Weekly Legislative Update
Assembly Senior Services Committee 3/8
A4615 (Murphy / Dancer / Vainieri Huttle) - Revises and updates law pertaining to conservatorship to encourage ethical conduct by conservators and to provide stronger protections for conservatees and proposed conservatees. Passed w/ amendments
A4616 (Murphy / Dancer / Vainieri Huttle) - Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals. Passed w/ amendments
A4618 (Murphy / Dancer / Vainieri Huttle) - Revises and updates law pertaining to guardianship to encourage ethical conduct by guardians and to provide stronger protections for wards and proposed wards. Passed w/ amendments
A4620 (Murphy / Dancer / Vainieri Huttle) - Revises certain requirements concerning reported cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult. Passed
A4864 (Johnson / Vainieri Huttle / Spearman) - Makes FY 2021 supplemental appropriation of $210,000 to DHS for temporary 25 percent increase to certain assisted living facilities in Medicaid. Passed
Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee 3/8
A1172 (Zwicker / Benson) - Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign. Passed w/ amendments
A3804 (Armato) - Designates 9-1-1 operators or dispatchers as 9-1-1 first responder dispatchers. Passed
A3883 (Speight / Timberlake / McKnight) - Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges. Passed
A4685 / S415 (Quijano / Verrelli / Turner) - Requires Division of Parole to offer parole services to certain defendants who have served their maximum sentence. Passed w/ amendments
Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee 3/8
A733 (Johnson / Mukherji / Holley) - Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of fuel cell devices and systems and certain tangible personal property powered by fuel cells. Passed w/ amendments
A4634 (Schaer / Johnson / McKnight) - Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses. Passed w/ amendments
A4918 (Greenwald / Johnson) - Allows corporations to hold remote shareholder meetings. Passed
A4958 (Tully) - Provides temporary exemption under sales and use tax for winterizing certain small business operations. Passed
A5218 (Freiman / Armato / Tully) - Allows certain restaurant owners to accelerate depreciation of certain expenditures under corporation business and gross income taxes. Passed w/ amendments
A5389 (Chaparro / Danielsen / Dancer) - Allows gross income tax credit for nonresidential building improvement expenses to reduce spread of COVID-19. Passed w/ amendments
A5443 (Johnson / Freiman / Armato) - Appropriates $25 million in federal funds to EDA to support microbusinesses in need. Passed w/ amendments
A5444 (Mazzeo / Tully / Mejia) - Appropriates $35 million in federal funds to EDA to support food and beverage establishments in need. Passed w/ amendments
A5445 (Swain / Mosquera / Taliaferro) - Appropriates $10 million in federal funds to EDA to support child care centers in need. Passed w/ amendments
A5446 (Zwicker / Downey) - Appropriates $15 million in federal funds to EDA to support businesses and nonprofits in need. Passed w/ amendments
A5447 (Carter / Houghtaling / McKnight) - Appropriates $15 million in federal funds to EDA to support arts and culture organizations in need. Passed w/ amendments
S3305 (Smith / Oroho) - Allows tax credit for nonresidential building improvement expenses to reduce spread of COVID-19. Passed w/ amendments
Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee 3/8
A1601 (Lampitt / Mukherji / Holley) - Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination. Passed w/ amendments
A5240 (McKeon / Moriarty / Quijano) - Limits forum of consumer contract disputes to New Jersey. Passed
Assembly Health Committee 3/8
A798 (Verrelli / Vainieri Huttle / Armato) - Establishes local drug overdose fatality review teams in each county in State. Passed
A3326 / S1676 (Conaway / Reynolds-Jackson / Vainieri Huttle / Smith / Vitale) - Allows hospitals to construct housing and provide wrap-around services for homeless persons. Passed w/ amendments
A4205 (Greenwald / Lampitt / Conaway) - Enters New Jersey into Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Passed w/ amendments
A5052 (Armato / Vainieri Huttle / Verrelli) - Permits emergency medical responders to dispense opioid antidotes. Passed
A5179 / S2875 (Reynolds-Jackson / Bergen / Holley / Singleton / Turner) - Revises certain restrictions on ownership of medical cannabis alternative treatment centers. Passed w/ amendments
