Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, General Assembly.
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
Sponsored
Became law4
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey." **
Authorizes creation of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. license plates.
Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on public works contract.
Permits Director of Division of Pensions and Benefits to initiate temporary transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
Passed the General Assembly2
The "New Jersey Online Foreclosure Sale Act;" permits online foreclosure sales for real property.
"Jack Reid Law: Protect All Students Act"; prohibits harassment or bullying of nonpublic school students and requires nonpublic schools to adopt anti-harassment and bullying policy.
Out of committee12
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregnancy-related services or health care services violate consumer fraud act.*
Requires certain notifications to subcontractors listed on bid for State contract by prime contractor.
Prohibits public school from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.*
"Everyone Counts in New Jersey Act"; establishes "New Jersey Census Complete Count Commission," "New Jersey Office of Census," and "New Jersey Census Complete Count Trust Fund."*
Appropriates $3 million annually to Freedom Schools in New Jersey using funds collected under Social Equity Excise Fee.
Requires law enforcement officer to reveal facial identity during certain public interactions and to present sufficient identification prior to arresting or detaining person.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Expands criminal and civil penalties for human trafficking, and expands human trafficking training requirements for law enforcement.*
Provides televisions in State buildings shall display closed captioning for programming.
Establishes certain protections against deed theft.
Increases amount of child tax credit in taxable years 2026, 2027, and 2028.
"Election Integrity and Voter Protection Act"; restricts presence of active duty military and certain law enforcement near polling places and ballot drop boxes.
In committee126
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Requires landlord to attach certificate of inspection or occupancy to residential lease.
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.
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $35 million to "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Revolving Loan Fund."
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition for four continuous academic years following student's initial enrollment.
Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
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.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
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.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.
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.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Establishes Teaching Scholars Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
Makes FY 2024 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to State Capitol Joint Management Commission for State Capitol Park Complex.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Establishes permanent daylight saving time in NJ.
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Establishes that law enforcement officer who chokes another utilizes deadly force.
Prohibits issuance and execution of "no-knock" warrant to be executed at residences.
Requires 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.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Establishes New Jersey Veterans' Organization Building Grant Program.
Expands definition of newspaper for required public advertisements to include those published online.
Establishes certain medical billing requirements concerning specific nature of charges or expenses for health care services.
Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum for grades three through five.
Requires MVC to provide customers with certain documents in-person, same day.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students.
Provides for rehabilitative release for certain incarcerated persons.
Increases bid advertising threshold on certain purchases, contracts, or agreements.
Establishes "Minority and Women-Owned Businesses State Contractor Remedies Act."
Requires Medicaid coverage for self-administered hormonal contraceptives dispensed by pharmacist under standing order.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100 million to Affordable Housing Production Fund in DCA for completion of 100-percent affordable housing projects.
Modifies title and role of Chief Diversity Officer; establishes New Jersey Office of Supplier Development and Business Opportunities.
Concerns housing discrimination based on source of lawful income.
Requires MVC to accommodate walk-in services on certain days.
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Creates Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission, Office of Healthcare Affordability and Transparency, and hospital price transparency regulations.
Requires key boxes at public school buildings with certain exceptions; appropriates $2.5 million for reimbursement of costs related to key box installation.
Establishes Chronic Absenteeism Task Force.
Requires pharmacies to provide 90 days notice to municipality prior to closure.
Creates certain requirements for certain earned income access services and related provider contracts.
Prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing mask or disguise while interacting with public.
Dedicates 50 percent of revenues collected from additional fees and taxes imposed on real property transfers valued over $1 million to Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Permits certain use of virtual or remote instruction by schools during inclement weather to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products and personal care products containing 1,4-dioxane.
Makes FY2026 supplemental appropriation of $175 million from General Fund to DHS for Emergency SNAP Replacement Benefits.
Amends Fiscal Year 2026 annual appropriations act to reassign appropriation for Salvation and Social Justice to Greater Mount Zion Community Development Corporation.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Requires Attorney General to revise law enforcement use of force policy; implements certain reforms.
Provides child tax credit for taxpayers with children ages six to 11 and increases amount of credit for taxpayers with children under 12 over period of two years.
Requires maintenance of roadways surrounding State capitol complex.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.
Limits use of State, county, and municipal property or funding to support immigrant detention facilities.
Establishes Statewide Skills Academy Network; appropriates $1 million.
Requires public institution of higher education to provide academic credit for certain examinations.
Amends eligibility for expungement of criminal records.
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.
Requires intervention of at least two days between second reading and passage of State budget bill in either house of Legislature.
Requires proportional distribution of payment between employers for health benefit payment obligations for certain retirees.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Requires certain disclosures by providers of commercial financing.
Makes FY2026 supplemental appropriation of $30 million to DCA for Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit program.
Imposes 10 percent electric public utility windfall surtax on taxpayers with allocated taxable net income in excess of $10 million under CBT.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Changes certain allocations and amounts of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for Fiscal Year 2026 and thereafter; authorizes Garden State Preservation Trust and local governments to acquire lands in urban areas for agricultural or horticultural purposes.
Requires Department of Banking and Insurance to examine and rate lending institutions with regards to lending, investments, and services provided to low- and moderate-income consumers.
Implements Mom Project oral health program in DOH; appropriates $3,000,000.
