Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
Sponsored
Became law9
Authorizes the issuance of Kappa Alpha Psi license plates.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients. *
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Revises certain restrictions on cannabis establishments' owners; expands scope of review of cannabis establishment license applications and related materials.
Requires training prior to issuance of firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase handgun under certain circumstances; provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for ten years.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Increases child tax credit under gross income tax.
Passed the General Assembly3
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Requires Attorney General to conduct study on motor vehicle theft.
Requires HMFA to assume administration of affirmative marketing for affordable housing and reduces municipal responsibility.
Out of committee22
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Requires new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $35 million to "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Revolving Loan Fund."
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.*
Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges.*
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain home visitation program services under certain circumstances.
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
Requires State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct study of utilization of disabled veteran-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
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.
Concerns licensing of law enforcement officers; appropriates $6 million.
Protects financial institutions and insurers doing business with cannabis industry from being penalized by State regulators.
Requires Rutgers Cooperative Extension to establish internship pilot program at certain farms; appropriates $2.1 million.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
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).
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screenings.*
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Requires voting machines to be recertified annually and after software modifications.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
In committee131
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 each county to establish inmate reentry services committee.
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.
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Requires landlord to attach certificate of inspection or occupancy to residential lease.
Concerns accomplice liability of law enforcement officers who fail to de-escalate and intervene when another officer commits offense.
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
Establishes position of Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA.
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.
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.
Requires State agencies to vacate certain property in Trenton; allows EDA to offer incentives to private entities to locate to that property.
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.
Concerns body worn cameras for law enforcement officers.
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.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund Center on Gun Violence Research.
Concerns appointment of certain superintendents of weights and measures.
Requires DOA to establish, maintain, and publicize online, searchable database of minority-owned farms in New Jersey.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances to enforce certain landlord code violations as tax liens.
Directs AOC to establish implicit bias training for judges and judicial personnel.
Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.
Permits persons participating in Drug Court and other programs to earn credit against amount owed on certain court-imposed financial obligations.
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.
Permits suspension by Governor of wage execution during declared Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency.
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Requires hospitals to report coronavirus disease 2019 demographic data.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
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.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregnancy-related services violate the consumer fraud act.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Creates alternative option to earn barbering license through 1250 hours of training at licensed shop.
Requires certain disclosures by providers of commercial financing.
Requires subsistence vouchers issued to county inmates upon release be accepted in every county.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Provides awarding of contracts for professional services by State, county, municipal, and school district through competitive contracting process.
Establishes crime of law enforcement officer choking another person; designated as George Floyd's Law.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with certain firearm offenses be detained prior to trial.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for school districts concerning students' right to wear articles of faith.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas; stipulates uses of, and eligibility criteria for, funds.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Requires NJHMFA to allocate certain portion of federal low-income housing tax credits to certain high-opportunity areas.
Requires entities at every level of government to conduct periodic studies of racial and ethnic disparities in public contracting.
Establishes presumption for accidental disability retirement in PFRS that firefighter with Parkinson's Disease has disease as result of employment.
Requires AG to establish uniform police training curriculum.
Subjects most State property to local property taxation beginning on July 1, 2022.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Mercer County.
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.
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Establishes Frontline Health Care Worker Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires school districts to include instruction on conflict resolution as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence sensitivity and response training.
Requires public schools to include instruction on cursive handwriting.
Establishes the 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.
Requires DOH to establish Community Health Center Integrated Care Loan Program.
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.
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing or unsealed inner envelope.
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.
Requires Office of Information Technology to establish centralized, one-stop website resource guide to assist persons in navigating the State's developmental disability service system.
Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students in preschool through grade four.
Requires Cannabis Regulatory Commission to annually report number of cannabis applications submitted and permits or licenses issued to certain persons.
Prohibits sale of infant walkers.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Requires degree-seeking students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to receive instruction on American government and civic engagement.
Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warnings be printed on tampon package.
Provides 60-day reduction in highway fuel taxes; makes appropriation.
