Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Edward Durr
Sponsored
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Prohibits certain entities from requesting or requiring provision of personal health information.
Requires DMVA to assist service members discharged solely due to COVID-19 vaccination status with petition to change discharge designation.
Prohibits mandatory use of medical devices by minors without informed parental consent.
Bans abortion procedures 12 weeks or more after fertilization.
Eliminates automatic adjustments of petroleum products taxes.
Requires each guardian of incapacitated persons to provide consent in order for incapacitated persons to obtain vaccinations and booster vaccinations against COVID-19.
Prohibits use of State funds for termination of pregnancy under certain circumstances.
Eliminates justifiable need requirement to obtain permit to carry handgun; requires comprehensive training to obtain handgun carry permit.
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.
Prohibits discrimination against corrections workers, first responders, and health care workers who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine or booster.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for veterinarian expenses.
Establishes the "Homeschool Parent's Bill of Rights."
Prohibits restrictions or requirements concerning control or ownership of dogs based solely on breed or size.
Requires State agency to identify at least two existing rules for repeal for every one new rule adopted.
Repeals P.L.2021, c.375, concerning abortion and other matters.
"Gas Price and Inflation Tax Credit Act."
Prohibits DEP from demolishing or requiring removal of certain cabins or similar structures located in certain tidal wetlands.
Allows gross income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Establishes "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
Establishes NJ Military Family Relief Fund; provides for designation on State gross income tax return to permit taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to military family relief fund.
Establishes young driver program for commercial driver licences.
Allows honorably discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces or National Guard to carry handgun.
Allows active duty members of United States military to carry firearm at all times.
Removes capacity limit for ammunition magazines.
Repeals "Extreme Risk Protective Order Act of 2018."
Establishes special license plates for fire police officers.
Requires MVC to provide motorcycle licenses and certain license plates to certain veterans free of charge.
Prohibits electric and gas public utilities from collecting payment from residential budget billing plan customers whose service was interrupted as a result of major emergency event.
Requires NJEDA to establish "Value-added Agriculture Loan Program" to assist farmers in developing value-added products.
Prohibits elected officers of municipality from accepting employment with municipality in which they hold office.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Requires consent of both parents or guardians of minor for health care treatment under certain circumstances.
Requires MVC to authorize use of third-party vendors in administration of commercial driver license testing.
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding military personnel.
Requires MVC to waive knowledge test requirement for certain military service members who apply for commercial driver license.
Requires DOT to consult Department of Agriculture and County Agriculture Development Boards when developing transportation capital project list.
Permits purchase of more than one handgun in 30-day period.
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
Establishes grant program in DOE to promote responsible gun ownership; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of firearms education program.
Enhances self-defense protections.
Removes restrictions on the sale and possession of BB guns and certain firearm components; removes requirements for private firearm transfers.
Concerns certain sale and possession of firearms; repeals personalized handgun law.
Limits effects of law on changes in control of hotels and disruptions of hotel services to hotels with more than 350 rooms.
Clarifies that BB guns are not firearms under New Jersey law.
"Informed Consent for Vaccination Act"; revises requirements for administration of vaccines to patients.
Prohibits health care professional licensing boards from restricting or taking adverse disciplinary action for prescribing certain COVID-19 treatments.
Prohibits school districts from incorporating instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in grades kindergarten through six; requires consent from parents or guardians for students in grades seven through 12 for instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Provides gross income tax deduction for senior citizens for certain medical expenses for in-home care or care in assisted living and long-term care facilities and funeral expenses.
Establishes Textbook Grant Program for State Interns.
Eliminates requirements for public school students to take health and physical education courses.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Requires issuance of handgun carry permit to elected officials with firearms training.
Requires court to order financial support for child if child's parent or guardian is killed by drunk driver.
Establishes permit to transport handgun in motor vehicle anywhere in this State; creates training program.
Removes State Police as point of contact for firearm purchase background checks; requires firearm retailers to contact FBI to initiate background checks.
