Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, Senate.
Anthony M. Bucco
Sponsored
Passed the Senate3
Requires school bus drivers and school bus aides to call 911 emergency line in potential life-threatening emergencies; requires certain school buses transporting students with disabilities to be equipped with certain safety features.*
Permits excused absence for students participating in college visits, visits to postsecondary technical institutions, and military recruitment-related activities.
Permits mortgage loan originators to work from remote locations under certain circumstances.
Out of committee1
Requires youth and sports organizations to obtain criminal history record background checks of certain volunteers, employees and organizers.*
In committee228
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes "Responsible School Violence Prevention, Preparation, and Protection (RSVP-3) Pilot Program."
Concerns workers' compensation insurance requirements for certain corporations and partnerships.
Revises State marriage license application form to permit certain changes in middle name and surname.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of cancer treatments, tests, procedures and prescription drugs covered under health benefits or prescription drug benefits plans.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on certain days.
Provides accidental death benefit to surviving spouse, surviving child, or surviving parent of a State Police recruit who dies during required pre-service training.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for certain veterans, military personnel, first responders, and police.
Removes requirement that certain special law enforcement officers turn in firearm at end of shift.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Establishes eligibility for PERS enrollment and retirement benefits for certain county fire instructors under certain conditions.
Permits purchase of service credit in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, and SPRS for period of enrollment in military service academy.
Authorizes Surrogate of every county to establish electronic systems to accept electronic signatures on qualifying documents in probate matters.
Requires State Treasurer to publish certain State expenditure and revenue information on government transparency website.
Establishes Kidney Donor Insurance Fund.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority service restoration to age-restricted communities after major events.
Expands purpose of Traumatic Brain Injury Fund to support transportation costs incurred by eligible individuals in accessing support group meetings.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research from $1 million to $4 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Provides dedicated funding for New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Revises requirements for signage indicating accessible facilities for people with disabilities.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Exempts persons with disabilities and persons who are homeless from payment of identification card fees.
Elevates impersonating public servant to crime of fourth degree in certain instances; establishes offense of exploiting authority implied by a public emergency.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
Broadens riot and disorderly conduct; enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.
Authorizes municipality to deliver property tax bills, construction permits, and receipts for payment via e-mail.
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator for service members.
Removes requirement for branch office registration certificates and modernizes requirements to notify State and consumers of locations where dentists provide services.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Extends military leave of absence for public officers and employees to those serving on federal active duty in US Coast Guard Reserve.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA create program for veterans to receive evaluation and treatment for PTSD, total brain injury, or traumatic brain injury.
Provides for life imprisonment without parole for killing an emergency responder.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires do not forward label on mail-in ballot envelopes; allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing or detached certificate; requires certain voter data be entered into voter file within 30 days.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for memberships in PERS; provides for transfer of business administrators from participation in Defined Contribution Retirement Program to membership in PERS.
"New Jersey Safe Haven for Protection of Domestic Companion Animals Act."
Authorizes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in places of religious worship; requires nonpublic security aid be used for Class Three officers upon request of nonpublic school.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
Permits dogs to visit at State veterans' residential facilities.
Permits police officers to travel to and from and remain within police station located within 100 feet of polling place; permits Class Three special law enforcement officers to be assigned to certain polling places.
Indexes various thresholds and qualifications under New Jersey gross income tax for inflation.
Extends time period required for public notice of certain land use applications.
Concerns calculation of municipal affordable housing obligations.
Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from paying annual charitable registration fee.
Exempts certain volunteer emergency service organizations from charitable contribution filing fees.
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location for certain individuals.
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Requires certain funds from Main Street Recovery Fund to be used for grants for veteran-owned small businesses.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Prohibits public institution of higher education from charging tuition to student who is dependent child of veteran who died or is disabled as result of service-related injury.
Excludes bonuses for reenlistment or voluntary extension of enlistment in armed forces from gross income.
Requires EDA administer small business loan program to provide loans to small businesses owned or controlled by certain veterans.
