Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Linda R. Greenstein
Sponsored
Became law7
Prohibits termination of law enforcement officer or firefighter based upon determination that officer or firefighter is physically unable to perform duty under certain circumstances.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Directs Division of Fire Safety in Department of Community Affairs to survey fire supression systems in public and nonpublic school buildings.*
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 court to impose lifetime parole supervision on certain child pornography offenders.
Passed the Senate5
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Requires maximum contaminant level to be established for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
Establishes public-private pilot program for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations.
Exempts certain persons from prohibition on posting certain information regarding law enforcement officers on Internet.
Authorizes use of certain electric school buses.*
Out of committee27
Directs BPU to establish microgrid program for State agencies and local governmentunits.*
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Directs Attorney General to develop plan to disseminate Amber and Silver Alert information through social media.
Authorizes students in Marie H. Katzenbach school for the deaf to operate State vehicle for driver education and provides protection for such activity under tort claims act.*
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70 percent of compensation for surviving spouse or surviving children of PERS law enforcement, correction, and firefighter members; redefines child.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Creates "New Jersey Criminal Justice Information Sharing Environment Coordinating Council."
Requires health insurance coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense up to 90-day supply of certain prescription drugs.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
The "Green Building and Infrastructure Tax Credit Act"; provides tax credits for certain green buildings and wood utility poles.
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Grants drivers additional time to resolve parking violations prior to license or registration suspension.
Prohibits release of personal identifying information of violent crime victims and witnesses under State's open public records law.
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Precludes DEP from imposing certain certification requirements on installers of individual subsurface sewage disposal systems.
Prohibits installation and sale of wheel weights containing lead or mercury; prohibits sale of new motor vehicles equipped with wheel weights containing lead or mercury.
Establishes additional requirements for operation and oversight of animal shelters, pounds, kennels operating as shelters or pounds, and veterinary holding facilities.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
"Prescription Drug Patient Protection Act;" requires pharmacy benefits managers to obtain certificate of authority from DOBI to operate in the State.**
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Permits State detectives and investigators to administer oaths when investigating violations or attempted violations of criminal law.
Extends warranty for partial zero emission vehicles.*
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance.
In committee116
Provides that solar and photovoltaic energy facilities and structures on farmland are not an inherently beneficial use, per se, for purposes of zoning approvals.
Eliminates State aid growth limit for school districts in which individuals age 65 and over comprise more than 33.3 percent of the population.
Revises sales and use tax treatment of garbage removal services.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Provides corporation business tax credit and allows gross income tax deduction for purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging stations.
Increases renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements under "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires DOT to incorporate objectives of "Global Warming Response Act" into annual transportation capital program.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts experiencing enrollment increases due to conversion of age-restricted housing developments to non-restricted developments.
Allows certain on-site generation facilities to deliver electricity without utilizing electric public utility infrastructure.
Permits correctional facilities to utilize body imaging scanning equipment.
Makes various changes to tenure of faculty and other professional staff at State and county colleges.
Expands scope of law governing registration of security guards; designated as "Detective Melvin Vincent Santiago's Law."
Prohibits Governor from using State helicopter for out-of-State political or personal events.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Provides matching grant program for local governments to facilitate energy efficiency and conservation of resources in public buildings; appropriates $50 million.
Requires certain CATV companies to make CATV service available throughout residential areas of municipality within specified number of years after CATV company first provides service to municipality.
Authorizes the State, with prior approval by the State House Commission, to use eminent domain power to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes provided lands are protective of drinking water sources.
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault when person causes bodily injury by strangling victim during act of domestic violence.
Revises scope of public employee collective negotiations.
"The Highway Worker Safety Act"; increases penalties for vehicular homicide and assault by auto of highway workers; increases fines for certain highway maintenance, construction, or incident zone violations.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
Requires breeders or other providers of dogs to pet shops to certify compliance with DOH breeding and care regulations; prohibits pet shop sale of dogs without certification; requires inspections and reallocation of dog license revenues to fund enforcemen
"Prescription Drug Consumer Transparency Act."
Eliminates State aid growth limit for school districts in which individuals age 65 and over comprise at least 33.3 percent of the population.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide victims of sexual assault with contact information for sexual assault crisis services.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program and requires DOT to conduct study.
Limits contributions to legal defense fund of candidate for or holder of elective public office; requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Directs DOT, in consultation with other State entities, to study and report on certain solar and wind energy installations.
Increases pension and retirement income exclusions under gross income tax for certain taxpayers.
