Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Joseph F. Vitale
Sponsored
Became law22
Clarifies role of health service corporations, revises membership of board of directors, regulates surplus, and requires timely publication of certain information by DOBI.
Requires health insurance coverage for treatment of substance use disorders; places certain restrictions on the prescription of opioid and certain other drugs; concerns continuing education related thereto.
Establishes data reporting requirements for emergency medical services providers and dispatch centers.
Requires surgical practices to apply for licensure as ambulatory care facilities.*
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and telehealth.*
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.*
Requires DOH to issue standing order authorizing pharmacists to dispense opioid antidotes to patients without individual prescriptions.*
Permits DHS to request waiver of time limits for certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients under certain circumstances.*
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program.*
Amends and repeals sections of "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
Requires DOH to establish single license for facilities providing integrated behavioral and physical health care.*
Places two-year moratorium on moving date of Type II school district's annual school election from day of general election in November back to third Tuesday in April; creates study commission.*
Changes the time when child placement review hearings are initiated from 45 days to 60 days.
Implements person-first language and changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities or substance use disorders.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for inpatient psychiatric hospital beds for treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorder dual diagnosis.
Requires DOH to permit certain health care facilities to use shared clinical space when providing primary health care and behavioral health care for mild to moderate behavioral health conditions.
Prohibits residential substance use disorder treatment facilities and aftercare facilities from denying admission to individuals receiving medication assisted treatment for substance use disorder.
Establishes electronic lien and titling system for New Jersey motor vehicles.
Allows hospice care programs to accept unused prescription medications for disposal under certain circumstances.
Concerns prescribing of certain controlled dangerous substances; requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and athletic trainers to
Vetoed2
Permits candidates for school board to circulate petitions jointly and be bracketed together on ballot; permits short nonpolitical designation of principles on petitions and ballots.*
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
Passed the Senate12
Clarifies charitable role of health service corporations, revises membership of board of directors, establishes process to determine efficient level of surplus, and requires timely publication of certain information by DOBI.*
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Establishes "Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Bond Financing Act," authorizing issuance of bonds secured by pledge of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant proceeds, municipal liens, and special assessment; expands "Redevelopment Area Bond Financ
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid hepatitis C testing.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Requires issues related to prescription opioids to be included in continuing education courses for certain health care professionals.
Quinn Wilson's Law; provides a gross income tax credit for birth resulting in stillbirth.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and licensed athletic trainers to access prescription monitoring information under certai
Provides that cooperative sober living residences are inherently beneficial uses.
Provides for uniform testing and reporting of drug overdose deaths and consolidated service purchasing by medical examiners, and expands list of places where State Medical Examiner may be authorized to use lab facilities.
Out of committee47
Establishes certain standards for health benefits plans with tiered network.
Prohibits the sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices.
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Requires newborn infant screening for tongue tie.
Makes changes to funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Requires AG and county prosecutor to provide notification on website concerning persons indicted or prosecuted for crimes under certain circumstances.*
Requires DEP to offer to purchase and demolish certain contaminated residential property.
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP and SEHBP, to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
Permits young adult who is claimed as a dependent on a relative's tax return to receive Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance benefits.
Revises application deadline for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires State to pledge to ensure availability of job training or similar activities to certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to prevent loss of benefits.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals, establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database and requires development of emergency services stroke care protocols.*
Updates references to DOC and DHS and refers to persons receiving services from DHS.
Authorizes expedited partner therapy, under which sexual partners or patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted disease are treated without prior clinical examination.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies.
Concerns regulation of guaranteed asset protection waivers by DOBI.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain home elevation expenses.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Requires that certain inmates with detainers be provided access to drug treatment programs.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Requires health care professionals engaged in prenatal care to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.*
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
Provides Medicaid coverage for services to treat and prevent Zika virus infection and associated health outcomes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation. *
Provides protections for children under the age of 18 with developmental disabilities and individuals with developmental disabilities ages 18-21 receiving services from Division of Children's System of Care.
Authorizes psychiatric advanced practice nurses to complete certain certificates required for involuntary commitment to treatment.*
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Requires DHS to take appropriate action to exempt veterans from benefits time limit applicable to able-bodied adults without dependents under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires MVC to allow submission of vechile identification number to "Next-of-Kin Registry." *
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.*
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Concerns Early Intervention Support Services program in DOH and expansion of program to all counties.*
Concerns expansion of services provided by DOH mental health screening services.*
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program by 30 percent over three years and according to Social Security cost of living increases thereafter.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Concerns payment of freelance workers.