Exempts all transfers made to lineal relatives from the Transfer Inheritance Tax.
Indexes amount of veterans' income tax exemption for inflation.
Expands definition of victim of domestic violence.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Requires NJT to equip trains with defibrillators.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Establishes protections from abusive and controlling litigation for victims of domestic violence.
Prohibits reporting medical information of children without consent of parent or legal guardian.
Provides for certain pediatric NJ FamilyCare beneficiaries to maintain private duty nursing hours when transitioning to Managed Long Term Services and Supports; codifies and expands appeals provisions for private duty nursing services.
Establishes "New Jersey COVID-19 Long-Term Health Effects Task Force."
Establishes signs and Internet websites for State tourism attractions, historic sites, and historic districts.
Requires MVC to make mobile units available to reduce service delays at overcrowded agencies.
Requires MVC to allow customers to schedule appointments on MVC's website; extends expiration date of certain documents under certain circumstances.
Establishes hiring preference for veterans for teaching positions.
Concerns recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters; appropriates $2 million.
Requires institutions of higher education to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
Requires petition circulators and candidates to take bona fide candidacy oath; makes violation third degree crime; reinstitutes prompt pre-election reporting for independent expenditure committees; affirms court jurisdiction of campaign finance laws.
Disqualifies person with certain number of motor vehicle points from operating school bus for certain period of time.
Requires school bus drivers to submit to biannual testing for drugs and alcohol.
Allows gross income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Requires Firefighter 1 certification of candidate who completes military firefighter training and at least 12 months active duty military service in lieu of training course requirements.
Eliminates fee for special plates for firefighters and members of first aid or rescue squads.
Provides for preservation bonus credit against affordable housing obligations to certain municipalities.
"Safer Students Act"; requires school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, contracted service providers, and institutions of higher education to review employment history of prospective employee for allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
"Welcome Home Veterans Act"; requires MVC to provide veteran benefit information packets.
Increases penalties for denying access to public facilities, NJT, and transportation network companies to service dogs and their handlers.
Requires State agencies to periodically review administrative rules and regulations to ensure continued efficacy.
Adjusts method of determining regional need for affordable housing; permits timeline extension for municipalities to determine and plan for adjusted fair share obligations based on revisions to regional need.
Requires school districts to include information on events of September 11, 2001 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires public schools to hold annual events commemorating September 11, 2001.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus property certain land and improvements in Town of Morristown in Morris County.
Requires legislative approval for energy master plan to become State policy.
"Grid Reliability Protection Act"; prohibits State agencies from decommissioning electric generation facilities in State under certain circumstances.
Withdraws New Jersey's participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Exempts oral healthcare products from sales and use tax.
Designates State Highway Route 10 as "American Legion Memorial Highway."
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 6.625 to 6 percent.
Eliminates the corporate transit fee.
Requires DEP to designate municipalities with critical headwaters as headwater guardians.
"Load Forecast Accountability Act"; requires BPU to review electricity load forecasting in State.
Permits association of planned real estate development to file application with Department of Community Affairs to lower reserve fund obligations based on risk-mitigating features of development.
Establishes Office of the State Chief Efficiency Officer and Efficiency Officer positions in each State Executive Branch department.
Designates "New Jersey's For You and Me" by Kathleen Golden Murphy and Shannon Murphy Flannery as New Jersey State song.
Clarifies bilingual Spanish and English language accessibility requirements applicable to printing primary and general election ballots in certain districts.
Requires ELEC to establish and operate hotline for reporting of certain election law violations.
Requires county boards of election to have bipartisan representation when opening and canvassing mail-in ballots; requires secure storage of mail-in ballots; upgrades penalties for certain election-related crimes.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Requires employers whose employees are subject to contracts that are amendable and do not expire to provide earned sick leave.
Removes stump grinding as service requiring licensure by New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
Regulates performance of pet grooming services.
Modifies age and education requirement to qualify as radiologic technologist.
Establishes timelines for application review process for certain credentials issued by New Jersey Board of Nursing.
