Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law8
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Requires certain family or household members and victims be notified when firearms are returned to persons charged with domestic violence or subject to extreme risk protection order.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop public emergency response plan for licensed providers of services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Establishes certain requirements concerning State's preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Establishes additional requirements for DOH to assess sanctions and impose penalties on nursing homes; revises reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Authorizes temporary rate adjustment for certain nursing facilities; appropriates $62.3 million.
Requires DOH to publish total number of COVID-19 deaths and cases in long-term care facilities.*
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $10,000.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card and register firearms acquired out-of-State.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities, during publichealth emergency, to develop guidance for in-person visitation at community-based residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities and require providers to allow such visita
Dedicates personal protective equipment to long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospice care providers, health care service firms, PACE programs, and certain community-based providers during public health emergency.***
Requires group homes and other community-based residential programs, as condition of licensure, to implement policies to prevent social isolation of residents.
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Provides for preparation and distribution of written notice to senior citizens concerning risks and prevention of fraud and identity theft.*
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Establishes certification program for zoning officers and land use board administrators.
Provides that student-athlete who sustains concussion must return to regular school activities prior to return to competition; requires school districts to implement six-step return-to-competition process. *
Concerns names required on applications for professional and occupational licensure.
Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.
Requires parent or guardian to notify child care centers if child will be absent; requires child care centers to notify parent or guardian in event of unexcused child absence.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Concerns family leave and gestational carriers.
Requires DOH to implement and oversee Isolation Prevention Project in long-term care facilities during public emergencies.
Revises and updates membership and purpose of Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in DHS.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, intersex, and HIV-positive residents of long-term care facilities.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Planning Commission" in DHS.
Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Expands requirements for health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives to 12 months.
Establishes Multigenerational Family Housing Continuity Commission; provides municipal guidance to periodically analyze local advancement of commission's senior citizen housing recommendations.
Authorizes expanded provision of harm reduction services to distribute sterile syringes and provide certain support services to persons who use drugs intravenously **
Establishes "Sexual Violence Restorative Justice Pilot Program."
Requires law enforcement provide victim of sexual assault with initial incident report; provides victim with option to review initial incident report and submit corrective form.*
Requires resources be made available to victims of sexual assault.
Establishes right of victims to be notified of county prosecutor's charging decision in sexual assault cases.
Requires AG issue annual report concerning sexual assault cases.*
Establishes sexual violence liaison officer in Division of State Police and local police departments.
Requires sexual assault training for prosecutors.
Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services.
Codifies same-sex marriage in the statutes.
Permits any person to administer or dispense opioid antidotes.
Permits expungement of possession or distribution of hypodermic syringe or needle offense in cases of previous expungement; repeals criminal offense of possession of syringe.
Adds two public members to State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and prohibits licensure for individuals convicted of certain offenses.*
Repeals statute criminalizing sexual penetration while infected with venereal disease or HIV under certain circumstances; requires that in prosecutions for endangering another by creating substantial risk of transmitting infectious disease, name of defend
Requires long-term care facility to post certain information on its Internet website regarding Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Permits use of automated dispensing devices in long-term care facilities and hospice care programs.
Provides voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Special Olympics New Jersey.
Codifies constitutional right to freedom of reproductive choice.
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Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
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.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ; and regulates capital planning process.
Requires suspension of certification of homemaker-home health aides under certain circumstances; designated as "Maria's Law."
Clarifies prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions in health insurance policies.
Directs Division of Consumer Affairs to establish public information campaign concerning real estate rental scams.
Requires kennels and veterinary facilities to provide for supervision of dogs, training of employees, and maintenance of certain records; designated as "Daisy's Law."
Requires DOT to inspect traffic signs and establish public awareness campaign concerning traffic signs in need of maintenance.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
"Reproductive Donation Safety Act."
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Requires DOE to develop registry of high school student-athletes who sustain concussions or other head injuries.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to include studying connection between human trafficking and illicit massage parlor businesses.
Authorizes prohibition or regulation of rental of certain space for accommodation of transient guests.
Prohibits children under age 12 from participating in tackle football.
Regulates employers operating massage and bodywork therapy establishments.
Requires correctional police officers receive 40 hours in-service training, including eight hours in prevention of sexual misconduct, non-fraternization, and manipulation.
Requires reporting of inmate abuse by employees of State correctional facilities and establishes reporting and investigation program.
Limits cross gender strip searches in State correctional facilities.
Creates Code Red alert to shelter at-risk individuals during hot weather.
Authorizes Overdose Prevention Centers.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex residents of long-term care facilities.
Makes various changes to bias intimidation law.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Authorizes appointment of limited guardian to direct treatment for person with substance use impairment, or involuntary commitment to treatment when substance use disorder poses imminent danger to self, others, or property.
Provides that Maintenance of Certification is not required for licensed physicians to perform certain professional activities in State.
Provides for establishment of internal Statewide discharge planning list to facilitate prompt and efficient discharge and transfer of patients with mental health or substance use disorders from hospitals to community-based residential facilities.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Requires psychiatric hospitals to provide certain notices and reports of major, moderate, and minor injuries occurring therein, and requires DOH to investigate causes of major and moderate injury.
Establishes Office of the Independent Monitor of State Psychiatric Hospitals.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Requires certain transportation services to provide notice to riders concerning operator's use of video recording devices in vehicles.
Establishes centralized directory for affordable and senior citizen housing.
Prohibits eviction of residential tenants from December through February.
Requires school buses to be equipped with interior and exterior cameras.
Requires gubernatorial and legislative candidate and joint candidates committees to adopt anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy.
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Creates certain reporting standards for massage and bodywork therapists, establishes parental permission standards for services to clients under 18.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 for Bright Side Manor in Teaneck to fund capital improvement costs.
Provides rental and lease protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Provides affirmative defense to and permits expungement of certain trespass offenses committed as result of person's homelessness; provides for police training.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
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.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Provides for receipts for applications for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Permits juror donation of juror compensation to Legal Services of New Jersey through AOC; provides for payment of State matching funds, equal to juror donation amount, to same organization.
Sets maximum contaminant level and requires private well testing for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
Authorizes issuance of restraining orders for situtations in which domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.
Requires hospitals to inquire whether patients have substance use disorder and establish protocols for providing or referring to treatment.
Requires certain facilities to set aside beds for Medicaid-eligible individuals.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Directs Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services to collaborate for purposes of evidence-based policy review; makes an appropriation.
Establishes Medicaid program to provide housing-related services to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.
Permits temporary rental assistance for emergency assistance recipients.
Establishes Medicaid demonstration project to cover room and board services for certain terminally ill patients in the home or other non-institutional setting.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Requires DOH to include certain response protocols in training course for employees of health care facilities regarding suspected human trafficking activities.
Requires forms for informed consent for health care to be separate from forms related to assignment of insurance benefits or financial arrangements.
Requires DHS to ensure that expedited benefits under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are made available to certain households.
Requires DOH to update epilepsy website and increase public outreach efforts.
Provides Medicaid and certain insurers access to Prescription Monitoring Program.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish public awareness campaign on toxic shock syndrome.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP and SEHBP, to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for positron emission tomography to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Requires hepatitis B to be considered a priority under "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative."
Requires comparable level of services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements and for placements to be located within 30 miles of closed centers.
Establishes commission to study impact of certain Medicaid reimbursement rate change on nursing homes.
Establishes Medicaid Managed Care Organization Oversight Program.
"Tonka's Law"; changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around certain buildings; requires property owner to provide notice to adjacent properties of any hunting activity.
Requires establishment of processes to identify Medicaid-eligible incarcerated individuals who are awaiting pre-trial release determinations, are being released following period of incarceration, or are undergoing inpatient hospital treatment.
Transfers Division of Mental Health Advocacy to DHS; re-titles director as Mental Health Advocate; provides diversion for mental health treatment for persons subject to prosecution in municipal court; appropriates $15,000,000.
Requires distribution of family leave informational materials to certain patients.
Prohibits excessive charges for drugs developed by publicly funded research.
Directs Commissioner of Health to establish public awareness campaign concerning importance of vaccinations.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Directs portion of Unclaimed Child Support Trust Fund be used to balance certain unpaid receivables of State agency responsible for disbursement of child support.
Establishes "Purple Ribbon Schools Program" in DOE to recognize public and nonpublic schools with positive school climate.
Permits import of Canadian prescription drugs.
Prohibits certain video recordings in hotels and transient accommodations.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
Restores property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals with for-profit medical providers on-site; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contribution Study
Clarifies intent of Legislature to protect certain senior tenants; aligns housing age restrictions with federal law.
Provides that cooperative sober living residences are inherently beneficial uses.
Prohibits emergency homeless shelters from conditioning provision of shelter on enrollment in certain programs.
Permits municipal reorganization meetings to be held on alternative dates.
Creates New Jersey Coastal Commission; reallocates certain funds from DEP to commission; and appropriates $20 million.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Exempts sales of condoms from sales and use tax.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Establishes Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Commission.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Revises certain definitions in "Gestational Carrier Agreement Act."
Establishes pilot program in DCF providing animal-assisted therapy to victims of childhood violence, trauma, or children with behavioral health care needs; appropriates $100,000.
Requires pharmacies to maintain minimum stock of opioid antidote.
Establishes Medicaid Services Review Task Force to study national treatment guidelines for certain Medicaid services.
Revises membership requirements for county mental health boards.
Requires counties to make available voluntary medical identification cards containing relevant patient health information.
Requires first responders to transport persons treated for drug overdose to hospital emergency department.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies and certain businesses with on-site pharmacies.*
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy medication without notification and written consent of physician and patient; requires prescription to include notation of epilepsy diagnosis.
Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to increase appropriation from "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to DOH for certain grant purposes.
Establishes remote medical consultation assistance grant program in DOH.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
"Mental Health Access Act;" increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
"Community Mental Health Safety Net Act"; requires DHS to provide cost-based reimbursement on quarterly basis for certain mental health and substance use disorder treatment services through June 2020; makes appropriation.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $16.5 million for direct support professional wage increase.
Requires resource family parent, relative, preadoptive parent, or caretaker to be party to reviews or hearings involving a child under the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families' care.
Establishes Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Violence.
Requires DOH to dispose of newborn screening specimens within 60 days after testing.
Establishes requirements for State entities to enter into bulk purchasing arrangements for pharmaceutical products.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
Prohibits sale of expanded polystyrene food service products and food packaged in those products.
Provides that toll revenue generated from PANYNJ bridges shall not exceed cost of maintenance, operation, and debt service of those bridges.
Requires Chief Administrator of MVC to establish transportation network company rider safety awareness campaign.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service; prohibits certain caller identification service manipulation and provides additional penalty.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated be credited to electric and gas public utility customers.
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide bill credits to volunteer fire companies, first aid, rescue, and emergency squads, and nonprofit homeless and domestic violence assistance organizations.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
Renames State's "Transgender Day of Remembrance" as "Babs Siperstein Transgender Day of Remembrance."
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish public health campaign on autism spectrum disorders.
Requires DHS to develop or purchase electronic health record system for use by certain agencies providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Requires DHS to develop specific criteria for eligibility of individuals with developmental disabilities for services from adult day health services facilities.
Establishes bill of rights for authorized family members of persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits change in case manager for persons with developmental disabilities under certain circumstances.
Requires NJT to remove snow from certain stops, stations, and stands for motorbus regular route service and to make name and contact information of entities responsible for snow removal publicly available.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Creates New Jersey Crude Oil by Rail Safety Task Force.
Requires certain transportation services to report crime statistics to AG annually.
Establishes task force to study technology and other methods used to reduce or eliminate telemarketing harassment and intimidation.
Eliminates demand side management programs from cost recovery through societal benefits charge.
Prohibits snowplow operators from depositing snow in front of certain access points used by persons with disabilities.
Prohibits automated telephone calling and text messaging and requires telecommunications service providers to provide call mitigation technology to subscribers.
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Provides tax credits to certain employers of employees less than 18 years old.
Requires health insurance carriers to comply with certain network adequacy requirements.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Prohibits anti-tiering clauses in managed care health benefits plans.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson in the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Regulates certain practices of pharmacy benefits management companies.
Requires insurance coverage of epinephrine for persons aged 18 or younger when medically necessary.
Limits amount paid by covered persons for purchase of insulin drugs and epinephrine; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to investigate insulin prices.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Mandates health benefits coverage for preimplantation genetic screening under certain health insurance plans.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.
Establishes Commission on Transgender Equality.
Requires at least 10 percent of "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" funds be allocated to public safety answering point technology upgrades and maintenance.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit certain persons unless they pose danger.
Requires NJHMFA to allocate certain portion of federal low-income housing tax credits to certain high-opportunity areas.
"New Jersey American Dream Act"; appropriates $25 million to provide down payment and home repair assistance to low and moderate income first-time homebuyers.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Establishes additional county recording fees to support "New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund."
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.