Reduces waiting period between handgun purchases from 30 to 14 days.
Expands maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.
Authorizes voluntary donation of expired food or food waste to farmers; authorizes donations if farmer waives liability.
Subjects teachers and school districts to penalties for teaching critical race theory.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes Choice District Student Openings Grant Program to expand number of student openings in choice districts.
Requires driver's license or nondriver identification card and Social Security card to vote; changes general election voter registration deadline; requires mail-in ballots be received at least 7 days before election.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
Repeals law that prohibits certain establishments from providing or selling various single-use products to customers.
Requires each State agency to reduce paper usage; requires public forms, documents, applications, and instructions be available on State agency website.
Provides for additional considerations in child custody determinations and training for certain judicial employees.
Requires State Police to maintain 24-hour hotline for receiving anonymous tips regarding potential threats to school safety and security.
Provides that school district may not prohibit active or retired law enforcement officer or registered security officer from carrying firearm in performance of school security duties if authorized under State law to carry.
Directs Attorney General to establish program for anonymous reporting of potential threats to school safety.
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.
Requires Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare managed care organizations to offer patient-centered medical home model or other alternative payment model to primary care providers.
Establishes loan redemption program and gross income tax credit for mental health professionals who serve children and adolescents.
Requires public referendum prior to local boards of education adopting or altering public school curriculum.
Concerning noncitizens voting in local elections and conduct in office by local government officers.
Prohibits requiring masks for individuals with certain medical conditions in places of public accommodation.
Prohibits employers from imposing costs for personal protective equipment and medical procedures on employees.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Establishes school security position pilot program and provides exemption from gross income for certain pilot program volunteers.
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.
Temporarily expands summer working hours for certain minors.
Allows farm operators to accelerate depreciation of certain expenditures under corporation business and gross income taxes.
Establishes offense of targeted picketing of residence.
Allows tax credits for supermarkets with dedicated displays for Jersey Fresh products.
Provides tax credits equal to cost of Jersey Fresh products purchased by breweries and wineries to be used in production of beer or wine.
Renames pinelands area as "John McPhee pinelands area."
Prohibits construction of commercial or industrial buildings within certain distance of residential homes without homeowner approval; requires development of waiver form to allow construction of commercial or industrial buildings.
Establishes pilot program to provide training at no cost to certain persons seeking firearms purchaser identification card, permit to purchase handgun, or permit to carry handgun.
Gives school districts discretion in allowing or prohibiting retired law enforcement officers from carrying handguns on school grounds while in performance of their duties.
Designates September 11 of each year "September 11 Remembrance Day."
Expands function of Commission on Human Trafficking to include promoting coordinated response by law enforcement to human trafficking.
Permits waiver of certain police licensing requirements.
Requires certain training for issuance of permit to carry handgun; eliminates justifiable need standard.
Allows firearm carry permit holder to transport handgun in a holster while operating motor vehicle; removes statutory justifiable need requirement.
Allows certain persons to carry handgun on private property unless expressly prohibited by property owner; removes statutory justifiable need requirement.
Establishes "Child Protection and Anti-Mutilation Act."
Prohibits advertisement of abortion providers in all school districts.
Establishes review period and back-out period for nursing home contracts.
Requires allocation of Universal Service Fund to support emergency medical technician and firefighter training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Requires electric vehicle battery facilities to affix sign developed and produced by DEP to all facility entrances as notification that electric vehicle batteries are on-site.
Requires MVC to issue license plate decals for identification of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Directs BPU to study development of, and create pilot program for, construction of small modular nuclear reactor.
Establishes program for certain individuals to be certified as homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
Establishes New Jersey Educational Empowerment Grant Program; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes matching grant program in DOE for school districts to implement high-impact tutoring programs addressing learning loss due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Creates temporary grant program for electric vehicle fire suppression technology.
Repeals Isolated Confinement Restriction Act.
