Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Angela V. McKnight
Sponsored
Became law6
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Establishes State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program; appropriates $18 million to DHS.*
Requires BPU to conduct study of effect of coronavirus 2019 pandemic on local and public utility service and to quarterly collect and publish certain local and public utility service and customer information.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
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.
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Passed the General Assembly6
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Requires chief law enforcement officer of municipal police departments to hold two community roundtables on police relations each year.
Requires professional licensing boards to issue licenses for certain individuals with good standing licenses or certification in other jurisdictions under certain circumstances.
Creates new level of barbering license and apprenticeships in barbering, and establishes limits to hours of instruction for certain barbering training.
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Establishes "Automotive Anti-Theft Systems Task Force."
Out of committee16
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
Requires each nursing home to employ patient advocate.
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
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.*
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Establishes Innovation Dual Enrollment II Pilot Program in DOE.*
Establishes program for certain individuals to become certified homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid and Medicaid-Medicare dually eligible enrollees under increased reimbursement rates.*
Establishes Liberty State Park Design Task Force.*
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Requires entity that manages public housing for seniors to retain emergency contact information for residents.*
Requires State Board of Education to evaluate historical events for inclusion in New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Requires court to consider certain factors in appointing guardian and to justify guardianship appointment on record.
Revises visitation and reporting rules for professional guardians.
Allows court to consider previous care when granting letters of guardianship for incapacitated person.*
In committee106
Requires refunds for payments made to venues for events canceled due to coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and caps additional venue charges at no more than rate of inflation for rescheduled events.
Requires depository institutions to provide paper account statements to elder adults.
Requires certain providers of transportation services to develop and publish route schedules.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Authorizes protective order for certain witnesses or victims against actor who attempted to prevent or obstruct them from reporting crime to police.
Requires public bodies upon request to provide American Sign Language interpreter at public meetings.
Establishes procedures for intake and record keeping of certain 9-1-1 calls.
Requires law enforcement officers to have updated photograph.
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.
Clarifies and expands landlord registration procedures; creates certain rights for tenants; makes certain changes concerning tenant notifications, inspections, and maintenance in multiple dwellings; permits percentage of affordable housing obligation to be satisfied by certain rehabilitation projects.
Establishes three-year pilot program for school-based mentoring in public schools located within 1,000 feet of gunfire.
Requires Attorney General to develop program to assist schools in identifying at-risk youths.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to State aid for public schools.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to grant deferment of New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) student loan payments to new parent.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Amends statute that criminalizes display of symbols, objects, or graffiti exposing another to threats of violence to specifically include noose, burning cross, or other symbol of hate.
Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Requires certain hospitals to establish bereavement areas.
Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Permits State Real Estate Appraiser Board to revoke, suspend, or fine appraisers or appraisal management companies who knowingly engage in discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Establishes "Municipal Community Center Grant Program."
Provides comprehensive Medicaid benefits to certain individuals formerly in foster care.
Prohibits release of personal identifying information of violent crime victims and witnesses under State's open public records law.
Requires law enforcement agencies to establish review council in internal affairs unit to investigate law enforcement officers who participate in hate groups.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt uniform standards for licensing police officers.
Requires Attorney General to establish and maintain domestic extremist organization database.
Prohibits forfeiture of inmate's commutation credits for minor disciplinary infractions and expands inmate's ability to restore certain forfeited credits.
Requires health club services contract contain certain provisions regarding procedures during outbreak of infectious disease.
Requires certain law enforcement officers be periodically vetted for evidence of personal bias.
Prohibits law enforcement officer from administering anesthetic or sedative during arrest or traffic stop.
Requires school programs of virtual or remote instruction to be implemented primarily through use of virtual instructional sessions.
Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.
Prohibits transportation network companies from engaging in surge pricing during state of emergency.
Requires implicit bias training for physicians.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain homeschooling expenses.
Requires municipalities that have public swimming pools to provide information regarding "dry drowning."
Imposes mandatory fine and education requirement for certain prostitution offenses committed within 500 feet of a school, registered day care or licensed child care facility property; creates fund.
Requires BPU to post on its website report from public utility on public utility's capital investments in response to petition from public utility to increase rates.
Establishes the "Urban Wealth Fund Pilot Program."
Clarifies intent of Legislature to protect certain senior tenants; aligns housing age restrictions with federal law.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare learning loss report and report on public school operations during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires certain background investigation for candidate for law enforcement position.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse customers for up to $500 for spoiled food and full cost of spoiled medicine resulting from lengthy service outage following major event.
Requires State, county, and municipal social service workers to periodically complete implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Establishes young driver program for commercial driver licences.
Establishes a Division on Violence Prevention and Intervention in the DLPS.
Establishes residential property wholesaler license.
Establishes New Jersey Pandemic Risk Reinsurance Program.
Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive extended learning time programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive after school programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program.
Requires public entities that operate websites or webpages pertaining to domestic violence to utilize certain electronic tools and security measures to protect online visitors who may be victims of domestic violence.
"Establishes Children, Youth, and Families Bill of Rights" to recognize and protect certain rights for children, youth, families.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
Requires DOH to ensure that WIC participants have access to supplemental foods and to apply for federal WIC waivers.
Requires DOH to develop interconception care resources to enhance postpartum care for women.
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; Requires DOH to approve training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
Authorizes provision of adult day health services on remote basis.
"Homeowners' Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; allows homeowners to claim credit against gross income tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Allows small employers to claim tax credit for paying for certain health benefits plan premiums.
Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Re-establishes Arthritis Quality of Life Initiative and Advisory Council on Arthritis in DHS.
Extends eligibility for certain SDA grant funding to Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
Includes substance abuse disorder in list of disabilities that qualify student for State special education and related services.
