Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Shanique Speight
Sponsored
Became law11
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victim of crime.*
Requires standard certification period of 12 and 24 months, under certain circumstances, within SNAP.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.*
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Grants child placed in resource family care and resource family parents the right to be notified when case manager or supervisor is assigned to child; grants child in resource family care right to be notified of certain property and benefits.*
Requires Office of Emergency Management to incorporate into State Emergency Operations Plan framework to address cybersecurity incidents.*
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for certain motor vehicle theft offenses if prior arrest or conviction occurred within prior 90-day-period.*
Passed the General Assembly11
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach regarding VCCO.
Requires VCCO to issue annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.
Requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to undergo implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires DHS and DOH to submit federal waivers to cover menstrual products under NJ FamilyCare, SNAP, WIC and establishes State funded benefit if federal waiver is denied; appropriates $2 million for State benefit.*
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.*
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Out of committee11
Requires Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance to review and implement strategies and systemic modifications to assist crime victims and expands locations for posting information on crime victims' compensation.*
Directs State Auditor to conduct performance review audit of VCCO.
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Specifies placement of early voting locations and ballot drop offs.
Establishes Legislative Enactment Oversight Committee to ensure implementation of enacted laws and joint resolutions.
Authorizes home care for individuals who are disabled or elderly and requires health insurance coverage therefor.
Establishes the "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Product Donations Immunity Act."
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP; makes various changes to FY2023 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Concerns bereavement leave for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
In committee90
Requires specialized in-service training regarding crime victims for police departments in certain high-crime areas.
Extends grace periods for rental late charges for certain tenants who receive public assistance payments.
Requires teaching staff members and school board members to annually receive training on trauma-informed education.
Expands locations where information on availability of crime victims' compensation is to be posted or disseminated to include courtrooms and emergency rooms.
Establishes State board to oversee implementation and evaluation of State pilot programs.
Requires AG to establish public awareness campaign concerning Crime Victim's Bill of Rights and VCCO.
Increases size of Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission; broadens reporting duties.
Establishes recruitment and referral program for certain individuals and extends certain provisions of law concerning affirmative action in public works contracts to workers with disabilities.
Provides that disability-owned businesses be included in certain business development programs, direct loan programs, and certification processes; requires Chief Diversity Officer compile information on awarding of State contracts to disability-owned businesses.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Requires health insurance coverage of at-home rehabilitation services.
Requires New Jersey Supreme Court to issue order dismissing certain charges, complaints, and arrest warrants filed with or issued by municipal courts and unresolved for five years or more; requires AOC to conduct certain studies.
Requires certain employers to provide paid leave to employees serving in elective office.
Directs use of 21st Century Improvement Fund to establish individualized account access system.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Directs referral of certain persons under 18 for determination of status as socially or economically disadvantaged youth.
Provides for restricted use driver's license as alternatives for license suspension in municipal court.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Requires DEP, DOH, owners or operators of public water systems, and owners or operators of certain buildings to take certain actions to prevent and control cases of Legionnaires' disease.
Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.
Requires school districts to permit students excused absences while experiencing symptoms of menstrual disorder.
Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
Establishes the Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires school districts to provide menstrual products in all school buildings.
Permits certain public assistance recipients to use benefits to purchase diapers.
Prohibits vehicles from parking in electric vehicle charging location under certain circumstances.
Provides any party in case who is limited English proficient and utilizes court translating services option to have social worker translator to help party navigate court system.
Requires Internet capable room temperature reporting device installation in certain multiple dwellings.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop emergency notification system to alert students and staff of active shooter on school grounds.
Requires AOC to establish program that collects certain information concerning bail reform.
Requires law enforcement officers to issue citation by mail for certain motor vehicle violations.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on menstrual health and hygiene as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Permits students experiencing menstrual disorder to attend school remotely.
Requires DHS to establish public awareness campaign about period poverty.
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.
Prohibits issuance of warrant for failure to pay fines and fees associated with non-moving motor vehicle violation.
Requires school districts to maintain restrooms in good working order.
Grants children places in resource family care right to have certain signage displayed in home.
