Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, Senate.
Brian P. Stack
Sponsored
Became law4
Permits service credit in Prosecutors Part of PERS for judicial clerk service; increases salary of Presiding Judge of Appellate Division and county prosecutor; permits retired judges to collect pension while serving as county prosecutor.*
Upgrades cyber-harassment of public servant or family member to third degree crime; requires Attorney General to establish cyber-harassment prevention initiatives; appropriates funds.*
Extends early voting period for primary elections and extends challenger appointment deadline; appropriates $6 million.*
Allocates certain portion of appropriations made to New Jersey Schools Development Authority from "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $3.25 million for certain high cost special education services.
Passed the Senate5
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Requires owners of certain multiple dwellings of three or more floors to provide priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to lower floors.
Permits certain local units and authorities to reduce water, sewer, and stormwater fees and other charges for low-income persons.*
Extends protected tenancy period for certain tenants who are senior citizens and certain tenants with disabilities.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to create report on human trafficking related to 2026 FIFA World Cup; appropriates $1 million.*
Out of committee20
Revises "Homelessness Prevention Program"; requires new charge for filing of eviction action.*
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide certain notifications to customers concerning certain service outages.*
Reduces helicopter operations at certain aviation facilities licensed by State.
Requires limited liability company to disclose ownership information when submitting deed for recording.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Establishes "Pretrial Partnership for Community Support and Services Pilot Program" for certain defendants.
Requires Administrative Law Judges to be enrolled in Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS.
Allows projects supported by State or municipal affordable housing trust fund to be exempt from property tax and to instead contribute to municipal services by making payments in lieu of taxation.
Revises process for property tax lien holder to foreclose right to redeem a property tax lien; allows property owner to protect remaining equity.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Prohibits dissemination of certain criminal history background information.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Concerns provision of services to defendants on pretrial release.
Requires annual salaries of certain county officers and employees be fixed by ordinance; ordinance not required for compensation excluded from pensionable salary.
Requires DHS and DOH, respectively, to provide information on SNAP, WFNJ, and WIC recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to replace stolen benefits; makes appropriation.
Criminalizes the use of "signal jammers."
Limits amount of residential rental property application fee; establishes penalty.*
Concerns pretrial detention for firearms offenses.*
Re-appropriates unexpended balance of FY2024 appropriation for Town of West New York to support recreation center; appropriates $3 million for Town of West New York - Recreation Center to restore lapsed FY2024 funding.
In committee75
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.
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.
"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."
Requires limited liability company disclose certain information when recording deed concerning residential rental property.
Codifies and enhances use of breach of implied warranty of habitability as defense to certain eviction actions.
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.
Concerns carbon monoxide detectors in multiple dwellings and certain hotels.
Prohibits circumventing security measures for certain online ticket sales.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Expands definition of landlords required to provide receipt for rent cash payment made by tenant.
Expands definition of child abuse or neglect.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.
Requires employers to provide paid leave to employees to vote in certain circumstances.
Requires mail-in ballot applications to include prepaid postage.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits 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.
Establishes weatherization and energy efficiency pilot program to address open cockloft space between certain buildings; appropriates $30 million.
Requires certain insurance carriers to include firearm liability insurance as policy option.
Expands Medicare health care coverage to all New Jersey residents.
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.
Establishes limit on rent increase for senior citizen tenants of certain properties financed with assistance from HMFA.
"Santiago/Ramos/Liu Police Protection Act"; requires certain law enforcement vehicles to have tinted windows.
Provides free telecommunication services for incarcerated persons at State, county, and private adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
Concerns carbon monoxide detectors in certain multiple dwellings and certain hotels.
Restricts certain billing practices for early intervention program services.
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.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Requires health benefits plans to cover abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug products.
Upgrades burglary of residence to crime of the second degree.
Makes use of algorithmic systems to influence price and supply of residential rental units unlawful.
Establishes Statewide limitation on rent increases.
Requires county prosecutor to initiate municipal, county, and higher education law enforcement internal affairs investigations.
Requires BPU to consider affordability to ratepayers before approving base rate cases for electric public utilities.
Makes certain amendments to expungement statutes to reduce filing burdens and expand eligibility.
Expands list of animals prohibited from use in traveling animal acts; limits certain exceptions to apply only at educational institutions.
Establishes New Jersey Forensic Science Planning Commission.
Prohibits persons from installing, planting, or placing nonfunctional turf or invasive plant species on certain types of property during certain construction projects.
Requires election by certain public employees of certain health care benefit plans; prohibits payments by public employers for waiver of such plans.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to consult with US Dept. of Agriculture to determine methods and implementation of geese control.
