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Gerard Scharfenberger R

County Commissioner
Monmouth County Commissioner Dist at-large 3 (NJ) — Seat 1
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2027
9 Total

On Record (92)

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Apr 24, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health
Designates May of each year as "Skin Cancer Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Public Safety and Preparedness
Directs AG to investigate whether pedophile organizations use the internet to encourage sex offenders to violate State law.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Designates July 16 of each year as "Atomic Veterans Day" in New Jersey.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Public Safety and Preparedness
Designates month of May of each year as "Law Enforcement and Correctional Police Officer Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Tourism, Gaming and the Arts
Designates July 8 of each year as "New Jersey Revolutionary War Remembrance Day."
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
"Video Game Marketplace Child Protection and Anti-Trafficking Act," creates new penalties for non-reporting of suspected human trafficking through video game marketplaces.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
"Video Game Marketplace Trafficking Investigation Act," requires Attorney General to investigate misuse of online video game commerce systems for human trafficking activity.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Regulated Professions
Modifies time in which lien claim form for commercial construction may be filed.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Higher education
Increases income-based eligibility of Community College Opportunity Grant Program; codifies Garden State Guarantee Program to provide last-dollar financial aid grants for certain students.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Telecommunications and Utilities
Prohibits EDA from issuing subsidies for wind energy projects.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Transportation and Independent Authorities
Provides $5,000 gross income tax deduction for taxpayers who incur certain commuter expenses.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of certain members of TPAF.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Establishes "Service Dogs Assisting Veterans Grant Program" in DMVA.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Aging and Human Services
Expands oversight and regulation of long-term care facilities; makes appropriation.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Excludes from New Jersey gross income tax income of certain related survivors of members of United States military who die in active duty.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Transportation and Independent Authorities
Authorizes "100 Percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill HOUSING
Expressly permits housing constructed prior to April 1, 1980 to be counted toward municipal affordable housing obligation.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Children, Families and Food Security
Provides for establishment of child support lien against life insurance proceeds; requires insurers perform child support judgment search.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Excludes basic pay received for active duty military service from gross income taxation.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Commerce and Economic Development
Requires EDA administer small business loan program to provide loans to small businesses owned or controlled by certain veterans.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Community Development and Women's Affairs
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires State Board of Education to authorize Teacher of the Blind or Visually Impaired Kindergarten through Grade 12 endorsement.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Tourism, Gaming and the Arts
"Homeowners' Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; allows homeowners to claim credit against gross income tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Directs DOE to conduct study concerning student caregivers.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Provides gross income tax credit for certain homeschooling expenses incurred by parent or guardian with increased credit for taxpayers homeschooling child or dependent with special needs.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Establishes "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Environment and Solid Waste
Directs DEP to establish sonar testing permit program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Consumer affairs
Requires certain disclosures regarding lithium ion powered electric vehicles.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Classifies xylazine as Schedule III controlled dangerous substance under certain circumstances.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health
Requires parents and guardians be provided access medical records of minor patients.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Regulated Professions
Requires text messages soliciting home owners to provide notice when individuals sending solicitations are not licensed by New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health
Prohibits automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Commerce and Economic Development
Temporarily lowers corporation business tax rate for five years and repeals corporation business surtax.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Establishes temporary five-year teacher certification for veterans in certain circumstances.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Higher education
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring vaccinations against COVID-19 and monkeypox for students who attend remotely.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires parental consent for student to participate in health, family life education, or sex education program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Permits police officers to be assigned to school if school is being used as polling place during conduct of election.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires public high school students to receive financial literacy instruction on higher education costs, student financial assistance, and cryptocurrencies.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Establishes rebuttable presumption against granting child custody under certain circumstances; expands best interests factors; adds coercive control to domestic violence definition.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health
Grants parents, guardians, and authorized representatives online access to medical and personal history of residents of certain residential care facilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Prohibits teaching of critical race theory in public schools; prohibits public school teachers from engaging in political, ideological, or religious advocacy in classroom.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Permits special service charge for commercial purpose public records requests; increases time to respond to commercial requests; provides penalty for failure to certify commercial purpose request.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Higher education
Establishes Commission on Administrative Costs of Public Institutions of Higher Education.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Directs Secretary of State to establish election incident reporting and complaint database; requires certain telephone numbers be provided with voter instructions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires 11th grade students to complete civics course as part of high school graduation requirements.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Telecommunications and Utilities
