Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Michael Torrissi Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Extends period of usefulness of fire engines for bonding purposes from 10 to 20 years; eliminates exclusion of passenger cars and station wagons.
Out of committee2
Prohibits MVC from charging fee for restoring driver's license suspended due to mental or physical condition.
Requires DOE to include military-connected student identifier in student-level database; requires district inform teacher when military-connected student enrolls in class taught by teacher.
In committee24
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Makes it crime of the fourth degree to apply for employment or volunteer position with public entity or public official if person has purpose to deceive or injure.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Requires school district monitoring system, New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC), to include assessment of number of district employees trained in administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis.
Permits person diagnosed with autism or communication disability to voluntarily make notation on driver's license, identification card, and in MVC registry; establishes program to train law enforcement officers in interactions with persons with autism or communication disabilities.
Raises income eligibility threshold for pension and retirement income exclusion from gross income to $125,000.
Extends senior freeze benefits to certain senior citizens and disabled persons who have continuously resided in New Jersey for three years.
Provides gross income tax credit to volunteer first responders who provided services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires MVC to waive knowledge test requirement for certain military service members who apply for commercial driver license.
Requires MVC to authorize use of third-party vendors in administration of commercial driver license testing.
Allows farm operators to accelerate depreciation of certain expenditures under corporation business and gross income taxes.
Temporarily expands summer working hours for certain minors.
Eliminates weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated State employees.
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.
Requires DOT to implement highway safety program for increased commercial motor vehicle parking; appropriates up to $50,000,000.
Permit holder of rectifier and blender license to engage in certain retail sales.
Requires distribution of policy regarding use of sedation by veterinarian prior to euthanization of animal.
Exempts certain surviving spouses and surviving civil union partners of certain disabled veterans from components of the realty transfer fee.
Requires Department of Agriculture to establish Farm Vitality Planning Reimbursement Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Directs DOLWD to establish "Entry-Level Driver Training Grant Program."
Criminalizes unlawful occupancy of dwellings.
Requires Department of Agriculture and certain consulting agency partners to study and report on regulatory compliance cost obligations of specialty crop growers.
Establishes standards for housing of seasonal farm workers.
Requires PFRS enrollment to be retroactive to first date of employment for death benefit eligibility.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Provides that certain cosmetology and hairstyling courses may be taught using distance learning technology.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Expands working hours for minors; updates process for obtaining working papers for minors.
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Expands eligibility for "fishing buddy license" fee.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Appropriates $87,783,515 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Expands wage and hour law good-faith violation defense to DOLWD employee interpretations; establishes procedure for employer to obtain opinion from DOLWD on overtime obligations. *
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Allows individuals that have undergone certain background checks, including individuals with certain commercial driver license endorsements, to renew license online or by mail.
Requires State Agriculture Development Committee to compensate owners of preserved farmland for changes in regulations that increase cost of business.
Out of committee · 8
Allows credit against corporation business tax and gross income tax liability for employing persons with a developmental disability.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Revises membership of New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Permits certain school districts to establish State military impact aid reserve account.*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
In committee · 37
Exempts medical alert devices and services from sales and use tax.
Declares elective public office vacant when office holder changes political party while in office.
Provides that in certain cases vacancy in membership of board of education of limited purpose regional school district will be filled by majority vote of board of education of constituent district represented by former board member.
Authorizes hunters to ride in bed of pickup trucks under certain circumstances.
Establishes Office of Economic Development Inspector General in EDA.
Redefines governmental affairs agent to include those persons performing activities for more than one hour in calendar year.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act;" expands lobbying disclosure requirements to local level.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Requires institution of higher education to provide refund or credit to students for unused on-campus student housing and meal plans due to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to farm employers for providing lodging or transportation benefits.
Establishes flexible instructional day program to allow students to continue instruction at home when district must close its schools and to permit district to count flexible instructional days in meeting 180-day school year requirement.
Establishes Volunteer First Responders Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Allows for operation of crematories at locations not situated on cemetery grounds or funeral home properties.
Makes permanent certain immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
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.
Increases gross income tax deduction for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Concerns actions to foreclose right to redeem tax sale certificate under "tax sale law."
Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Allows New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to conduct examinations at school of cosmetology and hairstyling during public health emergency or state of emergency.
Allows certain licensees of New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to teach in private schools of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Establishes young driver program for commercial driver licences.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.
"Improved Suicide Prevention, Response, and Treatment Act."
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Permits certain deer control activities; establishes check-off donation on hunting license applications to support venison donation program; authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Establishes Stabilization Aid for certain school districts experiencing reductions in State school aid or other budgetary imbalances; establishes Education Rescue Grants for certain school districts experiencing reductions in teaching staff.
Filed · 1
Prohibits government dealings with businesses associated with Belarus or Russia.