Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Gregory P. McGuckin
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
In committee67
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses.
Establishes offense of soliciting image of minor with unlawful purpose.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
Permits use of overseas absentee ballots for all elections.
Requires municipalities to reimburse qualified private communities for street paving costs.
"Barnegat Bay Protection Act"; establishes Barnegat Bay Protection Fund, dedicates portion of sales tax on lawn fertilizer, authorizes special license plates, and provides for donations.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from working in ice cream trucks and amusement parks.
Prohibits sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations prohibiting overcrowding of animals in kennels, pet shops and other retail establishments; establishes penalties.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for marinas and boatyards that follow certain environmentally sound management practices.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
The "Healthy Puppies and Kittens Assurance Act."
Establishes bribery in official and political matters applies to person soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept benefit as consideration to act even though not yet in office or otherwise qualified to act.
Permits consolidation of all fire districts in a municipality; sets forth procedure for consolidation.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain tolls paid via E-ZPass.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 37 as "Denis Miranda Memorial Highway."
Establishes mandatory penalties for committing burglary and theft during a state of emergency.
Directs BPU to study whether State's electric distribution system meets certain standards.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Increases criminal penalties if leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor results in injury or death.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
Requires prescribers and pharmacists to check prescription monitoring program prior to prescribing and dispensing Schedule II drugs.
Establishes standard of review for certain juvenile waiver motions.
Establishes new offenses concerning the unlawful possession and use of credit card scanners.
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.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Ensures operation of certain motor fuel storage, distribution and dispensing facilities during disasters and emergencies.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Concerns valuation of property condemned for dune construction or beach replenishment.
Excludes certain public works contracts related to Hurricane Sandy recovery from prevailing wage requirements.
Omits State Police detectives from Open Public Records Act.
Requires installation of emergency power supply systems to certain common areas of new planned real estate developments; provides related tax incentives.
Clarifies crime of unlawful access concerning certain password protected communications in electronic storage.
Limits upfront costs for oral anticancer medications for persons covered under certain health benefits plans.
Terminates imposition of general purpose fee under realty transfer fee and one percent assessment on purchases of residential real property selling for more than $1,000,000.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Clarifies that fishing license is not required to fish at a private community lake.
Provides State income tax credit for removal of lawns near Barnegat Bay.
Prohibits smoking at State-owned beaches.
Expands statute authorizing temporary restraining orders for certain alleged stalking victims to include victims of any age or mental capacity.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program concerning reporting of and access to information, and mandatory use by practitioners and pharmacists.
Special legislation to permit appointment of Christian Kant to Toms River Police Department and enrollment in PFRS.
Establishes electronic database of occupants of hotels and multiple dwellings for use by fire safety and emergency service providers.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
Enhances penalties imposed on drivers who have never been issued a driver's license.
Requires public utility to reimburse business customer during period when business ceases operations due to utility repairing or replacing its equipment on business customer's property.
Prohibits local governments from requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave.
Establishes crime-fraud exception to marital and civil union partnership privilege; amends evidence statute.
Authorizes municipalities to require subdivision approval prior to or as condition of creation or conveyance of certain condominiums or units thereof.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Authorizes veterans to deduct two years military service from age requirement for police officer under certain circumstances.
Requires insurers that sell flood insurance to provide certain policyholders with certain information.
Establishes affirmative defense against builder's remedy lawsuits.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Requires explosive gas detectors to be installed in certain residential properties.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
Provides that crimes committed outside the State under certain circumstances may be prosecuted in New Jersey.
Makes fiscal year 2016 State supplemental appropriation and reduces State appropriation to transfer appropriation from preschool education aid to TPAF.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Prohibits utility from billing customer for costs incurred for certain upgrades to utility infrastructure; allows costs for certain upgrades to utility infrastructure be recovered in utility's rate base.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Requires certain veterinarians at for-profit veterinary facilities to provide written notification concerning absence of supervision after normal business hours; designated as "Betsy's Law." *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
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 · 1
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Requires water purveyors to notify municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues.
Out of committee · 14
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
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.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of boating accident.
Requires high school students to be assessed using college placement cut scores to determine readiness for college-level course work, and Commissioner of Education to develop plan to improve college and career counseling for students.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.*
Designates State Highway Route No. 35 bridge between Brielle and Point Pleasant Beach as "Veterans of All Wars Memorial Bridge."
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
In committee · 72
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Exempts properties within flood zones from variance requirements to raise structure.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
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.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Concerns access to information maintained by Prescription Monitoring Program.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
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.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Prohibits nonrenewal of homeowners insurance policies based on proximity to water or risk of windstorm related claims.
Provides public access to certain information received or possessed by legislators.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of a boating accident.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on the dangers of texting while driving as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 35 as "Chosin Few Memorial Highway."
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to include sales of properties in age-restricted developments by third parties in table of equalized valuations.
Requires newly-constructed grocery stores to have generators.
Requires electric distribution lines be located underground in areas affected by severe weather or natural disasters.
Requires local governing body and DCA to suspend collection of certificate of occupancy and related inspection fees for homes being rented by persons identified by FEMA as displaced individuals.
Provides certain immunities from spectator-based lawsuits arising from youth sports events.
Prohibits sale, distribution, and use of urea as an ice melt.
Requires labeling of ingredients and restricts phosphorus in household cleansing products.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
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.
Permits exterior-based property reassessments within eight years of last municipal-wide revaluation.
Permits payment of only one co-payment or deductible for follow-up care or treatment after surgery or illness under certain health benefits plans.
Requires each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Requires consideration of increased property value due to dune construction in determining compensation provided for condemned beachfront property.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Requires BPU to conduct biennial rate cases for public utilities; increases penalties for public utilities failing to comply with BPU orders.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Exempts, for five years, certain new business activities in pinelands area from compliance with Pinelands Commission development approval process.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Prohibits additional jughandles on roads or highways in the State.
Requires public body to publish notice of public meeting on official Internet website.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Establishes new crime of official interference with transportation.
Requires bi-state transportation authorities to make advance notification of certain projects or operations expected to impede traffic.
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.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
Requires anyone receiving opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employing immediate family members of members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were killed in action.
Limits authority of court to order one or both parents to pay post-high school education expenses on behalf of a child if both parents agree that they will not pay such expenses.
Requires State to lower compensation rate of civilly committed sexually violent predators to same level as State inmates for institutional work.
Clarifies that chief of police or Superintendent of State Police has burden of proving applicant's disqualification for permit to purchase handgun or firearms purchaser identification card.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault to crime of the fourth degree; upgrades second or subsequent offense to crime of the third degree.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Provides mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain crimes of domestic violence.
Clarifies five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Establishes "Superstorm Sandy Homeowners Protection Act."
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Links police and fire interest arbitration base salary cap to property tax levy; makes cap permanent.