Requires State agencies to vacate certain property in Trenton; allows EDA to offer incentives to private entities to locate to that property.
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
Prohibits institution of higher education from giving preferential consideration for admission to legacy student.
Establishes provisions for use of applicant and student criminal history at institution of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institution.
Requires outer envelope for mailing of voted mail-in ballot by voter to include postage prepaid.
Increases benefit amount under New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit program from 40 percent to 60 percent of federal benefit amount.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage programs for overburdened communities; makes change to community solar program.
Establishes the "Safe and Sanitary Rental Housing Act."
Makes various revisions to the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights.
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; establishes training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
"Behavioral Health Crisis Mobile Response Act."
Expands child tax credit eligibility to resident taxpayers with children ages six to 11.
Extends anti-SLAPP protections to complainants of sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination.
Imposes gross income tax at rate of 100 percent on amounts received by resident taxpayers from Anti-Weaponization Fund.
Establishes "The Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair Act of New Jersey."
Authorizes school districts to award alternate high school diploma to certain students with disabilities.
Establishes EDA grant program to support increased business expenses incurred by certain businesses impacted by emergency bridge projects; appropriates $1 million.
Requires AG to establish uniform police training curriculum.
Requires local budgets to be prepared using generally accepted accounting principles.
Requires State Police to establish community policing unit.
Requires insurance coverage of diapers when medically necessary.
Permits greater diversity in creation of new health sharing ministries and establishes and exempts certain mandates and reporting requirements.
Imposes restrictions on the use of expunged records.
Establishes three-year pilot program for school-based mentoring in public schools located within 1,000 feet of gunfire.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $600,000.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
"Yes In God's Backyard Act"; Enhances ability of religious and nonprofit organizations to convert certain property to inclusionary developments with affordable housing; authorizes bonds for $250 million; appropriates $50 million.
Permits alternative student transportation providers to transport certain students in certain vehicles; regulates alternative student transportation providers; clarifies types of vehicles that may be used by school personnel to transport certain students.
Requires DOE to publish special education complaint investigation reports and provide links to certain relevant court decisions.
Requires Commissioner of Education to appoint independent investigators for complaints against DOE regarding special education.
Requires Office of Special Education in DOE to determine compensatory education services in certain circumstances.
Requires additional monitoring and enforcement of certain orders of compliance and corrective action plans issued during special education disputes.
Requires State Board of Education to promulgate certain regulations concerning special education complaint investigations and corrective action plans.
Requires school districts to provide 30-minute lunch period for students.
Filed7
Requires housing authority to offer online electronic funds transfer payment option to tenants.
Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Equity.
Requires early voting for each election held in certain counties.
Requires DEP to establish maximum contaminant level for certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water and establish private well testing program.
Establishes New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under gross income tax for certain home purchases during qualified periods by first-time homebuyers.
Requires registration, inspection, testing, cleaning, and disinfection of cooling towers to control outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires law enforcement officer to reveal facial identity during certain public interactions and to present sufficient identification prior to arresting or detaining person.
Provides televisions in State buildings shall display closed captioning for programming.
Increases amount of child tax credit in taxable years 2026, 2027, and 2028.
Passed the Senate1
Expands criminal and civil penalties for human trafficking, and expands human trafficking training requirements for law enforcement. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Requires electric public utilities to develop and apply special rules for certain data centers to protect non-data center customers from increased costs.**
Exempts poll workers wages from affecting unemployment compensation.
Requires paratransit vehicle operators to announce stops for passengers.*
Establishes certain State funding preferences for municipalities that enhance opportunities to develop housing.
Requires public schools to post link to subsidized school meals application, and certain informational videos related to application, in prominent place on Internet website.*
Requires Governor's Office of Volunteerism to promote and support volunteerism for compliance with certain eligibility requirements for NJ FamilyCare and SNAP recipients; appropriates $200,000 to DHS, Office of Volunteerism, and DOLWD.*
Establishes "Privacy Protection Act"; concerns collection and sharing of certain personal information.
Codifies AG directive, "Strengthening Trust Between Law Enforcement and Immigrant Communities."
Establishes "Fair Price Protection Act."*
Permits extension of early voting period for regular municipal elections in May.
Passed both houses · 3
Permits pretrial detention for contempt violation of protective order issued under "Victim's Assistance and Survivor Protection Act."
Requires expedited compliance with certain search warrants in domestic violence and stalking investigations.
Amends FY2027 Appropriations Act to revise language concerning Family and Internal Medicine Residency Expansion Program.
Passed the General Assembly · 43
Increases penalties for certain prohibited sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Prohibits SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager.
Requires inspection for pest infestation prior to certain demolitions.*
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Modifies collective statewide transfer agreement and reverse transfer agreement; establishes New Jersey Transfer Ombudsperson within Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Requires AG to review Statewide policy regarding investigation of human trafficking.
Broadens public awareness signage to include notices in Chinese and Korean.
Creates "Patient and Provider Protection Act."*
Establishes timelines for review and approval by Commissioner of Education of annual certified audits submitted by approved private schools for students with disabilities.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying coverage of nonopioid prescription drugs in favor of opioid prescription drugs.
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.
Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrators of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to make changes to certain polices regarding the provision of family support and respite care services for certain eligible individuals.
Establishes registry of out-of-state contractors who are awarded public works contracts in this State.
