Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Requires housing authority to advertise when applications are being accepted for housing assistance waiting lists online.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Imposes certain requirements on telephone service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities.*
Regulates deed procurement services.
Requires NJ Clean Energy Program's Residential New Construction incentives be made available Statewide.
Authorizes establishment of drug donation programs.
Vetoed3
Establishes restricted use driver's license endorsement for certain motor vehicle offenders with suspended license.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to improve transparency of tuition and fees.
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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Designates Thomas Alva Edison as State Inventor.
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5.
Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.
Requires public institutions of higher education to establish policies for the implementation of fees.
Establishes new procedure to fill congressional vacancies by election; eliminates special election option; requires congressional vacancy be filled on general election day; requires Governor to make appointment from same party to temporarily fill Senate v
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Provides that no more than 120 credits will be required for baccalaureate degree awarded by a public institution and no more than 60 credits for an associate degree.
Requires hotels to upgrade phone systems to allow guests to dial 9-1-1 without first dialing any other digit.
Restricts initial prescriptions for opioid drugs to seven day supply.
Requires teachers of health and physical education in grades kindergarten through six in public schools to possess appropriate endorsement to instructional certificate.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Out of committee35
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Concerns random drug testing of certain inmates.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 12 months.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.**
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes cruel restraint of a dog as an animal cruelty offense.
Permits pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocals established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners; clarifies certain health insurance coverage for contracep
Designates "Garden State" as State Slogan.
Extends duration of urban enterprise zones for 10 additional years; specifies permissable use of funds.*
Requires county, municipal, and campus police departments to establish cultural diversity training course and plan.*
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for microentrepreneurs; gives priority status to projects involving microenterprises under Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program.*
Prohibits award of State contracts and development subsidies to inverted domestic corporations.
Requires initial determination of unemployment benefits to be made within three weeks of filing of claim.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Directs institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Updates administrative requirements and processes for unclaimed property held by State.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Requires life insurers to use federal death master file to identify potential matches.
Requires certain county inmates be provided with reentry assistance before their release.
Concerns timely provision of TDI and family temporary disability benefits.*
Requires DHS to implement payment strategy to encourage the use of long acting reversible contraceptives.
Appropriates $2,988,859 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Prohibits certain trucks from operating on certain portions of State Highway Route 29.
Provides that salary and other costs associated with Commissioner of Education's appointment of State monitor and other staff under "School District Fiscal Accountability Act" will be paid by State.
Requires newly-elected municipal, county, and State political party committee members to assume office upon certification for election and hold first meeting on second Thursday, second Monday, and second Tuesday following primary election, respectively.*
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
In committee174
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program" in several vicinages.
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.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Provides awarding of contracts for professional services by State, county, municipal, and school district through competitive contracting process.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
Deletes requirement for certain cable television companies to fund "CATV Universal Access Fund."
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
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 certain public contracts for insurance coverage and consulting services to be awarded through competitive contracting process.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
Requires law enforcement officers to wear body cameras.
Establishes three-year moratorium on increases in charter school enrollment.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Enhances penalties upon corporate violators of housing codes.
Enhances penalties upon certain violators of housing codes.
Concerning development subsidies and certain employment practices.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Establishes employment goals and requirements for development subsidies.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Requires repayment of development subsidies in certain cases of failure to meet job creation or retention requirements.
Requires DOBI to obtain and consider certain information from Commissioner of Health concerning provider network adequacy requirements for managed care plans.
Establishes certain network adequacy and standard application requirements for health insurance carriers; requires determination of hospital diversity for tiered networks.
Regulates sale and transfer of rifle and shotgun ammunition.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Requires certain information to be contained in application for homestead property tax reimbursement and revises application deadline.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Concerns payment of homestead property tax reimbursement as credit on property tax bill.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
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.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings.
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.
Prohibits State administered pension fund investment in corporations shifting ownership or operations outside the U.S. for tax purposes.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment.
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.
Establishes Extended School Day and School Year Study Commission.
Applies provisions of "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act" to proprietary schools and limits eligibility for State student assistance programs to students enrolled in certain proprietary schools.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of a charter school.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in hedge funds and derivative contracts.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,560,000 for anti-tobacco programs.
Requires contracts for professional services be awarded by certain bi-state authorities pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Provides that Probation Division would file child support judgement as a lien only when amount of judgement equals or exceeds amount of child support due for a one-month period.
Provides State Investment Council must report private money managers' fee information and that council's regulations addressing political contributions will apply to federal or national committees and non-State political committees.