Prohibits selection of health insurance coverage as primary under personal injury protection coverage.
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Requires school districts that offer student psychological services to offer remote sessions.
Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.
Requires suspension of certification of homemaker-home health aides under certain circumstances; designated as "Maria's Law."
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Establishes centralized directory for affordable and senior citizen housing.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Prohibits discrimination on basis of height or weight under "Law Against Discrimination."
Directs DCA to establish grant programs for public water systems.
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.
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.
Requires ballot question on approval of State bond issue to disclose total amount of debt of State or other entity, debt service on which is funded through annual State appropriation.
Requires performance of myeloma screening under certain circumstances.
Imposes minimum staffing requirements and certain reporting requirements on certain long-term care facilities.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to employ three geriatric social workers to serve New Jersey's long-term care residents and makes appropriation.
Requires DHS to disregard certain federal pension benefits for veterans in making Medicaid eligibility determinations.
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 Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires training of cosmetologists-hairstylist, beauticians, barbers, and hair braiders to include working on textured hair.
Extends time period for tenants receiving federal housing choice voucher program assistance to locate new housing after landlord sells property.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of books at school book fairs.
Revises requirements for assessing nursing home health, safety, and operations and for taking action against low-performing nursing homes.
Requires municipal clerk to post municipal documents online.
The "New Jersey Online Foreclosure Sale Act;" permits online foreclosure sales for real property.
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.
Makes various revisions to the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights.
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 private bus operators that participate in NJT bus lease program, receive State funds, or are under contract with NJT to provide notice and hold public meetings for certain service changes.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes "Twelfth Grade Postsecondary Transition Year Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes Liberty State Park Design Task Force.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 135
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.*
Raises pay for election workers to $300 per day; permits counties to provide additional compensation to election workers; appropriates $7,000,000 to Department of State. *
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices. *
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification; establishes criminal history record background check process.*
Authorizes the issuance of Kappa Alpha Psi license plates.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Directs Chief Technology Officer to conduct study on impacts of redacting handwritten signatures published on State websites; allows for protocols for such redactions to be established by rules and regulations.*
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires DEP to develop and implement electric school bus program; provides for $15 million in first year and $15 million annually in subsequent two years to DEP, subject to availability, to provide grants.
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system of electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.*
Increases maximum penalty for certain violations concerning asbestos hazard abatement; allocates moneys from increased penalties to asbestos programs.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to issue identification card to Gold Star Family Member.
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.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education and DOLWD to establish performance quality standards for career-oriented programs of study offered by institutions of higher education, degree-granting proprietary institutions, and private career schools. *
Requires 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.*
Requires DCA provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update program handbook and issue program request for proposal, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program. *
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Clarifies that member of SPRS may receive accidental disability benefit under certain circumstances.
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on elections days.
Requires embryo storage facilities to record and report health information of patients in manner that is consistent with certain federal laws.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Amends applicability of law prohibiting sale and distribution of plastic and paper carryout bags to food banks and food pantries; appropriates $600,000. ***
Establishes professional board to regulate home improvement and home elevation contractors and requires licensure for each type of contractor.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Designates cranberry juice as State juice.*
Permits court to effectuate equitable distribution when complaint for divorce or dissolution of civil union has been filed and either party has died prior to final judgment; provides that surviving party would not receive intestate or elective share.
Provides for streamlining of SNAP application process and establishes SNAP application call center; appropriates $750,000. **
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients. *
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs. *
Requires DHS to submit federal waiver request regarding time limits for certain SNAP recipients under certain circumstances.
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000. *
Appropriates $813,000 to DHS to implement use of electronic benefit transfer cards in Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.**
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. *
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for defendants who commit certain firearm offenses under Graves Act. **
Provides that certain cosmetology and hairstyling courses may be taught using distance learning technology.
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.*
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Revises State financial aid requirements to align with simplification of Free Application for Federal Student Aid under federal law.
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.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation.*
Changes entity responsible for management of NJ School of Conservation to nonprofit organization, and directs DOE to request funding for center annually.
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless 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.
Establishes "Purple Star Schools Program" in DOE to recognize schools which emphasize importance of assisting children of military families. *
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Specifies circumstances when voter will be removed from permanent vote by mail status and when ballot will be sent to primary address; requires educational campaign; makes appropriation of $5 million. *
Prohibits unaffiliated mail-in voters from receiving mail-in ballot for primary election; requires election officials to provide such voters certain notices; prohibits mail-in ballot envelopes from containing visible political affiliation or designation for certain elections.**
Changes certain mail-in ballot deadlines; permits opening and canvassing of mail-in ballots prior to election day; permits pickup schedule for certain mail-in ballots; requires confirmation notice when voter changes party affiliation at MVC.**
Requires enhanced review of death records two months prior to election; permits remote training for certain election workers; exempts election worker compensation from taxation and remuneration.**
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.*
Permits alternating proprietorship of certain wineries.
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return.
Prohibits extradition of individual from another state back to that state for actions related to conduct concerning reproductive health care services lawful in this State.*
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive healthcare services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
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.*
Provides temporary one-year extension of service life of school buses for 2022-2023 school year; authorizes chief administrator to allow one-year extension in subsequent two school years.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
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.
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.
Makes County Option Hospital Fee Pilot Program permanent and expands definition of "participating county" under program.
Requires MVC to prompt applicant for certain documents to enter information into "Next-of-Kin Registry."
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.*
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for professional firefighters not enrolled in SHBP; makes appropriation.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain supermarkets and grocery stores located within urban enterprise zones.*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2023; makes appropriation.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $19,993,837.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county vocational school districts; appropriates $36,960,028.
