Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Thomas P. Giblin
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Permits certain PERS members to collect pension while earning salary; makes certain local administrators and prosecutors eligible for PERS membership; permits State employees not covered by collective negotiations to enroll in negotiated health plans.*
In committee39
Permits municipality to sell certain vehicles in connection with motor vehicle offenses.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA.
Requires restaurants to post notice about food allergy and anaphylaxis and provide food allergy information to customers.
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.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Permits group self-insurance plans for, and collective bargaining agreements improving the provision of, workers' compensation.
Requires boards of education to adopt policies to make schools asthma-friendly.
Eliminates certain prohibitions to expungements of criminal records.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Provides for lower speed limits on certain residential access streets.
Concerns real estate licensees.
Establishes pilot program to allow certain counties and municipalities to use single firm for design and inspection services on certain transportation projects.
Provides transition period of 90 days during which building service employees subject to certain building service transfers must be retained.
Requires paraprofessionals employed by educational services commissions to receive by May 15 either contract for employment for next year or written notice that employment will not be offered.
Adjusts membership process and reports of State Investment Council; requires plan for economically targeted investments.
Directs DOH to develop plan to phase out use of latex gloves in health care facilities and food establishments.
Exempts nonprofit vocational training schools from property tax.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Concerns labor harmony agreements for hospitality projects.
Requires county colleges to develop plan to achieve three-year graduation rate of at least 33 percent for full-time degree-program students by 2021-2022 academic year.
Adds one dental assistant to membership of New Jersey State Board of Dentistry.
Prohibits sale of certain mobile telecommunications devices unless device includes technology to remotely render device inoperable.
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies from making reports containing adverse information related to persons affected by coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires retail establishments to allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Establishes insulin assistance program.
Expands Police Training Commission membership to include legislative appointees.
Requires employers to allow certain employees to work remotely or receive alternative accommodations during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs.
Requires MVC to provide written knowledge examination online during COVID-19 public health emergency and state of emergency.
Prohibits school districts from entering contracts with contracted service provider unless employees providing services under contract are offered certain health care benefits coverage.
Concerns construction code enforcing agency fee revenue.
Exempts proprietary institution licensed to offer academic degrees that has operated in State for at least 25 years from requirement to provide teach-out plan in event of potential closure.
Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations, appropriates $750,000.
Provides for law enforcement officer benefits for certain public employees enrolled in PERS; prohibits hiring by State or county of public employees after age 35 in positions eligible for PFRS.
Requires persons convicted of sex offense in foreign countries to comply with Megan's Law.
Establishes offense of fostering stolen property.
Elevates disorderly persons theft to crime of fourth degree upon second conviction within two years.
Increases penalties for assault of retail worker.
Imposes CBT surtax at rate of 2.5 percent until December 31, 2025 and requires amount collected from surtax be dedicated to specific purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires DEP to develop and implement electric school bus program; provides for $15 million in first year and $15 million annually in subsequent two years to DEP, subject to availability, to provide grants.
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 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. *
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects for FY2023; makes appropriation.
Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership.
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts.
Concerns qualified offshore wind projects and federal tax benefits for certain offshore wind investments.*
Vetoed · 4
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Exempts certain motor vehicles that are owned by certain nutrition programs and certain nonprofit organizations that offer social services from motor vehicle registration fees.*
Requires issuance of report on certain information and data on processing of applications for professional and occupational licenses and mandates review of training and call intake in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Exempts sales of investment metal bullion and investment coins from sales and use tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Creates resume bank for certain persons with disabilities.
Eliminates one percent tax on purchasers of Class 4A commercial property transferred for consideration in excess of $1 million.
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Creates new level of barbering license and apprenticeships in barbering, and establishes limits to hours of instruction for certain barbering training.
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.**
Establishes "New Jersey Target Zero Commission."*
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Creates requirements for certain long-term real estate listing contracts.
Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing, over time, employee threshold from 30 employees to five employees in definition of employer.*
Out of committee · 17
Requires publication of certain information related to toll discounts on E-ZPass website.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Expands purpose of Traumatic Brain Injury Fund to support transportation costs incurred by eligible individuals in accessing support group meetings.