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Modifies salary of certain county board of elections officials.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Indigenous people as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to provide tuition assistance for students enrolled at Thomas Edison State University.
Prohibits institutions of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institutions from using applications for admission that inquire about applicant's criminal history; establishes "Universal College Application Development Task Force" to develop standard application for admission.
Establishes "Minority-Serving County College Stabilization Act" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education; appropriates $15 million.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Establishes program to subsidize purchase price of medical cannabis for registered qualifying patients enrolled in Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare programs.
Appropriates $1 billion to Division of Pensions and Benefits for State-administered retirement systems and pension funds.
Provides one-time payment of $300 to retirees and beneficiaries in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, SPRS, and JRS; makes appropriation.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Establishes New Jersey Veterans' Organization Building Grant Program.
Increases benefit amount under New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit program from 40 percent to 60 percent of federal benefit amount.
Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.
Establishes pilot program in the DLPS requiring the electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Modifies definition of "impact zones" in "New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act."
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Establishes Residential Property Repair Program; appropriates $30,000,000.
Permits certain winery licensees to engage in direct shipping.
Upgrades certain crimes related to manufacturing firearms from second to first degree.
Requires AG to establish rape kit tracking system.
Expands list of eligible jurors by removing juror disqualification for criminal convictions and including DOLWD and DCA record in juror source list.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $120,000 from General Fund to DCF for Street Outreach Program of Anchor House.
Prohibits information from Statewide voter registration system from being published on Internet.
Authorizes medical cannabis for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
Clarifies rights of parents with disabilities in child protective proceedings.
Requires DCPP to consult with Division of Developmental Disabilities following finding of child abuse or neglect to create services plan for person with developmental disability under certain circumstances.
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.
Establishes additional municipal review processes and procedures related to development of certain large warehouses; requires certain real property revaluations and reassessments.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Broadens definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act.
Establishes Employer-Based Child Care Assistance Partnership Program in DCF.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to City of Trenton for establishment and operation of Locust Hill African Cemetery Museum as independent nonprofit.
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.
Requires DOH to establish three-year Obstetric Discrimination Prevention and Mitigation Pilot Program.
Establishes Teaching Scholars Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires DOH to establish levels of maternity care at maternity care facilities.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
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.
Requires maintenance of roadways surrounding State capitol complex.
Requires public institution of higher education to provide academic credit for certain examinations.
Makes FY 2024 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to State Capitol Joint Management Commission for State Capitol Park Complex.
Renames Juvenile Justice Commission as Youth Justice Commission.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
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.
Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges.*
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot Program to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.**
Provides child tax credit under gross income tax.*
Concerns licensing of law enforcement officers; appropriates $6 million.
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
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 Senate1
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 87
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. *
Authorizes military service members, spouses, and dependents with out-of-state domicile to operate motor vehicles in New Jersey.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices. *
Provides for expedited construction inspections.*
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.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
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 institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Updates requirements and standards for authorization and prior authorization of health care services.*
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system of electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.*
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
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. *
Requires standard certification period of 12 and 24 months, under certain circumstances, within SNAP.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.*
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs. *
Requires DHS to submit federal waiver request regarding time limits for certain SNAP recipients under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $813,000 to DHS to implement use of electronic benefit transfer cards in Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.**
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 program options. *
Establishes State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program; appropriates $18 million to DHS.*
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for defendants who commit certain firearm offenses under Graves Act. **
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
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.*
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Revises State financial aid requirements to align with simplification of Free Application for Federal Student Aid under federal law.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
Establishes "Annual Business Matchmaking Event" in Department of Treasury.*
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Requires ballot privacy sleeves at polling place; makes various changes to early and mail-in voting procedures; creates online form to update name and residence on existing voter registration record. *
Specifies circumstances when voter will be removed from permanent vote by mail status and when ballot will be sent to primary address; requires educational campaign; makes appropriation of $5 million. *
Changes certain mail-in ballot deadlines; permits opening and canvassing of mail-in ballots prior to election day; permits pickup schedule for certain mail-in ballots; requires confirmation notice when voter changes party affiliation at MVC.**
Requires enhanced review of death records two months prior to election; permits remote training for certain election workers; exempts election worker compensation from taxation and remuneration.**
Requires online option for cancellation of automatic renewal of health club services subscriptions entered into online; provides additional options for cancelling health club services contracts under certain circumstances.*
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return.