Prohibits seller from imposing certain surcharge for credit card transactions; establishes certain notice requirements regarding surcharge.*
Requires training prior to issuance of firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase handgun under certain circumstances; provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for ten years.*
Makes various revisions to law pertaining to electronic medical records and recording patients' demographic information.
Provides one-year waiver of certain MVC fees imposed for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards.
Makes FY 2022 supplemental appropriations of $71,786,000.
Concerns New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority; increases Transportation Trust Fund spending limit by $600 million.
Requires certain disclosures by sellers of single-family homes with solar panels installed.*
Concerns eligibility for senior freeze reimbursement if eligible claimant exceeds income limit.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
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.
Enhances customer service experience with Business Action Center in Department of State by collecting and disseminating customer assistance metrics.
Requires NJ Business Action Center to collect and produce certain information to assist small businesses.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Allows cure period for businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to establish training program for employees of emergency shelters for homeless.*
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Establishes Community Hazard Assistance Mitigation Program in, and authorizes issuance of bonds by, NJ Infrastructure Bank to fund certain hazard mitigation and resilience projects; makes various changes to NJ Infrastructure Bank's enabling act; appropriates $500,000.*
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Establishes crimes of theft of motor vehicle and receiving stolen motor vehicle as separate statutory provisions; provides extended sentences for certain persistent offenders.
Appropriates $64.929 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $53,249,310 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Requires "Electronic Permit Processing Review System" in DCA to enable applicant to submit electronic signature and certain other submission materials for permit application review.
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.
Changes certain General Election deadlines.
"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.*
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for certain motor vehicle theft offenses if prior arrest or conviction occurred within prior 90-day-period.*
Requires copies of certain law enforcement records to be provided to victims of domestic violence upon request.
Concerns New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Establishes Community Crisis Response Advisory Council and community crisis response teams pilot program; designates "Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act;" appropriates $12 million.*
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Revises law establishing Office of Food Security Advocate, and establishes certain conditions for use of monies appropriated to emergency food organizations.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Expands certain State programmatic interventions related to residential foreclosures.*
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
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.
Vetoed · 9
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Requires MVC to place designation on motor vehicle's registration information indicating registrant is deaf.*
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.
Establishes timelines for review and approval by Commissioner of Education of annual certified audits submitted by approved private schools for students with disabilities.
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Removes requirement that certain government officers disclose the address of their home or secondary residence, or that of their immediate family on financial disclosure statements.**
Passed the General Assembly · 95
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
"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.
Provides service credit for PERS member for former membership in transit retirement program.
Authorizes funding to protect safety of cooperating witnesses; expands Crime Victim's Bill of Rights to provide these witnesses with certain guarantees.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Concerns licensure of persons rendering barbering services in another state or foreign country.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Requires continuing care retirement community agreements to require refund of refundable entrance fees within one year.
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.*
Requires MVC to establish system for salvage processors to electronically process salvage certificates of title.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
Eliminates driver's license suspension for failure to pay parking tickets; requires registration suspension for more than five parking tickets.
Requires each solid waste management district to develop strategy in solid waste management plan to reduce food waste.
Makes it fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.*
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.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
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.
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.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow service recipients to terminate service contracts following physician's referral to long-term care facility.
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.*
Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrators of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.*
Directs certain unclaimed electric, gas, and water public utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit public utility assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure strategic plan.
Requires Medicaid Fraud Division to enter into data sharing agreement upon request of county to provide access to third party insurance liability data regarding certain COVID-19 related health claims.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Requires public schools, and nonpublic schools which receive federal funding, to provide students with information on rights afforded under Title IX, and provide contact information for Title IX coordinator.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
"Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology Act."
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.
Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.*
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 DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.**
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.**
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish three-year pilot program to increase reading levels of certain students; appropriates $1 million.
Permits title of Attorney General for person who served as Acting Attorney General for 180 days.
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
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.
Prohibits public disclosure of names and addresses in certain unemployment, temporary disability, and family leave claim appeals documents.*
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.*
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Requires study of ocean energy potential; directs BPU to establish wave and tidal energy generation goals and take other action to establish NJ as nationwide leader in ocean energy.
Modifies languages that examinations are to be conducted in for applicants seeking professional license issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Prohibits certain non-disclosure and non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Exempts community gardens operating on-site composting systems or other systems of managing organic waste from certain DEP permits under certain conditions.*
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.*
Creates online job portal for behavioral health care workers and online internship and externship portal for health care students.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Clarifies that law concerning requirements for closure of private career school applies to certain schools licensed by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires availability of accessible mail-in ballot for voters with disabilities.
Requires State Medicaid beneficiaries to notify county welfare agencies no later than 20 days of change of circumstances.
Requires public water systems and landlords to provide certain notice of elevated perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances levels in drinking water; requires DEP to establish educational program.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Requires vehicle identification number be stamped on catalytic converters of motor vehicles.
Allows teaching experience to be considered for out-of-State individuals seeking licensure from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Authorizes temporary licensure of graduated nursing students; waives fees for nurse licensure applicants who work at long-term care facilities.*
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for certain projects for acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes and certain environmental infrastructure projects that include, or allow for, flood mitigation projects.
Establishes Small Business Resiliency Project Loan Program in EDA for certain small businesses implementing certain resiliency projects.
Creates requirements for certain long-term real estate listing contracts.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Requires organizations training disabled veteran assistance dogs to register with Division of Consumer Affairs and provide disabled veteran assistance dogs with vests and harnesses.*
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.*
Allows certain caregivers of person with intellectual disability to make use of reserved parking zones when transporting person with intellectual disability.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Requires public institution of higher education to establish gambling addiction prevention program.
