Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
DeAnne C. DeFuccio
Sponsored
In committee2
Permits police officers to be assigned to polling places located at public schools.
Requires school districts include instruction on cursive signatures.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke via use of smoke evacuation system.*
Provides for expedited construction inspections.*
Requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental health services.
Provides that certain cosmetology and hairstyling courses may be taught using distance learning technology.
Requires health insurers to cover colorectal cancer screenings recommended by United States Preventive Services Task Force and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for certain colonoscopies.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2023.
Establishes mentorship program for new businesses and start-ups.
Promotes small business Internet presence.
Vetoed · 1
Creates "Community Wealth Preservation Program"; expands access for certain buyers to purchase property from sheriff's sales.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires ingredients of menstrual products to be listed on package.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Establishes process for formation of professional limited liability companies.
Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Out of committee · 14
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee." *
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.*
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.
Permits excused absences for students who attend civic events.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations.
Requires reporting of certain attempted and completed suicides by minors.
Establishes Animal Advocate Program in AOC. *
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Directs DOE to develop New Jersey Student Learning Standards in information literacy.*
Establishes School Safety and Security Task Force.
In committee · 53
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Requires DOH to conduct study on causes of youth suicide.
Requires public schools to post curriculum plans online; requires school districts to make textbooks or other materials used in implementing curriculum plans available for inspection by parents and legal guardians.
Requires State employees work in person if job requires face-to-face interaction with public; requires State agency provide alternatives if closure is unpreventable.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Requires New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education include content on risks of cannabis.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for costs of exemption.
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.
Gradually reduces CBT rate.
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.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning Period of PURPLE Crying program and shaken baby syndrome.
Increases qualified research expenses tax credit for corporation business taxpayers engaged in targeted industries; increases basic research payment tax credit; allows research tax credit to be refundable.
Expands crime of human trafficking to include individuals who benefit financially.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
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.
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.
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2020-2021 school year.
"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.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Requires menstrual products include ingredient list; requires toxic shock syndrome warnings be printed on tampon package.
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 events commemorating September 11, 2001.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Requires school bus drivers to submit to biannual testing for drugs and alcohol.
Establishes independent State Office of Consumer.
Concerns availability of fire escape mechanisms in residential dwellings; provides penalty for violation.
Retains organ donor designation upon renewal and issuance of certain documents.
Requires long-term care facilities to stock and provide COVID-19 antiviral treatments to residents.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
Creates offense of tracking for unlawful purpose; imposes enhanced penalties.
Exempts egg cartons from law prohibiting polystyrene foam food service products.
Requires DEP and owners of certain reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures; authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs levels in response to severe weather events.
Requires school districts that offer student psychological services to offer remote sessions.
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.
Requires appropriate official file information on deaths in county with county clerk; provides additional ways for transferring deceased voter's record to Statewide voter registration system's death file.
Removes prohibition on police presence at ballot drop boxes and polling places.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Requires State employer to ascertain child abuse or sexual misconduct in employment applications for certain positions involving children; requires background checks for current and prospective employees.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of purchasing and installing whole house backup electrical generator for resident taxpayer's principal residence.
Clarifies spitting in law enforcement officer's food or drink constitutes aggravated assault; requires certain sanctions on restaurant employees who commit this crime.
Establishes matching grant program in DOE for school districts to implement high-impact tutoring programs addressing learning loss due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Expands definition of basic life support to include blood glucose monitoring.
Lowers age at which certain insurers are required to provide coverage for mammograms.
"Fully Funding Schools and Cutting Property Taxes Act"; repeals certain sections of law; requires additional aid to lower property taxes commensurate with residents' ability to support schools; appropriates $2.9 billion.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Concerns recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters; appropriates $2 million.
Prohibits sale, offer for sale, or conveyance of certain electric vehicle batteries and of electric vehicles having certain batteries; establishes penalties for violators.