Governor Phil Murphy

Governor Murphy Takes Action on Legislation

02/4/2021

TRENTON – Today, Governor Phil Murphy signed the following bills into law:

S-2384/A-4129 (Greenstein, Gill/Spearman, Vainieri Huttle, Mukherji) – Requires health care facilities to report certain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data related to health care workers and certain first responders

S-2607/A-2785 (Smith, Greenstein/Benson, McKeon) – Requires land use plan element of municipal master plan to include climate change-related hazard vulnerability assessment

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S-3220/A-5122 (Sweeney, Turner, Cruz-Perez/Spearman, Dancer, Johnson) – Permits exemption from civil service law enforcement examination requirement for entry level-law enforcement officers
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S-3230/A-5115 (Greenstein, Corrado/Moriarty, Conaway, Calabrese, Chiaravalloti) – Appropriates $30.387 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects

S-3256/A-5084 (Scutari, Ruiz/Kennedy, Calabrese) – Reclassifies possession of psilocybin as disorderly persons offense

A-4941/S-3122 (Mejia/Sacco) – Authorizes State Treasurer to sell and convey certain surplus real property located in Town of Secaucus, Hudson County

A-4943/S-3092 (Wirths, Space, Bergen/Oroho) – Authorizes State Treasurer to sell and convey certain surplus real property located in Borough of Franklin, Sussex County

A-5113/S-3235 (Timberlake, Sumter, Caputo/Beach, Pou) – Appropriates $11,777,499 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses

A-5114/S-3229 (DeAngelo, Speight, Swain/Codey, Corrado) – Appropriates $37.16 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects 

A-5116/S-3196 (Johnson, Auth, Schepisi/Cardinale, Smith) – Authorizes State Treasurer to sell and convey certain surplus real property located in the Township of Mahwah, County of Bergen 

Governor Murphy conditionally vetoed the following bill:

S-3252/A-5089 (Vitale) – CONDITIONAL – Clarifies that County Option Hospital Fee Pilot Program expires five years after each participating county has collected fee and that participating counties in program are not liable for fee imposed on hospitals

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Governor Murphy absolute vetoed the following bill:

S-3283/A-5151 (Addiego, Lagana, Gopal/Egan, Armato, Downey, Bramnick) – ABSOLUTE – Concerns emergency unemployment benefits and shared work benefits

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