Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Daniel R. Benson
Sponsored
Became law6
Allows gross income taxpayers to use returns to make voluntary contributions to the Boy Scouts of America Councils in New Jersey.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers; prohibits certain practices under vision care provider contracts.*
Authorizes students in Marie H. Katzenbach school for the deaf to operate State vehicle for driver education and provides protection for such activity under tort claims act.*
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Provides for emergency assistance to individuals or families that are homeless or in temporary living arrangement due to domestic violence.
Permits State detectives and investigators to administer oaths when investigating violations or attempted violations of criminal law.
Vetoed2
Requires health insurance coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas.
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law." and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes notification standards for certain service contracts with automatic renewal.*
Out of committee27
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
Makes homeowners' association in which developer's control of executive board has not been surrendered a public body under "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act."
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Revises homestead property tax reimbursement eligibility requirements for certain claimants relocating homesteads within the same municipality.
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,560,000 for anti-tobacco programs.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Requires Public Health Council to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.
Requires DOH to issue standing order authorizing pharmacists to dispense opioid antidotes to patients without individual prescriptions.*
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Revises "Pet Purchase Protection Act" to establish new requirements for pet dealers and pet shops. *
Requires appropriate insurance company to provide coverage to Good Samaritan injured at scene of accident.*
Requires teacher preparation program for instructional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties. *
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Requires health care facilities to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes grant program for school districts and charter schools to develop dual language immersion programs.
Requires acceptance of universal dentist application for participation form by dental plan carriers.
Requires DHS to take certain measures concerning Integrated Case Management Services program.
Provides gross income tax credit for costs to purchase and install smart thermostats.
Requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and licensed athletic trainers to access prescription monitoring information under certai
Establishes pre-loan counseling requirements and borrower right of rescission for reverse mortgage loans.
Establishes 80 as maximum age for retired police officer to obtain special permit to carry handgun and requires proof of medical exam for officers age 76 to 80.*
Revises animal cruelty law enforcement in NJ.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.*
In committee74
Requires governmental affairs agents retained by government entities to file certain reports with ELEC; requires certain government entities retaining governmental affairs agents to file annual reports with ELEC.
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.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program; extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid in State Fiscal Year 2012.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act," requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Allows gross income tax deductions for certain contributions to NJBEST college tuition savings program.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Prohibits political contributions by county and municipal political party committees to other committees; increases certain penalties.
Authorizes issuance of special emergency notes to finance special emergency appropriations for payment of current year property assessment appeal refunds over three years.
Exempts certain qualified applicants for commercial driver's licenses from fingerprinting and criminal history record background check.
Requires issue advocacy organization disclosure; increases disclosure of campaign finance information; raises amount of money contributable to committees; modifies restrictions on contributions by certain business entities performing public contracts.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts experiencing enrollment increases due to conversion of age-restricted housing developments to non-restricted developments.
"Commercial Motor Vehicle State Highway Parking Act."
Requires full pay for certain health care and public safety workers placed in isolation or quarantine.
Requires school districts to observe Veterans Day as school holiday.
Makes various changes to tenure of faculty and other professional staff at State and county colleges.
Requires certain CATV companies to make CATV service available throughout residential areas of municipality within specified number of years after CATV company first provides service to municipality.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
Provides corporation business tax credit and allows gross income tax deduction for purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Provides that certain personal identifying information may be redacted from certain public records in certain circumstances.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
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 compensation program for State and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Provides that solar and photovoltaic energy facilities and structures on farmland are not an inherently beneficial use, per se, for purposes of zoning approvals.
Increases the personal income tax's pension and retirement income exclusion fivefold over three years.
Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.
Sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals; establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database; requires development of emergency services stroke care protocols; and mandates insurance coverage for telemedicine for stroke c
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
Prohibits condominium associations from assessing insurance deductibles to individual unit owners or groups of unit owners.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to facilitate establishment of four new recovery community centers.
Provides list of various assessments to satisfy State high school graduation proficiency test requirement.
Appropriates $2,565,000 from General Fund to Department of State for Educational Opportunity Fund Programs.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support healthcare education.