Prohibits certain public utilities from charging residents of multi-unit dwellings meter-reading fees in certain circumstances.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.
Directs DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.*
Requires child abuse reporting hotline maintained by DCPP to provide information on resources available to victims and families.
Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.
Expands responsibilities of Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and establishes Problematic Sexual Behavior Program.*
Requires law enforcement to notify State Parole Board when parolee violates domestic violence restraining order.
Requires certain providers of substance or alcohol use disorder treatment, services, or supports to be assessed for conflicts of interest prior to receiving State funds, licensure, or certification.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Gravesite Maintenance Grant Program in DVA.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.
Requires Division of Child Protection and Permanency to develop suicide screening and crisis response training for caseworkers.
Requires Department of Agriculture to take various actions to publicize and promote community supported agriculture in New Jersey.
Requires health benefits coverage of continuous glucose monitoring system for treatment of glycogen storage disease.
Requires restaurant to disclose mandatory gratuity to patrons.
Revises "Homelessness Prevention Program"; requires new charge for filing of eviction action.
Requires State agencies to make good faith effort to increase awarding of contracts procured without advertisement to minority- and women-owned businesses.
"General Contractor Licensing Act;" provides for regulation of general contractors and general contracting businesses.*
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for persons in crisis.*
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund." and "Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account."*
"Safe Commercial Routes Act - Commercial Driver Human Trafficking Awareness Training"; requires applicants for commercial driver licenses and drivers renewing commercial driver licenses to complete human trafficking awareness training.
Establishes Hope Card Program to provide victims of domestic violence with restraining order quick reference wallet card; makes appropriation.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing and treatments to slow progression of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires unexpended State aid for nonpublic school nursing services and nonpublic school security services to be used to support nonpublic school transportation services.*
Concerns school district finances regarding unanticipated cost increases and unused leave liabilities.*
Establishes additional procedures for financial oversight and reporting to ensure fiscal stability of school districts.
Expands duties of executive county business official; establishes processes for fiscal review of school districts by executive county superintendent and Commissioner of Education.
Requires DCF to strengthen Statewide pediatric psychiatry and behavioral health care services for children and families.
Clarifies establishments required to display human trafficking public awareness signs.
Out of committee · 60
Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.
Requires AG to study law enforcement use of facial recognition technology and issue report with recommendations for Statewide policy.
Revises licensure requirements for residential substance use disorders treatment facilities or programs.
Provides for expansion of county transportation services to include disabled veterans; provides funding source for expansion.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening. *
Requires DOH to revise emergency response plan for pandemic influenzas.
Creates Task Force on Higher Education Governance and Funding; appropriates $200,000.
Permits board of education to employ certain veterans in coaching positions in school district's interscholastic athletic program.
Requires new flooring for schools, community centers, and child care centers to be certified mercury-free.
Permits certain winery license holders to sell wine produced by other winery licensees under certain circumstances; establishes supplemental wine production facility license.
Directs DOLWD to identify, and post on website, employment opportunities with minimal barriers to entry for persons returning to workforce after imprisonment.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.
Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
Enters New Jersey in Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact.
Requires Chief Diversity Officer in Department of Treasury to develop and implement programs to increase utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidance on accommodations for certain students fasting for religious or medical reasons.*
Prohibits certain substances in sale, distribution, and manufacture of commercial foods for human consumption; bans certain substances in school food.*
Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Creates certain public meeting requirements for passenger advisory committees.
Concerns training curriculum for certain NJT motorbus operators.
Requires institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Establishes requirements to evaluate certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.
Establishes requirements to evaluate certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia.
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.
Establishes protected leave under "Family Leave Act" and family temporary disability leave benefits for bereavement for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.*
Requires Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services in cases of iatrogenic infertility caused by medically necessary treatments.
Requires DEP to regulate scrap metal facilities as recycling facilities.
Establishes legislative internship program.
Revises high school student financial aid application requirements.
Establishes Jersey Strong Public Service Scholarship Program.
Requires Chief Diversity Officer in Department of Treasury and other State officers to conduct certain outreach events, training workshops, and educational programs for minority and women-owned businesses.
Increases personal needs allowance to $140 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires 45 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Protects access to assisted reproductive technology.
Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Establishes oversight and qualifications of peer recovery specialists.
Establishes requirements for on-demand micro transit programs operating in NJ.
Requires Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to undertake study to determine efficiency and scaling in delivery of local government services.
Eliminates statute of limitations for human trafficking and criminal sexual contact prosecutions and eliminates statute of limitations for civil cases arising from human trafficking.*
Requires State entities purchase five percent of goods and services from Central Nonprofit Agency; requires Division of Purchase and Property establish training protocols for all purchasing agents; grants Central Nonprofit Agency right of first refusal.*
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.
Supplements FY2027 Appropriations Act; makes $10 million off-budget appropriation to NJSHARES - S.M.A.R.T. Program.*
"Polluters Pay to Make New Jersey More Affordable Act"; imposes cost recovery payments on certain fossil fuel companies for funds needed for climate change adaptation; establishes program in DEP to collect and oversee distribution of funds.**
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Requires Commissioner of Education to take certain action concerning preliminary State school aid notices and school district budgets and creates New Jersey Education Funding Portal; modifies certain provisions in school funding law.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.
