Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
M. Teresa Ruiz
Sponsored
Became law22
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Requires certain school meal information be provided to public school students' parents and requires school districts to request that families apply for school meals under certain circumstances.
Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges.*
Extends period of time for filing special education due process petitions related to COVID-19 school closures and periods of virtual, remote, hybrid, or in-person instruction.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Provides child tax credit under gross income tax.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."; appropriates $200,000.**
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000.*
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.
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Establishes Social Impact Investment Fund; appropriates $20 million.
Modifies New Jersey Community-Anchored Development Program.
Revises various provisions of "New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020," including revisions to New Jersey Aspire Program.*
Concerns temporary registration certificates and license plates.
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Passed the Senate11
Revises certain requirements concerning graduation proficiency test and eliminates requirement that graduation proficiency test be administered to eleventh grade students.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Requires DEP, DOH, owners or operators of certain public water systems, and owners or operators of certain buildings to take certain actions to prevent and control cases of Legionnaires' disease. *
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare learning loss report and report on public school operations during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
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.*
Establishes State WFNJ Menstrual Hygiene Benefit Program and State WFNJ Diaper Benefit Program; appropriates $2.5 million to DHS.*
Establishes emergency teacher endorsements in certain circumstances.*
Revises NJCLASS Teacher Loan Redemption Program.*
Requires private bus operators to provide notice and hold public meetings for certain service changes.*
Out of committee53
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
Concerns NJ PLACE, allocates $300,000 for FY2020.
Requires public schools to comply with lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA.*
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that employ apprentices in DOL registered apprenticeships.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Requires BPU to conduct study of effect of coronavirus 2019 pandemic on local and public utility service and to quarterly collect and publish certain local and public utility service and customer information.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Requires installation of diaper changing station in certain public restrooms; appropriates $500,000.
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Authorizes common law public nuisance suits regarding lead paint under State law; exempts Attorney General from certain aspects of public nuisance claims when pursuing lead paint actions.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.*
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Adds coercive control to definition of domestic violence.
Clarifies penalties for certain violations of pretrial release; directs prosecutor to provide written notice of release to victim.
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.
Requires VCCO to issue annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Makes FY2022 supplemental appropriation of $3 million for mosquito control.
Establishes Center for Career Relevant Education and Talent Evaluation of New Jersey at Thomas Edison State University.*
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.*
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling students with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive student permit to wash hair.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by all supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Prohibits sale of crayon and chalk products containing lead.
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Concerns accommodations related to COVID-19 public health emergency for businesses participating in certain State economic development programs.*
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in airports concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses. *
Modifies employee health benefits requirements under certain economic development programs.
Establishes fundamental freedom of person to marry or enter into civil union with person of any race.
Requires training of cosmetologists-hairstylist, beauticians, barbers, and hair braiders to include working on textured hair.
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Increases child tax credit under gross income tax.
Prohibits production and sale of products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Requires schools and nonpublic schools with lunch programs to provide free lunch to increasing numbers of income-eligible students and, after five-year phase-in, to provide free lunch to all students, regardless of income or federal eligibility.*
Establishes Office of Community Schools; appropriates $10 million.
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.
"Equitable Outcomes in Child Support Collection Act"; establishes procedures regarding collection of child support on behalf of children in custody of DCPP.
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Requires landlords to disclose existence of lead service lines and lead water supply plumbing to tenants.
Requires school districts to employ at least one certified nutrition specialist, registered dietitian, or registered dietitian nutritionist.
Requires DOE to maintain list of textbook vendors that use inclusive material and school districts to use textbooks from those vendors.
Authorizes local tax on storage of empty shipping containers.
Prohibits employers from inquiring about gender of job applicants under certain circumstances.
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to qualify.
Eliminates US citizenship requirement for student representatives on boards of trustees of certain public institutions of higher education.
Revises certain requirements related to cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Permits female inmate in correctional facility to request certain medication to prevent pregnancy.
Establishes Office of Women's Services in DOC.
Requires female inmates be provided with family planning services prior to release from correctional facility.
Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $20 million for loan redemption program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Requires State to reimburse counties for portion of holiday pay to county employees performing State services on certain holidays.
Requires owners of multiple dwellings with at least nine units to provide certain maintenance services; permits municipalities to require owners of multiple dwellings with six to eight units to provide these services.
