposed financial obligation or motor vehicle penalty.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires various measures to address effects of low levels of lead exposure.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Increases State appropriations to Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund by $387 million to restore municipal aid reductions from Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
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.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires employers and birthing facilities to notify insured pregnant women if their health insurance coverage is not subject to 48-hour maternity law.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Permits certain retirees to choose health care coverage under traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan options offered by SHBP or SEHBP.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.
Requires suspension of certification of homemaker-home health aides under certain circumstances; designated as "Maria's Law."
Clarifies prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions in health insurance policies.
Authorizes Overdose Prevention Centers.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex residents of long-term care facilities.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to Juvenile Justice Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Requires correctional facilities to provide voting rights information packets to inmates.
Expands categories of individuals who may bring a claim under wrongful imprisonment statute.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Provides that driver's license may not be suspended on grounds of failure to pay child support unless obligor is given opportunity for court hearing.
Requires DOC to ensure inmates have opportunity to participate in Medicaid pre-enrollment and enrollment sessions at least 60 days prior to release; requires applicable inmates to receive Medicaid card at release.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ formerly incarcerated individuals.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to develop strategic plans to provide peer counseling and peer health navigator programs to support treatment of substance use disorders.
Directs DOLWD to identify, and post on website, employment opportunities with minimal barriers to entry for persons returning to workforce after imprisonment.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for persons 18 or younger with diagnosed complex medical needs.
Expands University Hospital board of directors membership from 11 to 13 members; designates University Hospital as rural hospital.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes and sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Prohibits delivery of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales.
Revises licensure and operational requirements for vapor businesses; revises taxes imposed on vapor products.
Delays when medical debt may be sent to collection agency and provides for income-based repayments; provides for deferment and discharge of outstanding medical debt under certain circumstances.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Establishes "New Jersey Works Dual Enrollment Option Program."
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
Requires 45 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Provides for restricted use driver's license as alternatives for license suspension in municipal court.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Requires DMVA conduct outcomes and efficacy study of veteran to veteran peer support helpline.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Provides gross income tax exemption for contributions made to qualified retirement plans.
Provides temporary gross income tax credit to first time home buyers and seniors.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Concerns Early Intervention Support Services program in DOH and expansion of program to all counties.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by all public employees for health care benefits.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Changes date of "Juneteenth Independence Day" in NJ to June 19 of each year.
Establishes "County Jail Rehabilitation and Re-Entry Program" to evaluate county inmate needs; assigns certain county caseworkers to assist inmates in accessing appropriate benefits, treatment, and services.
Requires DOC and DHS to pre-enroll inmates in Medicaid; establishes Medicaid enrollment course for inmates within DOC.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to have one veteran coordinator for every 200 veteran students; requires veteran coordinator to work with DMVA to ensure veterans have access to all available services.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Establishes "Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals, establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database, and requires development of emergency medical services stroke care protocols.
Criminalizes tampering with school bus recordings; requires schools to have school bus video reviewed and to adopt plan for monthly inspection of cameras and video footage.
"Private Vehicle Rental Modernization Act."
Establishes "Registered Apprenticeship Program for State Agencies"; makes an appropriation.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Requires collection and reporting of information concerning crimes against the elderly and disabled.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth and family services organizations.
Establishes new requirements for certain used motor vehicle dealers; creates "Used Car Buyer's Bill of Rights."
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain sales of personal computers and certain sales of school supplies and equipment during first full weekend of August.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Revises certain penalties for illegal operation of snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike.
Requires payment of State employees' compensation during involuntary furlough or temporary reduction in force due to late enactment of State annual appropriation act.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Permits counties and non-governmental, community-based agencies to establish family justice centers which provide coordinated, multi-agency governmental and non-governmental assistance to victims of certain crimes and offenses, including domestic violence
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Requires school districts take certain actions to increase participation in free or reduced priced meal programs; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires health insurance companies to cover lead screenings for children 16 years of age or younger.
Creates new permits to allow certain restaurants to sell alcoholic beverages and allows for issuance of additional alcoholic beverage licenses; provides tax credit under corporate business tax and gross income tax for loss in value to certain alcoholic be
Allows municipality to renew or deny inactive Class C alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Establishes three-year pilot program for school-based mentoring in public schools located within 1,000 feet of gunfire.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to State aid for public schools.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to grant deferment of New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) student loan payments to new parent.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Prohibits transportation network companies from engaging in surge pricing during state of emergency.
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum.
Requires training for law enforcement officers and county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
Establishes the "Safe and Sanitary Rental Housing Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Requires establishment of Work and Learn Consortiums by certain educational institutions to establish certificate and degree programs identified in high labor-demand industries.
Allows certain employees affected by federal government shutdown to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and property tax payments.
Establishes School Security Task Force.
