New Jersey Bills

Designates March 9 of each year as U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day.

Designates July of each year as "Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month" in NJ.

Enhances enforcement authority over developmental disability service providers; establishes "Residential Facility Quality of Care Improvement Fund" in DHS.

Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride-sharing and delivery technology platforms.

Allows complaint for guardianship of minor to be filed six months before minor reaches age 18 under certain circumstances; establishes certain standards for filing guardianship complaints.

Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.

"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.

"Pet Insurance Act."

Allows certain motor vehicle franchisors to sell, lease, or assign vehicles to employees.

"Max's Law"; requires school districts to provide instruction on dangers of fentanyl and xylazine.

Authorizes construction, installation, and operation of certain energy project components on preserved farmland.

Appropriates $34 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.

"The Manufactured Home Park Protection Act"; expands opportunity to purchase for resident homeowners in certain manufactured home parks; modifies certain requirements for disposition of private residential leasehold communities.

Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2026.

Provides supplemental appropriation of $4 million for Hinchliffe Stadium Partners to support stadium, entertainment, and tourism infrastructure at Paterson Great Falls National Park.

Eliminates five percent down payment requirement for local bond ordinances involving hazard mitigation and resilience projects.

Upgrades to third degree crime for cyber-harassment of public servant or family member of public servant; establishes Office of Cyber-Harassment Support in DLPS; appropriates funds.

Requires certain State-funded construction projects to utilize plastic construction materials that contain certain amounts of postconsumer recycled content.

Establishes "New Economy Opportunity Skills System Pilot Program" to strengthen alignment and collaboration between local workforce development boards, community colleges, and county vocational school districts; makes appropriation.

Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum.

Concerns local unit budget processes and related operations.

Modifies provisions concerning licenses for persons who transport, broker, or process solid waste or soil and fill recyclable materials.

Requires local unit to accept electronic payment of construction code fees.

Establishes Farmland Assessment Review Commission to annually review and recommend changes to farmland assessment program, as necessary to ensure fair, equitable, and uniform Statewide application and enforcement of program requirements and allocation of program benefits.

Revises process for filling vacancy from this State in United States House of Representatives.

Prohibits food service businesses from providing single-use utensils and condiments to customers, except upon request, and requires certain food service businesses to provide reusable, washable utensils to customers eating on site.

Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.

Updates minimum allocation amounts and poison pill provisions related to revenues collected from hotel and motel occupancy fees.

Requires payment of prevailing wage for certain data center construction.

Expands New Jersey's certificate of need exemption list.

Extends certain provisions of the Municipal Stabilization and Recovery Act for five years.

Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of machine gun conversion device.

Revises certain membership requirements of Commission on Latino and Hispanic Heritage.

Provides expungement process for certain defendants who are victims of abuse if conviction is substantially related to abuse.

Establishes new mitigating factor, reduced sentencing, and resentencing for certain defendants who are victims of abuse.

Concerns Statewide Longitudinal Data System for Education and Workforce Development.

Establishes "Incarcerated Women's Protection Act" and concerns correctional facility board of trustees.

Creates Code Red alert pilot program to shelter at-risk individuals during certain hot weather and air quality events.

Requires certain preventive services to be provided on calendar year basis.

Provides for expansion of social services supports at county colleges.

Amends current child labor laws to protect minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances.

Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.

Concerns administration of employer payroll tax.

Clarifies licensure requirements of home improvement and home elevation contractors.

Expands provisions of P.L.2022, c.9 under certain circumstances.

Provides health care benefits to disabled members of TPAF and PERS.

Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.

Amends FY2026 annual appropriations act to increase Supplemental Graduate Medical Education Subsidy by $496,000 for support to additional acute care hospital.

Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for screening, prevention, and treatment services of behavioral health issues affecting children.

Enhances protections under Law Against Discrimination for persons serving in military and military veterans.

Requires DCF to expand services provided by NJ Statewide Student Support Services program to include eating disorder services.

Requires guidelines on student use of internet-enabled devices to be developed by DOE and policy to be adopted by governing body of each public school.

Allows State, municipality, and county to implement automatic enrollment of their employees in deferred compensation plans.

Directs Garden State Preservation Trust to perform audit of State's land preservation programs, authorizes local governments and nonprofit organizations to utilize certain constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for administrative expenses; appropriates $150,000.

Directs DEP to establish scrap tire hauler license and scrap tire storage, collection, and disposal site permit.

Requires each public institution of higher education to develop food waste reduction program on campus.

Requires DVA notify certain veteran organizations and county officers and municipal registers of names of persons buried or cremated in State veteran cemeteries.

Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.

Requires Commissioner of Department of Veterans Affairs to develop mobile application to provide guidance on available resources to veterans and their families.

Requires public transportation employees and certain motorbus operators to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking; requires inclusion of certain content in certain courses.