Requires municipalities, counties, school districts, and local authorities to regularly meet to discuss shared service agreements.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish "NJ Whole Food" pilot program; appropriates $1,000,000.
Establishes NJEDA urban farming grant and loan program.
Appropriates $5 million in federal funds to DOH for grants and stipends to ensure health and safety of farm workers.
Establishes Emerging Technology Urban Grant Program in EDA.
Establishes ReadyReturn Program; requires Taxation to prepare initial tax filing for certain taxpayers; requires several State agencies to use tax data to facilitate identification and enrollment for certain social services programs; makes an appropriation.
Requires 60 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.
Requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to undergo implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Requires disclosure of cellular telephone transmitters upon sale or lease of certain residential property.
Directs DOH to develop plan to phase out use of latex gloves in health care facilities and food establishments.
Requires monthly subsidy payments to child care providers during COVID-19 pandemic to be equal to monthly subsidy payments prior to pandemic.
Requires distribution of family leave informational materials to certain patients.
Establishes Emergency Child Care Assistance Program for School Staff in DHS throughout duration of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Directs NJ Department of Agriculture to request necessary waivers from US Department of Agriculture to provide food and meals during school closures due to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Establishes the "New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Commission" and appropriates $9 million.
Establishes certain requirements for banks that serve as depositories of public funds.
Provides that certain fraudulent arbitration agreements are invalid.
Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.
Establishes one-time payment program in Department of Treasury for aid for certain eligible taxpayers; appropriates $35 million.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for students enrolled in certain private postsecondary educational schools.
Requires teachers to biennially complete two hours of professional development related to cultural competence.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Establishes "Summer Earn and Learn Pilot Program."
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Requires correctional police officers to wear body worn cameras and security camera systems to be installed in State correctional facilities.
Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process.
Requires DHS to establish a pilot program covering menstrual hygiene products under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes office in EDA to assist in provision and expansion of broadband Internet service in State to address inequities in accessing broadband service.
"Farm Worker Epidemic Health and Safety Act"; concerns public health and certain protections for farm workers.
Establishes New Jersey Literacy Training Pilot Program in DOE.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.
Requires certain officers of education organizations to sign acknowledgement and undergo training concerning duties to report child abuse.
Requires institutions of higher education to adopt affirmative consent standard and other policies regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Establishes "Purple Ribbon Schools Program" in DOE to recognize public and nonpublic schools with positive school climate.
Requires VCCO to provide certain emergency assistance and establish hotline.
Requires AG to establish public awareness campaign concerning Crime Victim's Bill of Rights and VCCO.
Establishes summer transition pilot program for rising kindergarten students who meet certain criteria.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Requires public schools to offer or expand summer school programs to students.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive extended learning time programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
Requires institution of higher education to provide victim-centered training to employees who assist student victims of sexual assault.
Permits students at public institutions of higher education to donate unused meal plan funds to emergency meal fund for distribution to New Jersey food banks.
Requires inmate to participate in Medicaid enrollment session 60 days prior to release.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Allows law enforcement agencies to provide juvenile-family crisis information to principal of juvenile's school for planning programs relevant to juvenile's educational and social development.
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain imaging related to breast cancer detection.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Expands membership of State Health Benefits Commission and School Employees' Health Benefits Commission.
Prohibits person experiencing coin shortage from charging consumers higher price for cash payment.
Requires reflective material on children's Halloween costumes.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically engineered material.
Establishes task force to examine and make recommendations regarding professional development requirements for public school teachers and school leaders.
Establishes Teacher Residency Program.
Establishes healthcare careers pilot program for certain institutions of higher education and proprietary schools.
Requires Commissioner of Children and Families to apply for State waiver for State demonstration project establishing Safe Babies Court Team program.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Early Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs for students in grades K through 8.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits domestic violence by strangling victim be detained prior to trial.
Requires school districts to provide anti-bias instruction as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; requires school districts to designate chief equity officer.
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Prohibits sale of unsafe supplemental mattresses designed for children's products.
Revises eligibility for Educational Opportunity Fund grants and campus-based Educational Opportunity Fund programs.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Appropriates $350,000 to Rutgers, the State University - New Brunswick for Center for American Women and Politics - Women Elected and Appointed Officials Database.
