Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Mila M. Jasey
Sponsored
Became law3
Enhances homeowner notification of foreclosure mediation program requirements.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to develop guidance for institutions of higher education to identify cultural barriers in recruitment and retention of underrepresented students for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.
Establishes "New Jersey Foreclosure Prevention Act."
Passed the General Assembly6
Requires that if school district satisfies in certain evaluations 80% or more of required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, State must return area to local control.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Out of committee17
Expands financing opportunities for low and moderate income housing.
Permits appointment of nonresident municipal emergency management coordinators in municipalities with populations under 5,000 persons in certain circumstances.
Requires DOH and DHS to identify and take appropriate steps to secure federal sources of funding to support maternal mental health.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
Concerns online marketing of affordable housing units.
"COVID-19 Financial Security for Consumers Act."
Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 health state of emergency.
Eliminates eligibility of postsecondary students and other individuals for State student assistance, training, and employment services if school or training provider requires student to consent to arbitration agreement or proceeding or to waive certain ri
Establishes requirements for closures of private career schools and institutions of higher education, modifies review process of new academic programs, and requires approval of branch campuses.*
Requires State to enter into contract for COVID-19 testing kits for purchase by institutions of higher education.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph, appropriates $90,000.
Permits teacher and professional staff member who provides special services retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.*
Establishes Amistad Commission Exemplary Award Program; appropriates $10,000.
Removes Selective Service registration as requirement for eligibility under State student financial aid programs.
Raises statutory threshold for certain public bidding, permits bidder disqualification due to prior negative experience, adds exemptions to public bidding requirement under "State College Contracts Law," and establishes process for cooperative pricing sys
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
In committee43
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Exempts from disclosure as public record information provided by individual to government agency under certain circumstances.
Clarifies that teachers and professional support staff employed in charter schools and other public schools must meet the same certification requirements.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Establishes procedures for the approval of the closure of a public school.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Places five-year limit on State control of any school district; requires local control to be returned in any area of district effectiveness under State intervention for which district meets 80 percent or more of standards.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Establishes "New Jersey Works Dual Enrollment Option Program."
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
Changes ratio for earnings offset of workers' compensation permanent total disability benefit payments.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
Concerns municipal dedicated charitable funds for exclusively public purposes to receive elective contributions made by certain property owners and providing credits for contributions.
Revises residential property mortgage foreclosure process.
Provides parents and adult students with simplified method for opting out of release by school district of student information to military recruiters.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts; establishes uniform age requirement for kindergarten enrollment; reduces compulsory age of school attendance.
Revises standards for contracting at State colleges to mirror standards applicable to public research universities; increases bid threshold for all four-year public institutions of higher education to $100,000.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by campus medical professional or trained employee.
Requires modernization of all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications to incorporate new standards for collection of information about sex, gender, and sexual orientation.
Requires 45 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.
Permits use of campaign funds up to $25,000 for child care expenses when incurred as direct result of campaign activity.
Requires county clerks to place signs near polling place designating point at which electioneering is not permitted.
Requires governing board of public institution of higher education to gain approval of Secretary of Higher Education prior to establishing branch campus or additional location.
Requires Commissioner of Health to designate special care nursing facility to treat patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders dual diagnosis.
Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning.
Allows reemployment by school district of TPAF retiree as advisor of school-sponsored club or program when compensation is under $10,000.
Permits, and establishes requirements for, sale of cottage food products.
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.
Limits use of student progress on standardized assessments to no more than 10 percent of overall evaluation.
Designates New Jersey Commuter Pass Credit Act; provides for temporary gross income tax credit for certain commuting passes.
Requires institutions of higher education to test for lead in drinking water and disclose test results.
Prohibits taking of fur-bearing small game at family entertainment events, and organizing, sponsoring, promoting, conducting, or participating in such events.
Increases certain firearms permit fees.
Requires school districts to provide virtual or remote instruction for beginning of 2020-2021 school year; permits in-person delivery of certain special education services; permits school districts to delay start of 2020-2021 school year.
Requires students to complete financial aid application as part of high school graduation requirements.
