Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Troy Singleton
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Provides that beginning with the 2016-2017 grade nine class, Advanced Placement computer science course may satisfy a part of the mathematics credits required for high school graduation.*
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Authorizes tax lien holders other than municipalities to institute in rem tax foreclosure actions against abandoned properties.
Requires DOC to make reports containing information concerning treatment and reentry initiative participation; requires AOC to establish program that collects recidivism data and make reports concerning adults sentenced to period of probation.*
Exempts certain activities of alarm businesses from statutes governing practice of locksmithing. *
Vetoed10
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to review construction work on public utilities.*
Concerns registration of contractors and sets criteria for responsible bidders in public work.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Passed the General Assembly7
Increases fine for violation of certain laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; dedicates funds to certain roadways.
Authorizes creation of special Phi Beta Sigma license plates.
Prohibits persons convicted of animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."*
Revises certain aspects of the New Jersey Individual Development Account Program.*
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Out of committee30
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.*
"Health Care Consumer Cost Transparency Act" *
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Permits religious institutions to request DCF conduct child abuse record checks of certain prospective and current employees and volunteers.*
Abolishes the State Real Estate Appraisers Board and transfers regulation of appraisers to the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Prohibits bad faith assertion of patent infringement.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Regulates certain servicing activities provided by mortgage servicing organizations for residential mortgage loans.
Prohibits cloud computing service providers from disclosing data collected from public, private, or charter school.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Establishes tiered-preference system for purchase of agricultural products by school districts.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*
Establishes Class I renewable energy certificate multiplier program for certain energy production facilities fueled by methane.
Creates Task Force on Construction Industry Workplace Safety and Health.
Extends application period for certain urban hope projects; permits reconstructed facilities as part of projects; and provides additional retirement benefits for certain PERS and TPAF members in certain urban hope districts*
Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Conforms Megan's Law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.*
Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.**
Requires auctioneers to register with Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes six-year alternative parole eligibility pilot program for certain offenders.
Establishes vocational training pilot program in DOC; provides for inmate compensation for education and workforce training participation.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.*
Allows collection of seeds from wild native plants.
In committee99
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.
Permits municipality to hire private company to provide construction officials, subcode officials, and technical assistants.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
"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
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Modifies timeframe during which charter school applications are submitted to and approved by DOE.
"New Jersey Venture Investment and Employment Program Act;" establishes program under NJ EDA to provide for qualified investments of capital in qualified businesses.
Creates corporate business tax and gross income tax credits to fund education enrichment demonstration program.
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.
Requires reporting for State tax purposes of certain nonwage payments made to construction service providers.
Establishes State pension fund preference for certain in-State infrastructure investment.
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.
Increases penalties for motor vehicle violations resulting in serious bodily injury or death to certain persons in highway.
Requires percentage of motor vehicle fines be used to support safe routes to school initiatives.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Establishes a cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit program.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
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.
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.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires establishment of and compliance with infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards for hospital construction work.
Mandates "breakfast after the bell" program in schools with significant low income population.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Provides additional State school aid to certain districts with expenditures below districts' adequacy threshold.
Establishes New Jersey port support zone surrounding certain ports and marine terminals.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Establishes Innovation Grant Program and authorizes tax credits for contributions to Innovation Fund; appropriates $5 million to DOE.
Establishes "The Patient Safety and Provider Incentive Program;" makes an appropriation.
Creates New Jersey Innovation Council Program.
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and permits municipalities to require protective measures be taken for such properties.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2014.
Permits conduct of lottery games on Internet.
Clarifies law regarding local public contract specifications and leases of public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Creates pilot program to fund adult education programs for residents of certain communities.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Limits local enforcing agency fees.
Establishes permanent task force to review and guide implementation of process improvement programs for Executive Branch based on Lean Six Sigma management approach.
Establishes Consumer Finance Advisory Board; abolishes certain advisory boards in DOBI.
Prohibits advertising of certain products on websites to minors.
Modifies various aspects of the charter school program, including authorization, regulation, and monitoring of charter schools; appropriates $250,000 from General Fund to DOE.
Expands exemption to wage and hour requirements for certain summer camp workers.
Expands crimes preventing retainer or counsel fee award in action for divorce or dissolution of civil union; clarifies legislative intent concerning no-fault causes of action for divorce or dissolution of civil union.
Directs MVC to establish permit and safety requirements for companies that use online application program to match passengers with drivers.
Establishes immunity from civil liability and criminal prosecution to persons who forcibly enter motor vehicle to remove child in danger.
Authorizes executor or administrator to access digital assets of account holder.
Repeals law establishing application fees for civil service examinations and appeal fee.
