Governor Murphy Takes Action on Legislation

TRENTON - On December 12, 2024, Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law:

S-871/A-2286 (A.M. Bucco, Sarlo/Lopez, Dunn) - Establishes eligibility for enrollment in PERS and subsequent retirement benefits for certain county fire instructors under certain conditions

S-1430/A-586 (McKnight, Singleton/Stanley, Atkins, Reynolds-Jackson) - Provides for expanded use of affordable housing voucher program funding

S-1433/A-4433 (Singleton/Conaway) - Designates bridge over Crosswicks Creek on Interstate Highway Route 295 North as “Benjamin Moore and the 693rd Sapper Company Memorial Highway”

S-3611/A-4970 (Scutari, Vitale/Carter, Speight, Reynolds-Jackson) - Provides grant to study and map mental health care resources for children; makes appropriation

SJR-29/AJR-50 (Diegnan, Sarlo/Karabinchak, Stanley) - Designates August of each year as “Professional Engineers Month” in NJ and first Wednesday in August of each year as “Professional Engineering Day”

SJR-71/AJR-25 (Beach, Mukherji/DeAngelo, Danielsen, Venezia) - Designates first week of May of each year as Wounded Warrior Appreciation Week

SJR-103/AJR-60 (Diegnan, Corrado/Conaway, DeAngelo, Speight) - Declares NJ “Purple Heart State"

A-4043/S-3310 (Verrelli, Sampson, Sumter/Lagana, Turner) - Redirects portion of worker’s unemployment compensation trust fund contribution to unemployment compensation administration fund

A-4047/S-2949 (Sampson, Verrelli, Miller/Moriarty, Mukherji) - Revises unemployment compensation law

A-4148/S-3057 (Lampitt, Conaway, Speight/McKnight, Turner) - Requires DOH to develop informational materials on type 1 diabetes and DOE to distribute to parents and guardians of enrolled students

Governor Murphy conditionally vetoed the following bills: 

S-2788/A-4569 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Freiman, Katz, Simmons) – CONDITIONAL -Appropriates $128.241 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes

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