Prohibits class action waivers in residential rental agreements for claims arising from violations of rent control laws.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success.*
"Immigrant Tenant Protection Act"; provides certain protections to residential tenants and codifies certain warranty of habitability protections.
Establishes "New Jersey Holistic Representation Model" in Office of Public Defender.
Modifies procedures for parole release, early discharge from parole, and penalties for certain parole violations.
Appropriates $77,406,208 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Establishes "Midwifery Licensing Act."
Clarifies that voluntary incapacitation by alleged victim of sexual assault does not bar prosecution of defendant.
In committee · 463
Permits teacher who retired from TPAF to return to employment for two years without reenrollment in TPAF; provides gross income tax relief for certain rehired teachers.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain wages of kindergarten through grade 12 school teachers.
Permits excused absence for student enlisted or planning to enlist in Armed Forces of United States or National Guard.
Requires certain animals used in testing to be offered for adoption; requires establishment of procedures for assessment and disposition of animals; establishes penalties for noncompliance.
Exempts cribs, child restraint systems, nursing bottles, and strollers from sales and use tax.
Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases.
"Madalyn's Law"; requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of toxic shock syndrome.
Extends protected tenancy period for certain tenants who are senior citizens and certain tenants with disabilities.
Allows each county to create central registry and provide emergency supply kits to distribute to senior residents during emergencies.
Requires Veterans' Memorial Homes to develop and maintain emergency preparedness and response plans.
Establishes New Jersey Statewide Suicide Prevention Coordination and Oversight Council in DHS.
"Medical Debt Homestead Protection Act."
Directs State Board of Education to authorize general science endorsement to instructional certificate.
Provides that only registered design professionals or employees with certified fire escape contractors are authorized to install, service, repair, inspect, and maintain fire escapes.
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to assess oral health in children.
Allows students to use portion of opportunity grant awards under Educational Opportunity Fund program during summer session.
Requires local recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and youth camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Permits certain students not enrolled in public schools to participate in interscholastic athletics.
Requires institutions of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises and maintain supply of naloxone hydrochloride.
Establishes "New Economy Opportunity Skills System Pilot Program" to strengthen alignment and collaboration between local workforce development boards, community colleges, and county vocational school districts; makes appropriation.
Enhances access to public health emergency supplies and services.
Requires public safety risk assessment to include additional consideration for firearms as public safety risk.
Concerns availability of fire escape mechanisms in residential dwellings; provides penalty for violation.
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 municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Establishes geriatric parole for certain eligible inmates.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Establishes "Task Force for Community Based Juvenile Rehabilitation."
Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
Concerns false public alarms involving places of worship.
Establishes crime of doxxing.
Establishes limits on future parole eligibility date.
Establishes Statewide limitation on rent increases.
Removes municipal authority to charge application fee for representation by municipal public defender.
Prohibits operation of drone over school under certain circumstances.
Requires Executive Branch departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to identify and assess COVID-19 measures and their viability for future potential emergency scenarios.
Establishes requirements and prohibitions for sale and distribution of certain products containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
"Max's Law"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of fentanyl and xylazine.
Requires Medicaid coverage for assisted living services for individuals with serious mental illnesses.
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee."
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Requires campus police officers to wear body worn cameras.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Requires public high schools to display public awareness sign on human trafficking.
Makes $3 million supplemental appropriation for bonus awards for certain COVID-19 emergency essential frontline State workers of Local 195 of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
Revises law on extended employment programs for persons with disabilities.
Prohibits approving authority from approving construction of certain warehouses on lot of land within 1,000 feet of historic district.
Requires employers to post information concerning veterans' benefits and services.
Requires owners or operators of public community water systems to perform certain tests for Legionella bacteria.
Establishes "Cop 2 Cop Sustainability Fund" to support "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" Cop 2 Cop telephone hotline program; appropriates $500,000.
Provides for State agency reviews and increases of income thresholds for residential customers to participate in certain utility bill payment assistance and energy efficiency programs.
Establishes New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program.
Requires application for homestead property tax reimbursement to be filed with NJ gross income tax return.
Establishes $40 daily pay rate for jurors and certain other juror benefits; appropriates $20 million.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Adopts State definition of Islamophobia for certain civil and criminal purposes.
Establishes pilot program in Office of Planning Advocacy to reimburse municipalities for certain expenditures concerning warehouse development; appropriates $1 million.
Requires issuance of raincheck for unavailable good or service advertised by digital coupon.
Requires State Police to establish recovery leave policy for troopers presenting proof of pregnancy.
Increases PFRS accidental disability pension when disability is caused by weapon.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Prohibits adoption of any State rule or regulation mandating electric heating or water heating systems in buildings prior to issuance of DCA report.
Revises training requirements for governing board members of public institutions of higher education.
Establishes centralized directory for affordable housing, and housing for senior citizens and veterans.
Subjects certain rooming and boarding houses to municipal land use regulations; requires owners and operators of cooperative sober living residences to submit certain approvals with license applications.
Expands Tuition Aid Grant program to include workforce training programs.
Requires AG to establish training program for crowd management and provide resources to municipal police department or force for large gatherings and flash mobs.
Establishes New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities Initiative Act.
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "foreign national" and "undocumented foreign national," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.
Modifies languages that examinations are to be conducted in for applicants seeking professional license issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
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.
