All Roll Calls
Yes: 180 • No: 42
New JerseyS1107221st Legislature (2026-2027)SenateWALLET
Amends Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations act to reassign appropriation for City of Camden for Capital Projects to Parkside Business & Community in Partnership.
Sponsored By: Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez (Democratic), William F. Moen Jr. (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 3 mixed.
State sets mercury safeguards for children's facilities
Beginning December 1, 2026, New Jersey's health commissioner must set flooring safety rules with the environmental commissioner. Rules cover schools, community centers, and child care centers, including air standards, flooring reviews, exposure controls, compliance, and certification applications. They must follow the state's rulemaking process and match applicable federal and state indoor-air standards. The departments must post and update a public list of flooring known or suspected to release mercury vapor. The list identifies types needing manufacturer certification and includes poured polyurethane flooring made from 1960 through 2005. The health commissioner must review the recommended airborne mercury limit at least every five years. Review is also due within 90 days after a related federal air-quality rule update, whichever comes sooner. The commissioner must consider current science, health recommendations, and regulatory updates, revising the limit when needed. Revisions must appear in the New Jersey Register and health department guidance.
Flooring makers face fines for false certifications
Beginning December 1, 2026, manufacturers face fines for falsely certifying covered flooring as mercury-free. The civil penalty is $10,000 for a first offense and $25,000 for each later offense. Local enforcing agencies can enforce these penalties through the state's summary penalty process.
Families get public mercury test results
Beginning December 1, 2026, covered facilities must retest mercury-containing flooring every three years if it initially passed air tests. They must reassess within 90 days after heating, cooling, ventilation, structural, or renovation work that could affect ventilation or flooring integrity. Facilities must report test results, mercury levels, and exposure-reduction actions to New Jersey's health department. They must also keep records publicly available to parents, guardians, and staff. The health department, working with the environmental department, must maintain a public online database of facilities tested under the law. It must include flooring, cleanup, reported retests and results, and facilities still noncompliant because they failed to submit required reports. Updates are required at least annually, by July 31.
Mercury checks and fees for school flooring
Beginning December 1, 2026, New Jersey requires mercury safety checks for flooring permits in schools, community centers, and child care centers. Public and private facilities are covered, regardless of ownership. Flooring types identified by state agencies as mercury risks need manufacturer certification that they are mercury-free. Existing flooring has alternatives: mercury-free certification, air testing showing levels within the limit, or steps that bring levels within it. The health department must certify that mercury-free existing flooring needs no removal when applicants follow its procedures. Permits can also cover work needed for compliance, but only that work. Building owners handle testing, certification, exposure controls, or removal for covered flooring installed before the current facility moved in. Facilities that own their buildings bear that duty themselves. Each health department certification application carries a fee based on review and processing costs; the law sets no dollar amount. Fees go into a separate account used only to administer and enforce certification requirements and related rules.
Unsafe flooring removal protects kids and staff
Beginning December 1, 2026, covered facilities must remove flooring when mercury vapor stays above the recommended maximum after exposure-reduction steps fail. Removal and disposal are due within six months after the final air assessment confirms that failure, before new flooring is installed. New Jersey's health department can grant one extension of up to six months for good cause, such as contractor shortages. The environmental department must set removal and disposal standards and inspect removal sites. Removal must follow hazardous-waste rules, safe-disposal standards, environmental best practices, and applicable federal and state law.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez
Democratic • Senate
William F. Moen Jr.
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Yvonne Lopez
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/23/2026
3RDG FINAL PASSAGE
Yes: 54 • No: 19
Senate vote • 3/23/2026
3RDG FINAL PASSAGE
Yes: 36 • No: 2
Senate vote • 3/23/2026
3RDG FINAL PASSAGE
Yes: 90 • No: 21 • Other: 9
Actions Timeline
Governor: APP
5/7/2026GovernorApproved by Governor — P.L.2026, c.10.
5/7/2026GovernorPassed Assembly, PBH — (54-19-0)
3/23/2026HouseSubstituted for A2408
3/23/2026HouseReceived in Assembly, Without Reference, 2nd Reading in Assembly
3/23/2026HousePassed Senate — (36-2)
3/23/2026SenateReported, 2nd Reading in Senate
3/5/2026SenateIntroduced, 1st Reading in Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee
1/13/2026Senate
Bill Text
Version PL2026
9/17/2026
Version AL2026
8/13/2026
Senate Community and Urban Affairs (3/5/26 TR)
3/24/2026
Senate Community and Urban Affairs Substitute (3/5/26)
3/6/2026
As Introduced
12/30/2025
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