New Jersey Votes

Expands and extends New Jersey's film tax-credit program, raising the studio cap to $300M (within a $550M overall cap), adding 4-9% promo/investment and 4.5% relocation/hiring bonuses, doubling the diversity bonus to 4%, and loosening access/reporting rules.

Requires all public schools (and nonpublic schools in federal meal programs) to follow the USDA's 2012 school-meal standards and any stricter updates, extending them to competitive foods (cafeteria and vending snacks).

Requires the N.J. Department of State to post and keep updated an online "Reproductive Health Travel Advisory" summarizing other states' abortion restrictions.

Prohibits non-electric vehicles from parking in EV-only charging spaces, with violators facing fines up to $50, jail for up to 15 days, or both.

Designates June 2025 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month in New Jersey.

Mandates use of the ISO firearms-and-ammunition MCC. Payment networks must offer it, and acquirers must assign it to qualified merchants.

Imposes 2.5 percent corporate transit fee on taxpayers with allocated taxable net income in excess of $10 million under the Corporation Business Tax (CBT).

Increases the required training hours for licensure in cosmetology-hairstyling and massage and bodywork therapy from 500 hours to 600 hours. This change aligns with federal aid eligibility for individuals seeking these licenses.

Mandates that projects financed under the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program comply with prevailing-wage requirements, ensuring workers receive no less than the prevailing-wage rate.

Exempts the sale of certain investment metal bullion and investment coins from New Jersey's sales and use tax.

Urges Congress to renew funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides discounted broadband access to low-income households.

Requires the New Jersey Treasury Department to establish a standardized LGBTQ+ business certification process for businesses at least 51% owned and controlled by LGBTQ+ individuals.

Exempts sales of investment metal bullion and investment coins from sales and use tax.

Requires the establishment of a new state website with information on "rights" related to "health benefits" coverage for reproductive "health care" services, meaning abortion services.

Empowers the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) and New Jersey film-lease partner facilities to determine investment terms collectively.

Supports New Jersey's offshore wind projects by allowing owners and investors of these wind projects to keep certain federal tax benefits.

Establishes the "Sustainable New Jersey Fund" in the Department of Environmental Protection to support certain sustainability initiatives.

Increases the minimum monthly benefit under State SNAP Minimum Benefits Program from $50 to $95 and authorizes Department of Human Services (DHS) to increase program benefit amount.

Would allocate 45 million dollars over three years to the purchase and maintenance of electric school busses.

Appropriates $50,640,229,000 in State funds and $24,082,639,850 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2022-2023.

Changes the minimum eligible age from 18 to 21 that an individual must be to purchase firearms.

Moves almost 5.2 billion dollars to the "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund."

Establishes a New Jersey Minority, Women, and Underserved Farmer Registry.

Mandates that individuals who serve in the legislature must undergo implicit bias and cultural competency training.

Codifies into law an absolute "right" to abortion in New Jersey, including late-term abortion, and abortions performed by non-physicians.

Rescinds New Jersey's prior resolutions calling on Congress to organize a constitutional convention.

Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for a wide-ranging variety of consumer goods, including showerheads and computers.

Requires New Jersey school districts to add radical lesson plans on diversity and equity to K-12 public school curriculums.

Loosens voting standards by extending deadlines on ballot receipt and election certification, allowing surrogates to request ballots for others, and creating vote-by-mail awareness materials.

AB2394 creates recruitment and selection programs to increase police hirings of women and minorities, with a reporting requirement.