Legislation

Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 72 hours.

Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.

Requires State to offer surplus State Police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.

Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran’s or recipient’s special license plate or placard issued by MVC.

Requires certain CATV companies to provide Internet service at public libraries with business customer class Internet access bandwidth and circuit capacity proportional to public libraries’ needs.

Creates cigar night smoking ban exemption at racetracks and off-track wagering facilities.

Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeship tax credit program.

Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.

Requires public water systems to provide certain notice of boil water notices and violations of drinking water quality standards.

Provides for expansion of county transportation services to include disabled veterans; provides funding source for expansion.

Requires owners or operators of public community water systems to perform certain tests for Legionella bacteria.

Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.

Requires notification to collective bargaining unit of law enforcement officer prior to release of certain information to the public.

Establishes "Cop 2 Cop Sustainability Fund" to support "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" Cop 2 Cop telephone hotline program; appropriates $500,000.

Changes membership of board of trustees of SPRS to remove requirement that two members be private citizens.

Concerns conditions of employment of certain cannabis workers.

Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships Program"; amends law concerning NJ infrastructure Bank; and authorizes certain energy contracts under "Public School Contracts Law" and "Local Public Contracts Law" up to 25 years.

Appropriates $393,480,000 from "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; establishes process for authorizing future appropriations for debt defeasance and capital projects.

esignates first week of May of each year as Wounded Warrior Appreciation Week.

Establishes uniform rates for water and sewer services for residential use based exclusively on metered consumption.

Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.

Requires DCA to verify income of low-income home energy assistance benefit applicants.

Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether microgrid and distributed energy resource deployment will reduce length of power outages.

Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.

Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.

Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.

Allows utility lines necessary for certain solar energy generation facilities to cross municipally-owned preserved open space under certain circumstances.

Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.

Requires employers to post information concerning veterans' benefits and services.

Requires owners of certain buildings to test drinking water for Legionella bacteria.

Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.

Makes supplemental appropriation of $650,000 to New Jersey Division of State Police for trooper recruitment and retention.

Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations; appropriates $750,000.

Requires BPU to develop program to promote certain energy businesses in State.*

Permits purchase of service credit in PERS, TPAF, PFRS, and SPRS for period of enrollment in military service academy.

Expands Division of State Police rank and grade titles.

Recognizes 138th anniversary of Knights of Columbus.

Urges United States Department of Veterans Affairs to establish inpatient hospital facility at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.