Heather Simmons

Establishes nurse aide workforce development program.

Revises responsibilities and duties of Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board.

Establishes EMT Workforce Development Partnership in DOH.

Requires DHS to review, and implement certain improvements to, Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Program and to establish public-facing report card of managed care organization's coordination of program.

Requires DOH to revise emergency response plan for pandemic influenzas.

Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.

Grants priority course registration to certain student parents attending institutions of higher education.

"Student-Parent Protection Act"; ensures equal rights and opportunities for parenting students enrolled in institutions of higher education.

Requires institutions of higher education to provide on website certain information on online degree students and graduate degree students.

Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students who have children to purchase meal plans, live in on-campus housing, or pay gym fees.

Revises licensure process for out-of-State institutions of higher education.

Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.

Establishes pharmacist licensing exemption for certain dialysis-related drugs and devices.

Requires NJT to publish certain performance-related information.

Requires publication of guide for licensure as integrated care facility; assigns DOH and DHS employees to communicate with facilities.

Authorizes use of campaign funds for security expenses of candidate, officeholder, staff, and certain family members.

Commemorates 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001.

Designates month of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Month" in New Jersey.

Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.

Enters New Jersey into Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.

"New Jersey History Day Act."

Recognizes the scientific advancements made by the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers University.

Allows certain limited liability companies to terminate alternate names before end of five-year registration period.

Honors contributions of US Postal Service and its employees to American democracy.

Permanently designates November 8 of each year as "First-Generation College Student Day" in NJ.

Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidance on accommodations for certain students fasting for religious or medical reasons.

Amends Fiscal Year 2027 annual appropriations act to require portion of funding for Working Class Families State Supplement to be used for outreach purposes.

Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.

Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support public humanities programming in NJ.

Modifies definition of "aquaculture" throughout State law to include construction of facilities and appurtenant structures.

Prohibits surcharge on transportation network company riders for certain paratransit service.

Expands and changes membership of Aquaculture Advisory Council.

Amends FY2027 Appropriations Act to revise language concerning Family and Internal Medicine Residency Expansion Program.

Requires DVA promote Veterans History Project at Library of Congress.

Exempts creditor from paying municipal property registration fee if property is subject to automatic stay under federal Bankruptcy Code.

Designates accounting as STEM subject for various educational and other programs.

Requires construction permit for certain work involving asbestos on single-family home, duplex, or townhouse.

Requires DHS to conduct review of reimbursement rates paid by State's child care assistance program to certain child care providers.

Requires Department of Agriculture to develop guidance on shellfish aquaculture agritourism.

Urges prohibition of targeted gambling advertisements to individuals exhibiting signs of problem gambling or addiction.

Designates September 22 as "John Basilone Day."

Establishes New Jersey Veteran Gravesite Maintenance Grant Program in DVA.

Requires State agencies to make good faith effort to increase awarding of contracts procured without advertisement to minority- and women-owned businesses.

Allows rounding for cash transactions.

Allows use of Green Acres funds to fully fund certain projects on State-owned land by certain nonprofit organizations.

Establishes Statewide dashboard to compile data for certain permits.

Clarifies choice of independent contractor status for certain licensed or regulated professionals.

Clarifies choice of independent contractor status for certain licensed or regulated professionals.

Recognizes the scientific advancements made by the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers University.

Requires parties in arbitration hearings to be represented by attorneys in certain circumstances.

Requires Department of Agriculture to develop guidance on shellfish aquaculture agritourism.

Expands and changes membership of Aquaculture Advisory Council.

Modifies definition of "aquaculture" throughout State law to include construction of facilities and appurtenant structures.

Allows clinical laboratory and laboratory services providers with opportunity to participate as preferred or contracting provider and allows clinical laboratory services to receive reimbursement.

Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.

Allows rounding for cash transactions.

Requires health care claims experience data to be shared with local governments.

Requires Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services in cases of iatrogenic infertility caused by medically necessary treatments.

Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.

Increases personal needs allowance for certain individuals by annual rate of inflation.