Governor Chris Christie has taken action on the following legislation:

Trenton, NJ –

 

BILLS SIGNED:

A-733/S-81 (Eustace, Schepisi, Benson/Bateman, Stack) – Prohibits health care facilities from discharging prescription medications into sewer or septic systems in certain circumstances

 

A-1351/S-2023 (Rible, Wagner, Coutinho/Van Drew, Stack) – Removes licensing requirement for recreational bingo games

 

A-1522/S-2200 (Burzichelli, Riley, Quijano, Caputo/Lesniak, Codey) – Requires BPU, under certain circumstances, to issue a decision within 180 days after receipt of petition by public utilities to sell certain real property

 

A-1888/S-2190 (Milam, Albano, Greenwald/Gill, Sarlo) – Allows license suspension or revocation of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal

 

A-2029/S-2007 (Russo, Rumana, Tucker, Rible/O’Toole, Pou) – Designates the \”Honor and Remember Flag\” as an official State flag

 

A-2652/SCS for S-1926, 2022 (Eustace, Singleton, Egan, Benson, Coughlin/Greenstein, Madden) – Bans charging workers’ compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers’ Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims

 

AJR-26/SJR-54 (Chivukula, Benson, Wagner, Eustace/Gordon, O’Toole) – Designates May each year as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

 

BILL VETOED:

 

A-3096/S-2169 (Gusciora, Bramnick, Fuentes, Conaway, Lampitt/Turner, Scutari) – CONDITIONAL –Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court; alters eligibility requirements and increases fees for existing conditional discharge and supervisory treatment programs