Requires electric public utility to reimburse cost of certain customer-owned electric service equipment if damage to equipment is due to weather event affecting electric public utility service.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Requires Secretary of State to establish voter list maintenance and crosscheck program and to include certain voter registration data in annual report to Governor and Legislature.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health
Prohibits government entity or school from requiring influenza vaccinations for persons who are 18 years of age or younger.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Science, Innovation and Technology
Increases penalty for "bombing" online meeting or teleconference under certain circumstances.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Elevates the degree of desecration offense based upon the pecuniary loss; adds desecration to bias intimidation statute.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Requires registered voters to present identification when voting at polling place.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Agriculture and Natural Resources
Revises law establishing individual transferable quota system for menhaden purse seine fishery.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Science, Innovation and Technology
Requires DOLWD to develop and execute information technology stress test and emergency telework plan for employees.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Science, Innovation and Technology
Requires State agencies to develop and submit information technology strategic plan.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Suspends running of timeframes for county planning board action during state of emergency.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Revises Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid program; requires all energy taxes to be paid directly to municipalities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Increases penalty for harboring or concealing certain sex offenders.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill HOUSING
Creates home purchase grant program in HMFA for certain veterans who served in federal active duty; appropriates $2,000,000.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act"; requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Permits veterans, for civil service purposes, to be defined as a veteran or disabled veteran under federal or State definition of veteran.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Community Development and Women's Affairs
Allocates nondedicated portion of State realty transfer fee collections to municipal property tax relief.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires school districts to implement policy pertaining to use in school setting of medical devices that require utilization of district's internet.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Allows individuals on active duty to participate remotely in certain governmental meetings.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses."
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Public Safety and Preparedness
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill State And Local Government
Excludes contributions to volunteer first aid or rescue squads from appropriations cap and property tax levy cap for certain local units.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Establishes Elementary Home Reading Grant Program; appropriates $500,000 to DOE from federal funds.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Establishes matching grant program in DOE for school districts to implement high-impact tutoring programs addressing learning loss due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Commerce and Economic Development
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Commerce and Economic Development
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to conduct study on impact of State business income taxation on business out-migration, formation, and employment for previous and upcoming tax years.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Criminalizes interference with monitoring devices on school buses.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Aging and Human Services
Expands membership and responsibilities of State Council of Developmental Disabilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Requires DOE to collect and publish data on use of restraints and seclusion on students with disabilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Aging and Human Services
Increases fines for failing to report suspected abuse or exploitation of institutionalized elderly person.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Requires professional boards to issue licenses under certain circumstances to veterans with credentials in good standing from another jurisdiction.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Military and Veterans' Affairs
Requires DMVA assist discharged service members who have diagnosed service-connected mental health condition with petitions to change discharge designation.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill LABOR
Establishes construction workforce recruitment and training program in DOLWD.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Public Safety and Preparedness
Prohibits sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of victim's home or workplace.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Judiciary
Requires sex offenders to report Internet identifiers and name changes.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Establishes grant program for school districts to develop in-district and collaborative special education programs and services to reduce need to place classified students out-of-district.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Science, Innovation and Technology
Provides a STEM graduate retention tax credit for certain employers who pay certain employees' education loan debt.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide assistive technology to elementary and middle school students with dyslexia and related conditions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Transportation and Independent Authorities
Requires applicants of commercial driver license to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health Infrastructure
Requires nursing homes to permit use of electronic monitoring devices at request of resident.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Military and Veterans' Affairs
Requires EDA to provide loans through small business loan program at lower interest rates, with more flexible repayment terms if issued to small businesses owned or controlled by certain veterans, and prohibit certain fees.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Education
Requires parental notification when seclusion technique is utilized on student with disabilities; requires DOE to collect data on students with disabilities regarding exclusion from school pending psychiatric clearance and utilization of restraints and seclusion.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Health
Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Judiciary
Includes animal cruelty against victim's animal within definition of domestic violence and other types of abuse; establishes immunity for reporting animal cruelty; mandates reporting of animal cruelty in certain circumstances.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share

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