Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
John J. Burzichelli
Sponsored
Became law4
Concerns calculation of net premiums on certain life insurance policies for purposes of certain DOBI assessments.
Provides for elimination of newly formed non-operating school districts; establishes procedures for eliminating deficit that existed prior to merger; authorizes renting of school building for 10 years.
Designates building where NJEDA is located as "Caren Franzini Memorial Building" to commemorate her outstanding service to State.
Transfers $8,000,000 from New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to General Fund.
Passed the General Assembly2
"Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act"; permits qualified terminally ill patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner.
Permits wineries to operate salesrooms in certain municipalities with restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Out of committee18
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Directs State agencies to take certain actions to expedite permitting through use of general permits and permits-by-rule. *
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Prohibits BPU review and approval of property transactions of certain telecommunications companies.
Modifies interest rates and accrual of interest on certain unpaid water and sewer utility bills and delinquent municipal taxes, assessments, and other municipal liens and charges.
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes certain requirements for trapping of snapping turtles.
Extends voting rights of representatives of sending districts on receiving district board of education.
Permits hospitals to establish system for making performance-based incentive payments to physicians.
Concerns excessive price increases during state of emergency.
Authorizes operation of lottery courier services.
Establishes pilot program appointing third party vendors to administer commercial driver license testing.
Disqualifies casino license applicant for five-year period if person substantially closed casino property in State; revokes license; reinstates license eligibility under certain circumstances.*
Allows certain joint insurance funds to make certain investments and to form certain investment programs; authorizes school districts and local units of government to deposit public funds into multiple FDIC-insured accounts.*
Authorizes the sale and possession of certain fireworks.
Designates portion of US Highway Route 40 in Upper Pittsgrove Township as "John R. Elliott HERO Campaign Way."
Exempts certain motor vehicles that provide service to persons with developmental disabilities from motor vehicle registration fees.
Exempts law enforcement officers and certain private property towing companies from certain provisions of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act."
In committee50
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
Increases membership of Drinking Water Quality Institute and responsibilities of DEP related to institute.
Requires certain user fees for the provision of traditional municipal services to be included within the 2% municipal and county property tax levy cap.
Changes certain eligibility criteria for TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS and SPRS disability benefits; requires Attorney General to establish fraud unit; creates temporary committee to recommend accidental disability standard for systems.
Requires wholesalers, terminal facilities, motor fuel retail dealers, grocery stores, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and residential rehabilitation facilities to install appropriate wiring for use of generator during power outage.
Concerns rights of Delaware River and Bay Authority employees.
Prohibits boards of education from charging students a fee to participate in extracurricular activities.
Requires lobbyists that are nonprofit organizations to report annually to Election Law Enforcement Commission estimated number of members, contributors, and supporters.
Stipulates that applicants for pawnbroker license are not required to submit CPA-certified financial statement.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Requires assessment of administrative penalty amount by administrative law judge for environmental violations.
Prohibits requiring domed roofs on storage tanks if alternative emissions reduction method for volatile organic compound emissions can be established.
Eliminates New Jersey Law Revision Commission.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.
Requires that a teacher's evaluation take into consideration the degree of parental involvement and the impact it has on student achievement.
Increases salary of certain government officials; codifies legislative district office allowance and legislative director salary; opens PERS enrollment to certain elected officers; eliminates PERS/TPAF disability insurance.
Establishes approval process for proposed offshore wind energy projects and certain benefits to facilitate development of offshore wind energy.
Provides that students attending a choice district may only play interscholastic sports on sending district sports teams unless sending district does not offer a sport that the choice district offers.
Revises law concerning partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Establishes Student Loan Lottery with winnings applying only to outstanding student loans.
Permits marriage or civil union license to be obtained in any municipality in the State.
Permits counties to impose one-percent hotel tax.
Prohibits school districts from joining associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports unless association limits certain student-athletes who repeat middle school grade to only six consecutive semesters of interscholastic eligibility after en
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees, fines and penalties.
Maintains property tax exemption for certain nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contributi
Creates new liquor licenses for certain restaurants and permits the issuance of additional liquor licenses; provides tax credit under corporate business tax and gross income tax for fair market value of certain alcoholic beverage licenses.
Permits restaurants without a liquor license to advertise that they are BYOB or a winery salesroom.
Clarifies provisions with regard to pet trusts.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Reduces ambulatory care facility assessment.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Authorizes deer hunting with firearm on Sundays on private property.
Requires DEP to obtain approval from Secretary of Agriculture prior to levying penalties against farmers.
Expands municipal authority to license and inspect residential rental property.
Prohibits enforcement, for a period of 12 months, of homeowners' association bylaws prohibiting domesticated animals if owner is FEMA designated displaced individual following emergency declaration by President or Governor.
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Eliminates requirement that at least one of two licenses issued under small-scale and staged casino facility pilot program must be staged casino facility license; permits these facilities to be located in renovated buildings.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Permits historic motor vehicles to be used for pleasure driving one day per week.
Requires all school and nonpartisan municipal elections, and permits fire district elections, to be conducted on day of general election in November.
Increases amount of allowable temporary appropriations by a local unit prior to adoption of its budget from 26.25 percent to 35 percent of its total of appropriations in preceding fiscal year.
Creates rights of action for pecuniary damages against person committing certain harm to domestic companion animal.
Requires public utility holding companies owning electric generation and electric transmission facility assets to divest either all electric generation or all electric transmission facility assets to unaffiliated companies.
Expands applicability of cap on "Spill Compensation and Control Act" tax liability to all successors in interest of certain taxpayers.
