Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Shavonda E. Sumter
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires students at institutions of higher education to receive immunization for meningitis in accordance with recommendations of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.*
"New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act."
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole or probation.
Passed the General Assembly2
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.*
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.*
Out of committee10
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
"Earn Your Way Out Act"; requires DOC to develop inmate reentry plan and establish information database; establishes administrative parole release and provides compliance credits.*
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for legislative redistricting purposes.
Establishes Tuition and Aid Grant Study Commission to examine New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant Program and make recommendations regarding improvements to program.
Permits incarcerated persons to receive student financial aid.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Permits union officials who represent probation officers to participate in all union activities.
Establishes database with certain information about individuals elected to public office in this State.
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Revises definition of small employer under New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
In committee34
Excludes from income for gross income tax and PAAD eligibility purposes victims' remuneration for involuntary internment received under judgments or settlement agreements.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison, Keansburg, and two joint urban enterprise zones, one in Cliffside Park and Fairview, and one in Buena Vista Township and Buena Borough.
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
Allows direct deposit of adoption subsidy payments.
Codifies additional options for the court to enforce court-ordered child support in certain cases.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Requires State Comptroller to perform compliance audit to verify municipal implementation of corrective action plan following performance audit.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $6.3 million to the Department of Health for certain grants to counties for women's health services.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Concerns dissemination of wage and hour information for tipped workers.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Provides that school districts will present character awards to students during annual Week of Respect.
Requires institution of higher education to annually report total number of sexual assault and domestic violence allegations made by or against student to Attorney General and Secretary of Higher Education.
Prohibits disclosure of personal information pertaining to certain health care workers who are victims of assault; makes violation disorderly persons offense.
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Establishes "Green Fund" in BPU to provide funding for energy reliability, resilience, and sustainability programs.
Requires biannual audit of managed care plan provider networks.
Restricts medical expense coverage for opioid drugs unless prescribing health care professional follows certain guidelines.
Concerns termination of child support and other financial support for emancipated child.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Requires Civil Service Commission create online employee survey; requires public employees to complete survey periodically.
Requires school district to provide transportation to public school students who do not live remote from facility being used temporarily while school building of attendance is renovated.
Prohibits New Jersey Schools Development Authority and school districts from selling or leasing school buildings for school purposes if building conditions pose risk to students or staff.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole, probation, or serving sentence.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Provides anti-stigmatization protections to public school student whose school breakfast or school lunch bill is in arrears.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors to annually report certain manufacturing and dispensing information concerning prescription opioid drugs, medication-assisted treatment drugs, and opioid antidote drugs.
Requires periodic revaluation of real property.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish annual 60 day child support amnesty period.
Requires school district or nonpublic school to provide appropriate counseling services to student-athlete who makes complaint against coach or sports official.
Establishes Division of Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled within Office of Public Defender; designates public defender for developmentally disabled clients in criminal cases.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to JJC.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Establishes database with certain information about individuals elected to public office in this State.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for legislative redistricting purposes.
"Earn Your Way Out Act"; requires DOC to develop inmate reentry plan and establish information database; establishes administrative parole release and provides compliance credits.*
Establishes Tuition Aid Grant Study Commission to examine New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant Program and make recommendations regarding improvements to program.
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Permits incarcerated persons to receive student financial aid.
Vetoed1
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.**
Establishes training program to prevent suicide by law enforcement officer;requires reporting of law enforcement officer suicides to Attorney General.*
Requires firearms seizure when certain health care professional determines patient poses threat of harm to self or others. *
Concerns earned sick leave to employees.*
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Committee to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care.*
Automatically registers to vote and updates voter registration for eligible person when applying for motor vehicle driver's license, or non-driver identification card.*
Requires DOH to develop New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care.
Requires Legislature to adopt and distribute policy prohibiting sexual harassment; requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to complete online training on policy once every two years.
Authorizes special assessments and bond issuance to replace lead-contaminated water service lines.
Establishes "New Jersey Complete Count Commission."
Creates two categories of driver's licenses and identification cards; allows residents unable to prove lawful presence in US to receive permits, and standard driver's licenses or identification cards; permits MVC to increase certain fees.
Revises law governing forfeiture of certain seized property.*
Requires DHS to study social isolation occurring in certain population groups.
Modifies powers and duties of New Jersey Infrastructure Bank.
Revises law requiring health benefits coverage for certain contraceptives.
Extends availability period for tax credits for certain expenses incurred for production of certain film and digital media content, raises annual cap related to film production, and provides for annual administration of film tax credits.*
Vetoed · 1
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Establishes certain requirements for domestic violence training for certain judges and judicial personnel.
Requires hospital employees to assist uninsured patients with creating account to apply for insurance coverage through Federally-Facilitated Marketplace.*
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Requires motor vehicle inspection stickers to notify drivers of penalty for texting while driving.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges. *
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Amends language provision in Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations act to shift Transitional Aid for Paterson and Trenton to Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid.
Establishes public awareness campaign about Pregnant Women/Women With Dependent Children initiative and Maternal Wrap Around program.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Out of committee · 42
"Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act."
Concerns stop-work orders related to prevailing wage and construction worker employment.*
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Prohibits Higher Education Student Assistance Authority from referring defaulted loans under New Jersey College Loans to AssistState Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program for certain actions if authority and borrower have entered into settlement agreement.*
Requires that if a school district satisfies 80% or more of the required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, the State must return that area to local control.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Requires disclosure by independent expenditure committees. *
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact. *
Provides Medicaid coverage for doula care.
Allows certain State agencies to sell Internet advertisements on agencies' websites as pilot program.
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Mandates health benefits coverage for fertility preservation services under certain health insurance plans.