Establishes county veteran transportation grant program; 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.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus certain real property and improvements in City of Jersey City in Hudson County.
Establishes New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force; clarifies collection of student growth data.*
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Revises income eligibility criteria for, and provides for promotion of, PAAD and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program; establishes "Senior Save Navigator Grant Program" to assist applicants with NJ Save applications.*
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.*
Exempts experienced firefighters from certain requirements.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Establishes "Gambling Treatment Diversion Court Pilot Program" to be administered by AOC.
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers who pay for certain in-home services through health care service firm.
Prioritizes distribution of 9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund monies; permits use of funds for certain expenses incurred by counties and municipalities for the provision and maintenance of 9-1-1 emergency services.
Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation. *
Codifies, and increases under certain circumtances, current minimum Medicaid per diem reimbursement rates for assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.*
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million. **
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer lactation counseling and consultations to persons who have given birth. *
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Establishes price preference program on State contracts for businesses owned by women veterans or women in military service.
Prohibits disclosure of personal information pertaining to certain health care workers who are victims of assault; establishes civil penalty for each violation.*
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $35 million to "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Revolving Loan Fund."
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning.
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 teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Requires law enforcement agency to provide copy of certain police reports to crime victims.
Requires municipality to return to taxpayer property taxes paid in error due to assessor's or owner's mistake.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Prohibits tax preparers from engaging in certain practices involving refund anticipation checks and loans.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
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.*
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
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.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Requires notification to consumers of collection and disclosure of personal data by certain entities.*
Requires school districts to include instruction on racial discrimination and social justice as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies for middle school students.
Requires financial institutions to release records to adult protective services when suspecting fraud of vulnerable adult or senior customer; allows adult protective service to release same records to law enforcement agency if necessary.
Requires pharmacy practice sites to document reasons for not filling certain prescriptions.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.*
Establishes "COVID-19 Frontline and Healthcare Worker Memorial Commission." *
Includes duct cleaning as public work subject to the prevailing wage law.*
Implements certain guidelines concerning purchase of catalytic converters.
Provides CBT and gross income tax credits for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete.*
Establishes New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under gross income tax for certain home purchases during qualified periods by first-time homebuyers.
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.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
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.
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty members of Armed Forces, Reserve components, members of National Guard, and veterans.*
Revises membership of New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.*
Requires landlord to provide written explanation for rent increase on tenant of senior citizen housing project.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
"Mental Health Access Act;" increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
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.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
Authorizes transfer on death (TOD) of title to motor vehicle.
"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 State's non-emergency medical transportation brokerage program.*
Provides for lifetime disqualification from operating commercial motor vehicle and transportation network company vehicle for persons convicted of human trafficking.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Concerns investigation of missing persons cases.*
Allows costs of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during hot weather.*
Establishes program for certain individuals to become certified as homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid enrollees.*
Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million. *
Requires DHS to establish two-year Regional Community Behavioral Health Pilot Program.
Limits fees charged for copies of medical and billing records.
Requires DHS to conduct annual Medicaid eligibility redeterminations.
Requires institutions of higher education and government employers to provide certain students and employees with information about Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Requires State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct study of utilization of disabled veteran-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Provides for oversight and improvement of administration of unemployment compensation.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Makes certain changes to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educator grant program.
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
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 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 food rescue hotline.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger.
Amends requirements for certain mixed use parking projects undertaken by municipal redevelopers under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program; increases total available tax credits by $25 million.*
Requires redaction and nondisclosure of home address of elected officials and candidates for elected office.
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.*
Establishes New Jersey Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide at Rutgers School of Public Health; appropriates $500,000.*
Credits $5.2 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $2.9 billion to NJ Schools Development Authority, NJ DOT, and NJT; and establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.*
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Concerns licensing of law enforcement officers; appropriates $6 million.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Allows certain restaurants with retail licenses to deliver alcoholic beverages and food in preloaded delivery vehicles.
Requires DOBI to conduct study on impact of certain changes to individual and small group health insurance markets.*
Revises requirements concerning disqualification from registration as, and duties of, a professional guardian.
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
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.
Prohibits annual increase in rent or lease payments of more than two percent for certain nursing homes except in certain circumstances.*
Revises various provisions of Food Desert Relief Program.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain .50 caliber rifles; makes certain exceptions.
Upgrades certain crimes related to manufacturing firearms from third degree to second degree.
Prohibits possession and requires registration of body armor in certain circumstances.
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.
Concerns economic incentives for certain cannabis businesses.*
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Appropriates $50,640,229,000 in State funds and $24,082,639,850 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2022-2023.
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Establishes "Guaranteed Rental Payment Pilot Program" for certain low-income tenants; appropriates $10,000,000.
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Authorizes schools to receive certain food waste from other schools, and provides exemption to such receiving schools from certain DEP permits, under certain conditions.*
Establishes sales and events privileges for certain alcoholic beverage manufacturers.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Establishes teacher certification route for candidates with Montessori teaching credentials.
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Eliminates five percent down payment requirement for bond ordinances approved by counties and municipalities.
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.*
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screenings.*
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.*
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2023.
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.
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.*
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000. *
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 Director of Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to establish grant program to encourage municipalities to develop recreational sports and STEM programs for children; appropriates $10 million.
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.*
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Establishes "Innovation Partnership"; provides funding for certain nonprofit partnerships to promote certain emerging technology businesses.
Establishes strict liability criminal penalties for firearm trafficking that results in injury or death.
"The Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act"; revises certain requirements for individual and small employer health benefits plans.
Requires certain school meal information be provided to public school students' parents and requires school districts to request that families apply for school meals under certain circumstances.
Changes certain deadlines for primary election.