A5215 (Conaway / Peterson) - Requires Medicaid Fraud Division to enter into data sharing agreement upon request of county to provide access to third party insurance liability data regarding certain COVID-19 related health claims. Passed w/ amendments
A5353 (Conaway / Vainieri Huttle / Benson) - Provides for certification of temporary nurse aides. Passed w/ amendments
AR212 (Conaway / Benson) - Supporting NJ Sharing Network and opposing new federal rules on organ procurement organizations. Passed w/ amendments
Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee 3/8
A1146 (Freiman / Murphy / Houghtaling) - Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail. Passed w/ Committee Substitute
A4297 (Houghtaling / Downey / Space) - Permits conduct of bingos and raffles remotely. Passed w/ amendments
A4706 (Tucker / McKnight) - Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish Black Heritage Trail; establishes NJ Black Cultural Heritage Commission. Passed w/ amendments
A5078 (Dancer / Caputo) - Extends time outstanding parimutuel ticket may be claimed from six months to 12 months. Passed w/ amendments
Assembly Financial Institutions 3/8
A4238 (Chiaravalloti / Schaer / Benson) - Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for adult medical day care services. Passed w/ amendments
A4558 (Giblin / Armato / Benson) - Requires pharmacies to provide certain information regarding insulin manufacturer assistance programs. Passed
A4932 (Johnson) - Permits use of alternate names by limited liability partnerships. Passed w/ amendments
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A5213 (Verrelli / McKnight / McKeon) - Establishes New Jersey Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program.
Senate Education Committee 3/9
S508 (Vitale / Ruiz) - Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program. Passed
S555 (Codey / Beach) - Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health. Passed
S1857 (Ruiz / Turner) - Establishes five-year community schools pilot program. Passed w/ amendments
S2166 (Oroho) - Provides certain sending school districts one nonvoting advisory representative on receiving school district board of education. Passed w/ amendments
S3253 (Singleton / Ruiz) - Establishes alternate route to expedite certification of teachers at early college high school programs. Passed w/ amendments
S3434 (Addiego / Sweeney) - Requires boards of education to provide special education and related services to certain students exceeding age of eligibility for special education and related services. Passed
S3470 (Turner / Diegnan) - Allows certain students to repeat prior grade level during 2021-2022 school year upon parental request. Passed w/ amendments
S3488 (Sweeney / Gopal / O'Scanlon) - Establishes grant program for cost reimbursement of conducting school district regionalization feasibility studies and provides financial incentives for regionalization. Passed
S3531 (Ruiz) - Requires public schools to offer or expand summer school programs to students. Introduced and Referred to Senate Education Committee
Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee 3/9
S690 (Ruiz / Vitale) - Provides that New Jersey residents have access to one cost-free postpartum home visit. Passed w/ Committee Substitute
S1039 (Gopal) - Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage. Passed w/ amendments
S1409 (Pennacchio) - Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research. Passed w/ amendments
S1431 (Pennacchio / Bucco) - Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric cancer research. Passed
S2160 (Sweeney / Oroho / Singer) - Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report. Passed
S2487 (Rice) - Establishes "2020 New Jersey Burial Assistance Program;" appropriates $20 million. Passed w/ amendments
S3009 (Vitale / Gopal / Gill) - Permits establishment of additional harm reduction programs to distribute clean syringes and provide support services to injection drug users. Passed w/ amendments
S3065 (Vitale) - Permits syringes and related supplies to be exchanged via postal mail. Passed w/ amendments
S3306 (Diegnan) - Establishes requirements for optometrists to be authorized to administer immunizations. Passed w/ amendments
S3333 (Sweeney) - Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs. HELD
S3455 (Madden / Bucco) - Revises eligibility requirements for NJ Workability Program and Personal Assistance Services Program. Passed w/ amendments
