Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires certain health care facilities to provide, and employees to receive, annual influenza vaccination.**
Establishes "Dietetics and Nutrition Licensing Act".**
"Recreational Therapists Licensing Act."
Preserves certain requirements that health insurance plans cover essential health benefits.*
Authorizes DOBI to establish State-based exchange for certain health insurance plans; requires DHS to apply for federal funds for integration of Medicaid eligibility platform and exchange.**
Requires certain long-term care facilities to submit outbreak response plan to DOH.
Vetoed1
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales; increases fees for cigarette and vapor business licensure.*
Passed the General Assembly6
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunization requirements for child care center and school attendance.*
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.*
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or promotion of consumer products containing microbeads.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
Out of committee23
Establishes certain requirements, including allowable fees, for provision of medical records to patients, legally authorized representatives, and authorized third parties.
Requires hospital laboratories and bio-analytical or clinical laboratories to offer test for hepatitis C to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid tests for hepatitis C.
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact. *
Requires bio-analytical or clinical laboratory conducting hepatitis C screening test to draw and store blood for confirmation test.
Requires licensure for manufacturers, distributors, wholesale dealers, and retail dealers of electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Prohibits sale or distribution of flavored vapor products.*
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
"Jake Honig's Law"; removes limits on amount of medical marijuana that may be dispensed at one time and expands access to edible forms, including oils.
Authorizes medical marijuana for treatment of any diagnosed condition; revises requirements for physicians to authorize qualifying patients; and revises requirements for alternative treatment center operations and permitting.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.
Revises law relating to common interest communities.
Requires public schools to administer written screenings for depression for students in certain grades.
Requires hospital, bio-analytical, and clinical laboratories to provide information and offer of HIV screening to patients living in areas with high prevalence of HIV.
Prohibits delivery of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide list of alternative drugs to health care professionals, pharmacists, and covered persons under certain circumstances.*
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.*
Exempts certain surgical technologists from general educational and training requirements.
Revises law concerning Medicare supplement insurance coverage.
Requires AG to arrange for certain testing of facial recognition systems.
Revises licensure and operational requirements for vapor businesses; revises taxes imposed on vapor products.
Establishes criteria for distribution of Fiscal Year 2020 funding to Community Food Bank of New Jersey and partner organizations.
In committee91
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Revises standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Concerns liability and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Provides for designation of surrogates to make health care decisions for certain patients and decision making process for patients without surrogates; establishes demonstration program for transition of isolated patients from inpatient care to post-acute
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Increases wholesale sales and use tax rate on tobacco products, changes tax base, and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Prohibits insurers from increasing premiums or making other adverse underwriting decisions with respect to medical malpractice liability insurance under certain circumstances.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.
Imposes a wholesale sales tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Mandates health benefits coverage for opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to conduct international criminal history background checks and check employer references for licensees.
Permits registered surgical practices to convert to or combine with ambulatory care facilities; provides for phased-in gross receipts assessment; authorizes non-profit hospitals to acquire joint ownership interest in practices.
Requires certain places of public assembly to have automated external defibrillator on-site.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for substance abuse and dependency when determined medically necessary by physician or psychologist.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Requires electronic health records systems to meet requirements to accept, process, and transmit prescriptions for Schedule II controlled dangerous substance.
Enters New Jersey in Physical Therapy Licensure Compact.
Revises scope of practice for surgical technologists to allow them to perform additional procedures involving ligation and skin and tissue closures.
Requires surgical practices to be licensed by DOH as ambulatory care facilities.
Prohibits paid caretakers from being appointed guardian or granted power of attorney for individual with disability.
Requires professionals certifying death to perform any testing and related actions necessary for survivors to claim State and federal benefits.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Establishes procedures for pharmacists to seek approval to dispense alternative product in place of prescribed epinephrine auto-injector device.
Requires naltrexone and naloxone be offered to certain inmates prior to release from incarceration.
Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
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.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics, and federally qualified health centers.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
Requires pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse network providers of diagnostic radiologic services at the same rate.
Requires epinephrine auto-injectors to be packaged and sold as single units.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Requires Attorney General to provide identity theft passport to certain victims of identity theft.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Temporarily maintains property tax exemption for previously exempt non-profit hospital properties; establishes "Non-Profit Hospital Property Tax Exemption Study Commission."
Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians in their first seven taxable years of practice in New Jersey.
Establishes procedure for removal of certain abandoned flood control structures causing property erosion.
Directs DOT to add certain portion of Rising Sun Road in Bordentown Township to State highway system.
Requires certain hospitals with on-site clinical laboratories to ensure in-network coverage for laboratory services if hospital is in-network.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide notice of termination of coverage to covered persons in certain circumstances.
Requires health insurers, group health plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to share certain health benefits information with Medicaid and other State programs.
Requires school districts and charter schools to provide educationally appropriate alternative activities to students not participating in administration of certain standardized assessments.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Establishes death by auto as first degree crime in certain circumstances; designated as Dirk's law.
Requires compilation of, and public access to, tests of soil lead levels.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Requires owners of residential rental property to conduct lead hazard inspections in certain situations.
Requires county elections board give notice by Internet posting or mail when polling place location changes unexpectedly before election; requires board develop plan for polling place change notification.
Requires DOH to license certain qualifying hospitals providing elective angioplasty services.
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of smart phone and social media usage in school.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone under certain conditions.
Requires construction of all new residential properties to include solar panels.
Prohibits sale, distribution, or propagation of certain invasive plant species without permit from Department of Agriculture.
Imposes minimum price and tax on cigars.
Permits terminally ill patients to access investigational therapies; allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain investigational therapies available to terminally ill patients.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Directs installation of hydrogen refueling stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Requires de-identified patient data from electronic health records systems to be transmitted to DOH for analysis of Statewide health and disease trends.
Requires DOH to commission disparity study and to award medical marijuana alternative treatment center permits consistent with disparity study findings.
Requires written instructions for, and dispensations of, medical marijuana be reported to prescription monitoring database.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for certain Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 90-day period.
Allows pharmacists to dispense additional 30-day supply of hormonal contraceptives without refill order; allows patients to request automatic refills of hormonal contraceptives from mail order pharmacies.
Reduces 9-1-1 fee on customers' periodic telephone bills from $0.90 to $0.22.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigars.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.
Prohibits certain actions relative to endangered and threatened plant species; directs DEP commissioner to take certain actions to protect endangered and threatened plant species.
Requires physician to offer to test patient for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency prior to chemotherapy.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Marketplace Act."
Grants civil immunity to members of professional licensing boards under certain circumstances.
Prohibits Catastrophic Illness in Children's Relief Fund Commission from determining eligibility to fund based on immigration status of child's parent or legal guardian.
Provides gross income tax credit for installation of solar-powered residential hydrogen refueling stations.
Requires AOC to issue report to Senate on sentences imposed on persons for drug offenses, categorized by race, by certain non-tenured judges assigned to Superior Court, Law Division as requirement of eligibility for reappointment.
Directs DEP to adopt regulations concerning identification and testing of microplastics in drinking water.
"County Urban Agricultural Development Zone Act."
Establishes Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form Registry.
Codifies and expands Medicaid coverage for certain school-based services.
Prohibits SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact.*
Establishes certain requirements, including allowable fees, for provision of medical records to patients, legally authorized representatives, and authorized third parties.
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Prohibits sale or distribution of flavored vapor products.*
Exempts certain surgical technologists from general educational and training requirements.
Revises law concerning Medicare supplement insurance coverage.
Establishes criteria for distribution of Fiscal Year 2020 funding to Community Food Bank of New Jersey and partner organizations.
Vetoed2
Revises law relating to common interest communities.
Requires public schools to administer written screenings for depression for students in certain grades.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 53
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.**
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
Establishes training program to prevent suicide by law enforcement officer;requires reporting of law enforcement officer suicides to Attorney General.*
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight.*
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Prevents criminal defendent from asserting "gay and transgender panic" defense to murder charge in order to reduce charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion.*
Automatically registers to vote and updates voter registration for eligible person when applying for motor vehicle driver's license, or non-driver identification card.*
Enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health condition and substance use disorder parity laws.**
Establishes "Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Bond Financing Act," authorizing issuance of bonds secured by pledge of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant proceeds, municipal liens, and special assessment; expands "Redevelopment Area Bond Financ
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act." *
Requires health insurers to provide plans that limit patient cost-sharing concerning certain prescription drug coverage. *
Revises law concerning temporary disability leave.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Market Preservation Act."