Requires school districts to inform DOE of number of students in certain out-of-State placements and number of students with individualized education programs identifying DHS or DCF for transition services.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit proposed tuition and fees for upcoming academic year to Secretary of Higher Education for review.
Requires medical examination and submission of student work portfolios for home-schooled children; provides that children under supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Requires DOC to notify inmates of outstanding motor vehicle fines or penalties and permits inmate to enter into payment plan upon release from incarceration.
Requires school districts to include information on events of September 11, 2001 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires public schools to hold annual assembly commemorating September 11, 2001.
Requires certain parking garages to have on-site emergency vehicle capable of accessing low-clearance areas.
Requires candidates for certain teaching certificates to pass written test on foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Clarifies that residents with mental illness or substance use disorders may be included on public safety special assistance municipal lists.
Concerns diversion from criminal prosecution for persons with mental illness under certain circumstances.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Authorizes State and local law enforcement entities to contract for bulk purchasing of heroin antidote.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Requires State employees to receive best cybersecurity practices.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Prohibits State from disclosing New Jersey driver's license holders' personal information to other states seeking to issue speed camera or red light camera citations.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation; requires 12-month judicial review hearing when juvenile is placed out-of-home.
Removes references to epilepsy from law requiring physicians and patients to report certain medical conditions to MVC.
Establishes Division of Women's Services in DOC.
Requires DOC and county correctional facilities to provide certain inmates with medication-assisted treatment.
Prohibits use of firearms and firearms-related items as raffle prizes.
Requires annual training for health officers on public health emergencies and public health outbreak management.
Concerns financial security.
Establishes loan redemption program for health care professionals who provide health care services or health care-related administrative services at approved sites during COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes littering personal protective equipment as separate littering offense and establishes penalties therefor.
Requires coronavirus disease 2019 testing for patients and staff of certain facilities.
Requires hospitals to collect and report data on gender identity and sexual orientation in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Waives required physical presence of employee during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Enhances certain worker benefits and protections, including in public emergencies.
Requires licensed providers of long-term skilled nursing care to establish permanent morgue for use in non-emergent periods and supplemental morgue space for use in public emergencies.
Requires Medicaid fee-for-service coverage of managed long term services and supports when beneficiary is pending enrollment in managed care organization.
Permits certain employees to refuse to work due to unsafe working conditions during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Temporarily reduces age at which person may opt-out of jury duty for period associated with Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by Governor's Executive Order 103 of 2020 concerning coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes communication and notification requirements for long-term care facilities.
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screening along with other immunization and wellness checks as precondition of child's initial entry into school system.
Establishes telephone hotline and secure web portal for reporting incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct by persons in certain positions of authority or trust.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Requires Prison Rape Elimination Act committee in each State correctional facility.
Establishes "Telehealth and Telemedicine Improvement Task Force."
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriations of $125.575 million for Homestead Benefit - Calendar Year 2020 Program and Senior and Disabled Citizens' Property Tax Freeze.
Establishes protocols for treating emergency room patients with dementia.
Requires county protective services staff to receive training on means and methods of effective, respectful, and compassionate communication with, and provision of assistance to, adults with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for screening and therapeutic treatment of syphilis.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Establishes tax credit for constructing or renovating homes in accordance with universal design principles.
Requires certain newly constructed residential buildings to meet universal design standards.
Requires hospitals to report to DOH on their supplies of personal protective equipment.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires data reporting and testing in certain substance use disorders treatment facilities during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires transient space marketplaces to provide certain information to hosts and tenants during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires correctional police officer consent to conducting strip or body cavity search of transgender inmate.
Establishes Emergency Child Care Assistance Program for School Staff in DHS throughout duration of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Permits pharmacists to prescribe self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
Concerns State criteria for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Requires health insurance coverage for services and drugs related to contraception and reproductive health; repeals conflicting laws.
Consolidates certain affordable housing and assistance applications.
Requires institution of higher education to provide victim-centered training to employees who assist student victims of sexual assault.
Requires institutions of higher education to adopt affirmative consent standard and other policies regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Restores civil liability of nursing homes and related facilities during public health emergency and state of emergency.
Requires DOC to develop and implement staffing plan at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.
Requires DOC to implement certain procedures to facilitate reporting of sexual abuse by Edna Mahan inmates.
Requires administrators at Edna Mahan to have access to information concerning investigations of sexual abuse allegations.
Requires DOC to implement certain security procedures and address physical plant deficiencies in Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.
Requires DOC to install security cameras at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women and review and retain footage.
Imposes certain requirements on Edna Mahan DOC Special Investigations Division correctional police officers conducting sexual abuse investigations.
Exempts poll worker wages from affecting unemployment compensation.
Allows gross income tax deduction for taxpayers who pay for childcare costs for qualifying children doing remote learning as result of COVID-19 pandemic.
"Reproductive Freedom Act."
Requires infection control training for nursing home and assisted living administrator licensure and certification.
Requires school district to develop resource guide on virtual or remote instruction for students and families.
Requires revision of State Legislature's anti-harassment policy; specifies investigation of discrimination and harassment complaint process.
Codifies State Workplace Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Policy.
Permits syringes and related supplies to be exchanged via postal mail.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
"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.
Renames "security aid" as "health and safety aid" to reflect that secure schools provide for students' mental health; provides that State aid for nonpublic school security services may also be used for mental health services.
Permits female inmate in correctional facility to request certain medication to prevent pregnancy.
Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.
Requires female inmates be provided with family planning services prior to release from correctional facility.
Requires only female corrections officers be employed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
Criminalizes distribution of childlike sex dolls.
Increases minimum wage for direct support professionals.
The "Smart Container Act."
Requires DHS to post copies of incident reports involving physical injuries, abuse, neglect, or exploitation in State developmental centers or community-based residential programs on its website.
Establishes Long-term Care Workforce Development Program in DOLWD.
Requires Board of Nursing to establish dual certification for certified nurse aide and homemaker-home health aide; transfers certified nurse aide licensing authority from DOH to Board of Nursing.
Requires postal tracking of mail-in ballots.
Requires COVID-19 testing and data reporting in comprehensive rehabilitation hospitals.
Provides that required instruction on sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention in grades preschool through 12 include content on Internet safety and dangers of online predators.
Recognizes right of minors aged 14 years or older to consent to vaccination.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Establishes certain limitations on the prescription, dispensation, and administration of opioid medications to student athletes.
Requires county or municipal police department or force provide medication refrigeration service during power outage.
Requires Department of Human Services to annually report on health and well-being of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
Increases from 17 to 21 public members of New Jersey State Council on the Arts; requires members to be residents of NJ; imposes specific criteria for four new members initially appointed.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign regarding potential fraud related to COVID-19 vaccine.
Creates gallery space on State House grounds for display of certain art works.
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Imposes tax on petroleum received by rail at marine terminals, storage or transfer terminals, and refineries, to fund local emergency preparedness and response to spills.
Requires school districts to include instruction on public health as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish public awareness campaign on student use of Internet and social media.
Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Creates "Disability Life-Sustaining Measures Advisory Council."
Allows certain persons with developmental disabilities 21 years of age and older to attend special education programs and to simultaneously participate in adult day and employment programs.
Requires long-term care facilities to submit reports regarding residents with disabilities.
Requires hospitals to collect and report demographic data on people with disabilities who are tested or treated for COVID-19 during declared public health emergency.
Revises requirements for health insurers to cover telemedicine and telehealth; requires telemedicine and telehealth systems to include accessible communication features for individuals with disabilities.
Concerns manufacturing of clear masks and promotes public awareness of clear mask during public health emergencies.
Transfers New Jersey Group for Access and Integration Needs in Emergencies and Disasters from DHS to NJ State Police, revises membership requirements, and requires group to be consulted on certain matters.
Requires State Auditor to report on finances of public institutions of higher education.
Requires students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to complete course on financial literacy.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for certain drug regimens for treatment of AIDS or HIV under certain circumstances.
Provides that sterile syringe access programs are inherently beneficial uses.
Extends deadline by which certain continuing education requirements are to be satisfied by persons employed in health care field.
Requires notification to school communities about COVID-19 infections; excludes members of school community infected with COVID-19 from in-person activities; and requires DOE to develop data dashboard on COVID-19 in schools.
Authorizes public institution of higher education to establish in-municipality tuition rate for students who graduate from public high schools located in the same municipality as the institution.
Establishes protocols for notification and isolation in the event of COVID-19 infections at institutions of higher education and requires Secretary of Higher Education to develop date dashboard on COVID-19.
Requires transportation network company drivers to participate in educational training course on dangers, harms, and warning signs of human trafficking.
Requires transportation network companies, taxicab services, and limousine services to report crime statistics to the Attorney General; requires Attorney General to report on data.
Requires director of Office of Emergency Management to establish counterfeit personal protective equipment detection guidelines and corresponding public awareness campaign.
Defines information required to be included in death certificates.
Requires MVC to allow person to indicate special needs with motor vehicle registration.
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to undocumented immigrant aliens.
Requires New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to conduct Statewide survey to assess Holocaust and genocide education in schools.
Requires employers to discharge employees who have tested positive for or are exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 from worksite until employees may safely return to work.
Requires county boards of elections to establish ballot drop boxes at certain long-term care facilities at least 45 days before election.
Prohibits gender-based price discrimination.
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses by expanding income eligibility and increasing credit.
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to include certain taxpayers who are at least 65 years of age.
Authorizes homeless shelters to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by shelter staff.
Requires DOH to establish doula registry and requires doula registration in order to practice doula care.
Extends eligibility for NJ STARS Program to students academically ranked in top third of class.
Establishes permanent Age-Friendly State Advisory Council in DHS.
Requires all employers in State to provide paid sick leave to all employees to obtain vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019.
Requires AG to release bias incident data monthly.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare report on learning loss of students with developmental disabilities during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires 10 percent of certain federal education relief funds, approximating $26.2 million, be dedicated specifically to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Requires public institution of higher education to annually provide equal funding to men's and women's athletic programs of same sport.
Allows certain mental health professionals to apply volunteer services performed for certain organizations towards credits or hours needed to fulfill continuing education requirements.
Concerns paid leave bereavement.
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Establishes the "COVID-19 Frontline Healthcare Worker Memorial Commission."
Prohibits retail dealers of firearms from being located near certain businesses and facilities.
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Codifies constitutional right to freedom of reproductive choice.
Provides that student-athlete who sustains concussion must return to regular school activities prior to return to competition; requires school districts to implement six-step return-to-competition process.*
Expands requirement of health insurers and Medicaid program to cover prescriptions for contraceptives for up to 12 months. **
Requires parent or guardian to notify child care centers if child will be absent; requires child care centers to notify parent or guardian in event of unexcused child absence.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, intersex, and HIV-postive residents of long-term care facilities.
Establishes Multigenerational Family Housing Continuity Commission; provides municipal guidance to periodically analyze local advancement of commission's senior citizen housing recommendations.
Requires long-term care facilities, as condition of licensure, to implement policies to prevent social isolation of residents.*
Authorizes expanded provision of harm reduction services to distribute sterile syringes and provide certain support services to persons who use drugs intravenously. **
Establishes "Sexual Violence Restorative Justice Pilot Program."
Requires law enforcement provide victim of sexual assault with intial incident report; provides victim with option to review intial incident report and submit corrective form.*
Requires resources be made available to victims of sexual assault.
Establishes right of victims to be notified of county prosecutor's charging decision in sexual assault cases.
Requires AG issue annual report concerning sexual assault cases.*
Establishes sexual violence liaison officer in Division of State Police and local police departments.
Requires sexual assault training for prosecutors.
Concerns names required on applications for professional and occupational licensure.
Provides voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Special Olympics New Jersey.
Codifies same-sex marriage in the statutes.
Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services.
Revises and expands authorization for any person or entity to obtain, distribute, and administer opioid antidotes.**
Permits expungement of possession or distribution of hypodermic syringe or needle offense in cases of previous expungement; repeals criminal offense of possession of syringe.
Adds two public members to State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and prohibits licensure for individuals convicted of certain offenses.*
Repeals statute criminalizing sexual penetration while infected with venereal disease or HIV under certain circumstances; requires that in prosecutions for endangering another by creating substantial risk of transmitting infectious disease, name of defend
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Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
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"New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020"; provides for administration of programs and policies related to jobs, property development, food deserts, community partnerships, small and early stage businesses, State procurement, wind energy, and film produc
Revises psychologist training requirements.
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for municipal, county, and congressional redistricting purposes and for apportionment of regional school district board of education members. **
Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams.*
Establishes "Broadband Access Study Commission." *
Directs the development and posting of notices containing information for victims of human trafficking.
Establishes Mental Health Screening in Schools Grant Program in DOE; appropriates $1 million.*
The "New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA. *
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to advertise and promote tours of breweries in the State.
"Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act"; requires certain school meal information be provided to students' parents; establishes protocols for identifying eligible students for meal programs; prohibits stigmatizing student with bill in arrears.