Exempts cribs, child restraint systems, nursing bottles, and strollers from sales and use tax.
Establishes New Jersey Property Tax Relief and Education Empowerment Program to provide both property tax relief to citizens and educational grants to certain students enrolled in nonpublic schools.
Exempts sales of pet food and medication purchased for pets from sales and use tax.
Provides corporation business and gross income tax credit for employment of persons who have experienced job loss due to automation.
Establishes pilot program in Division of Taxation to provide income tax credits for the opening of certain homesteads to hunting activities in areas with high number of wildlife incidents.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
Requires certain transportation research to consider needs of individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, and developmental disabilities.
Codifies and increases under certain circumstances, current minimum Medicaid per diem reimbursement rates for assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, and assisted living programs; makes appropriation.*
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Authorizes certain local authorities to distribute live recordings of certain public hearings in lieu of transcript requirement. *
Requires NJTA and SJTA to check E-ZPass database before issuing E-ZPass violation.
Establishes that "100 percent Disabled Veterans" are not required to submit to MVC certain documentation to renew parking privileges.
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of social media usage in and out of school.*
Requires publication of certain information related to toll discounts on E-ZPass website.
Authorizes special occasion events at certain commercial farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.**
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.*
Requires Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in DHS to accept permanent change of station order for purposes of satisfying residency requirement for provision of home and community based services under certain circumstances.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing or certificate of eligibility. *
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty members of Armed Forces, Reserve components, members of National Guard, and veterans.*
Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
Designates franklinite as official mineral of State of NJ.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Requires public schools and nonpublic schools to submit critical incident mapping data to local law enforcement.*
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate teacher certification of veterans.
Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise.*
Provides retirement allowance after 20 years of service regardless of age for members of PFRS.
Expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit disclosure of personal information concerning child protective investigators.
Authorizes schools to receive certain food waste from other schools, and provides exemption to such receiving schools from certain DEP permits, under certain conditions.*
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.*
Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.
Updates certain insurance company investment provisions in accordance with Investments of Insurers Model Act.
Allows certain municipal water systems, under certain circumstances, to use lands preserved for recreation and conservation for drinking water wells and associated treatment equipment or facilities.
Changes certain deadlines for primary election.
"Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Battery Management Act."*
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 10-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities; appropriates $13 million.*
Vetoed · 1
Allows municipalities to conduct annual event for open burning of Christmas trees.
Passed the Senate · 10
Authorizes municipalities to establish dredging control reserve fund.
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.*
Requires DMVA assist discharged service members who have diagnosed service-connected mental health condition with petitions to change discharge designation.
Requires certain boards of education to select minimum of three financial institutions or pension management organizations to provide tax sheltered annuity plans.
Requires adult day care centers to provide reasonable accommodations for certain persons.
Requires State Board of Education to permit candidates awaiting teacher certification to submit affidavit to hiring school district affirming certification requirements have been met.
Requires public schools that offer student psychological services to offer remote sessions.*
Allows complaint for guardianship of minor receiving developmental disability services to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.*
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.
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Requires school buses that transport students with special needs to be equipped with certain safety features.*
Establishes annual cost of living adjustment based on Consumer Price Index for certain children, youth, and family services organizations.
Allows parent or primary caregiver of person with autism to apply for use of reserved parking zones.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on certain days.*
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes NJ Fusion Technology Industry Commission.
Allows issuance of temporary permits to applicants seeking licensure as teachers from New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Permits non-instructional staff member retired from PERS to return to employment in school district for up to two years without reenrollment in PERS if employment commences during remainder of 2021-2022 and entirety of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years.*
Permits certain persons to drive Type S school buses.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Requires children's psychiatric facilities to have designated staff members visually supervise patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week.*
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA create program for veterans to receive evaluation and treatment for PTSD, total brain injury, or traumatic brain injury.
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Establishes "Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act."
