Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Ralph R. Caputo
Sponsored
Became law2
Extends authorization for Internet gaming law to 2028.*
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Passed the General Assembly2
Directs Division of Gaming Enforcement to issue regulation to require name of Atlantic City casino be printed on its Internet gaming websites and advertisements.*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Out of committee4
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Establishes "Gambling Treatment Diversion Court Pilot Program" to be administered by AOC.
Prohibits sports wagering partnerships at public institutions of higher education.
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.
In committee30
Limits State Lottery drawings to two per day per game.
Requires State Lottery Commission to notify Legislature of proposed State Lottery game prior to commencement of new game.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands racetrack, upon voter approval; dedicates 1/3 net proceeds to General Fund, 1/3 to State education aid, and 1/3 to horse racing industry.
Requires State to pay all costs associated with maintaining and operating the office of the executive county superintendent of schools.
Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.
Requires Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos; prohibits waiver of licensing requirements.
Requires casino licensee to apply every five years for casino license renewal.
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.
Allows horse racetracks to be available for placing wagers at casinos in Atlantic City using Internet.
Removes and repeals all prohibitions, permits, licenses, and authorizations concerning wagers on professional, collegiate, or amateur sport contests or athletic events.
Permits persons at horse racetracks and off-track wagering facilities to place wagers on previously-recorded live horse races.
Requires State and local law enforcement agencies to assist officers receiving nomination petitions to investigate validity of any objection thereto when requested.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Requires certain fireworks-related injuries be reported to State Fire Marshal.
Permits certain retirees to choose health care coverage under traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plan options offered by SHBP or SEHBP.
Establishes penalties for accepting wagers on prohibited sports events.
Establishes Office of the Advocate for Private Commuter Bus Service Customers and bill of rights for customers of private carriers operating motorbus regular route services.
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 instruction concerning use of 9-1-1 for public school students in preschool, kindergarten, and grades one and two.
Revises certificate of need program.
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.
Changes deadline for New Jersey Racing Commission's annual report from end of calendar year to end of State fiscal year.
Provides $5 million in supplemental funding to New Jersey Horse Racing Commission for horse racing purse subsidies.
Allows county boards of elections to begin canvassing early votes and mail-in ballots before election day under certain conditions.
Requires establishment of central database of State programs on official website.
Provides $1 million in funding to NJ Racing Commission for five-year grant program for purpose of supporting certain organizations that care for retired horses.
Revises requirements for proceedings concerning nonrenewal of nontenured staff members of district boards of education.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."; appropriates $200,000.**
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Authorizes creation of special license plates commemorating horse as State animal.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreational equipment.*
Authorizes surviving spouse or family member of decedent to use motor vehicle registration certificate of decedent until registration certificate expires.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Makes various changes to New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect; establishes child protection worker caseload standards.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Expands working hours for minors; updates process for obtaining working papers for minors.
Provides one-year waiver of certain MVC fees imposed for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards.
Makes FY 2022 supplemental appropriations of $71,786,000.
Establishes crimes of theft of motor vehicle and receiving stolen motor vehicle as separate statutory provisions; provides extended sentences for certain persistent offenders.
Appropriates $64.929 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Vetoed · 3
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
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 · 8
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Requires New Jersey Racing Commission to adopt procedures to enforce internal controls; requires annual audit.
Requires Department of Education to annually report use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
"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.
Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish three-year pilot program to increase reading levels of certain students; appropriates $1 million.
"State Board of Agriculture and State Agriculture Development Committee Transparency Act."
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.*
Out of committee · 31
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
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. *
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Requires new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.
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.
Establishes pilot program for creation of certain local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct.*
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.*
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Establishes ''New Jersey Farm-to-Table Restaurant Awards Program."*
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Makes $25 million supplemental appropriation to HMFA for Capital Improvement Assistance Program.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Provides for oversight and improvement of administration of unemployment compensation.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit Program.*
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger.
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.*
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate teacher certification of veterans.
Waives fees for marriage and civil union licenses in Fiscal Year 2023; appropriates $2 million.
Implements recommendations of State Comptroller report on municipal sick leave, vacation leave, and supplemental payment policies; establishes certain financial penalties.
Requires Commissioner of Education to receive approval from State Board of Education prior to imposing new standardized assessment requirement on public schools.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
In committee · 119
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.
Authorizes public libraries to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by librarian or other trained library employee.
Permits members of Legislature to enroll in SHBP.
Requires municipal-wide reassessment of real property under certain circumstances.
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.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Directs DOLWD to identify, and post on website, employment opportunities with minimal barriers to entry for persons returning to workforce after imprisonment.
Requires notice to be provided by municipal court to applicant for public defender of fee and process to waive fee for inability to pay.
Requires New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education include content on risks of cannabis.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires developers of residential housing to provide low, moderate, and middle income housing or pay fee.
Concerns mortgage and loan forbearance, rent suspension, and consumer reporting during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
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.
Requires applicants for liquor licenses and license transfers to notify residents within 200 feet of licensed premises.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Requires minimum level of police staffing based on municipal population and violent crime rate.