Establishes credit under sales and use tax for certain small businesses that collect and remit sales and use tax.
Exempts medical alert devices and services from sales and use tax.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Allows gross income tax refunds to be credited against taxpayer's delinquent local property taxes.
Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.
Requires DOLWD and DHS to conduct assessment of community rehabilitation programs and community businesses.
Provides license renewal fee relief for businesses and individuals impacted by public highway projects.
Requires health insurance coverage for certain obesity treatments.
Establishes annual four-day sales tax holiday after Thanksgiving.
Excludes deferred compensation of certain public school and federal tax-exempt organization employees from current taxation under gross income tax.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Requires DOH to establish Statewide standardized requirements for licensure and operations of mobile food vendors; designated as "Streamlined Food Truck Licensure Act."
Establishes initiatives related to behavioral health care, including increasing reimbursement rates, providing cost-of-living adjustments, establishing grant programs for facility upkeep and provider training, and relaxing clinical supervision requirements.
Provides temporary deduction for food and beverage establishments from certain sales and use tax remittances.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for minimum required distributions from qualified retirement plans.
Requires legislative approval of State Board of Education rules and regulations; repeals equity regulations.
Requires boards of education to adopt suicide prevention policies and DOE to establish model suicide prevention policy.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish criteria and make recommendations on designation of school districts as SDA districts.
Allocates $200 million to Department of Labor and Workforce Development to improve unemployment insurance infrastructure technology.
Revises procedures for temporary guardianship.
Exempts simple assault on health care worker at psychiatric screening center from being automatically upgraded to aggravated assault under certain circumstances.
Provides for establishment of child support lien against life insurance proceeds; requires insurers perform child support judgment search.
Provides employer and employee protections pursuant to use of legalized cannabis items.
Exempts certain workers and organizations from Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Revises notice requirements for certain local land use hearings to at least 21 days.
Permits EMTs to administer epinephrine using needle and syringe that is not prefilled.
Creates registry of individuals who required medical assistance as result of misusing controlled dangerous substance.
Requires issuance of temporary emergency medical services certifications.
Requires local recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and youth camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Establishes temporary Pandemic PTSD Task Force.
Requires State agencies to submit certain documentation for procurement of certain information technology projects.
Establishes program to foster improvements in customer service in State government agencies.
Extends eligibility for Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program to physical therapists.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Allows municipality to use school bus video footage to ticket driver for illegally passing school bus.
"Honoring and Listening to Our First Responders Act"; establishes offense of interfering with official duties of first responder under certain circumstances.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt pregnancy policy for law enforcement officers.
Expands "Body Armor Replacement Fund" eligibility.
"Road to Tax Relief Act"; provides credit for sales tax remittances for businesses impacted by public highway projects, including Interstate 80 project; provides tax credits for certain businesses and persons impacted by same projects; makes appropriation.
"Road to Relief Act"; establishes EDA grant program to support increased transportation expenses incurred by certain commuters, employees, and businesses impacted by certain public highway projects, including ongoing Interstate 80 project; appropriates $1 million.
Permits pharmacists to administer certain long-acting injectable drugs.
Prohibits disclosure of body worn camera recordings under certain circumstances.
Establishes disorderly persons offense of interfering with first responder under certain circumstances; designated as "Honoring and Listening to Our First Responders Act."
Allows tax credits for employing members of NJ National Guard and members of reserve component of US Armed Forces.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing released nonviolent offenders.
Expands eligibility for pension and retirement income exclusion to taxpayers with incomes exceeding $150,000, and increases amount of exclusion that qualifying taxpayers may claim.
Requires employer to provide one additional paid sick day per benefit year to paid first responders for healthcare diagnostic testing.
Requires employer of volunteer first responder to provide employee with one additional paid sick day per benefit year for healthcare diagnostic testing.
"Daniel Kearney's Law"; establishes criminal penalties for driving in violation of probationary driver's license restrictions in certain circumstances.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
Establishes fund to reimburse municipalities for police costs related to crowding at MVC sites; appropriates $500,000.