Reinstates prior property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires some of these hospitals to pay community service contributions; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contribution Study Commiss
Requires owner notification of rabies testing protocol prior to testing of owner's animal for rabies.**
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Establishes advisory council for the brewery, cidery, meadery, and distillery industries in NJ and provides for funding through certain alcoholic beverage tax receipts.
Directs DOE to develop outreach program to encourage young women and minorities to pursue post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM.
"Daniel's Law" prohibits disclosure of certain personal information of active, formely active, and retired judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and their family members; establishes crime and civil action for disclosing such infor
Establishes "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program."
Requires State Treasurer to submit report to Legislature every six months identifying deadlines for applications for federal funds by State agencies.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
Requires provider of electronic communication service to preserve information reported to law enforcement related to endangerment of children for 180 days.
Criminalizes certain payments for referral of patients to substance use disorder treatment facilities.*
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline SNAP application process for senior citizens and conduct outreach regarding senior SNAP participation.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide graduating students with information on income-contingent student loan repayment programs.
Allows State residents who are outside of New Jersey to place wagers on horse races using account wagering system.
Requires electric public utility to charge residential rate for service used by residential customer for electric vehicle charging at charging stations within certain designated parking spaces.*
Establishes pilot program in DOE to support FIRST Robotics Programs in school districts.
Provides that users of Access Link paratransit service are automatically eligible for and enrolled in motor bus and rail passenger discounted fare program.
Concerns municipal property registration ordinances to address risk of blight. *
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Prohibits discrimination against living organ donors in relation to life, health, and long-term care insurance.
Requires all newly constructed warehouses to be solar-ready buildings.
Requires student representative be appointed to each board of education of school district and board of trustees of charter school that includes grades nine through 12.*
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.
Designates 9-1-1 operators or dispatchers as 9-1-1 first responder dispatchers.
Requires food access information be displayed on websites of 2-1-1 system and executive branch departments during public health emergencies to the extent practicable.
Concerns prohibition of residential tenant eviction and eviction due to residential foreclosure during certain emergency circumstances.
Provides for employment, retention, and benefits during public health hazard posed by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of certain public employees.
Requires hospital to permit individual to accompany woman during childbirth.
Extends eligibility for accidental disability and accidental death benefits to certain PFRS, SPRS and PERS members who contract COVID-19 and test positive for SARS-CoV-2.**
Prohibits employer use of tracking device in vehicle operated by employee under certain circumstances.***
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.**
Permits modification of scope of work or terms and conditions of contract between non-profit organizations and State agencies for failure to perform due to COVID-19 pandemic.*
Establishes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities.*
Requires DOH to establish sanitization guidelines for hotels operating in State.
Establishes requirements for copies of medical and billing records to be provided without charge to Social Security Disability benefits applicants and recipients.*
Enters New Jersey into Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for adult medical day care services.
Provides for technological upgrade of application process for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires DHS to conduct biennial survey of SNAP experience.*
Permits expedited licensure in mental health professions for certain out-of-State individuals during state of emergency or public health emergency.
Requires certain electronic medical programs to include demographic data entry feature; requires laboratories to record certain patients' demographic information; requires certain hospitals and laboratories to implement cultural competency training progra
Establishes "The Ballot Cure Act" to modify and establish various voting procedures.
Requires long term care facilities and hospitals to maintain minimum supply of personal protective equipment.*
Regulates use of body cameras worn by law enforcement officers.
Extends ballot receipt and election certification deadlines; increases certain messenger and bearer ballot limits: requires certain information to increase public awareness and use of voting by mail.**
Requires Police Training Commission to contract with crisis intervention training center to provide mental health training to police officers and establish curriculum specific to persons experiencing economic crisis or substance use disorder.*
Establishes Community College Opportunity Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide last-dollar financial aid grants to county college students and Student Success Incentive funding to county colleges.
Creates grant program to encourage school districts to partner with institutions of higher education in training school-based mental health services providers.
Establishes Student Wellness Grant Program in DOE.
Requires DCF to give priority to certain school districts with student mental health counseling centers in awarding grants under School Based Youth Services Program.
Requires school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.*
Establishes confidentiality of court records of certain eviction actions initiated during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires county boards of election to establish ballot drop boxes in each county at least 45 days before election: revises procedures concerning mail-in ballots for 2020 general election.**
Revises licensure, operational, and reporting requirements for nursing homes.*
Establishes New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Safety.
Establishes minimum wage requirements for certain long-term care facility staff; establishes direct care ratio requirements for nursing homes; requires nursing home care rate study.**
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to establish long-term care advocacy and educational training program.
Authorizes MVC to use stored driver's license or identification card photo for longer than eight years; limits certain appointment times at MVC locations to senior citizens and persons with certain medical conditions during COVID-19 pandemic.*
Requires dental insurers to provide credits for reduced usage during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes successor program to solar renewable energy certificate program in BPU, including solicitation process for certain solar power generation facilities. *
Extends time period during which seasonal retail consumption license holders may sell alcoholic beverages following COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires public and local utilities to provide notice to residential customers of available relief measures during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires that certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.
Expands offenses eligible for expungement upon successful discharge from drug court.
Requires certain insurers to provide summary concerning business interruption insurance.*
Establishes task force to evaluate quality, efficacy, costs, and educational outcomes of online courses offered by public and independent institutions of higher education and degree-granting proprietary institutions during COVID-19 pandemic. *
Concerns eligibility for extended unemployment benefits.
Requires Internet websites and web services of school districts, charter schools, renaissance schools, and the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf to be accessible to persons with disabilities. *
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 to DHS for temporary 25 percent increase to certain assisted living resident provider in Medicaid.*
Appropriates $87,444,690 from "New Jersey Library Construction Fund" to provide grants for construction, reconstruction, development, extension, improvement, and furnishing of New Jersey's public libraries.
Requires DOH to establish certain nursing education and professional advancement programs.
Protects homeowner in foreclosure from excessively low intervening offer.
Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold, offered for sale, or leased in the State.
Prohibits State and local entities and private detention facilities from entering into agreement to detain noncitizens.*
Provides fast track hiring and advancement employment opportunities by State for persons with significant disabilities.
Provides for employment by State of certain persons with disabilities.
Provides for process to vacate and expunge certain arrests, charges, complaints, convictions, other dispositions, and DNA records, associated with violations by certain human trafficking victims.
Requires DHS to establish payment programs for purchase of transportation services from private sector and government transportation service providers.*
Updates 2-1-1 telephone system information to include all current modes of public transit and information on access and usage.
Requires public community water systems to inventory and replace lead service lines within 10 years; provides for recoupment of costs by investor-owned public water systems.*
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are at least 18 years of age or older to qualify for modified benefit.
Provides for certification of temporary nurse aides.
Appropriates $10 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture to support food bank organizations.
Removes restrictions on special assessments and bond issuances for replacement of residential lead service lines; revises budgetary requirements for operators of certain water systems.*
Makes $35 million in federal funds available to EDA to support food and beverage establishments in need.*
Makes $10 million in federal funds available to EDA to support child care providers in need.**
Makes $15 million in federal funds available to EDA to support businesses and nonprofits in need.*
Requires law enforcement to provide written notificaion to parent or guardian of person under age 18 who commits first offense of unlawfully possessing or consuming alcoholic beverage, cannabis, marijuana, or hashish.**
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain reasonable and safe distance when overtaking pedestrians and certain bicycles.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish retail price of certain opioid antidotes.
Permits school districts to administer student health surveys after prior written notification to parents and legal guardians.
Establishes order of protection for current or former judge; upgrades and clarifies harassment against current or former judge; bars firearms possession by persons against whom current or former judge order of protection is entered.
Requires certain health insurers, Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, SHBP, and SEHBP to cover opioid antidote without imposing prior authorization requirements.*
Appropriates $120 million from General Fund to EDA to support microbusinesses impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriates $10 million from General Fund to EDA to support child care providers impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriates $20 million from General Fund to EDA to support food and beverage establishments impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriates $50 million from General Fund to EDA to support businesses and nonprofit organizations impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes Startup Business and Nonprofit Assistance Program in EDA to support new businesses and nonprofit organizations following COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $25 million.
Appropriates $10 million from General Fund to EDA to support Sustain and Serve NJ Program.
Ensures student well-being during school security drills.
Establishes Asian American Pacific Islander Commission.
Expands State corrections officers training to include topics contributing to their core mission of treating inmates with dignity, fairness, and respect.
Creates Office of School Bus Safety in Department of Education; appropriates $200,000. *
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA send weekly reports to Commissioner of DOH on status of veterans' homes in State during every future public health emergency; requires such reports through December 31, 2021. *
Requires DMVA veterans' memorial homes to hold quarterly town hall meetings with veterans' guardians.
Allows veteran's guardian to remove veteran from DMVA veterans' memorial home under certain emergency circumstances.
Requires administrator and assistant administrator at State veterans' memorial home have prior work experience in clinical setting.
Requires position of resident advocate at each State veterans' memorial home.
Requires DMVA veterans' facilities provide payroll-based journal information to NJ Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Requires Director of Division of Veterans' Healthcare Services in DMVA to have prior clinical and long-term care experience.
Establishes State supplement for "breakfast after the bell" meals.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for school security projects in certain school districts; appropriates $66,173,243.
Awards project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for water infrastructure projects in certain school districts; appropriates $6,608,212.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $26,456,996.
Provides project grants under "Securing Our Children's Fund" for career and technical education expansion in county vocational school districts; appropriates $222,904,769.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Increases number of hospitals eligible for highest amount of charity care subsidy payment; appropriates $30 million. *
Appropriates $37,174,636.71 from "New Jersey Library Construction Fund" to provide grants for construction, reconstruction, development, extension, improvement, and furnishing of New Jersey's public libraries.
Eliminates requirement for DOE to set certain tuition rates for approved private schools for students with disabilities in certain cases.
Awards school security project grants under "Securing Our Children's Future Fund" for certain school districts; appropriates $5,150,531.
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Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia. *
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriations of $15 million for grants to food banks.
Establishes NJ Hospitality Emergency Loan Program in EDA to provide no-interest loans to qualified small hospitality businesses; makes $100 million appropriation to EDA from federal funds for qualified small business assistance.***
Expands opportunities for restaurants, bars, distilleries and breweries to provide outdoor dining and permits certain farms to adjust operations in response to COVID-19 public health emergency.*
Concerns approval process for personal protective equipment and State stockpiles of personal protective equipment.*
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations.
Allows certain taxpayers to accelerate depreciation of certain expenditures under corporation business and gross income taxes.*
Allows county or municipal governing body to enter into revenue sharing agreement for alcoholic beverage sales by concessionaire permit holder.
Requires DOT, NJT and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.*
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Establishes "New Jersey STEM Scholars Grant Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Authorizes county colleges to establish and operate student dormitories.
Allows persons owing certain court-imposed financial obligations and ordered by court to serve term of probation or diversionary program to earn transformative credit against amount owed by participating in treatment programs, educational or vocational se
Requires annual inspection of certain veterinary facilities.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Criminalizes fraudulently pretending to be transportation network company driver.
Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Requires each county to establish inmate reentry services committee.
Requires installation of diaper changing station in certain public restrooms; appropriates $500,000.
Requires AG to report bias intimidation offenses to Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in annual report on hate crime statistics.
Requires DHS to develop outreach plan to inform certain students about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Requires discrimination prevention training for certain providers of services to senior citizens.
Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Innovation Partnership"; provides funding for certain nonprofit partnerships to promote certain emerging technology businesses.*
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Requires publication of certain information related to toll discounts on E-ZPass website.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Requires school districts to take certain actions in circumstances when school meal bill is in arrears; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.*
Requires school district to establish "School Meal Fund" to assist students with school meal bill in arrears.
Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.
Allows gross income tax deduction for amounts paid for removal of lead, asbestos, sodium, chloride, and other contaminants from taxpayer's property.**
Directs BPU to develop and implement electric school bus pilot program.
Establishes State to oversee application for and receipt of federal funds Ombudsman by State agencies.
Permits counties and municipalities to bond for passenger cars and station wagons solely fueled by electric or renewable power sources.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Establishes standard medical expense deduction under SNAP for certain senior citizens.
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Requires NJT to provide notice and public hearing for alternate provisions of service related to substantial curtailment of service.*
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from disclosing customer's geolocation data to third parties.*
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Establishes "Transportation Services Coordination Task Force."
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Directs DEP to develop guidelines concerning State and local government purchase of goods made from recycled material.
"Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology Act."
Establishes task force to examine issues and make recommendations concerning youth sports, including abusive coaching, confrontational parents, and bullying of players.
Requires Medicaid managed care organizations to notify certain beneficiaries of maximum coverage for personal care service hours.
Requires NJT to publish on website certain information concerning accessible transportation service routes.
Requires landlords to provide tenants with certain notice concerning conditions that may cause damage or hazards on rental property.