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive healthcare services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
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.*
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.*
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.*
Establishes Center for Career Relevant Education and Talent Evaluation of New Jersey at Thomas Edison State University.*
Revises various provisions of law governing construction of school facilities projects and operations of New Jersey Schools Development Authority; establishes "Charter School and Renaissance School Project Facilities Loan Program" in EDA.*
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.*
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations act to allocate $25 million from “New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund” to support construction and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing.
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.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Allows cure period for businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to establish training program for employees of emergency shelters for homeless.*
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.*
Expands scope of Foreclosure Mediation Assistance Program during State of Emergency to allow use of program funds for payment to counselors who help disaster victims process applications for assistance.
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Establishes fundamental freedom of person to marry or enter into civil union with person of any race.
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.
Establishes Medicaid per diem rate for pediatric medical day care services delivered by provider offering on-site services; appropriates $3.6 million to DHS.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Changes certain General Election deadlines.
"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.*
Establishes Agritourism Fund; requires annual appropriation of $2.5 million from General Fund; appropriates $2.5 million.
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Concerns New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Establishes Community Crisis Response Advisory Council and community crisis response teams pilot program; designates "Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act;" appropriates $12 million.*
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
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.
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Enhances notice requirements and occupancy restrictions for hotels and multiple dwellings following determination of potentially hazardous condition.
Revises and clarifies certain expungement procedures.
Vetoed · 7
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Prohibits sale, distribution, import, export or propagation of certain invasive species without permit from Department of Agriculture; establishes NJ Invasive Species Council.**
Establishes New Jersey Educator Scholarship Program; appropriates $3 million.*
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.*
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Passed the General Assembly · 54
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Prohibits tax preparation software companies from charging fee for electronically filing State tax returns.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $3 million.*
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Authorizes funding to protect safety of cooperating witnesses; expands Crime Victim's Bill of Rights to provide these witnesses with certain guarantees.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.*
Eliminates driver's license suspension for failure to pay parking tickets; requires registration suspension for more than five parking tickets.
Requires each solid waste management district to develop strategy in solid waste management plan to reduce food waste.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Makes it fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.*
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.*
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Establishes New Jersey Healthy Soils Program; establishes grant program for soil testing of urban agriculture sites; establishes Urban Agriculture Site Soil Testing Fund.
Requires DHS and DOH to submit federal waivers to cover menstrual products under NJ FamilyCare, SNAP, WIC and establishes State funded benefit if federal waiver is denied; appropriates $2 million for State benefit.*
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.*
Creates new level of barbering license and apprenticeships in barbering, and establishes limits to hours of instruction for certain barbering training.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
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.**
Permits court to order counseling for children in households with domestic violence in appropriate cases; establishes presumption of award of custody to domestic violence victim in appropriate cases.**
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Renames, extends eligibility, and makes various other changes to Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program.*
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Clarifies that law concerning requirements for closure of private career school applies to certain schools licensed by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Requires Treasury to establish and maintain electronic verification system to verify State employees' eligibility to participate in federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for certain projects for acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes and certain environmental infrastructure projects that include, or allow for, flood mitigation projects.
Establishes Small Business Resiliency Project Loan Program in EDA for certain small businesses implementing certain resiliency projects.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Establishes Office of Financial Assistance in EDA to help eligible entities access opportunities for public financial assistance; requires office to develop common application platform.*
Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing, over time, employee threshold from 30 employees to five employees in definition of employer.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to Election Law Enforcement Commission in DLPS for enforcement and staffing activities.
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Removes obstacles to teacher certification for certain teachers.
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship.*
Requires DHS to provide information to SNAP and WFNJ recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to submit report to Governor and Legislature on these fraud activities.