Adds postpartum depression services to State's behavioral health crisis services system.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Requires private health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover wigs under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Product Donations Immunity Act."
Allows gross income tax deduction for donations of menstrual products to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
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.
Establishes Office of Learning Loss Czar.
Requires health insurance coverage of standard fertility preservation services for individuals with certain menstrual disorders resulting in infertility.
Requires DOH to prepare resource guide on preeclampsia and gestational diabetes for distribution to pregnant persons.
Establishes "Period Equity and Menstrual Disorders Study Committee" in DOH.
Requires non-invasive prenatal testing for pregnant persons and health insurance coverage for non-invasive prenatal testing.
Establishes interagency council on menopause in DOH.
Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Requires menopause informational pamphlet to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide menstrual products in all campus buildings; appropriates $85,000 from General Fund to Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Requires DOH to collect certain data to be shared with certain State departments.
Establishes Fruit and Vegetable Incentives Program in DHS; appropriates $3 million.
Establishes competitive grant program for new child care facility construction, using $30 million in federal "Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund" monies appropriated to EDA pursuant to P.L.2022, c.49.
Establishes New Jersey Student Educator Tuition Remission Program.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Prohibits book banning in public libraries and schools; authorizes withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Requires Medicaid coverage for remote stress tests for pregnant women.
Allows persons who qualify under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to become law enforcement and corrections officers.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish and maintain common application and web portal for substitute teachers seeking employment at public schools.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish and maintain an educator common application and web portal.
Appropriates $3 million annually to DEP for mosquito control.
Establishes five-year conception to cradle pilot program in DOE.
Requires school districts to implement reading intervention program for students in certain grades.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain primary and mental health care services match reimbursement rates under Medicare.
Amends criteria of eligibility for Mental Health Diversion Program.
Establishes Office of New Americans in Department of Human Services.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law20
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Clarifies penalties for certain violations of pretrial release; directs prosecutor to provide written notice of release to victim.
Requires court to consider information concerning coercive control in domestic violence proceedings.*
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Requires BPU to conduct study of effect of coronavirus 2019 pandemic on local and public utility service and to quarterly collect and publish certain local and public utility service and customer information.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Makes FY2022 supplemental appropriation of $3 million for mosquito control.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.*
Establishes Center for Career Relevant Education and Talent Evaluation of New Jersey at Thomas Edison State University.*
Concerns accommodations related to COVID-19 public health emergency for businesses participating in certain State economic development programs.*
Establishes fundamental freedom of person to marry or enter into civil union with person of any race.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Modifies employee health benefits requirements under certain economic development programs.
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
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.
Vetoed2
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.*
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Co-sponsored
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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 "COVID-19 Frontline and Healthcare Worker Memorial Commission." *
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Concerns employment security during changes in control of health care entities. *
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Authorizes special occasion events at certain commercial farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.**
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
Provides for civil actions against persons or entities profiting from commission of human trafficking offenses, or maintaining victims of such offenses.
Authorizes issuance of protective orders for certain victimized persons in situations for which domestic violence statutes do not apply due to lack of familial or dating relationship between victim and offending actor.*
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
Designates each community college in State as provider of allowable services under SNAP employment and training program.
Makes $25 million supplemental appropriation to HMFA for Capital Improvement Assistance 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.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Requires public schools and nonpublic schools to submit critical incident mapping data to local law enforcement.*
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants.
Establishes "Sustainable New Jersey Fund" in DEP to support certain sustainability initiatives; appropriates $1 million.*
Establishes Behavioral Healthcare Provider Loan Redemption Program within Higher Education Student Assistance Authority; appropriates $5 million.
Expands allowance for developers to carry forward unused tax credits under New Jersey Aspire Program.
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.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Revises goal for annual capacity of solar energy projects to be approved under Community Solar Energy Program; allows certain customers to self-attest to income for program participation; allows information disclosure of customers participating in program.*
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.*
Allows issuance of alcoholic beverage retail license for use in connection with nonprofit movie theaters that promote arts.
Prohibits water utility from taking certain actions if utility fails to participate in Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
Transfers Motion Picture and Television Development Commission to EDA; revises provisions of film and digital media content production tax credit program; appropriates 30 million.*
Modifies certain provisions of "New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Act" and "Food Desert Relief Act."*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
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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. *
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 certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of property on basis of race, creed, color, national origin, or certain other characteristics.*
Requires limited liability company disclose certain information when recording deed concerning residential rental property.
