Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Gregory P. McGuckin
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Directs Commissioner of Education to encourage implementation of Natural High Drug Prevention Program in school districts.*
In committee72
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Enhances penalties imposed on drivers who have never been issued a driver's license.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Makes fiscal year 2016 State supplemental appropriation and reduces State appropriation to transfer appropriation from preschool education aid to TPAF.
Provides that crimes committed outside the State under certain circumstances may be prosecuted in New Jersey.
Expands statute authorizing temporary restraining orders for certain alleged stalking victims to include victims of any age or mental capacity.
Increases penalties for unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing fentanyl.
Regulates tethering and confinement of, and proper shelter for, dogs.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Prohibits smoking at State-owned beaches.
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.
Establishes electronic database of occupants of hotels and multiple dwellings for use by fire safety and emergency service providers.
Authorizes municipalities to require subdivision approval prior to or as condition of creation or conveyance of certain condominiums or units thereof.
Prohibits local governments from requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave.
Establishes affirmative defense against builder's remedy lawsuits.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
Limits upfront costs for oral anticancer medications for persons covered under certain health benefits plans.
Requires insurers that sell flood insurance to provide certain policyholders with certain information.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
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.
Authorizes veterans to deduct two years military service from age requirement for police officer under certain circumstances.
Requires explosive gas detectors to be installed in certain residential properties.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Requires installation of ignition interlock device if sentence for DWI is stayed pending appeal.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain E-ZPass tolls paid.
Excludes passenger and freight rail projects from purposes for which revenue from increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax revenue may be used.
Permits short-term tax exemption for certain improvements to dwellings damaged by natural disasters.
Limits payment to certain public employees for accumulated sick leave upon retirement; requires fine and reprimand or termination for violation of sick leave by public employee.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for public officers and employees.
Requires State aid reduction to municipalities and school districts by amount of accumulated absences paid to employees upon their retirement.
Eliminates payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date; limits carry forward of unused vacation leave; requires suspension and forfeiture of certain payments; limits use of unused sick leave in year before retirement.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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.
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.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Establishes "Secondhand Valuables Transaction Reporting Task Force."
Establishes Farm to School Coordinating Council.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
Passed the General Assembly · 6
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Allows qualified school to be called "New Jersey Farm Fresh School."
Permits school participating in NJ "Farm to School" program to submit recipe for posting on Dept. of Agriculture website.
Out of committee · 20
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure. *
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
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."
Changes law regulating size limits of lobsters.
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault under certain circumstances.*
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.*
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.***
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain home elevation expenses.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
"Improving Energy Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnership Act."
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2018 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
In committee · 88
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Requires each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Exempts properties within flood zones from variance requirements to raise structure.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for school and local employees; limits sick leave use by new public employees before retirement.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Expands scope of serological testing of certain defendants to include blood-borne diseases.
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 additional jughandles on roads or highways in State.
Requires water purveyors to notify municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues.
Requires public body to publish notice of public meeting on official Internet website.
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.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
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.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
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.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Establishes "Superstorm Sandy Homeowners Protection Act."
Requires consideration of increased property value due to dune construction in determining compensation provided for condemned beachfront property.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
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.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
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.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires health care facility staff to provide certain counseling following miscarriages and State registrar to establish certificate of birth.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Increases the personal income tax's pension and retirement income exclusion fivefold over three years.
Permits municipalities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to borrow for current expenses through December 31, 2017, and repay special emergency notes over a 10-year period.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Increases exclusion amount under New Jersey estate tax; phases out estate tax over five years.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from holding position or participating in youth ministry.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Requires health care practitioners prescribing opioid medications on first-time basis, or to minor children, to limit amount of prescribed medication to seven-day supply, except in certain circumstances.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Expands crime of bias intimidation to include law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel.
Establishes senior freeze credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Increases exclusion amount under New Jersey estate tax; phases out estate tax over four years.
Increases fines for failing to have required markings on commercial vehicles.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Establishes housing expense reimbursements for families of certain public safety officers killed in line of duty.
Provides for an additional aggravating factor in sentencing person who has committed act of domestic violence against certain minors.
Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter registrants from system.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires issuance of tourniquets to law enforcement officers; requires emergency service vehicles be equipped with tourniquets.
Imposes moratorium on affordable housing litigation through December 31, 2017.
Establishes "Affordable Housing Obligation Study Commission."
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Provides gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Requires COAH to administer affordable housing obligations of municipalities based on statewide obligation.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevlopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Establishes certain best practices for maternal care, and establishes Maternal Mortality Review Commission to annually review maternal death rates and causes and recommend further improvements in maternal care.
Filed · 3
Appropriates $8,992,898 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $71,700,224 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.