Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, Senate.
Robert W. Singer
Sponsored
Passed the Senate4
Establishes commission to study impact of certain Medicaid reimbursement rate change on nursing homes.
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty service members and veterans of military.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Establishes "Local and County Health Department Infectious Disease Preparedness Study Commission."
Out of committee10
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams. *
Requires under certain circumstances development by certified school nurse of individualized health care plan and individualized emergency health care plan for student with life-threatening allergies or anaphylaxis.*
Requires school districts to provide information on free application for federal student aid to students in grades 11 and 12.*
Prohibits certain third-party property tax appeals.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Requires NJT to adopt plan to evacuate passengers when rail passenger vehicle becomes immobilized in tunnel.
Requires DHS to review various aspects of Medicaid managed care program.
Requires certain health care workers to disclose other employers as well as infectious disease outbreaks occurring at other employers' facilities.
Allows certain persons with developmental disabilities older than 21 years of age to attend special education programs and to simultaneously participate in adult day and employment programs. *
Permits volunteer paramedics to operate within mobile intensive care units.
In committee40
Requires Attorney General to develop program to assist schools in identifying at-risk youths.
Requires DOH to create best practices manual for maternity care; appropriates $950,000.
Requires declaration of Code Blue alert when National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
Authorizes provision of certain health and social services to at-risk individuals during Code Blue alert.
Requires Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in DHS to accept permanent change of station order for purposes of satisfying residency requirement for provision of home and community based services under certain circumstances.
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Upgrades offense of criminal mischief if person damages or impairs operation of school bus in the presence of child under age 16.
Requires all public school teachers and paraprofessionals working with autistic students to possess Registered Behavior Technician credential by 2020-2021 school year.
"Charlie's Law"; requires pharmacy practice sites and hospice programs to furnish patients with information and means to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications.
Provides medical cannabis is not subject to State sales tax.
Establishes certification card for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Requires State Health Benefits Commission advertise and annually review NJWELL program.
Eliminates requirement to submit sales tax exemption form for textbook purchases.
Establishes Children's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Requires school district that includes grades kindergarten through six to offer Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Provides for identification and study of infant fatalities and near fatalities resulting from vaccination; requires inclusion of vaccination information in sudden infant death reports; and requires use of federal infant death reporting form.
Permits financial institutions to provide financial service to certain hemp-related businesses.
Changes reporting date and certain data requirements for NJT annual report; establishes penalty for failure to issue report in timely manner; and establishes quarterly reporting requirements.
Requires settlement agreements concerning equal employment opportunity to be approved by NJT board of directors.
Requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for leaving scene of accident resulting in serious bodily injury.
Establishes task force to study the impact of and response to COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey.
Delays expiration and requires review of certain laws pertaining to use of telemedicine and telehealth in relation to COVID-19 pandemic.
Permits applicant for nursing home administrator license to apply prior to attaining 21 years of age.
Permits DOT commissioner to augment engineering staff with outside contractors and adjust permit fees based on staff augmentation costs.
Establishes Open Public Records Act Review Commission.
Criminalizes unauthorized photographing, filming, or other video recording of person, living animal or creature, or activity within certain dwellings or other structures from outside such dwellings or other structures.
Requires availability of certain laboratory testing for coronavirus disease 2019.
Daniel's Law;" Prohibits disclosure of home address or unpublished telephone number of certain law enforcement officers, judicial officers and prosecutors; establishes crime and civil action for disclosing such information.
"Emergency Tenant and Landlord Assistance Act"; appropriates $300 million.
Establishes pilot program in which certain selected school districts equip school buses with global positioning systems and DOE develops school bus tracking application.
Requires that newly-purchased school buses be equipped with air conditioning and heating systems.
Allows certain winery licensees to also hold plenary retail consumption licenses and operate restaurants; excludes land used for sale of alcohol under plenary retail consumption license from farmland tax assessment.
Provides gross income tax credits to taxpayer who purchase certain low-speed electric bicycles.
Provides State recognition of Sandhill Indian Tribe for certain limited purposes.
Requires assessment following reorganization of health service corporation to be used to award grants to certain health care entities.
Establishes as aggravated assault pointing laser lighting device beam at first responder.
Broadens offense of riot and disorderly conduct; enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.