Requires reporting and investigation of alleged incidents of sexual harassment and sexual violence at institutions of higher education and requires institutions to provide employee training on such reports.
Imposes gross receipts tax on firearms and firearms ammunition.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal anxiety.
Eliminates requiring certain joint officials be from adjacent municipalities.
Establishes summer transition pilot program for rising kindergarten students who meet certain criteria.
Requires continuing care retirement community agreements to require refund of refundable entrance fees within one year.
Prohibits institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions from withholding transcript due to outstanding balance on student's account.
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Permits appointment of nonresident municipal emergency management coordinators in municipalities with populations under 5,000 persons in certain circumstances.
Requires DOH and DHS to identify and take appropriate steps to secure federal sources of funding to support maternal mental health.
Establishes requirements for closures of private career schools and institutions of higher education, modifies review process of new academic programs, and requires approval of branch campuses.*
Eliminates eligibility of postsecondary students and other individuals for State student assistance, training, and employment services if school or training provider requires student to consent to arbitration agreement or proceeding or to waive certain ri
Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 public health state of emergency.
Concerns online marketing of affordable housing units.
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph, appropriates $90,000.
Establishes Amistad Commission Exemplary Award Program; appropriates $10,000.*
Permits teacher and professional staff member who provides special services retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.**
Raises statutory threshold for certain public bidding, permits bidder disqualification due to prior negative experience, adds exemptions to public bidding requirement under "State College Contracts Law," and establishes process for cooperative pricing sys
Co-sponsored
Became law · 110
"New Jersey College Affordability Act"; appropriates $10 million. *
"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. **
Establishes "Broadband Access Study Commission." *
Directs the development and posting of notices containing information for victims of human trafficking.
Establishes Mental Health Screening in Schools Grant Program in DOE; appropriates $1 million.*
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.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Directs DOE to develop outreach program to encourage young women and minorities to pursue post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM.
"Daniel's Law" prohibits disclosure of certain personal information of active, formely active, and retired judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and their family members; establishes crime and civil action for disclosing such infor
Encourages development of zero-emission vehicle fueling and charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects.
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.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline SNAP application process for senior citizens and conduct outreach regarding senior SNAP participation.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide graduating students with information on income-contingent student loan repayment programs.
Establishes study commission to examine development of mutually beneficial relationships between institutions of higher education and municipalities.
Establishes compassionate release program for certain inmates; repeals law that establishes medical parole.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to support FIRST Robotics Programs in school districts.
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.
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
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 health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Requires certain family or household members and victims be notified when firearms are returned to persons charged with domestic violence or subject to extreme risk protection order.
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.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for testing of coronavirus disease 2019 and for telemedicine and telehealth during coronavirus disease 2019 state of emergency.
Authorizes EDA to make grants during periods of emergency declared by Governor and for duration of economic disruptions due to emergency; allows EDA to grant certain business documentation submission deadline extensions.
Concerns time off from work in connection with infectious disease.
Allows public bodies to conduct meetings, and provide notice, by electronic means during periods of emergency.
Authorizes all licensed health care facilities and laboratories to collect specimens to test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); allows waiver of staffing ratio requirements.
Requires food access information be displayed on websites of 2-1-1 system and executive branch departments during public health emergencies to the extent practicable.
Concerns prohibition of residential tenant eviction and eviction due to residential foreclosure during certain emergency circumstances.
Establishes certain requirements to use telemedicine and telehealth to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Increases fee for NJ Waterfowl Stamps.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Provides for employment, retention, and benefits during public health hazard posed by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of certain public employees.
Extends eligibility for accidental disability and accidental death benefits to certain PFRS, SPRS and PERS members who contract COVID-19 and test positive for SARS-CoV-2.**
Authorizes the issuance of "coronavirus relief bonds" by municipalities and counties.
Establishes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities.*
Permits local units and authorities to waive interest and lien enforcement for certain delinquent water and sewer utility payments during emergency circumstances.
