Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law5
Upgrades penalty for unlawfully transferring a firearm to an underage person; permits transfer for instruction and training. *
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or possession of synthetic marijuana.
Requires DOLWD to compile consumer report cards for eligible training providers.
"Higher Education Epinephrine Emergency Treatment Act."
Upgrades certain unlawful possession of firearms to first degree crime; revises certain penalties under the "Graves Act."
Vetoed3
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Permits a student to participate in certain voluntary surveys if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents; limits use of information obtained from survey.*
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2013.
Passed the Senate15
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Prohibits a student from participating in high school graduation ceremonies unless the student has completed all graduation requirements.
Requires presumption that any bail paid by defendant charged with certain weapons offenses will be in the form of full cash.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public or nonpublic schools.*
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5.
Concerns alterations in child support obligations in response to changes to status of supported child.*
Authorizes law enforcement agency to inform the president of a public or independent institution of higher education when a student is charged or convicted of certain crimes.
Establishes crimes of operating school bus with suspended or revoked driving privileges and being involved in accident causing bodily injury; permanently prohibits passenger and school bus CDL endorsements for persons convicted of those crimes.*
Provides for permanent debarment from government contracting of any person who is convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Establishes prescription drug donation repository program.
Establishes new procedure to fill congressional vacancy be filled on general election day; requires Governor to make appointment from same party to temporarily fill Senate vacancy.*
Out of committee15
Allows security officer applicant to demonstrate rehabilitation if previously convicted of crime.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2012.*
Establishes gross income tax credit for full-time tuition cost at certain New Jersey institutions of post-secondary education.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1 million contingent on enactment of certain homestead benefit enhancement legislation.*
Requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Deletes requirement for certain cable television companies to fund "CATV Universal Access Fund."
Provides State, county, municipal, and school district contracts for professional services will be awarded pursuant to competitive contracting process.*
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court; alters eligibility requirements and increases fees for existing conditional discharge and supervisory treatment programs.
Appropriates $24,290,379 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court.
Changes date of 2013 general election from November 5th to October 16th.
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
In committee161
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to reimburse school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing and adjusts recipient districts' tax levy growth limit.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Requires public institutions of higher education to advertise for bids prior to awarding contracts for professional services.
Increases mandatory minimum prison term for certain crimes involving firearms and designated as Tamrah's Law.
Establishes three categories for investigative findings of allegations of child abuse or neglect, and requires DCF to track and report certain unfounded cases that subsequently are substantiated.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of a charter school.
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment.
Requires boil water notices be provided to mayor and municipal clerk within one hour.
Requires boil water notices to be provided by certain public water systems via telephone, email or text message.
Creates Craft Distillery License to permit the manufacture of smaller amounts of distilled alcoholic beverages.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Authorizes public access to government records through government website.
Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Requires municipal clerk to publish holiday and emergency information on Internet site or in local newspaper.
Enhances penalties upon certain violators of housing codes.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in hedge funds and derivative contracts.
Clarifies the intent of the Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Prohibits smoking in certain outdoor public places.
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Clarifies school district employees subject to statutory provisions concerning supplemental compensation for unused sick leave and vacation carry forward requirements.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Provides that preserved farmland may be sold by the State or a local government unit only to established farmers and restricts size of farmer residence which may be built thereon.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program," in Mercer and Essex Counties.
Requires conditionally discharged drug dependent persons to undergo assessment and drug treatment.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Directs the BPU to determine whether the electric power generation service market in this State is competitive and to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature.
Subjects most State property to local property taxation beginning on July 1, 2012.
Increases income threshold for qualifying for farmland assessment.
Prohibits electronic printing of certain debit card information on certain sales receipts.
Concerning development subsidies and certain employment practices.
Requires repayment of development subsidies in certain cases of failure to meet job creation or retention requirements.
Establishes employment goals and requirements for development subsidies.
Concerns eligibility requirements for licensed professional counselors and associate counselors.
Requires health service corporation to encrypt certain information.
Changes date for election of fire commissioners from third Saturday in February to day of primary election.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Requires candidates for school board member and local elective office to file financial disclosure statement on or before 10th day following deadline for filing nominating petitions for that office.
Amends eligibility for expungement of criminal records.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Clarifies that statute making "good behavior" credits at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center contingent upon participation in treatment program applies to all inmates.
Expands gun court pilot program to include counties with municipalities participating in Operation CeaseFire.
Requires an application fee to be paid to the DOE when applying to establish a charter school.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Creates Juvenile Transfer Task Force.