Requires establishment of residential rental habitability database and provides certain penalties and causes of action concerning residential leases.
Allows projects supported by State or municipal affordable housing trust fund to be exempt from property tax and to instead contribute to municipal services by making payments in lieu of taxation.*
Facilitates construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing built in part through sweat equity by eventual occupant.
Establishes New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force; clarifies collection of student growth data.*
Out of committee · 146
Reforms municipal responsibilities concerning provision of affordable housing; abolishes COAH; appropriates $16 million.
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee." *
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.*
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
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.
Codifies, and increases under certain circumtances, current minimum Medicaid per diem reimbursement rates for assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.*
Establishes NJ State Parks and Open Space Foundation.*
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.
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million. **
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. *
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.*
Requires certain public venues and places of worship to submit emergency plans to law enforcement agencies for purpose of preparing for mass casualty and active shooter events.
Requires new flooring for schools and child care centers to be certified mercury free.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing.
Permits excused absences for students who attend civic events.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Establishes healthcare careers pilot program for certain institutions of higher education and proprietary schools.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; outlines role and duties of school counselor; requires professional development for school counselors; establishes position of School Counselor Liaison in DOE.
Requires school districts to provide anti-bias instruction as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires school districts to designate chief equity officer or affirmative action officer.*
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
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.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Establishes Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Establishes New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under gross income tax for certain home purchases during qualified periods by first-time homebuyers.
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Imposes certain requirements on use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement agencies.
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Authorizes issuance of protective orders for certain victimized persons in situations for which domestic violence statutes do not apply due to lack of familial or dating relationship between victim and offending actor.*
Creates gallery space on State House grounds for display of certain art works.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
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.*
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 outer envelope for mailing of voted mail-in ballot by voter to include postage prepaid.
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.
Establishes Innovation Dual Enrollment II Pilot Program in DOE.*
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Requires DHS to conduct annual Medicaid eligibility redeterminations.
Requires institutions of higher education and government employers to provide certain students and employees with information about Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of military.
Concerns use of tents and other fixtures for outdoor dining on certain property.
Concerns certification of tax collectors.
Concerns automatic fire sprinkler systems within newly constructed townhouses.*
Requires certain permit holders to complete practice driving hours to obtain probationary driver's license.
Makes certain changes to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educator grant program.
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Updates "New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act" to current standards of National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location.
Requires transparency concerning compensation with promotional opportunities and in employment listings.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger.
Amends requirements for certain mixed use parking projects undertaken by municipal redevelopers under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program; increases total available tax credits by $25 million.*
Establishes program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to pay for remaining tuition costs related to certain remedial or developmental courses.
Establishes New Jersey Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide at Rutgers School of Public Health; appropriates $500,000.*
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Establishes "Sustainable New Jersey Fund" in DEP to support certain sustainability initiatives; appropriates $1 million.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Establishes Capital Project Development Loan Program to support certain large-scale redevelopment projects; appropriates $300 million.
Concerns economic incentives for certain cannabis businesses.*
Expands allowance for developers to carry forward unused tax credits under New Jersey Aspire Program.
Establishes Behavioral Healthcare Provider Loan Redemption Program within Higher Education Student Assistance Authority; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes "Guaranteed Rental Payment Pilot Program" for certain low-income tenants; appropriates $10,000,000.
Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturer or dealer from requiring subscription for certain motor vehicle features and from charging certain fees.*
Prohibits person experiencing coin shortage from charging consumers higher price for cash payment.
Requires entity that manages public housing for seniors to retain emergency contact information for residents.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to receive approval from State Board of Education prior to imposing new standardized assessment requirement on public schools.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Revises goal for annual capacity of solar energy projects to be approved under Community Solar Energy Program; allows certain customers to self-attest to income for program participation; allows information disclosure of customers participating in program.*
Requires sellers of real property and landlords to make certain notifications regarding flooding.
Concerns use of ignition interlock devices for drunk driving offenses.*
Appropriates $3 million to DOH to build and operate emergency management and storage center at Hunterdon Medical Center.
