Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Troy Singleton
Sponsored
Became law5
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Youth and Collegiate Affairs.
Makes various revisions to laws concerning disabled person identification cards and placards related to parking privileges.*
Concerns various authorities, boards, commissions, councils, divisions, and task forces.
Clarifies that the "Uniform Electronic Transactions Act" applies to real estate transactions.
Vetoed4
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in the urban enterprise zone program.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Concerns registration of contractors and sets criteria for responsible bidders in public work.
Passed the General Assembly11
Revises sales and use tax to specify certain persons deemed to be sellers and to clarify tax collection responsibilities of certain other persons and agents.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for qualified investment in certain biotechnology businesses.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
Requires State to enable applicants for State agency-issued permits to track online the progress and status of their permit application.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Permits the use of electronic communication in child custody arrangements that include parenting time.*
Establishes Consumer Finance Advisory Board; abolishes certain advisory boards in DOBI.
Provides for termination of parental rights of certain persons convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.*
Requires certain persons licensed or appointed to inspect homes to pass criminal history background check.
Requires reporting for State tax purposes of certain nonwage payments made to construction service providers.
Out of committee17
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Changes UI contribution rates for certain employers.
Prohibits certain contractors from public works projects.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes.
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.*
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is barred from receiving federal contract.
Removes registration requirement for providers of tinting materials on motor vehicle windshields and windows for medical reasons.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Establishes State pension fund preference for certain in-State infrastructure investment.
Expands membership of Credit Union Advisory Committee; requires at least two members to be members of federally chartered credit unions and at least four members to be members of State chartered credit unions.*
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and provides enforcement tools related to maintenance of these properties.*
Requires percentage of motor vehicle fines be used to support safe routes to school initiatives.
Increases fine for violation of certain laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; dedicates funds to certain roadways.
In committee80
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
Imposes temporary rollback and freeze on property tax bills to 2009 amounts, beginning April, 2012, until State unemployment rate falls below seven percent.
Requires certain percentage of hours worked on State-funded public works projects be reserved for New Jersey residents.
Prohibits certain contractors from public works projects.
Permits municipality to hire private company to provide construction officials, subcode officials, and technical assistants.
Establishes refundable gross income tax credit for certain taxpayers allowed Hope Scholarship Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit under Federal income tax.
Establishes certain tax exclusions and credits for the use of lifelong learning accounts to pay qualified education expenses.
Provides gross income tax deduction for payment of certain residential mortgage interest.
Phases out sales and use tax on landscaping services and certain services rendered in connection with installation of carpeting and other flooring.
Phases out imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to or use of certain health and fitness clubs and organizations.
Requires public institutions of higher education to implement certain practices concerning academic credits and residency requirements for military servicemembers.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Eliminates 1% fee, and phases out 1% tax, on purchasers of Class 4A commercial property transferred for consideration in excess of $1 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Requires contractors to provide Department of the Treasury with employment information about contracts with public bodies.
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers to redeem loan amounts received under the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public or nonpublic schools in New Jersey.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Authorizes executive county superintendent of schools to require implementation of shared services arrangements.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Creates New Jersey Business Action Center.
Provides that a student is ineligible for State financial aid upon a conviction for hazing.
Permits consumers to use manufacturer coupons when purchasing alcoholic beverages.
Clarifies requests for proposals of public entities implementing energy savings improvement program contracts.
Creates "State Infrastructure Financing Authority;" appropriates $20,000,000.
Modifies timeframe during which charter school applications are submitted to and approved by DOE.
Increases funding of "The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program."
Creates regional economic developmnet council program; appropriates $10,000,000.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Concerns prevailing wage payment in certain housing projects.
Requires workers employed in certain public works to have completed a registered apprenticeship program.
Requires certain official State forms to contain the language oath or affirmation and swear to or affirm when the forms are reprinted.
Establishes permanent task force to review and guide implementation of process improvement programs for Executive Branch based on Lean Six Sigma management approach.
Concerns job order contracts for public work.
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Clarifies that prostitution offenses include soliciting or procuring via electronic means.
Provides municipalities and fire districts with option to hire firefighters up to age 40 with eligibility for PFRS membership; allows firefighters legally hired after age 35 currently in PERS to transfer to PFRS.
"New Jersey Venture Investment and Employment Program Act;" establishes program under NJ EDA to provide for qualified investments of capital in qualified businesses.
Changes the age for excuse from juror service to 70 years.
Provides private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of insurance claims.
Creates corporate business tax and gross income tax credits to fund education enrichment demonstration program.
Increases minimum wage to $8.00; provides for further increases.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
"New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database Act"; establishes New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database and arbitration process for reimbursing out-of-network health care providers.
