Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Beth Sawyer
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires organizations training disabled veteran assistance dogs to register with Division of Consumer Affairs and provide disabled veteran assistance dogs with vests and harnesses.*
Out of committee1
Requires establishment of pilot program for mosquito control activities by State Mosquito Control Commission for certain municipalities.
In committee27
Prohibits mandatory use of medical devices by minors without informed parental consent.
Prohibits discrimination against corrections workers, first responders, and health care workers who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine or booster.
Provides limited civil liability immunity to farmers hosting agritourism activities.
Prohibits discrimination against pregnant women who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Prohibits DEP from demolishing or requiring removal of certain cabins or similar structures located in certain tidal wetlands.
Concerns bereavement leave for miscarriage and stillbirth.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
Requires DOE to develop model policies for ensuring parental notification of sexually explicit content in curriculum; requires board of education to provide parental notification of sexually explicit content in curriculum.
Prohibits State from requiring private businesses to confirm individuals received COVID-19 vaccine for entry.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license.
Authorizes holder of limited brewery license to engage in certain activities.
Prohibits governing body of county and municipality from banning use of recording devices at certain open public meetings.
Prohibits naming of public spaces after living public official.
Requires proof of ownership prior to resale of catalytic converter and upgrades theft of catalytic converter to one degree higher than underlying offense.
Requires schools to purchase locally grown produce when available; establishes process for farmers to voluntarily donate surplus produce to schools for use in NJ Farm to School Program.
Provides protections for social media users; creates private cause of action for social media users whose accounts have been hacked and not restored by social media websites under certain circumstances.
Prohibits social media websites from selectively suspending candidates for elective office and creates private right of action for users whose political or religious speech has been deleted.
Establishes education savings accounts for students whose school districts require face masks or do not offer in person instruction.
Requires all counties to establish mosquito control commissions and report certain mosquito control activities to State Mosquito Control Commission; requires State Mosquito Control Commission to develop guidelines to aid county commissions.
Establishes annual 9-1-1 PSAP County Grants.
Exempts from "Sales and Use Tax Act" certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and sport or recreation equipment.
Concerns development of certain large warehouses by requiring county planning board approval for certain development and providing for the installation of solar panels under certain circumstances.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to student attending nonpublic school located out-of-State under certain circumstances.
Allows gross income tax deduction of up to $1,200 for purchases of school supplies by parents and guardians.
Creates Wind and Nuclear Production Apprenticeship Grant Program.
Establishes "Rural Business Development Program" in EDA; appropriates $35 million to EDA from federal funds.
Revises NJ Farm to School Program to require schools to purchase locally grown produce and fruit when available and establishes grant program; appropriates $2.5 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
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.*
Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification; establishes criminal history record background check process.*
Increases allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities.
Requires Attorney General to perform outreach and provide services to victims of human trafficking under certain circumstances. *
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.
Eliminates presumption of pretrial release for certain motor vehicle theft offenses if prior arrest or conviction occurred within prior 90-day-period.*
Expands eligibility for "fishing buddy license" fee.
Appropriates $87,783,515 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Expands wage and hour law good-faith violation defense to DOLWD employee interpretations; establishes procedure for employer to obtain opinion from DOLWD on overtime obligations. *
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to post public awareness signage in additional establishments.*
Requires EDA to create needs-matching website for eligible entities.*
Authorizes possession of bear deterrent spray.
Out of committee · 21
Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.
Establishes standards for domestic violence counseling and creates "Abuse Intervention Program Advisory Committee." *
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Requires DOE to include military-connected student identifier in student-level database; requires district inform teacher when military-connected student enrolls in class taught by teacher.
Requires school district to submit emergency communication policies and protocols to Department of Education for review.
Excludes contributions made to certain retirement savings plans under gross income tax.*
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.
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. *
Authorizes special occasion events at certain commercial farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions; appropriates $85,000. *
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to certain shellfish aquaculture activities.*
Requires certain transportation research to consider needs of individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, and developmental disabilities.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of military.
