Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Kristin M. Corrado
Sponsored
Passed the Senate2
Requires transportation network company to provide live customer service representative and certain notification to riders.
Requires DMVA assist discharged service members who have diagnosed service-connected mental health condition with petitions to change discharge designation.
Out of committee6
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.*
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Establishes matching grant program in DCA to support community-based nonprofit organizations that provide shelter services during Code Blue alerts.
In committee102
Increases maximum gross income tax deduction for homestead property taxes paid to $25,000.
Establishes "Task Force on Supportive Technology for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities."
Establishes minimum level of domestic violence and sexual assault training for judges and judicial personnel.
Upgrades burglary of a residence to a crime of the second degree; requires mandatory period of parole ineligibility if residence was occupied at time of offense.
Establishes "Commission on Statewide Affordable Housing Obligations" to determine Statewide need for low and moderate income housing.
Eliminates NJ Schools Development Authority and transfers its school construction responsibilities to EDA.
Deactivates certain committees, councils, panels, and task forces of advisory or temporary nature if entity does not meet or have quorum at least once every year.
"Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act"; requires institutions of higher education to implement mental health programs and services.
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.
Requires commissioner of registration to move voters with undeliverable mail-in ballots to inactive file; removes such inactive voters from Statewide voter registration system following failure to vote in two consecutive federal general elections.
Requires county boards of elections to establish ballot drop boxes at each office of municipal clerk.
Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.
Exempts poll worker wages from affecting unemployment compensation.
Requires Secretary of State create website for voters to report irregularities regarding mail-in ballots; establishes "Vote by Mail Study Commission."
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Creates "Disability Life-Sustaining Measures Advisory Council."
Requires MVC to allow person to indicate special needs with motor vehicle registration.
Provides that disability-owned businesses be included in certain businesses development programs, direct loan programs, and certification processes; requires Chief Diversity Officer compile information on awarding of State contracts to disability-owned businesses.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Permits exemption from certain civil service examinations for person with disability.
Prioritizes distribution of 9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund monies; permits use of funds for certain expenses incurred by counties and municipalities for the provision and maintenance of 9-1-1 emergency services.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to reopen programs providing functional services to persons with developmental disabilities in same manner as schools.
Prohibits mandatory mask use in licensed child care centers.
Prohibits mandatory mask use at youth camps.
Requires long-term care facilities to submit reports regarding residents with disabilities.
Revises requirements for health insurers to cover telemedicine and telehealth; requires telemedicine and telehealth systems to include accessible communication features for individuals with disabilities.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Requires Director of Division of Developmental Disabilities to align rates for self-directed employees with maximum service provider rates.
Establishes right of hospital patients to be accompanied by patient advocate.
Authorizes purchaser of automobile by private sale to operate automobile for three-day period following purchase without permanent registration or transfer of title.
Authorizes direct shipping by craft distilleries.
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure One-Step Career Centers reopen immediately and remain open during public health emergency.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit ADA Task Force."
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
Permits dismissal of certain motor vehicle violations if defendant corrects issue within allotted time frame and provides acceptable documentation.
Bars individual from serving as county prosecutor in acting capacity for longer than one year, including pending nominee for position.
Establishes requirement that county prosecutor reside in county of appointment during term of appointment and until qualified successor is appointed.
Requires 10 percent of certain federal education relief funds, approximating $26.2 million, be dedicated specifically to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare report on learning loss of students with developmental disabilities during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Permits members of NJ National Guard to be election workers under certain circumstances.
Requires institutions of higher education and government employers to provide certain students and employees with information about Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Requires public schools, and nonpublic schools which receive federal funding, to provide students with information on rights afforded under Title IX, and provide contact information for Title IX coordinator.
Updates definition of veteran to include discharged LGBTQ veteran; requires DMVA develop review process for such veterans.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Authorizes private persons to display American flag on bridges and overpasses that travel over property of NJTA and SJTA; prohibits NJTA and SJTA from removing American flag under certain circumstances.
"College Mental Health Services Act"; establishes grant program for public institutions of higher education and requires public institutions of higher education to report certain information concerning mental health treatment and suicides.
Establishes task force to study impact of COVID-19 on children's health.
Requires DOLWD to process unemployment claims within two weeks of filing.
Directs Secretary of State to establish election incident reporting and complaint database; requires certain telephone numbers be provided with voter instructions.
Establishes "Parents Bill of Rights Act"; prohibits school district from interfering with fundamental right of parent or guardian to engage in and direct student's education; permits opt-out of school district curriculum.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location.
Provides temporary extension of service life of school buses for one year; authorizes chief administrator to provide additional extensions.
Removes requirements for weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated school district employees.
Requires driver to submit to evaluation by drug recognition expert when involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
Permits county clerk to remove voters from vote-by-mail lists under certain circumstances.
Requires Secretary of State and county commissioners of registration to perform audit of voter registration records in Statewide Voter Registration System.
Requires school psychologists and school counselors to complete mental health first aid training.
Authorizes issuance of classic NJ license plates.