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Concerns juvenile incarceration and parole.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $1,700,000 for Thomas Edison State University.
Prohibits certain demolitions without inspection for pest infestation.
Creates domestic violence Internet registry for certain public access; mandates counseling and community service and increases fines for certain domestic violence offenders.
Requires financial institution that has foreclosed on property to remove water service lines that contain lead.
Establishes Statewide limitation on rent increases.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Requires annual appropriations of $80 million for State Rental Assistance Program.
Establishes program in HMFA to provide loans to replace lead-contaminated water service lines for certain senior and low income homeowners; appropriates $1 million.
Requires institutions of higher education to establish hotline for victims of campus sexual assault.
Requires certain residential developers to replace lead service lines.
Requires Secretary of State to establish online voter registration website; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database; permits voter registration at polling place on any election day.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
"Water Infrastructure Improvement Bond Act of 2018," authorizes bonds for $400,000,000, and appropriates $5,000.
Requires Medicaid cover professional violence prevention counseling services.
Permits incarcerated person to renew driver's license using existing digitized picture on file with MVC.
Establishes centralized electronic health information exchange infrastructure to facilitate reentry into civilian life for recently incarcerated persons.
Requires inmate to participate in Medicaid enrollment session 60 days prior release.
Makes certain changes to drug court.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Requires board of education to provide civics instruction in middle schools and requires DOE to provide funding to NJ Center for Civic Education at Rutgers to help prepare civics teachers.
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.
Codifies establishment of Office of Diversity and Inclusion in Department of the Treasury.
Awards credits to reduce the parole eligibility date of inmates who participate in college and associate degree educational programming.
Prohibits application of neonicotinoids on State, county, or municipal property.
Establishes Emerging Technology Urban Grant Program in EDA.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Prohibits suspension of driving privileges and arrest for certain crimes and offenses.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Permits person with special needs to voluntarily make notation on driver's license and identification card.
Provides that manipulation of certain caller identification information may constitute cyber-harassment and stalking.
Requires certain county inmates be provided with reentry assistance before their release.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies and certain businesses with on-site pharmacies.*
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.
Requires school district to report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Requires OIT to establish Statewide wireless network through public-private partnership agreement.
Codifies AG directive concerning criminal investigations of law enforcement use-of-force and in-custody deaths.
Prohibits retail motor fuel dealer from charging a credit card customer in excess of four percent above the purchase price for same fuel sold to customer paying by cash.
Requires public schools to comply with more stringent school lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA in 2012.
Concerns certain annual filings by nonprofit corporations and charitable organizations.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
Requires EDA to provide low interest loans to qualified small businesses and not-for-profit corporations during state of emergency declared by Governor.
Establishes "2020 New Jersey Burial Assistance Program;" appropriates $20 million.
Provides gross income tax deduction for volunteers of New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps that serve at least 150 hours during public health emergency.
Establishes School Connectivity Grant Program to expand access to online instruction for economically disadvantaged students; makes appropriation.
Requires DOE to define expenditures for behavior modification at approved private schools for students with disabilities as allowable instructional cost for purposes of tuition rate setting.
Protects health care professionals from retaliatory action by employers during ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes one-time payment program in Department of Treasury for aid for certain eligible taxpayers; appropriates $35 million.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Concerns earned sick leave benefits.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Provides for certain criminal and civil justice reforms, particularly with respect to legal consequences associated with certain marijuana and hashish offenses as well as broadening awareness of available expungement relief.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Establishes database containing information on traffic stops by certain law enforcement officers.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Makes law enforcement disciplinary records accessible as government record.
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Establishes that law enforcement officer who chokes another utilizes deadly force.
Prohibits issuance and execution of "no-knock" warrant to be executed at residences.
Requires county board of elections to mail notice to mail-in voters after each election confirming ballot was received and counted.
Establishes general immunity for businesses, including non-profits, and public and private colleges and universities, and their officers, employees, and agents, against actions relating to Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic or related viral strain in subse
Expands NJ FamilyCare to ensure healthcare benefits are available to all uninsured children under 19 years of age who live in New Jersey; appropriates $3 million for outreach, enrollment, and retention regarding NJ FamilyCare.
Permits use of combination of in-person and virtual or remote instruction in 2020-2021 school year to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement.
Prohibits sale and possession of certain fireworks.
Requires online portal to report law enforcement officer misconduct; establishes duty to report by law enforcement officers.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Requires driver education courses to include instruction on appropriate actions for driver to take when stopped by law enforcement officer.
Permits voters to cure signature defects on mail-in and provisional ballots.
Asks Joint Committee on Library of Congress to approve replacing NJ statues of Richard Stockton and Philip Kearny in National Statuary Hall Collection with statues of Harriet Tubman and Alice Paul.
