Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
John J. Burzichelli
Sponsored
Became law7
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.**
Removes Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial from auspices of DEP and establishes museum as independent organization; makes $200,000 supplemental appropriation.**
Provides partial pension and retirement income exclusion for taxpayers with income between $100,000 and $150,000.
Authorizes State Treasurer to enter lease for real property and improvements with NJEDA for construction of New Jersey Wind Port in Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County.
Permits PERS retiree to return to employment in NJ Legislature after retirement under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $2 million to Legislative Services Commission.
Vetoed2
Permits use of virtual or remote instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Concerns labor harmony agreements in retail and distribution center projects.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes certain temporary and permanent privileges for certain alcoholic beverage licensees; authorizes certain activities, events, and festivals in which certain alcoholic beverage licensees may participate.
Out of committee22
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Requires workers' compensation, PIP, and health insurance coverage for the medical use of cannabis under certain circumstances.**
Concerns disclosure of certain information prior to sale of real estate.
Provides that executive director of State Agriculture Development Committee is appointed by Governor.
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Permits certain entertainment and retail activity during current public health emergency and state of emergency.
Addresses certain landlord expenses in response to COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $300 million.
Allows for cashless payment at certain sports and entertainment venues.
Permits State agency to completely or partially terminate contract concerning marine terminal or attendant real property to serve important public purpose.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by four-year public institutions of higher education.
Provides temporary corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for job creation related to manufacturing of personal protective equipment.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Requires builders to offer unit concrete products that utilize carbon footprint-reducing technology as option in new construction; establishes tax incentives, and State and local purchasing requirements, for unit concrete products that utilize carbon foot
Permits certain licensees to acquire alcoholic beverage license from retail food store that is bankruptcy asset; permits sell, display, and offer for sale alcoholic beverages within physically seperated area in retail food store.*
Allows formation of limited liability companies by real estate salespersons and broker-salespersons to receive commission income and requires certain disclosures on promotions.
Modifies certain procedures pertaining to school district regionalization; establishes grant program for cost reimbursement of conducting regionalization feasibility studies; and provides financial incentives for regionalization.
Supplements Department of Transportation language provisions in FY 2021 Appropriations Act to provide flexibility for debt service payments.
Appropriates $5 million to New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Makes permanent temporary enactment allowing certain alcoholic beverage retailers to sell and deliver alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks; establishes certain sale and delivery privileges for alcoholic beverage manufacturers.
Authorizes certain offshore wind projects to construct power lines and obtain real property interests; grants BPU authority to supersede certain local governmental powers upon petition from offshore wind project.
Establishes process for formation of professional limited liability companies.
Authorizes limited breweries and craft distilleries to sell at retail and offer for sampling purposes product bottled and stored off-site under certain circumstances.
In committee62
Prohibits boards of education from charging students a fee to participate in extracurricular activities.
Revises law concerning partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Establishes Student Loan Lottery with winnings applying only to outstanding student loans.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Requires all school and nonpartisan municipal elections, and permits fire district elections, to be conducted on day of general election in November.
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.
Disqualifies casino license applicant for five-year period if person substantially closed casino property in State; revokes license; reinstates license eligibility under certain circumstances.
Increases amount of allowable temporary appropriations by a local unit prior to adoption of its budget from 26.25% to 35% of its total of appropriations in preceding fiscal year.
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.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Permits marriage or civil union license to be obtained in any municipality in the State.
Creates rights of action for pecuniary damages against person committing certain harm to domestic companion animal.
Authorizes deer hunting with firearm on Sundays on private property.
Creates new permits to allow certain restaurants to sell alcoholic beverages and allows for issuance of additional alcoholic beverage licenses; provides tax credit under corporate business tax and gross income tax for loss in value to certain alcoholic be
Establishes special license plates for fire police officers.
Prohibits DEP from demolishing or requiring removal of certain cabins or similar structures located in certain tidal wetlands.
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.
Requires Department of Human Services to review Medicaid reimbursement to nursing homes under Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Program.
Imposes tax upon retail sales of liquid nicotine; repeals floor tax on liquid nicotine.
Allows deduction from New Jersey gross income of certain capital gains from sale or exchange of New Jersey qualified small business stock held for more than five years.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $20,000,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission for horse racing purse subsidies.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Authorizes alternative procedure for sale of municipal sewerage systems to public utilities.
Allows municipality to renew or deny inactive Class C alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
Authorizes Sunday firearm and bow hunting for deer on certain lands.
Allows BPU to increase cost to customers of Class I renewable energy requirement for energy years 2022 through 2024, under certain conditions.
Imposes contribution requirements on the use of automated customer service kiosks by employers.
Permits students over age 18 years to taste wine, spirits or malt alcoholic beverage for educational purposes while enrolled in authorized enology, distilling, or brewing training program.
Limits liability for persons who deliver heating oil to unregulated tanks for discharges from that tank under certain circumstances.
Applies provisions of "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act" to proprietary schools and limits eligibility for direct State aid and State student assistance programs under certain circumstances.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Requires certain businesses to notify customers of certain information concerning the collection and sale of personally identifiable information and to allow customers to opt-in to collection and sale.
Permits historic motor vehicles to be used for pleasure driving one day per week.
Permits wineries to operate salesrooms in certain municipalities with restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Eliminates certain aviation fuel tax exemptions; provides funding for aviation capital projects.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for students enrolled in certain private postsecondary educational schools.
Requires carriers that offer health benefits plans to provide new or existing subscribers with notification of certain hospital and health system contract expirations.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Establishes New Jersey Bias Crime Offender Registry.
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to Rutgers University - Camden for Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs.
Requires certain disclosures by providers of small business financing.
