New Jersey Bills

Requires SNAP retailers to display information on how to protect SNAP recipients from fraud used to steal benefits.

Concerns housing discrimination based on source of lawful income.

Establishes New Jersey Justice Center for the Protection of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Clarifies that amateur sports official is independent contractor for purposes of State employment laws.

Requires sender of commercial electronic mail message to include unsubscribe mechanism in message.

Concerns lung cancer screening awareness and access.

Increases amounts of aid paid to certain municipalities that host watershed lands; increases amount annually appropriated to "Highlands Protection Fund" from realty transfer fee revenues.

Requires defendants, including insurance companies named as defendants, to be properly identified in causes of action.

Prohibits selection of health insurance coverage as primary under personal injury protection coverage.

Provides certain protections to residents of long-term care facilities and long-term acute care hospitals.

Allows law enforcement agencies to distribute epinephrine to officers; requires training.

Permits excused absence for students participating in college visits, visits to postsecondary technical institutions, and military recruitment-related activities.

Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.

Requires school report card to include information about placement of graduates, including apprenticeships.

Provides access to periodic cancer screening examinations for volunteer firefighters through SHBP physicians and other providers.

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

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

Prohibits seller from charging credit card surcharges; establishes notice requirements for credit card minimums and cash discounts.

Establishes ReadyReturn program; requires Taxation to prepare initial tax filing for certain taxpayers; requires several State agencies to use tax data to facilitate identification and enrollment for certain social services programs; makes an appropriation.

Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from EDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.

Creates "New Jersey Workplace Skills Savings Program"; appropriates $25 million.

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

Establishes "Safe Guardianship Act;" restricts appointment of certain persons as guardian for incapacitated person.

Revises licensure process for out-of-State institutions of higher education.

Establishes Office of Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders Policy to oversee, direct, and coordinate resources, funding, and data tracking concerning treatment of substance use disorders.

Requires Department of Banking and Insurance to examine and rate lending institutions with regards to lending, investments, and services provided to low- and moderate-income consumers.

Expands crime of human trafficking and eliminates statute of limitations; establishes human trafficking response teams; expands human trafficking training and education requirements; appropriates $1 million to Commission on Human Trafficking.

Changes certain allocations and amounts of constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for Fiscal Year 2026 and thereafter; authorizes Garden State Preservation Trust and local governments to acquire lands in urban areas for agricultural or horticultural purposes.

Allows DEP to authorize reformation assessment of certain water and wastewater treatment and conveyance systems.

Permits county vocational schools to operate State House Annex cafe.

Urges AG to investigate possibility of price-fixing in sale of motor fuels.

Honors Thomas Mundy Peterson for being first African American to vote following ratification of 15th Amendment to US Constitution.

Urges Congress to propose amendment to United States Constitution to prohibit use of slavery or indentured servitude for individuals convicted of crime.

Urges State citizens to stay up-to-date on vaccinations.

Designates November of each year as "C. Difficile Awareness Month."

Designates third full week in April of each year as "Infertility Awareness Week" in New Jersey.

Designating fourth Wednesday in May of each year as "Crisis Professionals Day."

Designates April of each year as "Autism Awareness and Recognition Month" in NJ.

Designates October 3 of each year as "Companion Animal Cruelty Awareness Day" in New Jersey.

Proposes constitutional amendment authorizing municipalities, by ordinance, to provide partial property tax exemption on primary residence of certain volunteer first responders.

Revises territorial rating plans used by insurers writing private passenger automobile insurance.

Prohibits business entities from selling or manufacturing certain personal flotation devices not approved by United States Coast Guard.

Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.

Establishes oversight and qualifications of peer recovery specialists.

Requires Medicaid and health insurance network contracts to provide participating health care providers with certain notifications.

Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.

Appropriates $10 million to Department of Treasury for nurse preceptor tax credits.

Increases penalties for certain prohibited sales of tobacco and vapor products.

Concerns family leave and gestational carriers.

Provides corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization, and expansion, or hiring and training of new employees for manufacturing purposes.

Designates minimum percentage of residential substance use disorder treatment facility beds for use by NJ FamilyCare eligible individuals as condition for licensure.

Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; appropriates $1 million.

Establishes Nursing School Expansion Grant Program; appropriates $25 million.

Clarifies DHS authority to regulate sober living homes and halfway houses as residential substance abuse aftercare facilities; requires background checks and other protections for residents of residential substance abuse facilities.

Requires DOH to evaluate hospital compliance with federal hospital price transparency requirements.

Provides for independent prescriptive authority for midwives.

Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.

Allows costs of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.

Requires helmet while operating bicycle, scooter, or motorized scooter.

Requires certain businesses to submit excess food reduction plan to DEP; provides CBT credit to eligible businesses that reduce excess food by 25 percent.