Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Robert D. Clifton
Sponsored
In committee17
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 omnibus drivers to inspect bus at end of route for passengers with disabilities.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
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.
Includes certain canvassing and solicitation activities as violation of consumer fraud act.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicles when purchasing new vehicle.
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.
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Removes Fire Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial from auspices of DEP and establishes museum as independent organization; makes $200,000 supplemental appropriation.**
Provides for reorganization of health service corporation.
Out of committee · 7
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Prohibits harassing or taking of certain wildlife at competitive event; establishes penalties.
Establishes license to allow wineries that produce more than 250,000 gallons per year to directly ship wine to consumers.
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
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.
Addresses certain landlord expenses in response to COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $300 million.
In committee · 49
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
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.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
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.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
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.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
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.
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
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 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.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
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.
Increases maximum municipal percentage of affordable fair share housing satisfied by age-restricted units to 50 percent.
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 affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
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 automatic dialing device callers to disclose certain identifying information.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Provides emergency State school aid to certain school districts located in historic communities.
Provides supplemental appropriation to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
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.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Directs DCA to establish grant program for suburban and rural small businesses to respond to COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $6 million.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Amends provisions concerning federal emergency and economic stimulus funds in State appropriations act ending June 30, 2021.
Authorizes SDA to fund COVID-19 related school facilities projects.
Authorizes purchaser of automobile by private sale to operate automobile for three-day period following purchase without permanent registration or transfer of title.
Allocates $2.5 billion to unemployment compensation fund from federal government assistance and halts increases in employer unemployment taxes related to benefits paid during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic state of emergency.