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Prohibits sale, distribution, import, export or propagation of certain invasive species without permit from Department of Agriculture; establishes NJ Invasive Species Council.**
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.*
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Requires DMVA establish process to qualify veteran as discharged veteran with qualifying condition to receive certain veterans' benefits.
Allows license plate frame to obscure certain parts of permanent or temporary license plate under certain conditions.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement for covered behavioral health services provided by local education agency to student who is eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family day care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Exempts raw, unprocessed honey from DOH cottage food regulations.
Authorizes home care for individuals who are disabled or elderly and requires health insurance coverage therefor.
Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families.*
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Requires NJT to pay certain persons one-and-a-half times regular rate for work during period of commercial vehicle travel restriction issued by DOT.
Allows certain former members of military reserve units to retain special license plates after conclusion of service.
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Provides CBT credit for development of anaerobic digestion facilities that process food waste.
Permits veteran to receive credit toward licensure as licensed practical nurse upon completing certain military medical training programs.
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered lumber yard; prohibits sale of untreated firewood from outside of State.
Requires assignment of kinship guardian advocate upon petition of caregiver to be appointed kinship legal guardian.
Concerns percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled materials that can be used for certain road projects.*
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.
Requires Division of Children's System of Care to establish training program for employees of emergency shelters for homeless.*
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
Authorizes NJ Historical Commission to establish program to promote developing historic projects on website and collect donations for projects on behalf of historic site or organization.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Extends right to hawk, peddle, and vend food items on premises of State-owned or State-leased office building.
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Expands eligibility for "fishing buddy license" fee.
Concerns sales and use tax exemptions for certain retail sales of firearm safety equipment.
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for certain motor vehicle theft offenses if prior arrest or conviction occurred within prior 90-day-period.*
Establishes program, in DEP, for acquisition of development easements on privately-owned woodlands.
Establishes Training Clinicians to Support Adults with Autism Workforce Development Program in Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services; appropriates $500,000.
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Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.
Requires Secretary of State create website for voters to report irregularities regarding mail-in ballots; establishes "Vote by Mail Study Commission."
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to farm employers for providing lodging or transportation benefits.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers for increases in certain mandatory employer contributions.
Requires DOE to release to school district upon request data and software program algorithms used to calculate State school aid.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Permits religious services during state of emergency or public health emergency declarations by Governor.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Exempts small businesses from apprenticeship requirement under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Establishes forest firefighter death benefit.
Increases amount of, and income limit for eligibility to receive, senior citizens' and disabled persons' property tax deduction.
Provides that limitation on lawsuit option does not apply in accident caused by drunk driver.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website; requires certain public entities receiving State funds to establish similar website; makes an appropriation.
"Children's Vaccination Bill of Rights"; provides children in State with certain protections concerning vaccines.
Requires entities to accept confirmation of prior COVID-19 infection or protective immune response against COVID-19 when proof of vaccination is required.
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
Requires all elections in this State to provide ability of voters to vote in person at polling place.
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
Provides that public school parent who objects to learning material or activity that parent considers harmful may receive voucher from school district to enroll student in nonpublic school.
"Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care provider.
"Fairness in Women's Sport Act."
Prohibits teaching of critical race theory in public schools; prohibits public school teachers from engaging in political, ideological, or religious advocacy in classroom.
Revises factors for determining employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Removes criminal liability for law enforcement officers who have investigative encounter with underage person for possession of alcohol or cannabis unless civil rights are violated.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Allows places of worship to establish security program to select one person to carry handgun during religious services.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Requires nursing homes to permit use of electronic monitoring devices at request of resident.
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.
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Clarifies court's discretion in imposing monetary conditions of bail; establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with violent crime be detained prior to trial.
Prohibits mandatory mask use in licensed child care centers.
Prohibits mandatory mask use at youth camps.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for persons 18 or younger with diagnosed complex medical needs.
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Broadens riot; enhances penalties for certain crimes committed during riot; creates new crimes of mob intimidation and cyber-intimidation by publication; establishes duty in municipality to permit law enforcement to respond appropriately.
