Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Steven V. Oroho
Sponsored
Became law4
Permits governing body of municipalities having population of 30,000 or less to serve as local board of health; validates certain actions.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Designates franklinite as official mineral of State of NJ.
Passed the Senate2
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Allows complaint for guardianship of minor receiving developmental disability services to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.*
Out of committee9
Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Allows individuals that have undergone certain background checks, including individuals with certain commercial driver license endorsements, to renew license online or by mail.
Requires MVC to place designation on motor vehicle's registration information indicating registrant is deaf.*
Establishes minimum dollar amount required in Maintenance and Preservation Funds of cemetery companies established before December 1, 1971.
Requires children's psychiatric facilities to have designated staff members visually supervise patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week.*
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Establishes certain requirements if purchasing and reselling same single-family home within one year of receiving certificate of occupancy.
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered lumber yard; prohibits sale of untreated firewood from outside of State.
In committee59
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board; modifies executive State budget presentation; updates State revenue and expenditure reporting and disclosure requirements; and requires annual State financial stress testing.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to undergo obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram within 48 hours of performing abortion.
Provides certain sending school districts one representative with limited voting rights on receiving school district board of education.
Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.
Requires State Treasurer to issue report concerning New York's taxation of New Jersey residents' income.
Limits and clarifies use of cap banking by school districts.
Eliminates certain requirements for nonprofit organization operating ski area.
Prohibits public employers from requiring and funding training courses that pass blame or judgment on basis of race, ethnicity, or sex.
Eliminates requirement for State residency for public officers and employees with limited historic exceptions.
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
"Zero-Based Budget Act;" requires State Treasurer to develop and integrate certain zero-based budgeting practices and procedures in preparation and submission of Governor's annual budget message.
The "School Safety and Security Act"; establishes penalties for certain criminal acts committed on school property.
Revises schedule of State school aid reduction for school districts in Highlands Region.
Reinstates the death penalty for certain murders.
Requires Type II school district without board of school estimate holding its school election in November to receive voter approval of base budget.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires public employers to provide each employee with annual written statement of all remuneration paid to, or on behalf of, that employee by that public employer.
Suspends "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" until certain conditions are met.
Provides "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" exemption, and clarifies municipal planning or zoning authority, for certain development along commercial corridors in Highlands Region.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Provides for no net loss of DEP lands for fishing, hunting, and trapping purposes.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Improves management and administration of New Jersey Better Education Savings Trust program; establishes grants and additional tax incentives for New Jersey Better Education Savings and Trust account contributions; creates New Jersey Better Education Savings and Trust Advisory Council.
Requires Petroleum Products Gross Receipts Tax rate reduction if certain Legislative action is taken that includes increases in other State tax rates and revenue; dedicates revenues from certain sales and use tax increases to "Transportation Trust Fund Account."
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Allows deduction from New Jersey gross income of certain capital gains from sale or exchange of New Jersey qualified small business stock held for more than five years.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter registrants from system.
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Allows gross income tax credit for Tax Year 2021.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Allows appointment of challengers to any election district within congressional or legislative district where challenger resides.
Prohibits mail-in ballot outer envelope from containing political affiliation or designation visible to public.
Requires voter who wishes to vote by mail to complete application for mail-in ballot each calendar year; repeals automatic vote-by-mail designation.
Transfers Division of Elections from Department of State to Department of Law and Public Safety; designates Attorney General as chief election official and requires two bipartisan co-directors.
Establishes means by which customers may submit written authorizations approving repairs to be made by automotive repair dealers.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Authorizes certain basic life support services vehicles to be staffed by one emergency medical technician and one first responder while in service.
Amends law to exempt food banks and food pantries from prohibition on sale and distribution of single-use plastic and paper carryout bags.
Requires commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with certain global positioning systems.
Provides for designation of manufacturing and production business resource center by EDA to provide services and assistance to manufacturing businesses.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish New Jersey STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program to support entrepreneurs in STEM fields.
Requires school districts to institute policies to improve emergency communications to increase school security.
Requires DOE to establish online school security resource clearinghouse.
Allows Right to Farm Act complaints to be filed with county agriculture development board in adjacent county under certain circumstances and creates alternate voting members on such boards.
