Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Yvonne Lopez
Sponsored
Became law13
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to issue identification card to Gold Star Family Member.
Clarifies penalties for certain violations of pretrial release; directs prosecutor to provide written notice of release to victim.
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Requires court to consider information concerning coercive control in domestic violence proceedings.*
Allows tenant with temporary or permanent restraining order to change locks on residential rental unit.
Requires MVC to prompt applicant for certain documents to enter information into "Next-of-Kin Registry."
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Concerns imposition and collection of sales and use tax for fabrication and installation of signs.
Limits common interest community regulation of certain vehicles.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Expands certain State programmatic interventions related to residential foreclosures.*
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus certain real property and improvements in Township of Woodbridge in Middlesex County.
Passed the General Assembly4
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based on certain factors. *
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
"Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology Act."
Permits municipality to authorize municipal clerk to submit certain written statements concerning affordable housing.*
Out of committee16
Reforms municipal responsibilities concerning provision of affordable housing; abolishes COAH; appropriates $16 million.
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.
Concerns information security standards and guidelines for State and local government.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family child care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.*
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during hot weather.*
Permits for-profit affordable housing entities to join with non-profit entities and housing authorities in joint insurance funds under certain circumstances.
Prohibits emergency homeless shelters from conditioning provision of shelter on enrollment in certain programs.
Clarifies exceptions regarding requirement for person seeking to be made party in certain foreclosure actions.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Concerns structural integrity regulations for certain residential buildings.
Establishes "Guaranteed Rental Payment Pilot Program" for certain low-income tenants; appropriates $10,000,000.
Establishes fund for DEP for Blue Acres acquisition and relocation projects; appropriates $25 million.
Expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit disclosure of personal information concerning child protective investigators.
Requires DCA to continuously maintain open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program pre-applications.
In committee51
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
Requires health benefits coverage for private duty nursing services.
Includes certain armed security officers regulated by "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law" in crimes of assault and disarming an officer.
Requires certain hospitals to complete Leapfrog Hospital Survey.
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.
Concerns procedures with respect to repair of certain public utility facilities and related street repaving.
Requires public utilities and cable television companies to accommodate and relocate facilities and pay costs thereof when necessary for infrastructure projects.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits domestic violence by strangling victim be detained prior to trial.
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.
Makes various changes to current system for approval, issuance, administration, and discontinuance of various types of special license plates.
Requires children's meals served in restaurants to meet certain nutritional standards.
Requires correctional police officers to wear body worn cameras and security camera systems to be installed in State correctional facilities.
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.
Requires Governor to appoint Chief Accountability Officer to supervise all State ombudsmen, compliance officers, comptrollers, and other officers with substantially similar positions.
Requires State provider subsidy payments for child care services to be based on enrollment.
Establishes criminal penalties for production, sale, and use of false COVID-19 vaccination verification card; requires AG to establish COVID-19 vaccination fraud prevention program.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Commission" and appropriates $9 million.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Requires reporting agencies to report to Division of Consumer Affairs number of free consumer reports furnished to New Jersey resident consumers annually.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
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.
Provides additional ways for transferring deceased voter's record to Statewide voter registration system's death file; requires Secretary of State match registration system with Social Security Administration deceased persons database.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Requires each school district to have certified school nurse at each school building in district.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Revises "New Jersey Money Transmitters Act"; provides consumer protections; increases reporting and record keeping requirements.
Imposes requirements on video visitation service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities; requires correctional facilities to allow contact visits.
Requires association of age-restricted common interest community to permit dwelling owner to transfer property without regard to age of buyer.
Requires each State cabinet level department to establish office dedicated to language and disability access.
Establishes program in DOH for health care provider evaluation and response for patients who are victims of domestic violence.
Requires AOC to release domestic violence central registry records to certain health care practitioners.
Requires employers to adopt domestic violence policies and protocols established by DOLWD.
Requires State Real Estate Appraiser Board to adopt alternative program to acquire experiential requirements for prospective real estate appraisers attempting to qualify for licensure or certification.
Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Establishes Office of Resilience in DCF.
The "Family and Private Burial Grounds Preservation Act."
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services by $4.
Establishes eligibility for enrollment in PERS and subsequent retirement benefits for certain county fire instructors under certain conditions.
Revises polysomnography licensing renewal standards.
Establishes Office of Learning Loss Czar.
Revises "Paratransit Services Improvement Act"; transfers $6 million from NJT to DHS.
Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.