Permits taxpayers to make dedicated prepayment toward anticipated property taxes.
Requires district boards of election to report every two hours number of voters who have voted at each precinct; authorizes challengers to request reported count.
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 27 in Union County as "Jerry Green Memorial Highway."
Permits individuals to submit TDI and family temporary disability leave claims to DOLWD prior to commencement of leave under certain circumstances and requires timely payment of benefits for such claims.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers; establishes standard contribution level of 3 percent.*
Allows county homelessness trust funds to be used for code blue emergency shelter services.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider. *
Expands per adjusted admission charge on hospitals to create supplemental funding pool for State's graduate medical education subsidy; appropriates $24,285,714.*
Requires Commissioner of Health to develop voluntary registry to collect cancer incidence data from firefighters.
Authorizes expedited partner therapy, under which sexual partners or patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted disease are treated without prior clinical examination.
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Prohibits use of bots to deceive person about origin and content of communication for certain commercial or election purposes.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DEP and adds language provisions concerning use of certain environmental settlement monies for natural resource restoration projects.
"Hunger-Free Campus Act"; requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish grant program to address food insecurity among students enrolled in public institutions of higher education; appropriates $1 million.
Requires Chief Technology Officer to establish "Anti-Hunger Link" for all State websites, providing information on emergency food services.
Establishes New Jersey Food Waste Task Force to make recommendations concerning food waste in New Jersey.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to establish public awareness campaign for food waste.
"Strengthening Gifted and Talented Education Act"; establishes school district responsibilities in educating gifted and talented students.
Appropriates $1,190,349 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for historic site management grants to certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Requires DHS to ensure medication assisted treatment benefits under Medicaid program are provided without the imposition of prior authorization requirements.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Appropriates $15.696 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Permits municipalities to lease vacant municipal land for tiny home occupancy; directs DCA to enhance regulatory guidance on acceptable tiny home construction and use.
Revises requirements for provision of counseling and support services to emergency services personnel.
Prohibits online education services from using and disclosing certain information, engaging in targeted advertising, and requires deletion of certain information in certain circumstances.*
Establishes "James Nicholas Rentas's Law," revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act."
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Requires DHS to study social isolation occurring in certain population groups.
Modifies procedure for change to manner of holding certain municipal elections.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain preventive services.
Revises law requiring health benefits coverage for certain contraceptives.
"Charlie's Law"; requires pharmacy practice sites and hospice programs to furnish patients with information and means to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole or probation.
Vetoed · 4
Concerns payment of independent contractors.*
Establishes fee on single-use carryout bags used in certain stores and dedicates fee revenue to "Healthy Schools and Community Lead Abatement Fund."
Requires large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."
Provides for collection of sales tax from certain remote sellers.
Passed the General Assembly · 38
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Requires hospital employees to assist uninsured patients with creating account to apply for insurance coverage through Federally-Facilitated Marketplace.*
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Requires notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities to be published on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications. *
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Directs BPU to prohibit Internet service providers from installing broadband telecommunications infrastructure on certain poles or underground facilities unless Internet service providers adhere to principle of "net neutrality."
Prohibits awarding of public contracts to Internet service providers, unless Internet service providers adhere to principle of "net neutrality."
Requires cable television company to commit to principle of "net neutrality" as condition of approval of applications for municipal consent or system-wide franchise.
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, and possession of controlled dangerous substance U-47700, known as U-4 or "Pink."
Prohibits the sale of adulterated candy in New Jersey.
Requires motor vehicle inspection stickers to notify drivers of penalty for texting while driving.
Requires public water systems to compile, and submit to DEP, lead service line inventories.
Encourages development of zero-emission vehicle fueling and charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects.*
Waives boat safety course requirement for veterans and active duty members of military with maritime training.
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastucture strategic plan.
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements. *
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Directs Secretary of State to develop national marketing campaign promoting State's innovation economy.