Establishes New Jersey Student Educator Tuition Remission Program.
Concerns use of force by law enforcement officers under certain circumstances and requires certain reporting of use of force incidents.
Requires Department of Treasury to update New Jersey Disparity Study every five years.
Establishes crime of possessing digital instructions to illegally manufacture firearms and firearm components.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Renders contracts to provide criminal assistance unlawful; creates civil right of action for victims of certain criminal conduct.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.
Provides temporary gross income tax credit to first time home buyers and seniors.
Establishes four-year Career and Technical Education Partnership Grant Program.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Provides tax levy cap adjustment for certain school districts experiencing reductions in State school aid.
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.
Establishes database containing information on traffic stops by certain law enforcement officers.
Permits certain wineries to sell their products by the glass for consumption in licensed salesrooms.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Allows ranked-choice voting options for municipal and school board elections under certain circumstances.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Requires DOC to ensure inmates have opportunity to participate in Medicaid pre-enrollment and enrollment sessions at least 60 days prior to release; requires applicable inmates to receive Medicaid card at release.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ formerly incarcerated individuals.
Requires 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.
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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 Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million.
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.
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.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
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.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.
Expands Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
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.
Lowers age at which minors can consent to behavioral health care treatment from age 16 to age 14.
Provides equitable relief to State contractors who have sustained unanticipated expenses due to price escalation for construction materials.
Requires schools and child care centers to test drinking water for lead every two years and install filters certified to reduce lead levels.
Allows gross income tax deduction for union dues paid to labor organizations.
Establishes emergency teacher certificate in certain circumstances.
Establishes requirements for construction and maintenance of pedestrian overpass bridge connecting Johnson Trolley Trail.
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Requires official inspection facility employees covered by collective bargaining agreement to be offered employment following contract renewal or award of new contract; requires collective bargaining agreement to be binding in certain cases.
Requires NJT to establish pilot program to supply certain light rail train sets with opioid antidotes; makes appropriation of $100,000.
Prohibits non-compete clauses.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
Requires certain notifications and free credit reports for customers following breach of security of personal information within business or public entity.
Requires solid waste management district to develop strategy to reduce food waste; requires DEP to adopt certain rules and regulations regarding composting facilities.
Provides CBT tax credit for retrofit of existing warehouses with solar-ready zone once solar panels are installed.
Requires school districts to include environmental sustainability plan in long-range facilities plan.
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.
Requires DMVA create Bereavement Counseling Program for family members and volunteer caregivers of certain veterans.
Broadens eligibility for certain civil service and pension benefits for veterans by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Permits 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in elections for local school board.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Establishes New Jersey Healthy Soils Program; establishes grant program for soil testing of urban agriculture sites; establishes Urban Agriculture Site Soil Testing Fund.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Provides that State pay high school equivalency exam fees for low-income individuals.
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.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Requires licensure of community management entity that contracts to conduct management services for planned real estate development association.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC.
Allows gross income tax deduction for surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Eliminates fee for filing certified copy of name change order.
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.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing, over time, employee threshold from 30 employees to five employees in definition of employer.
Establishes occupational heat stress standard and "Occupational Heat-Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program" in DOLWD.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Requires training of cosmetologists-hairstylists, beauticians, barbers, and hair braiders to include working on textured hair.
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.
Makes certain procedural and substantive reforms to expungement statutes to reduce filing burdens and expand eligibility.
Establishes "Occupational Heat-Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program" and occupational heat stress standard in DOLWD.
Restores Department of Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch.
Clarifies court procedure for considering expungement applications when no objections are filed.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
"Protecting Against Forever Chemicals Act"; establishes requirements, prohibitions, and programs for regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Provides supplemental transportation aid to certain districts participating in interdistrict public school choice program.
Establishes Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Prohibits DCF from using federal benefits received by a child in out of home placement to reimburse State for cost of child's care, except under certain circumstances.
Increases amount of credit for incarceration resulting from default of court-imposed financial obligation or motor vehicle penalty.
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
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 judgments of conviction; requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.
Permits DOC and DCF to award contracts for medical and dental services to vendors.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
Establishes New Jersey Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide at Rutgers School of Public Health; appropriates $500,000.
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
"Stephanie's Law"; Requires AOC to establish publicly-accessible domestic violence registry; requires law enforcement officer to search State's domestic violence registries when conducting arrest.
Requires law enforcement officer to conduct danger assessment of domestic violence victims and provide assistance to high-risk victims.
Requires establishment of residential rental habitability database and provides certain penalties and causes of action concerning residential leases.
Reduces time period during which certain prior offenses may be considered for sentencing purposes; permits first offenses to be removed from driving record in certain circumstances.
Provides students enrolled in certain career programs with consumer protections from fraudulent and misleading claims and practices.
Broadens eligibility of NJ STARS Program by permitting later entry into program.
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.
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.
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.
Establishes criminal penalties for certain violations of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act."
Limits amount of residential rental property application fee; establishes penalty.
Requires Department of Treasury and DHS to annually identify State funds available for NJ FamilyCare, evaluate program, and create prioritized list of initiatives to improve quality of care under program.
Concerns New Jersey Redevelopment Authority; changes quorum requirements from 11 members to majority of voting members.
Modernizes responsibilities of New Jersey Council of County Colleges.