Concerns benefits provided to workers.*
Establishes requirements for copies of medical and billing records to be provided without charge to Social Security Disability benefits applicants and recipients.*
"New Jersey COVID-19 Emergency Bond Act," authorizes issuance of State bonds totaling up to $9.9 billion.
Ensures insurance coverage for certain persons attending school graduation exercises in July and August of 2020.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for adult medical day care services.
Permits expedited licensure in mental health professions for certain out-of-State individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Establishes "The Ballot Cure Act" to modify and establish various voting procedures.
Requires long term care facilities and hospitals to maintain minimum supply of personal protective equipment.*
Regulates use of body cameras worn by law enforcement officers.
Extends ballot receipt and election certification deadlines; increases certain messenger and bearer ballot limits: requires certain information to increase public awareness and use of voting by mail.**
Requires Police Training Commission to contract with crisis intervention training center to provide mental health training to police officers and establish curriculum specific to persons experiencing economic crisis or substance use disorder.*
Establishes Community College Opportunity Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide last-dollar financial aid grants to county college students and Student Success Incentive funding to county colleges.
Creates grant program to encourage school districts to partner with institutions of higher education in training school-based mental health services providers.
Establishes Student Wellness Grant Program in DOE.
Requires DCF to give priority to certain school districts with student mental health counseling centers in awarding grants under School Based Youth Services Program.
Requires school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.*
Requires State to enter into contract and coordinate with certain cooperative purchasing systems for procurement of COVID-19 related goods and services by school districts.***
Requires county boards of election to establish ballot drop boxes in each county at least 45 days before election: revises procedures concerning mail-in ballots for 2020 general election.**
Establishes certain requirements concerning State's preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Revises licensure, operational, and reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Establishes New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Safety.
Establishes minimum wage requirements for certain long-term care facility staff; establishes direct care ratio requirements for nursing homes; requires nursing home care rate study.**
Authorizes MVC to use stored driver's license or identification card photo for longer than eight years; limits certain appointment times at MVC locations to senior citizens and persons with certain medical conditions during COVID-19 pandemic.*
Temporarily extends deadline to register vehicle and obtain driver's license for new State residents during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Permits school nurse who is retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF.**
Limits police presence at polling places and ballot drop boxes; prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop box.**
Requires public and local utilities to provide notice to residential customers of available relief measures during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes task force to evaluate quality, efficacy, costs, and educational outcomes of online courses offered by public and independent institutions of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institutions during COVID-19 pandemic. *
Concerns eligibility for extended unemployment benefits.
Requires Internet websites and web services of school districts, charter schools, renaissance schools, and the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf to be accessible to persons with disabilities. *
Allows health insurers to provide certain health care benefit plans to local boards of education and eligible employers who do not participate in SEHBP; modifies employee contribution for New Jersey Educators Health Plan and its equivalent.
Appropriates $87,444,690 from "New Jersey Library Construction Fund" to provide grants for construction, reconstruction, development, extension, improvement, and furnishing of New Jersey's public libraries.
Provides for postponement of New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum review for certain school districts.*
Requires DOH to establish certain nursing education and professional advancement programs.
Protects homeowner in foreclosure from excessively low intervening offer.
Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold, offered for sale, or leased in the State.
Prohibits State and local entities and private detention facilities from entering into agreement to detain noncitizens.*
Provides for employment by State of certain persons with disabilities.
Provides for process to vacate and expunge certain arrests, charges, complaints, convictions, other dispositions, and DNA records, associated with violations by certain human trafficking victims.
Provides for certification of temporary nurse aides.
Permits parent or guardian to request grade retention for student during 2021-2022 school year.
Requires law enforcement to provide written notificaion to parent or guardian of person under age 18 who commits first offense of unlawfully possessing or consuming alcoholic beverage, cannabis, marijuana, or hashish.**
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $10,000.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2022.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2022.
Permits school districts to administer student health surveys after prior written notification to parents and legal guardians.
Increases penalties for unauthorized transportation or disposal of solid waste.
Requires DOLWD to provide link to New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on website and in emails concerning unemployment compensation benefits.