Requires school districts to provide virtual or remote instruction for beginning of 2020-2021 school year; permits in-person delivery of certain special education services; permits school districts to delay start of 2020-2021 school year.
Increases Fiscal Year 2020 appropriation for Extended Employment services by $2.5 million to ensure rate stability.
Establishes requirements for use of deadly force.
Provides for advocate in criminal cases concerning welfare or care of animal.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
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.
New Jersey Childcare and Tutoring Relief Act; establishes Remote Learning Childcare and Tutoring Grant Program in DHS.
Establishes "Guaranteed Income Pilot Program" in DOLWD for residents of certain cities.
Establishes certain restrictions on qualified immunity defense for public employees.
Permits county board of elections to begin counting mail-in ballots up to 14 days prior to election day.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Increases child care provider payments and revises hourly limits on child care for school-aged children under subsidized child care assistance program during 2020-2021 school year.
Restores civil liability of nursing homes and related facilities during public health emergency and state of emergency.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; requires periodic certificate renewal and professional development for school counselors; mandates number of school counselors per public school; establishes position of School C
Establishes assistance program to assist landlord of one- and two-family dwellings during COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $50 million.
Requires Attorney General to revise law enforcement use of force policy; implements certain reforms.
Provides for accidental death benefit if death of TPAF member is caused by COVID-19.
Requires health club services contract contain certain provisions regarding procedures during outbreak of infectious disease.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Increases size of Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission; broadens reporting duties.
Prohibits non-emergency evictions Statewide during COVID-19 covered period.
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $180 million to DCF and DHS for increased rates for social service providers in financial distress due to coronavirus disease 2019 public health crisis.
Establishes Teacher Apprenticeship Program.
Requires notification to school communities about COVID-19 infections; excludes members of school community infected with COVID-19 from in-person activities; and requires DOE to develop data dashboard on COVID-19 in schools.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Requires transportation network company drivers to participate in educational training course on dangers, harms, and warning signs of human trafficking.
Prohibits Internet service providers from increasing service rates during public health emergency or state of emergency; requires Internet service providers to notify subscribers six months in advance of service rate increase.
Requires adoption of and training on anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy by certain campaign committees; creates Office on Discrimination and Harassment Prevention; appropriates $2,000,000.
Establishes "Minority Business Development Program" in EDA; appropriates $50 million to EDA from federal funds.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Establishes Digital Divide Solutions Grant Program in DOE to assist public schools in purchase of connected devices and Internet access for students during periods of remote instruction.
Requires county boards of elections to establish ballot drop boxes at certain long-term care facilities at least 45 days before election.
Requires New Jersey Supreme Court to issue order dismissing certain charges, complaints, and arrest warrants filed with or issued by municipal courts and unresolved for five years or more; requires AOC to conduct certain studies.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Woman, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking.
Establishes right to record law enforcement activity under certain circumstances.
Establishes standards for expiration of rental housing affordability controls.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Extends eligibility for NJ STARS Program to students academically ranked in top third of class.
Establishes "Remote Instruction and School Curriculum Adjustment Study Commission" to review New Jersey Student Learning Standards and make recommendations to ensure that students utilizing remote instruction can meet curriculum standards.
Prohibits expenditure of State funds in state that requires Legislature to elect chair of state election board.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing.
Authorizes funding to protect safety of cooperating witnesses; expands Crime Victim's Bill of Rights to provide these witnesses with certain guarantees.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Requires certain law enforcement officers be periodically vetted for evidence of personal bias.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt uniform standards for licensing police officers.
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.
Requires gender balance in membership of certain boards and commissions established by statue.
Expands mail-in ballot technical defects eligible for curing; makes various changes concerning mail-in ballot cure processing and documentation.
Allows issuance of temporary permits to applicants seeking licensure as teachers from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Modifies calculation of payments in lieu of taxes for certain State entity redevelopment projects.
Prioritizes distribution of 9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund monies; permits use of funds for certain expenses incurred by counties and municipalities for the provision and maintenance of 9-1-1 emergency services.
Modifies Community College Opportunity Grant Program to permit adult students enrolled in postsecondary career and technical education programs to receive financial assistance.
Requires State, county, and municipal social service workers to periodically complete implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Prohibits institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions from withholding transcript due to outstanding balance on student's account.
Requires candidate for teacher certification to complete course or training on anti-racism in education.
Requires certain unclassified State employees to receive certain salary increases.
Establishes Doula Registry in DOH; requires inclusion on Doula Registry to receive reimbursement for doula services rendered to Medicaid beneficiary.
Requires candidate for teacher certification to complete course or training on anti-racism in education.
Requires Attorney General to establish Human Trafficking Unit in Department of Law and Public Safety.
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Assists inmates released from incarceration in obtaining necessary reentry benefits.
Concerns family leave benefits during epidemic-related emergencies.
Requires hospitals to report COVID-19 demographic data.