Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Alexander Schnall
Sponsored
Became law3
Expands eligibility requirements of State's child care assistance program to include full-time graduate and post-graduate students.
Modifies method of allocating State aid for providing auxiliary and remedial services to nonpublic school students.
Requires enforcing agency to conduct inspection of construction in specified time window.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Out of committee6
Changes MVC voter registration procedures.
Requires DOH to prepare comprehensive plan to invest in State's public health system.
"CJ's Law"; Criminalizes manufacture and distribution of substances containing kratom under certain circumstances.
Requires BPU to determine and consider lowest reasonable return on equity before approving electric, gas, and water public utility base rate cases.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects in FY2026.
Provides for publication of required legal notices on government Internet websites and through certain online news publications.
In committee21
Prohibits DHS from deeming certain teachers and school employees ineligible for child care subsidies due to number of hours worked when school is not in session for students.
Establishes "The Voter Convenience Act" to allow voters to vote at any polling place in their municipality on election day.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Requires State to bear partial cost of transportation of certain homeless students to school.
Requires reservation of portion of funding under State rental assistance program for households ineligible for federal Section 8 program due to leave resulting from pregnancy or newborn care needs.
Prohibits certain use of emergency communications receivers for pecuniary gain.
Increases threshold from $1 million to $1.65 million for imposition of certain fees and taxes on certain real property transfers.
Requires child care centers to establish procedures to notify parents or guardians in event of unexcused child absence as condition of licensure.
Revises calculation of daily benefit rate under temporary disability and family temporary disability leave.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to create and distribute satisfaction survey.
Reduces term of affordability required for affordable housing created through middle housing construction or conversion.
Revises value of solar alternative compliance payment.
Eliminates Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid and Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid; establishes Municipal Property Tax Relief Fund.
Excludes nonpublic school transportation costs from calculation of school district local share.
Concerns UEZ assistance fund expenses by specifically including certain property acquisition under definition of "qualified assistance fund expense."
Makes it unlawful to record telephone call or other conversation unless all parties consent.
Modifies matching grant criteria for New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust accounts.
Requires hospital to install and operate electronic monitoring device at request of incapacitated patient or patient's legal representative.
Prohibits automobile insurers from using underwriting rules to raise automobile insurance rates on persons deemed not at fault in motor vehicle accidents involving municipal vehicles.
Requires towing companies accept electronically transmitted authorization of vehicle release to third party.
Establishes procedures for licensing of certain international medical graduates; repeals R.S.45:9-14.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Changes MVC voter registration procedures.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2026.
Provides for publication of required legal notices on government Internet websites and through certain online news publications.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Revises law concerning patient referrals to substance use disorder treatment facilities, recovery residences, and clinical laboratories.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for biomarker precision medical testing.*
"New Jersey Design Professional Self-Certification Act"; requires DCA to establish design professional self-certification program.
Revises definition of qualified assistance fund expenses under UEZ program to include costs of transportation infrastructure projects and related debt service.
Revises procedures governing audits of election results.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for screening, prevention, and treatment services of behavioral health issues affecting children.
Concerns local unit budget processes and related operations.
Vetoed · 2
Requires EDA to provide grants to certain small businesses affected by State infrastructure and construction projects.*
Requires State entities purchase five percent of goods and services from Central Nonprofit Agency; requires Division of Purchase and Property establish training protocols for all purchasing agents; grants Central Nonprofit Agency right of first refusal.*
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Provides for rehabilitative release for certain incarcerated persons.
Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.*
Out of committee · 24
Establishes program in SADC for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.*
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.*
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Establishes occupational heat stress standard and "Occupational Heat-Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program" in DOLWD.
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Establishes crime of doxxing.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for public body to submit payroll records to DOLWD.*
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey"; appropriates $5 million.**
Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on public works contract.
Prohibits cooperative from receiving public works contract when cooperative-approved vendor fails to pay prevailing wage; concerns cooperative purchasing agreements with other states; and permits contracting units to award certain indefinite contracts.*
Establishes crimes of home invasion burglary and residential burglary.*
Establishes "Motor Vehicle Open Recall Notice and Fair Compensation Act"; revises motor vehicle franchise agreements.**
Requires construction project applicants to disclose project financing.
Establishes certain requirements for State and local governments awarding contracts or grants to nonprofit organizations.
"Climate Superfund Act"; imposes liability on certain fossil fuel companies for certain damages caused by climate change and establishes program in DEP to collect and distribute compensatory payments.
Allows seasonal retail consumption alcoholic beverage license holder to exchange license for full-year consumption license.
Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.
"Patient and Provider Protection Act."
Requires DEP to implement Advanced Clean Trucks regulations no earlier than January 1, 2027.
Makes various changes to school funding law and Educational Adequacy Report; establishes Special Education Funding Review Task Force.*
In committee · 24
Allows utility lines necessary for certain solar energy generation facilities to cross municipally-owned preserved open space under certain circumstances.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.
Concerns false public alarms involving places of worship.
Provides certain resources to county prosecutors for enforcement of law regarding failure to pay wages; makes appropriation.
"New Jersey Student Support Act"; establishes program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits to taxpayers contributing to organization which awards scholarships to certain nonpublic school students.
Permits greater diversity in creation of new health sharing ministries and establishes and exempts certain mandates and reporting requirements.
Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Requires certain consumer disclosures relating to rabies testing and establishes optional training for veterinarians.
Changes certain Mobility and Transportation Innovation Pilot Program requirements; appropriates $20 million.
Requires schools to universally provide free meals to all students, regardless of whether students are federally eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires school districts to maintain supply of nasal rescue medication and oxygen for seizure emergencies; provides for training of designees to administer nasal rescue medication and oxygen when school nurse is not physical present.
Creates Office of Nonprofit Ombudsperson in Department of Treasury; appropriates $329,000.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
Requires certain actions prior to withholding nonpublic school aid for nonpublic school's failure to meet certain health and safety requirements.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
Revises law on extended employment programs for persons with disabilities.
Revises definition of persons engaging in investment activities in Iran.
Creates Midwifery Licensing Act; modifies regulation of midwifery.
Increases Work First New Jersey Child Care appropriation by $28 million in FY2026 annual appropriations act to ensure full funding of child care subsidy program.
Lowers minimum amount of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers.