Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for treatment of mental health conditions and substance use disorders through collaborative care.
Requires embryo storage facilities to record and report health information of patients in manner that is consistent with certain federal laws.
Reduces from 18 to 12 specific credit hours required for Animal Health Technician job title in civil service; allows substitution of five years of experience for education requirement.
Requires Department of Health 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.*
Makes various revisions to law pertaining to electronic medical records and recording patients' demographic information.
Requires carriers to offer health care providers more than one method of payment for reimbursement.*
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth for one year.*
Vetoed1
Requires State registrar to permit county surrogate to provide certified copy of death certificate to authorized person under certain circumstances.
Passed the General Assembly10
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires Medicaid Fraud Division to enter into data sharing agreement upon request of county to provide access to third party insurance liability data regarding certain COVID-19 related health claims.
Establishes certification card for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Excludes certain income earned from health promotion or disease prevention work from income eligibility determination under NJ FamilyCare, WFNJ, and NJ SNAP. *
Establishes New Jersey Healthy Soils Program; establishes grant program for soil testing of urban agriculture sites; establishes Urban Agriculture Site Soil Testing Fund.
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services.
Requires State Medicaid beneficiaries to notify county welfare agencies no later than 20 days of change of circumstances.
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Establishes bee-friendly habitat pilot program in Department of Agriculture; appropriates $1 million.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Out of committee28
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of social media usage in and out of school.*
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Restricts use of restrictive employment covenants for physicians and nurses.
Requires school districts to include instruction on racial discrimination and social justice as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies for middle school students.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Requires financial institutions to release records to adult protective services when suspecting fraud of vulnerable adult or senior customer; allows adult protective service to release same records to law enforcement agency if necessary.
Requires notice of motor vehicle safety recalls upon inspection and registration of motor vehicle; requires motor vehicle manufacturers to pay annual fee to MVC.*
Requires pharmacy practice sites to document reasons for not filling certain prescriptions.
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.
Allows costs of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.*
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services; appropriates $20 million.*
Establishes Statewide Opioid Antidote Coordinator position; appropriates funds.
Adds technology transfer duties to New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.
Requires procurement of management support and other services for certain nursing homes.
Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams"; provides for identification of and intervention at long-term care facilities at risk of operational and financial distress.
Prohibits annual increase in rent or lease payments of more than two percent for certain nursing homes except in certain circumstances.*
Regulates food and beverage delivery vehicle network companies.
Prohibits possession and requires registration of body armor in certain circumstances.
Establishes cause of action for residents of assisted living facilities and comprehensive personal care home providers.
Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.*
Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes New Jersey Children's Data Protection Commission.
Prohibits sale of water beads.
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.*
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.
In committee116
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.
Prohibits delivery of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or promotion of consumer products containing microbeads.
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 AG to arrange for certain testing of facial recognition systems.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
Establishes Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form Registry.
Requires certain electronic medical programs to include demographic data entry feature; requires laboratories to record certain patients' demographic information; requires certain hospitals and laboratories to implement cultural competency training program.
Establishes database containing information on traffic stops by certain law enforcement officers.
Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing certificate.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Requires Secretary of State to create quick reference code for voter information, including instructions for voting by mail.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of electronic cigarette usage as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring officer applicants removed from office by former agency for police misconduct.
Directs Secretary of State to establish grant program for counties to improve paper ballot counting process; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes "Voting Improvement Task Force."
Establishes "Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force."
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to disseminate outage information to customers through autodialed telephone call, text message, and electronic mail alert service.
Requires certain public utilities to publicize information concerning bill payment assistance programs.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Extends temporary emergency licensure of certain health care professionals.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid hepatitis C testing.
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 investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State.
Requires long-term care facility to post certain information on its Internet website regarding Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Provides for receipts for applications for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Prohibits use of paper receipts containing bisphenol-A or bisphenol-S; provides for phased-in prohibition on use of all paper receipts; authorizes continued use of electronic receipts.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Requires hospitals to provide certain resources to certain patients and to ask patients if patients have completed advance directive or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales; increases fees for cigarette and vapor business licensure.
Requires DHS to take appropriate action to exempt veterans from benefits time limit applicable to able-bodied adults without dependents under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires 60 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Excuses certain persons from jury duty whose employment is essential to public's health, safety, and welfare during health emergency.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with five percent or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for medication and treatment for hepatitis C.
Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Requires workers' compensation, PIP, and health insurance coverage for the medical use of cannabis under certain circumstances.
Directs installation of hydrogen refueling stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Prohibits sale and use of gas-powered lawn equipment in NJ; provides CBT and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain zero-emission lawn equipment.
Requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Extends existing plug-in electric vehicle incentives to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
Codifies and expands Medicaid coverage for certain school-based services.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Prohibits modification of mufflers and exhaust systems to produce audible sounds; requires inspection of mufflers and exhaust systems.
Requires driver's manual to include information on driver's rights and responsibilities during police stop.
Allows gross income tax deduction for up to $1,000 of unreimbursed expenses incurred by eligible educators for purchase of classroom supplies.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings by electronic means.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Requires DOH to develop Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop pathway to nursing scholarship for health care workers who want to become nurses; appropriates $1 million.
Requires certain public officials to complete course of study developed by Commissioner of Community Affairs on operation of public water and wastewater systems.
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Requires vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be reported to New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide list of alternative drugs to health care professionals, pharmacists, and covered persons under certain circumstances.
Reduces 9-1-1 fee on customers' periodic telephone bills from $0.90 to $0.22.
Stipulates that emergency medical helicopter trip qualifies for certain protections under current law.
Requires police department to reimburse person for property damage under certain circumstances.
"County Urban Agricultural Development Zone Act."
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.
Requires bio-analytical or clinical laboratory conducting hepatitis C screening test to draw and store blood for confirmation test.
Requires certain homemaker-home health aides to be certified or trained to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Requires licensure for manufacturers, distributors, wholesale dealers, and retail dealers of electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigars.
Prohibits preauthorization of certain ultrasound screenings covered under health benefits plans.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide adequate network of physicians.
Prohibits excessive price increases during period of declared abnormal market disruption.
Requires air conditioning in State correctional facilities.
Requires State blanks, forms, documents, and applications to incorporate new standards for collection of information about sex, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Consolidates and makes technical updates to certain definitions used in Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Amends "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act" to provide additional tax credits for investments in high-growth businesses.
Requires boards of education to adopt policies pertaining to use of safe schools resource officers and referral of students to law enforcement.
Establishes restrictions on number of dogs kept on residential property; establishes residential kennel license for property on which owner keeps and houses 15 to 25 dogs, and inspection and maintenance requirements for residential kennels.
Waives 15 day waiting period for medical aid in dying under certain circumstances.
Requires manufacturers of electric vehicles to label electric vehicle batteries; establishes electric vehicle battery tracking database; establishes guidelines for safe disassembly of electric vehicle batteries.
Concerns administration of ready-to-use undesignated glucagon rescue therapy in public schools.
Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.
Permits tenant to purchase residential property in certain circumstances 45 days after successful submission of bid during sheriff's sale and includes new procedures for sheriff's sale.
Requires planning board reexamination report to set forth recommendations for the siting of warehouses consistent with State Plan and with warehouse siting guidance policy adopted by State Planning Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Invasive Species Task Force."
Provides certain protections to residents of long-term care facilities.
Requires State and private correctional facilities to allow inmates to make telephone and video calls at no cost to inmate or other party.
Directs DEP to identify oyster reefs in need of restoration and allow certain entities to establish no-harvest restoration sites.
Requires registration and regulation of certain hemp-derived cannabinoids manufactured and sold in this State.
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to access oral health in children.
Allows for natural organic reduction of human remains.
Requires SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover anti-obesity medications.
Prohibits sale of non-flushable disposable wipes.
Prohibits food service businesses from providing single-use plastic utensils and condiments to customers, except upon request, and requires certain food service businesses to provide reusable, washable utensils to customers eating on site.
Requires Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare to provide medically tailored nutrition services for certain enrollees.
Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure.
Designates bridge over Crosswicks Creek on Interstate Highway Route 295 North as "Benjamin Moore and the 693rd Sappers Company Memorial Highway."
Prohibits certain substances in sale, distribution, and manufacture of commercial foods.
Requires that new motor vehicles be equipped with amplitude modulation radio.
"New Jersey Fostering Success Voucher Act"; provides rental assistance and case management services for certain young adults leaving foster care or kinship care; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes State and local government purchasing and use requirements for cybersecurity systems.
Broadens eligibility of NJ STARS Program by permitting later entry into program.
Classifies all virtual currencies issued and sold to institutional investors as securities.
