Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, General Assembly.
Brandon E. Umba
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
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. *
Out of committee3
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Designates DEP State office building in City of Trenton as "Richard J. Sullivan Building."
In committee52
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.
Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Authorizes creation of US Navy Veteran license plates.
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2021-2022 school year.
Expands definition of child under PFRS and SPRS.
Provides research and development tax credit under gross income tax.
Requires MVC to provide motorcycle licenses and certain license plates to certain veterans free of charge.
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.
Eliminates requirement for public school employees to maintain State residency.
Allows lane filtering by motorcycle operators under certain circumstances.
Requires State Board of Education meetings to be accessible virtually and in person.
Establishes matching grant program in DOE for school districts to implement high-impact tutoring programs addressing learning loss due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes "Summer Earn and Learn Pilot Program."
Requires Commissioner of Education to attend State Board of Education meetings.
Redirects certain State funding for specific arts, cultural, and historic organizations to competitive grant program.
Requires State Board of Education to permit candidates awaiting teacher certification to submit affidavit to hiring school district affirming certificate requirements have been met.
Establishes Rural Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program in EDA; appropriates $2.5 million in federal funds.
Establishes New Jersey Workforce Industry Needs Scholarship.
Enacts "Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact."
Extends right to hawk, peddle, and vend food items on premises of State-owned or State-leased office building.
Increases allowed amount of property tax refunds and certain cancellations that can be authorized without further action of municipal governing body.
Modifies age and education requirement to qualify as radiologic technologist.
Provides gross income tax credit of up to $500 to taxpayers who utilize high impact tutoring.
Requires school districts to implement policy pertaining to use in school setting of medical devices that require utilization of district's internet.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Enhances, and allocates funds for, pre-apprenticeship programs.
Designates DEP State office building in City of Trenton as "Richard J. Sullivan Building."
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.*
Establishes "Career and Technical Education Scholar Awards" to annually recognize outstanding career and technical education students.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for brain injury services.
Establishes New Jersey Ireland Trade Commission in Department of State.
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.
Concerns eligibility for senior freeze reimbursement if eligible claimant exceeds income limit.
Expands scope of school district employee sick leave.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
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 · 10
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Requires DHS and other appropriate state agencies to disseminate information on transportation options for persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.
Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under "Right to Farm Act".
Provides for transfers from General Fund to UI trust fund, reduces employer contributions to UI trust fund, assesses contributions from employers to repay transferred amounts, and provides tax credits to small businesses to offset UI tax increases.**
Requires State Agriculture Development Committee to compensate owners of preserved farmland for changes in regulations that increase cost of business.
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.*
Requires DOE to establish central registry of individuals and organizations interested in providing supplemental tutoring support to students.
Eliminates high school graduation proficiency test.
Requires public schools to develop policy for emergency administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagus nerve stimulator on students with seizure disorder.
Out of committee · 30
Prohibits MVC from charging fee for restoring driver's license suspended due to mental or physical condition.
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.
Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Directs BPU to establish program concerning renewable natural gas; provides gas public utilities with customer rate recovery mechanism for costs associated with program.
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. *
Allows credit against corporation business tax and gross income tax liability for employing persons with a developmental disability.
Establishes certain program requirements for school counselor certification; outlines role and duties of school counselor; requires professional development for school counselors; establishes position of School Counselor Liaison in DOE.
"Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Establishes procedures for seizure, care, and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Requires MVC to provide, upon request, notation on driver's license or identification card of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder.*
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.*
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Requires DHS to establish five-year pilot program to facilitate coordinated provision of systemic, therapeutic, assessment, resource, and treatment (START) services to adults who have both developmental disabilities and mental illness.
Extends child care subsidies to families earning up to 300 percent of federal poverty level; appropriates funds.*
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate teacher certification of veterans.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Permits State Board of Education to authorize alternative teaching certificate.*
Establishes sales and events privileges for certain alcoholic beverage manufacturers.*
Upgrades certain penalties for assaulting law enforcement officer and requires offender to be tested for communicable diseases in certain instances.
Permits certain school districts to establish State military impact aid reserve account.*
Establishes High Efficiency Accelerated Learning Grant Program and Tutoring Advisory Commission.
Permits teacher, and professional staff member who provides special services, who retired from TPAF to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Provides for merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University; expands powers and property of Montclair State University; and expands State college risk management group.
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 · 112
Amends definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Makes it crime of the fourth degree to apply for employment or volunteer position with public entity or public official if person has purpose to deceive or injure.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses.
Requires school district monitoring system, New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC), to include assessment of number of district employees trained in administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis.
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.
Raises income eligibility threshold for pension and retirement income exclusion from gross income to $125,000.
Extends senior freeze benefits to certain senior citizens and disabled persons who have continuously resided in New Jersey for three years.
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.
Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.
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.
Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Makes permanent certain immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to develop career and education guide for post secondary students with disabilities.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
"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 "Bring Veterans to New Jersey Program."