Prohibits insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP from charging fee for paper bills and notices.
Establishes requirements concerning the provision of postpartum care information and the development of individualized postpartum care plans.
Makes it aggravated sexual assault or sexual contact for transportation network company or taxicab driver to commit act of sexual penetration or sexual contact using coercion or without permission on passenger.
Authorizes creation of "New Jersey Council on Access and Mobility."
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Restricts use of certain data collected for purposes of contact tracing related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Provides that institutions of higher education may permit final-year students in graduate degree programs for mental health care professions to graduate or be matched with residency or clinical programs early.
Requires Department of Human Services to establish and maintain hotline for persons with disability for use during emergency of disaster.*
Clarifies that law enforcement officer who knowingly chokes another person engages in use of deadly force.
"Economic Emergency Investment Stabilization Act"; allows EDA to invest in businesses impacted by major economic emergencies.
Implements sentencing recommendations of the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission to eliminate certain mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment; eliminates mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for crime of official misconduct.*
Establishes Employment Application Registry database in Division of State Police.
Requires facilities offering COVID-19 tests to provide accurate timeframes for test results; requires DOH to update COVID-19 website with information regarding testing locations that provide COVID-19 test results within 48 hours.
Establishes "Student Mental Health Task Force." *
Permits certain mental health professionals working in school districts to refer or help facilitate referral of students to private professional counselors.
Requires DHS to review various aspects of Medicaid managed care program.
Allows for immediate transport of persons by local law enforcement officers under certain circumstances.
Requires AG to establish law enforcement officer use of force data collection and reporting system.
Requires school districts to include instruction on racial discrimination and social justice as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies for middle school students. *
Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs.
Concerns residential community release programs.*
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish Black Heritage Trail; establishes NJ Black Cultural Heritage Commission.
Establishes Safe and Equitable Remote Learning Pilot Program in DOE to support provision of remote learning safe havens by certain school districts.*
Establishes office in EDA to assist in provision and expansion of broadband Internet service in State to address inequities in accessing broadband service.*
Allows mail-in voter to cure mail-in ballot due to missing certificate.
Establishes certain guidelines for health insurance carriers concerning step therapy protocols.
Expands crime of bias intimidation; establishes additional penalties for crimes of bias intimidation and harassment; establishes bias intimidation motivation damages.*
Expands existing plug-in electric vehicle incentive program to include incentives for eligible plug-in electric motorcycles.*
Allows minors to serve as election workers between 5:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on elections days.
Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
Provides comprehensive Medicaid benefits to certain individuals formerly in foster care.
Requires correctional police officers to wear body worn cameras.
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Allows continued use of heaters and tents by food or beverage establishments under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Includes use of physical barriers as social distancing measure for food or beverage establishments during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Eases certain food and beverage establishment tent requirements during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Establishes ranking criteria for certain nonpoint source pollution control grants issued by DEP.
Requires DOT to implement complete streets policy that considers persons with certain disabilities.*
Requires certain transportation research to consider needs of individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, and developmental disabilities.
Directs DOE to request waiver of certain student academic assessment requirements from federal government.
Establishes "Food Innovation District Pilot Program." *
Requires financial aid award letter provided by institutions of higher education and certain proprietary schools be consistent with financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires each solid waste management district to develop strategy in solid waste management plan to reduce food waste.
Concerns sexual abuse investigations in State correctional facilities.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to appoint workforce skills training development officer to administer, enhance, and supplement inmate workforce skills training programming.
Requires DOC report certain information annually.
Requires Corrections Ombudsperson review criminal investigations under certain circumstances.
Prohibits forfeiture of inmate's commutation credits for minor disciplinary infractions and expands inmate's ability to restore certain forfeited credits.
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Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Requires DCA to provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update its low-income home energy assistance program handbook, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program.
"Home-Based Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as permitted accessory uses.*
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Directs Juvenile Justice Commission to establish arts education pilot program for juvenile offenders.
Prohibits sale of cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
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 DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements.
Increases hourly limit of reimbursable personal care assistant services under NJ WorkAbility Program.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning persons with disabilities and employment.
Requires Division of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action create "Model Employer for Persons with Disabilities" program for State government.*
Provides tuition reimbursement to certain psychiatrists who contract with DCF.
Expands financing opportunities for low and moderate income housing.
Requires DOH and DHS to identify and take appropriate steps to secure federal sources of funding to support maternal mental health.
Requires DEP, DOH, DCA, owners or operators of public water systems, and owners or operators of certain buildings to take certain actions to prevent and control cases of Legionnaires' disease.
Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.*
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo explicit and implicit bias training.*
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Allows NJ E-ZPass customers to opt to receive electronic notification of use of E-ZPass system at toll plazas operated by NJTA and SJTA.*
Requires NJT to operate Access Link paratransit service during state of emergency under certain circumstances.
Authorizes use of disability benefits for transportation provided by transportation network companies.
Requires school districts and charter schools to report discipline data on their websites and to Commissioner of Education; requires DOE to establish database and complete annual report concerning student disciplinary actions.*
Requires 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.
Requires pharmacy benefits manager providing services within Medicaid program to disclose certain information to DHS.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Regulates sale of handgun ammunition and develops system for electronic reporting of firearm information.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Requires lead paint inspection on certain residential rental property, including upon tenant turnover; establishes lead-based paint hazard education program; appropriates $3,900,000.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Expressly prohibits invasive examination of unconscious patient by health care practitioner without patient's prior informed written consent.
Authorizes creation of special license plates commemorating horse as State animal.
Raises pay for election workers to $300 per day; appropriates $7,000,000 to Department of State. *
Establishes Task Force to Promote Employment by State Agencies of People with Disabilities.
Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.
Requires EDA to establish loan program for certain costs of electric-powered school bus purchases by local school districts and school bus contractors.
Revises provisions required in school district's anti-bullying policy; provides for civil liability of parent of minor adjudicated delinquent for cyber-harassment or harassment; and increases certain fines against parents.*
Concerns counseling for children who were either physically present or who may have seen or heard act of domestic violence.
Amends statute that criminalizes display of symbols, objects, or graffiti exposing another to threats of violence to specifically include noose, burning cross, or other symbol of hate. *
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisoy Committee." *
"Fair Chance in Housing Act"; establishes certain housing rights of persons with criminal records.
Requires that certain realty transfer fee revenues be dedicated to Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.*
Expands training for judges, law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases. *
Prohibits provision or sale of single-use plastic carryout bags, single-use paper carryout bags, and polystyrene foam food service products; limits provision of single-use plastic straws; appropriates moneys from Clean Communities Program Fund for public
Allows public office holder or candidate to use political contributions to pay for child care expenses related to office or campaign activities.
Restricts use of neonicotinoid pesticides.*
Requires public utilities and local units to provide notice prior to initiating certain infrastructure projects.
Establishes numerical requirements and zoning standards for installation of electric vehicle supply equipment and Make-Ready parking spaces. **
Requires public water systems to offer drinking water tests to customers in certain circumstances.
Requires property condition disclosure statement to indicate presence of lead plumbing in residential property.
Revises requirements for health care service firms to report financial information to Division of Consumer Affairs.
Provides resident tuition rate to certain non-resident dependent children of United States military personnel attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires water purveyors to conduct, and report to DEP, water loss audits.
Requires DEP to evaluate environmental and public health stressor of certain facilities on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications.*
Requires carriers to pass prescription drug savings to consumers.
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Prohibits use of receipt paper containing bisphenol A.
Establishes creative crosswalks pilot program.
Re-establishes Arthritis Quality of Life Initiative and Advisory Council on Arthritis in DHS.
Requires cable television, direct broadcast satellite, and television streaming service companies to include certain fees and charges for service in advertised price to consumers.
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Requires DHS to employ Transportation Planning Coordinator to oversee provision of transportation services. *
Requires DOT Commissioner to advertise availability of certain transportation programs and services.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for ovarian cancer research.
Requires municipalities that have public swimming pools to provide information regarding "dry drowning."
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign. *
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers in certain fields to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in certain low performing schools.*
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission member to specialize in serving transgender communities.
Requires public water systems to provide notice of elevated lead levels in drinking water to customers and local officials; requires landlords to notify tenants of elevated lead levels.
Establishes Restaurant Meals Program in DHS; permits certain individuals to use SNAP benefits at approved restaurants; requires participation by certain restaurants operated by institutions of higher education.
Permits members of Community Emergency Response Teams to perform traffic duties under certain circumstances.
"Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act"; requires institutions of higher education to implement mental health programs and services.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Establishes certain minimum and maximum temperatures in rooming and boarding houses, dementia care homes, and certain nursing homes and residential health care facilities.*
Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs.
Requires institutions of higher education and public and nonpublic high schools and middle schools to adopt anti-hazing policies; expands activities encompassing criminal hazing and upgrades penalties for engaging in these activities. **
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
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
Allows hospitals to construct housing and provide wrap-around services for individuals who are homeless or housing insecure.*
Establishes Commission on Asian American Heritage in DOE. *
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Authorizes operators of motor vehicles to display electronic proof of registration; requires MVC to send applicaion for registration renewal to lessee of leased vehicle.*
Renames "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner"; requires counties to update materials to reflect this title change.
Requires inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in Truth in Renting Guide.
Makes changes to membership and responsibilities of Campus Sexual Assault Commission.
Permits qualified municipalities to prohibit conversion of affordable residential rental units to certain forms of ownership housing.
Provides that public institutions of higher education may only reduce student's institutional financial aid upon receipt of private scholarship under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Pediatric Cancer Research Fund" and establishes requirements for disbursement of monies deposited in fund; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric research. *
Establishes annual grant program to recognize institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Requires opioid antidote prescriptions for certain patients.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide transparency of tuition and fees to prospective and current students.
Prohibits sale of paint or coating removal products that contain methylene chloride unless purchaser meets certain safety standards for use.
Revises requirements for cash assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program; appropriates $25 million.
Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 health state of emergency.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $5 million to DCA for NJSHARES - S.M.A.R.T. Program.*
Restricts use of restrictive employment covenants for physicians and nurses.
Concerns certain Medicaid and health insurance audits and health care provider claims payment and denial during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
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.*
Establishes the New Jersey Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Establishes Employment and Business-Related Tax Deferral Assistance Program in EDA to allow small businesses to defer the payment and remittance of certain employment and business-related taxes during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Authorizes Governor to permit mortgage forbearance and rent payment Provides mortgage payment relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection for resident property owners, tenants and other consumers, economically impacted during time of co
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from considering number of arrests made and citations issued when evaluating police officer's professional performance.
Requires health care facilities to report certain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data related to health care workers and certain first responders.
Requires Commissioner of Education to establish three-year "Bridge Year Pilot Program" for certain students who were impacted by public health state of emergency caused by coronavirus disease 2019.*
Revises requirements for health insurance providers and Medicaid to cover services provided using telemedicine and telehealth; appropriates $5 million. *
Establishes program to adopt paratransit best practices, requires greater coordination among paratransit service providers, and establishes regional paratransit coordinating councils.*
Extends duration of certain laws pertaining to use of telemedicine and telehealth in relation to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires Office of Information Technology to establish centralized, one-stop website resource guide to assist persons in navigating the State's mental health and substance use disorder service systems.
Extends ballot receipt and election certification deadlines; increases certain messenger and bearer ballot limits.*
Establishes Clayton Model Pilot Program in DOE to provide school-based social emotional learning to students in grades kindergarten through five at certain public schools.
Establishes civilian review boards to review complaints against police officers.
Expands powers and duties of State Chief Diversity Officer to promote diversity in State government and public contracting.
Designates, as State and public holiday, third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day.
Allocates $50 million to Department of Labor and Workforce Development from federal government assistance to improve unemployment insurance benefit claims processing capacity.
Increases maximum penalty for certain violations concerning asbestos hazard abatement; allocates moneys from increased penalties to asbestos programs.**
"Farm Worker Epidemic Health and Safety Act"; concerns public health and certain protections for farm workers.
Revises requirements for long-term care facilities to establish outbreak response plans.*
Requires certain provisions in State contracts for delivery of publicly financed mental health, behavioral health, and addiction services.
Makes failure to wear mask upon entry into store or transportation publically available, with posted signage, a violation with fine during public emergency declared in Executive Order 103 of 2020 and future public health emergencies.**
Allows long-term care facility employees to accrue paid sick leave.
Establishes position of Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA.
Requires Civil Service Commission establish mentoring program for certain civil service law enforcement applicants.*
Establishes Statewide universal newborn home nurse visitation program in DCF; appropriates $2.75 million. *
Requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training be included in police basic training curriculum.
Provides that effective date of unemployment claim is date on which individual becomes unemployed.
Requires Civil Services Commission to undertake various initiatives to increase diversity and inclusivity within law enforcement agencies.
Provides that certain civil immunities granted to for-profit healthcare facilities and healthcare systems during state of emergency and public health emergency would expire August 31, 2020.
