Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, General Assembly.
Jerry Walker
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2027.
In committee13
Establishes Skills Service Corp; appropriates funds.
Creates "Youth Detention Task Force."
Requires YJC to publish information regarding juveniles who were waived to adult criminal court and are serving custodial sentences in State juvenile facilities.
Creates "New Jersey Workplace Skills Savings Program"; appropriates $25 million.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from EDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Establishes ReadyReturn program; requires Taxation to prepare initial tax filing for certain taxpayers; requires several State agencies to use tax data to facilitate identification and enrollment for certain social services programs; makes an appropriation.
Prohibits seller from charging credit card surcharges; establishes notice requirements for credit card minimums and cash discounts.
Establishes "New Jersey Community Health Worker Program" in DOH and certain training programs for community health workers.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for all compensation earned by college athletes for use of name, image, or likeness.
Revises SNAP application process to include certain notices, and certification and recertification requirements.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with five percent or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Establishes Stolen SNAP Benefits Replacement Fund in Department of Treasury, requires DHS to replace stolen SNAP benefits from fund, and appropriates $20 million to AOC.
Requires DOH to evaluate hospital compliance with federal hospital price transparency requirements.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2027.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey." **
Requires Governor's Office of Volunteerism to promote and support volunteerism for compliance with certain eligibility requirements for NJ FamilyCare and SNAP recipients; appropriates $200,000 to DHS, Office of Volunteerism, and DOLWD.*
Establishes "Fair Price Protection Act."*
Authorizes funding for on-demand micro transit service under Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Permits certain for-profit movie theaters to sell alcoholic beverages under specified conditions.*
Prohibits surcharge on transportation network company riders for certain paratransit service.
Out of committee · 17
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.*
Requires retail food establishments to provide disclosures for certain caffeinated beverages.
Requires State entities purchase five percent of goods and services from Central Nonprofit Agency; requires Division of Purchase and Property establish training protocols for all purchasing agents; grants Central Nonprofit Agency right of first refusal.*
Supplements FY2027 Appropriations Act; makes $10 million off-budget appropriation to NJSHARES - S.M.A.R.T. Program.*
"Polluters Pay to Make New Jersey More Affordable Act"; imposes cost recovery payments on certain fossil fuel companies for funds needed for climate change adaptation; establishes program in DEP to collect and oversee distribution of funds.**
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems; establishes certain enforcement procedures and penalties for certain violations captured by school bus monitoring systems.
Requires data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual water and energy usage reports to BPU.
Revises Work First New Jersey program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program procedures to require information on security protocols be provided when replacement benefit cards are issued.
Requires SNAP retailers to display information on how to protect SNAP recipients from fraud used to steal benefits.
Modifies certain CAFRA permit review requirements for nuclear facilities.
Enters NJ into Athletic Trainer Compact.
Establishes "New Jersey Holistic Representation Model" in Office of Public Defender.
"End Data Center Tax Credits Act"; reduces tax credits available for Next New Jersey Program.*
Requires return of unexpended balances from certain FY2023, FY2024, and FY2025 appropriations to Hudson County; authorizes supplemental appropriation to Hudson County for general operating aid.
Modifies procedures for parole release, early discharge from parole, and penalties for certain parole violations.
Concerns certain motor vehicle related funding to certain municipalities.
Concerns temporary use of funding for open space, recreation, floodplain protection, farmland and historic preservation for certain municipalities.
In committee · 21
Permits certain local units and authorities to reduce water, sewer, and stormwater fees and other charges for low-income persons.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Creates Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission, Office of Healthcare Affordability and Transparency, and hospital price transparency regulations.
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Establishes NJT Office of Customer Advocate and Rider Advocacy Commission.
Increases Work First New Jersey Child Care appropriation by $28 million in FY2026 annual appropriations act to ensure full funding of child care subsidy program.
Requires NJTA, SJTA, EDA, CRDA, PANYNJ, and DRPA to consider minorities and women when hiring or awarding contracts.
Prohibits cryptocurrency automatic teller machines.
Requires certain consumer disclosures relating to rabies testing and establishes optional training for veterinarians.
Requires DHS and DOH, respectively, to provide information to SNAP, WFNJ, and WIC recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to replace stolen benefits; makes appropriation.
Requires SNAP retailers to take measures to help prevent card skimming.
Requires DHS to distribute contactless EBT cards to SNAP recipients by January 31, 2027.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Clarifies that amateur sports official is independent contractor for purposes of State employment laws.
Establishes "Fair Pricing and Transparency Act."
"Efficient Energy Use Act"; requires certain public utilities to offer time-varying rates.
Establishes child care stabilization and operation grant program in DHS.
"Ticket Fairness and Transparency Act."
"Public School Employees' Health Benefits Trust Act."
Makes various changes to SHBP governance and administration.