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Votes at a glance: Senate advances multiple third‑reading measures, adopts amendments
Summary
The State Senate cleared a series of third‑reading bills—including measures on unemployment benefits, mercury-free flooring, infrastructure bank changes, health-club contract notifications—and adopted several amendments; recorded votes and tallies are provided.
During the floor session the State Senate advanced a series of third‑reading measures and adopted amendments. The following summarizes bills moved or passed as recorded on the floor (synopses as read on the floor and tallies are included when the clerk recorded them):
- Nominations ("List 1"): Nominations for attorney general, state treasurer, and commissioners for human services, education and veterans affairs were presented and approved by roll call (clerk recorded 38 affirmative votes).
- S 6 85: Establishes a fleet conversion task force in the Department of Environmental Protection; the clerk recorded 27 in favor and 11 opposed; the bill was declared passed.
- S 6 87: Creates a blue-ribbon task force on climate impacts to property tax and insurance; the final roll-call tally recorded in the transcript was 36–2 in favor; the bill passed.
- S 12 53: Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits; the clerk recorded 38–0 in favor; the bill passed.
- S 13 70: Requires new flooring for schools, community centers and childcare centers to be certified mercury-free; recorded as passed with unanimous affirmative votes (clerk recorded the tally as unanimous).
- S 13 88: Prohibits health-club service contracts from limiting liability for injuries caused by negligence; clerk reported 37–0 and the bill was declared passed.
- S 15 33 / S 15 31: Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fees for children and revises rules for veterans; recorded as passed (clerk recorded unanimous or near-unanimous tallies as read on the floor).
- S 16 31: Prohibits discrimination based on height or weight; recorded final tally in the transcript is 23–14 in favor (see separate article for details on the contested roll call).
- S 22 43: Requires public institutions of higher education to develop menstrual equity plans; recorded 38–0 in favor; the bill passed.
- S 32 51: Makes various changes to the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank Enabling Act; recorded 38–0 and passed.
- S 33 06: Requires notification to health-club members when a club is sold and contracts assigned; recorded 38–0 and passed.
- Amendments and second-reading returns: Several bills (e.g., S 13 95, S 14 17, S 33 79) were moved back to second reading for purposes of amendment and those amendments were adopted, including a roll-call adoption of amendments to S 35 22 (22 in favor, 15 opposed) as recorded in the transcript.
- S 32 19: Extends the deadline for the 2027 gubernatorial budget message to March 10, 2026; recorded 38–0 and passed.
- SJR 84: Designates March 10, 2026, as South Plainfield Day; recorded 13–0 and adopted.
All tallies and motions cited above reflect the counts as recorded in the floor transcript. Where the transcript records conflicting interim tallies (notably during S 16 31), this summary reports the final tally recorded on the floor and flags the discrepancy for confirmation with the Senate Journal.
