Votes at a glance: Senate adopts wide range of bills ranging from education and licensing to student-athlete name-and-likeness protections

The New Jersey State Senate took recorded votes on numerous bills and resolutions during the session. Below are the measures the Senate voted on and the outcome as recorded in the Senate proceedings.

Votes at a glance

- S-265 (senators Stack and Zwicker): Requires owners of multiple-dwelling buildings with three or more floors to give priority status to senior citizens and disabled residents moving to a lower floor. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-1148 (Senator Mukherjee): Requires professional licensing boards, under certain circumstances, to issue licenses to veterans with good standing from other jurisdictions. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-1989 (Senators Gopal and Singleton): Enhances criminal penalties for persons involved in certain human trafficking activities. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-2376 (Senator Beach and Vitale): Requires boards of education to ensure staff training every five years on care of students with epilepsy/seizure disorders. Vote recorded: 37-0 (record shows 37 affirmative); outcome: passed.

- S-3423 and S-3426 (Senator Timberlake and Senator Ruiz): Multiple firefighter-safety bills in a package tied to Port Newark tragedy; both bills recorded as passed, votes recorded as 38-0.

- S-3607 (Senators Sarlow and Kryon): Extends accidental death benefit for survivors of certain public safety retirees. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-3776 (Senators Turner and McKnight): Establishes a chronic absenteeism task force. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-3890 (Senators Ruiz and McKnight): Requires public institutions of higher education to provide students information on food-assistance programs. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-3902 (Senators Bucco and Bramnick): Permits excused absences for students participating in college visits, post-secondary technical institute visits, and military-related activities. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-3906 (Senator Sarlow and Lagana): Revises tree-expert and tree-care operating licenses and establishes enforcement/penalty provisions. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-3992 (Senator Singleton): Modifies capital reserve funding requirements for certain planned real estate developments. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-4224 (Senator Lagana): Establishes education requirements for certain officers of the State Board of Medical Examiners. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-4263 (Senators Vitale and Scutari): Revises certain provisions concerning [topic not specified in the transcript excerpt]. Vote recorded: not specified in transcript; outcome: declared passed.

- S-4377 (Senator Deignan): Authorizes the NJ Infrastructure Bank to make loans for FY2026 transportation projects and appropriates sums. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- S-4439 (Senator Lagana): Establishes protections related to name, image and likeness compensation for certain student athletes and repeals the New Jersey Fair Play Act. Vote recorded: 25-11; outcome: passed.

- S-4499 (Senators Scutari and Bramnick): Requires defendants (including insurance companies) to be properly identified in causes of action. Vote recorded: 26-11; outcome: passed.

- SJR-158 (Senator Zwicker): Designates June 25 of each year as Delaware and Raritan Canal Day. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: adopted.

- SJR-146 (Senators Amato and Sarlo): Designates June 1 as Robert Popovich Day in New Jersey. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: adopted.

- A-2390 (Assembly members Spearman, Stanley and Quijano): Requires municipalities in compliance with affordable-housing obligations to provide priority consideration for state grants and assistance. Vote recorded: 23-15; outcome: passed.

- A-3035 (Assembly members Cabrizzi and Spade): Prohibits certain vehicles from parking in electric-vehicle charging spaces under certain circumstances. Vote recorded: 28-10; outcome: passed.

- A-4113 (Assembly members Carter and Atkins): Prohibits sports-wagering partnerships at public institutions of higher education. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- A-4544 (substitution for S-3429): Expands eligibility for state childcare assistance to include full-time graduate and postgraduate students (A-45 44). Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- A-5077 (Assembly Members Morales, Bengoli and Carter): Extends statutory pause on collection of student growth-objective data. Vote recorded: 34-4; outcome: passed.

- A-5141 (Assembly Members Peter Paul, Cabrizzi and Don Lan): Establishes historic distillery license and related off-site consumption allowances. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- A-5466 (Assembly Members Bailey, Brill and Reynolds Jackson): Requires BPU to study the effects of data centers on electricity costs. Vote recorded: 38-0; outcome: passed.

- A-5606 (Assembly Member Tully): Amend FY2025 Annual Appropriations Act to clarify distribution of Meals on Wheels grant for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Vote recorded: recorded as affirmative in the transcript; outcome: passed (tally not clearly legible in transcript excerpt).

Concurrences and governor recommendations

The Senate also recorded multiple concurrences with Assembly amendments and adopted governor recommendations and conditional veto concur-rences on several bills during the session; those votes are recorded in the official transcript and were announced by the secretary during the session.

Notes on procedure and the record

- The list above is compiled from floor announcements and recorded machine tallies read into the record during the session. When the transcript did not include a clear numeric tally for a measure, the outcome declared on the floor is noted and the tally is recorded as “not specified” in clarifying fields.

- This summary does not attempt to paraphrase sponsors’ debate for every bill; bills that received substantive floor discussion are covered in separate articles.