Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Claire S. Swift
Sponsored
In committee7
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit program to benefit certain low-income households.
Creates offenses related to election officials; permits election workers to shield personal information from public.
"Gas Tax Rebate"; provides temporary gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers to offset rising gas prices.
Requires temporary detention and notification to parent or guardian of underage person who unlawfully purchases or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis.
Permits appointment of Class Three special law enforcement officers by county sheriffs.
Requires grading of offenses involving manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin based on dosage units in addition to weight.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Extends authorization for Internet gaming law to 2028.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Appropriates $87,783,515 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 the General Assembly · 2
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Establishes New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force; clarifies collection of student growth data.*
Out of committee · 16
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
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.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
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.*
Authorizes CRDA to finance transportation projects between Atlantic City Airport and Atlantic City Tourism District.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Includes electronic sports event as sports wagering; authorizes electronic sports wagering at certain locations.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
Concerns jurisdiction and operations of regional municipal courts.
In committee · 33
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.
Allows commercial farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers for increases in certain mandatory employer contributions.
Authorizes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security at public and private colleges.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Requires Office of Information Technology to establish centralized, one-stop website resource guide to assist persons in navigating the State's mental health and substance use disorder service systems.
Requires MVC to provide certain vehicle and licensing services in each county in State.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
Requires State employees work in person if job requires face-to-face interaction with public; requires State agency provide alternatives if closure is unpreventable.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Permits religious services during state of emergency or public health emergency declarations by Governor.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Establishes "ATV Law Enforcement Task Force" to enhance and coordinate efforts to enforce laws pertaining to ATVs; appropriates $1 million.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Requires premium payment made to municipality by purchaser of tax lien to be paid to property owner under certain circumstances.
Requires certain group homes and supervised apartments to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas under certain circumstances; "Billy Cray's Law."