Lame Duck Priorities
John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey
Privacy Protection Act
Protects economic opportunities for New Jersey's low-income communities and ensure that transportation remains accessible in undererved areas throughout the state
Codifies the Immigrant Trust Directive
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Legislation to
ADVOCATE FOR
Prohibits use of education, occupation and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Last Updated
1.29.2021
Amends State Constitution to prohibit slavery or involuntary servitude
Last Updated
3.17.2021
Revises eligibility for convicted drug offenders to receive general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program
Last Updated
9.17.2020
Establishes law enforcement procedures for responding to immigration detainer and certain requests issued by federal immigration authorities.
Last Updated
8.10.2020
Concern's accomplice liability of law enforcement officers who fail to de-escalate and intervene when another officer commits offense.
Last Updated
8.24.2020
Provides for student recipients of educational opportunity funds to be exempt from 20 hour weekly work requirement ordinarily required for student SNAP participation.
Last Updated
10.6.2022
Establishes Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in Department of Law and Public Safety; appropriates $5.5 million.
Last Updated
3.23.23
Provides developer tax credits, and down payment assistance, for benefit of certain first-time homebuyers; addresses municipal affordable housing obligation; appropriates $25 million.
Last Updated
6.1.23
Clarifies that law enforcement officers who knowingly choke another person engages in the use of deadly force.
Last Updated
8.10.2020
Provides mortgage payment relief, consumer reporting protection, and eviction protection
Last Updated
10.29.2020
Urges U.S. Department of Treasury to place Harriet Tubman on $20 bill without delay
Last Updated
7.20.2020
Concerns discriminatory appraisals of property on basis of race, creed, color, national origin, or certain other characteristics.
Last Updated
11.21.22
Prohibits VCCO from denying award of compensation to victims with certain outstanding warrants and charges.
Last Updated
3.23.23
Clarifies that law enforcement officers who knowingly choke another person engages in the use of deadly force.
Last Updated
6.25.2020
Allows for immediate transport of person by local law enforcement officers under certain circumstances
Last Updated
9.17.2020
Requires AG to establish law enforcement officer use of force data collection reporting and collection reporting and collection system.
Last Updated
9.17.2020
Eliminates past conviction of indictable offenses as disqualifier for jury service
Last Updated
9.22.2022
Establishes "Resiliency and Environmental System Investment Charge Program
Last Updated
11.3.2022
Establishes presumption that VCCO will order payment to victims of crime; establishes five-year time limit to file claim.
Last Updated
2.16.23
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to issue annual report on emerging trends in prescription drug pricing; appropriates $900,000.
Last Updated
5.11.23
Legislation to
ADVOCATE AGAINST
Makes various revisions to requirements for obtaining a firearm purchaser identification card, permit to purchase a handgun, and permit to carry a handgun; codifies sensitive places in which firearms and destructive devices are prohibited.
Establishes crime of selling or purchasing marijuana from unlicensed businesses.
Revises various provisions of law governing construction of school facilities projects and operations of New Jersey Schools Development Authority.
Revises design of primary election ballots and certain primary election procedures; provides for ballots to be arranged by office block; removes State committee members from primary process; requires reporting on primary elections by Division of Elections.
Enhances penalties for possession, distribution, and manufacture of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Bills
PASSED
Appropriates $2 million to CRDA to support costs associated with hosting NAACP National Convention in Atlantic City
Requires Civil Service Commission to undertake various initiatives to increase diversity and inclusivity within law enforcement agencies.
Designates January of each year as "Muslim Heritage Month" in New Jersey.
A2839/S1614
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin
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A5415/S3780
Provides down pament assistance for benefit of certain first time homebuyers; establishes Resilient Home Construction Pilot Program
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S4250
Establishes Community Crisis Response Advisory Council and community crisis response teams pilot program; designates "Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act;" appropriates $12 million.*
Limits police presence at polling places and ballot drop boxes; prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of ballot drop box.
Establishes oversight database to aid in civil service hiring process for law enforcement officers; requires Statewide diversity analysis of law enforcement.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council
A5596/S3391
Establishes Urban Preservation Program in HMFA; requires federal funds to be made available to HMFA to support affordable housing rehabilitation and reconstruction​
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act,' and appropriates $23,220,000.
S50/A4
Reforms municipal responsibilities concerning provision of affordable housing; abolishes COAH; appropriates $16 million.
Creates two-year "Restorative and Transformation Justice for youths and Communities Pilot Program" in Juvenile Justice Commission.
Provides certain protections and rights for temporary laborers.
A536/S1616
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
A5595/S4026
Expands certain State programmatic interventions related to residential foreclosures​
Eliminates fees, liens, and warrants issued for Public Defender services