Permits payment of unused sick leave earned by certain local government officers and employees under certain circumstances.
Requires all pet shops, grooming facilities, and pet daycares to install and maintain video monitoring systems.
Requires circulator of recall petition to take oath by affidavit before officer duly qualified to administer oath.
Establishes audit and payment requirements for pharmacy benefit managers.
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.
"Tariff Transparency Act;" requires disclosure of final retail price attributable to tariffs and other import taxes.
Allows political subdivisions of State to purchase unused sick leave from officer or employee under certain circumstances; prohibits authorizing special emergency appropriations for unused sick leave purchases.
Establishes mortgage assistance program for benefit of certain low- and moderate-income homeowners; appropriates $200 million.
Requires removal of double utility poles upon notification by electric public utilities.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies engaging in government contracts or business operations infringing on data privacy of individuals for purpose of determining immigration status.
Revises Fish and Game Council membership.
Lowers minimum amount of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers.
Upgrades penalties for certain prostitution crimes; creates crimes of leader of prostitution network and participant in prostitution network.
Broadens public awareness signage to include notices in Chinese and Korean.
Requires AG to review Statewide policy regarding investigation of human trafficking.
Prohibits agreements intended to conceal certain information concerning the development of data centers under MLUL.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law6
Allows projects supported by State or municipal affordable housing trust fund to be exempt from property tax and to instead contribute to municipal services by making payments in lieu of taxation.
Criminalizes the use of "signal jammers."
Revises process for property tax lien holder to foreclose right to redeem a property tax lien; allows property owner to protect remaining equity.
Requires State Police to establish online portal allowing persons to obtain status of expungement orders.**
Limits amount of residential rental property application fee; establishes penalty.
Re-appropriates unexpended balance of FY2024 appropriation for Town of West New York to support recreation center; appropriates $3 million for Town of West New York - Recreation Center to restore lapsed FY2024 funding.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Exempts sales of investment metal bullion and certain investment coins from sales and use tax.
Directs DHS to conduct landscape analysis of available mental health services.**
Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for public body to submit payroll records to DOLWD.*
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history of Latinos and Hispanics as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.*
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Establishes crimes of home invasion burglary and residential burglary.*
Upgrades, and in some circumstances provides for extended terms of imprisonment for, certain retail theft crimes, addresses gift card fraud, and authorizes new Attorney General initiatives to address organized retail theft.*
Requires electric and gas public utilities to establish "Energy Bill Watch" program and include certain information in bills and notices to customers.
Establishes School Supervisor Mentorship Pilot Program; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Department of Veterans Affairs.
Requires DCA to resume Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation program with remaining funds for unmet recovery and rebuilding needs for Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.
Vetoed · 1
Requires law enforcement officer to conduct risk assessment of and provide assistance to domestic violence victims.*
Passed the Senate · 3
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Provides that only registered design professionals or employees with certified fire escape contractors are authorized to install, service, repair, inspect, and maintain fire escapes.*
Eliminates five-year residency requirement for employees of NJ Racing Commission.
Out of committee · 34
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Requires BPU to establish beneficial building electrification and decarbonization program and requires electric public utilities to prepare and implement beneficial building electrification and decarbonization plans.*
The "Uniform Electronic Wills Act"; authorizes electronic wills.
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.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of bears; establishes program in DEP for distribution of bear-proof garbage cans.*
Requires HMFA to establish affordable housing insurance pilot program; appropriates $5 million.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain ambulance transportation services.*
Prohibits sewerage authority from imposing connection fee in certain circumstances.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fee for children ages 12 to 17; revises law concerning beach fees for veterans.
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.
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.
"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.
Clarifies procedures for revocation of pretrial release for certain defendants.
Concerns pretrail and post-trial considerations for certain crimes involving operation of vehicles, including rebuttable presumption for pretrial detention, pretial recommendation of no release from detention, suspension or revocation of license, and vehicle forfeiture.*
Permits municipality to authorize municipal clerk to submit certain written statements concerning affordable housing.
Permits voluntary participation in treatment as condition of pretrial release under certain circumstances.
"Freedom to Read Act"; establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; protects school library staff members and librarians.*
Requires municipalities in compliance with affordable housing obligations be provided priority consideration for certain State grants and assistance.
Establishes "The Voter Convenience Act" to allow voters to vote at any polling place in their municipality on election day.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Concerns State regulation of cooperative sober living residences and boarding houses generally; appropriates $100,000.*
Establishes consumer-facing portal for elevator maintenance for owners of certain buildings to provide information on elevator servicer; requires certain signage; requires DCA to establish senior housing elevator maintenance loan program.
