Shanique Speight

Modifies procedures for parole release, early discharge from parole, and penalties for certain parole violations.

Permits tenant to make rent payment into escrow account in event of persisting serious hazard in dwelling unit or to make repairs and deduct cost from future rent.

Establishes Commission on High-Quality Affordable Early Childhood Care and Education; makes appropriation.

"Tenants Anti-Retaliation & Anti-Harassment Act"; establishes rebuttable presumption for complaints by tenant of illegal activity by landlord.

Establishes child care stabilization and operation grant program in DHS.

Prohibits seller providing service from charging surcharge to customer using debit card.

Revises reporting requirements for nursing homes concerning financial disclosures and ownership structure.

Requires advance written notice before discontinuance of State aid or services.

Establishes New Jersey Pancreatic Cancer Commission.

Prohibits electric, gas, or water public utility service discontinuances to residential customers during certain epidemics.

Requires DOH to provide grants for women's health research and innovations.

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.

Requires BPU to prohibit electric and gas public utilities from charging residential customers certain types of payments based on certain billing practices.

Requires public schools to develop policy for administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagas nerve stimulators for students with seizure disorder on emergent basis.

Expands Medicare health care coverage to all New Jersey residents.

Makes FY2026 supplemental appropriation of $30 million from General Fund to Food and Hunger Programs in Department of Agriculture.

Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.

Establishes Safe Remote Learning Program in DOE to support provision of remote instruction facilities by public schools.

Creates Midwifery Licensing Act; modifies regulation of midwifery.

Establishes "New Jersey Migrant and Refugee Assistance Act."