Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Mila M. Jasey
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires high school students to complete financial aid applications.*
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education and DOLWD to establish performance quality standards for career-oriented programs of study offered by institutions of higher education, degree-granting proprietary institutions, and private career schools. *
Revises State financial aid requirements to align with simplification of Free Application for Federal Student Aid under federal law.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Allows persons who give birth to children in licensed general hospitals to surrender those children under "Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Adjusts bid threshold amounts for certain public research universities; permits certain contracts for school districts, municipalities, and counties to be awarded by qualified purchasing agent.*
Passed the General Assembly7
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Requires continuing care retirement community agreements to require refund of refundable entrance fees within one year.
Revises SNAP eligibility requirements for certain students attending institutions of higher education.
Establishes limits on transcript release restrictions at institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.*
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.*
Requires Treasury to establish and maintain electronic verification system to verify State employees' eligibility to participate in federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires public institution of higher education to establish gambling addiction prevention program.
Out of committee13
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
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.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
Restricts genetic testing of newborn and crime victim DNA; permits DNA information to be obtained pursuant to warrant or court order.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to receive approval from State Board of Education prior to imposing new standardized assessment requirement on public schools.
Establishes Home Sharing Evaluation Task Force.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000. *
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit annual fiscal monitoring report; authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to appoint State monitor of certain institutions; requires higher education chief financial officers complete training; annually appropriates $100,000.*
Requires public institution of higher education to post certain information on institution's website.
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Special legislation to change name of "Township of South Orange Village" to "South Orange Village"; changes titles of certain municipal officials; permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be moved to November; permits stipend for governing body members.
In committee57
Clarifies that teachers and professional support staff employed in charter schools and other public schools must meet the same certification requirements.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
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.
Revises residential property mortgage foreclosure process.
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.
Establishes certain requirements concerning charter school financial reporting and prohibits charter school from contracting with for-profit charter management organization.
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.
Increases certain firearms permit fees.
Expands requirements for health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives for up to 12 months.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
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.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
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.
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to undocumented immigrant aliens.
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes summer transition pilot program for rising kindergarten students who meet certain criteria.
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.
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 system.
Prohibits taking of fur-bearing small game at family entertainment events, and organizing, sponsoring, promoting, conducting, or participating in such events.
Establishes Division of School Desegregation in DOE to identify racial and socioeconomic segregation of school districts and to ensure better integration in public schools.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
Prohibits State Board of Education requirements concerning completion of performance based assessment for certain teacher certificates.
Designates Ultimate as State sport.
Prohibits medical creditors from reporting medical debt to credit reporting agency.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in airports concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
Requires institution of higher education to provide victim-centered training to employees who assist student victims of sexual assault.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning needs of transgender students.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in bus terminals concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
Requires health insurance coverage of prenatal genetic test during first trimester of pregnancy.
Prohibits retail dealers of firearms from being located near certain businesses and facilities.
Requires health insurance coverage of prenatal genetic test during first 90 days of pregnancy.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Establishes sensitive areas in which possession of firearm in prohibited.
Imposes five-year moratorium on new construction at public institutions of higher education.
Increases minimum salary of teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Establishes Commission on Oversight of Public Institutions of Higher Education.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Requires at least one drive-up ballot drop box in each county; requires certain information to be posted at ballot drop boxes and locations.
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.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to contract with third party for study regarding fiscal performance of four-year public institutions of higher education; appropriates $300,000.
Establishes veterinary medicine loan redemption program for certain veterinarians who work in underserved areas for five years; annually appropriates $500,000.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialists to students in public schools.
Revises NJBEST one-time grant to annual grant of up to $1,500 for certain contributors.
Requires child care centers to be equipped with epinephrine.
Prohibits book banning in public libraries and schools; authorizes withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Permits legislative agents and organizations to receive funds assessed on tuition bills as waivable fees.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register handguns acquired out-of-State.