Provides that sensors required on newly-manufactured school buses be placed around bus in accordance with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration guidelines and will not be required until one year following enactment of original law.
Permits students over 18 years of age to taste wine or malt alcoholic beverage for educational purposes while enrolled in authorized enology or brewing training program.
Amends definition of "existing major hazardous waste facility" in "Major Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Act."
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation from Transportation Trust Fund Subaccount for Capital Reserves of $76,450,000 to DOT for bridge and road repairs and $85,500,000 to NJT for capacity improvements and system safety.
Carried from the Senate
Became law12
Permits hospitals to establish system for making performance-based incentive payments to physicians.
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
Concerns excessive price increases during state of emergency.
Establishes pilot program appointing third party vendors to administer commercial driver license testing.
Authorizes operation of lottery courier services.
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Authorizes the sale and possession of certain fireworks.
Extends voting rights of representatives of sending districts on receiving district board of education.
Designates portion of US Highway Route 40 in Upper Pittsgrove Township as "John R. Elliott HERO Campaign Way."
Exempts law enforcement officers and certain private property towing companies from certain provisions of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act."
Exempts certain motor vehicles that provide service to persons with developmental disabilities from motor vehicle registration fees.
Prohibits BPU review and approval of property transactions of certain telecommunications companies.
Vetoed1
Disqualifies casino license applicant for five-year period if person substantially closed casino property in State; revokes license; reinstates license eligibility under certain circumstances.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Appropriates $34,293,697 from "Building Our Future Bond Act" and provides for reallocating amount remaining from project grants not awarded, for public and private institutions of higher education.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Establishes hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold on international airport property.
Allows use of rear view backup camera and parking sensors during road test.
Provides for regulation of fantasy sports activities in New Jersey. *
Designates USS New Jersey as New Jersey State Ship.
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Appropriates $2,900,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $7,500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires certain State and local government agency employees with access to federal tax information to undergo criminal history background checks.
Vetoed · 1
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Prohibits persons convicted of criminal animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
Directs DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to permit certain wineries to participate in certain sign programs on freeways, interstate highways, and toll roads.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities.
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for rescue of animal from motor vehicle under inhumane conditions.*
Out of committee · 18
Establishes certain requirements for use of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities in school districts, educational services commissions, and approved private schools for students with disabilities.*
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and teleheath. *
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Transfers authority to regulate bail agents from DOBI to DLPS; requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of complaint-warrant.
Limits application of DEP shellfish habitat rules for certain dredging activities.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Provides for increase in salary of certain public employees; permits receipt of compensation for published works by certain Executive Branch public officers.
Concerns certain real property assessment practices and requirements.*
Appropriates $59,532,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and capital and park development projects.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 295 in West Deptford Township as "State Trooper Sean E. Cullen Memorial Highway."
Revises tax credit transfer provisions for certain tax incentive programs and revises certain tax treatment of tax credit transfer certificates.
Authorizes certain local government utilities to impose additional connection fees; requires certain new credits and reductions for these fees.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.*
Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grant for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes Nuclear Diversity Certificate program.
In committee · 42
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Limits political contributions by hedge funds and private equity funds that invest in casinos or in which State funds are invested.
Reduces dollar amount of full outstanding debt issue that exempts casino institutional investor from requirement to maintain qualifications.
Caps at 35 percent share of State public employee pension and annuity funds portfolio that may be invested in combination of hedge funds, private equity, commodities, and real estate.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Prohibits "gay panic" defense for murder; prevents reduction of murder charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion under certain circumstances.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property.
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows commercial farmer to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees of defending against unreasonable complaints under "Right to Farm Act."
Appropriates $3.5 million to Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory improvements project.
Permits agriculture-related events on preserved farmland.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
Requires direct payment of homestead credit to claimant following sale of qualifying homestead and upon claimant request.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $5 million over period of five years.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Clarifies law authorizing application of reciprocal limitations against businesses from states that give in-state preference in awarding public contracts.
Concerns proof of workers' compensation coverage with certain legally required annual reports of employers.
Prohibits adoption of new rules exceeding federal standards unless specifically authorized by State law or necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare.
Provides sales and use tax exclusion for charges for student parking provided by certain colleges and universities.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Revises timeframes for issuance of certain construction permits by DEP in 90 days.
Appropriates $20,000,000 from General Fund to the Department of State for travel and tourism advertising and promotion to communicate that New Jersey's tourism destinations are operational despite damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Requires public utilities and cable television companies to accommodate and relocate facilities when necessary for transportation infrastructure projects at direction of DOT.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Eliminates the board of trustees of Rutgers University and provides that its powers will be exercised by the board of governors of the university.
Clarifies that using animal to cause bodily injury to another constitutes assault with a deadly weapon; grants immunity to police officers who use police dog as deadly weapon.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Permits use of electronic smoking devices in vapor retail establishments.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
"Safe Motor Vehicle Rental Act"; prohibits rental companies from renting, leasing, or selling unrepaired motor vehicles which are subject to safety recall.
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Appropriates $110,000 from General Fund to DOE for Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs.
Provides gross income tax deduction for State fuel taxes paid on purchases of motor fuel for personal use of motor vehicles.
Removes and repeals all prohibitions, permits, licenses, and authorizations concerning wagers on professional, collegiate, or amateur sport contests or athletic events.
Creates presumption that certain firefighters who develop cancer are eligible for workers' compensation and accidental disability pension.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Filed · 1
Designates Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as "Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall" to commemorate his outstanding service to Atlantic City and State.