Requires motor vehicle dealers and repair facilities to prioritize repairs on vehicles that accommodate wheel chairs.
Require Attorney General to ensure review of registration statements and financial reports of charitable organizations under certain circumstances.
Bans manufacture, sale, possession, importation, transportation, or use of certain traps.
Provides gross income tax credit for birth resulting in stillbirth.
Requires EDA to undertake certain actions concerning records of businesses receiving or applying to receive certain tax incentives.
Requires State to include distributed energy resource in certain new State buildings and consider retrofitting certain existing State buildings with distributed energy resource.
Requires certain school district transportation supervisors to complete certain educational program at Rutgers University.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Concerns timely provision of TDI benefits.
Requires DHS to report on transition to new fiscal intermediary by Division of Developmental Disabilities.
Establishes compensation program for certain county corrections officers injured while performing official duties.
Concerns availability of certain insurance for employers of self-directed employees in Division of Developmental Disabilities in DHS.
Requires water purveyors to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing under certain circumstances.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Limits ability of State Medicaid program to seek recovery for improper enrollment due to administrative error when enrollee never received services.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to allow public high schools in same school district to merge varsity football teams if schools are unable to field varsity teams individually.
Establishes "Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes reciprocity requirements for out-of-State certified nurse aides and personal care assistants to practice in New Jersey.
Requires handlers of dogs used in law enforcement be provided opioid antidote.
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies from charging certain fees and including certain provisions in contracts with consumers.
Requires new one- and two-family residences to be equipped with fire extinguishers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for ovarian cancer research.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Requires DOH to issue standing order authorizing pharmacists to dispense opioid antidotes to patients without individual prescriptions.*
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties.*
Requires Public Health Council to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.
Requires teacher preparation program for instructional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.
Revises animal cruelty law enforcement in NJ.
Vetoed3
Establishes grant program for school districts and charter schools to develop dual language immersion programs.
Revises "Pet Purchase Protection Act" to establish new requirements for pet dealers and pet shops.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.**
Passed the Senate1
Requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and licensed athletic trainers to access prescription monitoring information under certai
Co-sponsored
Became law · 58
Appropriates $34,293,697 from "Building Our Future Bond Act" and provides for reallocating amount remaining from project grants not awarded, for public and private institutions of higher education.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Establishes crimes of operating school bus with suspended or revoked driving privileges and being involved in accident causing bodily injury; permanently prohibits passenger and school bus CDL endorsements for persons convicted of those crimes.
Regulates use of motor vehicle payment assurance devices.
Permits a victim or witness of any age to testify by closed circuit television under certain circumstances in prosecutions for domestic violence, sexual assault, and certain other crimes.*
Requires school bus transporting students using wheelchairs to be equipped with four-point securement system; requires school bus operator to secure students using wheelchairs.**
Authorizes Victims of Crime Compensation Office to make payment for relocation expenses of certain witnesses of crimes.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Establishes Chief Diversity Officer to monitor participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Makes changes to funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Establishes certain penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.*
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Criminalizes possession and sale of alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (alpha-PVP) commonly known as "flakka," or "flocka."
Authorizes virtual net metering for certain electric public utility customers connected to certain hydropower facilities and resource recovery facilities.**
Establishes "Secondhand Valuables Transaction Reporting Task Force."
Includes all disabled veterans in NJT discount program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities; upgrades crimes committed against such individuals; and improves tranparency and accountability in investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of such individuals; designated as
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Provides diamondback terrapins protection as nongame indigenous species.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Permits charging late fee for rental payments due on self-service storage units and authorizes sale of property via website.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.*
Provides protections for children under the age of 18 with developmental disabilities and individuals with developmental disabilities ages 18-21 receiving services from Division of Children's System of Care.
Permits certain public institutions of higher education to make purchases and contract for services as participating contracting units in cooperative pricing systems and through use of nationally-recognized and accepted cooperative purchasing agreements.
Revises application deadline for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Permits authorities and local units operating water supply or sewerage facilities to waive, reduce, or defer sewerage and water service fees for deployed military personnel.
Establishes law enforcement assisted addiction and recovery referral programs.*
Requires DMVA to create registry for organizations providing services to veterans.