Prohibits health club services contracts from limiting liability for injuries caused by negligence of health club.
Establishes "Graduate Physician Licensing Act."
Makes certain changes related to application and licensing for sale of cannabis, Cannabis Regulatory Commission activity, municipal ordinances, and alternative treatment centers.
Requires health insurance coverage of screening for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders for certain covered persons.
Prohibits self-service storage facilities from charging certain punitive fees to consumers paying with vouchers under certain circumstances.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish standards for assessing and awarding academic credit for prior learning.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse inpatient providers for long-acting injectable antipsychotic drugs at outpatient reimbursement rate.
Requires public institution of higher education to provide students with information on food assistance programs.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by campus medical professional or trained employee.
Expands categories of individuals who may bring a claim under wrongful imprisonment statute.
Expands approved sites under Behavioral Healthcare Provider Loan Redemption Program.
Repeals law that requires funds for legislative agents to be assessed on student tuition bills in certain manner.
Establishes process for merger or consolidation of public institution of higher education with other institutions of higher education or certain proprietary institutions; requires executive and legislative approval of merger or consolidation.
Concerns protection of tenants displaced by fire.
Establishes crime of selling or purchasing marijuana from unlicensed businesses.
Permits owners, agents, or other persons to elect to contract with private on-site inspection agencies to complete inspections under the construction code; provides for charging of separate inspection fee.
Concerns incentive compensation and contracts between online program management companies and institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.
Establishes Emerging Technology Urban Grant Program in EDA.
Requires Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare managed care organizations to offer patient-centered medical home model or other alternative payment model to primary care providers.
Prohibits person experiencing coin shortage from charging consumers higher price for cash payment.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million to DHS to increase adult medical day care Medicaid per diem rate from $89.55 to $93.10.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $615,000 to DHS for grant to NJ 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach regarding VCCO.
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
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.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires school districts to permit students excused absences while experiencing symptoms of menstrual disorder.
Permits students experiencing menstrual disorder to attend school remotely.
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.
Requires DOE to partner with nonprofit organization to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Requires health insurance coverage of standard fertility preservation services for individuals with certain menstrual disorders resulting in infertility.
Establishes Automobile Theft Prevention Authority; appropriates $2 million.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Requires health insurers to cover self-measured blood pressure monitoring for subscribers with preeclampsia; requires health care professionals to provide home blood pressure monitor to pregnant patients diagnosed with preeclampsia.
Increases cap on personal care assistant services from 40 hours to 91 hours per week for Medicaid beneficiary determined clinically eligible for nursing facility level of care.
Establishes commission to study impact of certain Medicaid reimbursement rate change on nursing homes.
Increases pay for direct support professionals; makes appropriation.
Creates "Reproductive Health Care Access Fund" to strengthen access to reproductive health care; makes appropriation.
Requires affirmative written consent for certain entities to disclose individual's medical information regarding reproductive health care services, with limited exceptions, unless disclosure is necessary to provide those services.
Requires four-year public institution of higher education to develop and implement reproductive health services plan; requires county college to develop referral network for reproductive health care services.
Provides for voluntary contributions for taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support reproductive health care services.
Requires health care professionals to perform lead screening on pregnant persons under certain circumstances.
"Healthy Smiles Act"; increases NJ FamilyCare fee-for-service reimbursement rates for pediatric dental services; requires NJ FamilyCare managed care rates for identical services be no less than fee-for-service rates.
Requires electric public utilities and gas public utilities to implement or maintain public utility warranty programs that cover full cost to repair or replace covered appliances.
Requires electric and gas public utilities de-privatization study; appropriates $100,000.
Appropriates $125 million for creation of affordable housing to restore diversions from "New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund."
Increases Work First New Jersey Child Care appropriation by $28 million in FY2026 annual appropriations act to ensure full funding of child care subsidy program.
Requires provision of water safety instruction as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires AG to report data regarding shootings that did not result in bodily injury.
Makes various changes to school funding law and Educational Adequacy Report; establishes Special Education Funding Review Task Force.
Eliminates sales tax on baby necessities and sunscreen.
Requires hospitals to maintain minimum services when relocating from underserved community.
Establishes eligibility requirements for State small business set-aside program.
Permits court to take additional time to consider pretrial release or pretrial detention when firearm offense is involved.
Concerns charter school enrollment, student placements, reporting, and athletics.
Establishes various requirements for charter schools, charter school board of trustees members, and charter management organizations.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Requires public transportation employees and certain motorbus operators to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.
Provides for establishment of three-year pilot program to expand provision of paratransit services in New Jersey.
Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
Establishes New Jersey Baby Bond Account Program.
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Requires certain supermarkets, grocery stores, and food suppliers to donate food under certain circumstances.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of military.
Requires DVA notify certain veteran organizations and county officers and municipal registers of names of persons buried or cremated in State veteran cemeteries.
Establishes Gold Star Family Scholarship Program; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires publication online of Senate Journals, Assembly Minutes, and their indexes.
Requires State Board of Education to reduce clinical practice requirements for certain teacher candidates.
Creates pilot program to provide corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Permits use of credit card, debit card, or other electronic payment for bingo, raffles, and penny auctions.
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.
Appropriates $350,000 to Rutgers, the State University - New Brunswick for Center for American Women and Politics - Women Elected and Appointed Officials Database.
