Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
James J. Kennedy
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires solid waste management district to develop strategy to reduce food waste; requires DEP to adopt certain rules and regulations regarding composting facilities.*
Requires members of historic preservation commissions to complete historic preservation planning course.
Provides medical documentation requirement for certain members of PERS, PFRS, and SPRS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations; removes filing deadline.*
Passed the General Assembly2
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 committee5
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Requires testing of electrical systems of certain electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and batteries prior to sale, rental, lease, or other distribution to consumers.
Revises provisions of "Dry Cell Battery Management Act."
Requires BPU to establish beneficial building electrification and decarbonization program and requires certain entities to submit plans to implement individual beneficial building electrification and decarbonization programs.*
Regulates certain electric bicycles.*
In committee24
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.
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 "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."
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.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Requires owners and operators of certain landfills to control and monitor landfill gas emissions.
Requires school districts to include environmental sustainability plan in long-range facilities plan.
Establishes "Resiliency and Environmental System Investment Charge Program."
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Regulates certain electric bicycles.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth until July 1, 2026.*
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires DEP to consider potential impacts to natural resources when classifying dams according to hazard potential.
Designates Common Eastern Bumble Bee as New Jersey State Native Pollinator.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.*
Prohibits certain public utilities from charging residents of multi-unit dwellings meter-reading fees in certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 15
Establishes program in SADC for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.*
Directs BPU to establish rebate program for purchase of electric bicycles.*
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Authorizes EDA to use moneys in "Global Warming Solutions Fund" to support projects to refurbish or upgrade existing electricity generation facilities.
"Climate Superfund Act"; imposes liability on certain fossil fuel companies for certain damages caused by climate change and establishes program in DEP to collect and distribute compensatory payments.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
"Packaging and Paper Product Stewardship Act."*
Prohibits food service business from providing single-use utensils and condiments to customers under certain circumstances and requires DEP to establish education campaign on benefits of reducing single-use utensils and condiments.*
Requires certain State-funded construction projects to utilize plastic construction materials that contain certain amounts of postconsumer recycled content.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2026.
Establishes deadline for DEP implementation of prescribed burn program, and provides for establishment of prescribed burn acreage goals, schedules, calendars, training program, and mobile deployment units to provide on-site prescribed burn training and assistance.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
Requires end-of-life recycling of solar and photovoltaic energy generation facilities and structures.
In committee · 34
Provides gross income tax deduction for amounts paid to taxpayers for sale of certain real property interests for conservation purposes.
Establishes Division of Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled within Office of Public Defender; designates public defender for developmentally disabled clients in criminal cases.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
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.
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.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Requires school districts to offer halal lunch options.
Requires school districts to provide information on process of obtaining US citizenship.
Permits legislative agents and organizations to receive funds assessed on tuition bills as waivable fees.
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Enhances notice requirements and occupancy restrictions for hotels and multiple dwellings following determination of potentially hazardous condition.
Provides for establishment of three-year pilot program to expand provision of paratransit services in New Jersey.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Concerns procedures with respect to repair of certain public utility facilities and related street repaving.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Amends rent receivership statute to provide that court shall appoint receiver under certain conditions; establishes mandatory appointment requirement.*
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other states.
"New Jersey Motorcycle Awareness and Safety Act"; requires DOT to develop public awareness campaign for motorcycle day.
"Ruth Gilbert Alzheimer's Accessibility Act"; allows certain individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia to receive, and caregivers transporting those individuals to utilize, parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Requires BPU to review and report on rates and revenues of electric public utilities that use smart meters.
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Allocates $7.5 million annually of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenue for preservation of land in Highlands Region.
Requires electric public utilities to submit to BPU and implement electric infrastructure improvement plans.
Repeals law that requires funds for legislative agents to be assessed on student tuition bills in certain manner.
Establishes abandoned mine reclamation program in DEP.