Requires DHS to develop outreach plan to inform certain students about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Requires State Treasurer to submit report to Legislature every six months identifying deadlines for applications for federal funds by State agencies.
Requires PANYNJ and certain commercial airport operators in State to coordinate with law enforcement for investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults; requires airlines and contractors to adopt and maintain policies regarding sexual assaults.*
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Expands circumstances under which prevailing wage must be paid.
"Michael Anthony Fornicola's Law"; requires hotels to have automated external defibrillators in certain areas.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Requires collection and reporting of information concerning crimes against the elderly and disabled.
Establishes NJ Fuel Cell Task Force to increase use of fuel cells in State.
Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow service recipients to terminate service contracts following physician's referral to long-term care facility.*
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
"Patient Protection Act"; establishes requirements concerning the transfer and referral of certain patients receiving health care services.
Establishes "Alternative Fuel Vehicle Transportation Financing Commission" to examine manner in which alternative fuel vehicles may be taxed to contribute to cost of maintaining State transportation system.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Requires school districts take certain actions to increase participation in free or reduced priced meal programs; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Out of committee · 61
Concerns stop-work orders related to prevailing wage and construction worker employment.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.
Provides for appointment of Student Loan Ombudsman and regulates student loan servicers.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State.
Authorizes veterans' property tax exemption and veterans' property tax deduction for honorably discharged veterans of United States Armed Forces who did not serve in time of war or other emergency. *
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential and prohibit any disclosure, sale, or unauthorized access to subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose informatio
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking; and reproductive health service patients and providers.*
Requires certain public facilities and offices to provide on-site lactation room; DOH to provide information about lactation room availability; and DOE to provide information on lactation policies in schools.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Requires boil water notices to be provided to municipal clerk within one hour. *
Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military serving on active duty and their family members.*
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program and requires DOT to conduct study.
Requires State Board of Education high school graduation requirements include instruction on tuition assistance programs and student loan debt; requires high school students to meet with guidance counselor to discuss tuition assistance and dual enrollment
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain underperforming schools under alternate route program.*
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Establishes Talent Network Program in DOLWD.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
"Antwan's Law"; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to authorize and advise food hubs.
Establishes NJ Blockchain Initiative Task Force.
Designates Streptomyces griseus as New Jersey State Microbe.*
Requires certain real estate licensees to complete courses of study concerning fair housing and housing discrimination.
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at public beaches and parks.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Requires commercial Internet website and online service operators to conspicuously post their privacy policy.
"Charlie's Law"; requires pharmacy practice sites and hospice programs to furnish patients with information and products to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications.*
Allows dependent students whose parents or guardians hold H-1B visas to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education provided they meet certain criteria.*
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers and carriers from engaging in "clawback" and "gag clause" practices; requires certain disclosures by pharmacists; requires Director of Division of Consumer Affairs to conduct public information campaign.***
Establishes "New Jersey Solar Panel Recycling Commission."*
Requires display of identifying information on rear of school bus so public may report bus driver misconduct.
Establishes STEM Loan Redemption Program.
Requires Attorney General to develop protocol for retaining footage from school surveillance system.
Requires Commissioner of DOLWD to create list of labor organizations that represent workers on public work projects.
Establishes task force within DOE on prevention of sexual abuse of children.
Mandates child abuse and sexual abuse training for all candidates for teaching certification.
Requires Director of Division of Investment to attempt to use qualified minority and women-owned financial institutions to provide brokerage and investment management services.
Provides for procurement by State of pharmacy benefits manager, automated reverse auction services, and claims adjudication services.
Establishes five year Apprentice Assistance and Support Services Pilot Program.
Establishes task force to develop State-wide plan to diversify apprenticeships.
Appropriates $2.94 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Authorizes political subdivisions to set aside 0.5 percent of public works funds to recruit and train women and minorities and promote local hiring.
Establishes new timeframes for implementation of, and revises, certain requirements in "Global Warming Response Act". *
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Authorizes DEP rulemaking to prevent backsliding of certain State environmental regulations due to changes in federal law or regulation.
Authorizes certain health care and social service resources to be made available during Code Blue Alert.*
Establishes program to increase participation of underrepresented students in New Jersey's science and engineering workforce.