Prohibits DEP from requiring person under 16 years of age to obtain horseback riding permit to ride in State wildlife management areas.
Requires DEP to evaluate extending sewer service in Lake Hopatcong region; allows gross income tax deduction for septic system maintenance under certain circumstances.
Requires clinic connected with dental school at public institution of higher education to give priority to 100 percent disabled veterans.
Authorizes Sunday firearm and bow hunting for deer on certain lands.
"Energy Security and Affordability Act"; requires BPU to consider energy security, diversity, and affordability when preparing Energy Master Plan and perform economic and ratepayer impact analysis of energy generation projects and Energy Master Plan.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in certain small municipalities.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law2
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered lumber yard; prohibits sale of untreated firewood from outside of State.*
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Vetoed1
Requires MVC to place designation on motor vehicle's registration information indicating registrant is deaf.*
Passed the General Assembly1
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Authorizes special occasion events at certain commercial farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.**
Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.
Concerns use of tents and other fixtures for outdoor dining on certain property.
Updates certain insurance company investment provisions in accordance with Investments of Insurers Model Act.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 10-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities; appropriates $13 million.*
Expands eligibility for wildlife fencing programs to farmers leasing farmland; clarifies eligibility and provides for uniform funding levels for grant recipients.*
Passed the Senate · 6
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Establishes New Jersey Higher Education Student Advisory Commission.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism develop and maintain Internet website on historic sites, districts, and roadside markers.*
Concerns motor vehicles overtaking certain pedestrians and persons operating bicycles and personal conveyances.
Revises pass-through business alternative income tax to include more forms of S corporation income in calculation of pass-through business alternative income tax liability; modifies election and revocation dates for pass-through business alternative income tax.*
Out of committee · 35
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes "Remote Work Study Commission."
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats program in the DMVA; appropriates $400,000.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Permits certain persons to drive Type S school buses.
Requires State Auditor to annually publish user-friendly report summarizing and analyzing contents of State's Annual Financial Report.
Provides that in certain cases vacancy in membership of board of education of limited purpose regional school district will be filled by majority vote of board of education of constituent district represented by former board member.
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.*
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Establishes certain requirements for award of contracts to service-disabled veterans for certain projects funded by NJ Infrastructure Bank.
Increases contracting agencies goals for set-aside contracts for disabled veterans' businesses from three percent to six percent; requires liquidated damages provisions.
Establishes Veteran-Owned Business Contract Financing Loan Program in EDA to help certain veteran-owned businesses perform public contracts; appropriates $5 million.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
Exempts raw, unprocessed honey from DOH cottage food regulations.
Requires school report card to include information about placement of graduates, including apprenticeships.*
Revises effects of delinquency and insolvency proceedings against insurer-members of federal home loan banks.
Expands crime of leader of auto theft trafficking network; establishes third degree crime of participant in auto theft trafficking network.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Revises method for appraisals of farmland to be acquired for farmland preservation purposes.
Upgrades burglary of residence to crime of the second degree.
Indexes amount of veterans' income tax exemption for inflation.
Requires conversion of ward in Paramus and Menlo Park veterans' memorial homes into single occupancy rooms; requires upgrades to certain systems; provides Adjutant General discretion to require additional room modifications.*
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses. *
Establishes Agritourism Fund; requires annual appropriation of $2.5 million from General Fund; appropriates $2.5 million.
Expands eligibility for "fishing buddy license" fee.
Appropriates $48 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs.
Extends annual horse racing purse subsidies through State fiscal year 2029.
Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to certain volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.
In committee · 88
Requires commissioner of registration to move voters with undeliverable mail-in ballots to inactive file; removes such inactive voters from Statewide voter registration system following failure to vote in two consecutive federal general elections.
Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.
Requires Secretary of State create website for voters to report irregularities regarding mail-in ballots; establishes "Vote by Mail Study Commission."
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain E-ZPass tolls paid.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Revises law concerning partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Allocates $10 million of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants for certain lake management activities for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires entities to accept confirmation of prior COVID-19 infection or protective immune response against COVID-19 when proof of vaccination is required.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Allows taxpayers with fewer than 50 employees to accelerate depreciation of capital expenditures incurred to comply with COVID-19 executive orders.
