Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Gregory P. McGuckin
Sponsored
In committee83
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
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.
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.
Makes fiscal year 2016 State supplemental appropriation and reduces State appropriation to transfer appropriation from preschool education aid to TPAF.
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.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain E-ZPass tolls paid.
Permits short-term tax exemption for certain improvements to dwellings damaged by natural disasters.
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.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
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.
Provides that crimes committed outside the State under certain circumstances may be prosecuted in New Jersey.
"Barnegat Bay Protection Act"; establishes Barnegat Bay Protection Fund, dedicates portion of sales tax on fertilizer, authorizes special license plates, and provides for donations.
Permits any member of PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup options.
Requires explosive gas detectors to be installed in certain residential properties.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Excludes passenger and freight rail projects from purposes for which revenue from increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax revenue may be used.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Clarifies crime of unlawful access concerning certain password protected communications in electronic storage.
Requires installation of emergency power supply systems to certain common areas of new planned real estate developments; provides related tax incentives.
Requires municipalities to reimburse qualified private communities for street paving costs.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Authorizes veterans to deduct two years military service from age requirement for police officer under certain circumstances.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from working in ice cream trucks and amusement parks.
Omits State Police detectives from Open Public Records Act.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.
Establishes mandatory penalties for committing burglary and theft during a state of emergency.
Enhances penalties imposed on drivers who have never been issued a driver's license.
Establishes new offenses concerning unlawful possession and use of credit card scanners.
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.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Directs BPU to study whether State's electric distribution system meets certain standards.
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.
Directs Commissioner of Education to encourage implementation of Natural High Drug Prevention Program in school districts.
Expands statute authorizing temporary restraining orders for certain alleged stalking victims to include victims of any age or mental capacity.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain tolls paid via E-ZPass.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2020"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Prohibits default approvals of certain municipal land use applications, and permits municipal agencies to not hold certain required meetings, under emergency circumstances.
Establishes toll free helpline for first responders, health care workers, and other frontline workers experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.
Establishes Jersey Shore Safety and Economy Task Force.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Extends deadline for midpoint status report of municipal fair share affordable housing obligation compliance.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Requires electric public utility to reimburse residential customer for cost of food and prescription medicine spoiled or compromised as a result of sustained electric service outage.
Requires at least one member of BPU to reside in either Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, or Ocean County.
Requires electric public utility to install and operate smart meters and smart meter technology at customers' premises upon request and in new building construction.
Authorizes payment of just compensation to businesses for losses due to public health emergency closures.
"Fairness in Women's Sport Act."
Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure One-Step Career Centers reopen immediately and remain open during public health emergency.
Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.
Permits religious services during state of emergency or public health emergency declarations by Governor.
Prohibits NJT from making major alterations to rail yards located near certain environmentally sensitive areas.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Extends eligibility for accidental disability and accidental death benefits to certain PFRS, SPRS and PERS members who contract COVID-19 and test positive for SARS-CoV-2.**
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.**
Authorizes MVC to use stored driver's license or identification card photo for longer than eight years; limits certain appointment times at MVC locations to senior citizens and persons with certain medical conditions during COVID-19 pandemic.*
Temporarily extends deadline to register vehicle and obtain driver's license for new State residents during COVID-19 public health emergency.
Requires law enforcement to provide written notificaion to parent or guardian of person under age 18 who commits first offense of unlawfully possessing or consuming alcoholic beverage, cannabis, marijuana, or hashish.**
Vetoed · 1
Establishes NJ Hospitality Emergency Loan Program in EDA to provide no-interest loans to qualified small hospitality businesses; makes $100 million appropriation to EDA from federal funds for qualified small business assistance.***
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Requires annual inspection of certain veterinary facilities.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Criminalizes fraudulently pretending to be transportation network company driver.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Expands indoor capacity for food or beverage establishments and banquet and wedding venues under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Allows continued use of heaters and tents by food or beverage establishments under certain circumstances during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Includes use of physical barriers as social distancing measure for food or beverage establishments during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Eases certain food and beverage establishment tent requirements during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.*
Out of committee · 19
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows NJ E-ZPass customers to opt to receive electronic notification of use of E-ZPass system at toll plazas operated by NJTA and SJTA.*
Requires State entities to recycle certain materials and provide recycling bins in State buildings.
Provides accidental death benefits in certain circumstances to surviving spouse and surviving child of SPRS member or retiree who participated in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.