Revises inspection requirements for long-term care facilities.
Establishes mortgage payment relief and foreclosure protection for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Concerns structural integrity regulations for certain residential buildings.
Expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit disclosure of personal information concerning child protective investigators.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 91
Establishes Stay NJ property tax credit program; establishes Stay NJ Task Force; expands income limit and modifies ownership requirement for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement; enhances ANCHOR benefits for seniors; and makes appropriations.*
Requires DEP to make certain information regarding water purveyors available on its Internet website.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification; establishes criminal history record background check process.*
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires DEP to develop and implement electric school bus program; provides for $15 million in first year and $15 million annually in subsequent two years to DEP, subject to availability, to provide grants.
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Updates notice requirements for actions alleging consumer fraud violations and adds indirect purchasers as parties who can receive damages for antitrust violations. *
Authorizes issuance of special license plates for alumni of four-year public institutions of higher education.*
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education and DOLWD to establish performance quality standards for career-oriented programs of study offered by institutions of higher education, degree-granting proprietary institutions, and private career schools. *
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victim of crime.*
Requires standard certification period of 12 and 24 months, under certain circumstances, within SNAP.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.*
Requires DCA provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update program handbook and issue program request for proposal, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program. *
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on elections days.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients. *
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs. *
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000. *
Requires school food authorities to engage in public education campaigns and develop promotional materials to educate parents and guardians of students about existing and expanding school meals program options. *
Establishes State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program; appropriates $18 million to DHS.*
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.*
Revises State financial aid requirements to align with simplification of Free Application for Federal Student Aid under federal law.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Establishes "Annual Business Matchmaking Event" in Department of Treasury.*
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Prohibits extradition of individual from another state back to that state for actions related to conduct concerning reproductive health care services lawful in this State.*
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive healthcare services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Requires public schools to develop threat assessment teams.**
Requires State Auditor to annually publish user-friendly report summarizing and analyzing contents of State's Annual Financial Report.
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.*
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Prohibits sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires DEP to establish collection and disposal program; appropriates $250,000.*
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for professional firefighters not enrolled in SHBP; makes appropriation.
Excludes electricity supplied to recycled materials manufacturing facilities from renewable energy portfolio standards.
Provides one-year waiver of certain MVC fees imposed for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards.
Requires certain disclosures by sellers of single-family homes with solar panels installed.*
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
Concerns eligibility for senior freeze reimbursement if eligible claimant exceeds income limit.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.*
Enhances customer service experience with Business Action Center in Department of State by collecting and disseminating customer assistance metrics.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Allows cure period for businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Directs DEP to take certain actions concerning identification and testing of microplastics in drinking water, and requires DEP and BPU to study and promote use of microplastics removal technologies.*
Requires Office of Emergency Management to incorporate into State Emergency Operations Plan framework to address cybersecurity incidents.*
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Establishes fundamental freedom of person to marry or enter into civil union with person of any race.
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Requires hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services provided through Statewide Respite Care Program and Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving Program to be no less than Medicaid fee-for-service rate for personal care services; makes appropriation.
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Requires copies of certain law enforcement records to be provided to victims of domestic violence upon request.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching disabled vehicles.
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
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.
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Increases child tax credit under gross income tax.
Requires certain nonpublic schools to provide meals to all students under "Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act"; authorizes limited expansion of income eligibility to qualify public and nonpublic school students for free lunch.
Enhances notice requirements and occupancy restrictions for hotels and multiple dwellings following determination of potentially hazardous condition.
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth for one year.*
Appropriates $15,564,293 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY 2024.
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP under FY 2024 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $650,000 to New Jersey Division of State Police for trooper recruitment and retention.
Vetoed · 7
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.*
Establishes New Jersey Educator Scholarship Program; appropriates $3 million.*
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Requires calculation of national average time needed to approve applications for initial credential in profession or occupation and use of average time as standard in New Jersey.
Passed the General Assembly · 85
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Extends validity of and eliminates issuance fee for temporary instructional certificate issued to military spouse; requires expedited processing of military spouse application for NJ instructional certificate and eliminates fee to obtain certificate.*
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Prohibits tax preparation software companies from charging fee for electronically filing State tax returns.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.*
Requires MVC to establish system for salvage processors to electronically process salvage certificates of title.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach regarding VCCO.
Requires VCCO to issue annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow service recipients to terminate service contracts following physician's referral to long-term care facility.
Creates "Pollinator Pathway" designation for municipalities.
