The New Jersey State Bar Association Board of Trustees took action on several measures at its recent meeting.

The governing body met virtually on Nov. 20 and voted to support several pieces of pending legislation.

The legislation included:

• A-4288 (Vainieri Huttle)/S-2545 (Singleton) would establish certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, intersex and HIV-positive residents of long-term care facilities. Specifically, the bill provides that it will be prohibited for a long-term care facility, or for staff at the facility, to take certain actions based in whole or in part on a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status or human immunodeficiency virus status.
• A-3617 (Quijano), would require actions to recover certain residential tenancy security deposits be heard in the county in which the rental property in dispute is located.
• A-3620 (Quijano) would require inclusion of information about discriminatory housing practices in the Truth-in-Renting Guide. The bill would require the Department of Community Affairs to include information that it is discriminatory and unlawful for a landlord: to refuse to rent to a person who would be paying with a housing voucher or other lawful rental subsidy and to advertise that the landlord will not rent to persons with a housing voucher or another lawful rental subsidy. The bill would also require the department to include information in the Truth-in-Renting Guide indicating that state and federal rental housing vouchers are considered a source of lawful income, which is a protected category under the Law Against Discrimination, and, therefore, it is unlawful for a landlord to refuse to rent to persons who would pay with these rental subsidies.
• A-1032 (Downey)/S-758 (Gopal) would require workers' compensation judges to be enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System of Workers' Compensation Judges of the Division of Workers' Compensation in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development as a condition of employment for service as a judge of compensation. This would apply to each judge enrolled after the effective date of the bill. Currently, workers' compensation judges are enrolled in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program or the Workers' Compensation Judges Part of the Public Employees' Retirement System.

The board also approved a proposal to update the bylaws of the Elder and Disability Law Section to affirmatively state that the section will work to actively encourage more diverse and inclusive participation and update aspects of its nominations process.