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Governor Murphy Takes Action on Legislation
TRENTON – Today, Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law:
S-530/A-5164 (Ruiz, Turner/Coughlin, Quijano, McKnight, Reynolds-Jackson) - Requires certain school meal information be provided to public school students' parents and requires school districts to request that families apply for school meals under certain circumstances
S-553/A-4238 (Zwicker/Conaway, Atkins) - Adds technology transfer duties to New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology
S-652/A-117 (Oroho, Pou/Space, Calabrese, Wirths) - Permits governing body of municipalities having population of 30,000 or less to serve as local board of health; validates certain actions
S-762/A-3786 (Pou, Cruz-Perez/Sumter, Reynolds-Jackson) - Concerns certification of tax collectors
S-765/A-3246 (Pou, Pennacchio/Lampitt, Schaer, Murphy) - Prohibits carrier from precluding dentist from billing covered person under certain circumstances
S-1211/A-1222 (Singleton, Gopal/Pintor Marin, Mukherji, Park) - Provides for civil actions against persons or entities profiting from commission of human trafficking offenses, or maintaining victims of such offenses
S-1228/A-4092 (Greenstein/Diegnan, Benson, Jaffer, Verrelli) - Allows certain airports to carry over certain grant money into future years
S-1892/A-4501 (Johnson, Schepisi/Park, Wimberly, Matsikoudis) - Authorizes certain boards of education to issue bonds to repair damages caused by natural disasters in certain circumstances
S-2057/A-1174 (Turner, Greenstein/Jasey, Benson, Quijano) - Requires certain documentation of needs of students with disabilities during school security drills and emergency situations and in school security plans; requires staff training on needs of students with disabilities in emergency planning
S-2716/A-4153 (Vitale, Turner/Carter, McKnight, Atkins) - Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances
S-2789/A-3793 (Cruz-Perez, Johnson/Benson, Wimberly, Lopez) - Requires certain permit holders to complete practice driving hours to obtain probationary driver's license
S-3013/A-5062 (Scutari, Pou/Carter, Atkins, Stanfield) - Revises definition of women's business enterprise and minority business enterprise
S-3079/A-4977 (Diegnan, Lagana/Lampitt, Benson, Wimberly) - Establishes School Safety and Security Task Force.
S-3409/A-4785 (Pou, Oroho/McKeon, Flynn, Wimberly) - Updates certain insurance company investment provisions in accordance with Investments of Insurers Model Act
S-3490/A-5124 (Smith/Stanley, Calabrese) - Amends certain requirements for installation of electric vehicle supply equipment and Make-Ready parking spaces
S-3604/A-5212 (Madden, Cruz-Perez/Murphy, Stanley) - Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services
S-3723/A-5365 (Smith/McKeon, Danielsen, Haider) – “Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Battery Management Act”
S-3916/A-5486 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Sauickie, Freiman, Rooney) - Expands eligibility for wildlife fencing programs to farmers leasing farmland; clarifies eligibility and provides for uniform funding levels for grant recipients
S-3969/A-5658 (Gopal/Freiman, Murphy) - Allows for credit against contract cost for primary care services managed by health care provider for public employees and their dependents; allows referrals to other providers that have contractual relationship with such health care provider
S-4081/A-5891 (Beach, Diegnan/Atkins, Carter) - Allows board of county commissioners to hold annual meeting at certain additional locations other than Superior Court
A-111/S-3201 (Space, Wirths, McCarthy Patrick/Oroho, Durr) - Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered lumber yard; prohibits sale of untreated firewood from outside of State
A-649/S-587 (McClellan, McKnight/Testa) - Expands purposes for which civil asset forfeiture funds may be used by law enforcement agency
A-831/S-461 (Jimenez, Rooney, Timberlake/Sacco, Greenstein) - Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification; establishes criminal history record background check process
A-1475/S-1809 (Lopez, Speight, Haider/Ruiz, Cunningham) - Requires court to consider information concerning coercive control in domestic violence proceedings
A-1507/S-1503 (McKnight, Carter, Speight/Gopal, Oroho) - Permits chair or booth rentals for the purpose of providing cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services
A-1570/S-2216 (Moen/Madden, Singleton) - Authorizes issuance of special license plates for alumni of four-year public institutions of higher education
A-1581/S-3880 (Moen, Benson, Conaway/Cruz-Perez, Turner) - Requires MVC to provide customer service telephone number at motor vehicle inspection facilities
A-1704/S-1000 (Speight, Pintor Marin, McKnight/Ruiz, Gopal) - Requires domestic violence orders to be issued in other languages in addition to English under certain circumstances
ACS for A-1707/S-3700 (Speight, McKnight, Karabinchak/Burgess, Ruiz) - Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victim of crime
A-2040/S-540 (Benson, McKnight/Ruiz, Pou) - Requires Commissioner of Human Services to request authorization for SNAP benefits to be used to pay delivery charges for online grocery purchases
A-2138/SCS for S-1890 (Moriarty, Mukherji, McKnight/Johnson, Singer) - Updates regulation of home improvement and home elevation contractors and contractors’ businesses