Requires issue advocacy organization disclosure; increases disclosure of campaign finance information; raises amount of money contributable to committees; modifies restrictions on contributions by certain business entities performing public contracts.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program; extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Provides tax credits for performing certain repairs on primary residences of senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Permits municipalities to use up to 15% of affordable housing trust fund monies to provide financial assistance grants to owners of real property that sustained certain weather-related damage.
Increases State appropriations to Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund by $387 million to restore municipal aid reductions from Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a public servant, during a state of emergency, to use or make disposition of a public resource in an unauthorized manner with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a private citizen to use a tracking device to track another person without that person's consent.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.
Requires suspension of member of Legislature indicted for certain crimes or offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office.
Prohibits political contributions by county and municipal political party committees to other committees; increases certain penalties.
Provides grants to eligible businesses equal to five percent of annual base salary of new employees hired under employment grant component of Invest in New Jersey Business Grant Program.
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
The "Retrofitted Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Establishes solar power incentive program.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature.
Requires municipal agency under MLUL to notify prospective applicant of potential need for additional governmental approvals.
Allows corporation business tax credits as incentives for redevelopment of distressed shopping centers.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools.
Makes homeowners' association in which developer's control of executive board has not been surrendered a public body under "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act."
Authorizes DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to permit BPU-certified persons to install and maintain solar photovoltaic panels on noise barriers erected on roads and highways.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
The "Renewable Energy District Financing Act."
Requires full pay for certain health care and public safety workers placed in isolation or quarantine.
Revises penalty provision of law concerning prohibition of certain unsolicited text messages.
Requires New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to annually prepare report on debt held by public institutions of higher education.
Requires county colleges to develop plan to achieve three-year graduation rate of at least 33 percent for full-time degree-program students by 2021-2022 academic year.
Provides tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for certain costs incurred in purchase and installation of certain environmentally responsible business equipment.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Allows gross income tax deductions for certain contributions to NJBEST college tuition savings program.
Requires DLPS to issue guidelines for counties to establish special needs registries.
Increases membership of Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority.
Authorizes county colleges to establish and operate student dormitories.
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Requires drug testing for security officer registration.
Authorizes use of electric school buses.
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Creates disorderly persons offense of purporting to be public utility employee to gain access to residence.
Creates Statewide Housing Bank.
Grants certain employment protections to campus police officers.
Requires direct supervision of pharmacy interns and externs who administer certain injectable medications.
Exempts from sales and use taxation purchase of fire sprinkler systems installed in residential new construction.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement leak detection programs.
"Prescription Drug Consumer Transparency Act;" requires pharmacy benefits managers to disclose certain information to benefit plan purchasers and to establish toll-free telephone number for certain inquiries.
Requires personal service of notice of unpaid parking ticket before issuing arrest warrant or suspending license.
Concerns arrest warrants for failing to pay parking tickets.
Allows 50 percent credit against societal benefits charge to local governments that utilize traffic signals that use light emitting diode technology.
Provides for review of and parole eligibility for certain juvenile sentences.
Permits victim of domestic violence or stalking to opt-out of cellular phone or wireless mobile device contract under which victim and victim's offender share services.
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Ensures continued access of family planning services in event of federal action.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from making certain retroactive reductions in claim payments to pharmacies.
Provides certain circumstances under which residential customers may switch electric power suppliers and gas suppliers.
Establishes 80 as maximum age for retired police officer to obtain special permit to carry handgun and requires proof of medical exam for officers age 76 to 80.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Requires use of protective headgear when horseback riding on State-owned lands.
Limits ability of State Medicaid program to seek recovery for improper enrollment due to administrative error when enrollee never received services.
Permits operation of low-speed electric bicycles.
Prohibits holder of machine gun or assault firearm license from carrying in public.
Requires water purveyors to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing under certain circumstances.
Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools of violations of drinking water quality standards.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving heroin and fetanyl; establishes new crimes concerning heroin mixtures; allows certain defendants to be eligible for drug court.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law13
Prohibits installation and sale of wheel weights containing lead or mercury; prohibits sale of new motor vehicles equipped with wheel weights containing lead or mercury.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Grants drivers additional time to resolve parking violations prior to license or registration suspension.*
Allows gross income taxpayers to use returns to make voluntary contributions to the Boy Scouts of America Councils in New Jersey.
Authorizes students in Marie H. Katzenbach school for the deaf to operate State vehicle for driver education and provides protection for such activity under tort claims act.*
Directs Attorney General to develop plan to disseminate Amber and Silver Alert information through social media.