Requires installation of Type IV flotation devices at certain lakes, ponds, and rivers.
Makes $100 million in federal funds available to DEP for grants to local governments for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects.
Authorizes use of certain constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants for prevention and remediation of harmful algal blooms.
Authorizes Chief Administrator of MVC to waive fee for non-driver identification card if applicant submits proof of enrollment in public assistance or social service program.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to exempt certain disabled veterans from E-ZPass tolls.
Provides tax credits to companies contributing to loan and loan redemption program for residents who attend institutions of higher education in State and work at such company upon graduation.
Requires school districts to maintain supply of nasal rescue medication and oxygen for seizure emergencies; provides for training of designees to administer nasal rescue medication and oxygen when school nurse is not physically present.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Authorizes fire districts to issue certain bond anticipation notes for up to 10 years following initial note issuance.
Requires municipalities to accept complaints and provide certain municipal announcements by electronic means.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4.8 million to provide additional operational aid to Jefferson Township Public Schools.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Delays fourth round of affordable housing obligations, including present and prospective need and related litigation, until July 1, 2028.
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for defendants charged with repeat home invasion offenses.
Requires BPU to establish best practices and to assess electric public utilities' compliance with BPU best practices during BPU's review of rate increase.
Permits certain drivers' schools to conduct road tests.
Establishes task force to study technology and other methods used to reduce or eliminate telemarketing harassment and intimidation.
Exempts certain non-profit entities from requirement that certain employers offer employees certain pre-tax transportation fringe benefits.
Requires electric public utilities to provide training, equipment, indemnity, and reimbursement to certain municipal employees for moving and securing detached, above-ground distribution lines impeding vehicular traffic during lengthy power outages.
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for remediation of collapsed mine shafts and sinkholes on property owned by county or municipality.
Exempts certain officers trained in animal cruelty from certain additional Police Training Commission training courses.
Increases certain power vessel operator license fees and amount dedicated from license fees to Lake Hopatcong Fund.
Allows possession of bear spray under certain conditions.
Establishes bee-friendly habitat pilot program in Department of Agriculture; appropriates $1 million.
Changes membership of Lake Hopatcong Commission and requires DEP to develop water level management plan for Lake Hopatcong to be approved by commission.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
"Stolen Vehicle Possession Accountability Act"; increases penalties for adult and juvenile repeat offenses of receiving stolen motor vehicle.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to automatically offer toll discounts to senior citizens.
Permits members of Community Emergency Response Teams to perform traffic duties under certain circumstances.
Allows distributions from NJBEST account to Roth IRA as qualified withdrawals and excludes such distributions from gross income tax.
Permits licensed motor vehicle dealers to facilitate issuance of titles and registrations for used motor vehicles purchased by private sale.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
"New Jersey Transit Accountability Act"; requires independent audit of NJT.
Requires MVC to accept certain documents as proof of name change for driver's license.
Permits person diagnosed with autism or communication disability to voluntarily make notation on driver's license, identification card, and in MVC registry; establishes program to train law enforcement officers in interactions with persons with autism or communication disabilities.
Requires hotels to establish telecommunications system that connects callers directly to NJ Human Trafficking Hotline; requires hotel employees to report human trafficking alerts to law enforcement.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires hotels, motels, rooming, and boarding houses, and similar lodging businesses, to check valid government-issued identification at check-in.
Requires volunteer, nonvolunteer, and nonprofit ambulances be equipped with lock box to store firearm.
Establishes program in New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing for support of residency programs at veterans' memorial homes in New Jersey; appropriates $500,000.
Increases amounts of aid paid to certain municipalities that host watershed lands; increases amount annually appropriated to "Highlands Protection Fund" from realty transfer fee revenues.
Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Prohibits certain substances in sale, distribution, and manufacture of commercial foods within two years; immediately bans certain dyes in school food.
Excludes certain retirement savings plan contributions, withdrawals, and rollovers from gross income tax.
