New Jersey Bills

Requires NJT to install certain safety features at certain bus stops.

Requires each public institution of higher education to develop menstrual equity plan.

Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.

Prohibits electric, gas, or water public utility service discontinuances to residential customers during certain epidemics.

Requires certain motor vehicles to install rear-seat detection systems.

Resets electric and gas public utility rates to 2020 levels for five-year period.

Requires public utilities de-privatization study; appropriates $100,000.

Requires BPU to prohibit electric and gas public utilities from charging residential customers certain types of payments based on certain billing practices.

Prohibits BPU approval of electric or gas public utility rate increases resulting in total increase to average residential customer bill in excess of two percent within five-year period.

Requires electric public utility to reimburse customers for up to $500 for spoiled food and full cost of spoiled medicine resulting from lengthy service outage following major event.

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.

Establishes NJ Council on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.

"Clean Energy AI Incentivization Act"; directs BPU to incentivize artificial intelligence centers to bring their own self-sufficient, clean energy.

Establishes survivor support liaison in Department of Treasury to assist beneficiaries of emergency responders who die in line of duty; designated as "Captain Augusto Acabou's, Wayne Brooks', and Plainfield Firefighter Marques Hudson's act"; appropriates $1,000,000.

Requires DOH to provide grants for women's health research and innovations.

Establishes the "Safe Sanitary Subsidized Rental Housing Bill of Rights."

Mandates health insurance coverage for supervisory billing for behavioral health services.

Prohibits sale of crayon and chalk products containing lead.

Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.

Requires DHS to establish Haitian Migrant Assistance Program.

Requires Commissioner of Human Services to establish 24-hour, toll-free Mental Illness Resource Hotline and develop hotline connection system to ensure that callers are connected to other appropriate hotlines when needed.

Establishes men's health commission in DOH.

Establishes pancreatic cancer awareness campaign.

Requires health insurance carriers to cover genetic testing after diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Imposes 10 percent electric public utility windfall surtax on taxpayers with allocated taxable net income in excess of $10 million under CBT.

Makes FY2026 supplemental appropriation of $30 million to DCA for Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit program.

Requires owner or operator of data center to submit water and energy usage report to BPU.

Establishes centralized electronic health information exchange infrastructure to facilitate reentry into civilian life for recently incarcerated persons.

Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.

Permits certain alcoholic beverage license holders to sell "Jersey Fresh" alcoholic beverages.

Requires volunteers, employees, and organizers of certain youth and sports organizations to receive criminal history record background checks.

Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans' property tax exemption to certain veterans released under other than honorable circumstances.

Prohibits operation of certain prediction markets in this State; authorizes athletic event markets operating in compliance with sports wagering regulations; establishes public awareness campaign.

The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."

Prohibits use and sale of algorithmic devices that set sale price of goods or services.

Establishes "Affordable Housing Obligation Study Commission" to assist municipalities in addressing affordable housing obligations.

Establishes "New Jersey Union-Led Semiconductor Innovation and Security Program."

Establishes certain annual certification compliance requirements for school bus contractors; requires Office of School Bus Safety to establish certification compliance pilot program.

Creates "Youth Detention Task Force."

Declares racism a public health crisis in New Jersey.

Designates first week in August as "Adult Diaper Need Awareness Week" in New Jersey.

Declares week of September 22 through September 28, 2024 as "Diaper Need Awareness Week."

Urges President and Congress of United States to enact federal legislation providing proportional property tax relief for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.

Designates October as "Lead Poisoning Awareness Month."

Designates May of each year as "Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Awareness Month."

Designates the month of June of every year, "Dry Drowning Awareness Month."

Designates first Sunday of May of each year as "National Centenarian Day" in New Jersey.

Declares March of each year as "Blood Clot Awareness Month."

Designates September of each year as "Alopecia Areata Awareness Month."

Designates September of each year as "Kinship Care Month" in New Jersey.

Designates October 23 of each year as "Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency Awareness Day."

Designated May of each year as "Foster Care Month" in New Jersey.

Designates first week of May of each year as "Children's Mental Health Awareness Week."

Designates May of each year as "Older Americans Month" in New Jersey.

Designates second week of November of each year as "Urinary Incontinence Awareness Week" in New Jersey.

Designates November of each year as "New Jersey Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month."

Designates July of each year as "Self-Care Awareness Month" in New Jersey.

Designates August of each year as "Black Business Month" in New Jersey.

Designating September 24 of each year as "Mothers of Gynecology Day" in NJ.

Designates July 3 of each year as "CROWN Act Day" in NJ.