In committee150
The "Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Removes statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands categories of defendants liable in such actions.
Permits municipalities to hold certain inactive liquor licenses reserved for smart growth developments for an additional five years.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DOH.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Increases tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rates to be on par with tax rate imposed on cigarettes under cigarette tax; dedicates revenue for smoking and tobacco use cessation programs.
"New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database Act"; establishes New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database and arbitration process for reimbursing out-of-network health care providers.
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
Requires establishment of processes to identify Medicaid eligible incarcerated individuals who are awaiting pre-trial release determinations, are being released following period of incarceration, or are undergoing inpatient hospital treatment.
Requires disclosures of out-of-network services performed by health care providers under certain circumstances.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes driver's license for residents who cannot prove lawful presence in US.
Limits provision of services at nonprofit veterinary facilities to certain clients.
Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Requires DHS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Establishes certain requirements, including allowable fees, for provision of medical records to patients, legally authorized representatives, and authorized third parties.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
Allows health maintenance organizations to include charity care assessments for purposes of meeting certain loss ratio requirements.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Establishes driving privilege cards for New Jersey residents who cannot prove lawful presence in United States.
Increases additional penalty assessment for drunk driving; dedicates revenue to VCCO.
Provides that possession of air or spring gun for an unlawful purpose is a crime of the third degree.
Upgrades penalty for unlawful possession of certain firearms on grounds of an educational institution.
Establishes strategic road salt reserve fund and strategic road salt reserve within DOT.
Clarifies best interests of the child should be primary consideration in actions undertaken by State governmental entities and courts of law.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
Increases wholesale sales and use tax rate on tobacco products, imposes tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base, and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Creates new taxable category of alcoholic beverages called flavored malt beverages, imposes separate rate of taxation on new category pursuant to alcoholic beverages tax and allocates associated revenue.
Clarifies that insurance broker transparency requirement only applies to sale of health benefits plans.
Requires DHS to develop or purchase electronic health record system for use by certain agencies providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Permits municipalities to recover certain costs and fees from alcoholic beverage licensees charged with violations.
Provides tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for certain costs incurred in purchase of equipment used by private facilities to conduct motor vehicle safety inspections.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
Establishes certain requirements for 9-1-1 public safety answering points and public safety dispatch points.
Changes priorities and maximum rewards of financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Clarifies that conversions of housing cooperatives into condominiums are subject to notice provisions of "The Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act."
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Revises the statutes concerning oaths and affidavits.
Extends exemption from charitable immunity for certain civil actions to persons of any age who are beneficiaries of the nonprofit corporation.
Concerns victim's right to rape care advocate under certain circumstances.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Extends Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund and collection of annual surcharges for 5 years.
Strengthens requirements for accreditation, inspection, and general oversight of "surgical practices."
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Requires Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly to develop informational posters describing phone-based complaint procedure, to be conspicuously displayed in certain facilities.
Clarifies intent of Legislature to protect certain senior tenants; aligns housing age restrictions with federal law.
Revises "Local Bond Law" provisions to exempt certain energy projects from appropriation requirement for five percent down payment.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Establishes remote medical consultation assistance grant program in DOH.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Designates September 11 each year "September 11 Remembrance Day" in New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Clarifies DHS authority to regulate sober living homes and halfway houses as residential substance abuse aftercare facilities; requires background checks and other protections for residents of residential substance abuse facilities.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
Prohibits retail motor fuel dealer from charging a credit card customer in excess of four percent above the purchase price for same fuel sold to customer paying by cash.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Revises Newborn Screening program in DOH.
Creates an integrated State medical examiner system by increasing the authority of the State Medical Examiner regarding forensic investigations, establishing regional medical examiner offices, and eliminating the county medical examiner system.
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.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.
Authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to impose a fine against an institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
Requires insurers to provide information about organ donation and allows insurers to limit reimbursement for organ transplant if recipient has not made gift pursuant to Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
"Reproductive Donation Safety Act."
Clarifies deadline to request mail-in ballot application.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of certain entities from using title of psychologist.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Requires pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
Requires health benefits coverage for juvenile depression screenings.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson in the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Preserves property tax exempt status of certain nonprofit acute care hospitals; requires these hospitals to enter into payment in lieu of taxation agreement in certain circumstances.
Requires pawnbrokers to record and report certain information.
Prohibits use of snares in trapping of wildlife.
Establishes Center for the Study of Health Care Billing Data.
"Naturopathic Doctors Licensing Act."