"Polluters Pay to Make New Jersey More Affordable Act"; imposes liability on certain fossil fuel companies for funds needed for climate change adaptation projects; establishes program in DEP to collect and distribute funds.*
Concerns housing discrimination based on source of lawful income.*
Requires DCA to establish online, Statewide database of local government unit legal notices.
Revises law on extended employment programs for persons with disabilities.
Requires cost-benefit analyses for long term tax exemption, and requires DCA to create database of exemptions; requires five-year tax exemption and abatement agreements to be filed with certain county officials.
Requires Director of Division of Local Government Services in DCA to establish grant program to enhance local government efficiency; appropriates $1.5 million.
Creates Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission, Office of Healthcare Affordability and Transparency, and hospital price transparency regulations.*
The "Safeguarding Livable Units through Municipal Landlord Oversight and Regulation by DCA" or "SLUMLORD Act"; strengthens habitability protections for residential tenants; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for State agency reviews and increases of income thresholds for residential customers to participate in certain utility bill payment assistance and energy efficiency programs.
Expands definition of qualifying municipality for purposes of urban aid under P.L.1978, c.14.*
Creates crime of political violence; establishes independent review board and training requirement for law enforcement.
In committee · 77
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.
Creates offenses related to election officials; permits election workers to shield personal information from public.
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.
Broadens riot; enhances penalties for certain crimes committed during riot; creates new crimes of mob intimidation and cyber-intimidation by publication; establishes duty in municipality to permit law enforcement to respond appropriately.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to develop guidelines for tiered group home placements and transfers.
Makes it a fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.
Establishes offense of reckless trespass involving wild animals; establishes penalties; establishes liability for resulting harm to wild animal.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Expands Community College Opportunity Grant Program to include career and technical education programs at county colleges and county vocational schools.
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
Increases accidental death benefit for certain members of PERS.
Prohibits disclosure of certain information of probation officers.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
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.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
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.
Establishes foreclosure protection and mortgage relief for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with certain firearm offenses be detained prior to trial.
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
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.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires certain animals used in testing to be offered for adoption; requires establishment of procedures for assessment and disposition of animals; establishes penalties for noncompliance.
Establishes legislative internship program; makes appropriation.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access to medical records of minor patients; provides immunity to health care facilities and professionals that provide access to records.
Implements child safety provisions in custody disputes.
Subjects certain rooming and boarding houses to municipal land use regulations; requires owners and operators of cooperative sober living residences to submit certain approvals with license applications.
Regulates residential mental health treatment facilities.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Establishes crime of doxxing.
Prohibits disclosure of body worn camera recordings under certain circumstances.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of residence to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey."
Prohibits use of fireworks on property adjacent to animal shelter, pound, or kennel.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Establishes expedited ejectment proceeding to remove certain unauthorized real property occupants.
Establishes "Mass Violence Care Fund"; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Permits 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in elections for local school board.
Revises law concerning substance use disorder treatment facility patient referrals.
Revises licensure and regulatory requirements for residential substance use disorders treatment facilities or programs.
Prohibits substance use disorder treatment providers from using deceptive marketing practices.
Promotes trauma-informed care in State to mitigate negative effects of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $4.0 million.
Establishes veterinary medicine loan redemption program for certain veterinarians who work in underserved areas for five years; annually appropriates $500,000.
Establishes loan redemption program for certified veterinarians employed as large animal veterinarians in New Jersey.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention of defendant charged with aggravated assault of law enforcement officer.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other states.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for child sexual abuse and child endangerment.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Provides access to periodic cancer screening examinations for volunteer firefighters through SHBP physicians and other providers.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Requires certain consumer disclosures relating to rabies testing and establishes optional training for veterinarians.
Prohibits cryptocurrency automatic teller machines.
Prohibits seller from charging credit card surcharges; establishes notice requirements for credit card minimums and cash discounts.
Permits surviving spouse of retired member of PFRS to be enrolled in SHBP and to continue to receive pension benefit after remarriage in certain circumstances.
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Requires public utilities de-privatization study; appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits BPU approval of electric or gas public utility rate increase resulting in total increase to average residential customer bill in excess of two percent within five-year period.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Requires electric and gas public utilities de-privatization study; appropriates $100,000.
Imposes 10 percent electric public utility windfall surtax on taxpayers with allocated taxable net income in excess of $10 million under CBT.
Requires State agencies that administer utility bill payment assistance or energy efficiency programs to review, and potentially increase, income thresholds for residential customers to participate in programs.
Dedicates 50 percent of revenues collected from additional fees and taxes imposed on real property transfers valued over $1 million to Affordable Housing Trust Fund.