Establishes task force to strengthen and streamline State's anti-bullying policies, procedures, and guidelines in schools.
"Fairness for School Districts in Development Restricted Areas Act"; provides additional State school aid to certain school districts located in municipalities that are part of Highlands or Pinelands preservation areas.
Requires State to elect to participate in federal tax credit scholarship program and directs Commissioner of Education to provide required information to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Establishes grant program in Department of State for preservation of certain Revolutionary War sites; appropriates funds.
Eliminates 16 hour per 24-hour period coverage limit on private duty nursing services for certain Medicaid enrollees who are 21 years of age or older.
Prohibits school districts from joining associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports unless association limits interscholastic eligibility of certain student-athletes who repeat middle school grade for athletic advantage.
Eliminates automatic voter registration at MVC; requires photo identification to vote and biannual audit of voter registration records.
Requires board of education to award certain transportation contracts to most appropriate bidder; requires board of education to hold transportation meeting prior to awarding certain transportation contracts for students with disabilities.
Requires live streaming, recording, and archiving of certain legislative committee meetings and committee hearings; appropriates funds.
Establishes Unanticipated Revenue Fund; dedicates monies in fund to provision of one-time gross income tax credits to State residents.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
Requires distribution of State aid to certain municipalities located in whole or in part in the Highlands preservation area.
Establishes Office of Small Business Advisory Services and Small Business Advisory Accountability Fund; appropriates $2.5 million.
"Carlo's Law"; requires paddleboard tether and safety information be provided to paddleboard renters under certain circumstances.
Requires school districts to include information on September 11th attacks in social studies curriculum; requires public schools to hold annual events commemorating September 11th attacks.
Authorizes creation of childhood cancer awareness license plates.
Requires school vehicles transporting students with disabilities to display certain information.
Requires consideration of student transportation needs in individualized education program and inclusion of certain transportation personnel on individualized education program team.
Filed3
Establishes New Jersey Civics and Debate Initiative in public schools; appropriates $4.5 million.
Modifies scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act related to economic impact of rules on small businesses and small local government units.
Excludes certain retirement savings plan contributions under gross income tax.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Makes certain changes to regulation of health care service firms.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2027.
Passed both houses · 1
Eliminates statute of limitations for human trafficking and criminal sexual contact prosecutions and eliminates statute of limitations for civil cases arising from human trafficking.*
Passed the Senate · 8
Permits students to be eligible for high school graduation credits in career readiness or career, and technical education for completing county fire academy course under certain circumstances.*
Requires school report card to include information about placement of graduates, including apprenticeships.
Permits victims and witnesses of human trafficking to testify in criminal proceedings via closed circuit television; permits judge to make motion to seek closed circuit testimony.
Permits member of New Jersey National Guard to transfer 50 percent of certain tuition benefit to dependent child or 100 percent of certain tuition benefit to spouse.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Authorizes creation of non-lapsing fire academy trust fund by county.
Expands criminal and civil penalties for human trafficking, and expands human trafficking training requirements for law enforcement. *
Allows online news publication to use municipal, county, or State-wide circulation requirements to meet eligibility standards; extends grace period for qualifying newspapers.
Out of committee · 34
Establishes certain protections for drivers and holders of non-driver identification cards diagnosed with certain disabilities.*
Permits pretrial detention for contempt violation of protective order issued under "Victim's Assistance and Survivor Protection Act."
Requires Rutgers University study economic impact of military installations in NJ; appropriates $155,000.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Establishes "Civil Air Patrol Fund" to be supported by annual appropriations of $275,000; appropriates $275,000.*
Establishes "Cop 2 Cop Sustainability Fund" to support "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" Cop 2 Cop telephone hotline program; appropriates $500,000.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
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 DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.*
Requires municipalities to provide basic life support services; establishes basic life support services as essential.
Concerns facilities used by applicants for new motor vehicle dealer licenses.*
Provides access to periodic cancer screening examinations for volunteer firefighters through SHBP physicians and other providers.
