Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Louis D. Greenwald
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires DCF to provide information on home visitation resources and shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants. *
Permits local units to participate in cooperative purchasing agreements.
Revises procedure for police and fire contract disputes; imposes a "cap" on certain arbitration awards. **
Authorizes transfer of certain assets of State's public broadcasting system to an entity eligible to operate a public broadcasting system. *
Vetoed6
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. *
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit. *
Provides State school aid to districts in amount consistent with provisions of "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Authorizes annulments of marriage and civil unions without cause within 30 days of the ceremony; eliminates waiting period for marriage and civil union licenses; and increases fees for such licenses.*
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all elections under certain conditions; limits number of sample ballots transmitted to each residence.
Passed the General Assembly2
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Out of committee16
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Expands permitted expenditures from Airport Safety Fund.
Requires public institutions of higher education and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to include link on their websites for access to educational information. *
Supplemental appropriation of $24.6 million in State funds and $45.7 million in federal funds to the DHS.
Revises sales and use tax to maintain compliance with certain terms and conditions of Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Consolidates certain business-related categories of gross income and provides 20 year carryforward of certain net losses under gross income tax.
Provides credit against ambulatory care facility assessment liability for value of unreimbursed care provided to hospital charity care patients.
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit and requires developers utilizing State funds to reserve affordable units under certain conditions.
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all future elections.
Makes various changes to pension and health care benefits for public employees.
Revises requirement that public employers provide certain health benefit plans to public employees.
Appropriates $30,609,343,000 in State funds and $12,128,463,665 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
Makes Fiscal Year 2011 State and federal supplemental appropriations, and amends certain Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations and other provisions of P.L.2010, c.35.
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 committee48
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Establishes Statewide allogeneic cord blood bank, requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for cord blood banking and appropriates $5 million to DHSS.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrator.
Prohibits toll-free passage for SJTA employees, officers, and members except while commuting or carrying out official duties.
Authorizes county surrogates to establish or expand programs to provide information to law enforcement officers, firefighters and first aid squad members concerning the preparation of wills, living wills and powers of attorney.
Exempts reimbursements from Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare and allows deduction for charity care in calculation of gross receipts for purposes of assessment on ambulatory care facilities.
Authorizes the issuance of $2,705,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance the construction and renovation of higher education facilities; appropriates $5,000.
Revises the structure, functions and authority of the State Investment Council and the Director of the State Division of Investment.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Adds budget language specifying Medicaid reimbursement for various ambulance services provided to certain recipients.
Abolishes Landscape Architect Examination and Evaluation Committee; transfers powers to New Jersey State Board of Architects.
Adds two additional public members to NJ Transit board.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Requires report and public hearing prior to DEP recommendation of site for inclusion on Superfund list.
Requires certain service extensions undertaken in municipally-designated areas in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation to receive same benefits as if located in smart growth area.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Revises civil service status of certain county welfare agency management positions and requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Exempts comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilitites from ambulatory care assessment.
Requires DOE to submit an annual review to the Legislature assessing its performance of district oversight responsibilities.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
The "New Jersey Health Insurance Reform Act."
Authorizes expenditures from open space trust funds to develop or maintain recreation and conservation land although the land was not acquired by the municipality.
Requires Treasurer and Division of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by May 15 and November 15 each year.
Allows health maintenance organizations to include charity care assessments for purposes of meeting certain loss ratio requirements.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Concerns calculation of certain HMO loss ratios; makes various changes to individual and small employer health benefits programs, charity care and NJ FamilyCare programs.
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.
Repeals application of gross income tax to certain New Jersey Lottery prize winnings.
Reduces the alcoholic beverage excise tax rate on liquor, wine, vermouth, sparkling wine, and hard cider and eliminates the dedication of that tax to the Health Care Subsidy Fund.
Terminates transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharges effective January 1, 2011.
Decreases rental motor vehicle surcharge from $5 per day to $2 per day.
Decreases the premium receipts tax for surplus lines insurance coverage.
Reduces cigarette tax rate by 30 cents per pack and reduces revenue dedicated to the Health Care Subsidy Fund.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
Eliminates the 1% fee, and the 1% tax, on purchasers of Class 4A commercial property transferred for consideration in excess of $1 million.
Establishes limited retail religious distribution license.
Provides for the continuation of health insurance coverage for certain employees and their dependents when an employer ceases to exist.
Provides that the State Board of Examiners may not charge a fee for the issuance of credentials required to serve as a substitute school nurse.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Clarifies responsibility of Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund for pedestrian personal injury protection claims.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Imposes post-employment restrictions on certain ABC employees.
Establishes procedures for awarding of design-build contracts.
Excludes certain services rendered in connection with installation of carpeting and other flooring from sales and use tax.