Allows "100 percent Disabled Veterans" to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disability.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents of student-athletes and cheerleaders concerning use and misuse of prescription opioids.
Permits smoking in certain facilities for purpose of medical or health-related scientific research.
Establishes failure to maintain lane may constitute recklessness under reckless vehicular homicide statute; designated as Eileen's Law. **
Provides civil immunity to persons who forcibly enter motor vehicles to remove unattended and unsupervised children.
"Charlie's Law"; Establishes civil penalties for persons who interfere with or deny persons with disabilities accompanied by service or guide dogs access to places of public accommodation.
Establishes "High School to College Readiness Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to enhance student preparation for postsecondary education.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation.*
Establishing New Jersey Commission on Veterans' Benefits in DMVA.
Allows minors 14 years of age or older to authorize organ donation; requires MVC to provide organ donation registration to certain minors.
Allows domestic violence victims to cancel television and telephone service contracts without paying early termination fee.
Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*
Authorizes Division of Consumer Affairs to extend orders for controlled dangerous substances under certain circumstances.
Authorizes certain benefits for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Provides increased tax credit amounts under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program for certain businesses that have collaborative research relationships with colleges or universities.*
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers as organized delivery systems.**
Designates building where NJEDA is located as "Caren Franzini Memorial Building" to commemorate her outstanding service to State.
Excludes amount of certain early withdrawals from qualified retirement plans in determination by Higher Education Student Assistance Authority of applicant's eligibility for and amount of State tuition aid grant.
Establishes special "Equality" license plates.
Vetoed · 15
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Establishes an animal abuser registry.
Concerns employer inquiries about worker's wage and salary experience.*
Jake's Law; Incentivizes counties to design and construct completely inclusive playgrounds as a priority for State funding for recreational and conservation purposes.*
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Requires State's full participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
"Safe Transportation Jobs and Fair Employment Rules Act."
Concerns law regarding failure to pay wages.
Passed the General Assembly · 46
Concerns installation and maintenance of solar panels in common interest communities.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for domestic companion animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
Limits forum of certain consumer contract disputes to New Jersey.*
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Creates exclusion from municipal property tax levy cap for amounts necessary to provide required matching funds to qualify for grants and other funds.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.
Authorizes municipalities to establish program for public or private financing of certain energy, water and storm resiliency projects under PACE program through use of voluntary special assessments for certain property owners.*
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Requires certain CATV companies to provide free Internet access to public libraries.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Prohibits snowplow operators from depositing snow in front of certain access points used by persons with disabilities.
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.
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Establishes "Blue Alert System."*
Provides State agencies will not enter into contracts with business entities that require persons or public entities to give up rights or remedies provided by State law.
Increases penalties for energy "slamming" practices.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance on home loan within five business days after notification of request.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods or cottage foods. *
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Requires epinephrine auto-injectors to be packaged and sold as single units.
Requires DOT to compensate local government entities for contractual delay damages resulting from shutdown of transportation projects funded by Transportation Trust Fund; authorizes local government entities to use certain funds for transportation project
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Establishes Statewide Hit and Run Advisory Program to facilitate apprehension of persons fleeing motor vehicle accident scene; designated as "Zackhary's Law."
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of "whistleblower" claims; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
Requires DLPS to issue guidelines for counties to establish special needs registries.
Concerns Early Intervention Support Services program in DOH and expansion of program to all counties.*
Concerns expansion of services provided by DOH mental health screening services.*
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.*
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Expands health insurance coverage for behavioral health services and autism and enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health parity laws. *
Clarifies excuse from jury service for active duty members of the military or reserve; repeals N.J.S.38A:4-6.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.*
Establishes Green Jobs Training Partnership Program.
Out of committee · 134
Requires health insurance coverage for treatment of substance use disorders; places certain restrictions on the prescription of opioid and certain other drugs; concerns continuing education related thereto.
Requires NJ Clean Energy Program's Residential New Construction incentives be made available Statewide.*
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Establishes solar power incentive program.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.*
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Implements person-first language and changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities or substance use disorders.*
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
The "Green Building and Infrastructure Tax Credit Act"; provides tax credits for certain green buildings.* .