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.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit annual fiscal monitoring report; authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to appoint State monitor of certain institutions; requires higher education chief financial officers complete training; annually appropriates $100,000.*
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award summer tuition aid grants in summer of 2023; appropriates $1,000.*
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Authorizes Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to award annual summer tuition aid grants.*
Special legislation to change name of "Township of South Orange Village" to "South Orange Village"; changes titles of certain municipal officials; permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be moved to November; permits stipend for governing body members.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 84
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Requires entities to remove abandoned lines and mark information on certain lines.*
Requires DEP to prioritize funding for environmental infrastructure projects for applicants with established program to employ, at project or related facilities, local residents or residents of nearby urban aid qualifying municipalities.
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system of electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.*
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
Requires court to consider information concerning coercive control in domestic violence proceedings.*
Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor or smart sprinkler as condition of sale of certain real properties, and on certain commercial, retail, and industrial properties and common interest communities within specified timeframes.*
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Requires DCA provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update program handbook and issue program request for proposal, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program. *
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on elections days.
Requires State Board of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and regulations concerning confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.*
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for treatment of mental health conditions and substance use disorders through collaborative care.
Reduces from 18 to 12 specific credit hours required for Animal Health Technician job title in civil service; allows substitution of five years of experience for education requirement.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises.
Eliminates requirement that participation in NJ SNAP Employment and Training Program is mandatory for certain recipients. *
Requires DHS to maintain SNAP outreach plan and to conduct additional outreach programs. *
Requires school food authorities to engage in public education campaigns and develop promotional materials to educate parents and guardians of students about existing and expanding school meals program options. *
Establishes State SNAP Minimum Benefit Program; appropriates $18 million to DHS.*
Requires schools to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to students from working class, middle-income families; designated as "Working Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act."
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for defendants who commit certain firearm offenses under Graves Act. **
Provides that certain cosmetology and hairstyling courses may be taught using distance learning technology.
Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.*
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation.*
Changes entity responsible for management of NJ School of Conservation to nonprofit organization, and directs DOE to request funding for center annually.
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Establishes "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Products for the Homeless Act."
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Makes various changes to New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect; establishes child protection worker caseload standards.
Authorizes student attending institution of higher education to earn credit towards graduation for serving as poll worker.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Allows tenant with temporary or permanent restraining order to change locks on residential rental unit.
Requires ballot privacy sleeves at polling place; makes various changes to early and mail-in voting procedures; creates online form to update name and residence on existing voter registration record. *
Requires enhanced review of death records two months prior to election; permits remote training for certain election workers; exempts election worker compensation from taxation and remuneration.**
Requires online option for cancellation of automatic renewal of health club services subscriptions entered into online; provides additional options for cancelling health club services contracts under certain circumstances.*
Prohibits extradition of individual from another state back to that state for actions related to conduct concerning reproductive health care services lawful in this State.*
Concerns protections with respect to nondisclosure of certain patient information relating to reproductive healthcare services, and protecting access to services and procedures related to abortion for certain out-of-State persons.*
Grants child placed in resource family care and resource family parents the right to be notified when case manager or supervisor is assigned to child; grants child in resource family care right to be notified of certain property and benefits.*
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Requires public schools to develop threat assessment teams.**
Establishes Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Prohibits sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires DEP to establish collection and disposal program; appropriates $250,000.*
Revises certain restrictions on cannabis establishments' owners; expands scope of review of cannabis establishment license applications and related materials.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $19,993,837.
Requires firearm retailers to sell microstamping-enabled firearms upon determination of availability by AG.
Requires training prior to issuance of firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase handgun under certain circumstances; provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for ten years.*
Makes FY 2022 supplemental appropriations of $71,786,000.
Concerns New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority; increases Transportation Trust Fund spending limit by $600 million.
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations act to allocate $25 million from “New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund” to support construction and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing.
Requires Commissioner of Education to distribute survey to school districts regarding instruction on Holocaust and genocides.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program.*
Makes various revisions to requirements for obtaining a firearm purchaser identification card, permit to purchase a handgun, and permit to carry a handgun; codifies sensitive places in which firearms and destructive devices are prohibited.*
Removes expected family contribution from calculation of financial need under circumstances in which public institutions of higher education may reduce student's institutional financial aid.
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Appropriates $64.929 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $17,288,315 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety.*
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Establishes Medicaid per diem rate for pediatric medical day care services delivered by provider offering on-site services; appropriates $3.6 million to DHS.
Increases minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes DHS to increase program benefit amount.
Requires periodic reporting of election results on night of primary and general election and until final tally thereafter; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Concerns New Jersey Civic Information Consortium.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Establishes nonpublic school transportation program to provide funding to consortiums of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing.
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Expands certain State programmatic interventions related to residential foreclosures.*
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction.*
Establishes "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
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.
Vetoed · 6
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Establishes New Jersey Educator Scholarship Program; appropriates $3 million.*
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program"; appropriates $95,000.*
Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Establishes timelines for review and approval by Commissioner of Education of annual certified audits submitted by approved private schools for students with disabilities.
Vacant Storefront Registry Program; establishes public database of vacant commercial space for small businesses.
Passed the General Assembly · 59
Increases from 18 to 21 age at which person is eligible to receive firearms purchaser identification.
"New Jersey Works Act"; concerns businesses and pre-employment training programs; provides tax credit to businesses supporting pre-employment training programs; appropriates $3 million.*
Establishes Second Chance Program in charge of providing opportunities through labor organizations for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Requires Homelessness Prevention Program agencies to remain open during public health emergency and provides for funding of each agency.*
Eliminates conviction of indictable offense as automatic disqualifier for jury service under certain circumstances.*
Requires DHS and other appropriate state agencies to disseminate information on transportation options for persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits late penalties from being made against senior citizen tenants in certain senior citizen rental housing in certain circumstances.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.*
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.
Requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to undergo implicit bias and cultural competency training.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families*
Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrators of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.*
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires public schools, and nonpublic schools which receive federal funding, to provide students with information on rights afforded under Title IX, and provide contact information for Title IX coordinator.
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Provides gross income tax deduction to eligible educators and paraprofessionals for expense of classroom supplies.*
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Clarifies procedures for restoration of driver's license after suspension or revocation; concerns waiver of penalties for operating vehicle while license is suspended or revoked under certain circumstances.*
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Requires court to consider certain domestic violence convictions when considering alimony award; permits alimony modification based on certain subsequent domestic violence convictions.**
Establishes certification card for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.*
Requires DHS and DOH to submit federal waivers to cover menstrual products under NJ FamilyCare, SNAP, WIC and establishes State funded benefit if federal waiver is denied; appropriates $2 million for State benefit.*
Establishes Women's Menstrual Health Program to identify and assist patients with symptoms related to endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.*
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services.
Requires MVC to operate call center to assist with online transactions.
"College Mental Health Services Act"; establishes grant program for public institutions of higher education and requires public institutions of higher education to report certain information concerning mental health treatment and suicides.
Permits court to order counseling for children in households with domestic violence in appropriate cases; establishes presumption of award of custody to domestic violence victim in appropriate cases.**
Establishes crime of fertility fraud.*
"Travel Insurance Act."
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover mammograms for women over 35 and women under 35 under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Target Zero Commission."*
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Requires study of ocean energy potential; directs BPU to establish wave and tidal energy generation goals and take other action to establish NJ as nationwide leader in ocean energy.
Modifies languages that examinations are to be conducted in for applicants seeking professional license issued by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Renames, extends eligibility, and makes various other changes to Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program.*
Provides DHS and State Board of Medical Examiners to develop and implement process to improve efficiency of reviewing NJ FamilyCare provider applications.*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Clarifies that law concerning requirements for closure of private career school applies to certain schools licensed by New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires landlords of certain properties providing child care services who refuse lead service line replacements to install and maintain water filters.
Allows teaching experience to be considered for out-of-State individuals seeking licensure from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Authorizes temporary licensure of graduated nursing students; waives fees for nurse licensure applicants who work at long-term care facilities.*
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Requires DCF to publish and disseminate information on early childhood mental health to certain professionals.*
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.*
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulator on students with seizure disorder.
Establishes Teacher Certification Reimbursement Fund in DOE to reimburse certain teachers for costs associated with certification.
Removes obstacles to teacher certification for certain teachers.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.
Requires DHS to provide information to SNAP and WFNJ recipients regarding card skimming, cloning, and similar fraudulent activities and to submit report to Governor and Legislature on these fraud activities.
