Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Reginald W. Atkins
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Out of committee7
Establishes program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to pay for remaining tuition costs related to certain remedial or developmental courses.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain .50 caliber rifles; makes certain exceptions.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Permits receipt of retirement annuities by certain members of JRS who filed for deferred retirement.*
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Directs Office of the Public Defender to provide representation at parole revocation proceedings.
Allows board of county commissioners to hold annual meeting at certain additional locations other than Superior Court.
In committee47
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of service.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Appropriates $5 million to EDA to assist certain event-related businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $1.8 million.
Clarifies the newspaper media delivery person and news media stringer are independent contractors for purposes of State employment laws.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Requires helmet while operating bicycle, scooter, or motorized scooter.
Establishes Literacy Acceleration Home Reading Grant Program.
Establishes Family Empowerment Centers on Disability Grant Program.
Directs DOE to conduct study concerning student caregivers.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on labor movement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires water supply system testing and compliance with secondary drinking water regulations.
Directs HMFA to establish "Hotels for Housing" grant program.
Directs DOT to establish program for construction of wildlife crossings on certain roads and highways.
Requires MVC to issue only one license plate.
Allows persons diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or Crohn's disease to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Permits public high school students to opt out of physical education and sports programs during Ramadan.
Establishes student-athlete mental health specialists in school districts and public institutions of higher education; creates student-athlete mental health registry; makes appropriation.
Requires school districts to offer halal lunch options.
"Real Property Sewage System Risk Assessment and Conditions Disclosure Act"; requires sellers of residential real estate to provide for sewage system inspections and disclose certain conditions; establishes penalties.
Requires school districts to provide information on process of obtaining US citizenship.
Requires availability of outside voting process for elderly or voters with disabilities when their assigned polling place does not meet accessibility requirements.
Requires DEP to adopt rules and regulations to implement California's "Advanced Clean Cars II" rules, requiring certain vehicles sold in State to be zero emission vehicles by 2035.
Requires all transportation network company drivers to use electric vehicles beginning January 1, 2035.
Requires certain fire departments in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes task force.
Upgrades fictitious reporting from crime of fourth degree to crime of third degree.
Requires nonvoting representative be appointed to each board of education of choice districts to represent sending district.
Establishes Office of Supportive Action Functionality Experts to prepare for catastrophic loss of technological services.
Permits suit for abusive litigation for interference with legally protected health care activity or reproductive health care services under certain circumstances.
Requires certain parking lots to have minimum two percent of total spaces designated for individuals with children.
Requires BPU to allow low- and moderate-income residential customers to self-attest to income for participation in community solar programs.
Establishes "NJpass Program" to provide discounted fares to eligible organizations; establishes "GO NJ Transit Card Program" to develop transit cards that can be used to purchase any NJT service.
Modifies certain experience requirements and costs for issuance of certain credentials by New Jersey Board of Nursing; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes "Climate Catalytic Capital Fund" in EDA; appropriates $13 million from societal benefits charge to fund.
Requires certain wholesale pricing of motor fuels be set using formula.
Requires certain correctional facilities to allow service and companion animals to assist inmates with disability; makes appropriation.
"New Jersey Rent Stabilization Task Force Act"; Establishes State and county task forces related to stability of residential rents.
Renames Division of Purchase and Property; revises certain aspects of State procurement process; repeals MacBride principles certification requirement.
Increases bid advertising threshold on certain purchases, contracts, or agreements.
Establishes grant program to promote increased access to automated external defibrillators; appropriates $100,000.
Requires public institutions of higher education to appoint academic freedom advocate and adopt free speech principles; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "Dual Enrollment Grant Program" for NJ institutions of higher education to expand opportunities for students to earn college credits while in high school.
Establishes Hometown Hero Nursing Scholarship Program; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes television and broadcasting scholarship and grant programs; appropriates $300,000.
Concerns operation of cruise lights on patrol vehicles.
Enhances penalties for distribution and manufacture of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Requires coastal municipalities to provide wheelchair ramp access to beach and to water on public beaches, and to have individuals available to assist people with disabilities.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain .50 caliber rifles; makes certain exceptions.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on grief as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Permits receipt of retirement annuities by certain members of JRS who filed for deferred retirement.*
Directs Office of the Public Defender to provide representation at parole revocation proceedings.