Prohibits anti-tiering clauses in managed care health benefits plans.
Mandates health benefits coverage for opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties.
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Provides premium assistance to certain small employers who purchase health benefits plans; appropriates $10 million.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties within 20 mile radius.
Requires local governments and school boards in SHBP/SEHBP to certify savings based on three bids from non-SHBP/SEHBP plans before continuing SHBP/SEHBP in new collective negotiations agreements.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Allows certain State agencies to sell Internet advertisements on agencies' websites as pilot program.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Establishes Sex Offender Management Commission; amends Megan's Law in response to federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Defines information required to be included in death certificates.
Makes technical corrections to individual health coverage and small employer health benefits programs and to NJ FamilyCare.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Makes various changes to current system for approval, issuance, administration, and discontinuance of various types of special license plates.
Requires policy on use of alternative dispute resolution for State agencies; expands duties of Dispute Settlement Office.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Requires public utilities to set bill due date to no earlier than 28 days past postmarked date if mailed by regular mail or 28 days past sent date if sent electronically.
Prohibits bio-analytical laboratories from charging certain patients more than 115% of the applicable Medicare rate.
Increases age for helmet requirement for bicycling, roller skating, and skateboarding to 17 and younger; extends helmet requirement to ice skaters and operators of non-motorized scooters.
Permits change in case manager for persons with developmental disabilities under certain circumstances.
Exempts cable television subscriber from notifying cable television company, Office of Cable Television, or other complaint officer of cable television service outage to receive credit or rebate.
Permits pharmacists to provide self-administered hormonal contraceptives to patients over the counter.
Requires EDA to establish program offering low-interest loan to certain financial institutions and personal data businesses to protect business's information technology system from customer personal information disclosure.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Requires disclosure by independent expenditure committees; raises certain campaign contribution limits; repeals ban on certain intraparty fund transfers.
Increases disclosure of political contributions by business entities with public contracts; creates uniform law for contributions by such entities; repeals local option to set contribution limits for business entities.
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide coverage for behavioral health care services determined to be medically necessary, including 90 days per year of inpatient residential care.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for substance abuse and dependency when determined medically necessary by physician or psychologist.
"The Peter Falk Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning access to persons subject to order of guardianship.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support healthcare education.
Creates new $100 assessment for convictions of certain sexual offenses to fund counseling for victims and their families; establishes Sexual Offender Victim Counseling Fund.
Authorizes State and local law enforcement entities to contract for bulk purchasing of heroin antidote.
Requires certain disclosures to consumers regarding health care costs.
Requires all Medicaid managed care organization to permit all pharmacies in State to dispense prescriptions for all covered medications.
Requires individual health benefits plans to be offered solely through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace for New Jersey.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Insurance Network Adequacy.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Defines information to be included on death certificates, including gender identification.
Establishes Prescription Drug Review Commission; requires production costs be reported for certain prescription drugs.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.
Requires locking medicine cabinets in newly constructed homes.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for certain drug regimens for treatment of AIDS or HIV under certain circumstances.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for medication and treatment for hepatitis C.
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Commission to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal death in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care.
Establishes limitations on and conditions associated with prescribers' acceptance of compensation from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Establishes Medicaid Enrollee Encounter Database as part of iPHD Project.
Provides for improved system for eligibility determination for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.
Allows certain prior statements by children to be admitted into evidence in child abuse and termination of parental rights cases.
Makes various changes to 'Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1971."
Requires health insurers to disclose broker commissions to purchasers.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law20
Requires health care professionals engaged in prenatal care to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.*
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires AG and county prosecutor to provide notification on website concerning persons indicted or prosecuted for crimes under certain circumstances.*
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Makes changes to funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Requires that certain inmates with detainers be provided access to drug treatment programs.
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Provides protections for children under the age of 18 with developmental disabilities and individuals with developmental disabilities ages 18-21 receiving services from Division of Children's System of Care.
Updates references to DOC and DHS and refers to persons receiving services from DHS.
Revises application deadline for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Concerns regulation of guaranteed asset protection waivers by DOBI.**
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents of student-athletes and cheerleaders concerning use and misuse of prescription opioids.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation.*
Designates portion of Route 18 in East Brunswick as "State Trooper Werner Foerster Memorial Interchange."
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Requires MVC to allow submission of vehicle identification number to "Next-of-Kin Registry." *
Vetoed5
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program by 30 percent over three years and according to Social Security cost of living increases thereafter.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Passed the General Assembly2
Concerns expansion of services provided by DOH mental health screening services.*
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Permits hospitals to establish system for making performance-based incentive payments to physicians.