Increases degree of crime for unlawful taking of motor vehicle.
Creates second degree crime for operation of stolen vehicle in manner that creates risk of injury to person or property.
Requires DMVA establish Veterans Outdoor Recovery Task Force.
Requires proof of ownership prior to resale of catalytic converter and upgrades theft of catalytic converter to one degree higher than underlying offense.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $10 million to DOT for construction of highway guard rail along entirety of Route 208 through Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, Hawthorne, Glen Rock, Fair Lawn, and Oakland in sections without highway guard rail, where necessary to ensure health and safety of motorists and residents whose properties abut Route 208.
Prohibits DOH from issuing recommendations or regulations that are more stringent than recommendations or regulations issued by federal government.
Requires health insurance coverage for annual mental health screening.
Allows gross income tax deduction for up to $1,200 of unreimbursed expenses incurred by eligible educators for purchase of classroom supplies.
Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.
Establishes Military Suicide Prevention Task Force.
Requires MVC to safeguard automatic voter registration process.
Requires placement of portable FDA-approved anti-choking devices in schools.
Exempts election worker compensation from taxation.
Establishes Open Public Records Act Study Commission.
Requires State to reimburse licensing costs for certain school bus drivers.
Requires public officer or employee forfeit pension upon conviction of certain crimes; alters factors determining honorable service; opens pension to garnishment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Requires NJT to provide Wi-Fi service on passenger trains.
Eliminates prohibition on provision of single-use paper and plastic carryout bags by grocery stores for delivery, pick-up or curbside pickup orders.
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with physical disabilities.
Revises definition of domestic violence to include psychological abuse and economic abuse.
Establishes "Non-College Advancement Act"; makes appropriation.
Prohibits use of facial recognition technology on consumer except for legitimate safety purpose.
Streamlines emergency medical technician certification process for certain veterans.
Qualifies certain disabled veterans for toll rate exemptions and exemptions from motor vehicle registration fees.
Requires institutions of higher education to compile and report success in meeting performance metrics.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.
Requires public institution of higher education to study cost drivers, administrative productivity, organizational structure, space utilization, and faculty productivity.
Requires MVC and AAA to contract to allow for provision of certain motor vehicle services at AAA facilities.
Requires school districts to let nonpublic school students participate in district high school interscholastic athletics.
Establishes student-athlete mental health specialists in school districts and public institutions of higher education; creates student-athlete mental health registry; makes appropriation.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to publish cannabis-related fatal motor vehicle crash statistics.
Upgrades strict liability vehicular homicide to crime of second degree.
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
Codifies and revises background check and other requirements for certain individuals working with children.
Establishes the New Jersey State Government and Civil Service Student Internship Program; appropriates $750,000.
Allows candidates for Senate and General Assembly to appear together in same nominating petition.
Requires biennial inspection of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Increases cap on grants for farmland stewardship activities to $100,000 per application.
Requires health insurance carriers to use federal resource-based relative value scale when determining reimbursement values for evaluation and management billing codes appended by modifier 25.
Adds Bergen County as pilot county for purposes of "Common Sense Shared Services Pilot Program Act."
Establishes Organized Retail Theft Prosecution Unit in DLPS.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law1
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Requires certain transportation research to consider needs of individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, and developmental disabilities.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Provides for lifetime disqualification from operating commercial motor vehicle and transportation network company vehicle for persons convicted of human trafficking.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Authorizes transfer on death (TOD) of title to motor vehicle.
Allows unions to file wage claim suits on behalf of workers regardless of their union affiliation.
Requires public works contractor registration and payroll certification for public works projects to be completed online.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Prohibits water utility from taking certain actions if utility fails to participate in Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
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.
Passed the Senate · 3
Requires employer or contractor engaged in goverment work for a public body to register with and submit payroll records to DOLWD.
Requires DMVA establish Disabled Veterans Transportation Task Force.
Requires private bus operators to provide notice and hold public meetings for certain service changes.*
Out of committee · 34
Allows parent or primary caregiver of person with autism to apply for use of reserved parking zones.
Authorizes military service members, spouses, and dependents with out-of-state domicile to operate motor vehicles in New Jersey.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on menstrual toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of menstrual toxic shock syndrome.*
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats program in the DMVA; appropriates $400,000.
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.
Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Requires transportation network companies to share information concerning sexual misconduct investigation of driver; authorizes transportation network company to ban drivers from accessing digital network during and following investigation.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Provides temporary one-year extension of service life of school buses for 2022-2023 school year; authorizes chief administrator to allow one-year extension in subsequent two school years.*
Requires MVC to prompt applicant for certain documents to enter information into "Next-of-Kin Registry."
Increases qualified research expenses tax credit for corporation business taxpayers engaged in targeted industries; increases basic research payment tax credit; allows research tax credit to be refundable.
Requires MVC to administer electronic transaction system for used motor vehicle sales within certain time period; authorizes use of same system for private motor vehicle sales.
