Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Pamela R. Lampitt
Sponsored
Became law9
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Requires health care professionals engaged in prenatal care to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.*
Extends health benefits coverage of a newborn infant.
Creates license to manufacture and sell hard cider and mead.*
Allows School of Osteopathic Medicine at Rowan University to maintain principal clinical affiliation with either osteopathic or allopathic hospital.
Provides civil immunity to persons who forcibly enter motor vehicles to remove unattended and unsupervised children.
"Charlie's Law"; Establishes civil penalties for persons who interfere with or deny persons with disabilities accompanied by service or guide dogs access to places of public accommodation.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, and certain services to maintain and repair breast pumps.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to notify students and parents of availability of summer meals programs and locations where meals are served.
Passed the General Assembly7
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.*
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.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Permits cosmetology and hairstyling school clinics to charge certain fees for services rendered to general public.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.*
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Provides for registration and accreditation of human milk banks.*
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Study Advisory Council.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and teleheath. *
Ensures equal rights and opportunities for pregnant students in institutions of higher education.*
Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students who have children to purchase meal plans, live in on-campus housing, or pay gym fees.
Prohibits institution of higher education that provides child care from charging student-parent who receives child care voucher under "New Jersey Cares for Kids Program" an amount for child care in excess of voucher amount.
Requires health benefits coverage for donated human breast milk under certain conditions.
Concerns discrimination because of familial status.
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Concerns unlawful employment practices based on provision of health benefits plans.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Permits testing and use of autonomous vehicles on State roadways under certain circumstances.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Permits young adult who is claimed as a dependent on a relative's tax return to receive Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance benefits.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to improve transparency of tuition and fees.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Requires bidders on certain State contracts to disclose, and Department of Treasury to publish, certain gender wage information.
Clarifies that owners of self-driving motor vehicles must comply with existing insurance requirements.
Allows hospice care programs to accept unused prescription medications for disposal under certain circumstances.
Removes requirement that limited brewery licensees provide tour when selling beer to consumers and permits certain food consumption on premise.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Establishes "Address Confidentiality Program for Reproductive Health Service Employees and Clients."
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
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Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.
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 public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.
Provides for Medicaid coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation services and prohibits certain restrictions on coverage.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
The "New Jersey Intern Protection Act"; provides legal protections and remedies for persons engaged in internships with employers.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
"The Child and Family Suicide Prevention Act;" requires training related to screening for suicide prevention for pediatricians, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses.
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Requires institutions of higher education to inquire about student's marital and parental status.
Requires HMFA to establish "Sustainable Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to make comprehensive list of its programs available to public.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Permits pharmacists to provide self-administered hormonal contraceptives to patients over the counter.
Establishes protection from adverse employment action for authorized medical marijuana patients.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of certain entities from using title of psychologist.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Establishes separate class of claims against insolvent estates for child support judgments; modifies order for payment of claims by representative of insolvent estate.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Directs certain recoveries of federal funds for services to persons with developmental disabilities be used for grants to support community infrastructure purposes.
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Authorizes DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to permit BPU-certified persons to install and maintain solar photovoltaic panels on noise barriers erected on roads and highways.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Provides veterans with up to 60 credits tuition-free at county college serving county of residence.
Requires New Jersey Transit to offer discount passes to all New Jersey higher education students.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to address school climate issues related to harassment, intimidation, and bullying in public schools.
Requires public institution of higher education to notify the parents of certain dependent students, without prior consent of the student, when student receives mental health treatment at the institution.
Requires school district that includes any of grades 9 through 12 to biannually provide to local Workforce Investment Board list of students who left school prior to graduation.
Requires human papillomavirus vaccinations for students in grades six through 12.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Prohibits home-schooling of children under DCPP care, custody, or supervision without DCPP approval.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Establishes grant program for constructing kitchen facilities in licensed child care centers; appropriates $1,000,000.
Transfers administration of programs for certain individuals with developmental disabilities from DHS to DCF.