Directs DEP to establish pollinator habitat program for closed landfills.
Establishes "pollinator-friendly" label for plants.
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
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.*
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure strategic plan.
"Virtual Currency and Blockchain Regulation Act."
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Requires public schools, and nonpublic schools which receive federal funding, to provide students with information on rights afforded under Title IX, and provide contact information for Title IX coordinator.
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.*
Eliminates one percent tax on purchasers of Class 4A commercial property transferred for consideration in excess of $1 million.
Permits a marriage or civil union license to be issued and solemnized via audio-visual technology.
Requires court to consider certain domestic violence convictions when considering alimony award; permits alimony modification based on certain subsequent domestic violence convictions.**
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements.
Directs DEP to establish leasing program for State-owned land to be used and managed as pollinator habitat.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires public water systems to provide certain notice of boil water notices.*
Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.*
Requires DHS and DOH to submit federal waivers to cover menstrual products under NJ FamilyCare, SNAP, WIC and establishes State funded benefit if federal waiver is denied; appropriates $2 million for State benefit.*
Prohibits public officials from accepting virtual currency and non-fungible tokens as gifts.
Establishes Blockchain Promotion and Integration Program.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.**
Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.
Requires disclosure of lead drinking water hazards to tenants of residential units; prohibits landlords from obstructing replacement of lead service lines; concerns testing of residential units for lead drinking water hazards.*
"College Mental Health Services Act"; establishes grant program for public institutions of higher education and requires public institutions of higher education to report certain information concerning mental health treatment and suicides.
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.**
Appropriates $2 million in constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to fund grant program for historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans.
"Travel Insurance Act."
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Prohibits public disclosure of names and addresses in certain unemployment, temporary disability, and family leave claim appeals documents.*
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Establishes "New Jersey Target Zero Commission."*
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Modifies languages that examinations are to be conducted in for applicants seeking professional license issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Renames, extends eligibility, and makes various other changes to Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program.*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Requires public water systems and landlords to provide certain notice of elevated perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances levels in drinking water; requires DEP to establish educational program.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Requires vehicle identification number be stamped on catalytic converters of motor vehicles.
Authorizes temporary licensure of graduated nursing students; waives fees for nurse licensure applicants who work at long-term care facilities.*
Eliminates fee for filing certified copy of name change order.
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Establishes advertisement grant program for emerging businesses in science and technology.*
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 EDA to create needs-matching website for eligible entities.*
Requires organizations training disabled veteran assistance dogs to register with Division of Consumer Affairs and provide disabled veteran assistance dogs with vests and harnesses.*
Requires Attorney General to conduct study on motor vehicle theft.
Requires DCF to publish and disseminate information on early childhood mental health to certain professionals.*
Allows certain caregivers of person with intellectual disability to make use of reserved parking zones when transporting person with intellectual disability.
Removes obstacles to teacher certification for certain teachers.
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship.*
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on distribution of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election.
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
Establishes Deep Fake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million.*
Establishes county veteran transportation grant program; appropriates $2 million.
Requires DHS to provide information to SNAP and WFNJ recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to submit report to Governor and Legislature on these fraud activities.
Exempts receipts from sales of materials, supplies, and services for certain affordable housing projects from sales and use tax.
Requires establishment of residential rental habitability database and provides certain penalties and causes of action concerning residential leases.
Out of committee · 64
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 "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million. **
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.*
Requires certain public venues and places of worship to submit emergency plans to law enforcement agencies for purpose of preparing for mass casualty and active shooter events.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations.
Requires DOT to create traffic calming tool kit.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Increases traffic threshold for local installation of certain speed humps on certain local streets without DOT approval.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
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 transportation network companies to share information concerning sexual misconduct investigation of driver; authorizes transportation network company to ban drivers from accessing digital network during and following investigation.
Makes $25 million supplemental appropriation to HMFA for Capital Improvement Assistance Program.
Requires certain permit holders to complete practice driving hours to obtain probationary driver's license.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Establishes Legislative Enactment Oversight Committee to ensure implementation of enacted laws and joint resolutions.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger.
Credits $5.2 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $2.9 billion to NJ Schools Development Authority, NJ DOT, and NJT; and establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.*
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Concerns licensing of law enforcement officers; appropriates $6 million.
Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.
Authorizes DOT to compensate certain contractors and subcontractors affected by supply chain shortages; appropriates $10 million.
Appropriates $50,640,229,000 in State funds and $24,082,639,850 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2022-2023.
