Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Joe Danielsen
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Establishes position of State Oceanographer.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Establishes position of State Oceanographer.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Authorizes the court to order the deletion, sealing, labeling, or correction of certain personal information in government records involving certain victims of identity theft.*
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Establishes procedure for consolidating fire districts.
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Limits access to data recorded by motor vehicle recording devices.
Prohibits sale of powdered alcohol.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
New Jersey Stolen Valor Act; makes unauthorized use of military uniforms, medals or insignias, and certain false statements regarding receipt of military awards with intent to obtain benefit crimes of third degree.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Vetoed · 8
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.**
Expands eligibility of inmates for medical parole and requires inmate's enrollment in Medicaid under certain circumstances.
Requires county and municipal police departments to establish cultural diversity training course and plan.
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Passed the General Assembly · 18
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Establishes pilot program within Office of Emergency Management to provide zero-interest loans to certain gas stations that install appropriate wiring for generators.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from increasing New Jersey resident undergraduate tuition and fees for nine continuous semesters following student's initial enrollment.*
Enacts "Truth in Caller Identification Act"; prohibits manipulation of certain telephone caller identification information.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of servive. *
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Requires DMAVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State. *
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
Out of committee · 32
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires DOC to conduct quarterly site visits at residential community release programs.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Requires local recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.*
Requires blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death; designated as "Michelle Sous' Law."
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
Authorizes Attorney General to coordinate Statewide law enforcement efforts against opioid drug abuse.*
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Revises requirements for licensure and creates physician-delegated scope of practice for physician assistants.
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
Enhances penalties for false incrimination and making fictitious reports.*
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.***
Gives priority in training programs to long-term unemployed.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Establishes Class I renewable energy certificate multiplier program for certain energy production facilities fueled by methane.
Clarifies statute requiring motorists to yield to authorized emergency vehicles sounding sirens and displaying red lights.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Conforms Megan's Law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.*
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.*
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Requires Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos; prohibits waiver of licensing requirements.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
"Volunteers in Public Service Pension Reform Act," allows municipal elected officials in PERS to retire based on other PERS service and remain in office with no salary or health care benefits for that office.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
In committee · 45
Exempts individuals with certain types of military service from certain professional and occupational fees and continuing education requirements.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Clarifies application of business personal property tax on local exchange telephone companies that were subject to tax as of April 1, 1997.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
The "Smart Container Act."
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.
Creates program for installing standby emergency power generators in new senior housing.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide bill credits to volunteer fire companies, first aid, rescue, and emergency squads, and nonprofit homeless and domestic violence assistance organizations.
Requires MVC to publish driver's manual on website in certain languages.
Requires retirement subdivision and retirement community to install electrical generator to provide electricity to common use area to be used as shelter in case of emergency.
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Exempts experienced firefighters from certification requirement.
Prohibits charging vehicle storage fees for days on which storage facility is closed.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Concerns victim's right to rape care advocate under certain circumstances.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
Requires school districts, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education to report allegations of sexual assault to law enforcement.
"Jade and Michael's Law", establishes additional protections and enforcement related to child abduction by a parent.
Concerns medical imaging technology licensure; provides licensing of magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
"Free Means Free Act"; prohibits misleading advertising of free products.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
Requires fire suppression and alarm systems in certain group homes.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
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.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opiod addiction.
Prohibits use of light frame construction in certain municipalities; establishes fire safety protocols for light frame construction projects.
Dedicates five percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses which employ eligible apprentices.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Enhances consideration of fire safety issues during review of development applications.