Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Robert D. Clifton
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
In committee19
Requires use of direct deposit and Internet for State, local government, and school district employee compensation and certain retirement payments and information.
Permits counties to charge a fee to fund infrastructure through voter approval.
Requires disclosure of original purchase price for land to be sold to a county, county agriculture development board, or municipality for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes Division of Travel and Tourism to accept gifts and grants to promote NJ tourism.
Authorizes NJ Historical Commission to establish program to promote developing historic projects on website and collect donations for projects on behalf of historic site or organization.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism and NJ Historical Commission to provide volunteer opportunities on Internet website.
Requires omnibus drivers to inspect bus at end of route for passengers with disabilities.
Provides that parent of nonpublic school pupil who lives more than 20 miles from school will receive payment toward transportation costs.
Prohibits annual bonuses for perfect attendance and the non-use of sick leave.
Prohibits certain political subdivisions from awarding longevity-based benefits to their employees.
Requires certain political subdivisions to grant employees only those holidays granted to State employees and standardizes amount of paid vacation and sick leave granted to employees of certain political subdivisions.
Establishes additional ethical requirements concerning sale or conveyance of property or development rights to the State or other public entities by elected public official or immediate family member thereof.
Requires NJT to enter agreement to sell regular fare bus and rail tickets to State-wide nonprofit organization; allows that organization to re-sell purchased tickets to qualified residents.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to support implementation of strategies of The Smarter Lunchroom Movement at four-year public institutions of higher education.
Requires NJT to provide free rail tickets to rail passengers delayed more than one hour due to rail car or light rail vehicle mechanical failure.
Increases percent of public employees' charitable contributions that may be spent on administrative costs.
Requires DOT to conduct study and issue report on use of rock salt on roadways.
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Authorizes issuance of certain specialty license plates for commercial motor vehicles.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Authorizes counties to issue promotional labeling for county agricultural products.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" immunity protections to public and nonpublic schools.*
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 $22,385,743 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Appropriates $2,988,859 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $7,500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Vetoed · 1
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.*
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.
Increases penalties for energy "slamming" practices.
Out of committee · 11
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Establishes electronic lien and titling system for New Jersey motor vehicles.
Designates Killed in Action flag as an official State flag; mandates it be displayed at certain public buildings.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Upper Freehold Township as "State Trooper Anthony A. Raspa Memorial Highway."
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.
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
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
In committee · 67
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
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.
Requires electric distribution lines be located underground in areas affected by severe weather or natural disasters.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Provides gross income tax credit for income derived from certain live performances contracted for and rendered by A-list performing artists within the Atlantic City Tourism District on a recurring basis and within the State.
Requires reimbursement of certain Casino Reinvestment Development Authority grants and payment of those grants to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $5 million over period of five years.
Limits number of bills member of Legislature may introduce; requires every bill to be heard in committee; requires estimate be prepared of cost of drafting and considering each bill.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
Establishes mandatory penalties for committing burglary and theft during a state of emergency.
Increases filing threshold and the applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Requires certain gas companies to use existing right-of-way when constructing new transmission lines where practicable and to seek consent of municipalities prior to initiating certain projects.
Requires BPU to allow public comment at public meetings; establishes requirements for public meetings concerning installation of natural gas conductors and related facilities.
Prohibits placement of certain intrastate natural gas pipelines within 100 feet of buildings.
Permits construction of natural gas transmission lines on areas of preserved farmland already subject to existing utility easements under certain circumstances.
Deems dispute between local government and pipeline operator concerning danger posed by certain natural gas pipelines as contested case.
Requires BPU to hold public hearings on certain proposed intrastate natural gas pipelines; requires pipeline operator to provide written notice to property owners located within blast area of certain proposed intrastate natural gas pipelines.
Requires BPU to designate certain natural gas transmission lines as interstate natural gas transmission extension lines.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
Requires DCA to provide accounting of monies remitted to the "New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund" by municipality and allows for municipal affordable housing credit for funds remitted.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $30,482,000 from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State school aid to certain school districts affected by State aid growth limit.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Enhances eligibility for State Aid for municipalities co-extensive with historic districts.
Concerns construction of crematories.
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.
Decreases petroleum products gross receipts tax rate on certain petroleum products; dissolves Transportation Trust Fund Authority; establishes "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Account Commission."
Requires issuance of tourniquets to law enforcement officers; requires emergency service vehicles be equipped with tourniquets.
Provides population-based cap for municipal fair share affordable housing obligation.
Increases maximum municipal percentage of affordable fair share housing satisfied by age-restricted units to 50 percent.
Excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who donate organs.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who provide blood donations.
Requires COAH to credit municipalities with units against fair share affordable housing obligation for certain types of housing; provides certain types of affordable housing units will be credited as two units.
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing.
Requires NJT to adopt plan to evacuate passengers when rail passenger vehicle becomes immobilized in tunnel.
Establishes disabled veteran tenant gross income tax credit.
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 affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Requires settlement agreements concerning equal employment opportunity to be approved by NJT board of directors.
Requires NJT to publish certain safety violations and establish mechanism to report unsafe conduct.
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.