Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Kevin P. Egan
Sponsored
Became law1
Concerns local unit budget processes and related operations.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires health benefits coverage for treatment of lipedema.
Out of committee3
Concerns electrical linemen and associated building trades during weather-related states of emergency.*
Appropriates $52,798,268 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and other farmland preservation funds to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes certain requirements for certain public utility infrastructure investments.*
In committee2
Clarifies criminal history record check requirements for workers conducting construction or public works activities in school buildings; requires school district to update visitor policy.
Requires issuance of refund or credit for tickets purchased through reseller or ticket resale website for events that get postponed.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Appropriates $52,798,268 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and other farmland preservation funds to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
"Illicit Opioid Supply Substances Poisoning Awareness Act"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of illicit opioid substances.*
Expands prohibitions on employers concerning requirements for employees to attend or listen to communications related to political matters.
Allows exemption from New Jersey gross income of certain capital gains from sale or exchange of qualified small business stock.**
Establishes offense of inciting public brawl; upgrades penalty for disorderly conduct in certain circumstances.
Requires State Police to establish recovery leave policy for troopers presenting proof of pregnancy.*
Appropriates $49.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Requires BPU to procure and incentivize transmission-scale energy storage.
Provides for State agency reviews and increases of income thresholds for residential customers to participate in certain utility bill payment assistance and energy efficiency programs.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.*
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.**
Bans certain children's products containing excessive amounts of lead, mercury, or cadmium.*
Prohibits sale, distribution, and manufacture of jewelry containing cadmium.
Out of committee · 24
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.
Makes various changes to "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act" and Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program; repeals "New Jersey Ignite Act."*
Prohibits telecommunications, utility or cable television companies from charging certain customers prior to actual billing due date.
Exempts sales of investment metal bullion and investment coins from sales and use tax.
Allows gross income tax deduction for union dues paid to labor organizations.
Requires new flooring for schools, community centers, and child care centers to be certified mercury-free.**
Broadens eligibility for certain civil service and pension benefits for veterans by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations; appropriates $750,000.
Establishes Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Therapy Pilot Program; appropriates $6 million.*
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey"; appropriates $5 million.**
Establishes "Motor Vehicle Open Recall Notice and Fair Compensation Act"; revises motor vehicle franchise agreements.**
Revises film and digital media content production tax credit program to include requirement for production of domestic original music and musical scores.
"Climate Superfund Act"; imposes liability on certain fossil fuel companies for certain damages caused by climate change and establishes program in DEP to collect and distribute compensatory payments.
Requires electric and gas public utilities to establish "Energy Bill Watch" program and include certain information in bills and notices to customers.
Requires financial institutions to allow mortgagors to make biweekly and semi-monthly payments and payments to mortgage principal.*
Extends certain provisions of P.L.2022, c.9.
Establishes "Occupational Heat-Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program" and occupational heat stress standard in DOLWD.
Concerns valuation of board and lodging with respect to workers' compensation.
Revises apportionment of State lottery contributions.
Establishes three-year Integrated Domestic Violence Court pilot program in Camden, Essex, Hudson, and Middlesex counties.
Requires State agencies that administer utility bill payment assistance or energy efficiency programs to review, and potentially increase, income thresholds for residential customers to participate in programs.*
Requires Office of Information Technology to create platform to integrate multiple state websites into single centralized hub.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
Permits certain local units to enter into project labor agreements for public works projects below the $5 million threshold.
In committee · 12
Establishes three-year pilot program in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Union counties for electronic monitoring of certain offenders; appropriates $15 million.*
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."
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Establishes task force to study presence of mercury in floors of certain facilities.
Establishes requirements for on-demand micro transit programs operating within State.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Makes $3 million supplemental appropriation for bonus awards for certain COVID-19 emergency essential frontline State workers of Local 195 International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
Requires certain large developments, to be used as retail facility or warehouse, to be designed and constructed to accommodate load associated with solar panels.
Requires school bus personnel members working with students with disabilities to call 911 emergency line in potential life-threatening emergencies; requires school buses transporting students with disabilities to be equipped with certain safety features.
Restructures electric and gas public utility industries.