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

A-3035/S-4134 (Calabrese, Speight/Diegnan, Smith) - Prohibits certain vehicles from parking in electric vehicle charging spaces under certain circumstances

A-4603/S-3662 (Freiman, Sauickie, Peterpaul/Singleton, Space) - Allows commercial farmer to be awarded reasonable costs and attorney fees for defending against bad faith complaints under “Right to Farm Act”

A-5049/S-3812 (Greenwald, Sampson, Karabinchak, Hutchison/Beach, A.M. Bucco) - w/STATEMENT - Removes certain limitations on receipt of retirement or death benefits under PFRS under certain circumstances

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A-5688/S-4475 (Pintor Marin/Ruiz) - Imposes surcharge on hotel occupancies in certain municipalities to fund fire services; provides for appropriation

A-5857/S-4621 (Reynolds-Jackson, Verrelli/Greenstein, Turner) - Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus property certain land and improvements in City of Trenton and Township of Lawrence in Mercer County

Governor Murphy conditionally vetoed the following bills: 

A-3802/S-3061 (Reynolds-Jackson, Wimberly, Freiman/Burgess, Pennacchio) – CONDITIONAL – Differentiates certain legal services from traditional insurance products

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A-4331/S-3227 (Speight, Atkins, Bagolie/McKnight, Turner) – CONDITIONAL –Establishes licensure for cosmetic retail services

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A-4712/S-3504 (Tucker, Marenco/Cryan, Vitale, Johnson) – CONDITIONAL –Establishes Office of Veteran Advocate and ombudsman for DMVA; appropriates funds

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A-5130/S-4128 (Schnall, Karabinchak, Calabrese/Moriarty, Wimberly) – CONDITIONAL – Requires enforcing agency to conduct inspection of construction in specified time window

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A-5264/S-4100 (Karabinchak, Haider, Spearman/McKeon, Greenstein) – CONDITIONAL – Requires establishment of automated platform to expedite construction code approval of applications to install residential solar energy systems

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A-5309/S-4147 (Simmons, Freiman, Donlon/Burzichelli, McKnight) -– CONDITIONAL – Permits up to three credits of continuing medical education on menopause to be used by advanced practice nurses and physicians for license renewal

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A-5847/S-4608 (Coughlin/Sarlo) – CONDITIONAL – Extends deadline for completion of school district’s annual audit for 2024-2025 school yea

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A-5854/S-4614 (Azzariti/Schepisi, Sarlo) – CONDITIONAL – Allows certain motor vehicle franchisors to sell, lease, or assign vehicles to employees

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Governor Murphy absolute vetoed the following bills:

A-3323/S-3713 (Wimberly, Reynolds-Jackson, Simonsen/Polistina, Turner) –ABSOLUTE – Requires pay for extracurricular activities to be included in compensation for TPAF purposes

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A-4971/S-3891 (Simmons, Bailey, Reynolds-Jackson/Burzichelli, Singleton) – ABSOLUTE – Requires EDA to provide grants to certain small businesses affected by State infrastructure and construction projects 

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