Bills in the 2024–2025 Session, General Assembly.
Christian E. Barranco
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for remediation of collapsed mine shafts and sinkholes on property owned by county or municipality.
Out of committee1
Exempts municipal electric utilities from regulation by BPU in certain circumstances.*
In committee14
Permits public utilities to lease equipment from National Guard in event of emergency.
Requires electric public utilities to disseminate through social media and text message certain information during power outages.
Requires electric service providers to integrate energy storage systems into long-term planning process.
Allows electric public utilities to enter into agreements to place power restoration equipment on private property in anticipation of certain power outages.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether deployment of microgrids and generators will reduce length of power outages.
Allocates $10 million of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants for certain lake management activities for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes "Parents' Bill of Rights."
Excludes contributions to volunteer first aid or rescue squads from appropriations cap and property tax levy cap for certain local units.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers and auxiliary police officers to carry firearms on duty.
"Energy Security and Affordability Act"; requires BPU to consider energy security, diversity, and affordability when preparing Energy Master Plan and perform economic and ratepayer impact analysis of energy generation projects and Energy Master Plan.
Prohibits any foreign company created under laws of foreign adversary from participating in critical infrastructure.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus property certain land and improvements in Township of Morris in Morris County.
Designates "New Jersey's For You and Me" by Kathleen Golden Murphy and Shannon Murphy Flannery as New Jersey State song.
"Daniel Kearney's Law"; establishes criminal penalties for driving in violation of probationary driver's license restrictions in certain circumstances.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Exempts municipal electric utilities from regulation by BPU in certain circumstances.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
"Illicit Opioid Supply Substances Poisoning Awareness Act"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of illicit opioid substances.*
Expands prohibitions on employers concerning requirements for employees to attend or listen to communications related to political matters.
Directs BPU to study feasibility of developing advanced reactors Statewide.**
Out of committee · 8
Enhances criminal penalties for persons involved in certain human trafficking activities.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every five years.*
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.*
Establishes "Motor Vehicle Open Recall Notice and Fair Compensation Act"; revises motor vehicle franchise agreements.**
"Welcome Home Veterans Act"; requires MVC to provide veteran benefit information packets.
Requires DEP to implement Advanced Clean Trucks regulations no earlier than January 1, 2027.
In committee · 56
Provides gross income tax deduction for amounts paid to taxpayers for sale of certain real property interests for conservation purposes.
Establishes independent State Office of Consumer.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.
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.
Provides research and development tax credit under gross income tax.
Requires COAH to administer affordable housing obligations of municipalities based on statewide obligation.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevelopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Prohibits affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Requires certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with certain global positioning systems.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Establishes grant program in Department of State for preservation of certain Revolutionary War sites; appropriates funds.
Requires State Planning Commission to adopt model buffer ordinances detailing different regulatory options for siting warehouses; allows conforming updates to municipal master plans and zoning ordinances.
Establishes Office of Citizen Involvement, Land Use, and Planning Advocate and transfers basic course in land use law and Office of Planning Advocacy to newly established office.
"Informed Consent for Vaccination Act"; revises requirements for administration of vaccines to patients.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
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.
Establishes "Innovation Partnership"; provides funding for certain nonprofit partnerships to promote certain emerging technology businesses.
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulator on student with seizure disorder.
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.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Requires distribution of State aid to certain municipalities located in whole or in part in the Highlands preservation area.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Permits dogs as service and emotional support animals at State veterans' residential facilities.
Permits car wash business to operate during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies and permits emergency administration of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray by licensed campus medical professionals and resident assistants.
Requires MVC to safeguard automatic voter registration process.
Limits speculative development of warehouses until 500,000 acres of farmland are preserved under farmland preservation programs.
Modifies method of calculating impervious surface percentage for municipal parks in Highland preservation area.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires certain preliminary approval by municipality prior to licensure of cooperative sober living residence.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act"; extends process for calculating gas tax rate until Fiscal Year 2032; imposes sales and use tax and additional registration fee on electric vehicles; appropriates $2.5 billion.
Requires entities to verify age of persons accessing certain online material and prohibits minors from accessing certain online material.
Extends closing time of polling places by one hour.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
"Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act"; prohibits distribution of State aid to an institution of higher education that authorizes, funds, or supports antisemitic events or organizations or fails to punish acts of antisemitism on campus.
Establishes EMS part of PERS; provides enhanced benefits for emergency medical services employees.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Program"; amends law concerning NJ infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 25 years.
Prohibits aquaculture of any species of octopus for purpose of human consumption.
"Small Modular Nuclear Energy Incentive Act."
Requires school bus personnel members working with students with disabilities to call 911 emergency line in potential life-threatening emergencies; requires school buses transporting students with disabilities to be equipped with certain safety features.
Reinstates automatic COLAs for retirement benefits of certain PFRS members.
Establishes abandoned mine reclamation program in DEP.
The "Uniform Electronic Wills Act"; authorizes electronic wills.