"New Jersey Algorithmic Accountability Act"; requires certain businesses to conduct automated decision and data protection impact assessments.
Expands "Law Against Discrimination" to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes.
Concerns juvenile incarceration and parole.
Amends "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" to add definition of "open access offshore wind transmission facility" and revises law concerning "qualified offshore wind projects." *
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Appropriates $1,350,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 91
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.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Requires DEP to establish maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
Establishes "Fund to Prevent Use of Tobacco and Electronic Smoking Devices"; supports activities to prevent use and promote awareness of associated health conditions.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Clarifies that authorized persons and entities may administer a single dose of any opoid antidote, or multiple doses of any intranasal or intramuscular opioid antidote to overdose victims, with immunity under "Overdose Prevention Act."
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Provides tax credits for performing certain repairs on primary residences of senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Requires Attorney General to establish victims of identity theft database.
Prohibits sale and possession of undetectable firearms manufactured using three dimensional printing technology.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Extends duration of urban enterprise zones for 10 additional years; specifies permissable use of funds.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.
Creates grant program for business accelerator and incubator networks; transfers $1 million in societal benefits charge revenues to EDA to administer program.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Revises homestead property tax reimbursement eligibility requirements for certain claimants relocating homesteads within the same municipality.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.
Requires preliminary finding of liability for professional malpractice by panel of three experts appointed by licensing authority prior to institution of action.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Designates Common Eastern Bumble Bee as New Jersey State Native Pollinator.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Establishes Medicaid program to provide housing-related services to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of certain firearm components.
Requires, by energy year 2035, all electric power sold in NJ by each electric power supplier and basic generation service provider be from Class I renewable energy sources.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Permits testing and use of autonomous vehicles on State roadways under certain circumstances.
Provides civil immunity to persons who forcibly enter motor vehicles to remove unattended and unsupervised children.
Requires carriers to disclose selection standards for, and establishes certain requirements regarding, placement of health care providers in tiered health benefits plan network.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Exempts veterans from non-driver identification card fees.
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Clarifies that using animal to cause bodily injury to another constitutes assault with deadly weapon; grants immunity to police officers who use police dog as deadly weapon.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Regulates purchase and sale of stun guns.
Requires health care facilities to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide certain mental health benefits for eating disorders under same terms and conditions as for other illnesses and diseases.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole, probation, or serving sentence.
Establishes "New Jersey Community Health Worker Program" in DOH to facilitate linking medically underserved communities with health care resources.
Establishes State goals for adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging infrastructure; directs DEP and various other State agencies to develop programs to achieve those goals.
Prohibits intentional release of balloons inflated with lighter-than air gases.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.
"Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act."
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Provides for decrease and eventual ban on use of non-compostable plastic carryout bags.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Authorizes first responders to obtain, administer, and dispense opioid antidotes, with immunity, pursuant to Statewide standing order issued by State health official; makes clarifying changes to "Overdose Prevention Act."
Requires that in-service training for school employees on safety and security include component on behavioral threat assessment.
Prohibits use of plastic carryout bags, expanded polystyrene, and single-use plastic straws.
Establishes limitations on and conditions associated with prescribers' acceptance of compensation from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for oncofertility treatments.
Permits certain retirees to choose health care coverage under traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan options offered by SHBP or SEHBP.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain home visitation program services under certain circumstances.
Requires county to provide extraordinary special education aid to school districts located in county for students with costs over $55,000 and State to reimburse county.
Permits minors 13 years of age and older to consent to behavioral health care services.
Directs DEP to establish program prohibiting discharge of preproduction plastics into State waters.
Requires public water systems to offer drinking water tests to customers in certain circumstances.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DMVA for ancillary transportation for residents of Veterans' Memorial Homes.
Requires reporting of certain attempted and completed suicides by minors.
Provides that Maintenance of Certification is not required for licensed physicians to perform certain professional activities in State.
Prohibits preauthorization of certain ultrasound screenings covered under health benefits plans.
Provides that average time to issue licenses to physicians shall not exceed 51 days.
Revises effective date of P.L.2017, c.283 concerning licensure of one-room surgical practices.
Establishes "NJ One Health Task Force."
Requires public hearing prior to use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agency.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain psychiatrists who work in public schools.