Requires institutions of higher education to distribute information on availability of allowance for dependent care expenses in determination of cost of attendance.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Requires State Board of Education to permit candidates awaiting teacher certification to submit affidavit to hiring school district affirming certification requirements have been met.
Requires public schools that offer student psychological services to offer remote sessions.*
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.*
Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
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Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage programs for overburdened communities; makes change to community solar program.
Makes permanent temporary enactment allowing certain alcoholic beverage retailers to sell and deliver alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks; establishes certain sale and delivery privileges for alcoholic beverage manufacturers.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Changes entity responsible for management of NJ School of Conservation to nonprofit organization, and directs DOE to request funding for center annually.
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 institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires MVC to place designation on motor vehicle's registration information indicating registrant is deaf.*
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.
Establishes Division of Equity and Inclusion in DOE to identify racial and socioeconomic segregation of school districts and to ensure better integration in public schools; appropriates $5 million.**
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
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.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.*
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
"New Jersey American Dream Act"; appropriates $25 million to provide down payment and home repair assistance to low and moderate income first-time homebuyers.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
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.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
"Homeowners' Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; allows homeowners to claim credit against gross income tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires standard certification period of 12 and 24 months, under certain circumstances, within SNAP.
Requires New Jersey Historical Commission to establish Black Heritage Trail; permits New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation to use funds for markers on certain trail sites; appropriates $1 million.*
Revises State financial aid requirements to align with simplification of Free Application for Federal Student Aid under federal law.
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 programs options.*
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; Requires DOH to approve training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs.*
Appropriates $813,000 to DHS to implement use of electronic benefit transfer cards in Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.**
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000.*
Provides for streamlining of SNAP application process and establishes SNAP application call center; appropriates $750,000.*
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients.*
Requires DHS to submit federal waiver request regarding time limits for certain SNAP recipients under certain circumstances.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
Establishes Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Makes various changes to New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect; establishes child protection worker caseload standards.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Requires State agencies update demographic data collection methods on Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian and Indian Diaspora residents of this State.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive health care services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
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.*
Extends deadline for completion of school district's annual audit.
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for professional firefighters not enrolled in SHBP; makes appropriation.
Requires public schools to develop threat assessment teams.*
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $19,993,837.
Establishes requirements for sanctions and other actions involving low-performing nursing homes.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP and SEHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.*
Establishes penalties for person who commits motor vehicle noise violation.*
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million to DHS to increase adult medical day care Medicaid per diem rate from $86.10 to $89.54.
Requires Commissioner of Education to distribute survey to school districts regarding instruction on Holocaust and genocides.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Requires NJ Business Action Center to collect and produce certain information to assist small businesses.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to establish training program for employees of emergency shelters for homeless.*
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires BPU to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to income for participation in community solar programs.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Appropriates $53,249,310 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Establishes certification program for businesses owned by LGBTQ+ persons.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Prohibits seller from imposing certain surcharge for credit card transactions; establishes certain notice requirements regarding surcharge.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Provides exemption from State permit fees to owners of commercial farms rebuilding from natural disaster.
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.
Establishes Medicaid per diem rate for pediatric medical day care services delivered by provider offering on-site services; appropriates $3.6 million to DHS.
Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victim of crime.
Requires copies of certain law enforcement records to be provided to victims of domestic violence upon request.
Concerns New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Adjusts bid threshold amounts for certain public research universities; permits certain contracts for school districts, municipalities, and counties to be awarded by qualified purchasing agent.*
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Provides for expansion of certain support team addiction recovery programs; appropriates $1,995,000 from opioid recovery and remediation fund.
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Establishes Community Crisis Response Advisory Council and community crisis response teams pilot program; designates "Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act;" appropriates $12 million.*
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Increases criminal penalties if leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor results in injury or death.
Requires certain employers with State contracts to pay their employees their usual compensation for each day of jury service.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Clarifies prohibition on discrimination against servicemembers in "Law Against Discrimination."
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible and requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin.
Concerns family leave and gestational carriers.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Reduces offense of deliberately transmitting a sexually-transmitted infection to a disorderly persons offense and revises elements of the offense.
