Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Joseph F. Vitale
Sponsored
Became law13
Revises income eligibility criteria for, and provides for promotion of, PAAD and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program; establishes "Senior Save Navigator Grant Program" to assist applicants with NJ Save applications.*
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Concerns employment security during changes in control of health care entities. *
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Requires DHS to conduct annual Medicaid eligibility redeterminations.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.*
Requires DOBI to conduct study on impact of certain changes to individual and small group health insurance markets.**
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.*
"The Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act"; revises certain requirements for individual and small employer health benefits plans.
Revises certain requirements for involuntary commitment for mental health treatment.
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.*
Passed the Senate3
Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.*
Establishes "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams"; provides for identification of and intervention at long-term care facilities at risk of operational and financial distress.
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 annual appropriations act to extend ANCHOR Property Tax Relief Program eligibility to homestead owners and tenants who made payments in lieu of taxes.*
Out of committee29
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at certain pharmacies.
Allows costs of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.
Reduces from 18 to 12 specific credit hours required for Animal Health Technician job title in civil service; allows substitution of five years of experience for education requirement.
Establishes "Comprehensive Geriatric Fall Prevention Pilot Program" in DHS; appropriates $11.7 million.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Concerns use of steel slag as aggregate.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Clarifies that veterinarians are not within ambit of telemedicine and telehealth law.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family day care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.
Requires MVC to prompt applicant for certain documents to enter information into "Next-of-Kin Registry."
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Medical Director in DOH.*
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Establishes certain requirements and initiatives related to nurses; transfers oversight of certified nurse aides from DOH to Board of Nursing; appropriates $26.7 million.
Prohibits annual increase in rent or lease payments of more than four percent for certain nursing homes except in certain circumstances.
Establishes requirements for sanctions and other actions involving low-performing nursing homes.
Requires procurement of management support and other services for certain nursing homes.
Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Requires automatic enrollment of certain persons recently ineligible for Medicaid in health benefits plan; requires DHS to electronically publish certain data regarding NJ FamilyCare eligibility renewals and call center performance.
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus certain real property and improvements in Township of Woodbridge in Middlesex County.
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.
In committee192
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible and requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin.
Requires children's meals served in restaurants to meet certain nutritional standards.
Concerns family leave and gestational carriers.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes additional requirements for DOH to assess sanctions and impose penalties on nursing homes; revises reporting requirements for nursing homes.
Authorizes expanded provision of harm reduction services to distribute sterile syringes and provide certain support services to persons who use drugs intravenously; appropriates $15 million.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Requires workers' compensation, PIP, and health insurance coverage for the medical use of cannabis under certain circumstances.
Permits expungement of possession or distribution of hypodermic syringe or needle offense in cases of previous expungement; repeals criminal offense of possession of syringe.
Reduces offense of deliberately transmitting a sexually-transmitted infection to a disorderly persons offense and revises elements of the offense.
Requires each principal department in Executive Branch to conduct review of department's COVID-19 preparedness, response, and recovery and make recommendations.
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Extends temporary emergency licensure of certain health care professionals.
Temporarily waives certain basic life support services crewmember requirements.
Revises and renames Office of Food Insecurity Advocate.
Establishes expedited process by which certain out-of-State mental health professionals are licensed to provide services in New Jersey.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 180-day period.
Requires hospitals to provide certain resources to certain patients and to ask patients if patients have completed advance directive or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
Requires pharmacy practice sites to document reasons for not filling certain prescriptions.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales; increases fees for cigarette and vapor business licensure.
Requires each nursing home to employ patient advocate.
Transfers authority over special nutrition assistance programs from DOH to DHS.
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.
Establishes Office of Health Transformation to coordinate certain strategic planning for State health care programs.
Requires newborn infant screening for tongue tie.
Requires certain licensed health care professionals and health care facilities to screen adolescents and young adults for symptoms of depression.
Requires de-identified patient data from electronic health records systems to be transmitted to DOH for analysis of Statewide health and disease trends.
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Concerns Early Intervention Support Services program in DHS and expansion of program to all counties.
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.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Requires surgical practices to apply for licensure as ambulatory care facilities.
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to increase appropriation from "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to DOH for certain grant purposes.
Establishes Medicaid Enrollee Encounter Database as part of iPHD Project.
Requires certain hospitals to complete Leapfrog Hospital Survey.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Revises certain definitions in "Gestational Carrier Agreement Act."
Clarifies that insurance broker transparency requirement only applies to sale of health benefits plans.