Required Commissioner of Education to develop emergency notification system to alert students and staff of active shooter on school grounds.
Requires certain court documents to be translated into languages other than English.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Concerns collection of data relating to Haitian migrants in NJ.
Requires DOC to provide reunification therapy to inmates and immediate family members prior to inmate's release.
Strengthens access to New Jersey reproductive health services for in-State and out-of-State persons.
Establishes 10 year Menstrual Leave and Remote Work Pilot Program.
Permits police officers to be present at public school or senior residential center being used as polling place under certain circumstances.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia.
Establishes Safe Remote Learning Program in DOE to support provision of remote instruction facilities by public schools.
Requires certain libraries to provide free menstrual hygiene products and requires State to pay costs.
Increases penalties imposed on juveniles and adults convicted of motor vehicle theft and related crimes.
Prohibits sale of crayon and chalk products containing lead.
Requires health insurance coverage of standard fertility preservation services for individuals with certain menstrual disorders resulting in infertility.
Establishes Automobile Theft Prevention Authority; appropriates $2 million.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Requires Director of Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness to develop training program for first responders regarding protocols for responding to emergency in war zone.
Requires police misconduct training course be included in police basic training curriculum.
Requires school districts to provide menstrual products for students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Concerns worker leave.
Revises eligibility for Educational Opportunity Fund grants and campus-based Educational Opportunity Fund programs.
Prohibits towing companies from requiring owners of stolen motor vehicles to pay fee to release vehicles from storage facilities under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Automobile Accident Injury Fund."
Establishes presumption of pretrial detention for persons who commit carjacking, theft of motor vehicle, or burglary.
Requires non-invasive prenatal testing for pregnant persons and health insurance coverage for non-invasive prenatal testing.
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.
Establishes crimes against elected public official and immediate family; provides police protection in instances of crimes against elected public official and immediate family.
Establishes "Purple Alert System" to assist in finding missing persons.
Upgrades burglary of a residence to crime of the second degree.
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 First Responders COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program; appropriates $20 million.
Concerns motor vehicle stops by law enforcement officers.
Establishes requirements for removal of students from public school pending mental health clearance.
Requires notification to appropriate departments if drug court participant tests positive for marijuana or cannabis.
Requires school districts to include instruction on bullying awareness and prevention as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Provides that applicants for examinations to become certified municipal finance officers are not required to have specific major from four-year college to qualify for position.
Provides equitable relief to government contractors who have sustained unanticipated expenses due to increases for construction materials; appropriates $25 million.
Establishes "Fallen Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Commission;" appropriates $2.5 million.
Establishes Division on Marijuana and Cannabis Enforcement in DLPS.
Establishes Health Care Workers COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program; appropriates $30 million.
Creates stockpile of protective masks for use by first responders under certain circumstances.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Allows remote patient monitoring of pregnant patients; requires reimbursement for remote patient monitoring rendered to certain Medicaid beneficiaries.
Requires Medicaid coverage for remote stress tests for pregnant women.
Establishes State Work First New Jersey Menstrual Hygiene Benefit Program and State Work First New Jersey Diaper Benefit Program; appropriates $2.5 million to DHS.
Allows persons who qualify under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to become law enforcement and corrections officers.
Directs DOE and DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.
Requires AG to collect and report law enforcement detention data; creates Racial and Identity Profiling Elimination Advisory Council.
"Equitable Outcomes in Child Support Collection Act"; establishes procedures regarding collection of child support on behalf of children in custody of DCPP.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP; makes various changes to FY2023 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 80
Establishes Stay NJ property tax credit program; establishes Stay NJ Task Force; expands income limit and modifies ownership requirement for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement; enhances ANCHOR benefits for seniors; and makes appropriations.*
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke via use of smoke evacuation system.*
Authorizes military service members, spouses, and dependents with out-of-state domicile to operate motor vehicles in New Jersey.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Updates requirements and standards for authorization and prior authorization of health care services.*
Clarifies penalties for certain violations of pretrial release; directs prosecutor to provide written notice of release to victim.