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.*
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2023.
Requires DCA to track natural disaster-related spending by State and local government.
Establishes fund for DEP for Blue Acres acquisition and relocation projects; appropriates $25 million.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000. *
Establishes Mobility and Transportation Innovation Pilot Program in DOT; appropriates $2 million.*
Requires Director of Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to establish grant program to encourage municipalities to develop recreational sports and STEM programs for children; appropriates $10 million.
Requires State Planning Commission to adopt model ordinance for siting certain warehouses and permits conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances and establishes fund in DCA; appropriates $5 million.
Revises training requirements for governing board members of public institutions of higher 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.*
Requires public institution of higher education to post certain information on institution's website.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Establishes strict liability criminal penalties for firearm trafficking that results in injury or death.
Requires person offering digital coupon to make available in-store alternative of identical value.*
Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for a public body to register with and submit payroll records to DOLWD.*
Establishes signs and Internet websites for State tourism attractions, historic sites, and historic districts.*
Establishes new tourism regions and subregions in New Jersey.
Eliminates Tourism Policy Council; requires updated tourism master plan; requires specific tourism data, research, and marketing; requires annual report.
Requires court to consider certain factors in appointing guardian and to justify guardianship appointment on record.
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.
Changes certain deadlines for primary election.
Designates State Office of Emergency Management as State Agency for Surplus Property.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Establishes annual ten-day sales tax holiday for certain sales of disaster preparedness supplies and equipment.
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.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
Modifies certain provisions of "New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Act" and "Food Desert Relief Act."
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Requires public and nonpublic schools with lunch programs to provide free lunch to increasing numbers of income-eligible students and, after five-year phase-in, to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of income or federal eligibility.*
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Provides for expansion of certain support team addiction recovery programs; appropriates $1,995,000 from opioid recovery and remediation fund.
Imposes certain rate filing requirements concerning certain health benefits plans available on State-based exchange.
Establishes Social Impact Investment Fund; appropriates $20 million.
Creates "Midwifery Licensing Act"; modifies regulation of midwifery.*
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.
Prohibits certain dissemination of criminal history background information until record is updated.
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
Expands culpability requirements for firearms trafficking offenses and violations of regulatory provisions relating to firearms.
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Increases amount of credit for incarceration resulting from default of court-imposed financial obligation or motor vehicle penalty.
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.
Establishes School Connectivity Grant Program to expand access to online instruction for economically disadvantaged students; makes appropriation.
Permits retroactive modification of certain judgements of conviction; requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.
Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
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 employees of private entity with access to student information under contract with DOE, school districts, or charter schools to undergo criminal background check.
Permits certain retirees to choose health care coverage under traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan options offered by SHBP or SEHBP.
Permits members of Legislature to enroll in SHBP.
Adopts State definition of Islamophobia for certain civil and criminal purposes.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Allows issuance of temporary permits to applicants seeking licensure as teachers from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
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.
Provides temporary gross income tax credit to first time home buyers and seniors.
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 subsequent years.
Establishes "Food Innovation District Pilot Program."
Prohibits expenditure of State funds in state that requires Legislature to elect chair of state election board.
Expands permitted sales and activities on licensed premises of certain alcohol manufacturers.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible; requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin; requires insulin manufacturers to submit report to Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.
Establishes standards for expiration of rental housing affordability controls.
Authorizes municipalities to address certain unlawful operation of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes through seizure and, in some circumstances, destruction of vehicles.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ formerly incarcerated individuals.
Directs DOLWD to identify, and post on website, employment opportunities with minimal barriers to entry for persons returning to workforce after imprisonment.
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 health insurance carriers to provide coverage for persons 18 or younger with diagnosed complex medical needs.
Requires certain county inmates be provided with reentry assistance before their release.
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.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Establishes "Trenton Makes Commission."
Modifies Community College Opportunity Grant Program to permit adult students enrolled in postsecondary career and technical education programs to receive financial assistance.
Allows alternative evaluation in place of basic skills testing requirements for certain teacher certification.