Makes $250,000 supplemental appropriation to New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders for pediatric clinical services at Tourette Syndrome Clinic of Rutgers University.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation.
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Requires inspections of retail cigarette and vapor product dealers.
Requires certain school districts to hold annual, multi-day program on bullying prevention and intervention.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Permits certain substitute teachers to enroll in TPAF.
Requires Medicaid coverage for motorized wheelchairs for nursing facility residents under certain circumstances.
Requires guidelines on student use of internet-enabled devices to be developed by DOE and policy to be adopted by governing body of each public school.
Requires law enforcement officers to complete training regarding identification of machine gun conversion devices.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for military compensation paid to State residents for out-of-State military service.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Imposes certain requirements on use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement agencies.
Allows social worker to acquire four hours of continuing education credit for volunteering as poll worker.
Provides free telecommunication services for incarcerated persons at State, county, and private adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
Establishes exemption from State residency requirement for certain public school teachers for two years.
Requires NJTA, SJTA, EDA, CRDA, PANYNJ, and DRPA to consider minorities and women when hiring or awarding contracts.
Requires executive county superintendent to distribute funds to each public school located in county for purchase of tourniquets and requires training on tourniquet use; appropriates up to $500,000.
Authorizes creation of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. license plates.
Prohibits residential landlord from imposing certain surcharges for rent payments.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer lactation counseling and consultations to persons who have given birth.
Establishes standards for court-ordered counseling for domestic violence offenders.
Establishes New Jersey Tuition Reimbursement Program for Special Education Teachers.
Requires State Planning Commission to adopt model buffer ordinances detailing different regulatory options for siting warehouses; allows conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances.
Requires State Planning Commission to adopt model ordinance for siting certain warehouses and permits conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances and establishes fund in DCA; appropriates $5 million.
Provides that salary and other costs associated with Commissioner of Education's appointment of State monitor and other staff under "School District Fiscal Accountability Act" will be paid by State.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires adoption of school tick remediation policy in public and private schools.
Establishes Office of Financial Assistance in EDA to help eligible entities access opportunities for public financial assistance; requires office to develop common application platform.
Requires establishment of grant programs to provide workforce shuttles and cover transportation costs; appropriates $10 million in federal funds.
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship Program.
Establishes Blockchain Promotion and Integration Program.
Requires certain residential property owners, schools, and child care centers to test drinking water for lead every three years.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
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.
Requires DHS to establish a pilot program covering menstrual hygiene products under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.
Requires DCA to track natural disaster-related spending by State and local government.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Requires Medicaid provide health benefits coverage, and places certain requirements on insurers and State Health Benefits Program regarding existing mandate on health benefits coverage, for certain over-the-counter contraceptives.
Requires health benefits coverage for family planning and reproductive health care services, including early infancy care, without cost sharing.
Requires high school students to receive financial literacy instruction.
Provides health care benefits to disabled members of TPAF and PERS.
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 DOH to establish partnerships with certain entities to improve emergency response to public health crisis.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Requires financial institution that has foreclosed on property to remove water service lines that contain lead.
Requires certain consumer disclosures relating to rabies testing and establishes optional training for veterinarians.
Requires appointment of State Dementia Services Coordinator; appropriates $150,000.
"Homeless Bill of Rights."
Establishes certain protections for persons providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers to redeem loan amounts received under the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public or nonpublic schools in New Jersey.
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for volunteer firefighters; increases tax on fire insurance premiums.
Requires Medicaid coverage of social day care services for senior citizens.
Requires candidate for teacher certification to complete course or training on anti-racism in education.
"Mental Health Access Act;" increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
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 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 MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Authorizes State employees to take administrative leave days in observance of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha; requires school districts to permit students excused absences for observance of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Requires local boards of education to employ at least one school social worker per school.
Requires State and private correctional facilities to allow inmates to make telephone and video calls at no cost to inmate or other party.
Requires SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover anti-obesity medications.
Requires certain warehouse developments to include adequate number of onsite tractor trailer parking spaces.
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 certain warehouse operators to implement air pollution reduction and mitigation plans.
Provides for regional economic and land use impact report and establishes review processes related to development of certain large warehouses; and requires related real property reassessments.
Requires EDA to provide grants to certain small businesses affected by State infrastructure and construction projects.
Provides for expansion of social services supports at county colleges.
Authorizes foraging fruits, fungi, nuts, plants, and parts thereof in State parks and forests for personal use of the forager.
Requires BPU members to have certain experience and complete certain training.
Requires DHS to develop incentives to encourage private investment in child care deserts.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
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.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
"Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology Act."
Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during certain hot weather and air quality events.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Establishes "Guaranteed Rental Payment Pilot Program" for certain low-income tenants; appropriates $10,000,000.
Establishes Office of Resilience in DCF.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services by $4.
Establishes fund in DEP for Blue Acres acquisition and relocation projects; appropriates $25 million.
Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.
Establishes mortgage payment relief and foreclosure protection for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Excludes environmentally sensitive and flood-prone land from designation as vacant or available for purposes of affordable housing construction.
Establishes "Incarcerated Women's Protection Act" and concerns correctional facility board of trustees.
Creates Office of Nonprofit Ombudsperson in Department of Treasury; appropriates $329,000.
