Monday Assembly Agenda Highlights
Monday Assembly Agenda Highlights:
Anti-Hunger Bill Package, NJ Transit Oversight & Accountability Reforms,
Helping Veterans Go to College,
& Making NJ Homes More Food Secure
Also: Vegetation Management Response Act, New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act, Alyssa’s Law, & Final Passage of Antwan’s Law
Plus: Bills Concerning Financial Literacy Instruction for Grades 6-8; New Jersey Non-Profit Security Pilot Program, & NJ Caregiver Task Force
(TRENTON) – Combat to College Act, continuing to strengthen New Jersey school bus safety regulations and a 14-bill package waging war against hunger in New Jersey will be considered during today’s Assembly voting session.
The full Assembly agenda can be found here.
The voting will begin at 1:00 PM and will be streamed live at:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
Agenda highlights include:
| A-1414 AcaSa | McKnight, Angela V.
/Chiaravalloti, Nicholas /Pintor Marin, Eliana /Holley, Jamel C. /Wimberly, Benjie E. /Quijano, Annette |
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight. | ||
| A-3906 AcaSa | Quijano, Annette /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Holley, Jamel C. /Karabinchak, Robert J. /Cryan, Joseph P. /Bateman, Christopher |
Revises the “New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program.” | ||
| A-4285 | Lopez, Yvonne /Quijano, Annette /Armato, John |
Requires Commissioner of Health to develop voluntary registry to collect cancer incidence data from firefighters. | ||
| S-959 Sca
(A-3514 AcaAca) |
Vitale, Joseph F.
/Greenstein, Linda R. (Lampitt, Pamela R. |
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services. | ||
| S-1208 Sca | Beach, James
/Oroho, Steven V. /Rooney, Kevin J. /Johnson, Gordon M. /Schaer, Gary S. /Pinkin, Nancy J. |
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State. | ||
| S-2846
(A-4304) |
Weinberg, Loretta
/Sweeney, Stephen M. /Beach, James (Greenwald, Louis D. |
Concerns law enforcement officers’ ability to possess and carry certain ammunition magazines. | ||
| A-764 AcaScaSca w/GR | Caputo, Ralph R.
/Tucker, Cleopatra G. /Quijano, Annette /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Sumter, Shavonda E. /McKnight, Angela V. /Conaway, Herb /Houghtaling, Eric /Rice, Ronald L. /Ruiz, M. Teresa /Bucco, Anthony M. |
“Alyssa’s Law”; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement. | ||
| A-790 | Andrzejczak, Bob
/Land, R. Bruce /Mosquera, Gabriela M. /Mukherji, Raj /Downey, Joann /Zwicker, Andrew /Mazeo, Vincent |
“Combat to College Act”; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education. | ||
| A-2558 AcaAca | DeAngelo, Wayne P.
/Wirths, Harold J. /Space, Parker |
“Vegetation Management Response Act”; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure. | ||
| A-4134 Aca | Freiman, Roy /Mukherji, Raj /Murphy, Carol A. |
“New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act”; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers. | ||
| A-4700 AcaAca | Greenwald, Louis D.
/Coughlin, Craig J. |
“Food Desert Elimination Act”; provides incentives to supermarkets and grocery stores that locate in “food deserts.” | ||
| A-4701 Aca | Spearman, William W. /Chiaravalloti, Nicholas /Mukherji, Raj /Quijano, Annette |
Requires DHS to establish electronic portal to promote surplus food donation collaboration among nonprofit organizations, gleaners, and food retailers. | ||
| A-4702 Aca | Wimberly, Benjie E. /Jasey, Mila M. /Mukherji, Raj |
“Hunger-Free Campus Act”; requires Secretary of Higher Education to establish grant program to address food insecurity among students enrolled in public institutions of higher education; appropriates $1 million. | ||
| A-4703 Aca | Lopez, Yvonne /Holley, Jamel C. /Kennedy, James J. |
Requires Chief Technology Officer to establish “Anti-Hunger Link” for all State websites, providing information on emergency food services. | ||
| A-4704 Aca | Taliaferro, Adam J. /Murphy, Carol A. /Verrelli, Anthony S. |
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish food desert produce pilot program. | ||
| A-4705 AcaAca | Carter, Linda S. /Benson, Daniel R. /Mejia, Pedro |
Establishes New Jersey Food Waste Task Force to make recommendations concerning food waste in New Jersey. | ||
| A-4707 | Tucker, Cleopatra G. /Downey, Joann /Calabrese, Clinton |
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to establish public awareness campaign for food waste. | ||
| A-4708 Aca | Houghtaling, Eric /Andrzejczak, Bob |
Establishes Farm Liaison in Department of Agriculture. | ||
| ACR-204 | Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina /DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Murphy, Carol A. |
Urges New Jersey Supreme Court to promote public awareness campaign for food growers to register as placement worksites for community service programs. | ||
| AJR-60 | DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Lopez, Yvonne /Chiaravalloti, Nicholas |
Designates November of each year as “Food Pantry Donation Month” in New Jersey. | ||
| AJR-87 | Murphy, Carol A.
/Mosquera, Gabriela M. /Pinkin, Nancy J. |
Designates January 11 of each year as “Alice Paul Day” in New Jersey. | ||
| AJR-172 | Downey, Joann /Johnson, Gordon M. /Holley, Jamel C. |
Designates Thursday of third week of September of each year as “Food Waste Prevention Day” in New Jersey. | ||
| AJR-174 Aca | Mejia, Pedro /Benson, Daniel R. /Quijano, Annette |
Urges large food retailers in State to reduce food waste. | ||
| S-630 ScaScaAca
(A-1241 Aca) |
Gordon, Robert M.
/Weinberg, Loretta (McKeon, John F. |
Provides governance, oversight, and accountability reforms at NJT. | ||
| S-1484
(A-3576) |
Singleton, Troy
(Murphy, Carol A. /Conaway, Herb /Benson, Daniel R.) |
“Antwan’s Law”; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School. |