Limits service fees charged to restaurants by third-party food takeout and delivery applications.
Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.
Requires certain health care facilities to institute COVID-19 vaccine policy for employees.
Makes FY 2024 supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DCA for NJ State Veterans Chamber of Commerce for operational costs.
Removes exemption from law regulating patient referrals.
Makes temporary waiver for certain emergency services vehicle crewmember requirements permanent.
Establishes Commission on Insurance Reimbursement.
Requires health benefits coverage for additional prosthetic appliance under certain circumstances.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Adds technology transfer duties to New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of social media usage in and out of school.*
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.*
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 56
Requires DEP to make certain information regarding water purveyors available on its Internet website.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke via use of smoke evacuation 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.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for environmental infrastructure projects for applicants with established program to employ, at project or related facilities, local residents or residents of nearby urban aid qualifying municipalities.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Updates requirements and standards for authorization and prior authorization of health care services.*
Requires DEP to develop and implement electric school bus program; provides for $15 million in first year and $15 million annually in subsequent two years to DEP, subject to availability, to provide grants.
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system of electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.*
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to issue identification card to Gold Star Family Member.
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor or smart sprinkler as condition of sale of certain real properties, and on certain commercial, retail, and industrial properties and common interest communities within specified timeframes.*
Requires DCA provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update program handbook and issue program request for proposal, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program. *
Clarifies that member of SPRS may receive accidental disability benefit under certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Establishes professional board to regulate home improvement and home elevation contractors and requires licensure for each type of contractor.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for defendants who commit certain firearm offenses under Graves Act. **
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.*
Requires New Jersey Historical Commission to establish Black Heritage Trail; permits New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation to use funds for markers on certain trail sites; appropriates $1 million.*
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive healthcare services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
Extends deadline for completion of school district's annual audit.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Extends deadlines, under certain circumstances, for completion and commercial operation of certain solar electric power generation facilities.*
Makes County Option Hospital Fee Pilot Program permanent and expands definition of "participating county" under program.
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.*
Prohibits sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires DEP to establish collection and disposal program; appropriates $250,000.*
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county vocational school districts; appropriates $36,960,028.
Allows certain former members of military reserve units to retain special license plates after conclusion of service.
Requires firearm retailers to sell microstamping-enabled firearms upon determination of availability by AG.
Concerns New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority; increases Transportation Trust Fund spending limit by $600 million.
Establishes penalties for person who commits motor vehicle noise violation.*
Requires hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to distribute survey to school districts regarding instruction on Holocaust and genocides.
Enhances customer service experience with Business Action Center in Department of State by collecting and disseminating customer assistance metrics.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to establish training program for employees of emergency shelters for homeless.*
Directs DEP to take certain actions concerning identification and testing of microplastics in drinking water, and requires DEP and BPU to study and promote use of microplastics removal technologies.*
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Establishes Agritourism Fund; requires annual appropriation of $2.5 million from General Fund; appropriates $2.5 million.
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Provides down payment assistance for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program.*
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine feasibility, marketability, and costs of implementing large-scale geothermal heat pump systems in State.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Vetoed · 2
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Establishes NJ Non-Profit Loan Guarantee Pilot Program within EDA.
Passed the General Assembly · 24
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Authorizes funding to protect safety of cooperating witnesses; expands Crime Victim's Bill of Rights to provide these witnesses with certain guarantees.
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.*
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
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.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Requires disclosure of lead drinking water hazards to tenants of residential units; prohibits landlords from obstructing replacement of lead service lines; concerns testing of residential units for lead drinking water hazards.*
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Renames, extends eligibility, and makes various other changes to Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program.*
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Requires availability of accessible mail-in ballot for voters with disabilities.
Requires public water systems and landlords to provide certain notice of elevated perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances levels in drinking water; requires DEP to establish educational program.
Requires vehicle identification number be stamped on catalytic converters of motor vehicles.
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulator on students with seizure disorder.
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship.*
Prohibits production and sale of products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Establishes county veteran transportation grant program; appropriates $2 million.
Requires DEP to study methane emissions.
Requires DHS to provide information to SNAP and WFNJ recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to submit report to Governor and Legislature on these fraud activities.
Out of committee · 51
Requires professional boards to issue licenses for veterans with good standing license or certification in another jurisdiction under certain circumstances.
Expands purpose of Traumatic Brain Injury Fund to support transportation costs incurred by eligible individuals in accessing support group meetings.
