Linda Carter

Establishes School-based Partnerships for Access and Resilience for Kids program in DCF; requires school districts to develop mental health support and partnership programs.*

Creates voluntary pilot program to allow certain facilities flexibility in their psychiatric bed status.

Extends certain provisions relating to involuntary commitment.

Authorizes creation of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. license plates.

Requires organizations providing services to homeless persons to participate in Homeless Management Information System to track occupancy of shelter beds.

Extends anti-SLAPP protections to complainants of sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination.

Allows certain parties to sue construction company for commission of or alleged commission of various actions.

Establishes survivor support liaison in Department of Treasury to assist beneficiaries of emergency responders who die in line of duty; designated as "Captain Augusto Acabou's, Wayne Brooks', and Plainfield Firefighter Marques Hudson's act"; appropriates $1,000,000.

Designates portion of State Highway Route 35 in Laurence Harbor as "James Francisco and Walter Schmidt Memorial Roadway."

Requires artificial intelligence companion operators to provide notifications that users are not communicating with human.

Requires DHS to distribute contactless EBT cards to SNAP recipients by January 31, 2027.

Concerns accessibility in certain multistory buildings; provides for penalties.

Specifies electric vehicle parking space calculation is rounded up if it includes fraction of a whole number and rounded-up parking spaces cannot reduce overall parking supply by more than 10 percent.

Limits use of State, county, and municipal property or funding to support immigrant detention facilities.

Revises visitation and reporting rules for professional guardians.

Requires retailers to lock up or place bath salts behind counter.

Concerns certain streaming services and public broadcasting funding.

Requires SNAP retailers to take measures to help prevent card skimming.

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

Revises Work First New Jersey program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program procedures to require information on security protocols be provided when replacement benefit cards are issued.