Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Wayne P. DeAngelo
Sponsored
Became law4
Provides that corporate by-laws may allow corporation to eliminate plurality voting for corporate directors.
Provides for regulation of small wind energy systems by municipalities.
The "New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act"; concerns certain licensed mortgage and consumer lending practices, supervision and enforcement.
Concerns payment of prevailing wage in certain construction undertaken with BPU financial assistance.
Passed the General Assembly3
Invalidates consumer contracts which require a waiver of right to file a consumer complaint.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Provides that contracts for maintenance, repair or improvement of State buildings and facilities may require use of certain skilled labor.
Out of committee4
Requires criminal history background checks for paid firefighters employed by fire districts.
Requires gradual replacement of incandescent light bulbs in public school buildings with compact fluorescent light bulbs whenever possible.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain for-sale housing projects. *
Concerns apprenticeship programs and other standards for public works contractors.
In committee18
Prohibits use of public funds by employers for certain employee influence activities.
Establishes a "Silver Alert System."
Prohibits the sale of jewelry containing phthalates.
Prohibits certain provisions in employment contracts.
Creates Review Commission on Workers' Compensation.
Provides exemption from tax on sales of certain energy saving products and services purchased from businesses located in UEZ.
Changes signature requirement for recall petition and when recall may be initiated.
Requires all campaign contributions to be reported to ELEC.
Establishes "Solar Equipment Purchase and Installation Assistance Program" in NJ EDA.
Provides consumer protections under certain telecommunications service provider contracts.
Includes reverse rate evasion as form of insurance fraud and provides for civil and criminal penalties.
Requires BPU to increase credit provided when issuing Solar Renewable Energy Certificates to owners using solar equipment manufactured in NJ.
Provides certain employment protections for sheriff's investigators.
Requires Council on Affordable Housing to adjust municipal fair share to reflect job loss in a municipality.
Broadens scope of information sharing and civil immunity therefor, related to insurance fraud.
Provides exclusive jurisdiction to PERC for certain unfair labor practice claims.
Revises the definition of "public works projects" related to project labor agreements to include bridges.
Permits construction workers to file a lien against the owner of real property under "Construction Lien Law."
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires criminal history background checks for paid firefighters employed by fire districts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 33
Allows certain local public entities to enter into contracts of up to 15 years for energy conservation or provision of renewable energy production at buildings owned by such entities. *
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Authorizes public entities to implement energy savings improvement programs. *
Requires developers to offer solar energy systems in certain new home construction. *
Authorizes municipal planning boards to adopt green buildings and environmental sustainability municipal master plan element.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Concerns chiropractic scope of practice.*
Requires a State tax expenditure report be included in the Governor's annual budget message.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies for the treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities. *
Authorizes BPU to use Retail Margin Fund monies to provide grants for combined heat and power production, energy efficiency projects and programs promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency; makes an appropriation. **
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund and to Cat and Dog Spay/Neuter Fund. *
Permits location of certain wind and solar facilities in industrial zones.
Authorizes EDA to develop and finance parking structures in certain urban and suburban areas. *
Permits municipalities and counties to make certain traffic engineering decisions without DOT approval.
Requires schools to provide eligible high school students with voter registration material. *
Permits municipalities to set strict absentee policies for service on authorities, boards, and commissions.
Establishes a "Silver Alert System." *
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Allows certain corporate notices to be provided via electronic transmission.
Expands scope of unincorporated entities permitted to merge or consolidate with domestic corporations.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
Requires school security drills to improve emergency preparedness.
Concerns safety measures at health club swimming pools.
Authorizes creation of non-lapsing Attorney ID Card Program trust fund by counties.
Creates Solar and Wind Energy Commission.
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.
Establishes the "Main Street Business Assistance Program;" appropriates $50 million.
Permits adding e-mail address to voter registration applications.
"The Solar Energy Advancement and Fair Competition Act."
Creates "Computer Crime Prevention Fund"; imposes penalties on certain offenders.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 21
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Concerns overpayments to public utilities.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Provides for equal opportunity for businesses to apply for certain energy-related incentives and funding.