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Precludes DEP from imposing certain certification requirements on installers of individual subsurface sewage disposal systems.
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers as organized delivery systems.**
Permits State detectives and investigators to administer oaths when investigating violations or attempted violations of criminal law.
Extends warranty for partial zero emission vehicles. *
Vetoed2
Requires health insurance coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Requires health insurance coverage for treatment of substance use disorders; places certain restrictions on the prescription of opioid and certain other drugs; concerns continuing education related thereto.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Permits holding companies of eligible New Jersey emerging technology companies to receive investments under "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act."
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Requires correctional facilities to provide inmates with prescription medication that was prescribed for chronic conditions existing prior to incarceration.
Requires waiver of dealer obligation regarding necessary repairs impacting vehicle inspection to include description of known defects.*
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties.*
Provides US Armed Forces and Reserves members with protection against interference with their employment, trade or business.
Provides US Armed Forces and Reserves members with protection against interference with enjoyment of any accommodation, facility, public accommodation, or privilege.
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability and grant deferment for temporary total disibility.*
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
Requires Commissioner of DCA to promulgate rules and regulations providing for veterans' affordable housing assistance preference.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Provides for registration and accreditation of human milk banks.
Revises "Electronic Waste Management Act."
Requires report on status of lead-safe program in DCA.*
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.*
"Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act"; restricts collection and use of personal information by retail establishments for certain purposes.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Concerns excessive price increases during state of emergency.
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter.
Establishes Women's Vocational Training Pilot Program to promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations; authorizes allocation of certain funds therefor.*
Requires Office of Emergency Management to establish county storm preparedness funding program.*
Requires DCF and DHS to study predatory alienation and its effects on young adults and senior citizens.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide annual New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program report to Governor and Legislature and develop student loan comparison information document to increase program transpa
Revises New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program to require applicants first exhaust federal student loans, require income verification, and limit total student loan amounts.
Provides for procurement by State of pharmacy benefits manager, automated reverse auction services, and claims adjudication services.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for digital tomosynthesis for screening and diagnostic purposes related to breast cancer.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by September 30, December 31, March 31, and June 30 of each year, beginning July 1, 2017.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Requires DMVA to notify county veterans' affairs office of death of certain military service members; requires office to have Gold Star liaisons.
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for Gold Star families.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans' property tax exemption to members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to the rescue and recovery mission at the World Trade Center between September 11, 2001 and May 30
Declares that deed restrictions or agreements that prevent raising or constructing of a structure to certain flood elevation standards are unenforceable.
Establishes electronic lien and titling system for New Jersey motor vehicles.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Establishes additional penalties related to child pornography and expands crime to include portrayal of child in sexual manner; establishes crime of leader of child pornography network.
Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.
Vetoed · 12
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
Establishes asset forfeiture reporting requirements.
Modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.*
Prohibits PANYNJ from providing assistance for enforcement of March 6, 2017 US Executive Order banning entry into US of individuals from certain countries. *
Requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns to appear on ballot; prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns.
Requires NJ to join U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold Paris Climate Accord.
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.**
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Creates Task Force on Driver Distractions.*
Modifies recordkeeping requirements for secondhand jewelry and precious metal transactions; increases penalties for violations.*
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Revises and renames NJSTARS; repeals NJSTARS II; establishes NJ HonorScholars Program.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.
Establishes Task Force on Safety in School Transportation.
Appropriates up to $20 million from societal benefits charge to DEP for remediation of lead contamination in drinking water in public buildings.
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
Revises priority schedule for issuance of converted tax credits under Business Employment Incentive Program.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to obtain court order prior to using certain collection practices for defaulted loans under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish income-driven repayment option and loan rehabilitation program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Establishes standards for food date labeling; requires Commissioner of Health to establish public education program and promulgate guidelines related to food safety.
Establishes "Volkswagen Settlement Utilization Fund for Motor Vehicle Emissions Reduction and Air Pollution Control"; directs DEP to use moneys in fund to establish and implement certain air pollution control programs.
Provides gross income tax credit for costs to purchase and install smart thermostats.
Requires installation of smart thermostats in all new residential construction.
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Concerns health insurance benefits for locked-out workers.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Requires AG to conduct survey of untested sexual assault examination kits.*
Out of committee · 53
Establishes "Green Fund" in BPU to provide funding for energy reliability, resilience, and sustainability programs.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Establishes "Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Act;" requires promulgation of standards and regulations concerning safe handling of hazardous drugs by certain health care personnel.*
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
Creates Office of Clean Energy in BPU.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.**
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Requires members of unitary business groups to file combined reports of corporation business tax.