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 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.
Prohibits suspension of driving privileges and arrest for certain crimes and offenses.
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.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
Provides mortgage payment relief, income tax relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for residential property owners, tenants, and other consumers, economically impacted during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Provides for resentencing of certain inmates.
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $1.8 million.
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 county board of elections to mail notice to mail-in voters after each election confirming ballot was received and counted.
Requires driver education courses to include instruction on appropriate actions for driver to take when stopped by law enforcement officer.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Establishes requirements for use of deadly force.
Authorizes issuance of license plates series honoring military academies that represent five branches of United States military.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task 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.
Requires gender balance in membership of certain boards and commissions established by statute.
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 municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Establishes geriatric parole for certain eligible inmates.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
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.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Allows tax credits for nonresidential and multifamily building improvement expenses to reduce spread of COVID-19.
Clarifies that teachers and professional support staff employed in charter schools and other public schools must meet the same certification requirements.
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.
Expands requirements for health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives for up to 12 months.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Removes Selective Service registration as requirement for eligibility under State student financial aid programs.
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 to release.
Establishes Emerging Technology Urban Grant Program in EDA.
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 brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Mandates access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plan or program provided by the public employer.
Requires candidate for teacher certification to complete course or training on anti-racism in education.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
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.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Establishes the "Safe and Sanitary Rental Housing Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Expands expungement eligibility; eliminates cap on number of convictions person may expunge; eliminates limitation on number of times person may be granted expungement.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Establishes permanent daylight saving time in NJ.
Establishes "2020 New Jersey Burial Assistance Program;" appropriates $20 million.
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.
Prohibits sale and possession of certain fireworks.
Requires online portal to report law enforcement officer misconduct; establishes duty to report by law enforcement officers.
Establishes "Guaranteed Income Pilot Program" in DOLWD for residents of certain cities.
Establishes certain restrictions on qualified immunity defense for public employees.
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.
Revises "Homelessness Prevention Program"; appropriates $300 million.
Prohibits non-emergency evictions Statewide during COVID-19 covered period.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth and family services organizations.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership of certain boards of directors.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Bus Riders' Bill of Rights."
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Concerns counseling for children who were either physically present or who may have seen or heard act of domestic violence.
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 be satisfied by certain rehabilitation projects.
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.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Permits State Real Estate Appraiser Board to revoke, suspend, or fine appraisers or appraisal management companies who knowingly engage in discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Establishes "Municipal Community Center Grant Program."
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
Establishes New Jersey Baby Bond Account Program.
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.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Increases size of Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission; broadens reporting duties.
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.
"Water Infrastructure Improvement Bond Act of 2018," authorizes bonds for $400,000,000, and appropriates $5,000.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
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 health insurance carriers to offer clear cost share plans for individual health benefits plans.
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.
Requires certain unclassified State employees to receive certain salary increases.
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.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Directs DOE to conduct study on feasibility of using and expanding virtual learning in school districts with teacher shortages.
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 report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Requires institutions of higher education to establish hotline for victims of campus sexual assault.
Prohibits expenditure of State funds in states with restrictive abortion laws.
Requires health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by victim of domestic violence as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage therefor.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of lack of personal jurisdiction over New Jersey resident in civil action under Texas abortion ban law 2021 Tex. SB8, 87th Regular Session ch. 62.
Authorizes DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, to provide priority consideration to permit applications for green building projects.
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.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Concerns residential community release programs.
Establishes Division of School Desegregation in DOE to identify racial and socioeconomic segregation of school districts and to ensure better integration in public schools.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
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 conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
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 program.
Establishes database containing information on traffic stops by certain law enforcement officers.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allocates sufficient funds to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
"New Jersey Safe Storage of Firearms Act"; establishes certain requirements and penalties regarding firearm storage; repeals law governing minor's access to firearm; requires AG to establish public awareness campaign regarding firearm storage; appropriates $500,000.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Allows county boards of elections to begin canvassing early votes and mail-in ballots before election day under certain conditions.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees; revises type of injury needed to qualify for program.