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Study Advisory Council.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and teleheath. *
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault under certain circumstances.*
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Authorizes establishment of drug donation programs.*
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.
Mandates health benefits coverage for opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties.
Requires blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death; designated as "Michelle Sous' Law."
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Adds two public members to NJT board and provides that all NJT board members are voting members.*
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.*
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.
Establishes framework for cybersecurity information sharing and preparedness; creates NJ Cybersecurity Advisory Board. *
Establishes public-private pilot program for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations.
Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.*
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability and grant deferment for temporary total disability.*
Prohibits retailers from scanning consumer's identification card for return of merchandise.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.***
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain county corrections officers.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning mobility and support services needs of NJ adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Exempts hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles from certain labeling requirements.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70 % of final compensation for surviving children of SPRS or PFRS member; redefines child in SPRS.*
Requires lead paint inspection prior to home purchases and tenant turnover; establishes educational program on lead hazards.
Prohibits sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.*
Permits testing and use of autonomous vehicles on State roadways under certain circumstances.
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
Clarifies that product approval from U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not required for drug manufacturer to file registration statement, and specifies timeframe by which DOH must review registration statements.
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
Concerns expedited process for foreclosing vacant and abandoned residential properties in uncontested actions.
Modifies recordkeeping requirements for secondhand jewelry and precious metal transactions; increases penalties for violations.*
Establishes procedures for pharmacists to seek approval to dispense alternative product in place of prescribed epinephrine auto-injector device.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.*
Permits law enforcement agencies to buy firearms directly from manufacturers; clarifies permits and identification cards not required.*
Authorizes State and local law enforcement entities to contract for bulk purchasing of heroin antidote.
Establishes New Jersey First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Program; provides gross income tax bebefits for certain contributions to and earnings on assets maintained in accounts established under program.*
Requires data collection and issuance of report on drug evidence testing by New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish income-driven repayment option and loan rehabilitation program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Establishes "New Jersey College Ready Students Program Act"; provides tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity at county college for certain high school students.
Enhances resident voting participation rights in common interest communities.
Permits county improvement authorities to establish student loan refinancing loan programs.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Establishes special license plate for family members of fallen police officers and firefighters.
"New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act."
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
Requires continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Prohibits termination of law enforcement officer or firefighter based upon determination that officer or firefighter is physically unable to perform duty under certain circumstances.*
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide annual New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program report to Governor and Legislature and develop student loan comparison information document to increase program transpa
Revises New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program to require applicants first exhaust federal student loans, require income verification, and limit total student loan amounts.
Requires bidders on certain State contracts to disclose, and Department of Treasury to publish, certain gender wage information.
Requires certain notification prior to mosquito spraying applications.
Requires compilation of, and public access to, tests of soil lead levels.
Requires soil testing to determine lead content prior to certain home sales.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for digital tomosynthesis for screening and diagnostic purposes related to breast cancer.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Provides for procurement by State of pharmacy benefits manager, automated reverse auction services, and claims adjudication services.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
"Antwan's Law"; allows counties and municipalities to establish, or request DOT to establish, reduced speed limits near schools.*
"Consumer ATM and Credit Card Protection Act."
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.
Requires DMVA to notify county veterans' affairs office of death of certain military service members; requires office to have Gold Star liaison.
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for Gold Star families.
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Requires governmental affairs agents to disclose on notice of representation form compensation amount received from State or local government entities; requires notice to be posted on Internet site of Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for inpatient hospital beds for treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorder dual diagnosis.
Requires sanitation vehicles display flashing lights in certain circumstances and imposes conditions on drivers approaching sanitation vehicles displaying flashing lights; designated as "Michael Massey's Law."
Requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns to appear on ballot; prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns.*
Encourages local units to plan for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Imposes temporary surcharge on hotel occupancies in certain cities to fund public safety services.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Prohibits residential substance use disorder treatment facilities and aftercare facilities from denying admission to individuals receiving medication assisted treatment for substance use disorder.