Allows board of county commissioners to hold annual meeting at certain additional locations other than the Superior Court.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 53
Requires DEP to make certain information regarding water purveyors available on its Internet website.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system of electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.*
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
Requires standard certification period of 12 and 24 months, under certain circumstances, within SNAP.
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Provides for streamlining of SNAP application process and establishes SNAP application call center; appropriates $750,000. **
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients. *
Requires DHS to submit federal waiver request regarding time limits for certain SNAP recipients under certain circumstances.
Concerns SNAP services provided at county boards of social services; appropriates $250,000. *
Appropriates $813,000 to DHS to implement use of electronic benefit transfer cards in Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.**
Requires school food authorities to engage in public education campaigns and develop promotional materials to educate parents and guardians of students about existing and expanding school meals program options. *
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation.*
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Establishes "Annual Business Matchmaking Event" in Department of Treasury.*
Makes various changes to New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect; establishes child protection worker caseload standards.
Grants child placed in resource family care and resource family parents the right to be notified when case manager or supervisor is assigned to child; grants child in resource family care right to be notified of certain property and benefits.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Concerns imposition and collection of sales and use tax for fabrication and installation of signs.
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.*
Provides one-year waiver of certain MVC fees imposed for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards.
Makes FY 2022 supplemental appropriations of $71,786,000.
Revises various provisions of law governing construction of school facilities projects and operations of New Jersey Schools Development Authority; establishes "Charter School and Renaissance School Project Facilities Loan Program" in EDA.*
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Enhances customer service experience with Business Action Center in Department of State by collecting and disseminating customer assistance metrics.
Requires NJ Business Action Center to collect and produce certain information to assist small businesses.
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.*
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Revises effective date of severance requirements under "Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act." *
Requires Office of Emergency Management to incorporate into State Emergency Operations Plan framework to address cybersecurity incidents.*
Concerns accommodations related to COVID-19 public health emergency for businesses participating in certain State economic development programs.*
Expands criminal penalties related to illegal use of motor vehicle master key.
Establishes crimes of theft of motor vehicle and receiving stolen motor vehicle as separate statutory provisions; provides extended sentences for certain persistent offenders.
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Establishes Medicaid per diem rate for pediatric medical day care services delivered by provider offering on-site services; appropriates $3.6 million to DHS.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Requires periodic reporting of election results on night of primary and general election and until final tally thereafter; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Allows municipality to determine if newly appointed individual serving as municipal fire department chaplain will hold rank and receive salary and benefits.
Extends useful service life of certain school buses to 20 years; provides temporary one-year extension of service life of Type S school buses.*
Establishes nonpublic school transportation program to provide funding to consortiums of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing.
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Increases child tax credit under gross income tax.
Enhances notice requirements and occupancy restrictions for hotels and multiple dwellings following determination of potentially hazardous condition.
Authorizes regional authority to develop and operate regional rehabilitation and reentry center.
Vetoed · 3
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
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 · 31
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $3 million.*
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.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Requires MVC to establish system for salvage processors to electronically process salvage certificates of title.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits.
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.
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach regarding VCCO.
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.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Creates online job portal for behavioral health care workers and online internship and externship portal for health care students.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Requires vehicle identification number be stamped on catalytic converters of motor vehicles.
Allows teaching experience to be considered for out-of-State individuals seeking licensure from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Establishes Small Business Resiliency Project Loan Program in EDA for certain small businesses implementing certain resiliency projects.
Requires private detectives to register their foreign employers with State Police.
Establishes bee-friendly habitat pilot program in Department of Agriculture; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes "Automotive Anti-Theft Systems Task Force."
Requires Attorney General to conduct study on motor vehicle theft.
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.*
Establishes New Jersey Student Teacher Scholarship.*
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Requires payment of minimum wage to minors; requires payment of overtime to minors in certain circumstances; codifies certain exemptions to overtime payment requirements.
Establishes New Jersey Educator Evaluation Review Task Force; clarifies collection of student growth data.*
Authorizes HMFA to issue tax credits for certain purposes.
Out of committee · 77
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Prohibits disclosure of personal information pertaining to certain health care workers who are victims of assault; establishes civil penalty for each violation.*
Provides one-third of motor vehicle fine moneys generated through State Police issued tickets go to municipality where violation occurred.
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $35 million to "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Revolving Loan Fund."