Revises and renames Office of Food Insecurity Advocate.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, homeownership status, marital status, or credit score in certain automobile insurance determinations.
"Immigrant Tenant Protection Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Re-establishes Arthritis Quality of Life Initiative and Advisory Council on Arthritis in DHS.
Establishes Co-Curricular Activity Emergency Grant Program to support operations of co-curricular activities at public schools; appropriates $750,000.
Requires public school instruction in mental health as it relates to suicide prevention and provides various elements which may be included in instruction.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Establishes New Jersey Statewide Suicide Prevention Coordination and Oversight Council in DHS.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Requires State and local public contracts for food services to require compliance with federal food service guidelines.
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.
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes.
Expands crime of human trafficking to include individuals who benefit financially.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to include studying connection between human trafficking and illicit massage parlor businesses.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Prohibits gender-based price discrimination.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Provides that persons between 18 and 21 years of age with disabilities are eligible to receive direct support professional services from DHS.
"Penny's Law"; requires DEP to develop beach accessibility guidelines for persons with disabilities.
"Establishes Children, Youth, and Families Bill of Rights" to recognize and protect certain rights for children, youth, families.
Requires public entities that operate websites or webpages pertaining to domestic violence to utilize certain electronic tools and security measures to protect online visitors who may be victims of domestic violence.
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
Quinn Wilson's Law; provides gross income tax credit for birth resulting in stillbirth.
Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Authorizes certain individuals to drive Type S school buses.
Provides exception for Legal Services of New Jersey and other public interest organizations from confidentiality of certain eviction actions.
Appropriates $2.5 million to NJ Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for purpose of expanding memorial and museum.
Requires certain public assistance programs to include menstrual hygiene products among covered benefits available to eligible recipients.
Requires certain public schools that receive State aid to begin regular instruction for high school students no earlier than 8:30 AM.
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
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.
Requires applicants for commercial driver license to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Authorizes creation of Juneteenth commemorative license plates.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish New Jersey STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program to support entrepreneurs in STEM fields.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee."
Establishes NJ Wind Institute for Innovation and Training.
Establishes program covering menstrual hygiene products under WIC and SNAP.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Establishes school district grant program in DOE to reimburse public school teachers for classroom material expenditures.
Provides family leave for employee to attend certain events of child of employee; establishes tax credits for employer that provide full paid family leave benefits.
"New Jersey Safe Storage of Firearms Act"; establishes certain requirements and penalties regarding firearm storage; repeals law governing minor's access to firearm; requires AG to establish public awareness campaign regarding firearm storage; appropriates $500,000.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on bleed control as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires health insurance coverage of prenatal genetic test during first trimester of pregnancy.
Establishes centralized directory for affordable and senior citizen housing.
Concerns annual reporting requirements of SHBP and SEHBP commissions.
Requires use of federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund grants to reduce increases in premium rates for SHBP and SEHBP for calendar year 2023.
Establishes scholarship program for students at public institutions of higher education pursuing certain community service-oriented opportunities; requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish grant program; appropriates $10 million.
"Student Loan Debt Relief Tax Credit Act"; establishes gross income tax credit of up to $5,000 for certain student loan payments and makes an appropriation.
Permits certain winery licensees to engage in direct shipping.
Requires State blanks, forms, documents, and applications to incorporate new standards for collection of information about sex, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Requires health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by victim of domestic violence as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage therefor.
Establishes "ATV Law Enforcement Task Force" to enhance and coordinate efforts to enforce laws pertaining to ATVs; appropriates $1 million.
Expands definition of child abuse or neglect.
Exempts from "Sales and Use Tax Act" certain retail sales of computers and school supplies; allows $500 gross income tax deduction to teachers purchasing school supplies for classroom use.
Requires registration and regulation of certain hemp-derived cannabinoids manufactured and sold in this State.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregancy-related services violate the consumer fraud act.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish guidelines regarding best practices for student financial aid offers.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
"New Jersey Fostering Success Voucher Act"; provides rental assistance and case management services for certain young adults leaving foster care or kinship care; appropriates $10 million.
Prohibits public libraries and public schools from banning or restricting access to certain books; permits withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Protects equity accrued by property owner in tax sale foreclosure.
Establishes programs to address needs of toddlers and certain children who are deaf or hard of hearing.