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to re-draw tourism map to promote Central Jersey; requires promotion of overnight stays.*
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Establishes Home Sharing Evaluation Task Force.
Establishes School Safety and Security Task Force.
Provides for licensure of packaged ice plant operators and packaged ice dealers.
Establishes signs and Internet websites for State tourism attractions, historic sites, and historic districts.*
Establishes new tourism regions and subregions in New Jersey.
Eliminates Tourism Policy Council; requires updated tourism master plan; requires specific tourism data, research, and marketing; requires annual report.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Transfers Motion Picture and Television Development Commision to EDA; revises certain provisions of tax credit program for film and digital media content production; appropriates $30 million.*
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Establishes Office of Community Schools; appropriates $10 million.
Concerns railroad safety.
Makes FY 2023 supplemental appropriations of $158,525,000 and modifies certain language provisions.
Establishes Social Impact Investment Fund; appropriates $20 million.
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.*
In committee · 74
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Modifies lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2022.
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
Establishes price preference program on State contracts for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.
Authorizes use of disability benefits for transportation provided by transportation network companies.
Establishes public awareness campaign about Pregnant Women/Women With Dependent Children initiative and Maternal Wrap Around program.
Establishes general immunity for businesses, including non-profits, and public and private colleges and universities, and their officers, employees, and agents, against actions relating to Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic or related viral strain in subsequent years.
Authorizes insurers issuing business interruption insurance to offer rider for global virus transmission and pandemic coverage.
Requires automobile insurers to provide DOBI with annual documentation demonstrating no discriminatory outcomes with insurer’s automated underwriting system.
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.
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Provides mortgage payment relief, income tax relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for residential property owners, tenants, and other consumers, economically impacted during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Permits union officials who represent probation officers to participate in all union activities.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.
Upgrades certain penalties for criminal street gang recruitment and criminality; imposes mandatory minimum sentence for certain offenses; establishes accomplice liability and imposes restrictions for certain recruiters.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Codifies protections in Law Against Discrimination for persons suffering discrimination on grounds of disparate impact.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Establishes creative crosswalks pilot program.
Establishes "Plastic Pollution Task Force" to study ways to reduce and address plastic pollution.
Requires newly-manufactured school buses to be equipped with global positioning system.
Establishes Task Force on Child Care Deserts in New Jersey.
Requires DHS to develop incentives to encourage private investment in child care deserts.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Revises "Homelessness Prevention Program"; appropriates $300 million.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Bus Riders' Bill of Rights."
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires electronic voting system vendors disclose financial ties prior to electronic voting system approval by Secretary of State.
Requires State Treasurer to collect and study certain demographic information on corporate boards and in senior management.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs.
Establishes Office of Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders Policy to oversee, direct, and coordinate resources, funding, and data tracking concerning treatment of substance use disorders.
Establishes "Responsible School Violence Prevention, Preparation, and Protection Pilot Program" in certain counties and cities of first class; makes an appropriation.
Creates Office of School Bus Safety in Department of Education; appropriates $200,000.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Prohibits retaliation against inmates in State correctional facilities who report sexual abuse; criminalizes retaliation and failure to report abuse.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Restricts use of certain data collected for purposes of contact tracing related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Prohibits application of neonicotinoids on State, county, or municipal property.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Provides gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations during COVID-19 pandemic.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
"New Jersey American Dream Act"; appropriates $25 million to provide down payment and home repair assistance to low and moderate income first-time homebuyers.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
Provides three-month reduction or suspension of tax on highway fuels based on average retail price of unleaded regular gasoline; makes an appropriation.
"Better Care Dog Act."
Requires degree-seeking students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to receive instruction on American government and civic engagement.
Requires DOC to provide reunification therapy to inmates and immediate family members prior to inmate's release.
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to certain entertainment businesses; appropriates not less than $5 million.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Establishes certain requirements if purchasing and reselling same single-family home within one year of receiving certificate of occupancy.
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.
Requires landlord to provide various kitchen appliances in certain dwelling units offered for rent.
Requires publication of prices of standard and emergency services provided by veterinarians.
Establishes requirements for fee disclosure and for fees allowed as part of sale for certain tickets.
Requires ticket website operators to display certain information regarding ticket availability.
Prohibits collection of biometric identifier information by public or private entity under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Catalytic Converter Theft Prevention Pilot Program" in DLPS; makes appropriation.
Prohibits use of biometric surveillance system by business entity under certain circumstances.