Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Brian E. Rumpf
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Out of committee4
Permits cancellation of municipal charges and fees under $10.
Permits mayors to appoint municipal emergency management coordinators from among residents of municipalities subject to a shared services agreement.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
In committee59
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.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Requires 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.
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.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
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.
Permits local government units to increase service charge imposed for check payments returned for insufficient funds.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Provides for immediate driver's license suspension under certain circumstances.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
"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.
Prohibits use of hands-free wireless telephones and electronic communication devices while providing instruction in the operation of a motor vehicle.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicle tires and motor oils to minimize fuel usage.
Directs DOT to study and report on implementation of truck stop electrification systems to reduce truck idling and fuel usage.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Exempts transfer of ownership of real property between individual and business entity controlled by that individual from realty transfer fee and one percent assessment on transfer of ownership of certain real property.
Directs DOT and NJT to study and report on transportation infrastructure needs in coastal counties.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
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.
Ends transitional energy facilities assessment (TEFA), caps State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
'"Invest in New Jersey First' Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
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 CRDA to finance certain highway projects outside of Atlantic City Tourism District.
Allows municipality to petition county for removal of abandoned vessel; provides that vessel shall not be deemed abandoned for period of not more than six months following declared state of emergency.
Permits municipalities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to borrow for current expenses through December 31, 2014, and repay special emergency notes over a 10-year period.
Revises current law permitting paid leave of absence for municipal police officers.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Allows "Coastal Protection Trust Fund" monies to be used to separate combined sewer systems.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Provides for payment to small municipalities, in certain cases, of certain penalty moneys assessed for violations of fish and game laws.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Permits cancellation of municipal charges and fees under $10.
Permits mayors to appoint municipal emergency management coordinators from among residents of municipalities subject to a shared services agreement.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
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.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Requires DOT Commissioner to develop public awareness programs and use variable message signs to inform motorists about State's "move over" law. *
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Out of committee · 22
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Tri-County Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Prohibits first responders from photographing persons being assisted or disclosing photographs of such persons without their consent.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military service absences.*
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.*
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
Criminalizes second or subsequent drunk driving offenses in certain cases.
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 $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires disclosure of storm or flood damage in vehicle sales.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
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.
Provides standards for home elevation contractors.
In committee · 63
Revises child pornography law.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Concerns custody and parenting time for military parents.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
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.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
"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.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes a 2.0 percent cap on annual appropriations increases for certain State government spending.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Transfers all probation functions and employees to Bureau of Probation in State Parole Board.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Increases penalties for luring a child and kidnapping.
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.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes practice driving requirements for examination and special learner's permit holders.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Directs New Jersey Turnpike Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to POW-MIA's.
Expands scope of serological testing of certain defendants to include blood-borne diseases.
Requires disclosure of water damage prior to vehicle sales.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Concerns valuation of property condemned for dune construction or beach replenishment.
Requires disclosure of water damage prior to household appliance sales.
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Exempts veterans' organizations from motor vehicle registration fee.
"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.