Requires expanded use of affordable housing voucher program funding for homeownership expense assistance.
Establishes "Pretrial Partnership for Community Support and Services Pilot Program" for certain defendants.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Requires voting machines to be recertified annually and after software modifications.
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Upgrades criminal penalties for use or possession of payment card scanning device; requires merchant to take reasonable safety measures to prevent scanning of payment card.
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.*
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Requires Secretary of Agriculture to establish Farm to School Local Food Procurement Reimbursement Grant Program to reimburse school districts for costs expended in sourcing and procuring local foods for students; appropriates $6,500,000.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Establishes Firefighter Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
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.*
Establishes Office of Community Schools; appropriates $10 million.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Eliminates fees, liens, and warrants issued for Public Defender services.
Waives certain certification and credentialing fees for teachers for one year.
Provides for expansion of certain support team addiction recovery programs; appropriates $1,995,000 from opioid recovery and remediation fund.
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
Makes various revisions to alcoholic beverage manufacturing and retailing license laws.
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Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Permits retroactive modification of certain judgements of conviction; requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.
Increases age of dependent for whom gross income tax exemption for higher education expenses may be claimed from under 22 years to under 25 years.
Requires child care center vehicles to be equipped with alarm system prompting driver to inspect vehicle for children left unattended in vehicle.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Requires DCF and DOE to provide certain child abuse and neglect services or information remotely or through distance learning mechanisms.
Provides accidental death benefit to surviving spouse, surviving child, or surviving parent of a State Police recruit who dies during required pre-service training.
Establishes Digital Divide Solutions Grant Program in DOE to assist public schools in purchase of connected devices and Internet access for students during periods of remote instruction.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for postpartum women.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Establishes position of Ombudsman of Student Discipline to serve within Office of the Secretary of Higher Education.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fee for children ages 12 to 17; revises law concerning beach fees for veterans.
Permits members of Legislature to enroll in SHBP.
Establishes "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling students with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive student permit to wash hair.
Requires school districts and nonpublic schools to develop emergency operations plans; requires school districts to provide instruction on environmental and natural disasters to students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12.
Provides temporary gross income tax credit to first time home buyers and seniors.
Establishes public awareness campaign about Pregnant Women/Women With Dependent Children initiative and Maternal Wrap Around program.
Establishes "Food Innovation District Pilot Program."
Requires automobile insurers to provide DOBI with annual documentation demonstrating no discriminatory outcomes with insurer’s automated underwriting system.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.
Establishes standards for expiration of rental housing affordability controls.
Authorizes municipalities to address certain unlawful operation of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes through seizure and, in some circumstances, destruction of vehicles.
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.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Allows certain State agencies to sell Internet advertisements on agencies' websites as pilot program.
Permits municipalities to hold certain inactive liquor licenses reserved for smart growth developments for an additional five years.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Directs DOLWD to identify, and post on website, employment opportunities with minimal barriers to entry for persons returning to workforce after imprisonment.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Requires certain county inmates be provided with reentry assistance before their release.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Prohibits certain forms of discrimination in DOH policies concerning allocation of critical health care resources.
Establishes "Household Water Assistance Program"; appropriates $75 million.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse cost of certain customer-owned electric service equipment if damage to equipment is due to weather event affecting electric public utility service.
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.
Allows gross income tax deduction for amounts paid for removal of lead, asbestos, sodium, chloride, and other contaminants from taxpayer's property.
Requires landlords to provide tenants with certain notice concerning conditions that may cause damage or hazards on rental property.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
Requires restaurant employees to receive periodic sexual harassment training.
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.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
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.
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $1.8 million.
Permits certain physical therapists to perform dry needling.
Requires applicants for liquor licenses and license transfers to notify residents within 200 feet of licensed premises.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires minimum temperature in senior citizen housing projects to be maintained at 70 degrees from October 1 to May 1.
Provides forbearance of residential mortgage foreclosures under certain circumstances; places additional requirements on attorneys, residential mortgage lenders, and courts, as part of foreclosure process.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Provides additional home ownership assistance for certain military service members.
Establishes "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
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.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault under certain circumstances.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
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 gender balance in membership of certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Requires each county to establish inmate reentry services committee.
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.
Requires landlord to attach certificate of inspection or occupancy to residential lease.
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
Limits police presence at polling places and ballot drop boxes; prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop box.
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Eliminates qualified immunity and sovereign immunity in certain cases.
Establishes "Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems" pilot program in DOH; appropriates $2,000,000.
Expands "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" and in Juvenile Justice Commission to include Jersey City; appropriates $2 million.
Creates crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires child's religion not be changed due to foster care or adoption.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Codifies protections in Law Against Discrimination for persons suffering discrimination on grounds of disparate impact.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
Expands municipal authority to license and inspect residential rental property.
"New Jersey Ticket Consumer Choice Act."
Revises time period at which unit owners assume control of homeowners' associations.
Authorizes municipalities to regulate Internet-organized events.
Prohibits use of gap in automobile insurance coverage as rating factor in automobile insurance underwriting under certain circumstances.
"Addi's Law"; makes parent's conviction for murder of child's other parent grounds for termination of parental rights.
Provides assistance to business accelerators and incubators and startup businesses located within those business accelerators and incubators.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Requires 45 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Grants authority for human resource management of employees of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to Civil Service Commission.
Establishes creative crosswalks pilot program.
Requires certain community residential facilities have standby emergency power generators.
Adds two student representatives to board of governors of Rutgers University.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Expands volunteer tuition credit program to volunteers and eligible dependents enrolled in four-year public institutions of higher education and increases maximum value of tuition credit.
