Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Britnee N. Timberlake
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Vetoed1
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Out of committee7
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.
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
Creates "Midwifery Licensing Act"; modifies regulation of midwifery.*
In committee47
Provides for reduction in suspended sentence, probation, or parole based on compliance with conditions of sentence; requires report on effect on recidivism.
Establishes system for portable benefits for workers who provide services to consumers through contracting agents.
Establishes surplus revenue reserve account in the Property Tax Relief Fund if certain levels of unanticipated gross income tax revenue are collected.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Requires child abuse reporting hotline maintained by DCPP to provide information on resources available to victims and families.
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Allows gross income tax deduction for amounts paid for removal of lead, asbestos, sodium, chloride, and other contaminants from taxpayer's property.
"Homeless Bill of Rights."
Shortens timeframe for municipality to rehabilitate certain abandoned property.
Prohibits sale, distribution, and manufacture of jewelry containing cadmium.
Requires construction permit and inspections for certain work involving lead paint on home exterior.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to establish 24-hour, toll-free Mental Illness Resource Hotline and develop hotline connection system to ensure that callers are connected to other appropriate hotlines when needed.
Requires reflective material on children's Halloween costumes.
"New Jersey Fair Workweek Act."
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to issue annual report on public contracts awarded to women-owned and minority-owned businesses; requires Division of Revenue to operate Selective Assistance Vendor Information (SAVI) database.
Prohibits suspension of driving privileges and arrest for certain crimes and offenses.
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 OIT to establish Statewide wireless network through public-private partnership agreement.
Codifies AG directive concerning criminal investigations of law enforcement use-of-force and in-custody deaths.
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 for resentencing of certain inmates.
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires front-loading clothes washing machines and dryers to have child safety locks; requires installation of safety locks and warning for machines previously purchased without child safety locks.
Requires certain local government community benefit agreements dedicate resources for affordable housing purposes.
Authorizes local contracting units to establish joint venture and set-aside programs.
Prohibits retail motor fuel dealer from charging a credit card customer in excess of four percent above the purchase price for same fuel sold to customer paying by cash.
Requires ballot scanning machines to have privacy screen, shield, or curtain; requires use of privacy screens and shields at polling places.
Requires inspection for pest infestation prior to certain demolition.
Establishes right to record law enforcement activity under certain circumstances.
Requires responding law enforcement officer to stay with dead body until medical examiner takes charge of body.
Requires certain commercial motor vehicles registered in State to be equipped with underride protection systems and requires Chief Administrator of MVC to establish underride public awareness campaign.
Concerns development and use of accessory dwelling units.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.
Requires certain salary, compensation and benefit information to be included in certain job postings.
Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
Requires urgent care facility health care providers to possess same credentials and degrees applicable to hospital emergency room health care providers.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.
Prohibits public libraries and public schools from banning or restricting access to certain books; permits withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Provides for expedited construction inspections.*
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.*
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.
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 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.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on elections days.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs. *
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.*
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
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.*
Provides one-year waiver of certain MVC fees imposed for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Requires NJ Business Action Center to collect and produce certain information to assist small businesses.
Passed the General Assembly · 16
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
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.
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
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.
Establishes process for formation of professional limited liability companies.
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.*
Creates new level of barbering license and apprenticeships in barbering, and establishes limits to hours of instruction for certain barbering training.
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.**
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Directs fines collected for certain prostitution crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."
Out of committee · 38
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Requires certain public venues and places of worship to submit emergency plans to law enforcement agencies for purpose of preparing for mass casualty and active shooter events.
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.
Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family child care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.*
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Prohibits providers of commercial mobile service and developers of mobile application from disclosing customer's global position system data to third parties under certain circumstances.*
Requires water purveyors to conduct, and report to DEP, water loss audits.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
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 Attorney General to establish educational and public information program concerning State and federal crimes of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
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 investigation of missing persons cases.*
Extends prohibition on certain utility discontinuances for certain customers.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
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.
Establishes program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to pay for remaining tuition costs related to certain remedial or developmental courses.
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 Liberty State Park Design Task Force.*
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Requires voting machines to be recertified annually and after software modifications.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
In committee · 121
Prohibits sale and distribution of nail products containing dibutyl phthalates, toluene, or formaldehyde.
Requires disclosure of breach of security of geolocation data.
Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for postpartum women.
Requires instruction concerning use of 9-1-1 for public school students in preschool, kindergarten, and grades one and two.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Authorizes insurers issuing business interruption insurance to offer rider for global virus transmission and pandemic coverage.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible; requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin; requires insulin manufacturers to submit report to Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.
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.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Provides that institutions of higher education may permit final-year students in graduate degree programs for mental health care professions to graduate or be matched with residency or clinical programs early.
Permits certain physical therapists to perform dry needling.
Appropriates $54.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
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 requirements for use of deadly force.
Requires certain officers of education organizations to sign acknowledgement and undergo training concerning duties to report child abuse.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
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 access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
Allows follow up calls from operators of NJ Suicide Hopeline to minors at risk of committing suicide.
"New Jersey Ticket Consumer Choice Act."
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."
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes centralized electronic health information exchange infrastructure to facilitate reentry into civilian life for recently incarcerated persons.
Requires inmate to participate in Medicaid enrollment session 60 days prior to release.
Establishes creative crosswalks pilot program.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Requires municipality to provide free beach access to certain veterans.
Revises requirements for disclosure of a breach of security of certain computerized records containing personal information.
Mandates access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plan or program provided by the public employer.
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.
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
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.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose information.
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 State provider subsidy payments for child care services to be based on enrollment.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Establishes the "Safe Sanitary Subsidized Rental Housing Bill of Rights."
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.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum.
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.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
"New Jersey Intergenerational Poverty Reduction Act."
Permits qualified person with post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain handicapped parking placard.
Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Exempts customer with account for electronic toll collection system, commonly known as E-ZPass, from certain fees if motor vehicle is stolen.
Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Permits counties and municipalities to bond for passenger cars and station wagons solely fueled by electric or renewable power sources.
Requires carriers to pass prescription drug savings to consumers.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
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.
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Directs DOE to conduct study on feasibility of using and expanding virtual learning in school districts with teacher shortages.
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.
Concerns labor harmony agreements for hospitality projects.
Authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to impose a fine against an institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
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.
Revises eligibility for convicted drug offenders to receive general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
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.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Prohibits retaliation against inmates in State correctional facilities who report sexual abuse; criminalizes retaliation and failure to report abuse.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Restricts use of certain data collected for purposes of contact tracing related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Requires applicants for commercial driver license to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Requires hospitals to inquire whether patients have substance use disorder and establish protocols for providing or referring to treatment.
"Motorist Fueling Choice and Convenience Act."
Requires school districts to provide menstrual products in all school buildings.
Requires cosmetology and hairstyling licensees to complete domestic violence sensitivity and response training.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
"Homeowners' Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; allows homeowners to claim credit against gross income tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
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."
Permits students experiencing menstrual disorder to attend school remotely.
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Strengthens access to New Jersey reproductive health services for in-State and out-of-State persons.
Requires health insurance coverage of standard fertility preservation services for individuals with certain menstrual disorders resulting in infertility.
Requires school districts to provide menstrual products for students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Establishes First Responders COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program; appropriates $20 million.
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.
Enters NJ in Social Work Licensure Compact.
Establishes Employer-Based Child Care Assistance Partnership Program in DCF.
Expands eligibility for NJCLASS Teacher Loan Redemption Program.
Requires certain wholesale pricing of motor fuels be set using formula.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.