Prohibits teaching staff members from inputting information and conversations regarding individually identifiable health information into third party software applications managed by entities engaging in partisan political activity.
Provides three-year phase-in of full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Requires board of education to publicly post full meeting agenda 48 hours prior to meeting.
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.
Provides gross income tax credit to volunteer first responders who provided services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Clarifies that law enforcement officers appointed by educational institutions and NJT are entitled to certain statutory rights and privileges.
Establishes crime of knowingly filing false report against law enforcement officers.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for child sexual abuse.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Permits person diagnosed with autism or communication disability to voluntarily make notation on driver's license, identification card, and in MVC registry; establishes program to train law enforcement officers in interactions with persons with autism or communication disabilities.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Establishes credit under sales and use tax for certain small businesses that collect and remit sales and use tax.
Authorizes issuance of license plates series honoring military academies that represent five branches of United States military.
Extends COVID-19 Medicaid per diem rate, and requires Medicaid coverage without prior authorization, for certain partial care behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Concerns vaccine mandates and eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain health care workers.
Authorizes certain individuals to drive Type S school buses.
Authorizes schools to administer commercial driver license exam and other motor vehicle services for school bus drivers.
Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.
Establishes Mental Health Awareness Pilot Program in DOE.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Permits police officers to travel to and from and remain within police station located within 100 feet of polling place; permits Class Three special law enforcement officers to be assigned to certain polling places.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $500 income tax deduction.
Establishes the "New Jersey Right to Work Act"; prohibits payroll deduction of union dues from wages or salaries of public employees.
Establishes "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Law Study Commission."
Declares the rights of a parent to be fundamental and not subject to infringement by the State absent compelling need.
Allows gross income tax credit for Tax Year 2021.
Requires school districts to receive written permission from parent or legal guardian before administering certain student health surveys.
Appropriates $2.5 million to NJ Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for purpose of expanding memorial and museum.
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Requires MVC to issue one license plate instead of two.
Clarifies that law enforcement officers employed by educational institutions may possess firearms on campus.
Removes diversity and inclusion instruction requirements for students in grades kindergarten through eight.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Establishes presumption for accidental disability retirement in PFRS that firefighter with Parkinson's Disease has disease as result of employment.
Establishes "Parents Bill of Rights Act"; prohibits school district from interfering with fundamental right of parent or guardian to engage in and direct student's education; permits opt-out of school district curriculum.
Establishes two-year pilot program for persons with disabilities; appropriates $1.5 million.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Medal military recipients.
Requires each public school to post on website comprehensive list of all resources available in school library.
Establishes certain shellfish aquaculture activities as eligible for Right to Farm protections.
Provides that earned sick leave law does not apply to certain workers in concrete industry.
Concerns hospitality franchise agreements.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to appoint special auditor to investigate claims of abuse of public funds at public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Requires cost of living increase to be granted in each of two calendar years for certain retired members and beneficiaries of PFRS; makes appropriation.
Requires MVC to issue blue envelopes that hold documents required to operate motor vehicle to persons diagnosed with autism.
Restricts all ownership of agricultural land in State by foreign governments and persons.
Requires certain animals used in testing to be offered for adoption; requires establishment of procedures for assessment and disposition of animals; establishes penalties for noncompliance.
"Energy Security and Affordability Act"; requires BPU to consider energy security, diversity, and affordability when preparing Energy Master Plan and perform economic and ratepayer impact analysis of energy generation projects and Energy Master Plan.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by persons with disabilities.
Delays fourth round of affordable housing obligations, including present and prospective need and related litigation, until July 1, 2028.
Adds two members to New Jersey State Board of Pharmacy.
Credits $2.35 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $4.32 billion to Department of Treasury to provide funds to municipalities and counties for debt retirement and avoidance.
Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for certain out-of-state hospitals that provide services to NJ FamilyCare pediatric beneficiaries.
Appropriates $3 million annually to DEP for mosquito control.