Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Brian Bergen
Sponsored
In committee46
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes credit under sales and use tax for certain small businesses that collect and remit sales and use tax.
Authorizes issuance of license plates series honoring military academies that represent five branches of United States military.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Requires law enforcement officers and recruits to undergo self-defense training; appropriates $250,000 to Police Training Commission.
Prohibits elected officers of municipality from accepting employment with municipality in which they hold office.
Authorizes voluntary donation of expired food or food waste to farmers; authorizes donations if farmer waives liability.
"Made in New Jersey Tax Credit Act"; provides CBT tax credits to taxpayers that purchase "New Jersey made" products.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Establishes NJ Military Family Relief Fund; provides for designation on State gross income tax return to permit taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to military family relief fund.
Provides additional home ownership assistance for certain military service members.
Establishes "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to qualified veterans purchasing franchises.
Exempts qualified veterans from paying certain firearm related fees.
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.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Medal military recipients.
Provides employer and employee protections pursuant to the use of legalized cannabis items.
Limits requirements for school districts to include instructions on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards to grades 9 through 12.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Provides employment protections for certain medical professionals diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires law enforcement officers in State to annually pass physical fitness examination; appropriates $500,000.
Authorizes issuance of Operation Desert Storm license plates.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $20 million for loan redemption program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of passenger motor vehicle registration fee; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Removes requirement that certain special law enforcement officers turn in firearm at end of shift.
Revises factors for determining employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Requires MVC to make mobile units available to reduce service delays at overcrowded agencies.
Exempts transfers of residential real property between family members from inheritance tax.
Provides free or reduced fee beach access to certain New Jersey National Guard members.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; provides for burial expenses and adjusts life insurance coverage for volunteer firefighters; permits fire code inspection surcharge.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain donated vehicles.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Authorizes deer hunting on Sunday with bow and arrow or firearms on federal military land subject to approval of appropriate federal military authority.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.
Requires grants from federal COVID-19 relief programs be disbursed proportionally based on population.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Allows tax credits for employing members of NJ National Guard and members of reserve component of US Armed Forces.
Requires certain funds from Main Street Recovery Fund to be used for grants for veteran-owned small businesses.
Establishes Veterans Suicide Prevention Commission.
Requires DHS to prepare and submit report to Governor and Legislature regarding impact of Medicaid expansion on veterans and their families.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
Prohibits online advertisements for sports wagering in this State.
Prohibits sports wagering advertisements on television broadcasts in this State.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Out of committee · 11
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Requires inspections of retail cigarette and vapor product dealers.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Requires health benefits coverage for additional orthotic and prosthetic appliances under certain circumstances; requires coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances obtained through podiatrists.*
Allows certain public high school student-athletes to substitute study hall for physical education during their athletic seasons.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Provides certain requirements concerning railroad safety.
Extends expiration date of special appraisal process for Green Acres and farmland preservation program; provides aid for watershed lands.*
In committee · 47
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Repeals law providing that violation of rear seat belt law be treated as secondary offense; establishes certain reporting requirements; requires AG to issue report.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
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 payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Reduces number of manufacturing jobs required to qualify for NJEDA financing and incentive programs.
Requires COAH to administer affordable housing obligations of municipalities based on statewide obligation.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevelopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Prohibits affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Excludes payments made for unemployment compensation benefits related to layoffs resulting from coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic from calculation of employer contribution for unemployment compensation benefits.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Provides gross income tax deduction to surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Gradually reduces CBT rate.
Increases, from 18 percent to 30 percent, amount of rental payments defined as rent constituting property taxes for purposes of deduction from gross income for property tax payments.
Provides one-time deduction of $10,000 for certain taxpayers under GIT.
Establishes child care costs reimbursement grant program in DCF; appropriates $500,000.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to develop guidelines for tiered group home placements and transfers.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Permits board of education to employ certain veterans in coaching positions in school district's interscholastic athletic program.
Requires electric public utility to charge residential rate for service used by residential customer for electric vehicle charging at charging stations within certain designated parking spaces.
Dedicates State reserve of certain federal funds to in-person and hybrid school districts.
Redistributes fiscal year 2023 transportation and security aid from remote school districts to in-person school districts.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Requires taxation as real property of improvements on publicly owned real property used for purpose and protection of public water supply.
Requires distribution of State aid to certain municipalities located in whole or in part in the Highlands preservation area.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Requires certain employees and candidates for public school employment or service and youth camp employees to undergo child abuse record information check.
Permits car wash business to operate during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Increases daily compensation for election workers and increases additional compensation rate for election workers managing signature copy registers.
Requires green building standards and impact studies for carbon, traffic, storm water, and schools for certain affordable housing development.
Establishes certification process for non-physicians to perform laser tattoo removal.
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Requires automatic voter registration to be available when applying for certain licenses and permits.
Requires Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of on-farm dairy processing activities.