New Jersey Senate Bills

Proposes constitutional amendment to allow lower property tax rate on improvements than on land.

Requires electric public utilities to obtain written consent and provide written disclosure prior to installing smart meters.

Restricts purchase of single-family homes by certain institutional investors.

Concerns accessibility in certain multistory buildings; provides for penalties.

Authorizes withholding of funds due to federal government if federal government withholds funds from State in contravention of a court decision.

The "New Jersey Online Foreclosure Sale Act;" permits online foreclosure sales for real property.

Requires Bureau of Housing Inspection to establish hotline and maintain database for public housing occupants to lodge complaints concerning living conditions.

Requires hotels, motels, rooming, and boarding houses, and similar lodging businesses, to check valid government-issued identification at check-in.

Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to prevent human trafficking in women and children of color.

Requires hotels to establish telecommunications system that connects callers directly to NJ Human Trafficking Hotline; requires hotel employees to report human trafficking alerts to law enforcement.

Directs Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness to provide security risk assessment guidance to certain institutions of higher education.

Establishes Private Institution of Higher Education Security Grant Program; appropriates $5 million.

Reduces number of members of New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority required for quorum.

Provides gross income tax credit for certain homeschooling expenses.

Establishes procedures for intake and record keeping of certain 9-1-1 calls.

Establishes tax credit for portion of qualifying educational expenditures made by taxpayer on behalf of child.

Requires State, county, and municipal social service workers to periodically complete implicit bias and cultural competency training.

Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.

Establishes price preference program on State contracts for minority and women's businesses.

Establishes certain requirements for State and local governments awarding contracts or grants to nonprofit organizations.

Requires YJC to publish information regarding juveniles who were waived to adult criminal court and are serving custodial sentences in State juvenile facilities.

Imposes notice requirement to victim or victim's family when probation or suspended sentence changes or defendant is discharged.

Requires school calendar to include certain days for inclement weather and emergencies.

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.

Requires MVC to accept certain documents as proof of name change for driver's license.

Codifies regulations concerning State-excused absences; permits excused absence for students attending military service activities, certain school visits, and open-houses.

Establishes requirements concerning methods for determining whether student has specific learning disability under federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.

Concerns New Jersey Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation; requires annual appropriation.

Requires State Board of Education to evaluate historical events for inclusion in New Jersey Student Learning Standards.

Concerns incentive compensation and contracts between online program management companies and institutions of higher education and certain proprietary institutions.

Revises public institution of higher education annual reporting requirements.

Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.

Establishes a Division on Violence Prevention and Intervention in the DLPS.

Requires Attorney General to establish and maintain domestic extremist organization database.

Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.

Provides any party in case who is limited English proficient and utilizes court translating services option to have social worker translator to help party navigate court system.

Establishes program for certain individuals to become certified homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid and Medicaid-Medicare dually eligible enrollees under increased reimbursement rates.

Prohibits procurement of opioid antidotes from certain entities.

Establishes "Planning for an Aging Population Task Force."

Establishes multiple sclerosis public awareness campaign.

Requires DHS and DCF to employ Director of Medical Services; appropriates $480,000.

Establishes Task Force on Aging in New Jersey in DOH.

Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.

Imposes minimum staffing requirements and certain reporting requirements on certain long-term care facilities.

Requires performance of myeloma screening under certain circumstances.

Requires implicit bias training for physicians.

Extends regulatory power of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to senior housing.

Revises requirements for assessing nursing home health, safety, and operations and for taking action against low-performing nursing homes.

Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.

Requires signs to be posted and pamphlets to be distributed in emergency rooms regarding VCCO.

"Video Game Marketplace Child Protection and Anti-Trafficking Act," creates new penalties for non-reporting of suspected human trafficking through video game marketplaces.

"Video Game Marketplace Trafficking Investigation Act," requires Attorney General to investigate misuse of online video game commerce systems for human trafficking activity.

Allows certain municipalities to establish lower property tax rate on improvements than land.

Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to create and distribute satisfaction survey.

Renders contracts to provide criminal assistance unlawful; creates civil right of action for victims of certain criminal conduct.

Appropriates $3 million annually to Freedom Schools in New Jersey using funds collected under Social Equity Excise Fee.

Requires MVC to accommodate walk-in services on certain days.

Requires boards of education to adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities.

Requires certain public water systems to publish certain financial and employee information on Internet.