Bills in the 2026–2027 Session, Senate.
Gordon M. Johnson
Sponsored
Became law1
Makes certain changes to regulation of health care service firms.
Passed both houses1
Amends FY2027 appropriations act to reassign a portion of appropriation for Eid Committee of New Jersey to Cultural Society of Bergen County to support Mom's Food Pantry.
Passed the Senate2
Clarifies choice of independent contractor status for certain licensed or regulated professionals.
Prohibits State agency from entering into certain State contracts that limit ability of State agency to install or run certain software.
Out of committee4
Authorizes creation of registered nurse license plates.
Exempts volunteer first responder stipends from certain payroll and income taxes.
Modifies process to credential licensed health care professionals in carrier provider network.*
Includes minimum number of firefighting personnel for public employer as term and condition of employment for purpose of collective bargaining under certain circumstances; provides for dispute resolution procedure.
In committee63
Prohibits business receiving State development subsidies from making certain campaign contributions.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by Rutgers University.
Establishes award of attorney's fees to prevailing party in municipal services dispute.
Clarifies that civilian public safety directors of municipal, county, and State police departments do not have police powers.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for capital gains from sale of certain employer securities by qualified businesses that result in net positive benefit to State.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of fuel cell devices and systems and certain tangible personal property powered by fuel cells.
Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Requires base salary of Palisades Interstate Park law enforcement officers to be equivalent to average base salary of officers in contiguous municipalities.
Requires DOC to report certain information annually.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Requires DOT to inspect traffic signs and establish public awareness campaign concerning traffic signs in need of maintenance.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse customer for cost of spoiled food and prescription medicine resulting from service outage more than 48 hours after end of storm.
Requires Medicaid fee-for-service coverage of managed long term services and supports when beneficiary is pending enrollment in managed care organization.
Establishes penalty on planned real estate development association for failure to provide association members timely access to certain meeting minutes.
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.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of bears; establishes program in DEP for distribution of bear-proof garbage cans.
Establishes four-year "Rent for Credit Pilot Program" in Department of Community Affairs.
Extends existing plug-in electric vehicle incentives to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Directs installation of hydrogen refueling stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may hold gun buyback programs and permits voluntary surrender of ammunition.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Equity.
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."
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to certain undocumented immigrants and children.
Requires DOT to assume responsibility for improvements and operations and maintenance of Palisades Interstate Parkway.
Allows customer choice of NJ E-ZPass automatic replenishment amount.
Reduces statute of limitations from six years to two years in medical fee disputes in workers' compensation matters.
Provides supplemental transportation aid to certain districts participating in interdistrict public school choice program.
Extends affordable housing preference to certain allied South Korean veterans.
Changes earliest date of construction or rehabilitation of housing granted credits without controls.
Permits sale of certain alcoholic beverages at convenience stores.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Prohibits acceptance, offer, or provision of monetary or non-monetary compensation of mail-in ballot messengers or bearers; allows certain facility employees and volunteers to serve as messengers or bearers.
Makes use of front registration plate optional for certain vehicles.
Establishes additional manner of employer compliance to provide earned sick leave for certain employees subject to collective bargaining agreements.
Permits use of credit card, debit card, or other electronic payment for bingo, raffles, and penny auctions.
Establishes sheltered market program for certain business enterprises seeking State contracts.
Limits use of restrictions on telephone calls as discipline measure during incarceration.
Establishes protections for immigrants interacting with government agencies; designates "New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act."
Authorizes EDA to use moneys in "Global Warming Solutions Fund" to support projects to refurbish or upgrade existing electricity generation facilities.
Enhances protections under Law Against Discrimination for persons serving in military and military veterans.
Allows certain breweries to sell and deliver brewed beer off-premises at retail salesrooms.
Provides police training course credit to prior military law enforcement officer seeking employment as law enforcement officer in NJ.
Makes various changes to regulation of health care service firms.
Provides that Palisades Interstate Park Commission is eligible to receive certain funding from New Jersey Infrastructure Bank.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $615,000 to DHS for grant to NJ 2-1-1 Partnership.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $45,000,000 from Transportation Trust Fund Account - Subaccount for Capital Reserves to Palisades Interstate Park Commission for certain construction projects.
Expands protections under "Daniel's Law"; requires Office of Information Privacy to establish portal for prohibiting disclosure of personal information by private entities and establishes penalties for failure to comply.
Establishes New Jersey-India Commission.
Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride-sharing and delivery technology platforms.
Designates Hackensack City as urban enterprise zone.
Expands "Daniel's Law" protections; requires Office of Information Privacy to establish portal for prohibiting disclosure of personal information by private entities and establishes penalties for failure to comply.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing and treatments to slow progression of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Improves access to lower-cost generic and biosimilar drugs.
Eliminates certain requirements for employers following separations from employment.
Amends telehealth and telemedicine law concerning prescription of Schedule II drugs to certain patients.
Makes FY2027 supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to DHS for NJ 2-1-1 Partnership Operating Aid.
Concerns investigative genetic genealogy; appropriates $500,000.
Provides drivers in transportation network industry right to collectively bargain on labor terms and conditions; establishes oversight authority in Division of Private Employment Dispute Settlement.
Clarifies independent contractor status for certain creative professionals.
Concerns definition of veteran for purpose of affordable housing preference.
"School District Health Procurement Efficiency Act."
Filed1
Exempts law enforcement body worn camera recordings from disclosure under State's open public records law under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
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.*
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Enters NJ into Athletic Trainer Compact.
Appropriates $77,406,208 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Passed both houses · 1
Exempts reverse mortgage transaction from requirement that secondary mortgage loan payments be made in equal amounts and payment periods.
Passed the Senate · 9
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidance on accommodations for certain students fasting for religious or medical reasons.*
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Increases amount of rental payments defined as rent constituting property taxes for purposes of deduction from gross income for property tax payments; increases property tax credit option for certain individuals.
Codifies Bringing Veterans Home Initiative.
Allows law enforcement agencies to distribute epinephrine to officers; requires training.
Permits member of New Jersey National Guard to transfer 50 percent of certain tuition benefit to dependent child or 100 percent of certain tuition benefit to spouse.
Provides for inclusion of alcohol manufacturers on highway signs; provides for internet site for alcohol manufacturers in New Jersey.
Permits mortgage loan originators to work from remote locations under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 26
Authorizes creation of "250th Anniversary Revolutionary War" license plates.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey." **
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
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.
Establishes "Jersey Craft Beverage Retailer Promotion and Grant Program" in EDA.
Exempts poll workers wages from affecting unemployment compensation.
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Establishes "Cop 2 Cop Sustainability Fund" to support "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" Cop 2 Cop telephone hotline program; appropriates $500,000.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Prohibits sharing automated license plate reader information for interstate investigation concerning reproductive health care services that are legal in NJ.
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Establishes fully autonomous vehicle pilot program.*
Renames Blue Star Memorial Highway Council as Blue and Gold Star Memorial Highway Council; renames Blue Star Memorial Highway system as Blue and Gold Star Memorial Highway system.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Expands liability of certain individuals associated with limited liability companies and other commercial entities, when acting as residential landlord.
"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.*
Permits issuance of motorcycle endorsement to certain out-of-State military personnel.
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.
Supplements FY2026 Appropriations Act; makes $10 million off-budget appropriation to NJSHARES - S.M.A.R.T. Program.
Codifies AG directive, "Strengthening Trust Between Law Enforcement and Immigrant Communities."
Modifies requirements for licensure in marriage and family therapy.
Establishes advertising set-asides for eligible local news organizations.*
Regulates use of artificial intelligence-based systems for electronic monitoring regarding employment and public services.
Authorizes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in places of religious worship; makes certain clarifications concerning their use in nonpublic schools.
Establishes pilot program in certain counties to provide funding for nonpublic school nursing services through county consortium of nonpublic schools.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to establish New Jersey Film Trail.
In committee · 101
Modifies requirements for associations to protect structural integrity of certain buildings; expands timeframes for associations to establish adequate reserves.
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.
Provides certain requirements concerning railroad safety.
Modifies method of allocating State aid for providing auxiliary and remedial services to nonpublic school students.
Imposes requirements on video visitation service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities; requires correctional facilities to allow contact visits.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Requires Department of Agriculture to establish Farm Vitality Planning Reimbursement Grant Program.
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "noncitizen" and "undocumented noncitizen," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
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.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Expands Medicare health care coverage to all New Jersey residents.
Requires Administrative Law Judges to be enrolled in Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS.
Prohibits sale of cats, dogs, or rabbits by pet shops; repeals "Pet Purchase Protection Act."
Provides free telecommunication services for incarcerated persons at State, county, and private adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
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.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging stations and for commercial zero emission vehicle fleet conversions.