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Medal military recipients.
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
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.
Allows primary caregiver of handicapped person and person with autism to apply for and use handicapped parking.
Establishes immunity for senior planned real estate development associations relating to COVID-19.
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.
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.
Concerns actions to foreclose right to redeem tax sale certificate under "tax sale law."
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allocates sufficient funds to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Appropriates $50 million to BPU from federal funds for reimbursing broadband telecommunications service providers for broadband infrastructure expansion to rural areas in State.
Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Provides three-year phase-in of full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Excludes farmland from definitions of "redevelopment area" and "rehabilitation area" in "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Allocates $2.5 billion to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
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.
Designates blueberry muffin as State Muffin.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Requires NJT to equip trains with defibrillators.
Provides gross income tax credit to volunteer first responders who provided services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Requires anti-bullying policy of public schools to include provision requiring principal to make preliminary determination and meet with parents of students involved in alleged bullying incident for that determination; extends time for investigating incident.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement program into credit program.
Provides that certain school districts will receive State school aid in amounts equal to aid provided in 2020-2021 school year.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.
Authorizes deer hunting on Sunday with bow and arrow or firearms on federal military land subject to approval of appropriate federal military authority.
Requires transfer of certain excess animal control funds to prosecutors, municipalities, police departments, and Police Training Commission for enforcement of animal cruelty laws and training humane law enforcement officers.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Permits police officers to be assigned to polling places located at public schools.
Requires orders of restitution to child of parent or guardian killed by drunk driver.
Requires Director of Division of Developmental Disabilities to align rates for self-directed employees with maximum service provider rates.
Establishes School Funding Formula Evaluation Task Force.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Establishes loan redemption program and gross income tax credit for mental health professionals who serve children and adolescents.
"Improved Suicide Prevention, Response, and Treatment Act."
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.
Establishes New Jersey Literacy Training Pilot Program in DOE.
Permits employer to prohibit use of cannabis by certain employees.
Repeals $100,000 cap on sales and use tax exemption for certain capital improvements made by businesses participating in Urban Enterprise Zone program.
Requires school performance reports to include information about positive placement of graduates, including apprenticeships.
Prohibits adoption of any State rule or regulation mandating electric heating or water heating systems in buildings prior to issuance of DCA report.
Allocates assistance to unemployment compensation fund from federal government and State funds, suspends certain increases in employer taxes, and adjusts wages for purpose of calculation of rate of employer contribution to fund.
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.
Establishes mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for second offense involving use of juvenile in automobile theft.
Allows gross income tax deduction for up to $1,200 of unreimbursed expenses incurred by eligible educators for purchase of classroom supplies.
Establishes New Jersey Child Tax Credit program to benefit certain low-income households.
Requires MVC to safeguard automatic voter registration process.
Allows gross income tax credit for Tax Year 2021.
Makes supplemental appropriation to provide additional State school aid to certain school districts that have experienced reductions in aid.
Modifies certain tax brackets under gross income tax.
Establishes annual 9-1-1 PSAP County Grants.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish New Jersey STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program to support entrepreneurs in STEM fields.
Establishes three-year nonpublic school student transportation pilot program in certain eligible school districts.
Increases penalties for assault and harassment against sports officials and participants under certain circumstances.
Requires emergency medical technicians and firefighters to receive training concerning electric vehicle fires.
Establishes "Commission on People with Disabilities."
Provides for full funding of extraordinary special education State aid.
Establishes "COVID-19 Learning Loss Study Commission."
Appropriates $28,670,924 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Requires certain information to be included in SHBP claims experience data provided to certain public employers.
Establishes crime of gang shoplifting.
Requires DCF to administer school-based youth services program as currently established.
Permits designation of special event zones for traffic regulation purposes during certain large events.
Establishes veterinary medicine loan redemption program for certain veterinarians who work in underserved areas for five years; annually appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Stabilization Aid for certain school districts experiencing reductions in State school aid or other budgetary imbalances; establishes Education Rescue Grants for certain school districts experiencing reductions in teaching staff.
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to conduct study on impact of State business income taxation on business out-migration, formation, and employment for previous and upcoming tax years.
Lowers age at which certain insurers are required to provide coverage for mammograms.
Prohibits ownership of agricultural land in State by foreign governments and persons.
Prohibits adoption of State and local rules that prohibit use of fossil fuel-powered kitchen appliances.
"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.
"Pandemic Education Relief Act"; provides additional State school aid for certain school districts that have previously experienced reductions and establishes allowable uses of aid.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for structured day program services provided to beneficiary eligible for brain injury services.
Delays fourth round of affordable housing obligations, including present and prospective need and related litigation, until July 1, 2028.
Permits eligible high school students to take certain courses at county college.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires certain group homes and supervised apartments to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas under certain circumstances; "Billy Cray's Law."
Requires PFRS enrollment to be retroactive to first date of employment for death benefit eligibility.