Requires public agency receiving State funds to post on website use of State funds for public work contracts with minority, women, and veteran owned businesses.
Establishes "Emerging Food Task Force" to encourage information sharing concerning new produce options and consumer trends.
Permits consumers aged 65 and over up to five business days to cancel home improvement contracts.
Mandates access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plan or program provided by the public employer.
Requires candidate for teacher certification to complete course or training on anti-racism in education.
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.
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes program in DOLWD to connect persons with disabilities with job training and employment.
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to have one veteran coordinator for every 200 veteran students; requires veteran coordinator to work with DMVA to ensure veterans have access to all available services.
Requires school districts to offer course in computer science and DOE to adopt changes to NJ Student Learning Standards in computer science.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Establishes the "Safe and Sanitary Rental Housing Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Establishes permanent daylight saving time in NJ.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Allows primary caregiver of handicapped person and person with autism to apply for and use handicapped parking.
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
Includes certain armed security officers regulated by "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law" in crimes of assault and disarming an officer.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
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 children's meals served in restaurants to meet certain nutritional standards.
Requires correctional police officers to wear body worn cameras and security camera systems to be installed in State correctional facilities.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Bus Riders' Bill of Rights."
Requires MVC to provide reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities during certain knowledge examinations.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
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.
Requires DMVA to develop mobile application to provide guidance on available resources to veterans and their families.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $1,250,000 for Minorities in Police (MIP) recruiting grant program.
Requires health care professionals to order bi-lateral ultrasounds concurrently when ordering mammograms; requires insurers to cover concurrent mammograms and bi-lateral ultrasounds.
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.
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.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
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.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Allows law enforcement agencies to provide juvenile-family crisis information to principal of juvenile's school for planning programs relevant to juvenile's educational and social development.
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Establishes task force to examine and make recommendations regarding professional development requirements for public school teachers and school leaders.
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 boards of education to adopt policies to make schools asthma-friendly.
Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse customers for cost of certain spoiled products resulting from service outage more than 72 hours after end of storm.
Requires PANYNJ and certain commercial airport operators in State to coordinate with law enforcement for investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults; requires airlines and contractors to adopt and maintain policies regarding sexual assaults.
Requires public utility to provide daily updates to municipalities concerning public utility service work.
Establishes pilot program to provide for same-day voter registration on election day in certain years.
Expands definition of landlords required to provide receipt for rent cash payment made by tenant.
Requires DHS to establish a pilot program covering menstrual hygiene products under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Creates Office of School Bus Safety in Department of Education; appropriates $200,000.
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Product Pilot Program," appropriates $60,000.
Requires certain public schools to advertise availability of free menstrual hygiene products.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
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.
Establishes "Build Back Better Fund" in EDA for certain manufacturing business assistance; creates and funds two business assistance programs in New Jersey Redevelopment Authority; appropriates $165 million.
Provides that defendant who participated in diversion program for certain marijuana offenses on prior occasion may again participate under certain circumstances.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
Concerns development of accessory dwelling units.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Requires certain electronic medical programs to include demographic data entry feature; requires laboratories to record certain patients' demographic information; requires certain hospitals and laboratories to implement cultural competency training program.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring officer applicants removed from office by former agency for police misconduct.
Establishes "Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force."
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $8 million to DHS to increase reimbursement for funeral, burial, and crematory services provided to certain beneficiaries of Work First New Jersey and Supplemental Security Income programs.
Prohibits owner or operator of parking facility from preventing customer from leaving due to malfunction of parking facility payment process.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund Center on Gun Violence Research.
Requires DOA to establish, maintain, and publicize online, searchable database of minority-owned farms in New Jersey.
Requires certain supermarkets, grocery stores, and food suppliers to donate food under certain circumstances.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to extend payment period for violations of electronic toll collection monitoring system, commonly known as E-ZPass, during COVID-19 public health emergency and state of emergency.
Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to certain businesses providing annual physical and mental health screenings to full-time and part-time employees.
Requires each county to establish Reentry, Mental Health, and Addiction Services Coordination Committee to facilitate coordinated provision of mental health, addiction and reentry services to county residents.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allocates sufficient funds to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
"New Jersey Safe Storage of Firearms Act"; establishes certain requirements and penalties regarding firearm storage; repeals law governing minor's access to firearm; requires AG to establish public awareness campaign regarding firearm storage; appropriates $500,000.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Allows county boards of elections to begin canvassing early votes and mail-in ballots before election day under certain conditions.
Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Authorizes DMVA to grant preference in awarding contracts to vendors that employ veterans.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Requires DOH approval for adverse possessory action against hospitals.
Establishes child care costs reimbursement grant program in DCF for parents or guardians whose children are subject to quarantine as a result of COVID-19; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes confidentiality of court records of landlord-tenant disputes after five years.
Allows parents or legal custodians separated from their children because of immigration matters to appoint standby guardians.
Requires employers to provide paid leave to employees to vote in certain circumstances.
Permits voter to take photograph of own voted ballot and share it on Internet-based social media.
Provides awarding of contracts for professional services by State, county, municipal, and school district through competitive contracting process.
Establishes crime of law enforcement officer choking another person; designated as George Floyd's Law.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Conforms Megan's law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Revises and updates membership and purpose of Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Requires Director of Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS to evaluate and report on interactions occurring between law enforcement and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas; stipulates uses of, and eligibility criteria for, funds.
Requires entities at every level of government to conduct periodic studies of racial and ethnic disparities in public contracting.
Authorizes sharing of municipal court administrator under "Common Sense Shared Services Pilot Program Act."
Requires long-term care facility to post certain information on its Internet website regarding Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes "Supporting Educational and Entrepreneurial Development (S.E.E.D.) Program" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Directs referral of certain persons under 18 for determination of status as socially or economically disadvantaged youth.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
Revises homestead property tax reimbursement eligibility requirements for certain claimants relocating homesteads within the same municipality.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Increases penalties for certain criminal offenses committed against elderly and persons with a disability.
"Behavioral Health Crisis Mobile Response Act."
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Requires high schools to offer computer science course.
Requires correctional facilities to provide voting rights information packets to inmates.
Establishes prohibited practices for creditors.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
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.
Requires AG to establish uniform police training curriculum.
Establishes Frontline Health Care Worker Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence sensitivity and response training.
Revises membership of New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement program into credit program.
Establishing Advisory Committee on Family Services and Communications in Division of Developmental Disabilities in DHS.
Provides for preparation and distribution of written notice to senior citizens concerning risks and prevention of fraud and identity theft.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force."
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2020-2021 school year.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Early Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs for students in grades K through 8.
Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students who have children to purchase meal plans, live in on-campus housing, or pay gym fees.
"Innovation Schools Act"; establishes process to develop innovation schools.
Permits certain public assistance recipients to use benefits to purchase diapers.
"Madalyn's Law"; requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of toxic shock syndrome.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Concerns development and use of accessory dwelling units.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Establishes pilot program for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health.
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's population each federal decennial census.
Permits students experiencing menstrual disorder to attend school remotely.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish New Jersey Equity in Education Initiative, appropriates $2,000,000.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in airports concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
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.
Increases amounts of property tax deductions for senior citizens and persons with disabilities, and veterans, from $250 to $500.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warnings be printed on tampon package.
Increases benefit amounts and expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Upgrades offense of prostitution as patron; directs fines collected to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Requires BPU to hold monthly in-person or virtual seminars to provides customers with certain information concerning electric power and gas suppliers.
Prohibits institutions of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institutions from using applications for admission that inquire about applicant's criminal history; establishes "Universal College Application Development Task Force" to develop standard application for admission.
Establishes "Minority-Serving County College Stabilization Act" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education; appropriates $15 million.
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.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Establishes "5G Network and Development Task Force."
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Makes it aggravated sexual assault or sexual contact for transportation network company or taxicab driver to commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact using coercion or without permission on passenger.
Requires Medicaid fee-for-service coverage of managed long term services and supports when beneficiary is pending enrollment in managed care organization.
Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Codifies and expands Medicaid coverage for certain school-based services.
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.
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.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop pathway to nursing scholarship for health care workers who want to become nurses; appropriates $1 million.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain State-based charitable organizations.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in bus terminals concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to arrange for provision of free public transportation for individuals age 75 and older.
Establishes Military Suicide Prevention Task Force.
Permits conduct of bingos and raffles remotely.
Requires placement of portable FDA-approved anti-choking devices in schools.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
Establishes certain requirements and initiatives related to nurses; transfers oversight of certified nurse aides from DOH to Board of Nursing; appropriates $26.7 million.
Requires health insurance coverage of prenatal genetic test during first 90 days of pregnancy.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Establishes standards for food date labeling; requires Commissioner of Health to establish public education program and promulgate guidelines related to food safety.
Prohibits State from disclosing New Jersey driver's license holders' personal information to other states seeking to issue speed camera or red light camera citations.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Strengthens access to New Jersey reproductive health services for in-State and out-of-State persons.
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Establishes New Jersey Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Program.
Modifies definition of "impact zones" in "New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act."
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Increases penalties for assault and harassment against sports officials and participants under certain circumstances.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Requires State employer to ascertain child abuse or sexual misconduct in employment applications for certain positions involving children; requires background checks for current and prospective employees.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide adequate network of physicians.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Requires hearing-impairment designation to be printed on front of driver's license.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Equity.
Establishes and codifies certain privileges for limited and restricted brewery license holders.
Prohibits mental health care professionals from disclosing, and health insurance carriers from demanding, certain information concerning behavioral health care services provided to patients.
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.
Authorizes use of county inmate welfare funds for certain reentry services.
Allows certain persons with developmental disabilities 21 years of age and older to attend special education programs and to simultaneously participate in adult day and employment programs.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Increases hourly limit of reimbursable personal care assistant services under NJ WorkAbility Program.
Requires long-term care facilities to submit reports regarding residents with disabilities.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain imaging related to breast cancer detection.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Establishes Residential Property Repair Program; appropriates $30,000,000.
Requires AG to establish rape kit tracking system.
Requires State Real Estate Appraiser Board to adopt alternative program to acquire experiential requirements for prospective real estate appraisers attempting to qualify for licensure or certification.
Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Establishes Office of Resilience in DCF.
Establishes Commission on Oversight of Public Institutions of Higher Education.
Establishes Safe Haven Homeless Housing Program; appropriates $30 million.
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."
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on Veterans Day.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Requires at least one drive-up ballot drop box in each county; requires certain information to be posted at ballot drop boxes and locations.
Requires school districts to provide information on free application for federal student aid to students in grades 11 and 12.
Directs DCA and BPU to allow certain tenants seeking sewer or water utility bill assistance to provide proof tenant is paying water bill when tenant is different than customer of record.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Authorizes creation of Juneteenth commemorative license plates.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to long-term care facilities that increase number of residential units reserved for single occupancy by at least five percent.
Establishes Senior Citizen Transportation Grant Program in DHS; appropriates $2.5 million for grant program.
Appropriates $350,000 to Rutgers, the State University - New Brunswick for Center for American Women and Politics - Women Elected and Appointed Officials Database.
Adds postpartum depression services to State's behavioral health crisis services system.
Requires helmet while operating bicycle, scooter, or motorized scooter.
Establishes "Task Force for Community Based Juvenile Rehabilitation."
