New Jersey A 4892: Establishes conditions for operation of school-based health centers.

Bill Text

A4892 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4892 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 7, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman� TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Murphy, Assemblymen Spearman, Karabinchak, 
Calabrese, Assemblywoman Carter, Assemblyman Stanley, Assemblywomen Haider, 
Tucker and Assemblyman Venezia

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes Office of Clean Energy Equity in BPU; 
directs establishment of certain clean energy, energy efficiency, and energy 
storage programs for overburdened communities; makes change to community solar 
program. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning clean energy, energy 
efficiency, and energy storage programs for overburdened communities, supplementing 
and amending P.L.2018, c.17, and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes 
and P.L.1975, c.217 (C.52:27D-119 et seq.).

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� (New section)� a.� There 
is established in the Board of Public Utilities an Office of Clean Energy 
Equity.� The office shall promote, guide, and oversee the equitable deployment 
of clean energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage programs and technologies 
in overburdened communities, and the equitable provision of the tangible 
benefits of clean energy, increased energy efficiency, and energy storage at 
the household and community level, including clean energy asset ownership, 
energy cost savings, and employment and economic opportunities, to overburdened 
communities. 

���� b.��� The board shall:

���� (1)�� establish onsite solar 
or community solar programs, including, but not limited to, programs using 
solar facilities installed, owned, and operated by independent, non-utility providers, 
which benefit 250,000 low income households or 35 percent of the low income 
households in the State, whichever is larger, by 2030, with the goal of reducing 
these households� average energy burden to below six percent of household 
income, as defined by the United States Department of Energy Low Income Energy 
Affordability Data Tool.� The board may implement the programs required 
pursuant to this paragraph in conjunction with existing renewable energy and 
energy efficiency programs or services; and 

���� (2)�� require the 
establishment of a minimum of 1,600 megawatt hours of energy storage in 
overburdened communities, capable of delivering 400 megawatts of power, 
by 2030, which shall be sited in public facilities, as part of a microgrid 
connected to a public facility serving as a community energy resiliency hub, be 
directly sited in low income households, or be sited so as to otherwise increase 
the resiliency and reduce the energy burden of overburdened communities.� In 
establishing the energy storage required pursuant to this paragraph, the office 
shall ensure that a community energy resilience hub is powered by clean energy, 
is community-based and community-centric, is inclusive of community-based 
organizations, and prioritizes the deployment of energy services to local 
residents during natural disasters.

���� c.���� The board, in 
cooperation with the Office of Clean Energy Equity, shall:

���� (1)�� integrate workforce 
development training into all clean energy and energy storage programs 
established by the board; 

���� (2)�� provide outreach and 
recruitment campaign grants to community-based organizations to increase 
participation by residents of overburdened communities in clean energy and 
energy efficiency programs by hiring residents to conduct outreach and public 
education in those communities;

���� (3)�� develop, in coordination 
with community-based organizations, outreach materials concerning the 
provisions of this act in multiple languages that are easy to deliver through 
multiple media; 

���� (4)�� appoint a community 
liaison and establish an advisory board consisting of representatives of 
overburdened communities responsible for conducting an internal and external 
review and evaluation of all clean energy and energy storage programs available 
to overburdened communities and provide annual recommendations to the board on 
unmet needs in overburdened communities and suggestions for improvements to 
those programs; and

���� (5)�� coordinate with the 
Department of Labor and Workforce Development concerning the requirements of 
section 2 of P.L. , c. (C.����� ) 
(pending before the Legislature as this bill) and with the Department of 
Community Affairs concerning the requirements of section 3 of P.L.��� , c.�� 
(C.����� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

���� d.��� (1) The board shall 
direct no less than 10 percent of the board�s annual total clean energy budget, 
or at least $50 million annually, whichever is greater, to the Office of Clean 
Energy Equity to implement the provisions of this