Requires minimum temperature in senior citizen housing projects to be maintained at 70 degrees from October 1 to May 1.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Provides forbearance of residential mortgage foreclosures under certain circumstances; places additional requirements on attorneys, residential mortgage lenders, and courts, as part of foreclosure process.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide student-athletes who lose athletic scholarships because of injuries sustained while participating in athletic program with equivalent scholarships.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Excludes gains on sales of certain real estate purchases from taxation under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
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 each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
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.
Requires municipality to provide free beach access to certain veterans.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Provides that amounts remaining in inactive Internet gaming accounts will be abandoned property after three years under unclaimed property law.
Establishes the "Safe Sanitary Subsidized Rental Housing Bill of Rights."
Requires adoption of anti-nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
"Fair Repair Act"; concerns repairs to certain consumer electronics.
Permits county improvement authorities to establish student loan refinancing loan programs.
Exempts customer with account for electronic toll collection system, commonly known as E-ZPass, from certain fees if motor vehicle is stolen.
Requires availability of free parking at polling places on election day.
Allows gross income tax deduction for employees for amounts paid by employers for certain educational assistance programs for employees and for employee's student loans.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to provide on website certain information on online degree students and graduate degree students.
Establishes "School Opening and School Closing Student Safety Task Force" to review safety of students when schools open and close for school day.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Requires teaching staff members and school board members to annually receive training on trauma-informed education.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
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 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.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Concerns labor harmony agreements for hospitality projects.
Establishes "Responsible School Violence Prevention, Preparation, and Protection Pilot Program" in certain counties and cities of first class; makes an appropriation.
Concerns residential community release programs.
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing certificate.
Establishes "Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $8 million to DHS to increase reimbursement for funeral, burial, and crematory services provided to certain beneficiaries of Work First New Jersey and Supplemental Security Income programs.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax during public health emergencies.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Permits wagering by business entities with horse racing and sports pool operators.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Establishes crime of knowingly filing false report against law enforcement officers.
Allows seasonal retail consumption alcoholic beverage license holder to exchange license for full-year consumption license.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
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.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving heroin and fentanyl; establishes new crimes concerning heroin mixtures; allows certain defendants to be eligible for drug court.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Permits municipalities and counties to issue bonds to fund buy-out of accumulated leave time in order to reduce future terminal leave expenses.
Establishes presumption for accidental disability retirement in PFRS that firefighter with Parkinson's Disease has disease as result of employment.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Early Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs for students in grades K through 8.
Requires persons convicted of sex offense in foreign countries to comply with Megan's Law.
Requires DOH to develop mobile cancer screening program; appropriates $100,000.
Revises provisions of law concerning graduation proficiency test and eliminates requirement that graduation proficiency test be administered in eleventh grade.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Requires boards of education to ensure that all staff are trained in care of students with epilepsy and seizure disorders every two years.
Prohibits State Board of Education requirements concerning completion of performance based assessment for certain teacher certificates.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Establishes pilot program to provide guidance to students applying for federal financial aid.
Specifies that emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for victim of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."
Requires county boards of health to ensure on-site COVID-19 vaccines are available to persons age 65 and older residing in certain facilities; appropriates $2 million.
Prohibits sex offenders from holding any job, position, or type of employment that primarily consists of contact with children.
Increases penalty for failing to register as sex offender for more than 24 months.
Establishes three-year pilot program in DOE to provide certain students with information and assistance regarding federal financial aid application.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Requires PANYNJ to post information in airports concerning services for victims of human trafficking.
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 each school district to have certified school nurse at each school building in district.
Requires certain public schools that receive State aid to begin regular instruction for high school students no earlier than 8:30 A.M.
Increases amounts of property tax deductions for senior citizens and persons with disabilities, and veterans, from $250 to $500.
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 modification of mufflers and exhaust systems to produce audible sounds; increases penalties for violations.
Protects patients waiting for organ transplants from certain discriminatory actions based on vaccination status.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care support staff and security guards at health care facilities and human services and veterans' facilities.
Permits conduct of bingos and raffles remotely.
Requires State agencies to enroll State employees into federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.
Requires compensatory time off for correctional police officers and parole officers for work during state of emergency.
Establishes New Jersey Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Program.
Permits police officers to be assigned to school if school is being used as polling place during conduct of election.
Transfers jurisdiction over school meals programs from Department of Agriculture to DOE.
Establishes sensitive areas in which possession of firearm in prohibited.
Increases penalties for repeat convictions of certain motor vehicle related crimes; increases penalties for leader of auto theft trafficking network in certain circumstances.
Requires parental notification when seclusion technique is utilized on student with disabilities; requires DOE to collect data on students with disabilities regarding exclusion from school pending psychiatric clearance and utilization of restraints and seclusion.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Establishes Council for Community Recovery and Family Success; appropriates $772.6 million.
Establishes project-based learning pilot program in DOE.
Prohibits DEP from requiring person under 16 years of age to obtain horseback riding permit to ride in State wildlife management areas.
Requires DMVA establish veterans facility in Ocean or Monmouth County.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Filed · 1
Prohibits government dealings with businesses associated with Belarus or Russia.