Prohibits free housing for cabinet members.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Provides that reports and publications produced by State be primarily available on Internet, provides for notice of availability of reports and publications.
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Regulates mailed manufacturer's rebates.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools. *
Establishes new motorcycle safety provisions. *
Provides additional penalties for violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)" involving certain persons.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Establishes registry of offenders of individuals with developmental disabilities in DHS.
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Makes it a crime to communicate or transmit sexually suggestive communications to a minor under certain circumstances.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 28
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Provides for allocation of $25 million from available balances from societal benefits charge revenues for utility assistance grants for qualified households. **
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside. *
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
Jessica Rogers' Law: upgrades assault by auto or vessel in situations of road rage. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Requires adoption of constitutions and bylaws by county political party committees; requires certain information concerning committee members to be filed with county clerk; eliminates fixed terms for committee members and chairs. *
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Regulates certain credentialing and trade practices of insurance producers, and provides private cause of action for insurance producer violations.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Provides manufacturers a single sales fraction corporation business tax income allocation formula.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Directs the BPU to establish advanced metering infrastructure standards and authorizes licensing of local renewable energy collaboratives by the BPU. *
Designates DOT's Engineering and Operations Building as "Jack Friedenrich Engineering and Operations Building."
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Revises New Jersey False Claims Act to comply with federal Deficit Reduction Act for purposes of entitling State to enhanced recovery in Medicaid fraud cases; establishes an annual reporting requirement for the Attorney General. *
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive communication or harassing communication through social networking websites. *
Establishes a pilot program in DOE to address the State's shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $120,123,420 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Increases and clarifies permissible categories of fees chargeable by residential mortgage lenders and brokers.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Concerns certain disciplinary procedures, collective bargaining, and binding arbitration in public employment.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Permits certain managers and deputy attorneys general of the State to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act"; changes definition of managerial executive and removes confidential status of deputy attorney generals an
In committee · 45
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action (a "SLAPP" suit) arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech.
Revises income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement to be median regional income limits established by COAH.
Codifies COAH growth share methodology; permits municipally-funded rental vouchers to be used to satisfy affordable housing obligation and requires their use prior to regional contribution agreement.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Establishes school chemical management program; appropriates $90,000.
Permits labor peace agreements in projects in which public entities have proprietary interests.
Prohibits telecommunications, utility or cable television companies from charging certain customers prior to actual billing due date.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking, promoting prostitution of a child and certain child endangerment crimes shall not be expunged.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for sexual assault upon a minor.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for roadside markers to designate historic sites; appropriates $90,000.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Extends eligibility for total property tax exemption to 100% disabled Cold War veterans; requires State to reimburse municipality for local tax revenue loss.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Establishes the Higher Education Master Plan Commission in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Revises scope of public employee collective negotiations.
Creates motor vehicle offense of smoking in motor vehicle with a child present and dedicates penalties to "Smoking Cessation Fund."
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Allows SPRS members to purchase service credit for military service, out-of-state public employment and employment with federal government.
Provides for licensing and regulation of private process serving businesses.
Requires at least 30% of snacks sold in State vending machines be appropriate for consumption by individuals with diabetes.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Allows corporation business tax credit to foster donation of foreclosed real property to municipalities for use as affordable housing.
Provides Bureau of Securities with certain responsibilities concerning variable annuities.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Increases penalties for violations of special learner's permits, examination permits, and probationary driver's licenses; changes "provisional" license to "probationary" license.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Establishes an urban job training and resource center for certain women.
Expands eligibility under "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
Offers surviving spouse of TPAF or PERS member with 25 or more years of service choice of deferred pension instead of current return of contributions and non-contributory life insurance.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Permits qualified members of State Police Retirement System to serve until age 60.
Permits person with developmental disability and legal guardian to audio record sessions of interdisciplinary team in which person or guardian participates.
Limits job creation estimation under COAH regulations for warehousing activities.