Requires senior housing applications be made available by mail and email.
Establishes mitigating factor for sentencing of defendants who are victims of domestic violence and provides for resentencing and trauma-informed reentry support services.
Establishes new mitigating factor, reduced sentencing, and resentencing for certain defendants who are victims of abuse.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
"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.
Establishes pilot program for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health.
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to Election Law Enforcement Commission in DLPS for enforcement and staffing activities.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of machine gun conversion device.
Requires MVC to establish and administer online application for REAL ID identification cards and REAL ID licenses.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.
Requires swimming pools to offer deep water swimming tests to children 12 years of age and younger upon request.
Requires DHS and DOH, respectively, to provide information to SNAP, WFNJ, and WIC recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to replace stolen benefits; makes appropriation.
Requires licensed health care professionals providing prenatal care to offer and screen, upon request, pregnant patients with history of depression for postpartum depression.
Designates May of each year as "Water Safety Month" in NJ; encourages DOE to provide resources on water safety.
Limits use of restrictions on telephone calls as discipline measure during incarceration.
"Packaging and Paper Product Stewardship Act."
Prohibits food service businesses from providing single-use utensils and condiments to customers, except upon request, and requires certain food service businesses to provide reusable, washable utensils to customers eating on site.
Requires crisis pregnancy centers to disclose certain information in multiple languages.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA create program for veterans to receive evaluation and treatment for PTSD and total brain injury.
Requires DOH to conduct study on causes of youth suicide.
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 health insurance carriers to provide coverage for suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for postpartum women.
Requires school performance report to include information about positive placement of graduates, including apprenticeships.
Establishes additional manner of employer compliance to provide earned sick leave for certain employees subject to collective bargaining agreements.
Establishes new mitigating factor for defendant who is survivor of abuse.
Exempts oral healthcare products from sales and use tax.
Provides corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization, and expansion, or hiring and training of new employees for manufacturing purposes.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
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.
Establishes NJ Gross Income Tax EasyFile Program; pilot program to allow Division of Taxation to prepare gross income tax return forms for certain taxpayers.
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
Establishes limits on zoning restrictions for certain electric battery storage equipment installation.
Revises State renewable energy portfolio standards.
Prohibits MVC from charging service fees for online services.
Requires DOH to develop mobile cancer screening program; appropriates $100,000.
Enhances transparency concerning properties claiming exemption from rent control.
Establishes "Support for Students Exposed to Domestic Violence Fund" in DOE to support public schools in addressing impact of domestic violence.
Creates Midwifery Licensing Act; modifies regulation of midwifery.
Revises requirements for parole release and violations of parole; repeals law relating to violations committed by parolee released due to overcrowding.
Concerns prohibition of certain residential tenant evictions and removals due to residential foreclosure during federal government shutdown.
Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Requires health insurance carriers and Medicaid to provide coverage for planned home childbirth.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Permits excused absence for students participating in college visits, visits to postsecondary technical institutions, and military recruitment-related activities.
Concerns exemptions to municipal rent control and rent leveling ordinances.
“Justin Christian El-Abiad, Robert E. Dwight, Jr., Raquan Ellis, Zahir Atkins, and Sebastien Manzalaoui Act"; revises window guard requirements in certain residential rental units and multiple dwellings.
Establishes "Fair Price Protection Act."
Establishes Skills Service Corp; appropriates funds.
Establishes requirements for students engaging in certain bias-related conduct.
Creates "Youth Detention Task Force."
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Creates "New Jersey Workplace Skills Savings Program"; appropriates $25 million.
"Community-led Birthing Justice and Equity Resource Initiative Program Act;" appropriates $12 million.
Establishes "Targeted Midwifery Workforce Development Act"; appropriates $12 million.
Establishes State Seal of Civic Readiness to recognize certain students attaining high level of proficiency in civics.
Regulates use of artificial intelligence-based systems for electronic monitoring regarding employment and public services.
Requires organizations providing services to homeless persons to participate in Homeless Management Information System to track occupancy of shelter beds.
Requires combined groups to be determined on world-wide basis under corporation business tax.
Establishes Cardiac Emergency Response in Schools Grant Program in DOE, appropriates $600,000.
Establishes "Oral Health Equity Act."
Requires county college to notify graduating high school students of acceptance into local county college.
Implements procedures for automated "Clean Slate" expungements.
Increases gross income tax rates for taxpayers with taxable income exceeding $2,000,000.
Establishes Task Force on Development and Implementation of Multi-Sector Plan on Aging.
Permits unexpended nonpublic school textbook aid or aid for Nonpublic Technology Initiative to be used to support other program.
"Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Driver Communication and Disability Protection Act"; revises and establishes process for designating certain disorders through MVC.
"Tenants Anti-Retaliation & Anti-Harassment Act"; establishes rebuttable presumption for complaints by tenant of illegal activity by landlord.
"Public School Employees' Health Benefits Trust Act."
Converts community crisis response team pilot program into permanent program; appropriates $6 million.
Makes various changes to SHBP governance and administration.
Establishes New Jersey Student Emergency Aid Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Creates mobility assistance vehicle services hotline.
Prohibits court from ordering victims to submit to examinations under certain circumstances.
Authorizes creation and issuance of veteran license plates.
"Efficient Income Verification Act."
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Concerns Work First New Jersey family violence option.