Creates office to encourage creation of federal jobs and federal infrastructure investment in the State.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign. *
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
"Laura Wooten's Law"; Requires civics instruction in middle school; authorizes New Jersey Center for Civic Education to provide curricula, professional development and technical assistance for middle and high school civics.*
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent, and to permit consensual use of such devices in private rooms.*
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021.
Appropriates $30 million to EDA from federal "Coronavirus Relief Fund" to assist food establishments impacted by Executive Order No. 158.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Planning Commission" in DHS.
Establishes NJMVC Virtual Check-In Pilot Program.
Allows corporation business tax credit for subcontracting work to NJ small businesses.
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Establishes county-based mitigation plan to allow businesses to operate during pandemic.
Establishes immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Requires ABC to waive fee for alcoholic beverage COVID-19 Expansion Permit.
In committee · 111
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
"New Jersey Safe Haven for Protection of Domestic Companion Animals Act."
Establishes Autism Education Council.
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.
Provides certain immunities from spectator-based lawsuits arising from youth sports events.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
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.
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.
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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
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.
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.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
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.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
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
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 all public employees for health care benefits.
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 each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to defendant at sentencing.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
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.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Requires limited liability companies to make certain disclosures concerning ownership.
Prohibits campaign expenditures to entities whose principals cannot be readily identified.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
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."
Requires declaration of Code Blue alert when National Weather Service predicts temperatures of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
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.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
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.
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.
Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.
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-redevelopment 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 procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Establishes Volunteer Emergency Responder Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
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.
Requires voter who wishes to vote by mail to complete application for mail-in ballot each calendar year; repeals automatic vote-by-mail designation.
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
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.
Prohibits persons convicted of criminal animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
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.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Provides gross income tax deduction to surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Provides that public school parent who objects to learning material or activity that parent considers harmful may receive voucher from school district to enroll student in nonpublic school.
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes.
Permits victims and witnesses of human trafficking to testify in criminal proceedings via closed circuit television; permits judge to make motion to seek closed circuit testimony.
Expands crime of human trafficking to include individuals who benefit financially.
Prohibits mail-in ballot outer envelope from containing political affiliation or designation visible to public.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Establishes immunity for businesses against damage claims for COVID-19 exposure; excludes reckless or intentional conduct.
Allows commercial property owners to claim certain amounts of commercial tenant rent forgiveness during COVID-19 emergency as deduction against property owner's income under CBT or GIT.
Establishes immunity for senior planned real estate development associations relating to COVID-19.
Requires early voting period in-person voting for 2020 general election; makes appropriation.
Requires in-person early voting for 2020 election; raises pay for election workers for 2020 general election; requires county boards to consider appointing certain residents as election workers.
"Sally's Law"; establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Prohibits government entity or school from requiring influenza vaccinations for persons who are 18 years of age or younger.
Authorizes private persons to display American flag on certain property of NJTA and SJTA; prohibits NJTA and SJTA from removing American flag under certain circumstances.
Requires option to vote in person using electronic voting machine at polling place for November 2020 general election if voter turns in unopened and unfilled mail-in ballot.
Clarifies spitting in law enforcement officer's food or drink constitutes aggravated assault; requires certain sanctions on restaurant employees who commit this crime.
Expands opportunities for restaurants, bars, and breweries to provide outdoor dining.
Includes value of certain properties exempt from taxation in valuation used to calculate State school aid.
Appropriates $300 million to EDA for small business and not-for-profit organization assistance.
Requires Secretary of State create website for voters to report irregularities regarding mail-in ballots; establishes "Vote by Mail Study Commission."
Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
Requires commissioner of registration to move voters with undeliverable mail-in ballots to inactive file; removes such inactive voters from Statewide voter registration system following failure to vote in two consecutive federal general elections.
Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.
Transfers Division of Elections from Department of State to Department of Law and Public Safety; designates Attorney General as chief election official and requires two bipartisan co-directors.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Provides that if minor under age 18 unlawfully buys or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis and receives written warning from law enforcement, the minor's parent or guardian would be notified in writing.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Provides tax credits to qualified small employers in industries impacted by COVID-19 emergency.
Requires public schools to post curriculum plans online; requires school districts to make textbooks or other materials used in implementing curriculum plans available for inspection by parents and legal guardians.
Establishes immunity relating to COVID-19 spread at swimming pools in planned real estate developments.
Prohibits selective suspension of candidates for elective office by social websites.
Makes permanent certain immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Filed · 1
Creates monetary penalty for violating social mitigation strategy of barring or limiting social gatherings, implemented pursuant to "Emergency Health Powers Act," or government order issued pursuant to act, during declared public health emergency under ac