Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Jamel C. Holley
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires lead paint inspection on certain residential rental property, including upon tenant turnover; establishes lead-based paint hazard education program; appropriates $3,900,000.
In committee20
Prohibits sale of unsafe supplemental mattresses designed for children's products.
Legalizes possession and personal use of small amounts of marijuana for persons age 21 and over; creates Division of Marijuana Enforcement and licensing structure.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture to increase participation in school meal programs through marketing campaign.
Requires primary care physicians, when developing or supplementing patient's medical history, to check prescription monitoring information and make verbal inquiries about patient's personal and familial experience with substance use disorders.
Permits students at public institutions of higher education to donate unused meal plan funds to emergency meal fund for distribution to New Jersey food banks.
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell to develop cybersecurity best practices and awareness materials for consumers in this State.
Prohibits all locally elected officials from receiving retroactive salary increases as of December 1, 2018.
Requires residential landlords to install protective covers on steam radiators.
"Private Vehicle Rental Modernization Act."
Establishes additional homestead property tax reimbursement based on school portion of property tax bills for cerain seniors.
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Makes certain changes to drug court.
Modifies "New Jersey Tort Claims Act" to provide for State to be strictly liable for injuries caused by State-mandated vaccines.
Revises requirements for administration of vaccines to patients.
New Jersey Childcare and Tutoring Relief Act; establishes Remote Learning Childcare and Tutoring Grant Program in DHS.
Establishes Division on Violence Prevention and Intervention in DLPS.
Requires Department of Corrections to confine certain inmates to single-occupancy cells.
Decriminalizes small-amount possession of marijuana and hashish, punishable only by fine, or for certain subsequent offenses, community service; dismisses currently pending disorderly persons small-amount possession charges.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $1.8 million.
"Establishes Children, Youth, and Families Bill of Rights" to recognize and protect certain rights for children, youth, families.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires lead paint inspection on certain residential rental property, including upon tenant turnover; establishes lead-based paint hazard education program; appropriates $3,900,000. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
"New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act"; legalizes personal use cannabis for certain adults, subject to State regulation; decriminalizes small amount marijuana and hashish possession; removes marijuana
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for municipal, county, and congressional redistricting purposes and for apportionment of regional school district board of education members. **
Requires law enforcement agencies to provide internal affairs and personnel files of law enforcement officers to other agencies under certain circumstances.
Requires certain retailers to train employees on gift card fraud.
Establishes "Broadband Access Study Commission." *
Requires AG to collect, record, analyze, and report certain prosecutorial and criminal justice data.
"Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act"; requires certain school meal information be provided to students' parents; establishes protocols for identifying eligible students for meal programs; prohibits stigmatizing student with bill in arrears.
Encourages development of zero-emission vehicle fueling and charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects.
Establishes "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program."
Provides for certain criminal and civil justice reforms, particularly addressing legal consequences associated with certain marijuana and hashish offenses as well as raising awareness of available expungement relief.**
Includes false incrimination and filing false police report as form of bias intimidation; establishes crime of false 9-1-1 call with purpose to intimidate or harass based on race or other protected class.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline SNAP application process for senior citizens and conduct outreach regarding senior SNAP participation.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Provides county clerks with additional week to mail ballots for 2020 primary election; requires ballot position draw to occur one day early if statutory date falls on holiday.*
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.*
Requires DLPS to incorporate implicit bias in cultural diversity training materials for law enforcement officers; makes mandatory cultural diversity and implicit bias training for law enforcement officers.
Requires school districts to provide school meals or meal vouchers to students eligible for free and reduced price school meals during school closures due to COVID-19 epidemic.
Concerns prohibition of residential tenant eviction and eviction due to residential foreclosure during certain emergency circumstances.
Requires person taking written examination for permit to watch video of rights and responsibilities of driver stopped by law enforcement.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Establishes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities.*
Establishes additional requirements for DOH to assess sanctions and impose penalties on nursing homes; revises reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to establish long-term care advocacy and educational training program.
Extends time period during which seasonal retail consumption license holders may sell alcoholic beverages following COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires public and local utilities to provide notice to residential customers of available relief measures during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Protects homeowner in foreclosure from excessively low intervening offer.
Requires public community water systems to inventory and replace lead service lines within 10 years; provides for recoupment of costs by investor-owned public water systems.*
Appropriates $10 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture to support food bank organizations.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish retail price of certain opioid antidotes.
Increases penalties for unauthorized transportation or disposal of solid waste.