Prohibits application of neonicotinoids on State, county, or municipal property.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service; prohibits certain caller identification service manipulation and provides additional penalty.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
"New Jersey American Dream Act"; appropriates $25 million to provide down payment and home repair assistance to low and moderate income first-time homebuyers.
Requires 60 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires school districts to permit students five excused absences for mental or behavioral health reasons.
Permits county board of elections to begin counting mail-in ballots up to 14 days prior to election day.
"Motorist Fueling Choice and Convenience Act."
Requires application for homestead property tax reimbursement to be filed with NJ gross income tax return.
Establishes Office of Women's Services in DOC.
Establishes State bank for handling of marijuana-related funds.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.
Requires school districts to permit students excused absences while experiencing symptoms of menstrual disorder.
Establishes program in DOE to support school districts in developing grow-your-own programs for hiring of teachers of students with disabilities.
Designated the Equitable Disclosure Act of 2010, modifies provisions of MLUL concerning objectors to applications for development.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,100,000 to DOE to provide additional State school aid to Manchester Regional School District.
Addresses various concerns affecting post-release employment.
Expands cities permitted to regulate days and hours when packaged goods may be sold.
Eliminates partial and full State intervention under New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Prohibits certain school districts under State intervention from leasing building if purchase price would be less than total costs of lease.
Requires school districts to maintain and pay premiums for student accident insurance.
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Passaic County.
Establishes "Minority-Serving State College and University Stabilization Program" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education; appropriates $20 million.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement program into credit program.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt uniform standards for licensing police officers.
Establishes the "Urban Wealth Fund Pilot Program."
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.
"Establishes Children, Youth, and Families Bill of Rights" to recognize and protect certain rights for children, youth, families.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; Requires DOH to approve training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
Establishes pilot program for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Provides that crime of official misconduct involving disclosure of domestic violence or sexual assault victim's personal information is second degree crime.
Specifies that emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for victim of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."
Adds new civil penalties and increases surcharges imposed on domestic violence offenders; establishes "Domestic Violence Victims' Legal Assistance Fund."
Permits students experiencing menstrual disorder to attend school remotely.
Bars the denial of expungement application in certain instances.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Requires annual State debt affordability analysis be included in State Debt Report.
Prohibits medical creditors from reporting medical debt to credit reporting agency.
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.
Requires DHS to establish public awareness campaign about period poverty.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide menstrual products in all campus buildings; appropriates $85,000 from General Fund to Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Increases amounts of property tax deductions for senior citizens and persons with disabilities, and veterans, from $250 to $500.
Allows small private theater used for musical or theatrical performances to acquire alcoholic beverage retail license.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Assigns financial responsibility of educating homeless student to district of attendance.
Provides that child study team members may be employees of the school district or of a DOE approved agency or clinic.
Requires Secretary of Agriculture to establish agricultural disaster assistance program.
Prohibits adoption of any State rule or regulation mandating electric heating or water heating systems in buildings prior to issuance of DCA report.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning needs of transgender students.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
Requires DOLWD to establish mobile unit program to provide unemployment compensation insurance assistance and services.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires membership of boards of trustees of State colleges and universities and county colleges to include two college employees.
Prohibits discrimination on basis of height or weight under "Law Against Discrimination."
Directs DCA to establish grant programs for public water systems.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Requires administrative review for purposes of parole discharge of certain parolees sentenced to life imprisonment.
Provides $3 million supplemental appropriation to Hunterdon Medical Center for building to stockpile personal protective equipment.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.
Establishes Medicaid Managed Care Organization Oversight Program.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Requires air conditioning in State correctional facilities.
Increases penalties imposed on juveniles and adults convicted of motor vehicle theft and related crimes.
Establishes Automobile Theft Prevention Authority; appropriates $2 million.
Requires school districts to include environmental sustainability plan in long-range facilities plan.
Requires police misconduct training course be included in police basic training curriculum.
Provides that earned sick leave law does not apply to certain workers in concrete industry.
