Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
James J. Kennedy
Sponsored
Became law3
Increases maximum penalty for certain violations concerning asbestos hazard abatement; allocates moneys from increased penalties to asbestos programs.
Allows use of Internet website address in advertisements for purposes of communicating license numbers of burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmith businesses and professionals.
Establishes "Resiliency and Environmental System Investment Charge Program."
Passed the General Assembly3
Requires each solid waste management district to develop strategy in solid waste management plan to reduce food waste.
Exempts community gardens operating on-site composting systems or other systems of managing organic waste from certain DEP permits under certain conditions.*
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for certain projects for acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes and certain environmental infrastructure projects that include, or allow for, flood mitigation projects.
Out of committee6
Exempts community gardens composting on-site from Air Pollution Control Act fee.
Establishes "Working Group to Study Pricing of Motor Fuels by Retail Dealers."
Establishes NJ Wind Institute for Innovation and Training.
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Authorizes schools to receive certain food waste from other schools, and provides exemption to such receiving schools from certain DEP permits, under certain conditions.*
Allows sale of malt alcoholic beverages in cans or bottles marked for deposit of another state.
In committee23
Allows primary caregiver of handicapped person and person with autism to apply for and use handicapped parking.
Requires certain notifications and free credit reports for customers following breach of security of personal information within business or public entity.
Requires institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
Prohibits sale of certain cleaning products containing triclosan.
Requires certain restaurant chains to provide sodium information for items offered for sale.
Requires door to operator's cabin be locked on NJT trains.
Requires public utility performing road excavation to repave part of road that was excavated if that road had been repaved in previous five years.
Prohibits use of chlorpyrifos insecticide.
Requires certain telecommunications, cable television, and public utility service providers to notify BPU of service discontinuance to public entities 14 business days prior to shutoff.
Prohibits use of receipt paper containing bisphenol A.
Requires electric public utilities operating or providing service to certain LED street lights to charge customers only for actual costs.
Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.
Establishes COVID-19 Transitional Assistance Local Grant Program in DHS.
Establishes "Zero Energy Construction Act"; requires all new residential and commercial developments to be zero energy ready; requires developers to offer zero energy construction.
Requires State entities engaging in projects resulting in deforestation of any size to submit plan to DEP for no net loss of forested areas.
Requires permit and compensatory reforestation plan for development projects that result in deforestation; establishes grant program for reforestation activities by private landowners; establishes "State Compensatory Reforestation Fund."
Permits certain prosecutors to transfer service credit from PERS to Prosecutors Part of PERS.
Requires producers of packaging products sold in New Jersey to adopt and implement packaging product stewardship plans.
Requires NJT rail stations and bus and rail terminals to display historical information about area in or around stations and terminals.
Provides CBT tax credit for retrofit of existing warehouses with solar-ready zone once solar panels are installed.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging stations and for commercial zero emission vehicle fleet conversions.
Requires school districts to include environmental sustainability plan in long-range facilities plan.
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Establishes "Working Group to Study Pricing of Motor Fuels by Retail Dealers."
Authorizes schools to receive certain food waste from other schools, and provides exemption to such receiving schools from certain DEP permits, under certain conditions.*
Allows sale of malt alcoholic beverages in cans or bottles marked for deposit of another state.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Excludes electricity supplied to recycled materials manufacturing facilities from renewable energy portfolio standards.
Revises law requiring registration with DEP of certain entities engaged in soil and fill recycling services.
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Appropriates $64.929 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Enhances notice requirements and occupancy restrictions for hotels and multiple dwellings following determination of potentially hazardous condition.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Requires DEP to study methane emissions.
Out of committee · 7
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits use by certain retailers of shipping box greater than two times volume of product being shipped.
Provides for establishment of New Jersey Water Infrastructure Center at institute of higher education designated by DEP; appropriates $5 million.
Requires DEP to consider potential impacts to natural resources when classifying dams according to hazard potential.
Removes restriction on receipt of retirement annuities by certain members of JRS who file for deferred retirement.
Requires sellers of real property and landlords to make certain notifications regarding flooding.
In committee · 34
Establishes Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience Financing Program in NJ Infrastructure Bank; imposes per-kilowatt hour charge on electric energy consumption to finance climate change mitigation and resilience projects.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Establishes Division of Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled within Office of Public Defender; designates public defender for developmentally disabled clients in criminal cases.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Establishes "Plastic Pollution Task Force" to study ways to reduce and address plastic pollution.
Concerns procedures with respect to repair of certain public utility facilities and related street repaving.
Provides for establishment of three-year pilot program to expand provision of paratransit services in New Jersey.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Permits counties and municipalities to bond for passenger cars and station wagons solely fueled by electric or renewable power sources.
Authorizes creation of Student Movement Against Cancer license plates.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Prohibits use of paper receipts containing bisphenol-A or bisphenol-S; provides for phased-in prohibition on use of all paper receipts; authorizes continued use of electronic receipts.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Authorizes creation of vertical motorcycle license plates.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires DEP to study indoor air quality at public schools, develop list of common indoor air contaminants at public schools, and establish guidance regarding potential mitigation measures.
Requires owners and operators of certain landfills to control and monitor landfill gas emissions.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Establishes Literacy Acceleration Home Reading Grant Program.
"Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act"; authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving, psilocybin production, possession, use, and distribution.
Revises certain eligibility requirements under NJ Aspire Program; establishes net neutral benefits test for redevelopment projects that incur certain sustainability and resiliency costs.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Establishes student-athlete mental health specialists in school districts and public institutions of higher education; creates student-athlete mental health registry; makes appropriation.
Requires school districts to offer halal lunch options.
"Real Property Sewage System Risk Assessment and Conditions Disclosure Act"; requires sellers of residential real estate to provide for sewage system inspections and disclose certain conditions; establishes penalties.
Requires school districts to provide information on process of obtaining US citizenship.
Directs BPU to establish rebate program for purchase of electric bicycles; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes "Climate Catalytic Capital Fund" in EDA; appropriates $13 million from societal benefits charge to fund.