S3491 (Vitale) - Permits any person to administer or dispense opioid antidotes. Passed w/ amendments
S3493 (Vitale) - Permits expungement of possession or distribution of hypodermic syringe or needle offense in cases of previous expungement; repeals criminal offense of possession of syringe. Passed
Senate Economic Growth Committee 3/11
S1476 (Cruz-Perez / Beach) - Creates "Economic Gardening Program" in Department of State to provide customized services to certain businesses. Passed w/ amendments
S3086/A4808 (Ruiz / Scutari / Zwicker / Conaway / Benson) - Establishes office in BPU to assist in provision and expansion of broadband Internet service in State to address inequities in accessing broadband service. Passed w/ amendments
S3336 (Cruz-Perez) - Establishes small hospitality business winter preparation purchase or reimbursement program in EDA; appropriates $50 million to EDA from federal funds. Passed
S3396 (Cryan) - Requires BPU to post on its website report from public utility on public utility's capital investments in response to petition from public utility to increase rates. Passed w/ amendments
S3403 (Gopal) - Directs Department of Agriculture to request annual funding for food banks or organizations operating them and requires distribution of grants based upon percentage of food insecure households served; establishes fund therefor. Passed w/ amendments
S3465 (Oroho / Sweeney) - Directs Department of Agriculture to pay annual premiums for the federal Dairy Margin Coverage Program to enrolled dairy farmers. Passed
S3527 / *A5405 (Sweeney / Coughlin / Speight / Armato) - Appropriates $10 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture to support food bank organizations. Passed
Senate Law and Public Safety Committee 3/11
S568 (Madden / Sweeney) - Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers. Passed w/ amendments
S2693 (Greenstein) - Establishes Employment Application Registry database in Division of State Police. Passed w/ amendments
S2921 (Gopal) - Allows municipalities to designate outdoor areas upon which people may consume alcoholic beverages. Passed
S2953 (Sweeney / Cunningham) - Expands scope of inmate reentry assistance and benefits. Passed w/ amendments
S3173 (Gopal) - Permits operation of pedicabs and alcoholic beverage consumption by passengers of pedicabs in certain circumstances. Passed
S3319 (Pou) - Eliminates certain juvenile justice fines, fees, costs, and other monetary penalties. Passed w/ amendments
Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee 3/11
S306 (Rice / O'Scanlon) - Clarifies and expands landlord registration procedures; creates certain rights for tenants; makes certain changes concerning tenant notifications, inspections, and maintenance in multiple dwellings; permits percentage of affordable housing obligation. Passed w/ amendments
S466 (Sacco / Rice) - Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property. Passed
S1787 (Stack / Singleton) - Establishes "Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State. Passed
S2142 / A1653 (Smith / Bateman / Quijano / Pinkin / Karabinchak) - Encourages development of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects. Passed w/ amendments
S2516 (Turner) - Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs. Passed
S3358 (Pou) - Requires DCA to establish standards for prisoner reentry transitional housing. Passed
S3459 (Singleton) - Removes restrictions on special assessments and bond issuances for replacement of residential lead service lines; revises budgetary, maintenance, and reporting requirements for operators of certain water systems. Passed w/ amendments
Senate Higher Education Committee 3/11
S356 / A2311 (Cryan / Calabrese / Jasey) - Establishes study commission to examine development of mutually beneficial relationships between institutions of higher education and municipalities. Passed w/ amendments
S1823 (Cunningham) - Requires institutions of higher education to provide graduating students with information on income-contingent student loan repayment programs. Passed w/ amendments
S3313 (Pou) - Establishes task force to evaluate quality, efficacy, costs, and educational outcomes of online courses offered by public and independent institutions of higher education during COVID-19 pandemic. Passed w/ amendments
SJR105 (Cunningham / Kean) - Designates April of each year as "Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) Month" in New Jersey. Passed