Requires certain health insurers, Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover opioid antidote without imposing prior authorization requirements.*
Appropriates $10 million from General Fund to EDA to support child care providers impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Creates Office of School Bus Safety in Department of Education; appropriates $200,000. *
Provides for debarment of school bus contractors for certain violations; requires certain information in pupil transportation contract bid.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2022.
Renames Dismal Swamp and Dismal Swamp Preservation Commission as "Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve" and "Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preservation Commission."
Requires position of resident advocate at each State veterans' memorial home.
Establishes State supplement for "breakfast after the bell" meals.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for school security projects in certain school districts; appropriates $66,173,243.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for water infrastructure projects in certain school districts; appropriates $6,608,212.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $26,456,996.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Fund" for career and technical education expansion in county vocational school districts; appropriates $222,904,769.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2022; makes various changes to FY2022 environmental infrastructure funding program.
Appropriates $37,174,636.71 from "New Jersey Library Construction Fund" to provide grants for construction, reconstruction, development, extension, improvement, and furnishing of New Jersey's public libraries.
Appropriates $54.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $49.932 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.
Appropriates $14,687,510 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Vetoed · 9
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia. *
Requires reservation of portion of tenant-based vouchers under State rental assistance program for persons displaced due to redevelopment of an affodable housing development; provides displaced persons with affordable housing priority status.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Establishes Bridging the Digital Divide in Schools Grant Program in DOE to provide and expand access to technology and equipment for students in certain school districts.
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.
Postpones New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) review for certain school districts to accommodate disruption due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Concerns approval process for personal protective equipment and State stockpiles of personal protective equipment.*
Requires DOT, NJT and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.*
Passed the General Assembly · 49
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
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.
Requires DHS to develop outreach plan to inform certain students about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
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 to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.*
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Requires NJT to provide notice and public hearing for alternate provisions of service related to substantial curtailment of service.*
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Directs DEP to develop guidelines concerning State and local government purchase of goods made from recycled material.
Criminalizes failure to return erroneous person-to-person electronic payments following proper notification.
Requires landlords to provide tenants with certain notice concerning conditions that may cause damage or hazards on rental property.
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
Requires separate entrance for certain child care services located in public school facilities and clarifies licensure requirements and DCF enforcement authority for services.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register firearms acquired out-of-State.
Makes it aggravated sexual assault or sexual contact for transportation network company or taxicab driver to commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact using coercion or without permission on passenger.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Provides paid leave without utilizing accumulated leave time for local government employees under certain circumstances.
Provides enhanced penalty for distribution of counterfeit drugs and medical devices during declared states of emergency.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Provides that institutions of higher education may permit final-year students in graduate degree programs for mental health care professions to graduate or be matched with residency or clinical programs early.
Requires Department of Human Services to establish and maintain hotline for persons with disability for use during emergency of disaster.*
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during publichealth emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visita
Establishes certain temporary and permanent privileges for certain alcoholic beverage licensees; authorizes certain activities, events, and festivals in which certain alcoholic beverage licensees may participate.
Expands municipal court conditional dismissal program to include defendants charged with certain drug offenses; requires defendant's participation in various programs and services; allows dismissal of charges after one-year probationary period.
Permits retroactive modification of certain judgements of conviction, requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.***
Provides for resentencing of certain inmates.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force." *
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Dedicates personal protective equipment to long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospice care providers, health care service firms, PACE programs, and certain community-based providers during public health emergency.***
Allows for immediate transport of persons by local law enforcement officers under certain circumstances.
Requires AG to establish law enforcement officer use of force data collection and reporting system.
Requires school districts to include instruction on racial discrimination and social justice as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies for middle school students. *
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.*
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing certificate.
Requires group homes and other community-based residential programs, as condition of licensure, to implement policies to prevent social isolation of residents.
Establishes Alleviating Learning Loss in New Jersey Grant Program in DOE to assist public schools in establishing or expanding certain educational programs to address learning loss in students.
Establishes ranking criteria for certain nonpoint source pollution control grants issued by DEP.
Directs DOE to request waiver of certain student academic assessment requirements from federal government.