Increases strangulation assault to crime of second degree.
Establishes "Male Teachers of Color Mentorship Pilot Program;" appropriates $50,000.
Establishes database to aid in civil service hiring process for law enforcement officers; requires Statewide diversity analysis of law enforcement.*
Revises and updates law pertaining to conservatorship to encourage ethical conduct by conservators and to provide stronger protections for conservatees and proposed conservatees.
Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals.
Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards.
Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Requires DMVA assist service members discharged solely due to LGBTQ status with petitions to change discharge designation.
Authorizes creation of local civilian review boards to review police operations and conduct; appropriates $800,000.*
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformative Justice for Youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission; appropriates $4.2 million in FY 2022 and FY 2023.*
Authorizes State Chief Diversity Officer to conduct disparity study concerning utilization of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State procurement process.
Establishes postconsumer recycled content requirements for rigid plastic containers, glass containers, paper and plastic carryout bags, and plastic trash bags; prohibits sale of polystyrene loose fill packaging. *
Requires certain utilities to allow residential customers to satisfy outstanding balances over time.
Requires reentry assistance to be provided to certain inmates who have served their maximum sentence.*
Codifies and establishes certain network adequacy standards for pediatric primary and specialty care in Medicaid program.
Authorizes issuance of Protect Pollinators license plates.
Limits certain appointment times at MVC locations to obtain REAL ID to senior citizens and persons with certain medical conditions during COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires DHS to develop incentives to encourage private investment in child care deserts.
Requires DOE to establish Alternate Route Interstate Reciprocity Pilot Program.*
Expands scope of inmate reentry assistance and benefits.
Requires DHS to contract with third party entity to apply risk reduction model to Medicaid prescription drug services.*
Establishes School and Small Business Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program in BPU.
Revises cybersecurity, asset management, and related reporting requirements in "Water Quality Accountability Act."
Requires in person early voting period for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Requires school report card to include information concerning number of mental health professionals and school safety specialists employed by each school district. *
Requires DOH to develop Statewide plan for infection control and prevention infrastructure improvements in nursing homes.
Mandates training on remote teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Requires builders to offer unit concrete products that utilize carbon footprint-reducing technology as option in new construction; establishes tax incentives, and State and local purchasing requirements, for unit concrete products that utilize carbon foot
Establishes immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Creates NJ Legislative Youth Council.
Establishes New Jersey Direct Support Professional Core Competency Working Group.
Requires DOE to compile list of professional development programs on virtual and remote instruction; requires public school teachers and school leaders to complete professional development program on virtual and remote instruction.
Establishes "Stillbirth Resource Center" and regional Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Committee, and programs for the prevention and reduction of incidences of stillbirth; expands list of professionals authorized to provide stillbirth-related care.*
Directs Secretary of State to develop national marketing campaign promoting State's innovation economy.
Provides that firearms purchaser identification card is valid for four years; requires training prior to issuance of firearms cards and handgun purchase permits; revises procedures for passing of firearms to heir or legatee.
Reduces age at which health benefit plans cover colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45.
Permits emergency medical responders to dispense opioid antidotes.
Requires Commissioner of Education to prepare learning loss report and report on public school operations during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires ABC to waive fee for alcoholic beverage COVID-19 Expansion Permit.
Allows deduction from tax of certain expenses when taxpayer's federal paycheck protection program loan is forgiven and excludes those forgiven loans from gross income tax.
Requires Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman submit annual report to veterans' facility oversight boards.
Requires MVC to provide reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities during certain knowledge examinations.
Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Provides CBT tax credit for certain deliveries of low carbon concrete and for costs of conducting environmental product declaration analyses of low carbon concrete. *
Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process. *
Establishes criminal offenses and civil penalties concerning inhumane confinement of breeding pigs and calves raised for veal.
Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program.
Allows student enrolled in institution of higher education who has completed 30 semester-hour credits to serve as substitute teacher; extends time period substitute teacher may serve during public health emergency.*
Establishes recruitment and referral program for certain individuals and extends certain provisions of law concerning affirmative action in public works contracts to workers with disabilities.
Mandates training on culturally responsive teaching for all candidates for teaching certification.
Requires NJT to expand or modify routes and hours of certain transportation services and to solicit input from individuals diagnosed with autism.
Requires driver education programs to be inclusive of all students.
Establishes Office of Statewide Mobility Manager to assist certain persons with disabilities and their families with transportation and mobility needs.*
Requires assignment of unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency; appropriates $1.8 million.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide certain student loan information.
Requires request for proposal to establish demonstration program to develop distributed energy resource microgrids for electric fleet and heavy-duty vehicle use.
Eliminates mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment determined by Legislature to be of non-violent nature.
Requires EDA and New Jersey Redevelopment Authority to issue reports for grant and loan programs not specifically authorized by statute and for statutorily authorized grant and loan programs where report is not required.
Makes $25 million in federal funds available to EDA to support microbusinesses in need.*
Makes $15 million in federal funds available to EDA and New Jersey Council on the Arts to support arts and culture organizations in need.**
Changes effective date of new law concerning certain State contracts for mental health, behavioral health, and addiction services.
Permits certain paramedics to administer buprenorphine.
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.
Requires AG to establish Human Trafficking and Underserved Communities Unit.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Requires chief law enforcement officer of municipal police departments to hold two community roundtables on police relations each year.
Eliminates certain juvenile justice fines, fees, costs, and other monetary penalties.
Provides that in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits, calculations of lost or impaired earnings capacity not be reduced because of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, or affectional or sexual orientation. *
Prohibits court from awarding custody of or limiting visitation with child based solely on parent's disability; provides that disability of parent is relevant only to extent that court finds disability is detrimental to best interest of child.
Requires embryo storage facilities to record and report health information of patients in manner that is consistent with certain federal laws.
Requires DCF or court to consider placement of children with relatives or kinship guardians when making placement decision; makes changes to certain standards for initiating petitions to terminate parental rights.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires DEP to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.
"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; appropriate
Provides mortgage payment relief for residential property owners and small landlords during time of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Provides financial relief to certain landlords and tenants in response to COVID-19 pandemic, adjusts certain court fees; and makes appropriations. *
Requires MVC to operate hotline to assist with online transactions.
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
Allows certain students who hold T, U, or O visa to qualify for in-State tuition and allows students who hold T or U visa to qualify for student financial aid.
Concerns eligibility, procedures, and post-program relief for certain drug or alcohol dependent persons sentenced to special probation, or regular probation which as a condition of such requires substance use disorders treatment.
Appropriates $5 million to New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Requires newly manufactured semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
Requires water purveyors and owners of public wastewater collection or treatment systems to consider climate change-related issues in asset management planning.
Requires State and county hazard mitigation plans to include climate change-related threat assessments and hazard prevention and mitigation strategies.
Requires DEP to consider potential impacts to natural resources when classifying dams according to hazard potential.
Eliminates premiums and waiting periods for certain NJ FamilyCare enrollees and directs DHS to implement additional targeted outreach initiatives to increase enrollment. *
Establishes Amistad Commission Exemplary Award Program; appropriates $10,000.
Establishes child care revitalization fund in Department of Community Affairs; appropriates $100,000,000.
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund and Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council; provides for funds received from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
Makes $135 million in federal funds available to EDA to support eligible entities impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes "Rental Assistance Navigation Program" in DCA; makes appropriation.
Establishes requirements to commence screening newborn infants for congenital cytomegalovirus infection; establishes public awareness campaign. *
"Motorbus and Passenger Rail Service Employee Violence Prevention Act."
Requires EDA to establish loan program to assist certain businesses with funding to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities.
Revises gross income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
"New Jersey Disability Savings Act."
Extends temporary emergency licensure of certain health care professionals.
Allows Attorney General to bring cause of action for certain public nuisance violations arising from sale or marketing of firearms.
Establishes county college-based adult centers for transition for individuals with developmental disabilities; makes annual appropriation of $4.5 million.
Limits fees charged to patients and authorized third parties for copies of medical and billing records.
Establishes Direct Support Professional Career Development Program; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Appropriates $2 million to CRDA to support costs associated with hosting NAACP National Convention in Atlantic City. *
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Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Allows long term tax exemption extension for certain low-income housing.
Expands availability of NJ Family Care Advantage program.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
Bars use of certain funds and nondisclosure agreements to settle sexual assault and harassment claims against certain State officers and employees, members of Legislature, and candidates.
Concerns sexual harassment.
Establishes "New Jersey Elections Security Act."
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
Permits use of public schools and school district property for certain child care services for children younger than school age.
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.
Requires health insurance coverage for annual mental health screening.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Establishes "Fund to Prevent Use of Tobacco and Electronic Smoking Devices"; supports activities to prevent use and promote awareness of associated health conditions.
Establishes Animal Cruelty Offender Registry; prohibits purchase, adoption, and breeding of animals by animal cruelty offenders.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Permits counties to provide videoconferencing in involuntary commitment hearings.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
"Caylee's Law;" requires missing child be reported within 12 hours.
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Allows horse racetracks to be available for placing wagers at casinos in Atlantic City using Internet.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Prohibits disclosure of personal information pertaining to certain health care workers who are victims of assault; makes violation disorderly persons offense.
"New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act."
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 Division of Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled within Office of Public Defender; designates public defender for developmentally disabled clients in criminal cases.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to Juvenile Justice Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Allows municipality to issue permits to sell alcoholic beverages in residential redevelopment areas.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Expands categories of individuals who may bring a claim under wrongful imprisonment statute.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Establishes procedure to enforce certain visitation rights of incapacitated persons and persons receiving care from caregiver.
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.
Requires State and county correctional facilities to develop strategic plans to provide peer counseling and peer health navigator programs to support treatment of substance use disorders.
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Permits persons participating in Drug Court and other programs to earn credit against amount owed on certain court-imposed financial obligations.
Provides Medicaid coverage to eligible pregnant women for 365-day period beginning on last day of pregnancy.
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain home visitation program services under certain circumstances.
Prohibits sale of infant walkers.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Amends law to extend length of postpartum coverage for Medicaid services for eligible pregnant women to 180-day period.
Enhances benefit provided under New Jersey earned income tax credit program by treating a qualifying relative as a qualifying child.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop and distribute heat stroke pamphlet for athletes at public and nonpublic schools; requires school districts and public institutions of higher education to establish heat illness policy for athletes.
Requires police training for interactions with persons who may have behavioral health issues.
Requires owner of certain autobuses to register with and receive approval from municipalities in which autobus operates.
"Patient Protection Act"; establishes requirements concerning the transfer and referral of certain patients receiving health care services.
Prohibits private correctional facilities from detaining persons pursuant to agreement with federal immigration authorities.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Requires licensure for manufacturers, distributors, wholesale dealers, and retail dealers of electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes and sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits use of coupons, price rebates, and price reduction promotions in sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Requires hospital, bio-analytical, and clinical laboratories to provide information and offer of HIV screening to patients living in areas with high prevalence of HIV.
Prohibits delivery of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide list of alternative drugs to health care professionals, pharmacists, and covered persons under certain circumstances.
Requires DOH to establish maternity care evaluation protocols.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.
Preserves certain requirements that health insurance plans cover essential health benefits.
Adds 9-1-1 system regionalization costs to funds appropriated from "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
"County Urban Agricultural Development Zone Act."
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales.
Directs New Jersey State Rehabilitation Council to conduct study to identify trends and gaps in employment of individuals with disabilities.
Requires DHS to study emergency response services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Limits authority of DHS to impose liens and seek recovery from Medicaid recipient's estate after death.
Requires prescription drug services covered under Medicaid program to be provided via fee-for-service delivery system.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
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.
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 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 the Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Requires Legislature to adopt and distribute policy prohibiting sexual harassment; requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to complete online training on policy once every two years.
Requires school districts to file certain evacuation plans with DOE.
Requires NJT to adopt nondiscrimination policy and requires annual training on nondiscrimination policy.
Requires State agencies to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities and on mobile devices.
Requires each county and municipality to adopt anti-sexual harassment policy.
Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Establishes Task Force on Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities.
"Mary's Law"; requires Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide direct payments for purchases of specialized, modified motor vehicles.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for all ages.
Establishes "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."
Requires State to pay difference between federal allocation and total cost of reduced price breakfast or lunch; appropriates $4.5 million.
Allows dogs in sampling and tasting areas of breweries.
Allows corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for small businesses required to provide earned sick leave.
Establishes public awareness campaign about Pregnant Women/Women With Dependent Children initiative and Maternal Wrap Around program.
Establishes central registry of residents with special needs for use during emergencies.
Requires DOE to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
Allows instructional wine making facilities to sell wine for on premises consumption at certain events and donate wine to non-profits and charitable organizations.
Increases Spill Compensation and Control Act cap on recovery of damages from certain dischargers.
Establishes Statewide Hit and Run Advisory Program to facilitate apprehension of persons fleeing motor vehicle accident scene; designated as "Zackhary's Law."
