Monday Assembly Agenda Highlights
Monday Assembly Agenda Highlights:
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 Monday’s Assembly voting session.
The full Assembly agenda can be found here.
The voting will begin at 11:00 AM 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. |
