Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Paul D. Moriarty
Sponsored
Became law1
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Vetoed1
Supplements the State annual appropriations act for the State fiscal year 2010-2011, makes appropriations for Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled Programs and the Homestead Rebate/Credit Program.
Passed the General Assembly7
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages. *
Prohibits sale of lottery tickets or shares after claim of top prizes.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires printers to display average cost per 1,000 printed pages and ink cartridges to display yield. *
Exempts stored value cards usable solely for telephone services from State's escheatment processes.
Increases penalties for violations committed by precious metals buyers and requires weights and measures officers to seize scales under certain circumstances.
Requires review of arbitration agreements for unconscionability.
Out of committee12
Provides for State income tax deduction to private well owners for water testing costs.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.*
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from certain drivers involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.*
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Requires certain public officers and employees to reside in State. *
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.*
Authorizes county and municipal consumer affairs directors to conduct administrative hearings, assess civil and other penalties, and issue cease and desist orders.
Requires DHSS to establish uniform standard for retail food establishment health and sanitary evaluation placards.
Enhances penalty for killing police dog or dog engaged in search and rescue efforts.
Provides unemployment insurance benefits for shared work programs; requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development report.
Appropriates $23 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee62
Makes it a fourth degree crime to exhibit fraudulent motor vehicle insurance identification card to municipal prosecutor.
Imposes $50 surcharge on intoxicated drivers; establishes county sheriffs or prosecutors educational program in secondary schools concerning dangers of impaired driving.
Authorizes special license emblems for Fraternal Order of Police members.
Prohibits sex offenders from using or possessing erectile dysfunction drugs; prohibits provision or sale of erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders.
Empowers federal air marshals to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Establishes confidential data base to assist State Police in issuance of firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
Regulates sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels.
"Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008."
Requires certain CATV companies to offer a family-oriented and moderately-priced cable programming package to subscribers.
Reduces compensation of members of Legislature by 15%.
Permits elected officials and legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose only one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain sales of personal computers and certain sales of school supplies and equipment during first full weekend of August.
Requires telephone number to report suspicious activities or behavior related to terrorism be printed on certificates of approval.
Prohibits display of gift card account numbers.
Requires DOE to post information on website concerning incidents in which a pupil is left on a school bus at the end of a driver's route; permits commissioner to fine busing providers for such incidents.
Affords employment protection to certain volunteer emergency responders.
Establishes Office of Airline Consumer Advocate and consumer bill of rights for airline passengers; requires provision of certain services to passengers on flights delayed more than two hours.
Directs Attorney General to develop guidelines for positive identification of suspects before release.
Wireless Telephone Consumer Protection Act; establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
The "Truth in Mortgaging Act"; creates crime of residential mortgage fraud.
Creates crime of exposure to toxic pollutants.
Requires site remediation procedures for structures to be used for residential purposes; modifies procedures for structures to be used for child care and educational purposes, and sites previously used for agricultural purposes.
Prohibits credit card foreign transaction fees.
Requires debt collector to provide debtor certain information.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in hedge funds and derivative contracts.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Provides for county welfare agency monitoring of welfare emergency assistance motel placements, annual inspection of hotels used for emergency assistance recipients and notice of mobile health van services.
Prohibits payment of public employee bonuses not directly contingent upon achieving certain performance goals.
Permits unused sick leave by public employee to be carried forward for one year only; requires unused administrative leave to be cancelled.
Establishes bio-recovery specialist license and requires first responders to provide certain support to victims.
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Makes certain changes to public access of government records.
Prohibits employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer; prohibits certain TPAF and PERS members from receiving service credit while on leave with labor organization.
Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years and in PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to average of three highest-paid years.
Requires that public employees who are married, partners in civil union couples, or with domestic partners receive health care benefits from only one public employer.
Requires certain school districts to reduce per pupil administrative expenditures by 10% over three-year period and certain reporting by executive county superintendents of schools.