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Allows for assessment of civil and criminal penalties for violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1967)" even if violations were not knowingly or recklessly committed.
Prohibits anti-tiering clauses in managed care health benefits plans.
Provides that child's abuse of, or addiction to, alcohol or controlled substances may, under certain circumstances, constitute a child's "severe mental or physical incapacity" justifying continuation of child support after the age of majority.
Eliminates contractual tenure for superintendents of schools and administrative principals and reinstates career tenure for these positions after employment of seven years or two contract terms, whichever is longer.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Expands duties and responsibilities of Lieutenant Governor; includes Lieutenant Governor in existing laws governing recall and ethics; establishes Lieutenant Governor's salary and budget.
Requires electric public utilities to install smart meters and associated infrastructure at the request of customer.
Establishes crime of sexual assault by fraud.
Requires Department of Treasury to provide certain information to public regarding sale of State surplus personal property and to establish registration numbers for certain auction participants.
Permits certain school districts to be monitored by DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum every six years; requires development of electronic reporting system.
Directs the Department of Corrections to advise new inmates of child support obligations and modification procedures.
Establishes patient-centered medical home program.
Requires students in grade 12 to pass United States Citizenship and Immigration Services civics test as part of high school graduation requirements.
Requires establishment of and compliance with infection control risk assessment minimum training for persons performing certain hospital construction work.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Establishes pilot reentry court program.
The "New Jersey Corporation Political Expenditure Shareholder's Protection Act."
Expands juror qualifications to include persons previously convicted of indictable offenses under certain circumstances.
Requires State Police to conduct criminal history record background check for taxicab driver applicants.
Establishes surplus revenue reserve account in the Property Tax Relief Fund if certain levels of unanticipated gross income tax revenue are collected.
Requires Governor to file annual report disclosing expenditures made from funds provided thereto as allowance.
Requires municipalities to file copies of tax abatement and exemption agreements with county chief financial officer and county counsel within 30 days of execution.
Requires municipalities to share certain payments received in lieu of taxes with counties and school districts; informs counties and school districts of application for tax exemption.
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business failed to repay previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations related to use of educational technology in public school classrooms.
Regulates the authority of the court to make provision for the educational expenses of an unemancipated child in certain instances involving child support.
Concerns rights of Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission employees.
Modifies certain provisions of EDA incentive programs; requires EDA to provide report with review and analysis of those programs.
Exempts homeless student or student in resource family home who transfers between school districts after second year of high school from local graduation requirements.
Regulates certain auditing and disclosure practices of pharmacy benefits management companies.
Requires police vehicles to be equipped with Global Positioning System tag devices.
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on properties receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
Expands Medicaid eligibility to the age of 26 for certain former foster children.
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child and dependent care expenses.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Ensures fairness of project deadlines, enhances transparency, and creates foreclosure protections for Superstorm Sandy victims.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses which employ eligible apprentices.
Waives annual teacher evaluation requirement for certain teachers who supervise student teachers.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for certain pension, annuity, and retirement income to $45,000.
Authorizes political subdivisions to require recipients of economic development incentives to enter into community benefits agreements.
Codifies standards for court to consider in determining application for removal of child of divorced or separated persons from jurisdiction.
Concerns standard for involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment; requires police training on behavioral health issues.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Extends application period for certain urban hope projects and permits reconstructed facilities as part of projects.**
Establishes vocational training pilot program in DOC; provides for inmate compensation for education and workforce training participation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Encourages the establishment of "breakfast after the bell" programs in school districts, public school, and nonpublic schools participating in the federal school breakfast program.*
Establishes durational limits and enumerates certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; establishes "open durational" alimony.*
Authorizes the establishment of federal impact aid reserve account.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for New Jersey Nonprofit Veterans Organizations through gross income tax returns.*
Allows person to request voluntary exclusion from gaming activities without acknowledging being problem gambler.
Provides remedies for certain fraudulent financing statements.*
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Requires complaint for guardianship of person receiving services from Division of Developmental Disabilities to include one of the documents identified in bill.*
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Establishes procedure for consolidating fire districts.
Concerns authority of DOLWD to inspect prevailing wage public work projects.
Requires Commissioner of DOLWD to disseminate certain information to contractors who bid on or perform prevailing wage public work.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Requires health benefits coverage for synchronization of prescribed medications under certain circumstances.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Requires preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Allows school districts and requires public colleges to enter into dual enrollment agreements to provide college-level instruction to high school students through courses offered on college or high school campuses.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
Permits Newark to use rental car tax proceeds over three-year period to help reduce its "cash deficit for preceding year" appropriation and operational deficit.
Revises certain laws governing police and fire interest arbitration; incorporates compounding in base salary calculation; extends two-percent cap on base salary awards.
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for women veterans.*
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008." *
Authorizes operators of motor vehicles to display electronic proof of insurance.
Concerns certain tobacco sales.
"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 and certain family members living in New Jersey.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
Permits administration of epinephrine auto-injector device by persons who complete approved educational program.
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business is in default on previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 13
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Credits increases in employee contributions required by P.L.2011, c.78 as additional contributions to TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS, and SPRS unavailable to reduce normal contributions of State and local employers for actuarial valuations beginning July 1, 2015.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.*
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental appropriations of $6,500,000 and adds language provision.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
Passed the General Assembly · 27
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Reduces dollar amount of full outstanding debt issue that exempts casino institutional investor from requirement to maintain qualifications.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."*
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain reasonable and safe distance when overtaking pedestrians and certain bicycles.*
Creates "Expungement Study Commission."*
Requires certain CATV companies to provide free Internet access to public libraries.*
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Allows parent, guardian, or adult student to prevent disclosure of student information to certain entities.
Requires New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to annually prepare report on debt held by public institutions of higher education.
Authorizes special motion to dismiss a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" ("SLAPP").
Requires local governments and authorities to obtain financing cost estimate from NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust for certain projects; revises bond maturities and sale of bonds by NJ Enviromental Infrastructure Trust.*
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires DOE to create military-connected student identifier for inclusion in student-level database.
Prohibits award of State contracts and development subsidies to inverted domestic corporations.*
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to award pupil transportation contracts that exceed bid threshold through request for proposals.*
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.*
Makes provisions of the "New Jersey False Claims Act" retroactive under certain circumstances.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Requires employees of private entity with access to student information under contract with DOE, school districts, or charter schools to undergo criminal background check.
Out of committee · 67
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning electronic communications between employees and students.
Reduces amount of fire duty required in order to receive exempt fireman certificate.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Permits Internet gaming equipment to be located at certain secure facilities in Atlantic City.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Requires reporting of the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Requires casino licensee to install and maintain system of security cameras in every stairwell throughout casino hotel facility.
"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.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Extends deadline for developer to submit temporary certificate of occupancy for an Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program qualified residential project.
Eliminates school district budget per pupil administrative cost limits.
Requires all school districts and public institutions of higher education to offer dual enrollment programs to provide college-level instruction to high school students and requires these students be charged a reduced tuition rate.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Concerns access to records of wages for prevailing wage public work projects.
Revises certain laws governing police and fire interest arbitration; extends two-percent cap on base salary awards.
Requires each State agency to review permits issued by agency and make necessary changes to expedite and facilitate permitting.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.*
Requires each casino licensee conducting Internet gaming in this State to prominently advertise name of its Atlantic City casino on its Internet gaming websites and advertisements.
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Requires State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts to incorporate those guidelines in grades six through 12.
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers and requires certain disclosures concerning multiple source generic drug pricing.
Requires annual report on costs of projects funded by NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Requires Medicaid managed care organizations to meet certain conditions prior to reducing reimbursement rates for personal care assistant services and home-based supportive care services.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
Establishes insurance and safety requirements for companies that use digital network or software application to match passengers with drivers.*
Provides State Investment Council must report private money managers' fee information and that council's regulations addressing political contributions will apply to federal or national committees and non-State political committees.
Requires State agencies to periodically review administrative rules and regulations to ensure continued efficacy.
Requires earlier mandatory polling hours for school elections; requires discretionary additional polling hours be consistent with current primary and general elections.*
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault if committed against certain law enforcement officers and employees because of job status.
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Establishes licensure for associate marriage and family therapists.
Authorizes State-chartered banks, savings banks, savings and loans, and credit unions to conduct certain savings account promotions.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Reduces membership of Rutgers board of trustees and eliminates dual membership on Rutgers board of trustees and Rutgers board of governors.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Directs DOT to add certain portion of Rising Sun Road in Bordentown Township to State highway system.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Permits municipal land banking in conjunction with online property database development.*
Permits municipal redevelopers to receive tax credits under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program for certain mixed use parking projects.*
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Provides that cabinet-level public officials, Attorney General, and county prosecutors may serve in acting capacity for no longer than six months without nomination.*
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act." *
Appropriates $4,750,000 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental State appropriations totaling $300,000,000 for prepayment of portion of FY 2016 employer contributions to State-administered public employee defined benefit retirement systems.
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
"Certificates of Insurance Act;" governs use of certificates of insurance; provides DOBI with enforcement authority.
Provides preference to certain employers applying for workforce development grants.
Facilitates coordination of land use planning between civilian and military interests to preserve viability of federal military installations within State.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
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"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Restricts use of electronic benefit cards by cash assistance recipients.
