Governor Murphy takes action on legislation

TRENTON – Today, Governor Murphy signed the following bills:

S-2792/A-3697 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Spearman, Park, Simmons) – Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally appropriated CBT revenues and the 2009 Farmland Preservation Fund to the State Agriculture Development Committee for community planning grants to support farmland preservation.

S-2793/A-3698 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Reynolds-Jackson, Fantasia, Stanley) – Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally appropriated CBT revenues and the 2009 Farmland Preservation Fund to the State Agriculture Development Committee to award grants to certain nonprofit organizations for the protection of agricultural lands.

S-2825/A-3906 (Gopal/Peterpaul, Donlon, Flynn) – Eliminates the time limit on the issuance of additional liquor licenses within the boundaries of former federal military bases

S-3192/A-4454 (Diegnan, Moriarty/Freiman, Pintor Marin, DiMaio) – “Law to improve consumer protection in the real estate sector”

S-3275/A-4448 (Gopal, McKeon/Donlon, Pintor Marin, Wimberly) – Revises various provisions of the film and digital media content production tax credit program

S-3371/A-4457 (Pou, Singer/Freiman) – Revises the limits on net surrender and net withdrawal values ​​for certain annuity policies and contracts from $100,000 to $250,000.

S-3384/A-4426 (Burzichelli, Schepisi/Katz, Atkins, Drulis) – Provides funding to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for fiscal year 2025.

S-3385/A-4602 (Singleton/Lopez) – Concerns deadline for the municipality to report certain information on non-residential development charges

S-3474/A-4570 (Greenstein/Carter, Speight, Wimberly) – Makes $10,067,905 of constitutionally appropriated CBT revenues available to DEP for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes and for certain administrative expenses.

A-1677/S-3263 (Lampitt, Bagolie, Stanley/Diegnan, Turner) – Approves longer lease and purchase agreements for electric school buses; allows the New Jersey School Boards Association to serve as a state aggregator to obtain energy services for local entities

A-3772/S-2334 (McCann Stamato, Sampson, Lopez/Stack, McKnight) – Revises the process for a property tax lien holder to forfeit the right to redeem the property tax lien; allows the property owner to protect his or her remaining equity

A-4046/S-3303 (Pintor Marin, Spearman/Pou, Mukherji) – Extends certain relief for companies participating in government economic development programs

A-4425/S-3383 (Ramirez, Spearman, Atkins/Gopal, Mukherji) – Authorizes the NJ Infrastructure Bank to spend certain amounts to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2025

A-4458/S-3342 (Sumter, Sampson/Greenstein, Sarlo) – Establishes exceptions and revises the timeline for implementation of the requirement that newly constructed townhouses be equipped with automatic sprinkler systems.

A-4478/S-3367 (Calabrese, Karabinchak, Wimberly/Burzichelli) – Authorizes the NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain amounts to make loans for transportation infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2025; approves

A-4572/S-3473 (Donlon, Sumter, Drulis/McKeon, Space) – Appropriates $101,696,535 from constitutionally appropriated CBT revenues to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development and certain administrative expenses.

A-4581/S-3471 (Haider, Sampson, Tully/Mukherji, O’Scanlon) – Authorizes the NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain amounts to make loans for Community Hazard Assistance Mitigation Program projects for fiscal year 2025

A-4587/S-3451 (Stanley/Cryan, Pou) – Increases the number of hours required to obtain a license as a cosmetology and hair styling teacher or as a massage and body therapist