Governor Murphy Takes Action on Legislation

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

S-684/A-2334 (Singer, Diegnan/Tully, Swain, Sampson) – Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow for service contracts to be paused or canceled following service recipient’s admission to long-term care facility

S-720/A-4168 (Burgess, Vitale/Reynolds-Jackson, Atkins, Stanley) – Requires DCPP to consult with Division of Developmental Disabilities following finding of child abuse or neglect to create services plan for person with developmental disability under certain circumstances

S-2331/A-3517 (Ruiz, Vitale/Speight, McCoy, Haider) – “Equitable Outcomes in Child Support Collection Act”; establishes procedures regarding collection of child support on behalf of children in custody of DCPP

S-3179/A-2941 (Cryan/Schaer, Wimberly) – Concerns certain emergency operations plans required to be submitted to law enforcement agencies

S-3308/A-4513 (Scutari, Greenstein/Speight, Karabinchak, Wimberly) – Requires electric public utilities to implement certain improvements to interconnection process for certain grid supply solar facilities and energy storage facilities

S-3879/A-5123 (Timberlake/Morales, Carter, Miller) – Amends lists of projects eligible to receive loans for environmental infrastructure projects from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2025

S-3880/A-5124 (Lagana/Swain, Park, Freiman) – Amends list of hazard mitigation and resilience projects approved for funding by NJ Infrastructure Bank under FY2025 Community Hazard Assistance Mitigation Program

S-3881/A-5122 (Cruz-Perez, Beach/Rodriguez, Bailey, Bagolie) – Amends lists of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding by DEP under FY2025 environmental infrastructure funding program

S-3921/A-5090 (Sarlo/Calabrese) – Reallocates standardbred horse racing purse subsidies from Freehold Raceway to Meadowlands Racetrack under certain circumstances

S-3922/A-5120 (Zwicker, Turner/Peterpaul, Verrelli, Moen) – Appropriates $18,518,738 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses

S-3936/A-5119 (Singleton, Johnson/Drulis, Sampson, Murphy) – Appropriates $60 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects

SJR-76/AJR-101 (Ruiz, Turner/Lampitt, Matsikoudis, Rodriguez) – Designates second Friday in December of each year as “PSRPs in Our Schools Day” in New Jersey to recognize contributions of paraprofessionals and school-related personnel (PSRPs)

A-4571/S-3472 (Calabrese, Lopez, Verrelli/Zwicker, Johnson) – Makes various changes to powers and duties of NJ Infrastructure Bank

A-4968/S-3839 (Calabrese, Carter/Diegnan, Mukherji) – Modifies list of transportation infrastructure projects eligible to receive loans from NJ Infrastructure Bank for FY2025

A-5121/S-3943 (Katz, Egan, Collazos-Gill/Vitale, Diegnan) – Appropriates $49.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and Green Acres Program administrative costs