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Requires court to consider information concerning coercive control in domestic violence proceedings.*
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor or smart sprinkler as condition of sale of certain real properties, and on certain commercial, retail, and industrial properties and common interest communities within specified timeframes.*
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for treatment of mental health conditions and substance use disorders through collaborative care.
Requires embryo storage facilities to record and report health information of patients in manner that is consistent with certain federal laws.
Reduces from 18 to 12 specific credit hours required for Animal Health Technician job title in civil service; allows substitution of five years of experience for education requirement.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
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.
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 program options. *
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.*
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.*
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.
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.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Establishes "Annual Business Matchmaking Event" in Department of Treasury.*
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Makes various changes to New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect; establishes child protection worker caseload standards.
Requires online option for cancellation of automatic renewal of health club services subscriptions entered into online; provides additional options for cancelling health club services contracts under certain circumstances.*
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Requires public schools to develop threat assessment teams.**
Requires State Auditor to annually publish user-friendly report summarizing and analyzing contents of State's Annual Financial Report.
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Prohibits sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires DEP to establish collection and disposal program; appropriates $250,000.*
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.*
Concerns imposition and collection of sales and use tax for fabrication and installation of signs.
Requires firearm retailers to sell microstamping-enabled firearms upon determination of availability by AG.
Permits municipal emergency management coordinators to reside within reasonable proximity to municipality in which they are employed.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.*
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations act to allocate $25 million from “New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund” to support construction and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing.
Requires Commissioner of Education to distribute survey to school districts regarding instruction on Holocaust and genocides.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Establishes "Resiliency and Environmental System Investment Charge Program."
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Directs DEP to take certain actions concerning identification and testing of microplastics in drinking water, and requires DEP and BPU to study and promote use of microplastics removal technologies.*
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Expands crime of leader of auto theft trafficking network; establishes third degree crime of participant in auto theft trafficking network.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Establishes Medicaid per diem rate for pediatric medical day care services delivered by provider offering on-site services; appropriates $3.6 million to DHS.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Requires hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services provided through Statewide Respite Care Program and Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving Program to be no less than Medicaid fee-for-service rate for personal care services; makes appropriation.
"Fire Life Safety Damper and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Act"; Requires routine maintenance and periodic testing of smoke dampers, fire dampers, and smoke control systems in certain buildings by qualified personnel.*
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Modifies employee health benefits requirements under certain economic development programs.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine feasibility, marketability, and costs of implementing large-scale geothermal heat pump systems in State.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Clarifies types of firearms allowed to be carried or transported while hunting.*
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Expands certain State programmatic interventions related to residential foreclosures.*
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
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.
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth for one year.*
Appropriates $48 million 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.
Appropriates $15,564,293 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY 2024.
Vetoed · 5
Establishes New Jersey Educator Scholarship Program; appropriates $3 million.*
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Requires calculation of national average time needed to approve applications for initial credential in profession or occupation and use of average time as standard in New Jersey.
Passed the General Assembly · 59
Directs Division of Gaming Enforcement to issue regulation to require name of Atlantic City casino be printed on its Internet gaming websites and advertisements.*
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $3 million.*
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Requires DHS and other appropriate state agencies to disseminate information on transportation options for persons with developmental disabilities.
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.*
Directs the suspension, by operation of law, of certain offenders' child support obligations.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.*
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families*
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.*
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Authorizes creation of Domestic Violence Awareness license plates.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.*
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Revises civil remedies for victims of invasion of privacy due to unauthorized recording or disclosure of sexual or intimate images.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Allows instructional wine making facilities to sell wine for on premises consumption at certain events and donate wine to non-profits and charitable organizations.
Establishes certification card for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Excludes certain income earned from health promotion or disease prevention work from income eligibility determination under NJ FamilyCare, WFNJ, and NJ SNAP. *
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Establishes New Jersey Healthy Soils Program; establishes grant program for soil testing of urban agriculture sites; establishes Urban Agriculture Site Soil Testing Fund.
Allows individuals that have undergone certain background checks, including individuals with certain commercial driver license endorsements, to renew license online or by mail.
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services.