Prohibits information from Statewide voter registration system from being published on Internet.
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
Establishes Literacy Acceleration Home Reading Grant Program.
Revises definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and economic abuse.
Establishes Family Empowerment Centers on Disability Grant Program.
Allows for issuance of two-year temporary courtesy license for nonresident military spouses in certain professions.
Directs DOE to conduct study concerning student caregivers.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on labor movement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires water supply system testing and compliance with secondary drinking water regulations.
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 the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
Directs HMFA to establish "Hotels for Housing" grant program.
Requires court to provide certain defendants with referral for mental health and substance abuse evaluation.
Lowers age at which certain insurers are required to provide coverage for mammograms.
Requires Medicaid coverage of social day care services for senior citizens.
Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
Requires MVC to conduct unscheduled surprise inspections of certain school buses.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Establishes student-athlete mental health specialists in school districts and public institutions of higher education; creates student-athlete mental health registry; makes appropriation.
Requires school districts to offer halal lunch options.
Requires school districts to provide information on process of obtaining US citizenship.
Establishes Train the Trainer Program for Student Wellbeing in DOE; appropriates $1 million.
Requires DCPP to consult with Division of Developmental Disabilities following finding of child abuse or neglect to create services plan for person with developmental disability under certain circumstances.
Provides child tax credit for taxpayers with children ages six to 11 and increases amount of credit for taxpayers with children under 12 over period of two years.
Concerns child custody determinations and proceedings; requires child abuse and adverse childhood experiences training.
Establishes program for electronic monitoring of certain offenders; appropriates $15 million.*
Requires drunk driver to pay restitution on behalf of child if parent or guardian is killed by that driver.
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to access oral health in children.
Requires availability of outside voting process for elderly or voters with disabilities when their assigned polling place does not meet accessibility requirements.
Requires certain fire departments in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes task force.
Establishes Urban Enterprise Zone Microloan Program in EDA to help certain businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and UEZ-Impacted districts; appropriates $5 million.
Requires DOH to collect certain data to be shared with certain State departments.
Provides tax credits to small businesses to offset increases in unemployment insurance contributions.
Requires ticket website operators to display certain information regarding ticket availability.
Requires certain notice when redirecting consumers to website for ticket resale and establishes certain requirements for websites offering tickets for resale.
"Stephanie's Law"; Requires AOC to establish publicly-accessible domestic violence registry; requires law enforcement officer to search State's domestic violence registries when conducting arrest.
Requires law enforcement officer to conduct danger assessment of domestic violence victims and provide assistance to high-risk victims.
Prohibits sale of non-flushable disposable wipes.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Broadens definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act.
Establishes tax credit for portion of qualifying educational expenditures made by taxpayer on behalf of child.
Enters NJ in Social Work Licensure Compact.
Establishes "Catalytic Converter Theft Prevention Pilot Program" in DLPS; makes appropriation.
Establishes Office of Supportive Action Functionality Experts to prepare for catastrophic loss of technological services.
Establishes Employer-Based Child Care Assistance Partnership Program in DCF.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Provides deduction from gross income of $500 for full-time educators and paraprofessionals and $350 for part-time educators and paraprofessionals.
Establishes New Jersey Student Educator Tuition Remission Program.
Establishes Anti-Bullying Youth Council to assist Anti-Bullying Task Force.
Requires schools and child care centers to test drinking water for lead every two years and install filters certified to reduce lead levels.
Permits municipalities to publish legal notices in certain newspapers.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialists to students in public schools.
Permits teacher and professional staff member who provides special services retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years.
Requires health insurers to cover additional mammogram examinations and genetic testing and counseling under certain circumstances.
Requires nursing homes to submit certain cost reports to DOH in annual financial report.
Establishes nurse aide workforce development program.
Revises inspection requirements for long-term care facilities.
Requires child care centers to be equipped with epinephrine.
Prohibits book banning in public libraries and schools; authorizes withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Establishes "Remote Methadone Dosing Pilot Program;" appropriates $225,000.
Allows customer choice of NJ E-ZPass automatic replenishment amount.
Prohibits certain caller identification service manipulation; makes violation fourth degree crime.
Modifies certain experience requirements and costs for issuance of certain credentials by New Jersey Board of Nursing; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes emergency teacher certificate in certain circumstances.
Requires certain wholesale pricing of motor fuels be set using formula.
Requires certain correctional facilities to allow service and companion animals to assist inmates with disability; makes appropriation.
"New Jersey Fostering Success Voucher Act"; provides rental assistance and case management services for certain young adults leaving foster care or kinship care; appropriates $10 million.
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.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes Commuter and Transit Bus Relief Program in EDA to provide financial assistance to certain private bus carriers and local government units; appropriates $60 million.
Establishes new position of Clean Energy Advocate in BPU to facilitate coordination and cooperation among various State agencies in association with implementation of interagency clean energy projects.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Establishes programs to address needs of toddlers and certain children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires MVC to provide customers with option to receive certain documents in-person same day or via mail.
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.
Requires prescription drug services covered under Medicaid program to be provided via fee-for-service delivery system.
"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.
"New Jersey Rent Stabilization Task Force Act"; Establishes State and county task forces related to stability of residential rents.
Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
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.
Requires DOH to establish three-year Obstetric Discrimination Prevention and Mitigation Pilot Program.
Establishes Teaching Scholars Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires DOH to establish levels of maternity care at maternity care facilities.
Establishes Cannabis Certified Worker Grant Program and Social Equity Certified Worker Hiring Grant Program; makes appropriation.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Establishes the "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2023"; appropriates $10 million.
Concerns temporary disability insurance and family leave insurance benefits.
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.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.