Terminates sick leave injury program for State employees injured after July 1, 2011 or upon expiration of current collective negotiation agreement.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Praying Mantis."
Requires certain notification periods regarding due dates for premium payments for individual health benefits plans.
Requires active public employees in SHBP and SEHBP to contribute minimum of 1.5% of base salary to share cost of their health care coverage.
Eliminates eligibility for membership in pension systems and for health care benefits for part-time public employees, appointees and elected officials.
Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
Prohibits certain TPAF and PERS members from receiving service credit while on leave with labor organization.
Permits counties and municipalities to withdraw from civil service system by ordinance.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Prohibits use of certain accidents involving certain insureds during the course of employment with a government entity as rating factor in automobile insurance underwriting.
Provides for election of fire district commissioners and school board members at general election; eliminates school budget vote except for separate proposals to spend above cap, also to occur at general election.
Repeals restriction on weights and measures officers' and employees' duties.
Prohibits political subdivisions from awarding longevity-based benefits to their employees.
Reduces school district, county, and municipal property tax levy cap from 4 percent to 2.5 percent and permits unused county and municipal increases to be banked for three succeeding years.
Allows municipalities adjacent to one or more municipalities having UEZs and a county where a reduced sales tax is assessed on retail sales to qualify for NJ Redevelopment Authority financing assistance.
Requires DHSS to include in NJ Hospital Performance Report data from hospital pediatric emergency medicine registries.
Requires merchandise credit be clearly identifiable and distinguishable from proof of purchase issued by retailer and applies certain limitations on gift cards to merchandise credit.
"Government Reality Check Act"; prohibits public employers from providing certain benefits to public employees; restricts gifts to public employees; restricts travel by public employees; imposes post-employment restriction on public contracting employees
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Port Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River and Bay Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Prohibits certain local public employer continuation of pay programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Provides unemployment insurance benefits for shared work programs; requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development report.*
Requires certain public officers and employees to reside in State. *
Enhances penalty for killing police dog or dog engaged in search and rescue efforts.
Appropriates $23 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Vetoed1
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Establishes a permanent Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Requires DEP to establish free recreational saltwater fishing registry.
Upgrades offenses of engaging in unauthorized practice of law; creates civil action; provides that persons convicted of the offenses are barred from appointment as a notary public. *
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Changes membership requirements of the Veterans' Services Council.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Expands "Jersey Fresh" program to include "Made With Jersey Fresh" designation of certain baked goods and other food products.
Requires DCA to post on its website the current adopted budget of any county or municipality that does not maintain its own website; also requires posting of three immediately preceding adopted budgets.
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires State, regional, and local authorities, boards,and commissions to establish an Internet website and post information related to each entity's mission, finances, meetings, and employees.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Permits wagering at casinos and racetracks on certain professional and collegiate sports or athletic events.
Vetoed · 6
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Establishes "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Passed the General Assembly · 21
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Prohibits application of certain temporary tattoos. *
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Requires causes of driver inattention to be noted in traffic accidents.
Allows homestead property tax reimbursement program participants who lose income eligibility due to an IRA withdraw for certain purposes to maintain base year upon requalification.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Regulates mailed manufacturer's rebates.
Includes reverse rate evasion as form of insurance fraud and provides for civil and criminal penalties.
Prohibits delivery of more than one magazine issue before billing information is obtained. *
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Provides for the removal of a State Board of Education member for failure to attend three consecutive board meetings without good cause.
Regulates pay-off of trade-in vehicles and certain vehicle title releases. *
Concerns compensation and benefits of officers, employees, and members of State and local authorities. *
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Requires appointments for safety-related recalls on vehicles to be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. *
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Establishes certain consumer protections related to arbitration organizations.
Prohibits automatic renewal of service contracts.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Out of committee · 42
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Heath Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. *
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain minimum three foot safety distance when overtaking bicycles.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets.
Authorizes credit unions to serve as depositories of public funds; requires credit unions to provide certain funds for financial literacy education.*
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around occupied building.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Allows students with disabilities to bring service animal to school.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days.