Requires long-term care facility to post certain information on its Internet website regarding Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Requires replacement of the terms "mother" and "father" with the terms "parent or guardian" on all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.
Requires hospital, bio-analytical, and clinical laboratories to provide information and offer of HIV screening to patients living in areas with high prevalence of HIV.
Permits pharmacists to provide self-administered hormonal contraceptives to patients over the counter.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid hepatitis C testing.
"Mental Health Access Act;" increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
"Medicaid Transportation Brokerage Program Oversight and Accountability Act"; establishes vehicle, staffing, and performance standards, and review and reporting requirements for non-emergency medical transport provided under Medicaid transportation brokerage program.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Permits young adult who is claimed as a dependent on relative's tax return to receive Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance benefits.
Requires DHS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Requires infection control training for nursing home and assisted living administrator licensure and certification.
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Requires all Medicaid managed care organization to permit all pharmacies in State to dispense prescriptions for all covered medications.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Requires DHS to develop incentives to encourage private investment in child care deserts.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Extends Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund and collection of annual surcharges for 5 years.
Requires DHS to develop or purchase electronic health record system for use by certain agencies providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
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.
Concerns Early Intervention Support Services program in DHS and expansion of program to all counties.
Requires DHS to develop outreach plan to inform certain students about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP and SEHBP, to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
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.
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.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties within 20 mile radius.
Authorizes Governor to restrict rent increases on certain commercial tenants during emergency circumstances; enhances similar existing authority over rent increases on residential tenants.
Requires locking medicine cabinets in newly constructed homes.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Clarifies intent of Legislature to protect certain senior tenants; aligns housing age restrictions federal law.
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.
Provides that cooperative sober living residences are inherently beneficial uses.
Requires State provider subsidy payments for child care services to be based on enrollment.
Prohibits certain surgical procedures on children born with variations in their sex characteristics.
Requires State and local public contracts for food services to require compliance with federal food service guidelines.
Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
Establishes limitations on and conditions associated with prescribers' acceptance of compensation from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Prohibits anti-tiering clauses in managed care health benefits plans.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for certain drug regimens for treatment of AIDS or HIV under certain circumstances.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Requires health insurance carriers to adhere to certain practices to protect health information related to sensitive services.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson in the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires certain disclosures to consumers regarding health care costs.
Establishes certain standards for health benefits plans with tiered network.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.
Prohibits bio-analytical laboratories from charging certain patients more than 115% of the applicable Medicare rate.
Extends exemption from charitable immunity for certain civil actions to persons of any age who are beneficiaries of the nonprofit corporation.
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based solely on parent's disability; provides that disability of parent is relevant only to extent that court finds disability is detrimental to best interest of child.
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 pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
Requires gender balance in membership of certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Requires DEP to offer to purchase and demolish certain contaminated residential property.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
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.
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.
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.
Permits incarcerated person to renew driver's license using existing digitized picture on file with MVC.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Bus Riders' Bill of Rights."
Requires EDA to provide low interest loans to qualified small businesses and not-for-profit corporations during state of emergency declared by Governor.
Makes various changes to current system for approval, issuance, administration, and discontinuance of various types of special license plates.
Changes current system for creation, issuance, administration, and discontinuance of various types of special license plates.
Provides guaranteed issue rights to certain applicants for Medicare supplement insurance policies.
Establishes Restaurant Meals Program in DHS; permits certain individuals to use SNAP benefits at approved restaurants; requires participation by certain restaurants operated by institutions of higher education.
Establishes remote medical consultation assistance grant program in DOH.
"Reproductive Donation Safety Act."
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Establishes Prescription Drug Review Commission; requires production costs be reported for certain prescription drugs.
Expands "Law Against Discrimination" to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes.
Revises "Local Bond Law" provisions to exempt certain energy projects from appropriation requirement for five percent down payment.
Requires psychiatric hospitals to provide certain notices and reports of major, moderate, and minor injuries occurring therein, and requires DOH to investigate causes of major and moderate injury.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Insurance Network Adequacy.
Establishes Center for the Study of Health Care Billing Data.
Provides premium assistance to certain small employers who purchase health benefits plans; appropriates $10 million.
Requires health insurers to disclose broker commissions to purchasers.
Mandates health benefits coverage for preimplantation genetic screening under certain health insurance plans.
Revises certain requirements for individual and small employer health benefits plans and for small employer members of multiple employer welfare arrangements.
Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.
Requires health benefits coverage for intrauterine insemination.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for medication and treatment for hepatitis C.
Requires pawnbrokers to record and report certain information.