Concerns sexual abuse investigations in State correctional facilities.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint workforce skills training development officer to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
Appropriates $20 million for HFMA to grant loans to developers of certain affordable housing projects.
Provides for postponement of New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum review for certain school districts for 2021-2022 school year.
Out of committee · 142
Requires SEHBP and eligible employers that do not participate in the SEHBP to provide certain plans for public education employees and certain public education retirees.
Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Provides that student-athlete who sustains concussion must return to regular school activities prior to return to competition; requires school districts to implement six-step return-to-competition process. *
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.
Provides that New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program scholarship may be awarded in any semester of attendance or enrollment at institution of higher education in State.
Provides that purchase of insulin is not subject to deductible; requires health insurers to limit copayments and coinsurance for insulin; requires insulin manufacturers to submit report to Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.***
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning persons with disabilities and employment.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to design and make available to public webpage with employment information for persons with disabilities.*
Requires Division of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action create "Model Employer for Persons with Disabilities" program for State government.*
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo explicit and implicit bias training.*
Allows NJ E-ZPass customers to opt to receive electronic notification of use of E-ZPass system at toll plazas operated by NJTA and SJTA.*
Requires NJT to operate Access Link paratransit service during state of emergency under certain circumstances.
Requires school districts and charter schools to report discipline data on their websites and to Commissioner of Education; requires DOE to establish database and complete annual report concerning student disciplinary actions.*
Requires emergency contact information and access instructions for social services hotline to be provided to tenants of multiple dwellings.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system for electronic reporting of firearm information.
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Establishes "Jersey Native Plants Program."
Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.
Requires EDA to establish loan program for certain costs of electric-powered school bus purchases by local school districts and school bus contractors.
Permits use of telemedicine and telehealth to authorise patients for medical cannabis and to issue written instructions for dispensing medical cannabis.*
Revises provisions required in school district's anti-bullying policy; provides for civil liability of parent of minor adjudicated delinquent for cyber-harassment or harassment; and increases certain fines against parents.*
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
"Fair Chance in Housing Act"; establishes certain housing rights of persons with criminal records.
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
Allows public office holder or candidate to use political contributions to pay for child care expenses related to office or campaign activities.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.*
Requires DEP to evaluate environmental and public health stressor of certain facilities on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications.*
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services. *
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign. *
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers in certain fields to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in certain low performing schools.*
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Requires certification of diligent inquiry in residential mortgage foreclosure actions to be filed by attorneys.
Requires public water systems to provide notice of elevated lead levels in drinking water to customers and local officials; requires landlords to notify tenants of elevated lead levels.
"Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act"; requires institutions of higher education to implement mental health programs and services.
Prohibits institution of higher education that provides child care from charging student-parent who receives child care voucher under "New Jersey Cares for Kids Program" an amount for child care in excess of voucher amount.
Establishes certain minimum and maximum temperatures in rooming and boarding houses, dementia care homes, and certain nursing homes and residential health care facilities.*
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Allows hospitals to construct housing and provide wrap-around services for individuals who are homeless or housing insecure.*
Establishes Commission on Asian American Heritage in DOE. *
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Authorizes operators of motor vehicles to display electronic proof of registration; requires MVC to send applicaion for registration renewal to lessee of leased vehicle.*
Renames "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner"; requires counties to update materials to reflect this title change.
Allocates Amistad Commission in but not of DOE; requires commission to elect chairperson and appoint executive director; requires public schools to include instruction on accomplishments and contributions of African Americans to American society.*
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Makes changes to membership and responsibilities of Campus Sexual Assault Commission.
Provides that public institutions of higher education may only reduce student's institutional financial aid upon receipt of private scholarship under certain circumstances.
Concerns business interruption insurance during coronavirus disease 2019 state of emergency.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide transparency of tuition and fees to prospective and current students.
Establishes "2020 New Jersey Emergency Rental Assistance Program"; appropriates $100 million.
Requires Medicaid and health insurance coverage for certain refills of prescription drugs during state of emergency.
Requires DOH to implement and oversee Isolation Prevention Project in long-term care facilities during public emergencies.
Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) consistent with federal guidance; requires health benefits and Medicaid coverage for tests.*
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
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish three-year "Bridge Year Pilot Program" for certain students who were impacted by public health state of emergency caused by coronavirus disease 2019.*
Extends duration of certain laws pertaining to use of telemedicine and telehealth in relation to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires public health emergency credits to be awarded to certain inmates and parolees during public health emergency; prohibits contact with victim upon release of inmate awarded credits.***
Extends ballot receipt and election certification deadlines; increases certain messenger and bearer ballot limits.*
Establishes Clayton Model Pilot Program in DOE to provide school-based social emotional learning to students in grades kindergarten through five at certain public schools.
Expands powers and duties of State Chief Diversity Officer to promote diversity in State government and public contracting.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, intersex, and HIV-positive residents of long-term care facilities.
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.
Establishes position of State School Nurse Consultant in DOE to facilitate best practices in school nursing by advancing comprehensive school health services.*
Requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to undergo implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Planning Commission" in DHS.
Revises requirements for long-term care facilities to establish outbreak response plans.*
Requires certain provisions in State contracts for delivery of publicly financed mental health, behavioral health, and addiction services.
Makes failure to wear mask upon entry into store or transportation publically available, with posted signage, a violation with fine during public emergency declared in Executive Order 103 of 2020 and future public health emergencies.**
Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes Statewide universal newborn home nurse visitation program in DCF; appropriates $2.75 million. *
Directs DOE to establish five-year pilot program for issuance of limited certificate of eligibility with advanced standing and limited certificate of eligibility for certain teacher candidates. *
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program;" appropriates $50,000.
Establishes minimum direct care staff-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $800,000.*
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission; appropriates $4.2 million in FY 2022 and FY 2023.*
Establishes postconsumer recycled content requirements for rigid plastic containers, glass containers, paper and plastic carryout bags, and plastic trash bags; prohibits sale of polystyrene loose fill packaging. *
Expands requirements for health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives to 12 months.
Authorizes issuance of Protect Pollinators license plates.
Establishes Multigenerational Family Housing Continuity Commission; provides municipal guidance to periodically analyze local advancement of commission's senior citizen housing recommendations.
Requires DOE to establish Alternate Route Interstate Reciprocity Pilot Program.*
Expands scope of inmate reentry assistance and benefits.
Establishes School and Small Business Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program in BPU.
Revises cybersecurity, asset management, and related reporting requirements in "Water Quality Accountability Act."
Requires in person early voting period for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Requires school report card to include information concerning number of mental health professionals and school safety specialists employed by each school district. *
Authorizes expanded provision of harm reduction services to distribute sterile syringes and provide certain support services to persons who use drugs intravenously **
Requires DOH to develop Statewide plan for infection control and prevention infrastructure improvements in nursing homes.
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.
Establishes immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Establishes "Stillbirth Resource Center" and regional Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Committee, and programs for the prevention and reduction of incidences of stillbirth; expands list of professionals authorized to provide stillbirth-related care.*
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
Reduces age at which health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45.
"New Jersey Buy American Act"; requires certain State agency highway and bridge construction contracts to include iron and steel products made in U.S.
Appropriates $29,886,172 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes imposition of fee for connection to municipal electric distribution system.
Requires bidders on public works construction projects to submit information on fire safety features.
Updates and clarifies recent legislation passed by both Houses of the Legislature addressing cannabis legalization, and marijuana and hashish decriminalization.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Provides CBT tax credit for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete. *
Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process. *
Requires compilation of data and issuance of annual reports on New Jersey teacher workforce.
Mandates training on culturally responsive teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services.
Codifies same-sex marriage in the statutes.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide certain student loan information.
Permits expungement of possession or distribution of hypodermic syringe or needle offense in cases of previous expungement; repeals criminal offense of possession of syringe.
Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation. *
Requires DCF or court to consider placement of children with relatives or kinship guardians when making placement decision; makes changes to certain standards for initiating petitions to terminate parental rights.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires DEP to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.
Eliminates mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment determined by Legislature to be of non-violent nature.