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 certain regulations regarding vapor products.
Requires DOH to establish sanitization standards and protocols for casinos operating in State.
Clarifies PERS membership restoration includes unclassified employees.
Establishes requirements for certain police vehicles.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.
Revises composition and certain functions of New Jersey State Firemen's Home.
Increases income eligibility threshold for pension and retirement exclusion from gross income to $150,000.
Designates September as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month."
Requires Governor to appoint Chief Accountability Officer to supervise all State ombudsmen, compliance officers, comptrollers, and other officers with substantially similar positions.
Creates Local Part of PERS; creates board of trustees for Local Part of PERS.
Allows wineries that annually produce up to 495,000 gallons of wine to direct ship products and have salesrooms apart from winery premises.
Revises certain functions of New Jersey Firemen's Home and composition of board of managers.
Filed1
Changes PERS membership eligibility for certain elected public officials and provides for PERS reenrollment.
Carried from the Senate
Became law11
Concerns disclosure of certain information prior to sale of real estate.
Allows for cashless payment at certain sports and entertainment venues.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by four-year public institutions of higher education.
Requires builders to offer unit concrete products that utilize carbon footprint-reducing technology as option in new construction; establishes tax incentives, and State and local purchasing requirements, for unit concrete products that utilize carbon foot
Permits certain licensees to acquire alcoholic beverage license from retail food store that is bankruptcy asset; permits sell, display, and offer for sale alcoholic beverages within physically seperated area in retail food store.*
Modifies certain procedures pertaining to school district regionalization; establishes grant program for cost reimbursement of conducting regionalization feasibility studies; and provides financial incentives for regionalization.
Allows formation of limited liability companies by real estate salespersons and broker-salespersons to receive commission income and requires certain disclosures on promotions.
Authorizes limited breweries and craft distilleries to sell at retail and offer for sampling purposes product bottled and stored off-site under certain circumstances.*
Supplements Department of Transportation language provisions in FY 2021 Appropriations Act to provide flexibility for debt service payments.
Appropriates $5 million to New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Authorizes certain offshore wind projects to construct power lines and obtain real property interests; grants BPU authority to supersede certain local governmental powers upon petition from offshore wind project.
Vetoed2
Permits State agency to completely or partially terminate contract concerning marine terminal or attendant real property to serve important public purpose.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Amends and supplements FY20 appropriations act to effectuate extension of fiscal year through September 30, 2020; reduces authorized appropriations; makes FY20 supplemental appropriations of $7,745,997,000 in State funds and $4,586,243,000 in federal fund
Expands eligibility under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to allow taxpayers who are at least 21 years of age to qualify.*
Prohibits municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses.
Establishes advisory council for the brewery, cidery, meadery, and distillery industries in NJ and provides for funding through certain alcoholic beverage tax receipts.
Allows State residents who are outside of New Jersey to place wagers on horse races using account wagering system.
Establishes successor program to solar renewable energy certificate program in BPU, including solicitation process for certain solar power generation facilities. *
Revises various provisions of "New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020" and other economic development programs; establishes New Jersey Innovation Fellows Program; appropriates $10 million.
Appropriates $4.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Out of committee · 12
Authorizes creation of special license plates commemorating horse as State animal.
Requires continuation of live horse racing for standardbred racetracks holding sports wagering license.
"Healthy Terminals Act"; requires certain airport and train station workers to be paid certain wage rates and benefits.
Requires direct payment of homestead credit to claimant following sale of qualifying homestead and upon claimant request.
Concerns employment benefits and coronavirus disease 2019 infections contracted by essential employees.
Appropriates $30 million to EDA from federal "Coronavirus Relief Fund" to assist food establishments impacted by Executive Order No. 158.
Appropriates $32,711,205,000 in State funds and $13,856,161,239 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2020-2021.
Adds two members to State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Contractors.
Authorizes special occasion events at certain farms on preserved farmland, under certain conditions.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $10 million for grants for certain lake management activities for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $46,380,012,000 in State funds and $21,026,030,082 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2021-2022.
FY 2021 State supplemental appropriation; appropriates $100.3 million in General Fund monies and $14.4 million in Property Tax Relief Fund monies.
In committee · 27
Allows members of Junior Firefighter's Auxiliaries to perform certain fire support duties.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Revises timeframes for issuance of certain construction permits by DEP in 90 days.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
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."
Removes and repeals all prohibitions, permits, licenses, and authorizations concerning wagers on professional, collegiate, or amateur sport contests or athletic events.
Increases benefit amounts incrementally under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 100 percent for resident individuals who cannot claim qualifying child.
Enhances benefit provided under New Jersey earned income tax credit program by treating a qualifying relative as a qualifying child.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
Requires adoption of anti-nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.
Requires promulgation of separate code criteria for certain buildings.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Establishes Volunteer Emergency Responder Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Adjusts from 30 percent to 27 percent rate at which proceeds accruing from sale of lottery tickets are dedicated for public pensions.
Prevents criminal defendent from asserting "gay and transgender panic" defense to murder charge in order to reduce charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires ABC to waive certain alcoholic beverage license renewal fees in response to COVID-19 pandemic; allows municipalities to waive renewal fees.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Revises various provisions of "New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020" and other economic development programs; establishes "Emerging Technology Catalyst Program."
Filed · 2
Provides civil and criminal immunity to certain health care professionals and health care facilities during public health emergency and state of emergency; facilitates issuance of certain temporary licenses and certifications during public health emergenc
"COVID-19 Fiscal Mitigation Act"; clarifies filing and payment deadline for CBT and GIT taxpayers, modifies duration of State Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021, requires certain updates and presentation for State Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021.