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.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Revises the statutes concerning oaths and affidavits.
Makes child support arrearages collectable anytime by public welfare or other social services board or agency against obligor or obligor's estate based on amount of public assistance provided due to obligor's failure to pay support.
Allows drug- or alcohol-dependent person admitted into court-ordered supervisory treatment program to reduce amount owed on court-ordered fines and certain other financial obligations upon successful completion of program.
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.
Creates new $100 assessment for convictions of certain sexual offenses to fund counseling for victims and their families; establishes Sexual Offender Victim Counseling Fund.
Establishes electronic lien and titling system for New Jersey motor vehicles.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
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.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain home elevation expenses.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support healthcare education.
Makes technical corrections to individual health coverage and small employer health benefits programs and to NJ FamilyCare.
Increases tax rates on certain tobacco products to be on par with tax rate imposed on cigarettes under cigarette tax; dedicates revenue for smoking and tobacco use cessation programs.
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.
Quinn Wilson's Law; provides gross income tax credit for birth resulting in stillbirth.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Requires DOC and county correctional facilities to provide certain inmates with medication-assisted treatment.
Allows county or municipal governing body to enter into revenue sharing agreement for alcoholic beverage sales by concessionaire permit holder.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Authorizes State and local law enforcement entities to contract for bulk purchasing of heroin antidote.
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.
Permits municipalities to recover certain costs and fees from alcoholic beverage licensees charged with violations.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Permits municipalities to hold certain inactive liquor licenses reserved for smart growth developments for an additional five years.
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.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
Increases additional penalty assessment for drunk driving; dedicates revenue to VCCO.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide certain disability protection and advocacy agencies access to residents.
Requires hiring of vendor to manage Medicaid Multi-State Pooling Supplemental Rebate Agreement and associated uniform Preferred Drug List.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on bleed control as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be reported to New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Creates certain protections for insurers and insurance producers engaging in business of insurance in connection with cannabis-related businesses.
Eliminates fee for filing certified copy of name change order.
Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes New Jersey Children's Data Protection Commission.
Requires helmet while operating bicycle, scooter, or motorized scooter.
Provides certain protections to residents of long-term care facilities.
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in long-term care facilities.
Allows for natural organic reduction of human remains.
Creates "Medical Debt Relief Initiative Program" to relieve medical debt of State residents; makes $10 million appropriation from general fund.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to Election Law Enforcement Commission in DLPS for enforcement and staffing activities.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Permits minors 13 years of age and older to consent to behavioral health care services.
Imposes certain rate filing requirements concerning certain health benefits plans available on State-based exchange.
Establishes "New Jersey Living Donor Support Program" in DOH; makes appropriation.
Creates "Midwifery Licensing Act;" modifies regulation of midwifery.
Requires study and implementation of reference-based pricing for SHBP and SEHBP.
Excludes certain income earned from health promotion or disease prevention work from income eligibility determination under NJ FamilyCare, WFNJ, and NJ SNAP.
Establishes Cannabis Certified Worker Grant Program and Social Equity Certified Worker Hiring Grant Program; makes appropriation.
Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.
Requires hospitals to publish list of standard charges for certain items and services.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law12
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices. *
Concerns use of steel slag as aggregate.
Reduces from 18 to 12 specific credit hours required for Animal Health Technician job title in civil service; allows substitution of five years of experience for education requirement.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Requires MVC to prompt applicant for certain documents to enter information into "Next-of-Kin Registry."
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.*
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus certain real property and improvements in Township of Woodbridge in Middlesex County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Out of committee · 15
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Requires public schools to comply with lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA.*
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.*
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes two-year pilot program for certain mental health care facilities to treat additional juvenile patients.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for programs providing mental health, substance use treatment, or services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Requires conversion of ward in Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to certain systems; provides Adjutant General discretion to require additional room modifications.*
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
In committee · 18
Requires Attorney General to develop program to assist schools in identifying at-risk youths.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of medical marijuana.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Permits PERS retiree to return to elective public office after retirement under certain circumstances.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes "County Jail Rehabilitation and Re-Entry Program" to evaluate county inmate needs; assigns certain county caseworkers to assist inmates in accessing appropriate benefits, treatment, and services.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
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.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
Requires DHS to establish a pilot program covering menstrual hygiene products under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Enters New Jersey into Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish and maintain common application and web portal for substitute teachers seeking employment at public schools.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain primary and mental health care services match reimbursement rates under Medicare.
Filed · 2
Appropriates $9,184,427 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes, and for certain administrative expenses.
Appropriates $87,783,515 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.