Establishes New Jersey First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Program; provides gross income tax benefits for certain contributions to and earnings on assets maintained in accounts established under program.
Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Establishes "New Jersey Gold Star Family Annuity Program."
Establishes protected leave under "Family Leave Act" and family temporary disability leave benefits for bereavement for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances.
Authorizes soil conservation districts to have more than five supervisors.
Modifies process to credential licensed health care professionals in carrier provider network.*
Establishes certain requirements and initiatives related to nurses; appropriates funds.
Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on public works contract.
"New Jersey Kids Code Act"; adopts New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code and requires certain online service providers to implement certain measures concerning minors' use of online service.*
Establishes "New Jersey Private Contractor Registration Act."
Diversifies use of "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program" to include training and intelligence gathering.
Establishes Hope Card Program to provide victims of domestic violence with restraining order quick reference wallet card; makes appropriation.
Establishes abandoned mine reclamation programs and funding in DOT and DEP.
"Hotel Franchisee Fairness and Market Access Act."
Criminalizes certain sales of marijuana and vapor products.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $6,000 to $9,000 and indexes deduction for inflation.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2027; makes appropriation.
Requires expedited compliance with certain search warrants in domestic violence and stalking investigations.
In committee · 168
Increases criminal penalties if leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor results in injury or death.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
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 operations.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employing immediate family members of members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were killed in action.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse residential customer for cost of food and prescription medicine spoiled or compromised as a result of sustained electric service outage.
Eliminates weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated State employees.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Revises law concerning partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Requires ambulances be equipped with lock box to store firearm.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes grant program for alternate route police officer training.
Establishes increased penalties for smoking cannabis or marijuana on public beaches.
Restricts all ownership of agricultural land in State by foreign governments and persons.
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Authorizes reimbursement for EMT training from EMT Training Fund for certain volunteer firefighters.
Authorizes municipality to enact ordinance regulating where certain sex offenders may reside.
Clarifies crime of highway and public passage obstruction and increases penalties.
Establishes criminal liability for property destruction occurring during auto theft and police pursuit for auto theft; requires restitution for damages incurred.
Amends felony murder, aggravated manslaughter, and aggravated assault statutes to include death or bodily injury occurring during commission of auto theft.
Expands offenses for which juvenile may be waived to adult criminal court to include certain thefts or unlawful takings of motor vehicles; makes use of juvenile in theft of motor vehicle strict liability crime.
Upgrades degree of crime of auto theft when committed in connection with home invasion or residential burglary.
Requires juveniles to be tried as adult for certain serious offenses under No Early Release Act.
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.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Prohibits persons from installing, planting, or placing nonfunctional turf or invasive plant species on certain types of property during certain construction projects.
Lowers minimum amount of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers.
Exempts cribs, child restraint systems, nursing bottles, and strollers from sales and use tax.
Requires public utility to provide daily updates to municipalities concerning public utility service work.
Expands "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program."
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.
Establishes program in SADC for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to qualified veterans purchasing franchises.
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Establishes "Manufacturing Workforce Development Grant Program" for students enrolled at county colleges.
Requires school districts to receive written permission from parent or legal guardian before administering certain student health surveys.
Establishes Forest Fire Preparedness Commission in DEP.
"Health Insurance Claim Plain Language and Simplification Act."
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Makes desecration of military monument crime of third degree.
Establishes independent State Office of Consumer.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Requires collection of data by health insurers regarding health insurance claims and decisions made using automated utilization management systems.
Requires State to annually compensate certain municipalities for costs related to obligations for development of low- and moderate-income housing units.
"New Jersey Laken Riley Act"; establishes law enforcement procedures for arrests of aliens unlawfully present in the U.S. charged with certain crimes.
Extends time period in which gross income taxpayers may file amended tax returns to correct overpayment of tax related to military pension payments or military survivor's benefit payments.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Directs Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Affairs to enter into agreements to provide certain legal services to certain disabled veterans.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Upgrades burglary of a residence to a crime of the second degree; requires mandatory period of parole ineligibility if residence was occupied at time of offense.
Requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Requires Secretary of State create website for voters to report irregularities regarding mail-in ballots; establishes "Vote by Mail Study Commission."
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Permits exemption from certain civil service examinations for person with disability.
Requires Director of Division of Developmental Disabilities to align rates for self-directed employees with maximum service provider rates.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Establishes "Parents Bill of Rights Act"; prohibits school district from interfering with fundamental right of parent or guardian to engage in and direct student's education; permits opt-out of school district curriculum.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location.
Requires Secretary of State and county commissioners of registration to perform audit of voter registration records in Statewide Voter Registration System.
Creates second degree crime for operation of stolen vehicle in manner that creates risk of injury to person or property.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Revises definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and economic abuse.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to publish cannabis-related fatal motor vehicle crash statistics.
Establishes presumption of pretrial detention for persons who commit carjacking, theft of motor vehicle, or burglary.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent.
Revises law on extended employment programs for persons with disabilities.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' gross income tax exemptions to include veterans of all Uniformed Services of United States.
Requires school buses transporting students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Requires public schools to develop policy for administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagas nerve stimulators for students with seizure disorder on emergent basis.
Establishes county veteran transportation grant program; removes certain restrictions to the current veterans transportation assistance program; appropriates $2 million.
Expands Division of State Police rank and grade titles.
Provides cancer and cardiovascular screenings to law enforcement officers; establishes fund; appropriates $20 million.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes Farmland Assessment Review Commission to annually review and recommend changes to farmland assessment program, as necessary to ensure fair, equitable, and uniform Statewide application and enforcement of program requirements and allocation of program benefits.
Creates offense of impersonating first responder; grades offense one degree higher than underlying offense.
Requires DMVA to develop mobile application to provide guidance on available resources to veterans and their families.
Requires medical fee schedule by automobile insurers to provide for reimbursement of certain services provided by ambulatory surgical center at rate of 300 percent of Medicare payment rate.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Provides gross income tax deduction for New Jersey fuel taxes paid through purchases of motor fuel for personal use of motor vehicles.
Increases personal needs allowance to $140 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Exempts volunteer fire companies, emergency service providers, and veteran organizations from charitable registration fees.
Establishes Small Business Resiliency Project Loan Program in EDA for certain small businesses implementing certain resiliency projects.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Program"; amends law concerning NJ Infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 25 years.
Provides corporation business and gross income tax credit for certain Pre-Broadway and Post-Broadway theater productions.
Permits corrections officers, firefighters, and police officers to administer epinephrine auto-injector device.
Authorizes Sunday firearm and bow hunting for deer on certain lands.
Allows Right to Farm Act complaints to be filed with county agriculture development board in adjacent county under certain circumstances and creates alternate voting members on such boards.
Establishes grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students.
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.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Requires state entities purchase five percent of goods and services from Central Nonprofit Agency; requires Division of Purchase and Property establish training protocols for all purchasing agents; grants Central Nonprofit Agency right of first refusal.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Provides a gross income tax deduction for veterinarian expenses.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
"Energy Security and Affordability Act"; requires BPU to consider energy security, diversity, and affordability when preparing Energy Master Plan and perform economic and ratepayer impact analysis of energy generation projects and Energy Master Plan.
Establishes counseling program for eligible family members of active duty military members and disabled veterans.
Exempts sales of pet food and medication purchased for pets from sales and use tax.
Suspends sales and use tax and societal benefits charge on electric and gas public utility bills during four-month period.
Increases penalty for reckless vehicular homicide committed when driving while intoxicated under certain circumstances.
Suspends sales and use tax and societal benefits charge on electric and gas public utility bills during one year period beginning January 1, 2026 and ending December 31, 2026.
Concerns vaccine mandates and eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain health care workers.
Repeals law providing that violation of rear seat belt law be treated as secondary offense; establishes certain reporting requirements; requires AG to issue report.