Requires DMVA notify certain veteran organizations and county officers and municipal registers of names of persons buried or cremated in State veteran cemeteries.*
Requires boards of education and chief administrators of nonpublic schools to submit critical incident mapping data to local law enforcement.
Updates certain insurance company investment provisions in accordance with Investments of Insurers Model Act.
Allows Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology to provide grants to employees of public institutions of higher education and their companies.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Designates Harter Road Interchange of Interstate Highway Route 287 as "Warren E. Wilhide Interchange."
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 47 in Deptford Township as "Officer Robert J. Shisler Memorial Highway."
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY 2024.
In committee · 147
Requires access to law enforcement guidelines for processing firearms permit applications upon public records request.
Requires eligibility checklist and audit for enrollment in PERS of certain public employees who provide professional services; imposes fine on certifying officer or supervisor for ineligible enrollments.
Authorizes chiefs of part-time municipal police forces to issue firearms ID cards and handgun purchase permits.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Excludes bonuses for reenlistment or voluntary extension of enlistment in armed forces from gross income.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
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.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
Directs BPU to allow broadband telecommunications service providers to use poles belonging to public utilities or CATV companies in certain instances.
Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Allows commercial farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers for increases in certain mandatory employer contributions.
Declares elective public office vacant when office holder changes political party while in office.
Provides that in certain cases vacancy in membership of board of education of limited purpose regional school district will be filled by majority vote of board of education of constituent district represented by former board member.
Authorizes hunters to ride in bed of pickup trucks under certain circumstances.
Establishes Office of Economic Development Inspector General in EDA.
Redefines governmental affairs agent to include those persons performing activities for more than one hour in calendar year.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act;" expands lobbying disclosure requirements to local level.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain taxpayers who pay tuition costs for nurse aide in long-term care facilities training program.
Requires public school with any of grades 9 through 12 to discuss with students and parents employment opportunities as skilled laborer or through military enlistment or in agriculture.
Prohibits manipulation of certain caller identification information.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Establishes special license plates for fire police officers.
Permits sale of certain alcoholic beverages and related products at seasonal farm markets.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Authorizes public libraries to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by librarian or other trained library employee.
Authorizes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security at public and private colleges.
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.
Requires institution of higher education to provide refund or credit to students for unused on-campus student housing and meal plans due to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to farm employers for providing lodging or transportation benefits.
Establishes flexible instructional day program to allow students to continue instruction at home when district must close its schools and to permit district to count flexible instructional days in meeting 180-day school year requirement.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Establishes Volunteer First Responders Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Directs Attorney General to provide annual training to public and nonpublic school students and staff on roles and responsibilities before, during, and after school emergencies.
Requires school districts to institute policies to improve emergency communications to increase school security.
Requires State Police to maintain 24-hour hotline for receiving anonymous tips regarding potential threats to school safety and security.
Requires school districts to implement policy mandating all students and school employees have identification cards.
Requires DOE to establish online school security resource clearinghouse.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt training course on school emergency response.
Requires Commissioner of Education to review school safety and security plans.
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.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
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.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Requires law enforcement officers and recruits to undergo self-defense training; appropriates $250,000 to Police Training Commission.
Prohibits elected officers of municipality from accepting employment with municipality in which they hold office.
Authorizes voluntary donation of expired food or food waste to farmers; authorizes donations if farmer waives liability.
"Made in New Jersey Tax Credit Act"; provides CBT tax credits to taxpayers that purchase "New Jersey made" products.
Establishes New Jersey Veteran Grant Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
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.
Provides additional home ownership assistance for certain military service members.
Establishes "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
Requires EDA to establish program providing grants to qualified veterans purchasing franchises.
Exempts qualified veterans from paying certain firearm related fees.
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.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Medal military recipients.
Limits requirements for school districts to include instructions on diversity and inclusion as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards to grades 9 through 12.
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.
Requires DEP to provide public access for boats to certain State-owned lakes; appropriates $1 million.
Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.
Prohibits four-year public institution of higher education from charging tuition and fees to student who is spouse or dependent child of disabled veteran.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Increases gross income tax deduction for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Restricts access to motor vehicle accident reports under certain circumstances.