Establishes "Volkswagen Settlement Utilization Fund for Motor Vehicle Emissions Reduction and Air Pollution Control"; directs DEP to use moneys in fund to establish and implement certain air pollution control programs.
Establishes Medicaid Managed Care Organization Oversight Program.
Requires naltrexone and naloxone be offered to certain inmates prior to release from incarceration.
"Community Mental Health Safety Net Act"; requires DHS to provide cost-based reimbursement on quarterly basis for certain mental health and substance use disorder treatment services through June 2018; makes appropriation.
Establishes certain requirements and conditions concerning changes to DHS reimbursement system for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services.
Requires AG to conduct survey of untested sexual assault examination kits.*
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Regulates and prohibits certain operation of drones.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
Expands background check requirements for entities that provide services to individuals with certain disabilities and requires inspections of certain entities.
Exempts certain motor vehicles that provide service to persons with developmental disabilities from motor vehicle registration fees.
Concerns prescribing of certain controlled dangerous substances; requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and athletic trainers to
Authorizes court to impose lifetime parole supervision on certain child pornography offenders.
Appropriates $7.5 million for constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
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Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
Directs DOT, in consultation with other State entities, to study and report on certain solar and wind energy installations.
Establishes carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide air quality standards and certification requirements for ice arenas.
Requires certain entities to be equipped with generators and allows those entities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Provides grants to eligible businesses equal to 5% of annual base salary of new employees hired under employment grant component of Invest in New Jersey Business Grant Program.
Provides tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for certain costs incurred in purchase and installation of certain environmentally responsible business equipment.
Allows corporation business tax credits as incentives for redevelopment of distressed shopping centers.
Requires municipal agency under MLUL to notify prospective applicant of potential need for additional governmental approvals.
Permits municipalities to use up to 15% of affordable housing trust fund monies to provide financial assistance grants to owners of real property that sustained certain weather-related damage.
Increases State appropriations to Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund by $387 million to restore municipal aid reductions from Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Limits contributions to legal defense fund of candidate for or holder of elective public office; requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Eliminates State aid growth limit for school districts in which individuals age 65 and over comprise at least 33.3 percent of the population.
Requires retirement subdivision and retirement community to install electrical generator to provide electricity to common use area to be used as shelter in case of emergency.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program and provides a State match for contributions to NJBEST accounts for families meeting certain income guidelines.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a public servant, during a state of emergency, to use or make disposition of a public resource in an unauthorized manner with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another.
Removes exclusion of "nonimmigrant aliens" from qualifying for in-State tuition rates at public institutions of higher education under certain conditions.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Establishes "Government Crowdfunding Act" to allow government entities to conduct fundraising for certain government projects.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax for step-grandchildren.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Requires wheelchair-only handicapped parking spaces in certain parking lots.
Requires certain health benefits coverage for diagnosing and treating autism and other developmental disabilities.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Provides State Investment Council must report private money managers' fee information and that council's regulations addressing political contributions will apply to federal or national committees and non-State political committees.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Requires New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to annually prepare report on debt held by public institutions of higher education.
Requires entertainment facilities to provide calorie information for food and beverage items offered for sale.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax on Class C beneficiaries and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for New Jersey estate tax to $1,500,000.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Requires suspension of member of Legislature indicted for certain crimes or offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Praying Mantis."
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 destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
"Government Reality Check Act"; prohibits public employers from providing certain benefits to public employees; restricts gifts to public employees; restricts travel by public employees; imposes post-employment restriction on public contracting employees.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Increases pension and retirement income exclusions under gross income tax for certain taxpayers.
Revises penalty provision of law concerning prohibition of certain unsolicited text messages.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program in several counties."
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Establishes Animal Cruelty Offender Registry; prohibits purchase, adoption, and breeding of animals by animal cruelty offenders.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Directs MVC to establish driver's license endorsement for autonomous vehicles.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Creates fourth degree crime of operating drone equipped with weapon.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance prohibiting operation of drones under certain circumstances.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a private citizen to use a tracking device to track another person without that person's consent.