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election.
Allocates $10 million to the City of Trenton to hire 75 additional police officers.
Prohibits sale of powdered caffeine.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
Enhances opportunities for qualified residential projects under the Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program.
Requires health insurance carriers offering tiered network health benefits plans to protect covered persons from excess cost sharing in certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Tiered Health Insurance Networks."
Directs BPU to require certain energy businesses to maintain recordings of telemarketing sales calls for three years.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings under the gross income tax.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Appropriates $7.5 million of Powerball lottery game proceeds to extend Part-Time Tuition Aid Grant Program from county colleges to all colleges.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Directs BPU to establish certain energy-conservation programs.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Establishes penalty for unlawfully using parking placard issued to person with qualifying disability.
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Shortens waiting periods for expunging convictions and related records and related record and information for crimes, disorderly persons offense, and petty disorderly offenses.
Subjects most State property to local property taxation beginning on July 1, 2014.
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.
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Authorizes Historic Trenton license plates.
Regulates smoking in multiple dwellings; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate construction standards for new multiple dwellings permitting smoking.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations regarding Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
Phases out State tuition aid grants for students enrolled in proprietary institutions.
Amends eligibility for expungement of criminal records.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
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.
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Requires superintendent to assume responsibilities of principal in certain school districts.
Establishes gross income tax credit for full-time tuition cost at certain New Jersey institutions of post-secondary education.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
"Higher Education Epinephrine Emergency Treatment Act."
Clarifies the intent of the Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet and permits custodian to advise requester of the record to obtain record directly from Internet.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Requires victims of the criminally insane to be notified upon release, escape, or transfer of offender from mental health facility.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Requires disclosure of certain adverse actions based on consumer credit reports.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Requires health insurance carriers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for telemedicine.
Prohibits possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by persons under legal drinking age.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines with certain exceptions.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Establishes that vacant permit parking spaces ordinarily reserved for NJT train passengers are available for general public use during off-peak times.
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.
Authorizes public access to government records through government website.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigars.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."; appropriates $5 million.
Increases New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit to 40 percent of federal benefit amount beginning in Tax Year 2016.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
Raises income eligibility threshold for pension and retirement income exclusion from gross income to $125,000.
Requires that certain tenants residing in rental housing be issued monthly rent receipts that itemize heat and electricity costs when those costs are included in monthly rent.
Requires public research universities and State colleges to develop policies and implement accounting procedures on mandatory student fees.
Enhances transparency and accountability of online tax sales.
Permits family day care providers to care for up to 10 children; requires criminal history record background checks for family day care providers and certain household members.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide supplemental reading instruction to students in grades K through 3.
Expands Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance Programs to include assistance for water utility bill.
Requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of compliant-warrant.
Requires all creditors that acquire title to non-owner occupied residential property following foreclosure to notify municipality and common interest community.
Directs Division of Consumer Affairs to establish public information campaign concerning real estate rental scams.
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Sets State mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires electric public utility to notify property owner any time account for electric public utility service on owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Imposes requirements on video visitation service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities; requires correctional facilities to allow contact visits.
Revises equine animal activities law in accordance with recommendations of New Jersey Law Revision Commission to clarify responsibility and liability issues.
Requires advance notice of water supply discontinuations for non-payment of local government water bills; requires offer of payment plan in certain circumstances.
Exempts certain personal information from State's open public records law; bars attorney's fees award in denial of access proceeding in certain circumstances.
Establishes pre-loan counseling requirements and borrower right of rescission for reverse mortgage loans.
Allows electric energy produced from biofuel to be eligible as Class II renewable energy.
Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Revises mileage limit for mandatory school transportation for students in preschool through grade four.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Provides parents and adult students with simplified method for opting out of release by school district of student information to military recruiters.
Establishes "Opioid Prevention and Rehabilitation Program Fund" and tax on opioid drugs.
Authorizes physician assistants and advanced practice nurses to independently provide medication assisted treatment under certain circumstances.
Directs school districts to permit students to use sunscreen at school and allows school employees to assist with sunscreen application in certain circumstances.
Requires Type I school districts and charter schools to establish citizen budget oversight committee to monitor district's or charter school's financial position.
Establishes Green Jobs Training Partnership Program.
Prohibits use of chlorpyrifos insecticide.
Authorizes physician assistants and advanced practice nurses to dispense narcotic drugs for treatment of substance use disorders consistent with federal law.