A-2351/S-2991 (Mukherji, Flynn, Murphy/Singleton) - Permits court to effectuate equitable distribution when complaint for divorce or dissolution of civil union has been filed and either party has died prior to final judgment; provides that surviving party would not receive intestate or elective share
A-3093/S-1516 (Stanley, Jaffer, Murphy/Greenstein, Gopal) - Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child
A-3737/S-3393 (Speight, Swain, McKnight/Ruiz, O'Scanlon) - Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign
A-4125/S-2712 (Haider, Swain, Stanley/Singleton, Greenstein) - Prohibits sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires DEP to establish collection and disposal program; appropriates $250,000
A-4614/S-3547 (Greenwald, Jasey, Carter, Lampitt/Pou, Vitale) - Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program
A-4729/S-3279 (Sauickie, Freiman, Clifton/Stanfield, Cruz-Perez) - Revises method for appraisals of farmland to be acquired for farmland preservation purposes
A-4757/S-3263 (Jimenez, Tucker, Atkins/Burgess, Turner) - Requires DCA to conduct surveys and report data related to homelessness in administering the Rental Assistance Navigation Program
A-4913/S-3133 (Conaway, Stanley, Wimberly/Johnson, Scutari) - Requires carriers to offer health care providers more than one method of payment for reimbursement
A-5036/S-3551 (Tully, Swain, Karabinchak, Lagana/A.M. Bucco) - Requires "Electronic Permit Processing Review System" in DCA to enable applicant to submit electronic signature and certain other submission materials for permit application review
A-5208/S-4082 (Coughlin, Munoz, Wimberly/Scutari, A.M. Bucco) - Extends provisions of P.L.2021, c.498 in certain circumstances
A-5281/S-2341 (Chaparro, Jimenez, Stanley/Johnson) - Eliminates position of constable; removes statutory references to constable; repeals various parts of statutory law; implements recommendation of SCI report concerning elimination of constables
A-5417/S-3890 (Lampitt, Jasey, Swain/Ruiz, Burgess) - Prohibits limiting number of county college credits that may be applied towards educator preparation program and teacher certification requirements
A-5501/SCS for S-3895 (Jasey/Zwicker, Sarlo, Ruiz) - Adjusts bid threshold amounts for certain public research universities; permits certain contracts for school districts, municipalities, and counties to be awarded by qualified purchasing agent
A-5648/S-3933 (Barranco, Rooney/A.M. Bucco) - Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus property certain land and improvements in Township of Morris in Morris County
A-5813/S-3392 (Wimberly, Sumter/Pou) - Exempts electricity sold to certain recovered materials manufacturing facilities from renewable energy portfolio standards
AJR-230/SJR-129 (Karabinchak, Schaer, Freiman/Diegnan, Beach, A.M. Bucco) - Recognizes 75th anniversary of establishment of State of Israel
Governor Murphy conditionally vetoed the following bills:
S-539/A-2140 (Ruiz, Pou/Reynolds-Jackson, Wimberly, Mosquera) - CONDITIONAL - Permits online purchase of eligible foods using WIC funds and use of WIC funds for grocery delivery charges
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S-1680/A-2257 (Pou, Ruiz/Murphy, Quijano, Wimberly) – CONDITIONAL - Designates each community college in State as provider of allowable services under SNAP employment and training program
S-2535/A-4048 (Polistina, Pou/Benson, McKnight, Reynolds-Jackson, Carter) – CONDITIONAL - Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for insureds aged 21 or younger
SCS for S-3632 and 3649/ACS for A-1948 (Johnson, Cryan/Haider, Conaway, Quijano) – CONDITIONAL - Requires labeling of non-flushable disposable wipes
A-2146/S-855 (Reynolds-Jackson, Wimberly, Sumter/Singleton, Beach) - CONDITIONAL - Creates State business assistance program to establish contracting agency procurement goals for socially and economically disadvantaged business enterprises
A-3092/S-2415 (Stanley, Jaffer, Mukherji/Gopal, Ruiz) – CONDITIONAL - Requires State agencies update demographic data collection methods on Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian and Indian Diaspora residents of this State
A-4033/S-2657 (Coughlin, Wimberly/Sarlo, Ruiz) – CONDITIONAL - Extends deadline for completion of school district's annual audit
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ACS for A-4821 and 4823/S-3283 (Karabinchak, Conaway, Schaer/Greenstein, Zwicker) – CONDITIONAL - Directs DEP to take certain actions concerning identification and testing of microplastics in drinking water, and requires DEP and BPU to study and promote use of microplastics removal technologies
A-5416/S-3883 (Wimberly, Giblin, Haider/Greenstein, Turner) – CONDITIONAL - Requires State Board of Education to authorize alternate route to expedite teacher certification of persons employed as paraprofessionals in school districts
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A-5610/S-3954 (Greenwald, Spearman, Chaparro/Beach, A.M. Bucco) – CONDITIONAL - Revises penalties for possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages by underage persons
Governor Murphy absolute vetoed the following bills:
ACS for A-3677 and 2807/SS for S-2186 (Stanley, Verrelli, Jaffer, Calabrese/Greenstein, Smith) – ABSOLUTE - Prohibits sale, distribution, import, export or propagation of certain invasive species without permit from Department of Agriculture; establishes NJ Invasive Species Council
A-5283/S-3939 (Tully, Greenwald, Mosquera/Lagana, Gopal) – ABSOLUTE - Requires calculation of national average time needed to approve applications for initial credential in profession or occupation and use of average time as standard in New Jersey