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Requires "breakfast after the bell" program in all schools with 70% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Reinstates and extends duration of certain UEZs; requires DCA to study UEZ program and report recommendations to the Legislature.*
Establishes permit to allow seasonal retail consumption license holders to sell alcoholic beverages during certain off-season dates.*
Gives State lottery winners option of remaining anonymous indefinitely.
Extends document submission deadline for certain residential and mixed use parking projects under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program; increases maximum credit amounts awarded for certain residential and mixed use parking projects.
Requires public schools to administer written screenings for depression for students in certain grades.
Permits service credit transferred from another State-administered retirement system to apply toward creditable service requirement for retirement in SPRS.
Allows dependent students whose parents or guardians hold H-1B visas to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education provided they meet certain criteria.*
"New Jersey Insurance Fair Conduct Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; provides funding for hotline through fire inspection fees and penalties.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances to enforce certain landlord code violations as tax liens.*
Eliminates certain aviation fuel tax exemptions; provides funding for aviation capital projects.*
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriffs's sales.*
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.*
Requires health curriculum for public school students in grades kindergarten through 12 to include instruction on mental health.*
Establishes fourth degree crime of cyber-interference.*
Establishes five year Apprentice Assistance and Support Services Pilot Program.
Eliminates motor vehicle surcharges following retirement of bonds and debts tied to surcharges.
Updates notice of elections requirements to include information for voter to obtain polling place locations.
Allows emergency zero interest pension loans to certain public employees who are negatively affected by federal shutdown.
Establishes "Fairness in Asset Forfeiture Proceedings Task Force."
Increases prenotification time and requires severance pay in certain plant closings, transfers, and mass layoffs.*
Concerns driver's license suspension for certain crimes and offenses.**
" Create a Respectful and Open Workspace for Natural Hair Act"- CROWN Act; addresses discrimination under "Law Against Discrimination." based on traits historically associated with race, particularly focused on hair texture and style.*
Makes FY 2020 language allocation of $1,000,000 appropriated to Grants for Urban Parks to Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $1,700,000 for Thomas Edison State University.
In committee · 90
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.
Creates exclusion from municipal property tax levy cap for amounts necessary to provide required matching funds to qualify for grants and other funds.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Adjusts certain State taxes to support strengthened investments in public, private, and charitable assets in this State.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Provides additional State aid to county colleges for students enrolled in certain postsecondary career and technical education certificate programs.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
"New Jersey Residents' Power Protection Act"; requires use of emergency power generators by various facilities and businesses; provides related tax incentives.
Establishes Park Prescription Program authorizing medical practitioners to prescribe free State park access passes to patients with obesity-related conditions.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Requires newly manufactured handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Requires notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of automobile and homeowners insurance policies to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Requires blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death; designated as "Michelle Sous' Law."
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to provide additional notification of contracting opportunities to vendors or potential vendors providing or interested in providing home health care services to State agencies.
Requires safeguards for anonymity and confidentiality with respect to communications presented through phone lines, electronic communication systems, or websites dedicated to accepting anonymous tips for use by law enforcement in criminal investigations.
Imposes $0.25 surcharge on alcoholic beverages to be dedicated to Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Eliminates partial and full State intervention under New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
Clarifies that compensation may be paid for expenses related to service animals required due to injuries resulting from crime against victim.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires minimum level of police staffing based on municipal population and violent crime rate.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
Requires replacement of all electronic voting machines used in State by district-based optical scan voting systems by June 7, 2016; makes appropriation.
Creates grant program for business accelerator and incubator networks; transfers $1 million in societal benefits charge revenues to EDA to administer program.
Authorizes protective order for certain witnesses or victims against actor who attempted to prevent or obstruct them from reporting crime to police.
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
Requires that school district's request for permission to use unrecognized position title include list of abolished positions and positions in which there have been layoffs and detailed job descriptions for them.
"Personal Injury Trust Fund Transparency Act;" requires plaintiff to file personal injury trust claims under certain circumstances; addresses allocation of trust claims; establishes scheduling and discovery requirements for certain tort actions.
Establishes Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of certain firearm components.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.
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.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Allows corporation business tax or gross income tax credits to developers for certain capital investments for repurposing qualified health care facilities.
Creates Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Stabilization Revolving Trust Fund; places temporary surcharge on mortgage foreclosure complaints.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Establishes patient-centered medical home program.
Provides for expedited expungement of marijuana offenses in the event of decriminalization or legalization; establishes the "Expungement Coordinator Program" for certain marijuana convictions.
Establishes the "Advisory Committee on Law Enforcement Handler-Canine Training."
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
"New Jersey Insurance Fair Conduct Act."
Establishes Loan Modification and Consolidation Program for certain borrowers in New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees; revises type of injury needed to qualify for program.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by public employees for health care benefits.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for oncofertility treatments.
Authorizes Overdose Prevention Centers.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Makes FY 2019 supplemental appropriation of $9,000,000 to Department of State for New Jersey Complete Count Commission.
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain home visitation program services under certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $10 million to DOT for construction of highway guard rail along entirety of Route 208 through Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, Hawthorne, Glen Rock, Fair Lawn, and Oakland in sections without highway guard rail, where nec
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $2 million for William Paterson University of New Jersey.
Requires county clerks to place signs near polling place designating point at which electioneering is not permitted.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 180-day period.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be
Makes $240,000 supplemental appropriation to Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission.
Requires entities at every level of government to conduct periodic studies of racial and ethnic disparities in public contracting.
Filed · 3
Concerns disclosure requirements by independent expenditure committees.
Concerns provision of energy to certain manufacturing facilities by providing exemptions to certain energy related taxes.
Designates State Highway Route 19 as "William J. Pascrell Jr. Highway."