Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Sean T. Kean
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates portion of State Highway Route 71 as "John Tarantino Highway."
Provides that 10-year term does not apply to lease of certain municipal properties unless they are waterfront properties or related to waterfront concessions.
Passed the General Assembly1
Authorizes certain individuals to drive Type S school buses.
In committee51
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Requires DEP to establish artificial reef plan for commercial and recreational fishing.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits for certain seasonal employees.
Establishes restrictions and requirements for use of fishing gear and conch, fishing, and lobster pots on artificial reefs.
Exempts sales of county property from certain requirements under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $10 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Requires electric public utilities to implement flood mitigation plans for certain electric distribution substations; prohibits rate increase pending implementation of flood mitigation plans.
Disqualifies person named on federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining firearms identification card or permit to purchase handgun.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Requires certain health benefits coverage for diagnosing and treating autism and other developmental disabilities.
Prohibits conflict of interests by governing board members or management employees of homeowners' associations.
Prohibits person appointed as arbitrator who subsequently serves as mediator from resuming the role of arbitrator unless the parties agree.
"Drew's Law"; establishes 15 miles per hour speed limit in or near certain public parks.
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
Permits modification of alimony award based on cohabitation of supported spouse.
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.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Permits municipality to use proceeds of beach access fees for areas near beach facilities that are significantly affected by beach tourism; requires municipality to provide explanation of expenditures on website.
Exempts judges and justices from jury duty.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2.125 million to Howell Township in Monmouth County for drinking water infrastructure project.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Allows law enforcement officer to immediately impound motor vehicle operated by uninsured driver.
Requires provision of parking spaces reserved exclusively for persons unable to ambulate without aid of wheelchair in certain parking facilities.
Permits demonstration county to terminate its participation in the "Real Property Assessment Demonstration Program."
Directs COAH to adopt regulations to require municipalities to prioritize current residents in affordable housing applications.
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.
Designates Earth Day week each year as Litter Law Enforcement Week for special effort to enforce littering laws.
Provides tax levy growth limitation adjustment for school districts experiencing reduction in State aid.
Allows consideration of purchased PERS credit for federal service abroad in Central Intelligence Agency to qualify for employer-provided health care benefits in retirement.
Establishes Office of Tourism Research; requires specific measures concerning tourism advertising, marketing, research, and tourism-related business training.
Establishes certain protocols for prescribing and dispensing benzodiazepine.
Enables municipality to allow newly elected member of municipal governing body to participate in meeting where public is excluded.
Provides gross income tax credits to taxpayers who purchase certain low-speed electric bicycles.
Clarifies circumstances under which licensed private detectives gain access to personal information stored with New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Bars expungement of conviction, arrest, or charge if crime or offense involved domestic violence.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million from General Fund to DEP for capital improvements at Allaire State Park.
Clarifies court's discretion in imposing monetary conditions of bail; establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with violent crime be detained prior to trial.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop educational fact sheet on water safety for public and nonpublic schools.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Prohibits board of education from providing instruction in family life education, sex education, sexual health, sexual orientation, or gender identity to students in preschool through grade four.
Excludes certain insurance costs from appropriations cap and property tax levy cap for certain local units.
Changes eligibility of Administrative Law Judges from DCRP to PERS.
Removes income-based limitations on gross income tax exclusion for pension and retirement income.
Concerns certain interactions between law enforcement officers and juveniles.
Permits certain adult day care centers and group homes to restrict access to certain persons who violate food restriction policies.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.5 million to provide additional State school aid to Freehold Regional School District.
Establishes program, in DEP, for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.
Establishes Israel Evacuation Reimbursement Fund; appropriates $2 million.
Requires birthing centers and hospitals to offer parents of newborn children opportunity to view video on dangers of drowning for infants and young children.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Establishes crimes of theft of motor vehicle and receiving stolen motor vehicle as separate statutory provisions; provides extended sentences for certain persistent offenders.
Establishes nonpublic school transportation program to provide funding to consortiums of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing.
Appropriates $87,783,515 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Out of committee · 10
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.*
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.
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 State Planning Commission to adopt model ordinance for siting certain warehouses and permits conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances and establishes fund in DCA; appropriates $5 million.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Establishes exemption from State school aid reductions for certain school districts.
In committee · 87
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Bars certain employees of certain public agencies from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevelopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Requires school district that includes grades kindergarten through six to offer Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potenial eligibilty.
Extends certain civil service and tuition benefits to family members of servicemembers who died while in service.
Establishes Children's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
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.
Requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for leaving scene of accident resulting in serious bodily injury.
Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.
Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fee for children ages 12 to 17; revises law concerning beach fees for veterans.
Requires DCA to collect information about State residents seeking affordable housing in State and provide that information to COAH.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Establishes municipal liability for gross negligence in failing to protect person and property during riots.
Prohibits State aid and grants to municipalities that reduce law enforcement budgets by certain amount.
Broadens offenses of riot and disorderly conduct; enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to issue annual report on public contracts awarded to women-owned and minority-owned businesses; requires Division of Revenue to operate Selective Assistance Vendor Information (SAVI) database.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Provides that amounts remaining in inactive Internet gaming accounts will be abandoned property after three years under unclaimed property law.
"Stop Social Media Censorship Act"; creates private right of action for users of social media websites whose political or religious speech has been deleted or censored by social media websites.
Requires at least one member of BPU to reside in either Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, or Ocean County.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from tax levy and appropriation cap, as applicable, for municipalities and counties.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Increases gross income tax deduction for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
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 group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
Increases qualified research expenses tax credit for corporation business taxpayers engaged in targeted industries; increases basic research payment tax credit; allows research tax credit to be refundable.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
"Parents' Bill of Rights Act"; requires public school and school district provide certain information to parents and guardians and obtain parental consent prior to taking certain actions.
Permits employer to prohibit use of cannabis by certain employees.
Requires school districts to include information on events of September 11, 2001 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires public schools to hold annual events commemorating September 11, 2001.
Prohibits adoption of any State rule or regulation mandating electric heating or water heating systems in buildings prior to issuance of DCA report.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Establishes two-year pilot program for certain mental health care facilities to treat additional juvenile patients.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Removes 72-hour waiting period for marriage or civil union licenses.
Creates offense of tracking for unlawful purpose; imposes enhanced penalties.
Requires certain school districts to include fitness and nutrition wellness program as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Establishes mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for second offense involving use of juvenile in automobile theft.
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.
Establishes three-year nonpublic school student transportation pilot program in certain eligible school districts.
Increases penalty for motor vehicle theft if, during course of theft, vehicle is operated in manner creating risk of injury or property damage.
Increases penalties for repeat convictions of certain motor vehicle related crimes; increases penalties for leader of auto theft trafficking network in certain circumstances.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Requires any increase in local government costs for employee health care and prescription benefits coverage be offset by equivalent increase in municipal energy tax receipts property tax relief aid.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Establishes matching grant program in DCA to support community-based nonprofit organizations that provide shelter services during Code Blue alerts.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Requires Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Establishes "Volunteer Fire Company Assistance Program" in DCA to support operations and sustainability of volunteer fire companies; appropriates $10 million.
Permits surviving spouse of retired member of PFRS to be enrolled in SHBP and to continue to receive pension benefit after remarriage in certain circumstances.
Concerns the "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program."
Prohibits sale, offer for sale, or conveyance of certain electric vehicle batteries and of electric vehicles having certain batteries; establishes penalties for violators.