Requires certain financial information of certain corporations to be available to public.
"Child Food and Beverage Packaging Act"; restricts sale of child food and beverage containers made with bisphenol A.
Requires use of short sale data under certain circumstances to assess real property and determine assessment ratios.
Abolishes the State Real Estate Appraisers Board and transfers regulation of appraisers to the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Makes crime of firearms trafficking subject to No Early Release Act.
Enhances penalty for failure to report loss or theft of firearm that subsequently is used in a crime.
Requires State to reimburse certain municipalities for foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Establishes enhanced penalties for licensed firearms dealers under certain circumstance.
Requires insurers to cover comprehensive ultrasound breast screening or other screening services if a mammogram demonstrates certain dense breast tissue, and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.
Requires information relating to crime of firearms trafficking be included in annual Uniform Crime Report.
Requires reporting of the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Increases penalties for motor vehicle violations resulting in serious bodily injury or death to certain persons in highway.
Requires DOE provide report to regional school districts every 10 years regarding different tax levy apportionment methodologies.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires municipal tax assessors to use disaster relief special tax codes to reduce assessments for parcels of real property destroyed or damaged due to disaster event.
Prohibits tax return preparers from charging separately itemized fees for electronically filing State individual income tax returns.
Authorizes disclosure by DCF of information regarding child abuse to religious institutions.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Makes construction work on public utilities subject to "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Establishes a cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit program.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Establishes a loan redemption program for public school teachers who meet certain academic requirements and teach Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics subjects or special education.
Requires State Board of Education to adopt standards and benchmarks of performance for the improvement of teacher preparation programs and teacher certification candidates who complete the programs, and develop a program rating system.
Establishes Flexible Pathways Initiative in the Department of Education.
Revises procedures for the use of eminent domain and compensation for loss of business in municipal redevelopment programs.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Eliminates permanent alimony and revises certain standards for alimony awards.
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
Allows school districts to enter into school construction public-private partnership agreements with private entities.
Authorizes creation of special Phi Beta Sigma license plates.
Prohibits bad faith assertion of patent infringement.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes. *
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.***
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Expands membership of Credit Union Advisory Council; requires at least two members to be members of federally chartered credit unions and at least four members to be members of State chartered credit unions.*
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 35
Establishes study of technology for the tracking of domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law."***
Revises the period of time required for a State college faculty member to receive tenure.*
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
"Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act."
Authorizes BPU to promulgate regulations requiring electricity providers to provide information so customers may compare prices and services.*
Clarifies requests for proposals of public entities implementing energy savings improvement program contracts.*
Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.*
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to review preparation of local fire mutual aid plans and determine necessity of designated fire command structure.*
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Designates State Highway Route 7 bridge between Township of Belleville and Borough of North Arlington "Lance Corporal Osbrany Montes De Oca Memorial Bridge." *
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Provides for EMT and Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic certification for certain veterans.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Permits pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to children seven years of age or older.****
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Amends "Administrative Procedure Act" to require State agencies to use various electronic technologies in rule-making procedures.
Provides for temporary professional or occupational licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Requires development of a diabetes action plan by DOH.
Establishes highway-related sponsorship programs in DOT, NJTA, and SJTA.*
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
Establishes School Security Task Force.*
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system. *
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Requires collection and reporting of certain firearms information to interjurisdictional database; requires information relating to crime of firearms trafficking be included in annual Uniform Crime Report.*
Prohibits inclusion of bonus in employment contract of school superintendent for reducing number of out-of-district placements of students with special education needs.
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Creates pilot program to allow certain county utilities authorities to fund certain local infrastructure.*
Extends the timeline for performing certain budget-related tasks in school districts that have moved the annual school election to November.
Vetoed · 11
Establishes "Truck Operator Independent Contractor Act."
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.*
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Revises calculation of assessments concerning certain casino licensee fees and clarifies certain conditions of employment concerning Atlantic City Tourism District.*
Requires prompt monthly reporting on condition of major State budget funds and disclosure of the State's accrued revenues compared with anticipated revenues.
Requires each State agency to review permits issued by the agency and make neccessary changes to expedite and facilitate permitting. *
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Passed the General Assembly · 24
Creates a civil cause of action for stalking.
Restricts access to motor vehicle accident reports under certain circumstances.*
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.*
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act"; provides expedited process for foreclosing abandoned residential properties.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Provides bonus awards to certain businesses who hire employees who were previously unemployed for more than 13 weeks.
Provides for certain psychologists to prescribe medications.