Concerns eligibility requirements for licensed professional counselors and associate counselors.
Requires health insurance carriers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for telemedicine.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Prohibits payment for unused sick leave earned after effective date by public officers and employees not represented by union; for all public employees, limits vacation leave carry-forward and requires suspension and forfeiture of certain supplemental com
Limits payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date by public officers or employees represented by union; for all public employees, limits vacation leave carry-forward and requires suspension and forfeiture of certain supplemental compensati
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave; limits employment for certain public employees.
"Pedestrian Safety Act"; establishes motor vehicle offense of unlawful use of hand-held wireless telephone by pedestrians on roadways.
Creates license to produce and sell hard cider.
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
"Children's Caregivers Act"; revises requirements for primary caregivers for medical marijuana patients who are minors.
Requires vitamin K to be administered to newborns within six hours of birth.
Clarifies that apologies by health care facilities and professionals to patients or their representatives for adverse events disclosed under "Patient Safety Act" are excluded from discovery and inadmissible in legal actions involving facilities and profes
Concerns employer inquiries about wage and salary history.
Requires newly appointed members of boards of trustees of county colleges to complete training program concerning duties of board member.
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.
Requires retail health clinics to develop policies and procedures identifying services provided by the clinics.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Establishes standards for food date labeling; requires Commissioner of Health to establish public education program and promulgate guidelines related to food safety.
Requires plaintiff to obtain affidavit of merit in malpractice suit against enrolled agent.
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Commission to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal death in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care.
Permits counties and non-governmental, community-based agencies to establish family justice centers which provide coordinated, multi-agency governmental and non-govermental assistance to victims of certain crimes and offenses, including domestic violence,
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and telehealth.*
Provides for registration and accreditation of human milk banks.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Ensures equal rights and opportunities for pregnant students in institutions of higher education.*
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Allows hospice care programs to accept unused prescription medications for disposal under certain circumstances.
Requires health benefits coverage for donated human breast milk under certain conditions.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Vetoed3
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to improve transparency of tuition and fees.
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 49
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Authorizes medical marijuana for qualifying patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.*
Permits a victim or witness of any age to testify by closed circuit television under certain circumstances in prosecutions for domestic violence, sexual assault, and certain other crimes.*
Requires DLPS to establish and make available to law enforcement agencies cultural diversity training materials and online tutorial.*
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships.
Establishes Chief Diversity Officer to monitor participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Provides for voluntary discharge of personal representitives overseeing administration of estates by application to the Surrogate's Court.**
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Expands civil rights protections to include breastfeeding; requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding mothers.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 6 months.*
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers; prohibits certain practices under vision care provider contracts.*
Establishes New Jersey Military Skills Council.
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
Allows use of rear view backup camera and parking sensors during road test.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.*
Permits certain public institutions of higher education to make purchases and contract for services as participating contracting units in cooperative pricing systems and through use of nationally-recognized and accepted cooperative purchasing agreements.
"Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act"; authorizes executor, agent, guardian, or trustee, under certain circumstances, to manage electronic records of decedent, principal, incapacitated person, or trust creator.
Requires initial determination of unemployment benefits to be made within three weeks of filing of claim.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Designates USS New Jersey as New Jersey State Ship.
Establishes "High School to College Readiness Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to enhance student preparation for postsecondary education.
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation.*
Requires State Auditor to annually report on unspent State account balances.
Allows domestic violence victims to cancel television and telephone service contracts without paying early termination fee.
Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*
Establishes Gold Star Family Counseling Program in DMVA; creates tax credit for certain health care professionals.
Authorizes certain benefits for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Provides increased tax credit amounts under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program for certain businesses that have collaborative research relationships with colleges or universities.*
Clarifies that authorized persons and entities may administer a single dose of any opioid antidote, or multiple doses of any intranasal or intramuscular opioid antidote to overdose victims, with immunity under "Overdose Prevention Act." *
Streamlines authorization for farmers market programs to participate in WIC and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Establishes an apprenticeship requirement to qualify for an electrical contractor's license.
