Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Gabriela M. Mosquera
Sponsored
Became law3
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $19,993,837.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Expands scope of Foreclosure Mediation Assistance Program during State of Emergency to allow use of program funds for payment to counselors who help disaster victims process applications for assistance.
Vetoed2
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Requires issuance of report on certain information and data on processing of applications for professional and occupational licenses and mandates review of training and call intake in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Passed the General Assembly3
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
Requires court to consider certain domestic violence convictions when considering alimony award; permits alimony modification based on certain subsequent domestic violence convictions.**
Requires DCF to publish and disseminate information on early childhood mental health to certain professionals.*
Out of committee7
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.*
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families.
Requires landlord to provide written explanation for rent increase on tenant of senior citizen housing project.
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
In committee58
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Provides that routine foot care services covered under certain insurance policies include coverage of services provided by podiatric physicians.
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Revises distribution of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Allows for tri-weekly visits for parents or guardians of infants or toddlers under Division of Child Protection and Permanency's care.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Requires DHS to take action to raise public awareness of privacy laws that prevent disclosure of health care enrollment information to immigration authorities.
Requires DHS to create English and Spanish-language Internet websites to promote enrollment in affordable health care plans.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Establishes certain hiring preferences for Class Two special law enforcement officers seeking position with municipal law enforcement agency.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Prohibits water companies from assessing more than one charge per fire hydrant to fire departments, fire districts, or volunteer fire companies for use of fire hydrants.
Requires certain water companies to provide representative of fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company access to fire hydrants for water flow rate testing purposes.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to have one veteran coordinator for every 200 veteran students; requires veteran coordinator to work with DMVA to ensure veterans have access to all available services.
Requires school districts to offer course in computer science and DOE to adopt changes to NJ Student Learning Standards in computer science.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Establishes Task Force on Child Care Deserts in New Jersey.
Requires DHS to develop incentives to encourage private investment in child care deserts.
Provides refundable gross income tax credits to staff members at childcare centers.
Clarifies prohibition on smoking of cannabis in public places.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Requires police officer to inquire during mental health check whether there is firearm on premises.
Requires adoption of policy addressing job-related issues of pregnant firefighters.
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Requires persons to report incidents of domestic violence to law enforcement and makes it a disorderly persons offense to fail to report.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Establishes corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain providers of child care that undertake certain quality improvement initiatives.
Requires Commissioners of DOH and DHS to perform language needs assessment.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Provides for process to vacate and expunge certain arrests, charges, complaints, convictions, other dispositions, and DNA records, associated with violations by certain human trafficking victims.
Requires newly constructed police stations, fire stations, and hospitals to provide newborn safety device; allows affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment if parent leaves child in device.
Requires MVC to permit individuals with certain medical conditions to display decal on license plate.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain compressed natural gas vehicles.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force."
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
Requires health benefits coverage of continuous glucose monitoring systems for treatment of glycogen storage disease.
Prohibits paid first responders from engaging in recreational use of cannabis items.
Requires partial State reimbursement to municipalities for cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Creates offense for electronically sending unsolicited nude images.
Requires study by Executive Branch on advisory or study task forces, committees, commissions, and boards.
Filed1
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "foreign national" and "undocumented foreign national," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 51
Authorizes military service members, spouses, and dependents with out-of-state domicile to operate motor vehicles in New Jersey.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices. *
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.*
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
Authorizes surviving spouse or family member of decedent to use motor vehicle registration certificate of decedent until registration certificate expires.
Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities.
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires AG to address human trafficking in underserved communities.*
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. *
Requires DHS to submit federal waiver request regarding time limits for certain SNAP recipients under certain circumstances.
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."
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
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.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Allows tenant with temporary or permanent restraining order to change locks on residential rental unit.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Requires public schools to develop threat assessment teams.**
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Prohibits seller from imposing certain surcharge for credit card transactions; establishes certain notice requirements regarding surcharge.*
Adapts new federal partnership audit regime under gross income tax, ends COVID-related State tax extensions, and eliminates requirement to affirmatively elect New Jersey S Corporation status.
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.
Concerns eligibility for senior freeze reimbursement if eligible claimant exceeds income limit.
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.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Allows cure period for businesses to address and resolve certain violations.
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 Office of Emergency Management to incorporate into State Emergency Operations Plan framework to address cybersecurity incidents.*
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
"Fire Life Safety Damper and Smoke Control System Inspection Verification Act"; Requires routine maintenance and periodic testing of smoke dampers, fire dampers, and smoke control systems in certain buildings by qualified personnel.*
Revises health insurance coverage requirements for treatment of infertility.
Requires copies of certain law enforcement records to be provided to victims of domestic violence upon request.
Concerns New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.
Establishes grant program for NJ YouthBuild programs through DOLWD; makes appropriation.