Regulates residential mental health treatment facilities.
"Fentanyl and Xylazine Poisoning Awareness Act"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of fentanyl and xylazine.
Establishes "Students with Communication Disabilities' Bill of Rights."
Permits appointment of Class Three special law enforcement officers by county sheriffs.
Requires SJTA to suspend certain tolls on the Atlantic City Expressway in certain circumstances.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Requires low-speed electric bicycles and low-speed electric scooters to be insured and registered with MVC; requires MVC to develop a safety training module for registration.
Authorizes provision of monetary awards to whistleblowers who report State tax law violations committed by employers in construction industry.
Establishes crime of doxxing.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.
Requires DOH to collect and coordinate data on language proficiency of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Establishes certain animal abuse offenses committed in manner manifesting extreme indifference to value of animal's life as crime of second degree; designated as "River's Law."
Removes criminal liability for law enforcement officers who have investigative encounter with underage person for possession of alcohol or cannabis unless civil rights are violated.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Allows credit against corporation business tax and gross income tax liability for employing persons with a developmental disability.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
Credits $2.35 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $4.32 billion to Department of Treasury to provide funds to municipalities and counties for debt retirement and avoidance.
Reinstates penalty for underage possession and consumption of alcohol and cannabis as disorderly person offense.
Protects children from certain mandatory vaccinations as a condition of school attendance.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for volunteer firefighters.
Requires certain animals used in testing to be offered for adoption; requires establishment of procedures for assessment and disposition of animals; establishes penalties for noncompliance.
"Stephanie's Law"; Requires AOC to establish publicly-accessible domestic violence registry; requires law enforcement officer to search State's domestic violence registries when conducting arrest.
Increases FY2026 annual appropriation to DCF by $16.7 million to increase NJ FamilyCare monthly reimbursement rate paid to care management organizations.
Establishes additional manner of employer compliance to provide earned sick leave for certain employees subject to collective bargaining agreements.
Makes various changes to regulation of health care service firms.
Authorizes protective order for certain witnesses or victims against actor who attempted to prevent or obstruct them from reporting crime to police.
Increases regulation of State veterans' memorial homes.
Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Requires volunteers, employees, and organizers of certain youth and sports organizations to receive criminal history record background checks.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of medical tests, procedures and prescription drugs covered under health benefits or prescription drug benefits plans.
Establishes crime of selling or purchasing marijuana from unlicensed businesses.
Establishes Veterans Bill of Rights.
Permits fair share affordable housing bonus credit for certain housing reserved for occupancy by teachers.
Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears honorably discharged veteran's placard issued by MVC.
"Fair Funding for Vulnerable Residents Act"; establishes direct care ratio requirement for certain providers of services to adults or children with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Establishes Department of State Police as principal department in executive branch of State government.
Establishes "Justice for Vulnerable Residents Act"; creates Justice Center for the Protection of Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities.
Requires notification of use of artificial intelligence system in certain communications with consumers.
Broadens epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth camps.
Establishes certain annual certification compliance requirements for school bus contractors; requires Office of School Bus Safety to establish certification compliance pilot program.
Clarifies that amateur sports official is independent contractor for purposes of State employment laws.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing and treatments to slow progression of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Provides gross income tax credit for volunteer first responders who incur costs for child care services.
Establishes "Employment First Commission."
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
"Weston's Law"; extends crime of human trafficking to include recruiting or coercing juvenile to join gang or drug trafficking scheme.
Requires video surveillance cameras in certain special education classrooms for promotion of student safety.
Authorizes volunteer emergency medical technician reimbursement for criminal background checks from Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund.
Requires health insurers to provide reason for denial of coverage for private duty nursing.
Requires artificial intelligence companion operators to provide notifications that users are not communicating with human.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday during week of Thanksgiving.
"Sales Tax Holiday Weekend Act"; establishes annual sales tax holiday every third weekend in August for certain retail sales.
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Increases amount of veterans' property tax deduction and expands eligibility to certain veterans.