Removing requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations, thereby broadening eligibility for certain veterans' benefits.*
Prohibits tax preparers from engaging in certain practices involving refund anticipation checks and loans.
Makes certain for-profit debt adjusters eligible for licensing to conduct business in State.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1 million.*
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Increases statutory mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices, Superior Court Judges, Tax Court Judges, Administrative Law Judges, Workers' Compensation Judges and county prosecutors from 70 to 72.
Allows certain airports to carry over certain grant money into future years.*
Requires MVC to provide certain services at each MVC agency location and to make available certain informational brochures.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Updates scope of practice of optometrists.
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.
Concerns railroad safety.
In committee · 103
Establishes motor vehicle registration for street rods and custom motor vehicles.
Requires certain contractors to verify work authorization of newly hired employees.
Establishes School Connectivity Grant Program to expand access to online instruction for economically disadvantaged students; makes appropriation.
Increases age of dependent for whom gross income tax exemption for higher education expenses may be claimed from under 22 years to under 25 years.
Requires transportation network companies to provide riders with certain information and to issue illuminated identifying markers; requires MVC to create transportation network company driver database.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Permits person diagnosed with autism or communication disability to voluntarily make notation on driver's license, identification card, and in MVC registry; establishes program to train law enforcement officers in interactions with persons with autism or communication disabilities.
Requires DOH to conduct study on causes of youth suicide.
Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.
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.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
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.
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.
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.
Clarifies circumstances under which licensed private detectives gain access to personal information stored with New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
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.
Permits certain physical therapists to perform dry needling.
Criminalizes owner or landlord knowingly renting dwelling to tenant that is illegal occupancy which causes serious bodily injury to or death of another person.
Permits physical therapists to perform dry needling under certain circumstances.
Requires applicants for liquor licenses and license transfers to notify residents within 200 feet of licensed premises.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires minimum level of police staffing based on municipal population and violent crime rate.
Makes consent to register with Selective Service part of driver's license application process for males under age 26.
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.
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.
Revises child pornography law.
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.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
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.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Concerns baked goods sold at farm markets.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Directs NJT to erect statue in honor of A. Philip Randolph; appropriates $90,000.
Requires registration, inspection, testing, cleaning, and disinfection of cooling towers to control outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease.
Revises criteria for payment of charity care to certain hospitals.
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Requires Treasurer and Divisions of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by May 15 and November 15 each year.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Establishes "2020 New Jersey Burial Assistance Program;" appropriates $20 million.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Establishes "Affordable Housing Obligation Study Commission."
Requires certain standards for professional and occupational boards considering applicants with criminal history records.
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.
Requires restaurants to provide healthy beverages with meals designated for children.
Establishes New Jersey Baby Bond Account Program.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
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.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.
Establishes uniform rates for water and sewer services for residential use based exclusively on metered consumption.
Allows members of PERS Prosecutors Part to establish purchased PERS credit in the Part at additional cost.
Revises penalties for transfer of certain professional and occupational licenses.
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.
Directs DOE to conduct study on feasibility of using and expanding virtual learning in school districts with teacher shortages.
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.
Directs Secretary of State to establish grant program for counties to improve paper ballot counting process; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes "Voting Improvement Task Force."
Establishes certain additional examination and special learner's permit requirements.
Allocates sufficient funds to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Dedicates $500,000 annually in revenues from vessel registration and renewal fees to NJ Greenwood Lake Fund.
Creates "Congestion Pricing Cost Relief Commission."
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around certain buildings; requires property owner to provide notice and obtain receipt from owners of adjacent properties of any hunting activity; designated as "Restoring Safety Buffer Law."
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Appropriates $70 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Requires DOT to consider implementing traffic circles on certain county and State roads.
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.
Removes registered apprenticeship program requisites of public work contractors; sets apprenticeship standards for prevailing wage projects.
Allows gross income tax deduction for union dues paid to labor organizations.
Makes local government business administrators eligible for membership in PERS; provides for transfer from Defined Contribution Retirement Program to PERS.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Allows voter registration at polling place on election day or at early voting site during early voting period.