Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Claire S. Swift
Sponsored
Out of committee1
"Political Donation Transparency Act;" prohibits automatic enrollment in recurring political contributions and establishes penalties for violators.
In committee27
Requires public school with any of grades 9 through 12 to discuss with students and parents employment opportunities as skilled laborer or through military enlistment or in agriculture.
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.
Establishes school district grant program in DOE to reimburse public school teachers for classroom material expenditures.
Provides tax credits to restaurant owners to offset increase in State minimum wage rate.
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.
Provides gross income tax credit for A-list performing artists for income derived from certain live performances contracted for and rendered within the Atlantic City Tourism District on a recurring basis and within the State.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Requires preservation of employee benefits and contractual rights as condition of sale of Atlantic City International Airport.
Provides tuition-free credits to certain institutions of higher education for certain law enforcement officers and firefighters and their spouses and dependents.
Requires public institutions of higher education to adopt test-optional admissions policy.
Provides sales tax exemption for maintaining, servicing, or repairing of aircraft and sales of machinery or equipment and replacement parts installed on aircraft within aviation district.
Provides that certain sending school districts will continue to have representation on certain receiving boards of education despite decreases in enrollment numbers.
Establishes Elementary Home Reading Grant Program; appropriates $500,000 to DOE from federal funds.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish guidelines regarding best practices for student financial aid offers.
Requires public employers that offer deferred compensation retirement plans to also offer Roth contribution option.
Clarifies regional municipal court jurisdiction over State Police and other matters originating outside of participating municipalities.
Establishes maximum rate of interest for New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Student Loan Program; establishes protections for private student loan borrowers.
Changes underage gambling from disorderly persons offense to civil penalty; provides for deposit of all associated fines to local public safety funds.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
"Atlantic City Urban Enterprise Zone and Property Tax Relief Act"; creates urban enterprise zone in Atlantic City for 10 years.
Establishes "Cyber Security Reserve Corps;" appropriates $500,000.
Requires low-speed electric bicycles and low-speed electric scooters to be insured and registered with MVC; requires MVC to develop a safety training module for registration.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Revises process for property tax lien holder to foreclose right to redeem a property tax lien; allows property owner to protect remaining equity.
"Illicit Opioid Supply Substances Poisoning Awareness Act"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of illicit opioid substances.*
"New Jersey Design Professional Self-Certification Act"; requires DCA to establish design professional self-certification program.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Revises penalty for underage gambling to be civil penalty; provides for all associated fines to be used for gambling addiction treatment.
Requires transfer of certain participants of DCRP to PERS.*
Out of committee · 16
Establishes program in SADC for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.*
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Includes electronic sports event as sports wagering; authorizes electronic sports wagering at certain locations.
Requires Administrative Law Judges to be enrolled in Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS.
Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote State aquaculture products through Jersey Fresh Program; establishes annual $25,000 appropriation.*
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.*
Designates State Highway Route 42 and Interstate Highway Route 295 interchange as "Ensign John R. Elliott Memorial Interchange."*
Prohibits DCF from using federal benefits received by a child in out of home placement to reimburse State for cost of child's care, except under certain circumstances.
"Welcome Home Veterans Act"; requires MVC to provide veteran benefit information packets.
Permits restaurants and certain alcoholic beverage retailers and manufacturers to conduct business within designated outdoor space or on public sidewalk.
Requires AG to establish ballistics analysis device pilot program in certain municipalities.
Makes various changes to SHBP plan offerings and governance.
In committee · 81
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.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Establishes "ATV Law Enforcement Task Force" to enhance and coordinate efforts to enforce laws pertaining to ATVs; appropriates $1 million.
Allows possession of bear spray under certain conditions.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Bars expungement of conviction, arrest, or charge if crime or offense involved domestic violence.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Changes eligibility of Administrative Law Judges from DCRP to PERS.
Removes income-based limitations on gross income tax exclusion for pension and retirement income.
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
"Fairness in Women's Sport Act."
Permits religious services during state of emergency or public health emergency declarations by Governor.
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.
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.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Authorizes members of the New Jersey State Legislature to solemnize marriages and civil unions.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Requires reporting of suicide attempts made by first responders.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
"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.
Increases PFRS accidental disability and accidental death pension when disability or death is caused by weapon.
Permits surviving spouse of retired member of PFRS to be enrolled in SHBP and to continue to receive pension benefit after remarriage in certain circumstances.
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires annual suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Requires certain group homes and supervised apartments to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas under certain circumstances; "Billy Cray's Law."
Provides gross income tax credit for certain homeschooling expenses incurred by parent or guardian with increased credit for taxpayers homeschooling child or dependent with special needs.
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.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
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.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Establishes Veterans Suicide Prevention Commission.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
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.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
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.
Establishes presumption of pretrial detention for certain vehicular offenses.
Requires premium payment made to municipality by purchaser of tax lien to be paid to property owner under certain circumstances.
Establishes lifeguard recruitment campaign; appropriates $1 million.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Increases penalties for human trafficking of children.
Requires AG to defend challenges to certain municipal ordinances that establish residency requirements for convicted sex offenders.
Permits board of chosen freeholders to establish "Sharing Resources" grant and loan program to encourage shared services and municipal consolidation.
Exempts cribs, child restraint systems, nursing bottles, and strollers from sales and use tax.
Requires SJTA to suspend certain tolls on the Atlantic City Expressway in certain circumstances.
Establishes "The Voter Convenience Act" to allow voters to vote at any polling place in their municipality on election day.
Prohibits operation of drone over school under certain circumstances.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than two percent over prior academic year.
Includes Sikhs as protected class in bias intimidation law; appropriates $100,000.
Allows exclusion of certain small business income from taxation under gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Allows expectant mothers in third trimester to receive temporary parking privileges.
Changes certain Mobility and Transportation Innovation Pilot Program requirements; appropriates $20 million.
Authorizes Division of Gaming Enforcement to participate in national self-exclusion list for gaming activities, and to create necessary forms for participation.
Requires Cannabis Regulatory Commission to establish procedure for persons to voluntarily prohibit self from entering dispensary.
Excludes tips from gross income tax.
Revises credentialing process for physicians attempting to enter a health insurance carrier's provider network.
"Small Modular Nuclear Energy Incentive Act."
Provides TPAF members and certain retirees same benefits provided to members enrolled in retirement system before July 1, 2007.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to make feminine hygiene products of varying absorbency levels available to female inmates.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Requires DEP and New Jersey Infrastructure Bank to provide priority for principal forgiveness on environmental infrastructure project loans to municipalities in coastal areas.
Prohibits certain electric public utility rate increases and requires certain protections for ratepayers.
Expands available protections against fraudulent recording of quitclaim deed.
Repeals law prohibiting sale or distribution of single-use plastic carryout bags, single-use paper carryout bags, polystyrene foam food service products, and single-use plastic straws.
Revises certain laws governing police and fire interest arbitration.
Requires Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of on-farm dairy processing activities.