Concerns prevailing wage law requirements for public institutions of higher education.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Expands crime of leader of auto theft trafficking network; establishes third degree crime of participant in auto theft trafficking network.*
Requires parental notification when seclusion technique is utilized on student with disabilities; requires DOE to collect data on students disabilities regarding exclusion from school pending psychiatric clearance and utilization of restraints and seclusion.
Establishes penalties for person who commits motor vehicle noise violation.*
Authorizes surviving spouse or family member of decedent to use motor vehicle registration certificate of decedent until registration certificate expires.
Authorizes creation of Woman Veteran license plates.
Establishes process to identify and facilitate final disposition of unclaimed veteran cremains.*
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Provides exemption from State permit fees to owners of commercial farms rebuilding from natural disaster.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DMVA for New Jersey SOS Veterans Stakeholders Group.*
Extends useful service life of certain school buses to 20 years; provides temporary one-year extension of service life of Type S school buses.*
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching disabled vehicles.
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Establishes "Volunteer Fire Company Assistance Program" in DCA to support operations and sustainability of volunteer fire companies; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes Training Clinicians to Support Adults with Autism Workforce Development Program in Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services; appropriates $500,000.
In committee · 73
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Permits religious services during state of emergency or public health emergency declarations by Governor.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
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.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Mandates access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plan or program provided by the public employer.
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator in DMVA.
Establishes Office of Women's Services in DOC.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to qualified veterans purchasing franchises.
Requires MVC to provide certain vehicle and licensing services in each county in State.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Prohibits bill certified for fiscal note or estimate from being released from committee without fiscal note or estimate.
Establishes certain animal abuse offenses committed in manner manifesting extreme indifference to value of animal's life as crime of second degree; designated as "River's Law."
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Allocates $200 million to Department of Labor and Workforce Development to improve unemployment insurance infrastructure technology.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Provides veterans with up to 60 credits tuition-free at county college serving county of residence.
Permits State and county boards of election to purchase or lease decommissioned letter collection boxes for use as ballot drop boxes.
Prohibits open public records requests for commercial purposes.
Authorizes Commissioner of Transportation to allow painting of blue line between double yellow centerline marking on public roads.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires public schools to post curriculum plans online; requires school districts to make textbooks or other materials used in implementing curriculum plans available for inspection by parents and legal guardians.
Provides that former law enforcement officers who retired due to disability are eligible to receive tuition assistance to attend public institution of higher education or proprietary institution licensed to confer academic degrees.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Creates "New Jersey Anti-Semitism Task Force".
Requires COAH to credit municipalities with units against fair share affordable housing obligation for certain types of housing; provides certain types of affordable housing units will be credited as two units.
Permits person diagnosed with autism or communication disability to voluntarily make notation on driver's license, identification card, and in MVC registry; establishes program to train law enforcement officers in interactions with persons with autism or communication disabilities.
Allocates $2.5 billion to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
Provides assistance to business accelerators and incubators and startup businesses located within those business accelerators and incubators.
Concerns vaccine mandates and eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain health care workers.
Permits police officers to travel to and from and remain within police station located within 100 feet of polling place; permits Class Three special law enforcement officers to be assigned to certain polling places.
Allows gross income tax credit for Tax Year 2021.
Suspends automatic voter registration until implementation of standards and procedures to maintain accuracy of voter rolls.
"Gas Price and Inflation Tax Credit Act."
Permits school districts to define excused absences from school to include illness based on student's mental or behavioral health and requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for defining excused absence for this reason.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Establishes "New Jersey No Patient Left Alone Act"; requires certain facilities to establish policies guaranteeing visitation rights for facility residents.
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Requires Commissioner of Education to review school safety and security plans.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt training course on school emergency response.
Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students to receive COVID-19 vaccination.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Requires State Board of Education to provide five days' notice of public meeting and permit public comment on agenda items of public meeting.
Increases personal needs allowance to $100 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Delays fourth round of affordable housing obligations, including present and prospective need and related litigation, until July 1, 2028.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements related to affordable housing obligations; establishes approval role of DCA and Attorney General.
"New Jersey Fostering Success Voucher Act"; provides rental assistance and case management services for certain young adults leaving foster care or kinship care; appropriates $10 million.
Expands Community College Opportunity Grant Program to include career and technical education programs at county colleges and county vocational schools.
Provides additional ways for transferring deceased voter's record to Statewide voter registration system's death file; requires Secretary of State match registration system with Social Security Administration deceased persons database.
Requires State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct study of utilization of disabled veteran-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Gravesite Maintenance Grant Program in DMVA.
Credits $2.35 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $4.32 billion to Department of Treasury to provide funds to municipalities and counties for debt retirement and avoidance.
Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology.
Protects children from certain mandatory vaccinations as a condition of school attendance.
Establishes School Plastics Upcycling Grant Program in DEP to provide proportional awards to eligible schools based on pro rata share of plastics collected, by each school, for upcycling purposes; appropriates $5 million.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish and maintain common application and web portal for substitute teachers seeking employment at public schools.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Requires public institution of higher education to readmit student whose enrollment was interrupted due to military service.
Requires institutions of higher education to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.