Excludes from income for gross income tax and PAAD eligibility purposes victims' remuneration for involuntary internment received under judgments or settlement agreements.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Provides certain exemptions from sales and use tax for hybrid electric vehicles, compressed natural gas vehicles, and equipment used for refueling or recharging certain vehicles.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for capital gains from sale of certain employer securities by qualified business that result in net positive benefit to the State.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
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 earned sick leave.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
The "Renewable Energy District Financing Act."
Increases renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements under "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
The "Retrofitted Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
"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 Clinical Trials Working Group.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Requires health insurers, group health plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to share certain health benefits information with Medicaid and other State programs.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
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.
Imposes a wholesale sales tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Requires county colleges to develop plan to achieve three-year graduation rate of at least 33 percent for full-time degree-program students by 2019-2020 academic year.
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.
The "Full Marriage Recognition for Civil Union Couples Act"; recognizes certain civil unions as marriages dating back to inception of such civil unions.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank Fund and Clean Energy and Infrastructure Modernization Fund within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes Attorney General to impose fine against institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
Categorizes "knockout game" assault as third-degree aggravated assault; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment for such assault.
Provides for issuance of certificate of rehabilitation to certain offenders with substance abuse disorders.
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each housing unit occupied by a veteran; permits municipalities to satisfy fair share affordable housing obligation through 35 percent set aside for ve
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each unit of transitional housing occupied by a veteran.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warnings."
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs harbored on insured property.
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.
Requires electric public utilities to enter into long-term contracts for certain forms of Class I renewable energy.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of residents of State developmental centers until certain conditions are met.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes Developmental Disability Awareness license plates; dedicates fees to Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
Authorizes gun violence restraining orders and firearm seizure warrants.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program and requires DOT to conduct study.
Regulates tethering and confinement of, and proper shelter for, dogs.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Authorizes DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to permit BPU-certified persons to install and maintain solar photovoltaic panels on noise barriers erected on roads and highways.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Provides veterans with up to 60 credits tuition-free at county college serving county of residence.
Permits students who are eligible for special education services to enroll in noncustodial parent's school district of residence under certain circumstances.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for reserve component of U.S. Armed Forces and the New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations; appropriates $2,000,000.
Provides for implementation of full-day preschool programs in additional school districts; appropriates $110,000,000 from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide advocates for victims of sexual assault.
Requires health insurance carriers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for telemedicine.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Makes various changes to law addressing meetings of public bodies to provide public with greater access to meetings and information about meetings.
Establishes microgrid pilot program.
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain student loan interest.
Revises and renames NJSTARS; repeals NJSTARS II; establishes NJ HonorScholars Program.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires public institutions of higher education to grant academic credit to certain veterans.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Requires State to provide recipients of State tax refunds, unemployment insurance benefits and State employee compensation certain payment options.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
Establishes the New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program.
Requires development of longitudinal data system that maintains individuals' data from preschool through entry into workforce.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $122,200,000 from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State school aid to school districts with equalized school tax rate greater than specified threshold.
Prohibits sale and possession of undetectable firearms manufactured using three dimensional printing technology.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
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.
Temporarily maintains property tax exemption for previously exempt non-profit hospital properties; establishes "Non-Profit Hospital Property Tax Exemption Study Commission."
"The Highway Worker Safety Act"; increases penalties for vehicular homicide and assault by auto of highway workers; increases fines for certain highway maintenance, construction, or incident zone violations.
Requires breeders or other providers of dogs to pet shops to certify compliance with DOH breeding and care regulations; prohibits pet shop sale of dogs without certification; requires inspections and reallocation of dog license revenues to fund enforcemen
Establishes NJ Water Supply and Pharmaceutical Product Study Commission.
Requires owners of residential rental property to conduct lead hazard inspections in certain situations.
Prohibits sale of municipally-owned sewer or water plant to private entity.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide coverage for behavioral health care services determined to be medically necessary, including 90 days per year of inpatient residential care.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Early Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs for students in grades K through 8.
Establishes central registry of residents with special needs for use during emergencies.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Prohibits designation of certain assessments as high school graduation requirement during transitional period to new Statewide assessment system.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires training of certain staff and health care professionals in interacting with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Establishes State School Aid Funding Fairness Commission.