The "Toxic-free Beverage Containers Act."
Prohibits DCF from placing children in out-of-State residential child care facilities.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Requires victims of the criminally insane to be notified upon release, escape, or transfer of offender from mental health facility.
Directs the BPU to establish certain energy-conservation programs.
Requires disclosure of certain adverse actions based on consumer credit reports.
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for sexual assault upon a minor.
Appropriates $7.5 million of Powerball lottery game proceeds to extend Part-Time Tuition Aid Grant Program from county colleges to all colleges.
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable television customers.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
Establishes cruel restraint of a dog as an animal cruelty offense.
Requires BPU to mandate electric power supply reliability and prevent market manipulation by electric power suppliers.
Establishes the School District Governance Study Commission.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with minor as passenger.
Requires keg registration; makes the unlawful possession of an unregistered keg a petty disorderly persons offense.
Prohibits the use of simulated government documents in advertising.
Directs Attorney General to establish a criminal firearms recovery clearing house.
Establishes system of graduated parole violation sanctions.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines with certain exceptions.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Upgrades sexual assault to aggravated sexual assault when committed in conjunction with a carjacking.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Includes limitations on amount of retirement compensation which may be provided by a school board in the employment contracts of superintendents of schools, assistant superintendents of schools, and school business administrators.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Mandates that certain personnel critical to certain State finance and revenue generating activities are essential employees during a declared State government shutdown due to failure to enact an annual appropriation act.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Requires filing of report comparing investment returns earned by private money managers and by State employees for public employee retirement funds and State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Prohibits possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by persons under legal drinking age.
Requires mandatory registration of family child care providers; requires family child care providers to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires tenant notification and documentation on landlord registration form whenever rental premises is adjudicated to have caused constructive eviction because of mold presence; requires Department of Community Affairs to maintain registry.
Makes changes to the School Ethics Act.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes procedures for governing bodies of municipalities or voters to opt to move annual fire district elections to November.
Makes various statutory changes to "Child Care Licensing Act."
Provides that certain alimony payments may be deducted from gross income for purposes of the "Homestead Property Tax Credit Act."
Provides for mail notice of certain telephone rate and tariff changes.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Regulates smoking in multiple dwellings; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate construction standards for new multiple dwellings permitting smoking.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Requires superintendent to assume responsibilities of principal in certain school districts.
Authorizes injunctions against gangs.
"Home-Based Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing, or retailing activities.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to make payment to school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing upon adoption of resolution by municipal governing body.
Regulates deed procurement services.
Reverses certain changes to laws governing State treatment of unclaimed property.
Establishes pilot program for mandatory sentencing to "drug court" program under special probation statute for certain offenders.
Enhances penalties upon corporate violators of housing codes.
Subjects certain municipal and school property to property taxation.
Regulates placement of charges for products or services on telephone bills.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Requires certain public contracts for insurance coverage and consulting services to be awarded through competitive contracting process.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Requires housing authority to advertise when applications are being accepted for housing assistance waiting lists on its Internet website or webpage.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigars.
Requires DOT to issue guidance on certain aspects of red light camera pilot program.
Prohibits right on red turns at intersections with red light cameras; requires certain additional signage if red light camera is in safe corridor.
Permits automatic expungement for certain persons completing a sentence to drug court under the special probation statute.
Permits domestic violence victim witness to testify via closed circuit television under certain circumstances.
Creates Voluntary Registry for Individuals with a Mental Illness or Developmental Disability.
Provides for voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Modifies timeframe during which charter school applications are submitted to and approved by DOE.
Concerns payment of homestead property tax reimbursement as credit on property tax bill.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Regulates sale and transfer of rifle and shotgun ammunition.
Prohibits mail order, Internet, telephone, and any other anonymous method of ammunition sale or transfer in New Jersey.
Requires contracts for professional services be awarded by certain bi-state authorities pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Requires disclosure of contributions received and expenditures made by committees or organizations not affiliated or coordinated with any candidate, or committee organized to support or oppose public questions.
Adds Sons of The American Legion to list of organizations whose representatives receive paid leaves of absence to attend State and national conventions.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes electronic reporting system for purchasers of precious metals or jewelry.
Expands implied consent statute to include blood and urine testing.
Establishes drug disposal program in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires public institutions of higher education to establish policies for the implementation of fees.
Regulates operation of low-speed electric bicycles.
Allocates $10 million to the City of Trenton to hire 75 additional police officers.
Revises licensing provisions for orthotists and prosthetists and assistants.
Prohibits return of local aid grant money to DOT if county or municipality has completed planning and permitting.