Adds illicit fentanyls to Schedule I in the "New Jersey Controlled Dangerous Substances Act."
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Appropriates $50 million to BPU from federal funds for reimbursing broadband telecommunications service providers for broadband infrastructure expansion to rural areas in State.
Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Excludes farmland from definitions of "redevelopment area" and "rehabilitation area" in "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
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.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Permits police officers to be assigned to polling places located at public schools.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Limits Statewide student learning standards to certain subject matter areas.
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.
Permits employer to prohibit use of cannabis by certain employees.
Establishes State definition of anti-Semitism.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Directs BPU to adopt rules and regulations concerning small modular nuclear reactors; authorizes EDA to incentivize construction and operation of such reactors.
Allows holder of disabled veteran or Purple Heart license plate or placard to park in parking spots for persons with disability.
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.
Clarifies the newspaper media delivery person and news media stringer are independent contractors for purposes of State employment laws.
Establishes certain shellfish aquaculture activities as eligible for Right to Farm protections.
Allows gross income tax deduction for up to $1,200 of unreimbursed expenses incurred by eligible educators for purchase of classroom supplies.
Establishes Veteran-Owned Business Contract Financing Loan Program in EDA to help certain veteran-owned businesses perform public contracts; appropriates $5 million.
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.
Exempts certain veterans from gross income tax.
Allows tax credits for employing members of NJ National Guard and members of reserve component of US Armed Forces.
Requires certain funds from Main Street Recovery Fund to be used for grants for veteran-owned small businesses.
Establishes Veterans Suicide Prevention Commission.
Requires DHS to prepare and submit report to Governor and Legislature regarding impact of Medicaid expansion on veterans and their families.
Directs DCA to end veteran homelessness within three years.
Broadens riot and disorderly conduct; enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.
Increases penalties for repeat convictions of certain motor vehicle related crimes; increases penalties for leader of auto theft trafficking network in certain circumstances.
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Establishes matching grant program in DOE for school districts to implement high-impact tutoring programs addressing learning loss due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Amends Fiscal Year 2023 annual appropriations act to require expedited payment of property tax benefit under ANCHOR Property Tax Relief Program.
Broadens scope of information sharing and civil immunity therefor, related to insurance fraud.
Establishes Rural Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program in EDA; appropriates $2.5 million in federal funds.
Authorizes members of the New Jersey State Legislature to solemnize marriages and civil unions.
Provides $1,000 income tax deduction for certain volunteer firefighters and members of first aid and rescue squads.
"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."
Requires grading of offenses involving manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin based on dosage units in addition to weight.
"Pandemic Education Relief Act"; provides additional State school aid for certain school districts that have previously experienced reductions and establishes allowable uses of aid.
Expands Community College Opportunity Grant Program to include career and technical education programs at county colleges and county vocational schools.
Increases, from 18 percent to 30 percent, amount of rent constituting property taxes for purposes of gross income tax deduction for certain tenants.
Requires certain group homes and supervised apartments to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas under certain circumstances; "Billy Cray's Law."
Exempts veterans from camping facilities fees at State parks and forests.
Extends eligibility for property tax benefits to veterans, 100 percent service-disabled veterans, and senior citizens and persons with disabilities who pay payments in lieu of property taxes.
Amends Fiscal Year 2024 annual appropriations act to extend ANCHOR benefits to certain individuals who make payments in lieu of property taxes.
Prohibits institution of higher education from authorizing, funding, or supporting hate speech or antisemitic events and organizations.
Requires PFRS enrollment to be retroactive to first date of employment for death benefit eligibility.
Requires institutions of higher education to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
Prohibits location and operation of cannabis retailers near schools or places of worship.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition for retail sales by certain small businesses.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person charged with theft of motor vehicle be detained prior to trial.
Increases per diem allowance of recalled judge.
Increases membership and provides for certain meeting requirements of Council on Local Mandates.
Requires Commission on Human Trafficking to identify methods to prevent human trafficking through online gaming platforms.
Concerns recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters; appropriates $2 million.