Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Robert D. Clifton
Sponsored
In committee1
Requires disclosure of original purchase price for land to be sold to a county, county agriculture development board, or municipality for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
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.
Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Clarifies authorization for cluster developments under MLUL.
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Out of committee · 9
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.*
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.*
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
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 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.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
Provides standards for home elevation contractors.
In committee · 22
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits, employer unemployment tax rebates, sales tax exemption, property tax freeze and employee skill training program as incentives for business revitalization in distressed shopping centers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires use of direct deposit and Internet for State, local government, and school district employee compensation and certain retirement payments and information.
Limits when bidders can be required to submit a financial statement in order to bid on a local public contract or county college contract.
Makes various changes to civil service law concerning seasonal appointments, temporary layoffs, and rescinding adoption of civil service.
Requires fire districts, school districts, and county governments to share in burden of property assessment appeal refunds.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
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.
Equalizes standing of private and public colleges before land use agencies.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Permits counties to charge a fee to fund infrastructure through voter approval.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Underground Utility Lines.
Establishes mandatory penalties for committing burglary and theft during a state of emergency.
Requires electric distribution lines be located underground in areas affected by severe weather or natural disasters.
Designates DMVA headquarters building as "General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Building."
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.