Establishes NJ Wind Institute for Innovation and Training.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires DEP to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.
Regulates smoking in casinos and casino simulcasting facilities.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.
Establishes "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses."
Establishes Commission on Insurance Reimbursement.
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.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of machine gun conversion device.
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Adds fusion to types of Class I renewable energies as defined for purposes of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to support Pantoliano-DePass school based mentoring pilot program in certain Bergen County school districts.
Revises film and digital media content production tax credit program to include requirement for production of domestic original music and musical scores.
Establishes bribery in official and political matters applies to person soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept benefit as consideration to act even though not yet in office or otherwise qualified to act.
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Prosecutorial Review in but not of DLPS.
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Broadens eligibility for certain civil service and pension benefits for veterans by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires outdoor lighting fixtures installed or replaced by, or on behalf of State, or at projects receiving State funds, to meet certain criteria.
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 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.
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.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
Exempts nonresident military spouses from "New Jersey First Act."
Provides gross income tax deduction for expenses incurred by disabled veterans for service animals.
Exempts local utilities from certain reporting requirements.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Requires pay for extracurricular activities to be included in compensation for TPAF purposes.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
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.
Authorizes provision of monetary awards to whistleblowers who report State tax law violations committed by employers in construction industry.
Increases transparency and accountability for NJT and independence of NJT board members; establishes Office of Customer Advocate; requires greater detail for capital program.
Establishes "New Economy Opportunity Skills System Pilot Program" to strengthen alignment and collaboration between local workforce development boards, community colleges, and county vocational school districts; makes appropriation.
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Establishes Office of New Americans in Department of Human Services.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to make changes to certain polices regarding the provision of family support and respite care services for certain eligible individuals.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to make feminine hygiene products of varying absorbency levels available to female inmates.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 to Division on Civil Rights.
Provides for certain pediatric NJ FamilyCare beneficiaries to maintain private duty nursing hours when transitioning to Managed Long Term Services and Supports; codifies and expands appeals provisions for private duty nursing services.
Requires school districts to include information on events of September 11, 2001 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires public schools to hold annual events commemorating September 11, 2001.
Expands categories of individuals who may bring a claim under wrongful imprisonment statute.
Legalizes growing or possessing up to six marijuana plants for personal recreational use, and up to 10 plants for personal medical use, by persons aged 21 or older.
Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrator of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
Establishes "Equitable Drug Pricing and Patient Access Act."
Requires Director of Division of Local Government Services in DCA to establish grant program to enhance local government efficiency; appropriates $1.5 million.
Increases FY2026 annual appropriation to DCF by $16.7 million to increase NJ FamilyCare monthly reimbursement rate paid to care management organizations.
Establishes "New Jersey Migrant and Refugee Assistance Act."
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Requires appointment of State Dementia Services Coordinator; appropriates $150,000.
Establishes pharmacist licensing exemption for certain dialysis-related drugs and devices.
Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Requires Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services in cases of iatrogenic infertility caused by medically necessary treatments.
Changes certain allocations and amounts of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for Fiscal Year 2026 and thereafter; authorizes Garden State Preservation Trust and local governments to acquire lands in urban areas for agricultural or horticultural purposes.
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
Requires NJT to establish contactless payment system to rail passenger service.
Exempts certain workers and organizations from Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.
Concerns New Jersey 2-1-1 information and referral system; makes appropriation.
Prohibits electric public utilities from charging public entities fees for relocating utility poles.
Clarifies that amateur sports official is independent contractor for purposes of State employment laws.
Prohibits credit and debit card interchange fees in certain circumstances.
"Community-led Birthing Justice and Equity Resource Initiative Program Act;" appropriates $12 million.
Removes exclusion of certain institutions of higher education under "Responsible Collective Negotiations Act."
Establishes "Targeted Midwifery Workforce Development Act"; appropriates $12 million.
Permits for-profit movie theater to acquire plenary retail consumption license.
"Public School Employees' Health Benefits Trust Act."
Modifies procedures for parole release, early discharge from parole, and penalties for certain parole violations.
Makes various changes to SHBP governance and administration.
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Requires school districts to include instruction on significance of Juneteenth Independence Day as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires health care claims experience data to be shared with local governments.
Requires health insurers to provide reason for denial of coverage for private duty nursing.
Makes FY2027 supplemental appropriation of $455,000 to DOH for NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders.
Requires public school employee to be natural person.