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N.J. Assembly and Senate to hold lengthy voting sessions tomorrow

As a sign of the end of the current legislative session and the approach of the year-end holidays, the Assembly and Senate on Thursday will conduct lengthy voting sessions.

The Assembly will consider Caylee’s Law, a bill to upgrade penalties for failing to report a death and criminalize the failure to report the disappearance of a child, tougher penalties for road rage in honor of Jessica Rogers, a Mercer County girl seriously injured in a road rage incident, more bills to create jobs and economic development and shared services reform.

The lower house’s Environment and Solid Waste Committee will also meet to consider the Child Safe Playing Fields Act (A-3621/3782) to restrict the use of lawn care pesticides at schools, child care centers and recreational fields.

Assembly highlights include:

• Property tax reform legislation sponsored to limit annual fee increases in shared service agreements to 2 percent (A-3625).

• A bill that builds upon ongoing Democratic job creation efforts by establishing the Grow New Jersey Assistance Program tax credit incentive program for New Jersey-based companies that retain and create new jobs (A-4306).

• Legislation to screen newborn infants for lysosomal storage disorders (A-2708).

• A bill to prohibit those under 18 years of age from using indoor tanning facilities (A-2933/3640/2867).

• A bill to improve the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II college scholarship programs (A-4283).

• Legislation to make investment funding available to small businesses and those owned by women and minorities to create jobs and economic development.

• And legislation to improve coastal evacuation preparedness (A-3224).

Both the Assembly and Senate have scheduled voting to begin at 1 p.m.

—TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM