Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph V. Egan
Sponsored
Became law3
Permits local units and authorities to waive interest and lien enforcement for certain delinquent water and sewer utility payments during emergency circumstances.
Creates "Office of Strategic Enforcement and Compliance" in DOLWD; appropriates $1 million from General Fund.
Increases number of hospitals eligible for highest amount of charity care subsidy payment; appropriates $30 million. *
Out of committee3
Permits raffles to be conducted remotely at large sporting venues.
Concerns contributions to the unemployment compensation fund by employee leasing companies.
Concerns emergency unemployment benefits and shared work benefits.
Filed1
Changes PERS membership eligibility for certain elected public officials and provides for PERS reenrollment; provides for recalculation of retirement allowance without reenrollment for certain elected public officials who have retired from PERS.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Permits raffles to be conducted remotely at large sporting venues.
Concerns contributions to the unemployment compensation fund by employee leasing companies.
Vetoed1
Concerns emergency unemployment benefits and shared work benefits.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Establishes "Electronic Permit Processing Review System."
Concerns sign fabrication and prevailing wage requirements. *
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that prevailing wage will be paid.
Updates licenses offered by and certain licensure requirements from Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors. *
Appropriates $18 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Out of committee · 8
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on properties receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Revises definition of "public works projects" to permit project labor agreements for more projects.
Concerns labor contractors.
Establishes Water Apprenticeship, Training, and Resources Pilot Program in DOLWD.
Promotes workforce diversity in public works projects; revises "public works projects" definition to permit project labor agreements for more projects.
Concerns apprenticeship programs of public works contractors.
Removes New Jersey Maritime Pilot and Docking Pilot Commission from appropriations act provision that limits compensation and health benefits; clarifies PERS and SHBP eligibility for members of commission. *
In committee · 15
Establishes Office of Labor Law Enforcement.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.
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.
"P.I.C.K. Awareness Act"; authorizes issuance of special support recovery license plates.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
"New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act."
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Concerns health insurance benefits for locked-out workers.
Expands circumstances under which prevailing wage must be paid.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Establishes the "COVID-19 Frontline Healthcare Worker Memorial Commission."
Filed · 1
Concerns family leave benefits during epidemic-related emergencies.