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; outlines role and duties of school counselor; requires professional development for school counselors; establishes position of School Counselor Liaison in DOE.
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.*
Requires Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance to review and implement strategies and systemic modifications to assist crime victims and expands locations for posting information on crime victims' compensation.*
Directs State Auditor to conduct performance review audit of VCCO.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Requires municipalities, counties, and school districts to report cybersecurity incidents.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges.*
Implements certain guidelines concerning purchase of catalytic converters.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families.
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Directs DOE to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to teaching and education support professions; appropriates $1 million. *
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.*
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.*
Establishes New Jersey Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide at Rutgers School of Public Health; appropriates $500,000.*
Credits $5.2 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $2.9 billion to NJ Schools Development Authority, NJ DOT, and NJT; and establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.*
Adds technology transfer duties to New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.
Protects financial institutions and insurers doing business with cannabis industry from being penalized by State regulators.
Revises requirements concerning disqualification from registration as, and duties of, a professional guardian.
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Provides retirement allowance after 20 years of service regardless of age for members of PFRS.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Establishes Home Sharing Evaluation Task Force.
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2023.
Requires DCA to track natural disaster-related spending by State and local government.
Regulates use of automated tools in hiring decisions to minimize discrimination in employment.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000. *
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign regarding pelvic floor examinations.
Expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit disclosure of personal information concerning child protective investigators.
Requires mail-in ballot applications to include prepaid postage.
Requires public institution of higher education to post certain information on institution's website.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Establishes "Innovation Partnership"; provides funding for certain nonprofit partnerships to promote certain emerging technology businesses.
Establishes strict liability criminal penalties for firearm trafficking that results in injury or death.
Concerns bereavement leave for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances.
Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for a public body to register with and submit payroll records to DOLWD.*
Revises visitation and reporting rules for professional guardians.
Requires certain school meal information be provided to public school students' parents and requires school districts to request that families apply for school meals under certain circumstances.
Revises certain requirements for involuntary commitment for mental health treatment.
Requires expanded use of affordable housing voucher program funding for homeownership expense assistance.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Establishes Law Enforcement Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $3 million.
Changes deadline for unaffiliated mail-in voters to declare their political party before primary election.
Upgrades criminal penalties for use or possession of payment card scanning device; requires merchant to take reasonable safety measures to prevent scanning of payment card.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.*
Concerns consideration of factors by court at hearing for pretrial detention or violation of condition of pretrial release.
Establishes Firefighter Critical Mental Health Assistance Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
Establishes Nonprofit Housing Construction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program to facilitate affordable housing construction.*
Requires board of education to directly employ certain professionals; permits board of education to contract for certain personnel; permits use of virtual or remote instruction for public school students in certain circumstances.
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Permits members of Legislature to enroll in SHBP.
Adopts State definition of Islamophobia for certain civil and criminal purposes.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
"Homeless Bill of Rights."
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
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 racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Requires State, county, and municipal employees and certain State contractors to complete cybersecurity awareness training.
Provides that State pay high school equivalency exam fees for low-income individuals.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Establishes "School Opening and School Closing Student Safety Task Force" to review safety of students when schools open and close for school day.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Concerns unlawful discrimination and harassment.
Requires DOH to study racial aspects of ovarian cancer.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain bilingual education teachers.
Requires health care professionals to order bi-lateral ultrasounds concurrently when ordering mammograms; requires insurers to cover concurrent mammograms and bi-lateral ultrasounds.
Expands locations where information on availability of crime victims' compensation is to be posted or disseminated to include courtrooms and emergency rooms.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
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 certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas; stipulates uses of, and eligibility criteria for, funds.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.
"Establishes Children, Youth, and Families Bill of Rights" to recognize and protect certain rights for children, youth, families.
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Permits certain public assistance recipients to use benefits to purchase diapers.
Provides any party in case who is limited English proficient and utilizes court translating services option to have social worker translator to help party navigate court system.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
"Penny's Law"; requires DEP to develop beach accessibility guidelines for persons with disabilities.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on menstrual health and hygiene as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
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 DHS to establish public awareness campaign about period poverty.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide menstrual products in all campus buildings; appropriates $85,000 from General Fund to Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Requires newborn infant screening for tongue tie.
Requires school districts to maintain restrooms in good working order.