Requires municipalities in compliance with affordable housing obligations be provided priority consideration for certain State grants and assistance.
Requires HMFA to assume administration of affirmative marketing for affordable housing and reduces municipal responsibility.
Out of committee · 84
Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Establishes ranking criteria for certain nonpoint source pollution control grants issued by DEP.
Codifies, and increases under certain circumtances, current minimum Medicaid per diem reimbursement rates for assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.*
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.
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer lactation counseling and consultations to persons who have given birth. *
Creates "New Jersey Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act."
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator in DMVA.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Codifies and expands ARRIVE Together Pilot to make certain mental health services available to police responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2 million.*
Requires certain public venues and places of worship to submit emergency plans to law enforcement agencies for purpose of preparing for mass casualty and active shooter events.
Provides for civil actions against persons or entities profiting from commission of human trafficking offenses, or maintaining victims of such offenses.
Permits excused absences for students who attend civic events.
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.
Authorizes conversion of certain office parks and retail centers to mixed-use developments.
Establishes program in DOE to reimburse school districts for providing menstrual products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint career technical education employee to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.*
Establishes New Jersey Siblings' Bill of Rights.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of residential property on basis of race or national origin.
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Revises definition of "harassment, intimidation or bullying" under "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
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 Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care. *
Provides CBT and gross income tax credits for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete.*
Prohibits use by certain retailers of shipping box greater than two times volume of product being shipped.
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.*
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.*
Provides for lifetime disqualification from operating commercial motor vehicle and transportation network company vehicle for persons convicted of human trafficking.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Establishes Innovation Dual Enrollment II Pilot Program in DOE.*
Makes $25 million supplemental appropriation to HMFA for Capital Improvement Assistance Program.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.*
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during hot weather.*
Limits fees charged for copies of medical and billing records.
Requires institutions of higher education and government employers to provide certain students and employees with information about Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Provides for oversight and improvement of administration of unemployment compensation.
Concerns timely payment of UI benefits.
Makes certain changes to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educator grant program.
Requires State government entities provide vital documents and translation services in at least seven most common non-English languages.*
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Credits $5.2 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $2.9 billion to NJ Schools Development Authority, NJ DOT, and NJT; and establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.*
Establishes fringe benefit rate for State colleges and universities.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes Thriving By Three competitive grant program for infant and toddler child care programs; appropriates $28 million.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain .50 caliber rifles; makes certain exceptions.
Upgrades certain crimes related to manufacturing firearms from third degree to second degree.
Prohibits possession and requires registration of body armor in certain circumstances.
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Requires Rutgers Cooperative Extension to establish internship pilot program at certain farms; appropriates $2.1 million.*
Provides for child tax credit to be available in Tax Year 2022.
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.*
Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2023.
Requires institutions of higher education to maintain supply and develop policy governing use of naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for opioid overdose emergencies.
Establishes High Efficiency Accelerated Learning Grant Program and Tutoring Advisory Commission.
Establishes Mobility and Transportation Innovation Pilot Program in DOT; appropriates $2 million.*
Establishes School Safety and Security Task Force.
Revises visitation and reporting rules for professional guardians.
Requires expanded use of affordable housing voucher program funding for homeownership expense assistance.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for school districts concerning student mental health services.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on risks of compulsive gambling as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts; appropriates $103,023,579.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
Waives certain certification and credentialing fees for teachers for one year.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to issue annual report on State-owned property and potential for use as affordable housing.
Establishes Nonprofit Housing Construction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program to facilitate affordable housing construction.*
Concerns railroad safety.
In committee · 148
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Permits retroactive modification of certain judgements of conviction; requires study of DOC's anticipated expenses to upgrade data infrastructure.
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
"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.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during public health emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visitation.
Establishes the New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program.
Requires development of longitudinal data system that maintains individuals' data from preschool through entry into workforce.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Requires 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.
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.
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.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
"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.
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 Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.
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.
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.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.5 million for Community College Opportunity Grant-Adult Postsecondary Career and Technical Education.
Allows alternative evaluation in place of basic skills testing requirements for certain teacher certification.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires landlords to provide tenants with certain notice concerning conditions that may cause damage or hazards on rental property.