Concerns the grading of criminal offenses committed against a child under the age of 16 years by a person armed with a weapon.
Provides tax credits for performing certain repairs on primary residences of senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Establishes DEP rebate program for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles.
Provides gross income tax credit to persons purchasing or leasing alternative fuel vehicles.
Requires issues related to prescription opioids to be included in continuing education courses for certain health care professionals.
Establishes process for individual to petition court for involuntary commitment of another person to treatment for substance use disorder.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense up to 90-day supply of certain prescription drugs.
Requires opioid antidote dispensation to be monitored under Prescription Monitoring Program, and authorizes certain entities to submit info regarding opioid antidote administration for inclusion in secondary, linked database; designated as "John Wagner's
Allows use of stand-up paddleboards for fishing on lakes in wildlife management areas.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability.
Establishes payment incentive program for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screening along with other immunization and wellness checks as precondition of child's initial entry into school system.
Establishes program to provide free tuition under State Tuition Aid Grant Program to certain students who are accepted to public four-year institutions of higher education and elect to attend county college for first two years.
Concerns employer inquiries about wage and salary history.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone under certain conditions.
Provides for confiscation and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations, and for cost of their care while being held.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to obtain court order prior to using certain collection practices for defaulted loans under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.
Requires DOH to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
"Pedals' Law"; prohibits hunting and establishes non-lethal control program for black bear for five years; prohibits certain actions that result in feeding of bears and requires use of bear-resistant containers; dumpsters, and food boxes in bear habitat.
Establishes endangerment of a domestic companion animal as an animal cruelty offense.
Requires outer envelope of certain mail-in ballots to indicate amount of required postage.
Allows counties and municipalities to establish, or request DOT to establish, reduced speed limits near schools.
Requires evaluation of school buildings for air quality and mold.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Establishes social innovation loan guarantee pilot program and study commission within New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority concerning opioid and other substance use disorders.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to annually provide Governor and Legislature with student consumer information report compiled under "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act."
Requires institutions of higher education to offer cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research, or scientific purposes to animal rescue organizations for adoption.
Establishes Gold Star Family Scholarship Program; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires driver education course to include instruction on interacting with law enforcement officer during traffic stop.
Provides Medicaid and certain insurers access to Prescription Monitoring Program.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Concerns equal pay and employment opportunities for women.
Authorizes use of electric school buses.
Provides for expedited appeal of school district's decision to deny access to student's service animal.
Requires new voting machines purchased or leased for use in elections in this State to produce paper record of each vote cast.
Authorizes placement of involved animal with animal welfare agency or similar entity pending adjudication of alleged animal cruelty violation when not adjudicated in seven days.
Maintains eligibility for veteran's property tax deduction when property is placed in trust.
Directs four-year public institutions of higher education to develop plan to achieve six-year graduation rate of at least 70 percent for full-time undergraduate students by 2022-2023 academic year.
Permits establishment by county and four-year institutions of higher education of three plus one degree programs for receipt of baccalaureate degree after spending three years at county college and one year at senior institution.
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.
Requires candidates for certain teaching certificates to pass written test on foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Requires community associations to allow installation of electric vehicle charging stations.
Directs DEP to use 25 percent of any moneys received by NJ from settlement between EPA and Volkswagen, Inc. to promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and supporting infrastructure.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Establishes Working Group on Deaf Education and directs DOE to develop parent resource guide and select early intervention assessments for use in identifying language delays in deaf and hard of hearing children.
Establishes certain requirements and conditions concerning changes to DHS reimbursement system for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services; appropriates $10 million.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for equine therapy or rehabilitation under certain circumstances.
Prohibits restrictions on patient receiving organ transplant based on marijuana use.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential and prohibit any disclosure, sale, or unauthorized access to subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose informatio
Encourages development of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects.
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide assistive technology to elementary and middle school students with dyslexia and related conditions.
"Voter Privacy Act"; establishes protections for privacy of voters; prohibits automated programs to remove names of ineligible voters from official lists of eligible voters; prohibits sharing of certain voter information with federal government.
Expands list of controlled dangerous substances for which prescribers and pharmacists are required to check prescription monitoring information.
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Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.