Establishes "Secondhand Valuables Transaction Reporting Task Force."
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from considering number of arrests made and citations issued when evaluating police officer's professional performance.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Authorizes persons with certain records of mental illness to petition court for relief from federal firearms prohibition.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Revises application deadline for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.*
Concerns law regarding failure to pay wages.*
Establishes notification standards regarding automatic renewal of service contracts.
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Requires DMVA to create registry for organizations providing services to veterans.
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns regulation of solid waste, hazardous waste, and soil and debris recycling industries.*
Requires Department of Agriculture to develop voluntary guidelines to encourage school districts and institutions of higher education to donate excess food; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" protections to school districts.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents of student-athletes and cheerleaders concerning use and misuse of prescription opioids.
Establishes central registry of residents with special needs for use during emergencies.
Requires annual school security training for school employees to be conducted collaboratively with emergency responders; requires law enforcement officer to annually attend at least one school security drill.
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated in architectural design of new school construction and certain school security measures for existing buildings.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use returns to make voluntary contributions to the Boy Scouts of America Councils in New Jersey.
Directs DEP to adopt standards for drinking water contaminants based upon recommendations of Drinking Water Quality Institute.*
Permits eligible students who are members of United States Armed Forces to wear military uniform at high school graduation.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation. *
Concerns employer inquires about worker's wage and salary experience.
Establishes " New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program"; appropriates $3,000,000 over next three fiscal years.*
Allows counties and municipalities to establish, or request DOT to establish, reduced speed limits near schools.
Authorizes certain benefits for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Requires data collection and issuance of report on drug evidence testing by New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences.
Requires State's full participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Requires municipalities, public utilities, and State to use LED technology in certain street lights.
Requires BPU and electric public utilities to conduct energy storage analysis.*
Increases duration and weekly amount of family temporary disability benefits.
Repeals law suspending certain licenses, registrations and certifications for failure to repay student loans.
"Safe Transportation Jobs and Fair Employment Rules Act."
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Requires combined reporting of corporation business tax by certain members of unitary business groups.
Establishes small business loan guarantee program in EDA to support capital purchases and operating expenses and permits certain qualified businesses in regional centers to qualify for certain EDA loans.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
Designates five State songs.
Prohibits sale or distribution of liquid nicotine except in child-resistant containers.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
Requires certain drones to contain geo-fencing technology; makes violation a fourth degree crime.
Deletes CAFRA permit exemption for reconstruction activities in coastal area.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons who are fingerprinted and permits law enforcement officers to collect certain biological samples.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Changes law governing certain certified animal control officers.
Establishes Animal Cruelty Offender Registry; prohibits purchase, adoption, and breeding of animals by animal cruelty offenders.
Establishes moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for purpose of natural gas exploration or production until certain federal laws are changed.
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.
Provides awarding of contracts for professional services by State, county, municipal, and school district through competitive contracting process.
Increases gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 and dedicates revenue from tax rate increase for direct real property tax relief for taxpayers.
Requires law enforcement officers to wear body cameras.
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act," requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits and approvals for development related to drilling for oil and natural gas off NJ coast.
Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Concerns installation and maintenance of solar panels in common interest communities.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Removes black bear from list of game species.
Requires disclosure by independent expenditure committees; raises certain campaign contribution limits; repeals ban on certain intraparty fund transfers.
Increases disclosure of political contributions by business entities with public contracts; creates uniform law for contributions by such entities; repeals local option to set contribution limits for business entities.
Prohibits hospice from charging patient for days on which patient is not present.
"Antwan's Law"; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School.
Requires Center for Occupational Employment Information to share labor market information with school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Exempts certain personal information from State's open public records law; bars attorney's fees award in denial of access proceeding in certain circumstances.
Requires BPU to conduct study concerning zero emission credits.
Allows 50 percent credit against societal benefits charge to electric or gas public utility customers who install and maintain publicly available zero emission vehicle charging stations.
Increases electric power net metering capacity threshold to 5.8 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in State.
"Voter Privacy Act"; establishes protections for privacy of voters; prohibits automated programs to remove names of ineligible voters from official lists of eligible voters; prohibits sharing of certain voter information with federal government.
Encourages local units to plan for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Promotes installation and operation of electric vehicle charging stations.
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Permits a victim or witness of any age to testify by closed circuit television under certain circumstances in prosecutions for domestic violence, sexual assault, and certain other crimes.*