Revises law governing theater liquor licenses.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Upgrades certain penalties for criminal street gang recruitment and criminality; imposes mandatory minimum sentence for certain offenses; establishes accomplice liability and imposes restrictions for certain recruiters.
Expands crime of terrorism.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by all public employees for health care benefits.
Requires public community water systems to provide customers with certain information regarding lead in drinking water.
Requires public water systems to develop lead service line inventories and schedules for replacement of lead service lines.
Changes date of "Juneteenth Independence Day" in NJ to June 19 of each year.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Authorizes conversion of certain office parks and retail centers to mixed-use developments.
"Food Desert Elimination Act"; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in "food deserts."
Establishes "County Jail Rehabilitation and Re-Entry Program" to evaluate county inmate needs; assigns certain county caseworkers to assist inmates in accessing appropriate benefits, treatment, and services.
Requires DOC and DHS to pre-enroll inmates in Medicaid; establishes Medicaid enrollment course for inmates within DOC.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain compressed natural gas vehicles.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Requires DHS to create English and Spanish-language Internet websites to promote enrollment in affordable health care plans.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "foreign national" and "undocumented foreign national," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Establishes "Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Establishes NJ Life Sciences Training and Development Program in DOLWD.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DOH to assist certain mental health and addiction service providers transitioning to fee-for-service reimbursement system.
Requires transportation network companies to share information concerning sexual misconduct investigation of driver; authorizes transportation network company to ban drivers from accessing digital network during and following investigation.
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell to develop cybersecurity best practices and awareness materials for consumers in this State.
Concerns information security standards and guidelines for State and local government.
Requires prospective and current staff members of child care centers to undergo drug testing as condition of employment.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Requires public high school students to receive instruction concerning opioid abuse and opioid abuse prevention.
Requires collection and reporting of information concerning crimes against the elderly and disabled.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
Prohibits leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor under age of 18; requires law enforcement officers who observe unsecured firearms to conduct follow-up.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth and family services organizations.
Concerns procedures with respect to repair of certain public utility facilities and related street repaving.
Establishes certain criminal penalties for possession and transfer of firearms and ammunition to disqualified person.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Port Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River and Bay Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
Establishes Prescription Drug Review Commission; requires production costs be reported for certain prescription drugs.
Prohibits attempts by mental health professionals to change sexual orientation of adults.
Requires disclosure of usual and customary price for merchandise offered in certain advertisements.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of binary firearm triggers.
Creates "Congestion Pricing Cost Relief Commission."
Requires DOT to provide additional information in annual report on pavement condition and conduct pavement lifecycle cost analysis; make report available to public.
Requires certain candidates for employment with DOE to undergo criminal history background check.
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey.
Concerns prescriptions of certain schedule II controlled dangerous substances and opioids.
Prohibits manipulation of certain caller identification information.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DOLWD for continued assistance to State Centers for Independent Living.
Requires declaration of Code Blue alert when National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
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 continued coverage of prescription drugs for certain medical conditions.
Establishes pilot program in DOE for special education students to attend college courses or vocational training programs.
Requires school districts take certain actions to increase participation in free or reduced priced meal programs; prohibits shaming students with school meal bills in arrears; prohibits certain district actions in collecting unpaid school meal fees.
Expands scope of law enforcement sexual assault training; codifies certain responsibilities of county sexual violence programs and rape care advocates.
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Creates fourth degree crime of operating drone equipped with weapon.
Requires boil water notices to be provided by certain public water systems via telephone, email or text message.
Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Prohibits mail order, Internet, telephone, and any other anonymous method of ammunition sale or transfer in New Jersey.
Requires health insurers to limit copayments for insulin.
Requires health insurance companies to cover lead screenings for children 16 years of age or younger.
Requires door to operator's cabin be locked on NJT trains.
Requires certain providers of transportation services to develop and publish route schedules.
Requires public bodies upon request to provide American Sign Language interpreter at public meetings.
Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.
Requires Attorney General to develop program to assist schools in identifying at-risk youths.
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.
Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Requires training for law enforcement officers and county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence.
Requires State entities and agencies to provide child care services for full-time employees.
Requires certain officers of education organizations to sign acknowledgement and undergo training concerning duties to report child abuse.
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
"Listening to Mothers Survey Act"; requires DOH to establish survey to evaluate and improve maternity care access and services.
Prohibits online education services from using and disclosing certain information, engaging in targeted advertising, and requires deletion of certain information in certain circumstances.
Requires child abuse reporting hotline maintained by DCPP to provide information on resources available to victims and families.
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Provides electric public utility customers' right to decline installation of smart meter under certain circumstances.
Establishes Volunteer Emergency Responder Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Permits municipalities to lease vacant municipal land for tiny home occupancy; directs DCA to enhance regulatory guidance on acceptable tiny home construction and use.
Establishes transporting for slaughter, selling or otherwise providing for slaughter, or slaughtering gestating cow as crime of fourth degree; establishes criminal and civil penalties therefor; designated as Brianna's Law.
Establishes School Security Task Force.
Allows certain senior citizens to apply for rent increase limit.
Concerns juvenile incarceration and parole.
Requires financial institution that has foreclosed on property to remove water service lines that contain lead.
Permits person admitted into court-ordered supervisory treatment program for drug or alcohol dependency to earn credit against amount owed on certain court-imposed financial obligations.
Requires signs to be posted in emergency rooms regarding Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
Authorizes award of monetary compensation, including attorney fees, to persons who obtain final orders under the "Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015."
Increases penalties for purposely desecrating any public monument, insignia, symbol, or structure, or place of worship or burial.
"Madalyn's Law"; requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate instruction on toxic shock syndrome and requires installation of signage in certain women's rooms to enhance public awareness of toxic shock syndrome.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Establishes "Plastic Pollution Task Force" to study ways to reduce and address plastic pollution.
Requires certain corporations to appoint women to board of directors.
Requires New Jersey election officials to coordinate with relevant federal officials regarding election security.
Requires election equipment to be stored in secure facility.
Prohibits preauthorization of certain ultrasound screenings covered under health benefits plans.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of cancer treatments, tests, procedures and prescription drugs covered under health benefits or prescription drug benefits plans.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of prenatal ultrasound screenings covered under health benefits plans.
"Emma's Law"; requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.
Provides for civil actions against persons or entities profiting from commission of human trafficking offenses, or maintaining victims of such offenses.
Requires disclosure by applicants for State employment of previous or ongoing criminal investigations.
Prohibits sale, offer for sale, or distribution of infant products containing bisphenol A.
Creates certain assistance and set-aside programs for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons, by persons with a disability, and by veterans.
Directs DOE to develop health and safety best practices for use of digital devices in school classrooms.
Establishes program in HMFA to provide loans to replace lead-contaminated water service lines for certain senior and low income homeowners; appropriates $1 million.
Allows follow up calls from operators of NJ Suicide Hopeline to minors at risk of committing suicide.
Requires PANYNJ and certain commercial airport operators in State to coordinate with law enforcement for investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults; requires airlines and contractors to adopt and maintain policies regarding sexual assaults.
Requires institution of higher education to report allegation of sexual misconduct by health care professional to licensing board for investigation.
Requires DOE to develop and disseminate training materials for school employees on laws governing use of electronic smoking devices.
Requires AG to establish program to detect fentanyl in State's illegal drug supply and make information related to presence of fentanyl available in database accessible by law enforcement.
Requires all motorbuses purchased for public transportation service to be electric-powered by 2029.
Establishes "Enhanced Crossing and Crosswalk Pilot Program" in Bergen County.
Requires institutions of higher education to establish hotline for victims of campus sexual assault.
Expands list of health care professionals authorized to provide certain services and supports in connection with stillbirth.
Requires public water systems to provide customers and local officials with expedited notice of elevated lead levels.
Requires DEP to post list of certain chemicals, requires manufacturers of children's products to report use of certain chemicals, prohibits sale or distribution of children's products containing certain chemicals.
Requires NJT to provide notice concerning routine maintenance and significant reductions in service.
Directs DOH to establish policies to reduce number of cats and dogs euthanized at shelters and pounds.
Requires Division of Highway Traffic Safety to conduct public awareness campaign regarding bicycle and pedestrian safety.
Prohibits expenditure of State funds in states with restrictive abortion laws.
Provides that leaving scene of motor vehicle accident is crime of first degree if accident results in death of another person.
Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying payment for preauthorized covered services except under certain circumstances.
Increases penalties for sale of tobacco and electronic smoking devices to persons under age 21.
Allows municipalities to establish loan programs to fund replacement of lead service lines.
Requires landlords to provide notice to tenants concerning lead in drinking water.
Requires certain residential developers to replace lead service lines.
Requires firearm owners who become New Jersey residents to obtain firearm purchaser identification card.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Clarifies DHS authority to regulate sober living homes and halfway houses as residential substance abuse aftercare facilities; requires background checks and other protections for residents of residential substance abuse facilities.
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.
Establishes Edison Innovation Science and Technology Fund in EDA to provide grants for certain science and technology-based university research; appropriates $5 million.
Requires applicants for commercial driver license to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Requires nursing homes to permit use of electronic monitoring devices at request of resident.
The "Liberty State Park Protection Act"; establishes Liberty State Park Advisory Committee and requirements concerning DEP actions related to Liberty State Park.
"Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act."
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in, and requires divestment from, 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Prevents criminal defendent from asserting "gay and transgender panic" defense to murder charge in order to reduce charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion.
Requires continuation of health benefits dependent coverage until child turns 26 years of age.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain preventive services.
Expands "Law Against Discrimination" to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes.
Expands definition of "qualified offshore wind project" to include "open access offshore wind transmission facility."
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide assistive technology to elementary and middle school students with dyslexia and related conditions.
Eliminates phrase "born out of wedlock" from statues concerning legal settlement; revises law for determining a minor's county of legal settlement.
Requires Medicaid cover professional violence prevention counseling services.
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Establishes pilot program for integrated system of treatment for opioid use disorders.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.
"New Jersey Intergenerational Poverty Reduction Act."
Establishes various initiatives to expand availability of medication-assisted treatment.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor public places.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Requires Medicaid preferred drug lists to provide for coverage of buprenorphine for treatment of chronic pain.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Requires availability of free parking at polling places on election day.
Requires municipality to provide free beach access to certain veterans.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Creates program for installing standby emergency power generators in new senior housing.
Provides medical cannabis dispensaries permitted use status in certain zoning districts.
Requires initial Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare eligibility determinations to be made not later than 21 days following application submission; provides that NJ FamilyCare coverage is terminated whenever required premium is not paid for three consecutive month
Bans manufacture, sale, possession, importation, transportation, or use of certain traps.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to facilitate establishment of four new recovery community centers.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
"Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral Act"; allows certain seniors to defer property tax payments.
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies from charging certain fees and including certain provisions in contracts with consumers.
Requires insurance coverage of diapers when medically necessary.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.
Requires provision of instruction on safe user practices for certain websites and mobile applications as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act," requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers and mobile application developers from disclosing customer's location data to third parties.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.
Requires assisted living residences and certain facilities under DCA, DCF, and DHS to be equipped with standby emergency power generators.
Establishes New Jersey Dietary Supplements Task Force to make recommendations concerning safety and regulation of dietary supplements sold in New Jersey.
Prohibits service repair contractors from charging hourly rates for travel time.
Establishes entrepreneur-in-residence pilot program.
Provides for screening newborn infants for genetic mutations associated with hereditary hemochromatosis.
Realigns the transfer inheritance tax payment due date to coincide with the payment due dates for federal estate taxes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support public humanities programming in NJ.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Permits school districts to employ safe schools resource officers or Class Three special law enforcement officers for security purposes, and requires school districts to have agreement with local law enforcement governing placement of school security pers
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Requires board of education to provide civics instruction in middle schools and requires DOE to provide funding to NJ Center for Civic Education at Rutgers to help prepare civics teachers.
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
"New Jersey Fair Workweek Act."
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Requires public water systems to provide certain notice of boil water notices and violations of drinking water quality standards.
Requires 30-day grace period prior to accrual of interest on late water and sewer bill payments.
Requires retirement subdivision and retirement community to install electrical generator to provide electricity to common use area to be used as shelter in case of emergency.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.
Establishes civil action for damages for injury or death of certain animals in certain circumstances.
Requires movie theaters to provide effective communication devices for individuals with visual or hearing impairment; expands protections under "Law Against Discrimination."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Conditions fiscal year 2020 appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of $250,000 to Board of Nursing to process and eliminate home health aide application backlog.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Authorizes public libraries to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by librarian or other trained library employee.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.
Creates civil service preference for peacetime veterans.
Allows therapy dogs in rental housing units; expands protection under "Law against Discrimination."
Requires Office of Information Technology to establish centralized, one-stop website resource guide to assist persons in navigating the State's developmental disability service system.
Permits municipalities to require registration of vacant and abandoned properties and use registration fee proceeds to maintain these properties.
Expands membership and responsibilities of State Council of Developmental Disabilities.
Requires law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, and State Parole Board to adopt maternity policies.
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Providing gross income tax exclusion for awards for unlawful gender-based compensation discrimination.
Criminalizes act of "stealthing"; removing or tampering with condom during sexual activity without consent of one's sexual partner.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Requires certain employees and candidates for public school employment or service and youth camp employees to undergo child abuse record information check.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross tax returns for New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research.
Provides that unlawful use, manufacture, or distribution of controlled dangerous substance by parent or caregiver in presence of child constitutes crime of endangering welfare of that child.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for epinephrine for persons aged 18 or younger.
Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, on climate change.
Increases number of home health aide service hours provided to individual with disabilities residing on post-secondary school campus following initial assessment; Requires reassessment every six months.
Provides that persons between 18 and 21 years of age with disabilities are eligible to receive direct support professional services from DHS.
Requires certain State projects to be designed and managed to include sustainable landscapes.
Authorizes DEP rulemaking to prevent backsliding of certain State environmental regulations due to changes in federal law or regulation.
Requires certain public utilities to provide customers notice of certain utility work that could impact traffic.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone for pain treatment without step therapy or fail-first protocols.
Requires licensure of dog trainers.
Limits use of student progress on standardized assessments to no more than 10 percent of overall evaluation.
Requires reporting of certain attempted and completed suicides by minors.
Requires employers to provide paid leave to employees to vote in certain circumstances.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Directs New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastucture strategic plan.
Provides CBT and gross income tax credit for certain capital investments in film production facility.
Eliminates requirement to be without health insurance for three months prior to enrolling in NJ FamilyCare.
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
Requires State to reimburse counties for costs paid for maintenance of county patients in State psychiatric hospitals who are eligible for federal Medicare or Medicaid coverage.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning Period of PURPLE Crying program and shaken baby syndrome.
Establishes "Count the Kicks" public awareness campaign.
Establishes crime of possessing firearm during public demonstration for purpose of causing civil disorder.
Requires annual suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Requires reporting of first responder suicides to DOH.
The "Digital Impersonation Prevention Act."
Requires transportation network company to provide live customer service representative and certain notification to riders.
Revises eligibility for convicted drug offenders to receive general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Requires DOE to maintain list of textbook vendors that use inclusive material and school districts to use textbooks from those vendors.
Increases dedication of certain revenues to "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account."
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.
Requires four-year institutions of higher education to offer accelerated three-year baccalaureate degree programs.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Creates a civil cause of action for stalking.
Requires certain drones to contain geo-fencing technology; makes violation a fourth degree crime.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
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.
Limits rescheduling, cancellation, and no-show fees providers of health care services may charge in certain instances.
Requires MVC to check Social Security Administration records and mark deceased individuals in MVC database once per month.
Requires State employees to be trained in disability law and etiquette.
Establishes five-year housing advisory plan.
Requires replacement of the terms "mother" and "father" with the terms "parent or guardian" on all State blanks, forms, documents, and applications.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Provides that denial of services based on a person's disability or perceived disability by domestic violence shelters is unlawful discrimination.
Provides anti-stigmatization protections to public school student whose school breakfast or school lunch bill is in arrears and requires school district to communicate about arrearages to parent and not to student.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Bars enforcement of provision in decedent's will that would require euthanasia of healthy domestic companion animal.
Authorizes direct shipping by craft distilleries.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires institutions of higher education and public and nonpublic high schools and middle schools to adopt anti-hazing policies; expands activities encompassing criminal hazing and upgrades penalties for engaging in these activities.
Prevents parent found by clear and convincing evidence to have committed sexual assault resulting in birth of child from having custody or visitation; provides for termination of parental rights.
Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to provide $25 million of Expanded Addiction Initiatives appropriation to services for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Permits voter registration at age 16, under certain conditions.
Waives pet adoption fees for certain military personnel and veterans.
Revises requirements for signage indicating accessible facilities for people with disabilities.
Establishes circumstances when court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim in civil action for damages from sexual assault.
Establishes circumstances under which court may order physical or psychological examination of sexual assault victim.
Concerns transportation of persons who are under influence of drugs to medical facility by law enforcement officers.
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.
Permits wineries to operate salesrooms in certain municipalities with restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.
"New Jersey Disclosure and Accountability Transparency Act (NJ DaTA) establishes certain requirements for disclosure and processing of personally identifiable information; establishes Office of Data Protection and Responsible Use in Division of Consumer A
Designates New Jersey Commuter Pass Credit Act; provides for temporary gross income tax credit for certain commuting passes.
Requires municipalities to share certain payments in lieu of property taxes with school districts; informs counties, school districts, and DCA of certain information related to property tax exemptions and abatements.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Eliminates certain aviation fuel tax exemptions; provides funding for aviation capital projects.
Permits minors 13 years of age and older to consent to behavioral health care services.
Requires school districts to provide feminine hygiene products in certain public schools and requires State to pay costs.
Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.
Exempts parking spaces reserved for persons with a disability from meters or fees.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Allows persons diagnosed with autism to voluntarily enter medical information in MVC database and make notation on driver's licenses, permits, and non-driver identification cards.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support historic preservation.
Permits New Jersey Council on the Arts to develop and promote historical mural program and program for 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence.
Requires DHS and other appropriate state agencies to disseminate information on transportation options for persons with developmental disabilities.
Provides for establishment of three-year pilot program to expand provision of paratransit services in New Jersey.
Requires school district transportation supervisor to conduct monthly school bus condition inspection of contractors' buses and check for valid school bus driver's license.
Provides list of various assessments to satisfy State high school graduation proficiency test requirement.
Upgrades penalty for unlawful possession of certain firearms on grounds of an educational institution.
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.
"New Jersey Sexual Assault Violence in Education Act"; requires institutions of higher education to adopt anti-sexual assault theater program, report allegations of sexual assault to county prosecutor, and provide students with information on sexual assau
Requires public agency receiving State funds to post on website use of State funds for public work contracts with minority, women, and veteran owned business.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
Requires meeting between student and appropriate school personnel after multiple suspensions or proposed expulsion from public school to identify behavior or health difficulties.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.
Provides for process to vacate and expunge, as applicable, arrests, charges, complaints, convictions, or other dispositions, as well as DNA records, associated with violations of law committed by person while victim of human trafficking.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
"Prescription Drug Consumer Transparency Act."
"Free Means Free Act"; prohibits misleading advertising of free products.
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Directs Secretary of State to study wait times at polling places during a general election.
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $5 million for New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program.
Requires cost disclosures by health care providers under certain circumstances; applies certain restrictions to charges for medical supplies.
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.
Requires DEP to establish and maintain searchable database of lead service lines.
Establishes additional requirements for operation and oversight of animal shelters, pounds, and kennels operating as shelters or pounds.
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Permits school districts to define excused absences from school to include illness based on student's mental or behavioral health and requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for defining excused absence for this reason.
"New Jersey Predatory Alienation Prevention and Consensual Response Act."
Prohibits retail motor fuel dealer from charging a credit card customer in excess of four percent above the purchase price for same fuel sold to customer paying by cash.
Requires restaurant employees to receive periodic sexual harassment training.
Prohibits taking of fur-bearing small game at family entertainment events, and organizing, sponsoring, promoting, conducting, or participating in such events.
Requires public schools to comply with more stringent school lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA in 2012.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.
Prohibits sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of victim's home or workplace.
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes.
Addresses elder abuse in domestic settings under "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991."
Permits victims and witnesses of human trafficking to testify in criminal proceedings via closed circuit television; permits judge to make motion to seek closed circuit testimony.
Establishes security standards for judicial hearings at mental health facilities.
Expands crime of human trafficking to include individuals who benefit financially.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Establishes four-year Career and Technical Education Partnership Grant Program.
Establishes "New Jersey Alzheimer's Disease Master Plan Study Commission."
Requires access to certain single-occupancy restrooms regardless of gender identity.
Requires State Capitol Joint Management Commission display representation of Alice Paul in State Capitol building.
Provides that persons between 18 and 21 years of age with disabilities are eligible to receive direct support professional services from DHS.
Requires DEP to establish maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
Increases, from 18 percent to 30 percent, amount of rental payments defined as rent constituting property taxes for purposes of deduction from gross income for property tax payments.
Provides for funds received from opioid litigation or settlements to be dedicated for use in financing substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs and services in New Jersey.
Requires DCF and DOE to provide certain child abuse and neglect services or information remotely or through distance learning mechanisms.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support healthcare education.
Requires health care facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke via use of smoke evacuation system.
Designates State Highway Route 72 as "Burlington-Ocean Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for home childbirth.
Requires EDA to provide low interest loans to qualified small businesses and not-for-profit corporations during state of emergency declared by Governor.
Establishes "Long-Term Care Facility Infectious Disease Preparedness and Home Health Care Study Commission."
Provides gross income tax credit to health care workers or first responders involved in COVID-19 response.
Provides gross income tax deduction for volunteers of New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps that serve at least 150 hours during public health emergency.
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Establishes toll free helpline for first responders, health care workers, and other frontline workers experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.
Establishes Jersey Shore Safety and Economy Task Force.
Requires DOBI to promote Consumer Inquiry and Response Center during coronavirus 2019 pandemic.
Establishes School Connectivity Grant Program to expand access to online instruction for economically disadvantaged students; makes appropriation.
Establishes task force to study the impact of and response to COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey.
Requires hospitals and long-term care facilities to maintain 90-day supply of personal protection equipment during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Permits court to order transfer of billing responsibility for, and rights to, wireless telephone number to certain victims of domestic violence or stalking.
Establishes insulin assistance program.
Protects health care professionals from retaliatory action by employers and permits health care professionals to refuse to perform certain services onsite at certain times during ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning programs and services for first responders, healthcare workers, and other frontline workers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder during COVID-19 pandemic.
Protects health care professionals from retaliatory action by employers during ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Establishes one-time payment program in Department of Treasury for aid for certain eligible taxpayers; appropriates $35 million.
Requires health care facilities to screen health care workers, first responders, and other frontline workers for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires processing of nutrition assistance program benefits via telephone or at point of delivery for grocery delivery service during public health emergency.
Provides gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations during COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; directs establishment of certain clean energy and energy efficiency programs for overburdened communities.
Requires school psychologists and school counselors to complete mental health first aid training.
Establishes loan redemption program and gross income tax credit for mental health professionals who serve children and adolescents.
Requires reimbursement rate for health care services provided using telehealth and telemedicine equal reimbursement rate for services provided in person.
Concerns earned sick leave benefits.
Codifies and expands Medicaid coverage for certain school-based services.
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150% of Medicare.
Clarifies residential occupancy regulations apply to short-term rentals during COVID-19 pandemic.
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to qualify.
Requires NJT to administer program to adopt paratransit best practices, requires greater coordination among paratransit service providers, and establishes regional paratransit coordinating councils; appropriates $4 million.
Permits extension of alcoholic beverage license term during COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes COVID-19 Frontline Mental Health Claims Program in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS and makes appropriation.
Establishes temporary Pandemic PTSD Task Force.
Require DOH to develop uniform social distancing signage to be displayed in all State and local government buildings.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to certain businesses providing annual physical and mental health screenings to full-time and part-time employees.
Establishes crime of strangulation chokehold.
Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
Requires State agencies to perform racial and ethnic health care impact assessments for proposed rules related to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19.
Creates "Manufacturing Reboot Program" in EDA to provide financial assistance to certain manufacturing businesses; makes $10 million appropriation to EDA.
Requires MVC to review certain services and provide certain services online.
Requires DHS to perform study regarding status of training and certification opportunities for direct support professionals.
Expands NJ FamilyCare to ensure healthcare benefits are available to all uninsured children under 19 years of age who live in New Jersey; appropriates $3 million for outreach, enrollment, and retention regarding NJ FamilyCare.
Requires hospitals to establish sensory friendly treatment and waiting rooms in emergency department settings.
Establishes Frontline Health Care Worker Loan Forgiveness Program.
Establishes "Support for Victims of Domestic Violence Program"; incentivizes certain businesses to provide support to individuals who are victims of domestic violence.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
Requires DOE to provide funds to school districts for acquisition of technology devices to address digital divide and requires districts to reimburse DOE from available federal funds.
Requires NJT to provide protective face covering to passengers without protective face covering; appropriates $100,000.
Requires school districts to include instruction on significance of Juneteenth Independence Day as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
Requires DHS, DOH, and DCF, in consultation with each other and various other interested parties, to develop public emergency response plan for licensed providers of services to individuals with disabilities.
Requires death certificates to include drug responsible for drug overdose death under certain circumstances.
Provides certain employment protections for working parents due to school closure during state of emergency and public health emergency.
Requires 11th grade students to complete civics course as part of high school graduation requirements.