Requires electronic voting system vendors disclose financial ties prior to electronic voting system approval by Secretary of State.
Increases penalty for certain voting violations from third degree crime to second degree crime when aggravating factors apply.
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to purchase agricultural food products from NJ farmers impacted by coronavirus pandemic, and distribute products to school breakfast and lunch programs and food banks; appropriate $1 million.
Provides that public school parent who objects to learning material or activity that parent considers harmful may receive voucher from school district to enroll student in nonpublic school.
"Fairness in Women's Sport Act."
Prohibits bill certified for fiscal note or estimate from being released from committee without fiscal note or estimate.
Revises Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid program; requires all energy taxes to be paid directly to municipalities.
Removes criminal liability for law enforcement officers who have investigative encounter with underage person for possession of alcohol or cannabis unless civil rights are violated.
Requires Governor to transmit budget sustainability statement along with annual budget message.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Allows county sheriffs to issue firearms identification cards and permits to purchase handguns; authorizes county sheriffs to accept applications for permits to carry handguns.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of residence to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Authorizes deer hunting on Sunday with bow and arrow or firearms on federal military land subject to approval of appropriate federal military authority.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Eliminates age restriction for issuing special permits to carry handgun to retired law enforcement officers.
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
Requires public schools to post curriculum plans online; requires school districts to make textbooks or other materials used in implementing curriculum plans available for inspection by parents and legal guardians.
Exempts proprietary institution licensed to offer academic degrees that has operated in State for at least 25 years from requirement to provide teach-out plan in event of potential closure.
Creates office to encourage creation of federal jobs and federal infrastructure investment in the State.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Prohibits discrimination against corrections workers, first responders, and health care workers who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine or booster.
"Home Business Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as permitted accessory uses.
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.
Concerns vaccine mandates and eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain health care workers.
Authorizes certain individuals to drive Type S school buses.
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Permits police officers to travel to and from and remain within police station located within 100 feet of polling place; permits Class Three special law enforcement officers to be assigned to certain polling places.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Repeals the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote."
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.
"Gas Price and Inflation Tax Credit Act."
Authorizes certain large food waste generators to send food waste to sanitary landfill facilities for purpose of generating Class I renewable energy.
Permits conduct of bingos and raffles remotely.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes "Parents Bill of Rights Act"; prohibits school district from interfering with fundamental right of parent or guardian to engage in and direct student's education; permits opt-out of school district curriculum.
Directs State Board of Education to rescind New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education and directs boards of education to establish Parental Advisory Committees and adopt standards for health instruction.
Removes requirements for weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated school district employees.
Permits county clerk to remove voters from vote-by-mail lists under certain circumstances.
Requires Secretary of State and county commissioners of registration to perform audit of voter registration records in Statewide Voter Registration System.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2020-2021 school year.
Prohibits adoption of any State rule or regulation mandating electric heating or water heating systems in buildings prior to issuance of DCA report.
Requires that in-service training for school employees on safety and security include component on behavioral threat assessment.
Provides that school district may not prohibit active or retired law enforcement officer or registered security officer from carrying firearm in performance of school security duties if authorized under State law to carry.
Concerning noncitizens voting in local elections and conduct in office by local government officers.
Requires school districts to implement policy mandating all students and school employees have identification cards.
Allows limited brewery license holder to engage in certain activities; establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery license.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Requires parental consent for student to participate in health, family life education, or sex education program and provides parents with access to certain public school curricula.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Amends Fiscal Year 2023 annual appropriations act to require expedited payment of property tax benefit under ANCHOR Property Tax Relief Program.
Requires temporary detention and notification to parent or guardian of underage person who unlawfully purchases or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis.
Restricts all ownership of agricultural land in State by foreign governments and persons.
Prohibits adoption of State and local rules that prohibit use of fossil fuel-powered kitchen appliances.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Program" and related financing program in NJ Infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 30 years.
Requires school districts to let nonpublic school students participate in district high school interscholastic athletics.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Exempts local utilities from certain reporting requirements.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
Establishes Office of Child Advocate.
Credits $2.35 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $4.32 billion to Department of Treasury to provide funds to municipalities and counties for debt retirement and avoidance.