Amends annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive salary payments retroactive to July 1, 2017.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Requires certain insurers disclose information concerning automobile replacement parts.
Establishes Working Group on Deaf Education and directs DOE to develop parent resource guide and select early intervention assessments for use in identifying language delays in deaf and hard of hearing children.
Eliminates property tax exempt status of certain school faculty housing.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide assistive technology to elementary and middle school students with dyslexia and related conditions.
Requires candidates for certain teaching certificates to pass written test on foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Requires persons picking up prescriptions for Schedule II controlled dangerous substances to present identification.
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Restricts levy of motor vehicle surcharges to drunk driving offenses.
Increases from six to 10 the number of motor vehicle penalty points necessary to incur surcharges.
Prohibits mail order, Internet, telephone, and any other anonymous method of ammunition sale or transfer in New Jersey.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Revises requirements for disclosure of a breach of security of certain computerized records containing personal information.
Creates mental illness diversionary program for certain defendants; requires behavioral health training for police.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Eliminates motor vehicle surcharges following retirement of bonds and debts tied to surcharges.
Requires Medicaid cover emergency contraception without requiring prescription or other authorization.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to increase protection of consumers' personal information.
Increases minimum income thresholds requiring filing and paying of gross income tax.
Establishes service for reporting employer and employment service violations and requires posting of certain notifications.
Filed3
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.*
Protects employee rights to ownership and usage of employee inventions developed entirely on employee's own time and without using employer's resources.
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.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law12
Protects employee rights to ownership and usage of employee inventions developed entirely on employee's own time and without using employer's resources.
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.
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.*
Requires DLPS to establish and make available to law enforcement agencies cultural diversity training materials and online tutorial.*
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 6 months.*
Requires life insurers to use federal death master file to identify potential matches.
Directs institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for microentrepreneurs; gives priority status to projects involving microenterprises under Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program.
Designates "Garden State" as State Slogan.
Requires initial determination of unemployment benefits to be made within three weeks of filing of claim.
Appropriates $2,988,859 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed5
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Extends duration of urban enterprise zones for 10 additional years; specifies permissable use of funds.*
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
Co-sponsored
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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.
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and telehealth.*
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.*
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.**
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties.*
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires racial and ethnic impact statement for certain bills and regulations affecting sentencing.
Requires report on status of lead-safe program in DCA.*
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.*
Directs Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development to work to promote basic skills training through organizations dedicated to the economic empowerment of specific segments of society, such as the African American Chamber of Comme
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Limits expulsions and suspensions for students in preschool through grade 2 with certain exceptions; requires early detection and prevention programs for behavioral issues in preschool through grade 2.
Places two-year moratorium on moving date of Type II school district's annual school election from day of general election in November back to third Tuesday in April; creates study commission.*
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 school districts to offer course in computer science and DOE to adopt changes to NJ Student Learning Standards in computer science.*
Provides that driver's license and identification cards expire every four years on licensee or cardholder's birthday. *
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.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
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.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Requires study of program allowing community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Establishes gubernatorial veto power over Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor's meeting minutes; expands gubernatorial oversight powers over commission.
Makes appropriation from revenues and other funds of Transportation Trust Fund Authority of $260,000,000 to DOT for bridge and road repairs; $140,000,000 to New Jersey Transit Corporation for technology improvements and system safety.*
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Prohibits certain employment discrimination based upon expunged criminal record.
Revises procedures for expunging criminal and other records and information, including shortening of certain waiting periods for expungement eligibility and increasing number of convictions which may be expunged.
Decreases waiting period to expunge entire juvenile record from five to three years.
Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of certain firearm components.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
Appropriates $19,266,145 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 9
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.
"Earn Your Way Out Act" ; requires DOC to develop inmate reentry plan; establishes administrative parole release for certain inmates;requires study and report by DOC on fiscal impact.*
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize computer science education endorsement to instructional certificate.
Makes supplemental appropriations totaling $9,563,415 to DOH for grants of $7,765,325 to Newark Beth Israel Hospital and $1,798,090 to St. Francis Medical Center to implement improved health outcomes and sustainable transformation of healthcare delivery.
Provides that AG handle investigation and prosecution of crime involving person's death by law enforcement officer while acting in officer's official capacity or while in custody; requires trial in venue outside county where incident occurred.
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 Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish repayment assistance program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program who suffer material loss of income.