Permits municipalities having population in excess of 100,000 to appoint up to five alternate deputy registrars.
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.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law3
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.*
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Permits volunteer paramedics to operate within mobile intensive care units.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.*
Requires parent or guardian to notify child care centers if child will be absent; requires child care centers to notify parent or guardian in event of unexcused child absence.
Establishes Statewide universal newborn home nurse visitation program in DCF; appropriates $2.75 million. **
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
Provides civil and criminal immunity to certain health care professionals and health care facilities during public health emergency and state of emergency; facilitates issuance of certain temporary licenses and certifications during public health emergenc
Permits nonprofit corporations to allow members to participate in meetings by means of remote communication, and permits nonprofit corporations to hold meetings in part or solely by means of remote communication during state of emergency.
Requires Medicaid and health insurance coverage for certain refills of prescription drugs during state of emergency.
Delays mandatory retirement in SPRS when it would occur during period of state of emergency; extends eligibility for appointment as member of State Police and enrollment in SPRS for 160th Class of NJ State Police.*
Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 public health state of emergency.
Requires hospitals to report COVID-19 demographic data.
Concerns employment benefits and coronavirus disease 2019 infections contracted by essential employees.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish three-year "Bridge Year Pilot Program" for certain students who were impacted by public health state of emergency caused by coronavirus disease 2019.*
Authorizes pharmacists to order and cause to be administered test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or COVID-19 antibodies; requires health benefits and Medicaid coverage for tests.**
Revises requirements for health insurance providers and Medicaid to cover services provided using telemedicine and telehealth; appropriates $5 million.*
Establishes the New Jersey Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Expands opportunities for restaurants, bars, distilleries, and breweries to provide outdoor dining and permits certain sales at seasonal farm markets in response to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services.
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
Appropriates $5 million to New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
"Motorbus and Passenger Rail Service Employee Violence Prevention Act."
Vetoed · 5
Establishes "2020 New Jersey Emergency Rental Assistance Program"; appropriates $100 million.
Establishes Employment and Business-Related Tax Deferral Assistance Program in EDA to allow small businesses to defer the payment and remittance of certain employment and business-related taxes during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Affords employment protection to certain emergency medical responders.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Requires assignment of unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency; appropriates $1.8 million.
Passed the Senate · 3
Encourages sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Allows CBT and GIT tax credits to certain taxpayers that retain employees during COVID-19 pandemic.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations during COVID-19 pandemic.
Out of committee · 18
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.
"New Jersey Ticket Consumer Choice Act."
Creates certain requirements for earned income access services.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability. *
Provides county clerks with additional week to mail ballots for 2020 primary election; requires ballot position draw to occur one day early if statutory date falls on holiday.*
Extends certain permits, approvals, and deadlines during COVID-19 emergency.*
Establishes NJ Hospitality Emergency Loan Program in EDA to provide no-interest loans to qualified small hospitality businesses; makes $100 million appropriation to EDA from federal funds for qualified small business assistance.**
Extends time period for filing and processing certain property tax appeals in 2020.
Allows extension of certain local government timeframes; allows local governments to accept certain payments; allows local governments to conduct certain meetings remotely; adjusts certain property tax distribution and notice requirements.
Establishes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities.*
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.*
Requires DOH to establish sanitization guidelines for hotels operating in State.
Grants driving privileges to certain individuals without road test during COVID-19 public health emergency and state of emergency.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for adult medical day care services.
Prohibits disclosure of certain personal information of active, formely active, and retired judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and their family members; establishes crime and civil action for disclosing such information.*
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Requires NJT to pay support staff and subcontractors one-and-a-half times regular rate for work done during state of emergency.
Temporarily expands summer working hours for certain minors.
In committee · 48
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevlopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Requires certain facilities to develop cohorting plan to address outbreak of contagious disease.
Requires DCA to collect information about State residents seeking affordable housing in State and provide that information to COAH.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Requires certain local authorities to inspect, maintain, and repair fire hydrants in planned real estate developments.
Requires locking medicine cabinets in newly constructed homes.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Restricts State and municipal government employee health plans to gold level and directs related savings to property tax relief.
"Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Requires State Board of Education high school graduation requirements include instruction on tuition assistance programs and student loan debt; requires high school students to meet with guidance counselor to discuss tuition assistance and dual enrollment
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Permits place of worship to establish security plan to select one person to carry handgun during religious services.
"Medicaid Transportation Brokerage Program Oversight and Accountability Act"; establishes vehicle, staffing, and performance standards, and review and reporting requirements for non-emergency medical transport provided under Medicaid transportation broker
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
"Sally's Law"; establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Requires infection control training for nursing home and assisted living administrator licensure and certification.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Provides business taxpayers with gross income tax or corporation business tax deduction for qualifying cleaning expenses incurred due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriates $300 million to EDA for small business and not-for-profit organization assistance.
Requires voter who wishes to vote by mail to complete application for mail-in ballot each calendar year; repeals automatic vote-by-mail designation.
Prohibits mail-in ballot outer envelope from containing political affiliation or designation visible to public.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter registrants from system.
Appropriates $300 million to EDA for small business and not-for-profit corporation assistance to preserve and create jobs, spur economic growth, and preserve the viability and vitality of communities.
Authorizes certain large food waste generators to send food waste to sanitary landfill facilities for purpose of generating Class I renewable energy.
Provides that if minor under age 18 unlawfully buys or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis and receives written warning from law enforcement, the minor's parent or guardian would be notified in writing.
Removes criminal liability for law enforcement officers who have investigative encounter with underage person for possession of alcohol or cannabis unless civil rights are violated.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Prohibits requiring individuals who have received COVID-19 vaccine to wear masks indoors.
Prohibits mandatory mask use at youth camps.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Broadens riot; enhances penalties for certain crime committed during riot; creates new crimes of mob intimidation and cyber-intimidation by publication; establishes duty in municipality to permit law enforcement to respond appropriately.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Semitism Task Force".
"Virtual Currency and Blockchain Regulation Act."
Filed · 26
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriations of $15 million for grants to food banks.
Concerns prohibition of residential tenant eviction and eviction due to residential foreclosure during certain emergency circumstances.
Requires school districts to provide school meals or meal vouchers to students eligible for free and reduced price school meals during school closures due to COVID-19 epidemic.
Establishes Bridging the Digital Divide in Schools Grant Program in DOE to provide and expand access to technology and equipment for students in certain school districts.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing of coronavirus disease 2019 and for telemedicine and telehealth during coronavirus disease 2019 state of emergency.
Authorizes EDA to make grants during periods of emergency declared by Governor and for duration of economic disruptions due to emergency; allows EDA to grant certain business documentation submission deadline extensions.
Provides paid leave without utilizing accumulated leave time for local government employees under certain circumstances.
Authorizes all licensed health care facilities and laboratories to collect specimens to test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); allows waiver of staffing ratio requirements.
Requires food access information be displayed on websites of 2-1-1 system and executive branch departments during public health emergencies to the extent practicable.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to issue supplemental cash assistance payments to Work First New Jersey recipients under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Establishes certain requirements to use telemedicine and telehealth to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Permits corporations to hold shareholders' meetings in part or solely by means of remote communication during state of emergency.
Limits return of items purchased from retail food stores under certain circumstances.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings, and provide notice, by electronic means during periods of emergency.
Permits extension of deadlines for adoption of county and municipal budgets under certain circumstances.
Allows conduct of State business and legislative sessions at locations other than Trenton during periods of emergency or other exigency; allows conduct of legislative business using electronic means.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $10 million for healthcare and residential facility sanitation due to coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak.
Permits professional and occupational licensing boards to expedite licensure of certain individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Authorizes notaries public to perform certain notarial acts remotely.
Automatically extends time to file gross income tax or corporation business tax return if federal government extends filing or payment due date for federal returns.
Modifies deadline by which public agency is required to respond to request for government record during period of emergency.
Permits professional and occupational licensing boards to reactivate licensure of certain individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Allows remote notarial acts, and other acts executing and verifying certain documents, by notaries public and other authorized officials during public health emergency and state of emergency declared by Governor's Executive Order 103 of 2020.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Creates monetary penalty for violating social mitigation strategy of barring or limiting social gatherings, implemented pursuant to "Emergency Health Powers Act," or government order issued pursuant to act, during declared public health emergency under ac