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
Establishes NJ State Parks and Open Space Foundation.*
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Resources (WATER) Pilot Program in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million. **
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.*
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator in DMVA.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing.
Authorizes conversion of certain office parks and retail centers to mixed-use developments.
Requires law enforcement agency to provide copy of certain police reports to crime victims.
Establishes healthcare careers pilot program for certain institutions of higher education and proprietary schools.
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Prohibits providers of commercial mobile service and developers of mobile application from disclosing customer's global position system data to third parties under certain circumstances.*
Requires labeling of non-flushable disposable wipes.
Requires reporting of certain attempted and completed suicides by minors.
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Establishes "COVID-19 Frontline and Healthcare Worker Memorial Commission." *
Implements certain guidelines concerning purchase of catalytic converters.
Provides CBT and gross income tax credits for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete.*
Establishes New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under gross income tax for certain home purchases during qualified periods by first-time homebuyers.
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.*
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Authorizes special occasion events at certain commercial farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions; appropriates $85,000. *
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Prohibits carrier from precluding dentist from billing covered person under certain circumstances.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Makes FY 2022 supplemental appropriation to provide State military impact aid to certain school districts.
Requires DHS to conduct annual Medicaid eligibility redeterminations.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Authorizes home care for individuals who are disabled or elderly and requires health insurance coverage therefor.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Requires automobile insurance policies to provide certain minimum amounts of liability, uninsured motorist, and underinsured motorist coverage.
Establishes Behavioral Healthcare Provider Loan Redemption Program within Higher Education Student Assistance Authority; appropriates $5 million.
Requires DEP and Drinking Water Quality Institute to perform study concerning regulation and treatment of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Revises goal for annual capacity of solar energy projects to be approved under Community Solar Energy Program; allows certain customers to self-attest to income for program participation; allows information disclosure of customers participating in program.*
Directs DEP to establish rebate program for purchase of microfiber washing machine filter or replacement filter; appropriates $2.5 million.
Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP; makes various changes to FY2023 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Provides for licensure of packaged ice plant operators and packaged ice dealers.
Prohibits water utility from taking certain actions if utility fails to participate in Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
"Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Battery Management Act."*
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Expands eligibility for wildlife fencing programs to farmers leasing farmland; clarifies eligibility and provides for uniform funding levels for grant recipients.*
Eliminates fees, liens, and warrants issued for Public Defender services.
Waives certain certification and credentialing fees for teachers for one year.
Allows for credit against contract cost for primary care services managed by health care provider for public employees and their dependents; allows referrals to other providers that have contractual relationship with such health care provider.
In committee · 141
Prohibits landlords from requiring rent to be paid by certain means of payment or at any off-site location.
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
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 DOT to provide additional information in annual report on pavement condition and conduct pavement lifecycle cost analysis; make report available to public.
Exempts medical alert devices and services from sales and use tax.
Requires DOH to conduct study on causes of youth suicide.
Permits certain retirees to choose health care coverage under traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan options offered by SHBP or SEHBP.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around islands without municipal approval.
Establishes "Property Tax Study Commission" to examine New Jersey's property tax structure and develop recommendations for reducing residential property tax burden.
Permits municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for first responders.
Requires school districts and nonpublic schools to develop emergency operations plans; requires school districts to provide instruction on environmental and natural disasters to students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12.
"Patient Protection Act"; establishes requirements concerning the transfer and referral of certain patients receiving health care services.
Establishes "Food Innovation District Pilot Program."
Concerns development of safe indoor storage standards for certain energy storage system batteries.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Prohibits employer use of tracking or electronic communications device in vehicle operated by employee under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Trenton Makes Commission."
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
Requires DMVA create Bereavement Counseling Program for family members and volunteer caregivers of certain veterans.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
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.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Prohibits the sale of adulterated candy in New Jersey.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
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.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Provides that average time to issue licenses to physicians shall not exceed 51 days.
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.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Requires Attorney General to establish model duty-to-intervene policy for law enforcement officers; requires entities that employ law enforcement officers to adopt duty-to-intervene policy.
Prohibits use of receipt paper containing bisphenol A.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning ways to improve unemployment insurance information technology infrastructure.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether microgrid and distributed energy resource deployment will reduce length of power outages.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Permits testing and use of autonomous vehicles on State roadways under certain circumstances.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.