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
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Adds two public members to NJT board and provides that all NJT board members are voting members. *
Clarifies when penalty points are to be assessed for convictions of driving in an unsafe manner.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Revises law governing testifying via closed circuit television in certain criminal cases.*
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Revises and renames NJSTARS; repeals NJSTARS II; establishes NJ HonorScholars Program.
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
Requires issues related to prescription opioids to be included in continuing education courses for certain health care professionals.
Requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbook plan.*
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.*
Prohibits the sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices.
Creates fencing crime involving stolen domestic companion animals.
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.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Establishes Response to Intervention initiative in DOE to support and encourage school districts in implementation of Response to Intervention framework.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
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.
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
"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.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.*
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.**
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Increases the personal income tax's pension and retirement income exclusion fivefold over three years.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from considering number of arrests made and citations issued when evaluating police officer's professional performance.
Requires boards of education to conduct student vision screenings that include evaluation of acuity and binocular vision.
Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Requires Division of Parole to offer parole services to certain defendants who have served their maximum sentence.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals, establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database and requires development of emergency services stroke care protocols.*
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.*
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
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.
Establishes State School Aid Funding Fairness Commission.
Requires State to pay educational costs of students who reside in homeless shelter outside district of residence for more than one year.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents of student-athletes and cheerleaders concerning use and misuse of prescription opioids.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Concerns employer inquires about worker's wage and salary experience.
Requires Internet-connected baby monitors to include security features.
Requires State Auditor to annually report on unspent State account balances.
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
Extends duration of first five designated UEZs for two additional years; specifies permissible use of UEZ funds; requires DCA Commissioner to assess and issue report on UEZ program.
Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*
Requires board of education to post information about child abuse hotline in each school.
Concerns sale of certain tires.
Grants drivers additional time to resolve parking violations prior to license or registration suspension.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidance on identifying English language learners for gifted and talented programs.
Prohibits release of personal identifying information of violent crime victims and witnesses under State's open public records law.
Requires DHS to take appropriate action to exempt veterans from benefits time limit applicable to able-bodied adults without dependents under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Authorizes the Unclaimed Property Administrator to verify certain governmental debts before delivering abandoned property.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Establishes additional requirements for operation and oversight of animal shelters, pounds, kennels operating as shelters or pounds, and veterinary holding facilities.
Directs State Auditor to conduct performance review audits of public institutions of higher education.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Repeals law suspending certain licenses, registrations and certifications for failure to repay student loans.
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to notify students and parents of availability of summer meals programs and locations where meals are served.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.*
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Revises law concerning ticket sales.
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.
Eliminates power of DRPA to finance economic development; changes composition of board; imposes restrictions regarding financing, contract procedures, conflicts of interest, and review audits; creates commuter's council.
Permits court to order involuntary outpatient treatment in any county; concerns patient compliance with taking medication.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
"New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database Act"; establishes New Jersey All-Payer Claims Database and arbitration process for reimbursing out-of-network health care providers.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
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.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $500 income tax deduction.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.
Permits correctional facilities to utilize body imaging scanning equipment.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Requires prosecutorial or law enforcement review of fatal incidents involving police officers or State Police.
Prohibits business receiving State development subsidies from making certain campaign contributions.
Sets criteria for online learning provided to public school students.
Requires Commissioner of Education to declare educational state of emergency for certain districts with low proficiency rates in language arts and literacy and provides for corrective measures.
Requires various measures to address effects of low levels of lead exposure.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of State assessment.
Prohibits designation of certain assessments as high school graduation requirement during transitional period to new Statewide assessment system.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Requires evaluation of school buildings for air quality and mold.
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
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.
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screening along with other immunization and wellness checks as precondition of child's initial entry into school system.
Requires each board of education to adopt policy establishing temperature control standards and guidelines for school district facilities.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Requires Center for Occupational Employment Information to share labor market information with school districts and public institutions of higher education.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Creates restricted distillery license; permits holder therof to operate restaurant on licensed premises in Garden State Growth Zone.
Requires public and nonpublic secondary schools to annually conduct written or verbal substance use screening on all students using a particular screening program.
Creates New Jersey Innocence Study and Review Commission.
Concerns arrest warrants for failing to pay parking tickets.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose information.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit certain persons unless they pose danger.
Prohibits emergency homeless shelters from conditioning provision of shelter on enrollment in certain programs.
Requires DCA to continuously maintain open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program pre-applications.
Requires board of education to display information about child abuse hotline in each school.
Prohibits posting or publishing personal identifying information of witness, victim, or informant.
"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.
Permits operation of low-speed electric bicycles.