Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Samuel D. Thompson
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Requires limited liability company to disclose ownership information when submitting deed for recording.
Requires basic course in land use law and planning offered to certain officials to include module on warehouse development and high-density development.
Concerns regulatory guidance for local approving authorities on approval of warehouse development.
In committee44
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Prohibits solid waste collectors from billing for residential collection services more than 30 days in advance of the service.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Transfers New Jersey State Forestry Services and related entities to Department of Agriculture.
Establishes the "Mental Health Treatment Reform and Violence Prevention Act."
Excludes from gross income tax value of prizes or awards won in athletic competition in Olympic Games.
Directs Department of Treasury to transfer to Department of Environmental Protection as surplus property certain land and improvements thereon in Township of Wall, County of Monmouth.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Provides supplemental appropriation to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Increases penalty for certain voting violations from third degree crime to second degree crime when aggravating factors apply.
Upgrades crowdfunded thefts; imposes mandatory restitution and fines; requires minimum term of imprisonment.
Requires 11th grade students to complete civics course as part of high school graduation requirements.
Requires school districts to provide lunch period of not less than 20 seated minutes.
Provides emergency State school aid to certain school districts located in historic communities.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service; prohibits certain caller identification service manipulation and provides additional penalty.
Requires retail establishments to allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Requires all elections in this State to provide ability of voters to vote in person at polling place.
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Permits survivors of certain retired members of PFRS to apply for accidental death benefits.
Allows certification of orthopedic assistants.
Directs State Board of Education to include instruction on remote learning in professional development requirements for public school teaching staff members.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish building safety inspection program for older buildings.
Allows equine and livestock veterinary facilities on preserved farmland under certain conditions.
Establishes Office of School Bus Safety Coordinator in DOE to oversee school busing industry and ensure safe transportation of school students.
Appropriates $15,000,000 to DCA for purpose of providing grants to DCF and DHS to establish a workforce development and job retention and advancement services grant program for mental health care and behavioral health care providers.
Increases percent of public employees' charitable contributions that may be spent on administrative costs.
Establishes School Funding Commission to study school funding formula and prepare report that will serve as basis of new formula.
Permits transfer of school district capital reserve account funds to general fund for current general fund expenses in certain circumstances.
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2020-2021 school year.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Allows choice districts to increase enrollment in interdistrict public school choice program to offset certain reductions in State school aid.
Establishes Stabilization Aid for certain school districts experiencing reductions in State school aid or other budgetary imbalances; establishes Education Rescue Grants for certain school districts experiencing reductions in teaching staff.
Requires cost of living increase in each State fiscal year for retiree or beneficiary in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, SPRS, and JRS; makes appropriation.
Prohibits modification of mufflers and exhaust systems to produce audible sounds; increases penalties for violations.
Makes public employee retaliation against member of public crime of second degree.
Authorizes farmers and other persons to use, sell, and distribute ground-harvested fruit for purposes of value-added product processing and production.
Increases personal needs allowance to $100 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires schools to be used as polling places only if other public, private, or commercial locations are not available.
Authorizes certain county fire coordinators to display emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Requires paramedic units to stock cyanide toxicity kits; appropriates $500,000.
Revises process of filing real property assessment appeals.
Concerns certain real property assessment appeals.
Revises property tax assessment calendar.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Concerns use of tents and other fixtures for outdoor dining on certain property.
Vetoed · 1
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Passed the Senate · 4
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Revises conditions for use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement.
Requires DMVA assist discharged service members who have diagnosed service-connected mental health condition with petitions to change discharge designation.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Out of committee · 12
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Permits certain persons to drive Type S school buses.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Requires State agencies update demographic data collection methods on Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian and Indian Diaspora residents of this State.
Requires State to pay for costs to conduct new election if the State is at fault for errors during initial election that requires new election to be held.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.*
In committee · 31
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires DOE to release to school district upon request data and software program algorithms used to calculate State school aid.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Makes permanent certain immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Requires entities to accept confirmation of prior COVID-19 infection or protective immune response against COVID-19 when proof of vaccination is required.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires Governor to transmit budget sustainability statement along with annual budget message.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.
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.
Authorizes holder of limited brewery license to engage in certain activities.
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.
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.
Authorizes certain individuals to drive Type S school buses.
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC.
Allows gross income tax credit for Tax Year 2021.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
"Gas Price and Inflation Tax Credit Act."
Requires DOLWD to process unemployment claims within two weeks of filing.
Allows gross income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around certain buildings; requires property owner to provide notice and obtain receipt from owners of adjacent properties of any hunting activity; designated as "Restoring Safety Buffer Law."
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to develop guidelines for tiered group home placements and transfers.