Requires certain nonpublic schools to provide meals to all students under "Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act"; authorizes limited expansion of income eligibility to qualify public and nonpublic school students for free lunch.
Amends definition of "participating county" under County Option Hospital Fee Program.
Authorizes regional authority to develop and operate regional rehabilitation and reentry center.
Vetoed · 2
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.*
Requires calculation of national average time needed to approve applications for initial credential in profession or occupation and use of average time as standard in New Jersey.
Passed the General Assembly · 43
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Concerns professional licensing and application fees for spouse or dependent of active duty member of United States Armed Forces.
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.*
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Makes it fourth degree crime to engage in certain tracking and location activities.*
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.*
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
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.
Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families*
Establishes "Menstrual Hygiene Products Program," appropriates $200,000.
Establishes requirements for State to enter into contract for purchase of menstrual products.*
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.
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.*
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.*
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.**
Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Establishes crime of fertility fraud.*
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Eliminates various boards, commissions, committees, councils, and task forces created by law.
Prohibits public disclosure of names and addresses in certain unemployment, temporary disability, and family leave claim appeals documents.*
Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in health care facilities; makes appropriation.
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.
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.
Permits certain persons to operate Type S school buses.
Requires Treasury to establish and maintain electronic verification system to verify State employees' eligibility to participate in federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing, over time, employee threshold from 30 employees to five employees in definition of employer.*
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Removes obstacles to teacher certification for certain teachers.
Prohibits production and sale of products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances.
Establishes Deep Fake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million.*
Out of committee · 47
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Requires public agencies and government contractors to report cybersecurity incidents to New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.*
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. *
Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning.
Permits excused absences for students who attend civic events.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family child care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.*
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
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 school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.*
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Requires notice of motor vehicle safety recalls upon inspection and registration of motor vehicle; requires motor vehicle manufacturers to pay annual fee to MVC.*
Establishes Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges.*
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
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.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Provides for lifetime disqualification from operating commercial motor vehicle and transportation network company vehicle for persons convicted of human trafficking.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Extends prohibition on certain utility discontinuances for certain customers.
Concerns use of tents and other fixtures for outdoor dining on certain property.
Requires certain permit holders to complete practice driving hours to obtain probationary driver's license.
Provides for oversight and improvement of administration of unemployment compensation.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger.
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.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate teacher certification of veterans.
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Establishes teacher certification route for candidates with Montessori teaching credentials.
Allows for complaint for guardianship of minor receiving developmental disability services to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.*
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.
Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 47 in Deptford Township as "Officer Robert J. Shisler Memorial Highway."
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Concerns temporary registration certificates and license plates.
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Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
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.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Provides that institutions of higher education may permit final-year students in graduate degree programs for mental health care professions to graduate or be matched with residency or clinical programs early.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Provides mortgage payment relief, income tax relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for residential property owners, tenants, and other consumers, economically impacted during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
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.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
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.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.
Revises State marriage license application form to permit certain changes in middle name and surname.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
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.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires State provider subsidy payments for child care services to be based on enrollment.
Concerns counseling for children who were either physically present or who may have seen or heard act of domestic violence.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Requires adoption of anti-nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Expressly prohibits invasive examination of unconscious patient by health care practitioner without patient's prior informed written consent.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Provides for legal representation for residential lessees and tenants in any removal or eviction proceeding.
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Allows law enforcement agencies to provide juvenile-family crisis information to principal of juvenile's school for planning programs relevant to juvenile's educational and social development.
Establishes two-year pilot program requiring certain law enforcement agencies to coordinate with local school districts to identify and assist at-risk youths.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Allows gross income tax credit for portion of certain child care expenses.
Requires school district to report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA.
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.
Allows municipalities to establish loan programs to fund replacement of lead service lines.
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.
Establishes fourth degree crime of cyber-interference.
Directs PANYNJ to coordinate with law enforcement for investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults; requires certain cruise ship operators to adopt and maintain policies regarding sexual assaults.
Requires certain residential property owners, schools, and child care centers to test drinking water for lead every three years.
Requires DHS to establish a pilot program covering menstrual hygiene products under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
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.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allocates sufficient funds to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Establishes child care costs reimbursement grant program in DCF for parents or guardians whose children are subject to quarantine as a result of COVID-19; appropriates $500,000.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
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.
Permits law enforcement agencies to prohibit recreational use of cannabis items by law enforcement officers.
Excludes discounts for services rendered from gross income.
Establishes Veteran-Owned Business Contract Financing Loan Program in EDA to help certain veteran-owned businesses perform public contracts; appropriates $5 million.
Requires separate entrance for certain child care services located in public school facilities and clarifies licensure requirements and DCF enforcement authority for services.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to long-term care facilities that increase number of residential units reserved for single occupancy by at least five percent.
Prohibits DHS from deeming certain teachers and school employees ineligible for child care subsidies due to number of hours worked when school is not in session for students.
"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.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.