Provides mortgage payment relief, income tax relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for residential property owners, tenants, and other consumers, economically impacted during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Provides for resentencing of certain inmates.
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Appropriates $54.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
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.
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.
Limits police presence at polling places and ballot drop boxes; prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop box.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 billion for After School Recreation in Urban Areas.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
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 police training for interactions with persons who may have behavioral health issues.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Applies local public contract bid threshold amounts to local pay to play and prevailing wage laws.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Establishes the "Female Inmates' Rights Protection Act."
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.
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Provides for accidental death benefit if death of TPAF member is caused by COVID-19.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Establishes task force to examine school discipline practices including racial disparities and effectiveness.
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.
Requires registration of private education lenders; establishes protections for private education borrowers.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Prohibits insurers from offering stop loss insurance to small employers.
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.
Increases transparency and accountability for NJT and independence of NJT board members; establishes Office of Customer Advocate; requires greater detail for capital program.
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.
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.
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 report to DOE on various aspects of computer science courses.
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.
Creates Office of School Bus Safety in Department of Education; appropriates $200,000.
Directs BPU to establish rebate program for purchase of electric or battery powered leaf blowers.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
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.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Establishes certain law enforcement and privacy procedures; designated as New Jersey Values Act.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunization requirements for child care center and school attendance.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
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.
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing certificate.
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund Center on Gun Violence Research.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregnancy-related services violate the consumer fraud act.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning Period of PURPLE Crying program and shaken baby syndrome.
"New Jersey Safe Storage of Firearms Act"; establishes certain requirements and penalties regarding firearm storage; repeals law governing minor's access to firearm; requires AG to establish public awareness campaign regarding firearm storage; appropriates $500,000.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain student loan interest.
Requires posting of signs warning of presence of, and potential danger caused by, duckweed on water bodies in public parks.
Establishes crime of law enforcement officer choking another person; designated as George Floyd's Law.
Permits minors aged 14 years or older to consent to certain vaccines without permission of parent or guardian.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Establishes "Minority-Serving State College and University Stabilization Program" in Office of Secretary of Higher Education; appropriates $20 million.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement program into credit program.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
Permits certain public assistance recipients to use benefits to purchase diapers.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
Establishes pilot program for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires certain public schools that receive State aid to begin regular instruction for high school students no earlier than 8:30 A.M.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide menstrual products in all campus buildings; appropriates $85,000 from General Fund to Office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Indigenous people as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Prohibits institutions of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institutions from using applications for admission that inquire about applicant's criminal history; establishes "Universal College Application Development Task Force" to develop standard application for admission.
Prohibits sale and use of gas-powered lawn equipment in NJ; provides CBT and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain zero-emission lawn equipment.
Creates "New Jersey Kratom Consumer Protection Act."
Permits students at public institutions of higher education to donate unused meal plan funds to emergency meal fund for distribution to New Jersey food banks.
Authorizes certain large food waste generators to send food waste to sanitary landfill facilities for purpose of generating Class I renewable energy.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Strengthens access to New Jersey reproductive health services for in-State and out-of-State persons.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey."
Allows certain students holding TN visa or TD visa to qualify for in-State tuition rate and State student financial aid.
Requires public school students in grades nine through 12 to receive instruction regarding legal immunity provided to individuals seeking medical assistance for others in certain situations.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Authorizes creation of Juneteenth commemorative license plates.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to employ three geriatric social workers to serve New Jersey's long-term care residents and makes appropriation.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Waives 15 day waiting period for medical aid in dying under certain circumstances.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Establishes certain protections for persons, providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
Requires DOH to collect certain data to be shared with certain State departments.
Establishes emergency teacher certificate in certain circumstances.
Establishes programs to address needs of toddlers and certain children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires public institutions of higher education to appoint academic freedom advocate and adopt free speech principles; appropriates $1 million.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.
Prohibits banning and restricting access to books in public libraries.
Prohibits public libraries and public schools from banning or restricting access to certain books; permits withholding of State Aid for non-compliance.
Provides students enrolled in certain career programs with consumer protections from fraudulent and misleading claims and practices.
Requires public institution of higher education to provide academic credit for certain examinations.
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Prohibits government dealings with businesses associated with Belarus or Russia.