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes three-year Medicaid home visitation demonstration project.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Requires prescribers to discuss addiction risk associated with certain drugs prior to issuing prescription to minor patient.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain psychiatrists who work in underserved areas or psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey.*
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Requires Office of Emergency Management to establish county storm preparedness funding program.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for school districts regarding transgender students.
Expands background check requirements for entities that provide services to individuals with certain disabilities and requires inspections of certain entities.
Vetoed · 3
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.*
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Passed the Senate · 2
Exempts fuel used for operation of certain school buses from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax; clarifies tax treatment of certain dyed fuel thereunder; clarifies determination of taxable estates of certain decedents.*
Provides Commissioner of Human Services and certain insurers access to Prescription Monitoring Program.*
Out of committee · 26
Raises minimum wage rate to $10.10, makes further increases over a four-year period, and maintains annual increases based on increases in CPI-W.
Enters New Jersey in multistate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Provides one-third of motor vehicle fine moneys generated through State Police issued tickets go to municipality where violation occurred.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.*
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Permits pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocals established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners; clarifies certain health insurance coverage for contracep
Establishes Office of Tourism Research; requires specific measures concerning tourism advertising, marketing, research, and tourism-related business training.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Permits registered surgical practices to convert to or combine with ambulatory surgical facilities; provides for phased-in gross receipts assessment; authorizes non-profit hospitals to acquire joint ownership interest in practices.*
"Drama Therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes law enforcement assisted addiction and recovery programs.
Authorizes medical marijuana for qualifying patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents of student-athletes and cheerleaders concerning use and misuse of prescription opioids.
Requires health care facilities to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Prohibits sale of unsafe supplemental mattresses designed for children's products.
"Pedal's Law," Prohibits hunting and establishes non-lethal control program for black bear for five years; prohibits actions that result in bear feeding; and requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, and food boxes in bear habitat.*
Requires alternative payment models to register with DOH; permits health care practitioners to refer patients to health care service in which the practitioner has beneficial interest when related to alternative payment model.
Designates portion of Route 18 in East Brunswick as "State Trooper Werner Foerster Memorial Interchange."
Requires Commissioner of Health to designate special care nursing facility to treat patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders dual diagnosis.
"Safe Transportation Jobs and Fair Employment Rules Act."
Allows minors 14 years of age or older to authorize organ donation; requires MVC to provide organ donation registration to certain minors.
In committee · 47
Provides for presumptive parole; establishes parole compliance credits; requires inmate disciplinary database; bases commutation credits on custodial sentence.
Establishes licensure for steel construction contractors.
Clarifies DHS authority to license and regulate sober living homes.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires prescribers and pharmacists to check prescription monitoring program prior to prescribing and dispensing Schedule II drugs.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires carriers to disclose selection standards for placement of health care providers in tiered health benefits plan network; establishes oversight monitor to review compliance.
Requires health insurance carriers to comply with certain network adequacy requirements.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunizations for students.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone under certain conditions.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from holding position or participating in youth ministry.
Removes black bear from list of game species.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Requires opioid antidote dispensation to be monitored under Prescription Monitoring Program, and authorizes certain entities to submit info regarding opioid antidote administration for inclusion in secondary, linked database; designated as "John Wagner's
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.
Establishes "College Credit Requirement Commission" to examine academic credit requirements for associate and baccalaureate degree programs and academic majors at New Jersey's institutions of higher education.
Prohibits use of manufacturer coupons for certain prescription drug and prescription biological products.
Expands health insurance coverage for behavioral health care services and enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health parity laws.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires residential students at four-year institutions of higher education to receive immunization for meningitis in accordance with recommendations of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Establishes Transgender Equality Task Force.
Establishes special probation drug court eligibility for persons with previous criminal convictions or adjudications of delinquency, or pending charges, for certain crimes.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for special care nursing facilities.
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of "whistleblower" claims; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose information.
Clarifies prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions in health insurance policies.
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
"TrumpCare Nullification Act"; establishes "Affordable Health Care Fund" and State replacement taxes to replace federal taxes and funding provided under Affordable Care Act.
Authorizes physician assistants and advanced practice nurses to dispense narcotic drugs for treatment of substance use disorders consistent with federal law.
"Voter Privacy Act"; establishes protections for privacy of voters; prohibits automated programs to remove names of ineligible voters from official lists of eligible voters; prohibits sharing of certain voter information with federal government.