Creates the criminal offense of affinity fraud.
Establishes alternative methods of casino licensure.
Establishes "Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program" telephone helpline. *
Designates portion of Route 47 in Glassboro as "South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Highway".
Changes references of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability" and uses person-first language for persons with disabilities.
"Kulesh and Kubert's Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
"Meadowlands Regionalization, Efficiency and Property Tax Relief Act of 2010."
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Reverses certain changes to laws governing State treatment of unclaimed property.
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for school and local employees; limits sick leave use by new public employees before retirement.
Expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers.
Limits forum of consumer contract disputes to New Jersey.
Designates March 13 of each year as "K9 Veterans Day."
Consolidates certain business-related categories of gross income and provides 20 year carryforward of certain net losses under gross income tax.
Directs establishment of Atlantic City Tourism District; broadens powers and duties of CRDA; transfers Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority and its functions to CRDA.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.*
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customers.
Requires periodic inspection of exterior walls of certain buildings.
"Pamela's law;" criminalizes possession and sale of mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, commonly known as "bath salts."*
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Appropriates $39 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Establishes procedures for districts, municipalities, or voters to opt to move the annual school election to November and eliminates vote on school budgets for such districts, except for separate proposals to spend above cap.
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
In committee · 68
Requires insurers to inform insureds whether certain coverages extend to rental automobiles.
Permits submission of online voter registration form through secure Department of State Internet site; authorizes use of digitized signature from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission database for online voter registration form approval.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Permits real estate brokers to provide rebates to purchasers.
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Provides for Autism Advocate in Division of Advocacy for the Developmentally Disabled.
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
Includes limitations on amount of retirement compensation which may be provided by a school board in the employment contracts of superintendents of schools, assistant superintendents of schools, and school business administrators.
Clarifies school district employees subject to statutory provisions concerning supplemental compensation for unused sick leave and vacation carry forward requirements.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies; makes an appropriation.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for new motor vehicles with certain fuel efficiency.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Enhances penalties for driving when license revoked.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Outlines criteria municipalities are to consider when establishing speed limits for local streets.
Requires governmental affairs agents to disclose on notice of representation form compensation amount received from State or local government entities; requires notice to be posted on Internet site of Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Revises "Off-Track and Account Wagering Act."
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Creates Construction Trades Licensing Board for licensing and regulation of several construction professions; creates new division for homeowner protection in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires ATM operators to disclose balance inquiry fees.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Requires certain notifications upon sale of property where private well is treated by point of entry systems.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
The "Country of Origin Signage Act."
Requires counties, municipalities, fire districts, and boards of education to cooperatively develop and implement five-year financial plans.
Excludes financial benefit received by volunteer emergency responder from gross income.
Requires premium sharing for health care benefits for elected officials and certain appointed officials.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Authorizes expenditures from open space trust funds to develop or maintain recreation and conservation land although the land was not acquired by the municipality.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Mandates that certain personnel critical to certain State finance and revenue generating activities are essential employees during a declared State government shutdown due to failure to enact an annual appropriation act.
Permits casino employees to serve on Atlantic City governing body in certain circumstances.
Concerns suspension and revocation of employer licenses for repeated violations of wage, benefit and tax laws.
Makes membership in the New Jersey School Boards Association optional.
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Requires newly hired State employees be New Jersey residents.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Sets State's mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires health insurers to disclose broker commissions to purchasers.
Changes "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner" in new sections of law and revisions to current law; requires counties to change terms on website.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from seven percent to six percent and reduces sales and use tax base by eliminating tax on digital property and certain services and by restoring certain exclusions and exemptions.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to disclose contributions and expenditure information.
Establishes pilot project to permit overseas and military voters to vote in certain elections using Internet; makes an appropriation.
Reorganizes New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority as New Jersey Public Media Corporation.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th Birthday.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave; limits employment for certain public employees.