EITC Increase, Work First New Jersey Boost & Rental Assistance for 1,000 More Families among Bills on Tap
(TRENTON) – The Assembly will meet Monday to vote on a host of bills including asking voters to approve North Jersey casino gaming, reforming the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, ensure gender pay equity and combat poverty, including increasing a tax credit for the working poor, boosting benefits for needy families and providing 1,000 more households with rental assistance.
The session is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. and will be streamed live at:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
Bill No. Sponsor Description
A-30 Aca Prieto, Vincent
/Muoio, Elizabeth Maher
/Oliver, Sheila Y.
/Schaer, Gary S.
/Holley, Jamel C.
/Mukherji, Raj Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
A-40 Prieto, Vincent
/Schaer, Gary S. Increases New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit to 40 percent of federal benefit amount beginning in Tax Year 2016.
A-152 Tucker, Cleopatra G.
/Caputo, Ralph R.
/Giblin, Thomas P.
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Wimberly, Benjie E. Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
A-227 AcaAa DeAngelo, Wayne P.
/Mukherji, Raj
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/McKeon, John F.
/Coughlin, Craig J. Requires NJT to hold public hearing and provide notice prior to any curtailment of certain bus and rail services.
A-1000 Green, Jerry
/Prieto, Vincent
/Mukherji, Raj
/Oliver, Sheila Y. Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
A-1210 Mosquera, Gabriela M.
/Prieto, Vincent
/DeAngelo, Wayne P.
/Quijano, Annette
/Sumter, Shavonda
/Oliver, Sheila Y. Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
A-1346 Spencer, L. Grace
/Wimberly, Benjie E. Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
A-1378 Spencer, L. Grace
/Muoio, Elizabeth Maher
/Benson, Daniel R.
/Pintor Marin, Eliana
/Quijano, Annette Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
A-1657 Schaer, Gary S.
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Lampitt, Pamela R.
/Mosquera, Gabriela M.
/Sumter, Shavonda E.
/Wimberly, Benjie E. Establishes “breakfast after the bell” incentive fund.
A-1933 Coughlin, Craig J.
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Danielsen, Joe
/Wimberly, Benjie E. Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
A-2048 Gusciora, Reed
/Eustace, Tim
/Jasey, Mila M.
/Quijano, Annette
/Wimberly, Benjie E.
/Muoio, Elizabeth Maher Establishes “Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act”; appropriates $5 million.
A-2138 Aca Diegnan, Patrick J.
/Egan, Joseph V.
/Gusciora, Reed
/Lampitt, Pamela R.
/Jasey, Mila M.
/Mosquera, Gabriela M. Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
A-2199 Aca Singleton, Troy
/Holley, Jamel C.
/Rodriguez-Gregg, Maria
/Downey, Joann Establishes veterans’ preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
A-2404 Aca McKeon, John F. Requires, after study, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem, and requires DEP to adopt nutrient standards for NJ marine waters.
A-2565 Aca Benson, Daniel R.
/DeAngelo, Wayne P.
/Jasey, Mila M.
/Johnson, Gordon M.
/Mosquera, Gabriela M.
/Downey, Joann
/Zwicker, Andrew Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
A-2568 Aca Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Tucker, Cleopatra G.
/Sumter, Shavonda E.
/Oliver, Sheila Y. Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
A-2750 Lampitt, Pamela R.
/Muoio, Elizabeth Maher
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Downey, Joann
/Mukherji, Raj Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
A-2789 Greenwald, Louis D.
/Burzichelli, John J.
/DeAngelo, Wayne P.
/Mukherji, Raj Allows use of rear view backup camera and parking sensors during road test.
A-3417 Pintor Marin, Eliana Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 21 in City of Newark as “Roberto Clemente Memorial Highway.”
ACR-1 Caputo, Ralph R.
/Prieto, Vincent
/Schaer, Gary S.
/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Mukherji, Raj
/Lagana, Joseph A.
/Eustace, Tim
/Caride, Marlene
/Jimenez, Angelica M.
/Johnson, Gordon M.
/McKeon, John F.
/Giblin, Thomas P.
/Oliver, Sheila Y.
/Spencer, L. Grace
/Jasey, Mila M.
/Tucker, Cleopatra G.
/Pintor Marin, Eliana
/Dancer, Ronald S. Proposes constitutional amendment to authorize Legislature to permit by law establishment and operation of casinos in certain counties.
ACR-114 Singleton, Troy
/Holley, Jamel C. Encourages four-year public and independent institutions of higher education to offer baccalaureate degree programs that cost no more than $10,000 in tuition and fees.
ACR-119 Aca Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Quijano, Annette
/Tucker, Cleopatra G. Commemorates women’s access to reproductive health care and anniversary of Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.
ACR-128 Wimberly, Benjie E. Reconstitutes the “Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity.”
ACR-131 Diegnan, Patrick J.
/Jasey, Mila M. Expresses Legislature’s Objection to certain recommendations included in the Governor’s Education Adequacy Report.
AJR-21 Moriarty, Paul D.
/Diegnan, Patrick J.
/Holley, Jamel C. Designates first week of March as “Consumer Protection Week” in NJ.
AJR-46 Schaer, Gary S.
/Eustace, Tim
/Benson, Daniel R.
/Johnson, Gordon M.
/Pinkin, Nancy J. Creates the “New Jersey Biotechnology Task Force.”
S-708
(A-2184) Gordon, Robert M.
/Weinberg, Loretta
(Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Wisniewski, John S.
/Lagana, Joseph A.
/Eustace, Tim
/Handlin, Amy H.) Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ; and regulates capital planning process.