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.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Establishes "Build Back Better Fund" in EDA for certain manufacturing business assistance; creates and funds two business assistance programs in New Jersey Redevelopment Authority; appropriates $165 million.
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 information.
Establishes permitting process for testing highly automated vehicles in NJ; establishes Highly Automated Vehicle Interagency Advisory Committee.
Requires DOA to establish, maintain, and publicize online, searchable database of minority-owned farms in New Jersey.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregnancy-related services violate the consumer fraud act.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Permits minors 13 years of age and older to consent to behavioral health care services.
Establishes New Jersey Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Regulatory Commission.
Requires applicants for commercial driver license to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at certain pharmacies and certain businesses with on site pharmacies.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service; prohibits certain caller identification service manipulation and provides additional penalty.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires recalls on motor vehicles to be repaired prior to sale.
Establishes "Global Economic Competitiveness and Supply Chain Resiliency Fund" in EDA for certain manufacturing business assistance; appropriates $82.5 million.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Establishes "Comprehensive State Plan for Economic Development."
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
"Consumer Litigation Funding Act."
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Provides that sterile syringe access programs are inherently beneficial uses.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires DEP to study indoor air quality at public schools, develop list of common indoor air contaminants at public schools, and establish guidance regarding potential mitigation measures.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warnings be printed on tampon package.
Establishes "End 9-1-1 Fund Diversion Now Act"; directs Treasurer to issue report concerning prevention of diversion of funds from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" to conform with federal law.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Requires civil service examination for police and correctional police officers to include questions to identify implicit racial bias.
Establishes scholarship program for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers studying unidentified aerial phenomenon and extraterrestrial technological signatures; requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish grant program; appropriates $250,000.
Requires instruction on voting in curriculum of students in grade 12 as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Prohibits carriers from offering dental plans with dental benefit waiting periods.
Directs BPU to adopt rules and regulations concerning small modular nuclear reactors; authorizes EDA to incentivize construction and operation of such reactors.
Directs DEP to develop guidelines concerning State and local government purchase of goods made from recycled material.
Requires DOLWD to establish mobile unit program to provide unemployment compensation insurance assistance and services.
Establishes Military Suicide Prevention Task Force.
Lowers age at which minors can consent to behavioral health care treatment from age 16 to age 14.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Designates and preserves Caven Point Peninsula in Liberty State Park as natural habitat.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
"Protecting Against Forever Chemicals Act"; establishes requirements, prohibitions, and programs for regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Requires DMVA establish Disabled Veterans Transportation Task Force.
Requires DEP and BPU to study and promote use of microplastics filtering systems and technologies in New Jersey.
Establishes Senior Citizen Transportation Grant Program in DHS; appropriates $2.5 million for grant program.
"Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act"; authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving, psilocybin production, possession, use, and distribution.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturer to stamp motor vehicle identification number on catalytic converters.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
Requires health insurers to cover self-measured blood pressure monitoring for subscribers with preeclampsia; requires health care professionals to provide home blood pressure monitor to pregnant patients diagnosed with preeclampsia.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Establishes Statewide targets to reduce disposal of organic waste in landfills; requires DEP to adopt regulations to achieve targets.
Revises "Paratransit Services Improvement Act"; transfers $6 million from NJT to DHS.
Establishes requirements for fee disclosure and for fees allowed as part of sale for certain tickets.
Requires certain notice when redirecting consumers to website for ticket resale and establishes certain requirements for websites offering tickets for resale.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Gravesite Maintenance Grant Program in DMVA.
Prohibits book banning in public libraries and schools; authorizes withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Requires NJT and county transit agencies to offer transit pass for individuals seeking access to One Stop Career Centers.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Services Grant Program in DMVA; makes appropriation.
Requires BPU to designate solar portion of critical renewable microgrid as solar energy project under Community Solar Energy Program; requires Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness to designate certain microgrids as assets of importance.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Creates Statewide right to counsel program in certain eviction proceedings, and appropriates $20,000,000.
Establishes School Plastics Upcycling Grant Program in DEP to provide proportional awards to eligible schools based on pro rata share of plastics collected, by each school, for upcycling purposes; appropriates $5 million.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.
Prohibits public libraries and public schools from banning or restricting access to certain books; permits withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Establishes public awareness campaign on dangers of social media use to minors; appropriates $500,000.
Directs DOE and DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.
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Prohibits government dealings with businesses associated with Belarus or Russia.