Revises State designation of "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" from February to September.
Establishes procedures for districts 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.
Filed2
Phases-in single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula over three years and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Establishes alternative business calculation under gross income tax to permit consolidation and carryforward of certain business-related losses.
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Requires public institutions of higher education and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs' to include link on their websites for access to educational information. *
Expands permitted expenditures from Airport Safety Fund.
Revises sales and use tax to maintain compliance with certain terms and conditions of Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
Phases-in single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula over three years and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Establishes alternative business calculation under gross income tax to permit consolidation and carryforward of certain business-related losses.
Makes various changes to pension and health care benefits for public employees.
Repeals requirement that public employers provide certain health benefit plans to public employees.*
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.
Appropriates $30,609,343,000 in State funds and $12,128,463,665 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
Makes Fiscal Year 2011 State and federal supplemental appropriations, and amends certain Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations and other provisions of P.L.2010, c.35.
Vetoed3
Consolidates certain business-related categories of gross income and provides 20 year carryforward of certain net losses under gross income tax. *
Supplemental appropriation of $24.6 million in State funds and $45.7 million in federal funds to the DHS.
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all future elections.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
Disqualifies member of board of education or member of charter school board of trustees for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation. *
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Establishes new procedure in "Administrative Procedure Act" to allow substantial changes to agency rule-making upon adoption.
Changes five year chapter expiration date for rules to seven years; changes procedures for readoption of rules. **
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Requires Department of State to create uniform application form for use by small businesses to apply for certain State financial assistance programs.*
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by veterans.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Vetoed · 6
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Provides for appointment to board of directors of New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange by Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
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. *
Requires license suspension of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal.
Requires pharmacist to dispense epilepsy drug from same manufacturer as previously dispensed for certain patients. *
Provides for the removal of a State Board of Education member for failure to attend three consecutive board meetings without good cause.
Directs DOT to allow wineries to erect tourist-oriented directional signs on roads and highways. *
Maintains right of corporate directors and officers to indemnification under certain circumstances.
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Out of committee · 25
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Establishes registry of offenders of individuals with developmental disabilities in DHS.
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Establishes "Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program" telephone helpline. *
Requires all wireless telephones and electronic communication devices issued by public entities to be activated to receive Amber Alerts.
Changes references of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability" and uses person-first language for persons with disabilities.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from the sales and use tax.
Permits sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
Provides for development of searchable "Bulletin NJ" local public bidding and employment database.
Expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain wages paid to qualified interns in tax years 2012 and 2013.
Establishes a long-term capacity agreement pilot program to promote construction of qualified electric generation facilities. *
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Permits combination of voter petitions and application by municipal governing body for approval of Municipal Consolidation Study Commission by Local Finance Board.
Permits small, women or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Establishes Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project in DHS.
Requires periodic inspection of exterior walls of certain buildings.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Makes varius changes to urban transit hub tax credit program concerning mixed use projects, in-State job relocation, tax credit and investment criteria, and affordable housing; makes certain NJ Meadowlands area properties eligible for incentive grants.*
Extends validity of wastewater service area and sewer service area designations, and revises certain aspects of wastewater management planning process.*
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
"Urban Hope Act"; provides a process to permit authorized entities to build, operate, and manage "renaissance school projects" as public schools in no more than three identified failing districts.
In committee · 43
Requires that automated external defibrillators be located on every floor of State House and State House Annex; requires training for State Police.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Requires certain arbitrators to file financial disclosure statements.
Requires practitioners to disclose business relationship with out-of-State facilities when making patient referrals to those facilities.
Requires school board member and local elective office candidates to file financial disclosure statements; requires criminal background disclosure for school officials and school board member candidates.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative Act."
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Authorizes special license emblems for Fraternal Order of Police members.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
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 the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
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.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Prohibits supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for public school and municipal employees with annual compensation of $100,000 or more.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
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.
Permits municipalities to transfer the responsibility for hiring adult school crossing guards to the local school district and any charter schools located in the municipality.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
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.
Establishes waiver, rebate or payment of insured's deductible, copayment, or coinsurance by health care practitioner as a form of insurance fraud subject to criminal and civil penalties.
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Requires certain motor vehicle reinspections be conducted at licensed private inspection facilities.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Provides for uniform basic structure of taxicab fares in certain municipalities.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for amount of annual homestead property tax that exceeds 7 percent of homestead owner's New Jersey gross income.
Reduces waiting period to expunge disorderly and petty disorderly persons offenses from five to two years.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax.
Lowers several corporation business tax rates, increases withholding rate on nonresident noncorporate partners and establishes separate gross income tax rate on gross income in excess of $500,000 but not including foremost categories of business income.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.