Bills & Legislation

Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Codifies federal regulations requiring bilingual materials and services for SNAP under certain circumstances.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires licensed health care professionals providing prenatal care to offer and screen, upon request, pregnant patients with history of depression for postpartum depression.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires DCA, in consultation with Commission on Human Trafficking, to establish Statewide initiative for Red Sand Project.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes the "New Jersey Feminine Hygiene Product Donations Immunity Act."

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires non-invasive prenatal testing for pregnant persons and health insurance coverage for non-invasive prenatal testing.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Prohibits use of education, occupation, and credit score as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires private health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover wigs under certain circumstances.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires DOH to collect and coordinate data on language proficiency of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits domestic violence by strangling victim be detained prior to trial.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Provides police officers may be present at senior residential center or school being used as polling place under certain circumstances; requires school to establish election day security plan.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires DOE to develop credential to introduce teachers to culturally responsive teaching practices, characteristics, and methods.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Children.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Directs State Board of Education to authorize issuance of new endorsements in certain fields.

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Revises eligibility for Educational Opportunity Fund grants and campus-based Educational Opportunity Fund programs.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes five-year conception to cradle pilot program in DOE.

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Establishes Office of New Americans in Department of Human Services.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes emergency teacher endorsements in certain circumstances.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Expands membership of State Health Benefits Commission and School Employees' Health Benefits Commission.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Extends duration of law requiring certain provider subsidy payments for child care services be based on enrollment.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes Department of Early Childhood.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires public schools to offer or expand summer school programs to students.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires VCCO to provide certain emergency assistance and establish hotline.

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Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.

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Establishes summer transition pilot program for rising kindergarten students who meet certain criteria.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires institutions of higher education to adopt affirmative consent standard and other policies regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

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Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for endometriosis.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires certain officers of education organizations to sign acknowledgement and undergo training concerning duties to report child abuse.

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Establishes tuition reimbursement program for students enrolled in certain private postsecondary educational schools.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes "Summer Earn and Learn Pilot Program."

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Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.

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Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.

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Requires distribution of family leave informational materials to certain patients.

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Establishes Emerging Technology Urban Grant Program in EDA.

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Requires disclosure of cellular telephone transmitters upon sale or lease of certain residential property.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Establishes NJEDA urban farming grant and loan program.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires State to reimburse counties for portion of holiday pay to county employees performing State services on certain holidays.

M. Teresa RuizDemocrat

Requires owners of multiple dwellings with at least nine units to provide certain maintenance services; permits municipalities to require owners of multiple dwellings with six to eight units to provide these services.

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Eliminates requirement for State residency of public school employees for period of three years.

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Requires installation of diaper changing station in certain public restrooms.

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Provides supplemental appropriation of $20 million for loan redemption program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Requires DOC to provide prenatal and post-partum education and services for certain inmates.

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