Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Robert D. Clifton
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires omnibus drivers to inspect bus at end of route for passengers with disabilities.
In committee26
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.
Provides that parent of nonpublic school pupil who lives more than 20 miles from school will receive payment toward transportation costs.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
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.
Includes certain canvassing and solicitation activities as violation of consumer fraud act.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicles when purchasing new vehicle.
Requires construction of bus rapid transit system.
Disqualifies person with certain number of motor vehicle points from operating school bus for certain period of time.
Requires school buses be equipped with certain technology to avoid crashes.
Requires school bus drivers to pass physical performance test to operate school bus.
Establishes certain requirements concerning resident supervision at residential health care facilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Increases penalties for energy "slamming" practices.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Township of Howell as "State Trooper Marc K. Castellano Memorial Highway."
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Appropriates $28,883,557 in 2003 and 1992 bond act monies for loans for dam restoration and repair projects and inland waters projects.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges. *
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Out of committee · 5
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
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.*
Corrects project list in P.L.2018, c.85, which appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes owning or possessing animal fighting or dog fighting paraphernalia as crime of third degree; establishes civil animal cruelty penalties therefor.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2019 to include new projects and remove certain projects.
In committee · 58
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
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.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Requires issuance of tourniquets to law enforcement officers; requires emergency service vehicles be equipped with tourniquets.
Establishes mandatory penalties for committing burglary and theft during a state of emergency.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
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
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.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
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.
Concerns construction of crematories.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 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.
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.
Increases maximum municipal percentage of affordable fair share housing satisfied by age-restricted units to 50 percent.
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing.
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.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
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.
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.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity.
Directs Department of Treasury to transfer to Department of Environmental Protection as surplus property certain land and improvements thereon in Township of Wall, County of Monmouth.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to victims injured in September 11th and 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Requires automatic dialing device callers to disclose certain identifying information.
Provides supplemental appropriation to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
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.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Extends validity of temporary instructional certificate issued to military spouse to one year; requires expedited processing of application by military spouse for NJ instructional certificate and reduced fees for military spouse to obtain certificate.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Authorizes replacement of certain adjusted tax levy for school districts that had reduction in State aid in 2018-2019 school year.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
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 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.