Repeals statute criminalizing sexual penetration while infected with venereal disease or HIV under certain circumstances; requires that in prosecutions for endangering another by creating substantial risk of transmitting infectious disease, name of defend
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Provides financial relief to certain landlords and tenants in response to COVID-19 pandemic, adjusts certain court fees; and makes appropriations. *
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Extends deadline for completion and filing of annual audit report of school district for 2020-2021 school year; establishes deadline for submission of Audit Summary for 2020-2021 school year.
"Responsible Collective Negotiations Act."
Establishes child care revitalization fund in Department of Community Affairs; appropriates $100,000,000.
Expands bonding authority of New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to permit financing for general funding needs of New Jersey's institutions of higher education.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund and Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council; provides for funds received from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
Establishes requirements to commence screening newborn infants for congenital cytomegalovirus infection; establishes public awareness campaign. *
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Allows alternative evaluation in place of basic skills testing requirements for certain teacher certification.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Extends period of time for filing special education due process petitions related to COVID-19 school closures and periods of virtual, remote, hybrid, or in-person instruction.
Establishes county college-based adult centers for transition for individuals with developmental disabilities; makes annual appropriation of $4.5 million.
Codifies constitutional right to freedom of reproductive choice.
In committee · 148
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires various measures to address effects of low levels of lead exposure.
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
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.
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.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Requires employees of private entity with access to student information under contract with DOE, school districts, or charter schools to undergo criminal background check.
Requires nonpublic school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
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.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex residents of long-term care facilities.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to Juvenile Justice Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Requires DOC to ensure inmates have opportunity to participate in Medicaid pre-enrollment and enrollment sessions at least 60 days prior to release; requires applicable inmates to receive Medicaid card at release.
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
"Patient Protection Act"; establishes requirements concerning the transfer and referral of certain patients receiving health care services.
Permits four-year institution of higher education to award associate degrees.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunization requirements for child care center and school attendance.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
"Medicaid Transportation Brokerage Program Oversight and Accountability Act"; establishes vehicle, staffing, and performance standards, and review and reporting requirements for non-emergency medical transport provided under Medicaid transportation broker
Directs New Jersey State Rehabilitation Council to conduct study to identify trends and gaps in employment of individuals with disabilities.
Requires Legislature to adopt and distribute policy prohibiting sexual harassment; requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to complete online training on policy once every two years.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for all ages.
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
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
Establishes certain requirements concerning charter school financial reporting and prohibits charter school from contracting with for-profit charter management organization.
Establishes Division of Gifted and Talented Education in DOE; directs State Board of Education to authorize gifted education endorsement to instructional certificate; and establishes certain other requirements related to gifted and talented education.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Requires that school counselor preparation programs include credits on college and financial planning and that school districts provide professional development opportunities to school counselors on these topics.
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.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
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.
Establishes "Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Extends eligibility for Governor's Urban Scholarship Program to students residing in certain municipalities.
Requires adoption of anti-nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Concerns credit card interchange fees and consumer protection.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Prohibits attempts by mental health professionals to change sexual orientation of adults.
Concerns health insurance benefits for locked-out workers.
Allows law enforcement agencies to provide juvenile-family crisis information to principal of juvenile's school for planning programs relevant to juvenile's educational and social development.
Establishes pilot program in DOE for special education students to attend college courses or vocational training programs.
Provides expedited determination by State Board of Examiners on application for teaching staff member certification if certain criteria are met.
Requires school districts take certain actions to increase participation in free or reduced priced meal programs; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Prohibits school districts from joining associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports unless association limits certain student-athletes who repeat middle school grade to only six consecutive semesters of interscholastic eligibility after en
Permits undesignated non-binary gender individuals to indicate "X" for sex on any driver's license or non-driver identification card issued by MVC.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide mental health care services in underserved areas in New Jersey.
Permits educational organizations to conduct bingo games with prizes for participating students under certain circumstances.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Eviction Crisis Task Force."
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Permits municipalities to lease vacant municipal land for tiny home occupancy; directs DCA to enhance regulatory guidance on acceptable tiny home construction and use.