Establishes New Jersey Veterans' Organization Building Grant Program.
Creates New Jersey-Africa Commission.
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.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes Military Suicide Prevention Task Force.
Requires each State cabinet level department to establish office dedicated to language and disability access.
Prohibits State from disclosing New Jersey driver's license holders' personal information to other states seeking to issue speed camera or red light camera citations.
Establishes New Jersey Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Program.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Requires psychological evaluation and in-home inspection as prerequisite to purchase firearm.
Establishes Safe Haven Homeless Housing Program; appropriates $30 million.
Prohibits towing companies from requiring owners of stolen motor vehicles to pay fee to release vehicles from storage facilities under certain circumstances.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Directs DCA and BPU to allow certain tenants seeking sewer or water utility bill assistance to provide proof tenant is paying water bill when tenant is different than customer of record.
Provides grants to certain nonprofit meal delivery service providers.
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
Requires private health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover wigs under certain circumstances.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturer to stamp motor vehicle identification number on catalytic converters.
Extends family leave protections to certain employees following death of family member.
Establishes presumption of pretrial detention for persons who commit carjacking, theft of motor vehicle, or burglary.
Requires long-term care facilities to develop person-centered care plans for residents and establishes right to certain forms of visitation for long-term care residents.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
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."
Permits credit against contract cost for primary care services managed by health benefits company for public employees and their dependents; permits referrals to providers that have contractual relationship with such health benefits company.
Permits deputy clerks to perform marriages.
Requires Medicaid coverage of social day care services for senior citizens.
Allows municipalities to transfer inactive alcoholic beverage retail licenses for use in certain redevelopment and revitalization areas; establishes procedure to transfer inactive retail licenses.
Requires BPU to study and implement methods to allow additional distributed energy sources to interconnect to electrical grid.
Requires DCPP to consult with Division of Developmental Disabilities following finding of child abuse or neglect to create services plan for person with developmental disability under certain circumstances.
Concerns motor vehicle stops by law enforcement officers.
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.
Establishes weatherization and energy efficiency pilot program to address open cockloft space between certain buildings; appropriates $30 million.
Requires drunk driver to pay restitution on behalf of child if parent or guardian is killed by that driver.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Establishes foreclosure protection and mortgage relief for certain homeowners impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
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."
Establishes additional municipal review processes and procedures related to development of certain large warehouses; requires certain real property revaluations and reassessments.
Enters NJ in Social Work Licensure Compact.
Establishes Employer-Based Child Care Assistance Partnership Program in DCF.
Establishes requirements for removal of students from public school pending mental health clearance.
Requires health insurers to cover additional mammogram examinations and genetic testing and counseling under certain circumstances.
Protects monetary rights and privacy of minor children featured in online video blogs.
Requires nursing homes to submit certain cost reports to DOH in annual financial report.
Establishes nurse aide workforce development program.
Requires NJT and county transit agencies to offer transit pass for individuals seeking access to One Stop Career Centers.
Relates to provision of financial assistance to eligible property owners, renters, and vehicle owners impacted by remnants of Hurricane Ida; appropriates $100 million.
"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.
Requires notification to appropriate departments if drug court participant tests positive for marijuana or cannabis.
Requires school districts to include instruction on bullying awareness and prevention as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Provides that applicants for examinations to become certified municipal finance officers are not required to have specific major from four-year college to qualify for position.
Provides equitable relief to government contractors who have sustained unanticipated expenses due to increases for construction materials; appropriates $25 million.
Establishes "Fallen Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Commission;" appropriates $2.5 million.
Establishes Division on Marijuana and Cannabis Enforcement in DLPS.
Establishes Health Care Workers COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program; appropriates $30 million.
Requires premium payment made to municipality by purchaser of tax lien to be paid to property owner under certain circumstances.
Requires MVC to provide customers with option to receive certain documents in-person same day or via mail.
Creates stockpile of protective masks for use by first responders under certain circumstances.
Allows remote patient monitoring of pregnant patients; requires reimbursement for remote patient monitoring rendered to certain Medicaid beneficiaries.
Establishes State Work First New Jersey Menstrual Hygiene Benefit Program and State Work First New Jersey Diaper Benefit Program; appropriates $2.5 million to DHS.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish Legislative Youth Council and select institution of higher education in this State as host; makes changes to council's structure to provide flexibility in activities and operations.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.