Increases protections for domestic violence victims as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Requires school districts to provide virtual or remote instruction for beginning of 2020-2021 school year; permits in-person delivery of certain special education services; permits school districts to delay start of 2020-2021 school year.
Establishes civil action for abuse, neglect, exploitation or bullying of minor or adult with disability; provides that bullying of vulnerable adult may constitute grounds for investigation by adult protective services and report to law enforcement.
Excludes sanitizing products from sales tax for remainder of COVID-19 public health emergency.
Reduces standard voter registration deadline to eight days before election; allows voter registration at polling place on election day and at offices where mail-in ballots are issued within 45 days before election.
Requires employers to allow certain employees to work remotely or receive alternative accommodations during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse residential customer for cost of food and prescription medicine spoiled or compromised as a result of sustained electric service outage.
Requires closure of schools in school districts within county that reaches certain COVID-19 transmission rate or experiences certain increase in COVID-19 cases during 2020-2021 school year.
Directs NJ Department of Agriculture to request necessary waivers from US Department of Agriculture to provide food and meals during school closures due to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse customer for cost of spoiled food and prescription medicine resulting from service outage more than 48 hours after end of storm.
Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.
Revises requirements concerning disqualification from registration as, and duties of, a professional guardian.
Establishes New Jersey Baby Bond Account Program.
Revises law prohibiting feeding of black bear.
Requires health insurance carriers to categorize mental health treatment and therapy received by victim of domestic violence as medically necessary treatment and provide full benefits coverage therefor.
Requires refunds for payments made to venues for events canceled due to coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and caps additional venue charges at no more than rate of inflation for rescheduled events.
Establishes Safe Remote Learning Program in DOE to support provision of remote instruction facilities by public schools.
Requires NJTA and SJTA to extend payment period for violations of electronic toll collection monitoring system, commonly known as E-ZPass, during COVID-19 public health emergency and state of emergency.
Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether child has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
"Personal Protective Equipment Insecurity Act"; requires Commissioner of Human Services to provide recipients of SNAP with stipend for personal protective equipment; appropriates $5 million from Coronavirus Relief Fund to DHS.
Prohibits certain utilities and authorities from increasing rates and assessing late or restoration fees or charges during and within 180 days after major public health emergency.
Appropriates $10 million to EDA to assist certain nonprofit arts and cultural organizations negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits employers from inquiring about gender of job applicants under certain circumstances.
Establishes child care costs reimbursement grant program in DCF; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for treatment of mental health conditions and substance use disorders through collaborative care.
Requires DHS and DCF to administer Emergency Child Care Assistance Program for duration of COVID-19 pandemic and expands program to include teachers and other school staff.
Allocates all revenue from hotel and motel occupancy fee for arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes.
Establishes Task Force on Child Care Deserts in New Jersey.
Exempts persons with disabilities and persons who are homeless from payment of identification card fees.
Requires each county to establish Reentry, Mental Health, and Addiction Services Coordination Committee to facilitate coordinated provision of mental health, addiction and reentry services to county residents.
Waives the issuance and renewal fees for certain alcoholic beverage manufacturing licenses during COVID-19 pandemic.
Authorizes criminal history record background checks of employees and volunteers of nonprofit domestic violence victim serving organizations.
Exempts personal protective equipment from sales and use tax.
Authorizes any member of the Legislature to perform all functions of notary public.
Authorizes pharmacists to administer coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) medications.
Requires DOH to establish certain nursing education and professional advancement programs.
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.
Expands epinephrine access laws to include epinephrine nasal sprays.
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain education and child care expenditures incurred by taxpayers with qualifying children engaged in virtual or remote instruction because of COVID-19 pandemic.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax during public health emergencies.
Expands authority of pharmacists to administer vaccines during outbreaks of communicable diseases.
Requires State Police to biannually report to Legislature number of sex offenders who fail to register as required by Megan's Law.
Requires certain students to complete annual school climate survey on bullying and harassment.
Establishes "PPE Resource Planning Unit" in Office of Emergency Management; requires Office of Emergency Management to maintain 90-day supply of personal protective equipment for use in declared emergency; appropriates $20 million.
Establishes COVID-19 Local Food Pantry Assistance Grant Program in DHS; appropriates $4 million.
Increases penalty for failing to register as sex offender for more than 24 months.
Requires adoption of policy addressing job-related issues of pregnant firefighters.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt pregnancy policy for law enforcement officers.
Provides for accidental death benefit if death of TPAF member is caused by COVID-19.
Prohibits State-sponsored travel to certain states without protections against discrimination based on sex, gender identity or expression, and affectional or sexual orientation.
Establishes "New Jersey Transit Bus Riders' Bill of Rights."
Imposes gross receipts tax on firearms and firearms ammunition.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of electronic cigarette usage as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring officer applicants removed from office by former agency for police misconduct.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Updates definition of veteran to include discharged LGBTQ veteran; requires DMVA develop review process for such veterans.
Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal anxiety.
Requires vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be reported to New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism produce and make available on its Internet site tourism advertising and promotion videos.
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales; increases fees for cigarette and vapor business licensure.
Requires DOH to conduct study on causes of youth suicide.
Requires DHS to conduct study of residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment availability provided under Medicaid, and to temporarily suspend Medicaid prior and continuing authorization requirements for short-term residential substance use
Requires DOE to develop transition checklist for students with disabilities; requires DOE to maintain information on website concerning transition resources.
Creates task force to study feasibility of paperless State government.
Extends period for expanded use of telemedicine and telehealth services for duration of declared COVID-19 public health emergency and provides for additional health benefits coverage.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Requires 11th grade students to complete civics course as part of high school graduation requirements.
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $180 million to DCF and DHS for increased rates for social service providers in financial distress due to coronavirus disease 2019 public health crisis.
Requires publication of guide for licensure as integrated care facility; assigns DOH and DHS employees to communicate with facilities.
Establishes pilot programs for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health and 24-hour county substance use disorder crisis centers; revises requirements to become authorized medication-assisted treatment provider; appropriates $7 million.
Requires DHS to establish two-year Regional Community Behavioral Health Pilot Program.
Requires DOH to establish Community Health Center Integrated Care Loan Program; appropriates funds for purposes of loan program.
Establishes pilot program to refer certain emergency department patients for development of coordinated behavioral health care treatment and support services plan.
Provides that disability-owned businesses be included in certain business development programs, direct loan programs, and certification processes; requires Chief Diversity Officer compile information on awarding of State contracts to disability-owned busi
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Requires access to law enforcement disciplinary records as government records; requires such records to be retained for certain period of time.
Increases transparency and accountability for NJT and independence of NJT board members; establishes Office of Customer Advocate; requires greater detail for capital program.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership of certain boards of directors.
Requires racial and gender diversity in membership to be considered for appointments to certain boards and commissions established by statute.
Prohibits Internet service providers from increasing service rates during public health emergency or state of emergency; requires Internet service providers to notify subscribers six months in advance of service rate increase.
Requires adoption of and training on anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy by certain campaign committees; creates Office on Discrimination and Harassment Prevention; appropriates $2,000,000.
Requires DOC to report certain information concerning halfway houses.
Requires sign language interpreters for sessions and committee meetings of Legislature.
Create COVID-19 Memorial Commission.
Requires Palliative Care and Hospice Care Advisory Council to conduct study on impact of palliative and hospice care on patient's family.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse customers for up to $500 for spoiled food and full cost of spoiled medicine resulting from lengthy service outage following major event.
Requires health insurance coverage of at-home rehabilitation services.
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Requires biennial inspection of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Establishes Digital Divide Solutions Grant Program in DOE to assist public schools in purchase of connected devices and Internet access for students during periods of remote instruction.
Prohibits certain surgical procedures on children born with variations in their sex characteristics.
Requires commercial Internet websites and online services to notify consumers of collection and disclosure of personally identifiable information and allows consumers to opt out.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Provides certain deceptive practices in advertising of pregancy-related violate consumer fraud act.
Broadens eligibility for gross income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Provides certain protections for pandemic financial assistance.
Requires induction loop listening system installation in certain buildings open to public upon new construction or substantial renovation.
Requires financial institutions to release records to adult protective services when suspecting fraud of vulnerable adult or senior customer; allows adult protective service to release same records to law enforcement agency if necessary.
Allows current and former judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers and certain family or household members to register to vote without disclosing residential address; prohibits public disclosure of that information.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
Establishes "Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State.
Requires health care professionals to order bi-lateral ultrasounds concurrently when ordering mammograms; requires insurers to cover concurrent mammograms and bi-lateral ultrasounds.
Requires Internet websites and mobile applications obtain affirmative consent from user before changing terms-of-service agreement.
Establishes Core Behavioral Health Crisis Services System.
Directs referral of certain persons under 18 for determination of status as socially or economically disadvantaged youth.
Establishes pilot program in certain municipalities to make grants available to non-profit organizations to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking.
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Legalizes growing or possessing up to six marijuana plants for personal recreational use, and up to 10 plants for personal medical use, by persons aged 21 or older.
Expands continuing education requirements for nurses.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for postpartum women.
Authorizes creation of childhood cancer awareness license plates.
Provides paid leave of absence to employees of public institutions of higher education for certain circumstances related to COVID-19.
Provides paid leave of absence to public school employees for certain circumstances related to COVID-19.
Establishes one-time grant to study and recommend best practices for encouraging youth participation in government.
Establishes loan redemption program for licensed mental health professionals.
Creates Mental Illness Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.
Establishes permanent unit in Office of Emergency Management to address access and functional needs of residents related to disasters and emergencies.
Authorizes creation of Student Movement Against Cancer license plates.
Directs Commissioner of Education to establish New Jersey Equity in Education Initiative, appropriates $2,000,000.
Establishes "Gambling Treatment Diversion Court Pilot Program" to be administered by AOC.
"New Jersey COVID-19 Working Families Childcare Access Act"; temporarily revises criteria to determine applicant income eligibility regarding child care subsidies.
Creates commission to coordinate job training and retraining to develop workforce post-coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $12.5 million to DHS to increase NJ FamilyCare managed care reimbursement rate for Applied Behavior Analysis.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Extends expiration date of wheelchair symbol license plates and person with disability identification cards during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warning be printed on tampon package.
Establishes criminal penalties for production and display of false COVID-19 vaccination card.
Requires certain homemaker-home health aides to be certified or trained to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Establishes "Home Repair and Modification for Aging Parents Program"; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes COVID-19 Emergency Medical Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes the "New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Commission' and appropriates $9 million.
Permits exemption from certain civil service examinations for person with disability.
Defines anti-Semitism for certain civil or criminal purposes.
Requires AG to establish uniform police training curriculum.
Establishes Crisis Response Support Program to make mental health services available to police departments responding to certain emergencies; appropriates $2,000,000.
Establishes healthcare careers pilot program for certain institutions of higher education and proprietary institutions.
Requires State Treasurer to collect and study certain demographic information on corporate boards and in senior management.
Provides temporary deduction for food and beverage establishments from certain sales and use tax remittances.
Creates sexual assault prevention and response program and coordinator for service members.
Provides for free mental health screen tool and reimbursements to certain mental health care providers; appropriates $15 million from available federal funds.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care staff and registered family day care providers.
Establishes criminal penalties for production, sale, and use of false COVID-19 vaccination verification card; requires AG to establish COVID-19 vaccination fraud prevention program.
Provides tax credits to qualified small employers in industries impacted by COVID-19 emergency.
Clarifies that any State entity that issues professional or occupational licenses will not require individuals to demonstrate lawful presence in New Jersey to obtain professional or occupational licensure.
Provides tax credits to small employers that rehire employees laid off for reasons of economy due to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases.
Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to develop career and education guide for postsecondary students disabilities.
Requires certain law enforcement officers be periodically vetted for evidence of personal bias.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt uniform standards for licensing police officers.
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for programs providing mental health, substance use treatment, or services to persons with developmental disabilities.
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.
Makes $1.3 billion in federal funds available to DEP for use in New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program for lead service line replacement projects.
Permits use of preferred names on student diplomas.
Establishes cause of action for residents of assisted living facilities and comprehensive personal care home providers.
Establishes "Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Affairs."
Prioritizes distribution of 9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund monies; permits use of funds for certain expenses incurred by counties and municipalities for the provision and maintenance of 9-1-1 emergency services.
Permits persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to have MVC note that designation on certain MVC-issued documents.
Requires award of Edna Mahan trauma credits to inmates incarcerated during period of investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by correctional police officers and staff.
Increases, over three years, Medicaid per diem rate for certain assisted living residences, comprehensive care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.
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Provides act of domestic violence or child endangerment committed during state of emergency may be classified one degree higher than underlying offense.
Prohibits cancellation or nonrenewal of certain insurance policies and insurance premium finance agreements for a period of at least 60 days under certain circumstances after declaration of public health emergency, or state of emergency, or both.*
Expands opportunities for restaurants, bars, distilleries, and breweries to provide outdoor dining and permits certain sales at seasonal farm markets in response to COVID-19 public health emergency.