Creates new level of barbering license and apprenticeships in barbering, and establishes limits to hours of instruction for certain barbering training.
Permits court to order counseling for children in households with domestic violence in appropriate cases; establishes presumption of award of custody to domestic violence victim in appropriate cases.**
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Establishes crime of fertility fraud.*
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Establishes "New Jersey Target Zero Commission."*
Modifies languages that examinations are to be conducted in for applicants seeking professional license issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Provides DHS and State Board of Medical Examiners to develop and implement process to improve efficiency of reviewing NJ FamilyCare provider applications.*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Establishes "Scientific Conference Grant Program"; appropriates $250,000.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Authorizes temporary licensure of graduated nursing students; waives fees for nurse licensure applicants who work at long-term care facilities.*
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Requires organizations training disabled veteran assistance dogs to register with Division of Consumer Affairs and provide disabled veteran assistance dogs with vests and harnesses.*
Establishes "Automotive Anti-Theft Systems Task Force."
Requires Attorney General to conduct study on motor vehicle theft.
Requires DCF to publish and disseminate information on early childhood mental health to certain professionals.*
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.*
Allows certain caregivers of person with intellectual disability to make use of reserved parking zones when transporting person with intellectual disability.
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Prohibits production and sale of products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Provides for purchase of PFRS credit for service as class two special law enforcement officer.
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
Establishes Deep Fake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million.*
Requires DHS to provide information to SNAP and WFNJ recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to submit report to Governor and Legislature on these fraud activities.
Exempts receipts from sales of materials, supplies, and services for certain affordable housing projects from sales and use tax.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Allows projects supported by State or municipal affordable housing trust fund to be exempt from property tax and to instead contribute to municipal services by making payments in lieu of taxation.*
Out of committee · 91
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 "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.*
Provides gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers who pay for certain in-home services through health care service firm.
Establishes NJ State Parks and Open Space Foundation.*
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator in DMVA.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
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.
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.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family child care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.*
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; outlines role and duties of school counselor; requires professional development for school counselors; establishes position of School Counselor Liaison in DOE.
Requires school districts to provide anti-bias instruction as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires school districts to designate chief equity officer or affirmative action officer.*
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Establishes "Security Deposit Assistance Pilot Program" in Passaic, Union, Essex, Hudson, Gloucester, Atlantic, Camden, and Mercer counties; appropriates $400,000.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Requires long-term care facilities to meet with residents and residents' families to review emergency contact information and to offer residents opportunity to update information.*
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of social media usage in and out of school.*
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Restricts use of restrictive employment covenants for physicians and nurses.
Requires pharmacy practice sites to document reasons for not filling certain prescriptions.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Includes duct cleaning as public work subject to the prevailing wage law.*
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Waives pet adoption fees for certain military personnel and veterans.
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.*
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
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.*
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
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.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Concerns investigation of missing persons cases.*
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.*
Establishes program for certain individuals to become certified as homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid enrollees.*
Limits fees charged for copies of medical and billing records.
Establishes trail signage program for alcohol manufacturers in New Jersey.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Requires procurement of management support and other services for certain nursing homes.
Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams"; provides for identification of and intervention at long-term care facilities at risk of operational and financial distress.
Prohibits annual increase in rent or lease payments of more than two percent for certain nursing homes except in certain circumstances.*
Regulates food and beverage delivery vehicle network companies.
Authorizes DOT to compensate certain contractors and subcontractors affected by supply chain shortages; appropriates $10 million.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Establishes cause of action for residents of assisted living facilities and comprehensive personal care home providers.
Requires entity that manages public housing for seniors to retain emergency contact information for residents.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Revises eligibility criteria for adult medical day care services.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on prevention of Lyme Disease and other tick-borne diseases in grades kindergarten through 12; requires DOH to publish certain guidelines concerning ticks.*
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.*
Raises maximum workers' compensation fees for evaluating physicians; expands circumstances for which physician legal fees are permitted.*
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Establishes disaster relief grant program to provide municipalities with training, supply stockpiles, and technology to assist residents with certain applications; appropriates $5 million.
