Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Brian E. Rumpf
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Out of committee2
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
In committee61
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Establishes a New Jersey Coordinating Council on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Generating Facilities.
Repeals State and local hotel and motel occupancy taxes and voids existing municipal implementing ordinances.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential and other private property under redevelopment laws.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Clarifies that harassment made anonymously or otherwise through electronic communication devices constitutes a petty disorderly offense.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Directs DOT to study and report on implementation of truck stop electrification systems to reduce truck idling and fuel usage.
Requires State and county offices of emergency management to designate critical infrastructure in need of emergency power generators.
Establishes coastal operations team to review county evacuation plans.
Provides for Statewide evacuation strategy for hospitals and other health care facilities.
Allows counties to establish emergency management registry for individuals with special needs.
Establishes commission authorized to identify and locate emergency shelters.
Directs DOT and NJT to study and report on transportation infrastructure needs in coastal counties.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
"Invest in New Jersey First' Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Requires DEP rejection of new solid waste facility registration if affected municipality disapproves proposed facility location.
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Requires any individual seeking elective public office to disclose when filing petition of nomination whether he or she has been convicted of a criminal offense.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Requires certain offenders to register under Megan's Law; upgrades the crimes of invasion of privacy and peering into a window of a dwelling for a second or subsequent offense.
Prohibits seller of real estate to transfer realty transfer fee liability to buyer.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicle tires and motor oils to minimize fuel usage.
Prohibits use of hands-free wireless telephones and electronic communication devices while providing instruction in the operation of a motor vehicle.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Provides for immediate driver's license suspension under certain circumstances.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Makes public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes or found at fault in certain civil actions liable and subject to pension garnishment for public legal expenses and illegally obtained funds.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
"Breann's Law" requires health insurers, the State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide "out of network" coverage for children with catastrophic illnesses.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Provides exception to requirement that posted price of motor fuel must remain unchanged for 24-hour period.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Permits cancellation of municipal charges and fees under $10.
Increases income eligibility standard for certain residential electric customers under the "Lifeline Credit Program" and "Universal Service Fund."
Permits local government units to increase service charge imposed for check payments returned for insufficient funds.
Authorizes county vocational school district to reduce required local share if the reduction is agreed to by board of education and county governing body.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Prohibits manufacture or sale of reflective glass beads with high arsenic content; prohibits DOT and State's toll road authorities from using paint mixed with reflective glass beads for roadway markings. *
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Changes membership requirements of the Veterans' Services Council.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Establishes standards for certain fertilizer applications, requires certification of professional fertilizer applicators, and regulates labeling and sale of certain fertilizers. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by veterans.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Authorizes Commissioner of NJDOT to procure revenue-generating sponsors for, and permit sponsorship acknowledgment and advertising on, safety and emergency service patrol vehicles and equipment.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
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. *
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service. *
Out of committee · 15
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Prohibits towing and transportation of boats during emergency evacuations.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects and $1.371 million in 1992 bond act monies to fund State dam restoration projects. *
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Appropriates $1,279,941 from various historic preservation funds to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Concerns custody and parenting time issues for military parents.
Implements recommendations of the Assembly Coastal New Jersey Evacuation Task Force.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Appropriates $14,818,787 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
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.
Appropriates $39 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
In committee · 68
Permits board of chosen freeholders to establish "Sharing Resources" grant and loan program to encourage shared services and municipal consolidation.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Establishes municipal authority to supervise, discipline and terminate employment of construction code officials.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DOT for repair or construction of bridges on Route 72 connecting Long Beach Island to the mainland.
Requires notaries public to be U.S. citizens.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new NICS terminals.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Provides immunity from civil liability for persons performing animal rescue and authorizes formation of emergency animal rescue response units.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions to VetGroup, Inc. for services for veterans.
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Provides certain veteran benefits to veterans of the global war on terror conflicts and those of certain military engagements served during certain periods.
Requires State to reimburse counties and municipalities for salary and fringe benefit costs of employee on official leave of absence for military service in war on terror; makes an appropriation.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows PERS ordinary disability retiree to earn up to $3,000 in PERS-covered employment annually before cancellation of disability benefit and reenrollment in PERS.
Extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Requires newly hired State employees be New Jersey residents.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed psychiatric treatment of veterans.
Dedicates up to $400,000 annually of fees collected at Island Beach and Liberty State Parks to special funds to be used to support certain park programs, and makes appropriations from the funds.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
Prohibits display of gift card account numbers.
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to develop and undertake annual public awareness campaign concerning State's emergency coastal evacuation plan.
Requires the State Police to implement reverse lane strategy on certain roads.
Requires that newly built schools be constructed to serve as emergency shelters.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Delays implementation of paid family leave for two years.
Increases penalties for luring a child and kidnapping.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions.
Requires bittering agent to be added to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Permits county board of chosen freeholders to appoint interim member of county tax board under certain circumstances.
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Requires that chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, allopathic physicians, and osteopathic physicians be reimbursed at same rate as other health care providers under various health and accident plans.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Requires newly hired State employees be New Jersey residents.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Prohibits first responders from disseminating photographs of accident victims and patients to public without consent of victim or patient.
Permits members of Pinelands Commission to approve revisions to comprehensive management plan.
Concerns custody and parenting time for military parents.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes a 2.0 percent cap on annual appropriations increases for certain State government spending.
Provides State indemnification for certain local law enforcement officers.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to fully disabled veterans.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.