Prohibits advertising of certain products to minors on websites; requires website operators to allow minors to delete posts.
Requires certain information to be contained in application for homestead property tax reimbursement and revises application deadline.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes. *
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Eliminates prosecutorial objection to admission to drug court program; expands eligibility and provides for phased in mandatory drug court program.***
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Tri-County Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Concerns the escheat of stored value cards.*
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Creates craft distillery license.
Eliminates requirement that a full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.**
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Declares violence a public health crisis. and establishes "Study Commission on Violence."*
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
"Building Our Future Bond Act"; authorizes the issuance of $750,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance higher educational capital projects for increasing of academic capacity; appropriates $5,000.
Requires DOE to prepare and distribute informational pamphlets on how parents can limit a child's exposure to media violence.
Prohibits relieving certain charges of employer unemployment insurance accounts.
Appropriates $715,706,303 from the "Building Our Future Bond Act" to the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education for public and private institutions of higher education.
Vetoed · 9
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.*
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher education institutions
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Passed the Senate · 3
Exempts certain car-sharing programs from motor vehicle rental fees.
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 retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Out of committee · 54
Increases minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on CPI increases.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities.
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose.*
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding, subject to availability, for burial of indigent veterans.*
Makes certain changes to open public records act; establishes State public finance website and creates program for development of local websites.*
Establishes program in DOE to address State's shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
Revises law concerning the purchase of scrap metal.*
Provides that a school district may implement bullying prevention programs and anti-bullying training programs at no cost through various entities; and appropriates $1 million.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Allows certain military spouses with out-of-State teaching license to receive temporary instructional certificate in New Jersey.
Requires public contractors to report certain employment information.
Provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected by decision or practice, including each time compensation is paid.
Concerns disclosure of certain employment information.
Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horse flesh for human consumption.
Extends time municipalities have to commit fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units to six years.
Requires certain purchasers of precious metals and jewelry to maintain certain records; grandfathers certain municipal ordinances regarding sales of used and secondhand jewelry.*
Establishes a pilot program in DOE to increase the length of the school day and school year and provides tax credits for corporate contributions to fund the program.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation of $789,000,000 to Homestead Benefit Program and amends budget language provisions to provide for significantly enhanced property tax relief payments to beleaguered homeowners and tenants.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."*
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Expands neighborhood revitalization State tax credit to include gross income taxpayers; increases annual total amount of tax credits allowable from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.
Requires correctional facilities to submit voting rights information packets to inmates.
Requires development of a diabetes action plan by DOH.
Permits municipal court to order certain offenders to perform community service in lieu of payment of penalty.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.
Requires DOE provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities; mandates certain school district personnel annually complete two hours of professional development related to reading disabilities.*
Prohibits service and sale in schools of food and beverage items labeled as not intended or recommended for children.
Requires school districts provide pupil directory information to county vocational schools upon request.
Disqualifies person named on federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining firearms identification card or permit to purchase handgun.
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
"New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Authorizes creation of special Omega Psi Phi license plate.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.*
Requires BPU to regulate rates and terms and conditions of service of alternate operator telephone service providers to protect users of those services.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose parking surcharges.
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"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Requires design of new public schools to incorporate green building practices.
Requires Executive Branch departments or agencies to notify Legislature of completion of certain draft school district audit reports and submit copy of final report to Legislature.
Establishes the "Private Investment in Public Education Fund."
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
"Emergency Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online and via telep
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Prohibits sale of caffeinated alcoholic beverages.
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Health Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Authorizes courts to revoke fees at sentencing, include mediation as an alternative sentence, consider testimony from a defendant's family, reduce the waiting period for certain expungements, and impose an alternative to incarceration.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow their customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; requires certain information be posted on DOBI's website.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Requires civil service desk audit of provisional employees after layoff action by local employer.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Repeals traffic control signal monitoring system pilot program; prohibits future use of red light cameras in State.
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Provides that a school district may be placed under full or partial State intervention pursuant to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) for no longer than five years.
Clarifies application of business personal property tax on local exchange telephone companies that were subject to tax as of April 1, 1997.
Establishes certain equal employment opportunity requirements in connection with expenditure of federal funds received for Hurricane Sandy relief and for any future emergencies.
Requires that candidates for certain teaching certificates, in addition to existing requirements, also pass a written test on the foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Requires 20 hours of professional development requirement for public school teachers to be devoted to reading disabilities.
Protects certain politically active employees from retaliatory action by employers.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at a four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.