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.*
Requires converting portion of Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to ventilation systems; provides Adjutant General discretion for additional room considerations.*
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign regarding pelvic floor examinations.
Expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit disclosure of personal information concerning child protective investigators.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit annual fiscal monitoring report; authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to appoint State monitor of certain institutions; requires higher education chief financial officers complete training; annually appropriates $100,000.*
Prohibits water utility from taking certain actions if utility fails to participate in Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
Requires court to consider certain factors in appointing guardian and to justify guardianship appointment on record.
Allows court to consider previous care when granting letters of guardianship for incapacitated person.*
"The Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act"; revises certain requirements for individual and small employer health benefits plans.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Provides SHBP and SEHBP to award contracts for more claims administrators for each program plan; requires claims data and trend reports to be provided to certain persons.*
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Establishes annual ten-day sales tax holiday for certain sales of disaster preparedness supplies and equipment.
Transfers Motion Picture and Television Development Commision to EDA; revises certain provisions of tax credit program for film and digital media content production; appropriates $30 million.*
Allows municipalities to transfer inactive alcoholic beverage retail licenses for use in redevelopment areas under certain circumstances; allows retail distribution and seasonal consumption licenses to be converted into consumption licenses.
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Requires public 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.*
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Eliminates fees, liens, and warrants issued for Public Defender services.
Establishes Nonprofit Housing Construction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program to facilitate affordable housing construction.*
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.*
Establishes 21st Century Injured Workers' Access to Justice Act.
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.
Eliminates vote on school budgets for Type II school districts in April elections, except for separate proposals to spend above cap.
Prohibits internet sale of lottery tickets by State Lottery Commission.
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Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during public health emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visitation.
Permits members of Legislature to enroll in SHBP.
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.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Requires construction permit and inspections for certain work involving lead paint on home exterior.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to establish 24-hour, toll-free Mental Illness Resource Hotline and develop hotline connection system to ensure that callers are connected to other appropriate hotlines when needed.
Requires landlords to provide tenants with certain notice concerning conditions that may cause damage or hazards on rental property.
Prohibits electric, gas, or water public utility service discontinuances to residential customers during certain epidemics.
Concerns mortgage and loan forbearance, rent suspension, and consumer reporting during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Provides mortgage payment relief, income tax relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for residential property owners, tenants, and other consumers, economically impacted during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Requires BPU, electric power suppliers, and gas suppliers to publish certain information related to filing of customer complaints.
Establishes geriatric parole for certain eligible inmates.
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph; appropriates $90,000.
Prohibits discrimination with respect to charging of rates of premiums for disability and accident insurance.
Permits incarcerated person to renew driver's license using existing digitized picture on file with MVC.
Establishes centralized electronic health information exchange infrastructure to facilitate reentry into civilian life for recently incarcerated persons.
Requires inmate to participate in Medicaid enrollment session 60 days prior to release.
Requires municipality to provide free beach access to certain veterans.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Establishes the "Safe and Sanitary Rental Housing Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth and family services organizations.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits domestic violence by strangling victim be detained prior to trial.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership of certain boards of directors.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Concerns counseling for children who were either physically present or who may have seen or heard act of domestic violence.
Establishes the "Safe Sanitary Subsidized Rental Housing Bill of Rights."
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Requires Attorney General to develop program to assist schools in identifying at-risk youths.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Permits exemption from civil service examination requirement for entry-level law enforcement officers, sheriff's officers, and county correctional police officers; permits hiring of such officers under certain conditions.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Codifies and enhances use of breach of implied warranty of habitability as defense to certain eviction actions.
Increases child care provider payments and revises hourly limits on child care for school-aged children under subsidized child care assistance program during 2020-2021 school year.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Requires school district to report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Requires certain public schools to advertise availability of free menstrual hygiene products.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Establishes Division of School Desegregation in DOE to identify racial and socioeconomic segregation of school districts and to ensure better integration in public schools.
"The Desegregate New Jersey Act'; promotes equitable residential development throughout State.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Requires hospitals to inquire whether patients have substance use disorder and establish protocols for providing or referring to treatment.
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Provides that crime of official misconduct involving disclosure of domestic violence or sexual assault victim's personal information is second degree crime.
