Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Gregory P. McGuckin
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges. *
In committee69
"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.
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.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
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.
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 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.
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.
Increases penalties for unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing fentanyl.
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.
Prohibits local governments from requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
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.
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.
Expands statute authorizing temporary restraining orders for certain alleged stalking victims to include victims of any age or mental capacity.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
Directs Commissioner of Education to encourage implementation of Natural High Drug Prevention Program in school districts.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.
Increases criminal penalties for leaving loaded firearm within easy access of minor results in injury or death.
Establishes new offenses concerning the unlawful possession and use of credit card scanners.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from working in ice cream trucks and amusement parks.
Requires insurers that sell flood insurance to provide certain policyholders with certain information.
Limits upfront costs for oral anticancer medications for persons covered under certain health benefits plans.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
Requires installation of ignition interlock device if sentence for DWI is stayed pending appeal.
Requires electric public utility to submit proposal to BPU detailing utility's plan to harden its electric distribution substations to protect against criminal attacks.
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.
Requires truck and van rental companies to photograph authorized user.
Makes it a crime of the second degree to interfere with 9-1-1 public safety answering points.
Requires public institutions of higher education to establish plans concerning cyber security and prevention of cyber attacks.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Prevents State school aid reduction in school districts that experienced decrease in equalized valuation and are located in certain counties.
Permits minors to work until 11 p.m. between Memorial Day and October 1 of each year in certain circumstances.
Establishes New Jersey Internet Criminal Information Registry.
Establishes rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention for child sexual abuse.
Provides for court dismissal, with prejudice, of civil actions for which lis pendens notices are filed under certain circumstances.
Revises polysomnography license fees.
Exempts alarm installers and locksmiths from apprenticeship requirement under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Requires law enforcement officers to issue preliminary suspension of driver's license for certain drunk driving offenses.
Requires DOE to release to school district upon request data and software program algorithms used to calculate State school aid.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Expands eligibility criteria for designating certain areas as being in need of redevelopment.*
Imposes motor vehicle penalty points for certain violations of "move over law"; establishes public awareness campaign; designated as "Slow Down or Move Over, It's the Law Act." **
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Permits certain members or retirees of PFRS,SPRS, or PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.**
Extends foreclosure protection and mortgage relief programs for certain Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2020 to include new projects, remove certain projects, and modify estimated loan amounts for certain projects.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
" Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.**
Out of committee · 7
Excludes from gross income taxation military compensation for personnel serving outside of State and combat zone compensation.*
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Expands duties of Commission on Human Trafficking to include studying connection between human trafficking and illicit massage parlor businesses.
Regulates employers operating massage and bodywork therapy establishments.
Establishes the "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Act."
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2019 to include new projects and remove certain projects.
Requires declaration of Code Blue alert when National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
In committee · 86
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
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.
Changes law regulating size limits of lobsters.
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.
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.
Prohibits sale, distribution, and use of urea as an ice melt.
Requires labeling of ingredients and restricts phosphorus in household cleansing products.
Requires water purveyors to notify municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues.
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.
"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 limit 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.
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.
Increases fines for failing to have required markings on commercial vehicles.
Requires issuance of tourniquets to law enforcement officers; requires emergency service vehicles be equipped with tourniquets.
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.
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
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
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.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Provides for immediate driver's license suspension under certain circumstances.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
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.
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 under certain circumstances.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Provides for an additional aggravating factor in sentencing person who has committed act of domestic violence against certain minors.
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 civil service; permits institution of temporary layoffs; permits government entities to opt-out of civil service; requires civil service examinations be offered on continual basis.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to defendant at sentencing.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
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.
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.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
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.
Establishes "Affordable Housing Obligation Study Commission."
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.
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Creates Advisory Committee on New Jersey's Historic Commercial Fishing Grounds.
Prohibits municipal ordinance to create sanctuary city; Establishes State and local employee ethics violation upon noncompliance with federal immigration enforcement request.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Expands scope of serological testing of certain defendants to include blood-borne diseases.
Authorizes certain persons age 10 or older to participate in boat races.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.
Provides certain immunities from spectator-based lawsuits arising from youth sports events.
Establishes animal abuser registry; prohibits person convicted of criminal animal cruelty violation from owning, keeping, or harboring any animal, and establishes enforcement mechanisms therefor.
Requires annual inspection of certain veterinary facilities.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by public employees for health care benefits.
Excludes transient accommodations in shore counties from various State and local taxes.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Amends effective date of P.L.2018, c.49 concerning taxes and fees imposed on rentals of transient accommodations and allows refund for already paid taxes and fees.
Requires person convicted, or fleeing charge, of sex offense in foreign country to register under Megan's Law; requires law enforcement to inquire about immigration status of sex offenders and cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Makes it a crime of the first degree to coerce a patient to request medication pursuant to the "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act" or to forge a patient's request for such medication.
Requires limited liability companies to make certain disclosures concerning ownership.
Prohibits campaign expenditures to entities whose principals cannot be readily identified.
Requires public institutions of higher education to adopt policies on freedom of expression.
Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be
Establishes Volunteer Emergency Responder Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.