Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Brian P. Stack
Sponsored
Became law3
Extends prohibition on certain utility discontinuances for certain customers.
Establishes Liberty State Park Design Task Force.*
Raises maximum workers' compensation fees for evaluating physicians; expands circumstances for which physician legal fees are permitted.
Passed the Senate3
Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disables residents moving to lower floors.*
Requires limited liability company disclose certain information when recording deed concerning residential rental property.
Concerns carbon monoxide detectors in certain multiple dwellings and hotels.**
Out of committee12
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to disseminate outage information to customers through autodialed telephone call, text message, and electronic mail alert service.
Permits certain local units and authorities to reduce water, sewer, and stormwater fees and other charges for low-income persons; appropriates $200,000.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Extends protected tenancy period for certain tenants who are senior citizens and certain tenants with disabilities.
Expands definition of landlords required to provide receipt for rent cash payment made by tenant.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Requires mail-in ballot applications to include prepaid postage.
Establishes "Pretrial Partnership for Community Support and Services Pilot Program" for certain defendants.
Establishes weatherization and energy efficiency pilot program to address open cockloft space between certain buildings; appropriates $30 million.
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Requires establishment of residential rental habitability database and provides certain penalties and causes of action concerning residential leases.
Revises and clarifies certain expungement procedures.
In committee49
Requires utility service providers to notify BPU of scheduled service work; permits government agencies and utility service providers to access BPU online database of scheduled service work.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Establishes fire safety standards and protocols for certain light frame residential construction; requires placards identifying primary structural systems of buildings.
Requires certain residential buildings to have fire barriers in common attic areas.
Requires licensing of pet groomers and registration of certain other businesses; establishes certain licensing and operating requirements.
Makes publishing on Internet home address or unpublished telephone number of judges, prosecutors and certain court personnel a crime of the fourth degree under certain circumstances.
Allows voter to vote in any political party primary by changing party affiliation at polling place on primary election day; allows mail-in voter to complete any political primary ballot.
Revises "Homelessness Prevention Program"; appropriates $300 million.
"Palisades Cliffs Protection Act;" limits height of new construction in area below cliffs east of Palisades.
Increases certain penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or injury.
Prohibits public utilities from discontinuing residential electric, gas, water, and sewer service after expiration of coronavirus public health emergency; requires those utilities to implement deferred payment agreements for those services.
Requires federal funding to be made available to Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to support Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse if needed to offset unanticipated decrease in dedicated revenues.
"Palisades Cliffs Protection and Planning Act"; concerns preservation of Palisades Cliffs and creates Palisades Cliffs Preservation Council.
Provides that act of sexual penetration committed without victim's consent constitutes sexual assault; defines the terms "consent."
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for hospitalizations resulting from coronavirus disease 2019 without imposing cost-sharing requirements.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC.
Requires chief law enforcement officer of municipal police departments to hold two community roundtables on police relations each year.
Provides exception for Legal Services of New Jersey and other public interest organizations from confidentiality of certain eviction actions.
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.
Prohibits circumventing security measures for certain online ticket sales.
Eliminates past conviction of indictable offense as disqualifier for jury service.
Expands definition of child abuse or neglect.
Requires employers to provide paid leave to employees to vote in certain circumstances.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbit by pet shops; prohibits certain transactions between animal shelters, pounds, animal rescue organizations, and animal breeders or brokers; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Permits extension of early voting period for regular municipal elections in May.
Extends early voting period for primary elections and May municipal elections.
Establishes penalty for withholding identification to hinder apprehension or prosecution.
Requires certain insurance carriers to include firearm liability insurance as policy option.
Expands Medicare health care coverage to all New Jersey residents.
Requires Administrative Law Judges to be enrolled in Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS.
Permits municipalities to place lien on fire-damaged property's insurance proceeds in certain instances and requires fire and explosion insurance coverage for certain individuals.
Strengthens provisions of child-protection window guard law.
Requires municipal clerk to post municipal documents online.
Prohibits sale of certain lithium-ion devices; establishes restrictions on sale, lease, or rental of certain bicycles and scooters; creates fire risk awareness campaigns.
Requires certain correctional facilities to allow service and companion animals to assist inmates with disability; makes appropriation.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Concerns provision of services to defendants on pretrial release.