Creates viticulture trail tourist directional signs.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Establishes an animal abuser registry.
Concerns employer inquiries about worker's wage and salary experience.*
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
Jake's Law; Incentivizes counties to design and construct completely inclusive playgrounds as a priority for State funding for recreational and conservation purposes.*
Codifies regulations defining justifiable need to carry handgun.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food; appropriates $1 million.
Concerns law regarding failure to pay wages.
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Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Prohibits persons convicted of criminal animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities.
Authorizes application for dismissal of a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation " ("SLAPP").
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Requires provisions regarding sellers' obligation to deliver marketable and insurable title in certain residential real estate contracts of sale.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Permits wineries to operate salesrooms in certain municipalities with restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibits permanent change of child custody during period of active military service; provides that absence due to active military duty, by itself, is insufficient justification to modify a child custody or visitation order.
Directs the Div. of Travel and Tourism to publish on its website information of farm-to-table restaurants.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.*
Establishes teen driver orientation program.
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture to create clearinghouse website for vendors to provide surplus food to charities in State.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Enters New Jersey in multistate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Requires DOH to establish Zika Virus State Action Plan.
Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases. *
Requires training for law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Requires epinephrine auto-injectors to be packaged and sold as single units.
Authorizes annual issuance of permit to sell alcoholic beverages at seasonal farm market.
Concerns timely provision of TDI and family temporary disability benefits.*
Concerns expansion of services provided by DOH mental health screening services.*
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.*
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Expands health insurance coverage for behavioral health services and autism and enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health parity laws. *
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.*
Establishes Green Jobs Training Partnership Program.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
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Prohibits person whose driver's license is suspended for DWI from operating NJT train.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Establishes certain requirements for domestic violence training for certain judges and judicial personnel.*
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Concerns enforcement, penalties, and procedures for law regarding failure to pay wages.*
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Schedules That Work Act."
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault under certain circumstances.*
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Requires Commissioner of DCA to promulgate rules and regulations providing for veterans' affordable housing assistance preference.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Establishes the New Jersey Film and Television Project and Employment Incentive Program.
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Establishes "Milkweed for Monarchs" program.
Establishes "Adopt a Monarch Butterfly Waystation" program.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Facilitates coordination of land use planning between civilian and military interests to preserve viability of federal military installations within State.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability and grant deferment for temporary total disability.*
Requires teacher preparation program for instructional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.
Revises "Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law" to mirror federal law; permits overseas voters to vote in any election; permits use of federal write-in absentee ballot to vote, register or request ballot for all elections.
Concerns victim's right to rape care advocate under certain circumstances.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties. *
Requires prescribers to discuss addiction risk associated with certain drugs prior to issuing prescription to minor patient.
Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning mobility and support services needs of NJ adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Provides tax credits to developers for certain affordable housing projects.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70 % of final compensation for surviving children of SPRS or PFRS member; redefines child in SPRS.*
Regulates certain servicing activities provided by mortgage servicing organizations for residential mortgage loans.
Establishes Women's Vocational Training Pilot Program to promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations; authorizes allocation of certain funds therefor.*
Changes the time when child placement review hearings are initiated from 45 days to 60 days.
Modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.*
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain psychiatrists who work in underserved areas or psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey.*
Establishes New Jersey First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Program; provides gross income tax bebefits for certain contributions to and earnings on assets maintained in accounts established under program.*
Concerns procedures for transition of individuals with developmental disabilities from developmental centers to community placements.
Concerns certain unused portions of tax credits issued to insurance premiums taxpayers under the Business Employment Incentive Program; exempts certain purchasers of business development incentives from certain State tax notification requirements.*
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish income-driven repayment option and loan rehabilitation program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Establishes "New Jersey College Ready Students Program Act"; provides tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity at county college for certain high school students.