Provides temporary deferral of certain sales and use tax collection responsibilities of certain persons making certain investments and creating certain jobs.*
Provides for confiscation and forfeiture of mislabeled Jersey Fresh and similarly branded goods.
Requires public water utilities to provide customers notice in utility bills of request for increase in rates.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.*
Permits certain witnesses under the age of 16 and victims of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.*
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Repeals anachronistic, superceded, or invalidated sections of statutory law.
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Requires Department of the Treasury to collect for overpayment of UI benefits.
Exempts mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
Requires reporting of the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.*
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Out of committee · 51
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Establishes linked deposit program allowing State Treasurer to deposit State funds at below market interest rates with certain banks.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.*
Establishes procedures for awarding of design-build contracts.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Revises statutes concerning dental hygienists and dentists.
Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.*
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Establishes pilot program for municipalities and school districts to contract for video monitoring systems to assist in enforcing law against unlawfully passing a school bus.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military service absences.*
Extends for 18 months application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
Extends hiring preference for certain civilian federal firefighters.
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Disqualifies individuals for unemployment benefits due to receipt of certain severance payments.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
"The Anti-Big Brother Act."
Revises certain solar renewable energy programs and requirements; provides for aggregated net metering of electricity consumption related to properties owned by certain governmental bodies and school districts.**
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
"Building Our Future Bond Act"; authorizes the issuance of $750,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance higher educational capital projects for increasing of academic capacity; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.*
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Establishes summary action to foreclose mortgages on vacant and abandoned residential property.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.*
Provides for screening newborn infants for adrenoleukodystrophy.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
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.
Changes deadline for filing nominating petitions for school board candidates to last Monday in July; revises procedure for filing school board candidate vacancy; and revises certain other election procedures. *
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Requires disclosure of storm or flood damage in vehicle sales.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Codifies current State Board of Education regulations which limit who may serve as case managers for students with disabilities to members of child study teams and certain speech-language specialists.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law." *
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Upgrades penalty for unlawfully transferring a firearm to an underage person; permits transfer for instruction and training.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes release or reduction of original performance guarantee after deposit of adequate replacement performance guarantee by successor developer.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
Permits real estate licensees to prepare broker price opinions and comparative market analyses.
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Revises child pornography law.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
"Healthcare Transparency and Disclosure Act."
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Increases the application fee and provides for an admission fee to pre-trial intervention; dedicates fee increase for victim services.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
The "Debt-Management Services Act of New Jersey."
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Extends for three years application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Provides for the designation of new charter school authorizers.
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.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Provides for nursing home reimbursement adjustment for cost of energy improvements.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program."
Prohibits permanent change of child custody during period of active military service; provides that absence due to active military duty, by itself, is insufficient justification to modify a child custody or visitation order.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Relieves municipalities along certain light rail lines of civil liability in Quiet Zones under certain circumstances.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Establishes death by auto as first degree crime in certain circumstances; designated as Dirk's law.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Concerns apprenticeship programs and other standards for public works contractors.
Increases certain time frames governing arbitration in police and fire contract disputes.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
'"Invest in New Jersey First' Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Terminates transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharges effective January 1, 2013.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
"Child Protection Act of 2012": amends statute of limitations for civil actions concerning sexual abuse; implements training programs for certain persons who work with children; establishes requirement for certain criminal background checks.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children; appropriates $1,500,000 to Treasury.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; appropriates $2,500,000.
Specifies failure to restrain a cat, dog, or other domestic companion animal while the animal is riding in a motor vehicle is not cruel or inhumane transport.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.
Establishes summary action to foreclose mortgages on vacant and abandoned residential property.
Directs board of trustees of county college to post information on the compensation paid to college president on its website.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to adopt guidelines for the employment contracts of county college presidents.
The "Debt-Management Services Act of New Jersey."
Requires that certain motor vehicle surcharge revenues be dedicated to the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Requires assisted living residences and certain facilities under DCA, DCF, and DHS to be equipped with standby emergency power generators.
Requires disclosure of water damage prior to vehicle sales.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Provides homestead owners gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Requires PANYNJ to impose cargo facility charge on certain cargo.
Extends certain time limitations in police and fire contract arbitration proceedings.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2013"; authorizes bonds for $500 million; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes Job Opportunity Benefit Program to provide tax credits to certain businesses having large number of employees in the State.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Authorizes dedicated National Association for the Advancement of Colored People license plate.
Clarifies that municipalities that failed to fill police vacancies created by retirements are eligible for "Safe and Secure Communities" grants.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
"Protection for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Institutional and Community Settings Act."
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Elevates strangulation assault of a victim to aggravated assault in all instances.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act;" provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans.