Sports Gaming, Cracking Down on “Pink”, Child Marriage Ban, Requiring Schools to Maintain Narcan Supply, Providing Lactation Rooms in PANYNJ Airports Top Thursday Assembly Session
Sports Gaming, Cracking Down on “Pink”, Child Marriage Ban, Requiring Schools to Maintain Narcan Supply, Providing Lactation Rooms in PANYNJ Airports Top Thursday Assembly Session
Also on Tap: Smoking Ban, Helping Displaced Professionals from Puerto Rico, Combating Maternal Mortality Rates, Allowing Impoundment of All-Terrain Vehicles/Dirt Bikes Used in Crimes, Parking Privileges for Healthcare Workers, Establishing Loan Program for NJ’s Wineries, Deregulating Hair Braiding & Updating Shore Protection Master Plan
PLUS: Senate Will Take Action on Assembly Gun Safety Bills
(TRENTON) – Legalizing sports gaming, cracking down on “pink”, a powerful synthetic opioid stronger than heroin, banning marriage for anyone under 18, requiring schools to maintain a supply of narcan and providing lactation rooms at certain PANYNJ airports top Thursday’s Assembly voting session.
Also up: helping displaced professionals from Puerto Rico who relocated to New Jersey, smoking ban at public beaches and parks, studying the cause and rates of maternal death in the state, developing New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care, authorizing parking privileges for certain healthcare workers, improving the review process of low-income home energy assistance program applications, allowing impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes used in crimes, establishing loan program to support the state’s wineries, exempting hair braiders from cosmetology licensing requirement and requiring DEP to Update Shore Protection Master Plan.
The Senate will also take action on the following Assembly gun safety bills:
- A-1181 (Jones/Mosquera/Sumter/Downey/Barclay) – Requires firearms seizure when mental health professional determines patient poses threat of harm to self or others.
- A-1217 (McKeon) – Authorizes gun violence restraining orders and firearm seizure warrants.
- A-2757 (Greenwald/Holley) – Requires background check for private gun sales.
- A-2758 (Greenwald) – Codifies regulations defining justifiable need to carry handgun.
- A-2759 (Greenwald/Murphy) – Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
- A-2761 (Greenwald) – Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation.
The Assembly voting session is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. and will be streamed live at:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
| Bill No. | Sponsor | Description | ||
| A-542 Aca | Mazzeo, Vincent /Lagana, Joseph A. /Andrzejczak, Bob /Zwicker, Andrew /Land, R. Bruce /Benson, Daniel R. /Downey, Joann |
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee. | ||
| A-837 Aca | Land, R. Bruce /Andrzejczak, Bob /DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Mazzeo, Vincent |
Requires public utility to charge veterans’ organization residential rate for service delivered to property at which veterans’ organization primarily operates. | ||
| A-1029 | Johnson, Gordon M. /Schaer, Gary S. |
Allows municipality to issue permits to sell alcoholic beverages in residential redevelopment areas. | ||
| A-1045 Aca | Houghtaling, Eric /Downey, Joann /Muoio, Elizabeth Maher /Dancer, Ronald S. |
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey. | ||
| A-1093 Aca | Downey, Joann /Pinkin, Nancy J. |
Requires DEP to update Shore Protection Master Plan. | ||
| A-1531 Aca | Zwicker, Andrew /Lopez, Yvonne /Mukherji, Raj |
Revises law concerning reciprocity for out-of-State professional and occupational licenses. | ||
| A-1862 Aca | Lampitt, Pamela R. /Mukherji, Raj /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Sumter, Shavonda E. |
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Commission to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal death in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care. | ||
| A-2004 Aa | Karabinchak, Robert J. /Mazzeo, Vincent /Pinkin, Nancy J. /Coughlin, Craig J. |
Requires municipality to pay nonresidential property tax appeal refunds in equal installments over period of three years. | ||
| A-2015 Aca | Coughlin, Craig J. /Lagana, Joseph A. /Holley, Jamel C. /Andrzejczak, Bob |
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises. | ||
| A-2169 Aca | Mazzeo, Vincent /Armato, John /Kennedy, James J. |
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, and possession of controlled dangerous substance U-47700, known as U-4 or “Pink.” | ||
| A-2366 | Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Mukherji, Raj /Benson, Daniel R. |
Requires DOH to develop New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care. | ||
| A-2484 | Benson, Daniel R. /Jimenez, Angelica M. |
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for ovarian cancer research. | ||
| A-2504 | Pinkin, Nancy J.
/Murphy, Carol A. /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie |
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports. | ||
| A-2544 | DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Houghtaling, Eric |
Requires DCA to provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update its low-income home energy assistance program handbook, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program. | ||
| A-3683 Aca | Murphy, Carol A. /McKnight, Angela V. /Jones, Patricia Egan |
Authorizes parking privileges for certain healthcare workers who render care at patients’ home residences. | ||
| A-3754 | McKnight, Angela V. /Speight, Shanique /Barclay, Arthur |
Exempts persons providing hair braiding services from licensure requirement, requires registration of hair braiding establishments. | ||
| A-3798 | Mazzeo, Vincent
/Calabrese, Clinton /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie |
Revises “New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act” to prohibit smoking at public beaches and parks. | ||
| A-3808 Aca | Greenwald, Louis D. /Bramnick, Jon M. /Murphy, Carol A. |
Provides for prompt payment of public contracts for purchase of goods and services. | ||
| A-3888 Aca | Houghtaling, Eric /Downey, Joann /Egan, Joseph V. |
Allows issuance of additional alcoholic beverage licenses within boundaries of formerly federally owned or operated military installations. | ||
| A-4111 | Houghtaling, Eric
/Burzichelli, John J, /Downey, Joann /Caputo, Ralph R. /Mukherji, Raj
|
Authorizes wagering at casinos and racetracks on results of certain professional or collegiate sports or athletic events. | ||
| AJR-26 Aca | Downey, Joann /Houghtaling, Eric /Quijano, Annette /Mosquera, Gabriela M. /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Benson, Daniel R. /Eustace, Tim /Jasey, Mila M. /McKnight, Angela V. |
Designates September of each year as “Youth Suicide Prevention Awareness Month” in New Jersey. | ||
| AR-45 | Thomson, Edward H.
/Mazzeo, Vincent /Armato, John |
Urges President and Congress to enact “Transparent Summer Flounder Quotas Act.” | ||
| S-332
(A-3251) |
Cruz-Perez, Nilsa
(Taliaferro, Adam J.) |
Authorizes impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes for certain crimes and offenses. | ||
| S-427
(A-865) |
Pou, Nellie
/Weinberg, Loretta /Cunningham, Sandra B. (Munoz, Nancy F. |
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union. | ||
| S-1057 Sca
(A-1046 Aca) |
Van Drew, Jeff
/Gopal, Vin (Houghtaling, Eric |
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses. | ||
| S-1974
(A-3461) |
Beach, James
/Cruz-Perez, Nilsa (Zwicker, Andrew |
Requires petitions of nomination of candidates for State, county, school, or municipal elective public office to include functioning e-mail addresses therefor. |
