Sen. Zellnor Myrie

Establishes the crimes of benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; establishes civil action for victims of benefiting from a trafficking venture; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations, grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.

Requires the department of health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to create and issue a five-year plan with proposals to best mitigate the persistence of lead in schools.

Enacts "Francesco's law" which establishes violations for the failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the presence of a minor or a prohibited person; requires the office of gun violence prevention to collect and analyze statistical and other information and data with respect to injuries or deaths of minors resulting from failure to safely store a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.

Maddy summaryThis bill (S 8595) clarifies how courts calculate the total debt in residential foreclosure cases. It requires court-appointed referees to itemize all amounts owed - like unpaid principal, interest, taxes, fees, and court costs - as of the judgment date, using only documented evidence submitted by the lender. It also sets the property auction date as the standard valuation date for calculating deficiency judgments or surplus funds, unless a court orders a different date for good cause. The law directly affects homeowners facing foreclosure and lenders seeking to recover debts, ensuring clearer, more standardized calculations in these proceedings.

Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor.

Enacts the menopause awareness improvement act; establishes a menopause education program; establishes course work or training in menopausal health; directs the commissioner of labor to conduct a study on the impact of menopause on the workforce.

Provides for enrollment of eligible incarcerated persons in the medical assistance for needy persons program; provides for enrollment of incarcerated individuals in other medical assistance programs, where eligible.

Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to trade schools, community colleges, agencies, public or private schools or persons offering instruction in the operation of commercial motor vehicles with a commercial motor vehicle license and requires applicants for commercial driver's licenses submit a certificate for completion of such program.

Directs the department of public service to promulgate rules and regulations to establish fee transparency standards for electric vehicle charging stations.

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.