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
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.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Provides for the designation of new charter school authorizers.
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Revises child pornography law.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
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.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Requires website operators to delete posts at request of minor.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Establishes linked deposit program allowing State Treasurer to deposit State funds at below market interest rates with certain banks.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Restricts access to motor vehicle accident reports under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires assisted living residences and certain facilities under DCA, DCF, and DHS to be equipped with standby emergency power generators.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
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.
Allows certain fuel dealers and distributors refunds of petroleum products gross receipts tax and credits against motor fuel tax for certain bad debts from sale of fuel.
"Protection for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Institutional and Community Settings Act."
Increases certain time frames governing arbitration in police and fire contract disputes.
Provides for disclosure of person's medical records related to AIDS or HIV infection for investigations or prosecutions of crime of diseased person committing act of sexual penetration; makes crime ineligible for expungment.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Provides homestead owners gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for capital gains from sale of certain employer securities.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Concerns environmental permits in burdened communities.
Requires drivers to move over or slow down when approaching a bicyclist or pedestrian.
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.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Requires school districts to take all steps to ensure adequate security for students when school is open as a polling place and provides that school district costs shall be deducted from the itemized list of expenses submitted by the county board of elect
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Disqualifies individuals for unemployment benefits due to receipt of certain severance payments.
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Revises the period of time required for a State college faculty member to receive tenure.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Authorizes licensing of operators to provide restricted foreign Internet wagering under certain circumstances.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
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.
Establishes death by auto as first degree crime in certain circumstances; designated as Dirk's law.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
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.
Terminates transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharges effective January 1, 2013.
"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 mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
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.
Authorizes wiretapping to investigate crimes involving human trafficking or certain prostitution activities.
Authorizes permits for certain New Jersey casinos for interstate and foreign Internet wagering; requires Internet gaming payment processors be licensed as casino service industry enterprises.
Establishes Sex Offender Management Commission; amends Megan's Law in response to federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
Establishes "New Jersey Racetrack Growth and Development Fund" on behalf of eligible lessees of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments not required under State or federal law.
Permits juveniles to be admitted to drug court program under certain circumstances.
Authorizes waiver of license revocation process for certain child support obligors.
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Establishes crimes of operating school bus with suspended or revoked driving privileges and being involved in accident causing bodily injury; permanently prohibits passenger and school bus CDL endorsements for persons convicted of those crimes.
Permits landlords to take actions after death of tenant in certain situations.
Establishes procedures for boards of fire commissioners to move annual fire district elections to November, eliminates vote on fire district budgets, except for proposals to raise revenue above the permissible levy cap.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act;" requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Establishes "Opioid Abuse Prevention Commission."
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Requires that if a school district satisfies 80% or more of the required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, the State must return that area to local control.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DMVA for Council on Armed Forces and Veterans' Affairs for preservation of military installations in case of base realignment and closure.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop lists of approved testing vendors and commercially-developed standardized assessments for use by public school districts.
Requires State Auditor to report on finances of public institutions of higher education.
Authorizes the EDA to issue additional $50,000,000 in bonds to provide grants for certain county vocational school district facilities projects and increases debt service district aid percentage for such projects.
Allows gross income tax credit for contributions to nonprofit public school support organizations.
Requires anyone receiving opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
Implements recommendations of SCI report concerning bail bond industry.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires public and nonpublic school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Removes anhydrous ammonia used for refrigeration as substance regulated by "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act"; eliminates DOLWD licensing for operators of refrigerating plants using anhydrous ammonia.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax for step-grandchildren.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Marketplace Act."
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes "Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Act;" requires DOLWD to promulgate standards and regulations concerning safe handling of hazardous drugs by health care personnel.
Requires DHS to prioritize placement of parents of children receiving services from DCPP in mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank Fund within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Establishes the State Debt Capacity Advisory Commission.
Requires school districts and charter schools to provide educationally appropriate alternative activities to students not participating in administration of certain standardized assessments.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Authorizes health care practitioners to provide health care services through telemedicine.
Updates factors for consideration for grandparent and sibling petitions seeking visits with child over objection of parent, guardian, or custodian; adds preference for child's temporary placement with grandparent under "Child Placement Bill of Rights Act.
Requires MVC to automatically transmit applicant information to Secretary of State for automatic voter registration; permits applicant to decline voter registration.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Revises definition of "antique handgun;" provides exceptions to certain firearm laws.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Permits homeless to receive certified copy of birth certificate without fee.
Exempts homeless from fee for non-driver identification cards.
Prohibits certain steering and marketing practices involving dispensing of prescription drugs and drug samples.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Establishes Medicaid program to provide housing-related services to individuals experiencing chromic homelessness.