Vetoed · 4
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Creates "Temporary Lost Wage Unemployment Program;" allows persons to claim for lost wages due to coronavirus disease 2019, and employers to pay wages to workers ordered under quarantine by licensed healthcare practitioner; appropriates $20,000,000.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $10 million for healthcare and residential facility sanitation due to coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriations of $15 million for grants to food banks.
Passed the General Assembly · 16
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Establishes geriatric parole for certain eligible inmates.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Establishes notification standards for certain service contracts with automatic renewal.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Permits remote application for marriage and civil union license for patients with certain life-threatening symptoms during period of Executive Order 103 of 2020; eliminates waiting period.
Clarifies that law enforcement officer who knowingly chokes another person engages in use of deadly force.
Provides for resentencing of certain inmates.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Out of committee · 60
Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Requires financial institutions to cash payroll checks under certain circumstances.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of fuel cell devices and systems and certain tangible personal property powered by fuel cells.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Requires residential landlords to equip steam radiators with protective covers.
Requires Director of Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS to evaluate and report on interactions occurring between law enforcement and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Establishes Veterans Assistance Grant Program for nonprofit organizations to provide certain services to veterans.
Expands financing opportunities for low and moderate income housing.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo explicit and implicit bias training.*
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Authorizes creation of Woman Veteran license plates.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Provides assistance to manufacturing businesses by having certain State agencies promote economic development and identify credentials needed for careers in modern manufacturing.
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Establishes "Security Deposit Assistance Pilot Program" in Passaic, Union, Essex, Hudson, Gloucester, Atlantic, Camden, and Mercer counties, appropriates $400,000.*
Requires certain telecommunications, cable television, and public utility service providers to notify BPU of service discontinuance to public entities 14 business days prior to shutoff.*
Requires depository institutions to provide paper account statements to elder adults.
Prohibits release of personal identifying information of violent crime victims and witnesses under State's open public records law.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results.
Prohibits provision or sale of single-use plastic carryout bags, single-use paper carryout bags, and polystyrene foam food service products; limits provision of single-use plastic straws; appropriates moneys from Clean Communities Program Fund for public
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
Authorizes DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, to provide priority consideration to permit applications for green building projects.*
Requires DEP to evaluate environmental and public health stressor of certain facilities on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications.*
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Provides retirement allowance after 20 years of service regardless of age for members of PFRS.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Allows hospitals to construct housing and provide wrap-around services for individuals who are homeless or housing insecure.*
Requires DMVA notify certain veteran organizations and county officers of names of persons buried or cremated in State veteran cemeteries.*
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Establishes "Pediatric Cancer Research Fund" and establishes requirements for disbursement of monies deposited in fund; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric research. *
Provides for LEO benefits for certain public employees enrolledin PFRS; prohibits hiring by State or county of public employees after age 35 in positions eligible for PFRS.*
Concerns employment benefits and coronavirus disease 2019 infections contracted by essential employees.
Authorizes Governor to permit mortgage forbearance and rent payment Provides mortgage payment relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for resident property owners, tenants and other consumers, economically impacted during time of co
Establishes civilian review boards to review complaints against police officers.
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.
Establishes wine consultant permit.
Establishes position of Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA.
Concerns eligibility of education employees for unemployment.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $800,000.*
Requires in person early voting period for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Establishes "Sexual Violence Restorative Justice Pilot Program."
Requires law enforcement provide victim of sexual assault with initial incident report; provides victim with option to review initial incident report and submit corrective form.*
Requires resources be made available to victims of sexual assault.
Establishes right of victims to be notified of county prosecutor's charging decision in sexual assault cases.
Requires AG issue annual report concerning sexual assault cases.*
Establishes sexual violence liaison officer in Division of State Police and local police departments.
Requires sexual assault training for prosecutors.
Reduces age at which health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45.
Revises certain restrictions on ownership of medical cannabis alternative treatment centers; expands scope of review of alternative treatment center permit applications and related materials.*
Provides CBT tax credit for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete. *
Establishes "Biannual Small Business Matchmaker Initiative" in Department of State.
Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services.
Concerns employment security during changes in control of health care entities. *
In committee · 109
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee and one percent fee on transfers of certain commercial real estate and tax on sale of controlling interests in certain commercial real property.
Requires voter registration forms be made available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Modifies laws regarding compensation and leaves of absence for certain public employees who served in the military; requires public employers follow certain policies and procedures for leaves of absence.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Requires hospitals and homeless shelters to provide information on services and resources to individuals who are homeless or military veterans.
Establishes certain requirements for 9-1-1 public safety answering points and public safety dispatch points.
Establishes "New Jersey Elections Security Act."
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
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.
