---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designates October of each year as \"Disability Employment Awareness Month.\""
description: "Designates October of each year as \"Disability Employment Awareness Month.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
session: "218"
identifier: "SJR 96"
citation: "New Jersey SJR 96 (218)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["COMMEMORATIO", "DISABLED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiaravalloti, Nicholas", "Cruz-Perez, Nilsa", "DeAngelo, Wayne P.", "Singleton, Troy", "Vainieri Huttle, Valerie"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-09-17T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-10-31T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b58656c0-cd65-4258-8321-ed1a52903aa2"
source_url: "http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/downloads.asp"
source_hash: "c5be317e954c39a9b325675bcdd0d449d0bf7fc155f5cd2da298a5831fb26e42"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
---

# New Jersey SJR 96 (218) — Designates October of each year as "Disability Employment Awareness Month."

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2018/Bills/SJR/96_I1.HTM)

## Votes

- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported favorably out of committee — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chiaravalloti, Nicholas — primary (person)
- Cruz-Perez, Nilsa — primary (person)
- DeAngelo, Wayne P. — primary (person)
- Singleton, Troy — primary (person)
- Vainieri Huttle, Valerie — primary (person)
- Benson, Daniel R. — cosponsor (person)
- Greenstein, Linda R. — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, Carol A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-09-17T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced, 1st Reading without Reference, 2nd Reading `introduction`
- **2018-09-27T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (39-0) `passage`
- **2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00** Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-10-18T04:00:00+00:00** Transferred to Assembly Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-10-18T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
- **2018-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for AJR53
- **2018-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (76-0-0) `passage`
- **2018-10-31T04:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2018, JR-11. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b58656c0-cd65-4258-8321-ed1a52903aa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).