Allows certain employees affected by federal government shutdown to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and property tax payments.
Establishes School Security Task Force.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $1,700,000 for Thomas Edison State University.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
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.
Directs DOE to develop health and safety best practices for use of digital devices in school classrooms.
Requires school security training for persons employed by public and nonpublic schools in substitute capacity and for employees and volunteers of youth programs operated in school buildings.
Requires posting of signs warning of presence of, and potential danger caused by, duckweed on water bodies in public parks.
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain student loan interest.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
"Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act."
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Prevents criminal defendent from asserting "gay and transgender panic" defense to murder charge in order to reduce charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion.
Increases gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 and dedicates revenue from tax rate increase for direct real property tax relief for taxpayers.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to NJBEST program and provides distributions from qualified State tuition programs for K-12 expenses are not qualified withdrawals under gross income tax.
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Prohibits insurers from offering stop loss insurance to small employers.
Requires continuation of health benefits dependent coverage until child turns 26 years of age.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain preventive services.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
Requires board of education to provide civics instruction in middle schools and requires DOE to provide funding to NJ Center for Civic Education at Rutgers to help prepare civics teachers.
Authorizes use of certain constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants for prevention and remediation of harmful algal blooms.
Concerns resentencing and parole for certain juvenile defendants.
Codifies and enhances use of breach of implied warranty of habitability as defense to certain eviction actions.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.
Requires school district to report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
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.
Requires medical examination and submission of student work portfolios for home-schooled children; provides that children under supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Requires inspection for pest infestation prior to certain demolition.
Requires DOE to define expenditures for behavior modification at approved private schools for students with disabilities as allowable instructional cost for purposes of tuition rate setting.
Requires new civics instruction in middle and high schools, requires school districts to use DOE's curriculum guidelines for civics; and requires DOE to provide funding to enhance civics instruction.
Establishes one-time payment program in Department of Treasury for aid for certain eligible taxpayers; appropriates $35 million.
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."
Grants immunity from liability to institutions of higher education and certain employees for damages resulting from novel coronavirus disease.
Increases Fiscal Year 2020 appropriation for Extended Employment services by $2.5 million to ensure rate stability.
Requires school districts, staff, and volunteers to have COVID-19 test prior to start of 2020-2021 school year.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Provides for accidental death benefit if death of TPAF member is caused by COVID-19.
Permits advanced practice nurse to testify in lieu of psychiatrist at court hearing for involuntary commitment.
Modifies age eligibility criteria for certain classified students under "Bridge Year Pilot Program."
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $180 million to DCF and DHS for increased rates for social service providers in financial distress due to coronavirus disease 2019 public health crisis.
Establishes Teacher Apprenticeship Program.
Requires teachers to biennially complete two hours of professional development related to cultural competence.
Requires notification to school communities about COVID-19 infections; excludes members of school community infected with COVID-19 from in-person activities; and requires DOE to develop data dashboard on COVID-19 in schools.
Establishes protocols for notification and isolation in the event of COVID-19 infections at institutions of higher education and requires Secretary of Higher Education to develop date dashboard on COVID-19.
Increases transparency and accountability for NJT and independence of NJT board members; establishes Office of Customer Advocate; requires greater detail for capital program.
Requires institutions of higher education and private career schools to provide on website employment data of graduates; requires DOLWD to compile certain employment information.
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to undocumented immigrant aliens.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Establishes "Twelfth Grade Postsecondary Transition Year Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Extends eligibility for NJ STARS Program to students academically ranked in top third of class.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish New Jersey Equity in Education Initiative, appropriates $2,000,000.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on seizure recognition and first aid.
Requires 10 percent of certain federal education relief funds, approximating $26.2 million, be dedicated specifically to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.5 million for Community College Opportunity Grant-Adult Postsecondary Career and Technical Education.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer consultations with lactation counselors to persons who have given birth.
Filed · 4
Concerns family leave and disability benefits during epidemic-related emergencies.
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.*
Authorizes Governor to permit emergency rent suspension for certain small business tenants during COVID-19 pandemic.
Affords employment protection to certain emergency medical responders.