Prohibits New Jersey Legislature from solely altering conduct or outcome of any election; reaffirms separation of powers concerning elections.
Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
Revises State renewable energy portfolio standards.
Requires use of federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund grants to reduce increases in premium rates for SHBP and SEHBP for calendar year 2023.
Provides equitable relief to State contractors who sustained unanticipated expenses due to price escalation for construction materials.
Establishes Commission on Oversight of Public Institutions of Higher Education.
Eliminates prohibition on provision of single-use paper bags by grocery stores for certain orders for five years; allows packaging options for grocery orders; requires program for disposition of reusable bags for grocery orders.
Establishes $40 daily pay rate for jurors and certain other juror benefits; appropriate $20 million.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services by $4.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Requires helmet while operating bicycle, scooter, or motorized scooter.
Establishes "Task Force for Community Based Juvenile Rehabilitation."
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
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.
Limits speculative development of large warehouses until 500,000 acres of farmland are preserved under farmland preservation programs.
Provides exemption from State permit fees to owners of commercial farms rebuilding from natural disaster.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Establishes student-athlete mental health specialists in school districts and public institutions of higher education; creates student-athlete mental health registry; makes appropriation.
Requires school districts to offer halal lunch options.
Requires school districts to provide information on process of obtaining US citizenship.
Requires establishment of grant programs to provide workforce shuttles and cover transportation costs; appropriates $10 million in federal funds.
"Kangaroo Protection Act of 2022"; prohibits sale or barter, or offering for sale or barter, of dead kangaroos and any products made from kangaroo.
Establishes program for electronic monitoring of certain offenders; appropriates $15 million.*
Establishes Urban Enterprise Zone Microloan Program in EDA to help certain businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and UEZ-Impacted districts; appropriates $5 million.
Makes various revisions to alcoholic beverage licensing laws pertaining to certain retailers and manufacturers; provides tax credit under corporate business tax and gross income tax to certain retail licensees.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Establishes foreclosure protection and mortgage relief for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Requires four-year public institution of higher education to admit certain students diagnosed with cancer and sickle cell anemia.
Enters NJ in Social Work Licensure Compact.
Requires local boards of education to employ at least one school social worker per school.
Requires local boards of education to employ certain number of staff with expertise in student mental health.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Expands eligibility for NJCLASS Teacher Loan Redemption Program.
Provides deduction from gross income of $500 for full-time educators and paraprofessionals and $350 for part-time educators and paraprofessionals.
Requires State Board of Education to reduce clinical practice requirements for certain teacher candidates.
Establishes New Jersey Student Educator Tuition Remission Program.
Establishes emergency teacher certificate in certain circumstances.
Relates to provision of financial assistance to eligible property owners, renters, and vehicle owners impacted by remnants of Hurricane Ida; appropriates $100 million.
"New Jersey Fostering Success Voucher Act"; provides rental assistance and case management services for certain young adults leaving foster care or kinship care; appropriates $10 million.
Requires premium payment made to municipality by purchaser of tax lien to be paid to property owner under certain circumstances.
Directs DOH to establish food bank for pets pilot program; appropriates $1 million.
Requires employer to allow employee suffering from menstrual disorder to work remotely in certain circumstances.
Authorizes certain real property transfers without certain municipal transfer approvals and water testing.
Establishes new position of Clean Energy Advocate in BPU to facilitate coordination and cooperation among various State agencies in association with implementation of interagency clean energy projects.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from disclosing to policyholder or other person covered under health benefits plan any identifying information connected to covered person with valid protection order against policyholder or other covered person.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Requires owners or operators of public community water systems to perform certain tests for Legionella bacteria.
Establishes homestead and bank account exemptions for persons in debt; increases existing exemption amounts for household goods.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.
Prohibits public libraries and public schools from banning or restricting access to certain books; permits withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Provides students enrolled in certain career programs with consumer protections from fraudulent and misleading claims and practices.
Establishes pilot program in Office of Planning Advocacy to reimburse municipalities for certain expenditures concerning warehouse development; appropriates $1 million.