Increases penalties for unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing fentanyl.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Establishes procedure for notification to, and review by, municipalities of certain grant and loan applications for acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Permits landlords to take actions after death of tenant in certain situations.
Creates exemption from certain MVC fees for prisoners of war.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Waives certain commercial driver license fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Provides that amounts remaining in inactive Internet gaming accounts will be abandoned property after three years under unclaimed property law.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to include studying connection between human trafficking and illicit massage parlor businesses.
Regulates employers operating massage and bodywork therapy establishments.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to Juvenile Justice Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Grants certain employment protections to campus police officers.
Eliminates past conviction of indictable offense as disqualifier for jury service.
Makes $240,000 supplemental appropriation to Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Requires bio-analytical or clinical laboratory conducting hepatitis C screening test to draw and store blood for confirmation test.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes and sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
"Michael Anthony Fornicola's Law"; requires hotels to have automated external defibrillators in certain areas.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Requires prescription drug services covered under Medicaid program to be provided via fee-for-service delivery system.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Permits municipalities to hold certain inactive liquor licenses reserved for smart growth developments for an additional five years.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be
Requires State to pay difference between federal allocation and total cost of reduced price breakfast or lunch; appropriates $4.5 million.
Requires DOE to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
Directs MVC to establish driver's license endorsement for autonomous vehicles.
Establishes fully autonomous vehicle pilot program.
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 adoption agency, court, or DCPP to maintain child's religious upbringing when placing child in adoptive or resource family home.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by all public employees for health care benefits.
Changes date of "Juneteenth Independence Day" in NJ to June 19 of each year.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
Establishes 180 day prohibition on purchase of handgun for certain individuals who fail to report loss or theft of firearm.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Establishes grant program for school districts and charter schools to develop dual language immersion programs.
Establishes NJ Life Sciences Training and Development Program in DOLWD.
Codifies Executive Order No. 21 of 2018 and directs Attorney General to issue reports concerning guns used in commission of crimes in State.
Prohibits leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor under age of 18; requires law enforcement officers who observe unsecured firearms to conduct follow-up.
Requires adoption of anti-nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Requires retail companies that subcontract work or services to provide certain notifications to consumers; makes these companies liable to consumers for certain damages.
Revises certain penalties for illegal operation of snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires institution of higher education to have automatic external defibrillator on premises of each athletic facility and student center.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Establishes system for portable benefits for workers who provide services to consumers through contracting agents.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Expands expungement eligibility; eliminates cap on number of convictions person may expunge; eliminates limitation on number of times person may be granted expungement.
Establishes School Security Task Force.
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Requires New Jersey Law Revision Commission to identify statutes containing racially discriminatory language.
Revises State marriage license application form to permit certain changes in middle name and surname.
Creates certain assistance and set-aside programs for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons, by persons with a disability, and by veterans.
Requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols.
Prohibits imposition of certain penalties for driving with license suspended for parking violations.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Requires continuation of health benefits dependent coverage until child turns 26 years of age.
Creates alternative option to earn barbering license through 1250 hours of training at licensed shop.
Establishes commission to study impact of certain Medicaid reimbursement rate change on nursing homes.
Establishes "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Directs AOC to establish implicit bias training for judges and judicial personnel.
Provides automatic effective rating for certain school district employees for whom annual summative evaluation is not conducted in any school year in order to protect tenure achievement timeline.
Codifies AG directive concerning criminal investigations of law enforcement use-of-force and in-custody deaths.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Expands NJ FamilyCare to ensure healthcare benefits are available to all uninsured children under 19 years of age who live in New Jersey; appropriates $3 million for outreach, enrollment, and retention regarding NJ FamilyCare.
Provides for spaying and neutering stray or feral cats and establishes fund therefor; designated as "Compassion for Community Cats Law."
Establishes "Stray Animal Study Commission."
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Prohibits government entity or school from requiring influenza vaccinations for persons who are 18 years of age or younger.
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Authorizes any member of the Legislature to perform all functions of notary public.
Increases size of Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission; broadens reporting duties.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Requires transportation network companies, taxicab services, and limousine services to report crime statistics to the Attorney General; requires Attorney General to report on data.
Filed · 4
Assists inmates released from incarceration in obtaining necessary reentry benefits.
Permits nonprofit corporations to allow members to participate in meetings by means of remote communication, and permits nonprofit corporations to hold meetings in part or solely by means of remote communication during state of emergency.
Prohibits cancellation or nonrenewal of certain insurance policies and insurance premium finance agreements for a period of at least 60 days under certain circumstances after declaration of public health emergency, or state of emergency, or both.*
Affords employment protection to certain emergency medical responders.