Revises process for property tax lien holder to foreclose right to redeem a property tax lien; allows property owner to protect remaining equity.
Permits service credit in Prosecutors Part of PERS for judicial clerk service.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
"Santiago/Ramos/Liu Protection Act" requires certain law enforcement vehicles to have tinted windows.
Requires operators of underground facilities to remove street markings after completion of certain work.
Limits home improvement contractor from entering into contract with full indemnification provision.
Permits 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in elections for local school board.
Restricts certain billing practices for early intervention program services.
Prohibits certain dissemination of criminal history background information until record is updated.
Establishes limit on rent increase for senior citizen tenants of certain properties financed with assistance from HMFA.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Latino and Hispanic Americans as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law2
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Revises and clarifies certain expungement procedures.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
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.*
Concerns employment security during changes in control of health care entities. *
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Provides for civil actions against persons or entities profiting from commission of human trafficking offenses, or maintaining victims of such offenses.
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.*
"Uniform Public Expression Protection Act"; provides for expedited process for dismissal of "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" (SLAPP).*
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.*
Passed the Senate · 6
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Prohibits mental health care professionals from disclosing mental health notes to health insurance carriers.*
Requires DOH approval for adverse possessory action against hospitals.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Establishes "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams"; provides for identification of and intervention at long-term care facilities at risk of operational and financial distress.
Enhances penalties for distribution and manufacture of certain amounts of fentanyl.*
Out of committee · 41
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Requires limited liability company to disclose ownership information when submitting deed for recording.
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.
Makes it a fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.*
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.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Authorizes DOT to establish and administer toll collection and enforcement system on behalf of NJ toll authorities and to enter into reciprocal agreements for enforcement of toll violations with toll authorities from other states.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Adds coercive control to definition of domestic violence.
Clarifies penalties for certain violations of pretrial release; directs prosecutor to provide written notice of release to victim.
Exempts sales of investment metal bullion and certain investment coins from sales and use tax.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family day care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Allows certain voters residing overseas to vote in certain elections in this State depending on overseas residency or intent to return.
Establishes offense of reckless trespass involving wild animals; establishes penalties; establishes liability for resulting harm to wild animal.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
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.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving heroin and fentanyl; establishes new crimes concerning heroin mixtures; allows certain defendants to be eligible for drug court.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Upgrades burglary of residence to crime of the second degree.
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.
Prohibits disclosure of certain information of probation officers.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Establishes foreclosure protection and mortgage relief for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Establishes fundamental freedom of person to marry or enter into civil union with person of any race.
Expands scope of Foreclosure Mediation Assistance Program during State of Emergency to allow use of program funds for payment to counselors who help disaster victims process applications for assistance.
In committee · 40
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.
Concerns diversion from criminal prosecution for persons with mental illness under certain circumstances.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
"Immigrant Tenant Protection Act."
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records.
Reduces helicopter operations at certain aviation facilities licensed by State.
Prohibits tourist helicopter operations in New Jersey.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.
Requires school districts to maintain supply of nasal rescue medication and oxygen for seizure emergencies; provides for training of designees to administer nasal rescue medication and oxygen when school nurse is not physical present.
Increases gross income tax credit for homestead property taxes paid from $50 to $200.
Limits certain provisions in restrictive covenants and limits enforceability of restrictive covenants.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with certain firearm offenses be detained prior to trial.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities; makes an appropriation.
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Codifies and enhances use of breach of implied warranty of habitability as defense to certain eviction actions.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $600,000.
Adopts State definition of Islamophobia for certain civil and criminal purposes.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Increases accidental death benefit for certain members of PERS.
Creates offenses related to election officials; permits election workers to shield personal information from public.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
The "Uniform Electronic Wills Act"; authorizes electronic wills.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around certain buildings; requires property owner to provide notice and obtain receipt from owners of adjacent properties of any hunting activity; designated as "Restoring Safety Buffer Law."
"Kangaroo Protection Act of 2022"; prohibits sale or barter, or offering for sale or barter, of dead kangaroos and any products made from kangaroo.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to develop guidelines for tiered group home placements and transfers.
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
Clarifies procedures for revocation of pretrial release for certain defendants.
Permits voluntary participation in treatment as condition of pretrial release under certain circumstances.