Specifies that emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for victim of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."
Adds new civil penalties and increases surcharges imposed on domestic violence offenders; establishes "Domestic Violence Victims' Legal Assistance Fund."
Establishes three-year pilot program in DOE to provide certain students with information and assistance regarding federal financial aid application.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warnings be printed on tampon package.
Requires each government entity in this State to conduct review of cybersecurity infrastructure and make recommendations.*
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Prohibits modification of mufflers and exhaust systems to produce audible sounds; requires inspection of mufflers and exhaust systems.
Requires driver's manual to include information on driver's rights and responsibilities during police stop.
Allows gross income tax deduction for up to $1,000 of unreimbursed expenses incurred by eligible educators for purchase of classroom supplies.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings by electronic means.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Clarifies the newspaper media delivery person and news media stringer are independent contractors for purposes of State employment laws.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes central registry for arrests, convictions, and sentencing of motor vehicle theft crimes.
Exempts handwritten signature from public disclosure; requires redaction when posted on Internet.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.
Establishes Medicaid Managed Care Organization Oversight Program.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Establishes program in DOH for health care provider evaluation and response for patients who are victims of domestic violence.
Requires AOC to release domestic violence central registry records to certain health care practitioners.
Requires employers to adopt domestic violence policies and protocols established by DOLWD.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Requires menopause informational pamphlet to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Establishes interagency council on menopause in DOH.
Requires restaurants to provide alternative menu for individuals with diabetes.
Requires DOH to maintain emergency stockpile of insulin and authorizes dispensing of emergency supply of insulin to certain patients.
Requires health insurance coverage of postpartum pelvic floor physical therapy.
Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
"Protecting Against Forever Chemicals Act"; establishes requirements, prohibitions, and programs for regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Authorizes creation of Juneteenth commemorative license plates.
Imposes minimum staffing requirements and certain reporting requirements on certain long-term care facilities.
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
"Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act"; authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving, psilocybin production, possession, use, and distribution.
Requires long-term care facilities to develop person-centered care plans for residents and establishes right to certain forms of visitation for long-term care residents.
Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires health insurance coverage of prescribed anti-obesity medication.
Establishes program for electronic monitoring of certain offenders; appropriates $15 million.*
Requires certain notice when redirecting consumers to website for ticket resale and establishes certain requirements for websites offering tickets for resale.
Requires State Board of Education to reduce clinical practice requirements for certain teacher candidates.
Modifies certain experience requirements and costs for issuance of certain credentials by New Jersey Board of Nursing; appropriates $250,000.
Requires certain correctional facilities to allow service and companion animals to assist inmates with disability; makes appropriation.
Clarifies policy analysis and development under "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act"; strengthens investigations; amends definition of harassment, intimidation, and bullying; and allows anti-bullying specialists to receive remuneration.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from disclosing to policyholder or other person covered under health benefits plan any identifying information connected to covered person with valid protection order against policyholder or other covered person.
Eliminates prohibition on provision of single-use paper bags by grocery stores for delivery orders; requires grocery stores and third party grocery delivery services to establish program for reuse of reusable bags used for delivery orders.
Establishes grant program to promote increased access to automated external defibrillators; appropriates $100,000.
Requires public institutions of higher education to appoint academic freedom advocate and adopt free speech principles; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "Dual Enrollment Grant Program" for NJ institutions of higher education to expand opportunities for students to earn college credits while in high school.
Establishes Hometown Hero Nursing Scholarship Program; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes television and broadcasting scholarship and grant programs; appropriates $300,000.
Enhances penalties for distribution and manufacture of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Requires coastal municipalities to provide wheelchair ramp access to beach and to water on public beaches, and to have individuals available to assist people with disabilities.
Requires owners of certain buildings to test drinking water for Legionella bacteria.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish Legislative Youth Council and select institution of higher education in this State as host; makes changes to council's structure to provide flexibility in activities and operations.
Requires urgent care facility health care providers to possess same credentials and degrees applicable to hospital emergency room health care providers.
Removes exemption from law regulating patient referrals.