Directs DEP to adopt standards for certain drinking water contaminants based upon recommendations of Drinking Water Quality Institute.*
Permits county improvement authorities to establish student loan refinancing loan programs.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Establishes Veterans Assistance Grant Program for nonprofit organizations to provide certain services to veterans.
Clarifies DCA rulemaking authority over free-standing residential health care facilities, and prohibits eviction of residents from such facilities, except for good cause.
Requires employers to disclose certain wage information to employees.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Provides a voucher to certain TANF recipients to purchase diapers.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for digital tomosynthesis for screening and diagnostic purposes related to breast cancer.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
"Prescription Drug Consumer Transparency Act;" requires pharmacy benefits managers to disclose certain information to benefit plan purchasers and to establish toll-free telephone number for certain inquiries.
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Requires DMVA to notify county veterans' affairs office of death of certain military service members; requires office to have Gold Star liaison.
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for Gold Star families.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for inpatient hospital beds for treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorder dual diagnosis.
Directs Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development to work to promote basic skills training through organizations dedicated to the economic empowerment of specific segments of society, such as the African American Chamber of Comme
Requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns to appear on ballot; prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns.*
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish repayment assistance program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program who suffer material loss of income.
Decreases waiting period to expunge entire juvenile record from five to three years.
Concerns prescribing of certain controlled dangerous substances; requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and athletic trainers to
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Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
Allows issuing of stop-work orders for failure to pay prevailing wage.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric cancer research.
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.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Requires full pay for certain health care and public safety workers placed in isolation or quarantine.
Prohibits "gay panic" defense for murder; prevents reduction of murder charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion under certain circumstances.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Authorizes innocent spouse relief under the gross income tax.
Prohibits pharmacies from charging additional fee for processing prescriptions transmitted by telephone or electronic means.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain sales of personal computers and certain sales of school supplies and equipment during first full weekend of August.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain contributions to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) program.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to, or purchases of credits from, federally qualified tuition program.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.
Establishes limited retail religious distribution license.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse network providers of diagnostic radiologic services at the same rate.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires causes of driver inattention to be noted in traffic accidents.
Expands education requirements for special learner's and examination permits.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at community farm markets.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Permits restaurants without a liquor license to advertise that they are BYOB or a winery salesroom.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Revises and renames NJSTARS; repeals NJSTARS II; establishes NJ HonorScholars Program.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Criminalizes mental or emotional hazing.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals; establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database; requires development of emergency services stroke care protocols; and mandates insurance coverage for telemedicine for stroke c
Requires breeders or other providers of dogs to pet shops to certify compliance with DOH breeding and care regulations; prohibits pet shop sale of dogs without certification; requires inspections and reallocation of dog license revenues to fund enforcemen
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all elections under certain conditions.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide coverage for behavioral health care services determined to be medically necessary, including 90 days per year of inpatient residential care.
Requires electronic prescribing systems to default to three-day supply of opioid drugs, with ability for prescribers to issue prescriptions in any authorized quantity deemed medically appropriate.
Raises minimum wage to amounts that vary throughout State based on unemployment and provides for certain other increases.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for grants to county mosquito control agencies.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability.
Appropriates up to $20 million from societal benefits charge to DEP for remediation of lead contamination in drinking water in public buildings.
Establishes annual grant program to recognize public institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Establishes payment incentive program for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Establishes program to provide free tuition under State Tuition Aid Grant Program to certain students who are accepted to public four-year institutions of higher education and elect to attend county college for first two years.
Requires DOH to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
Provides for expedited appeal of school district's decision to deny access to student's service animal.
Requires members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education to complete training program as condition of board membership.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose information.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Requires reflective material on children's Halloween costumes.
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Designates Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as "Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall" to commemorate his outstanding service to Atlantic City and State.