Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph P. Cryan
Sponsored
Became law2
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Provides for certain surplus lines producer fees to be determined by regulation.
Vetoed3
Concerns newspaper publication of notice of certain real estate sales.
Establishes deadlines for filing financial disclosure statements with State Ethics Commission.
Provides that subcontractors who furnish non-specialty trade work shall not be named in local public bid documents.
Passed the General Assembly3
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Replaces plenary winery and farm winery licenses with small winery and wine manufacturing licenses.**
Out of committee12
Establishes new motorcycle safety provisions.
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority Act." *
Extends time period for renewal of lapsed alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
Requires certain conditions be met in order for school districts to provide their employees with tuition assistance for coursework or additional compensation upon acquisition of academic credits or completion of a degree program.
Authorizes director of board of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed actions of county authorities.
Allows municipalities adjacent to two or more municipalities having urban enterprise zones to qualify for NJ Redevelopment Authority financing assistance. *
Requires prenotification of mass layoffs by holding company or franchisor at multiple franchise locations.
Requires owners of certain newly developed shopping centers to provide electric vehicle charging stations.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for certain shopping centers not having electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires Chief Administrator of Motor Vehicle Commission to establish standards for average customer wait times at facilities.
Concerns UEZ funding to qualifying municipalities.
Restores eligibility of New Jersey Health ACCESS recipients for NJ FamilyCare effective August 1, 2011.
In committee69
Authorizes municipalities and fire districts to require physician's certificate as condition for service or continuing service by volunteer fire fighters; requires municipalities and fire districts to reimburse them for out-of-pocket costs.
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
"Statewide Drought Management Act."
Concerns unwanted delivery of newspapers.
Adds contact via electronic device to prohibited contact enumerated in permanent restraining orders for convicted stalkers.
Requires certain cities of the second class to establish a Second Chance Council to develop a plan to increase jobs for released criminals and high school dropouts.
Outlines procedures for conducting drug tests involving State law enforcement officers.
Establishes timeframes for certain stages in interest arbitration procedures.
Expands definition of "place of business" under Franchise Practices Act.
Requires complaint filed with Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards to be in writing and signed and to contain certificate of acknowledgement; bars faxing of complaint to joint committee.
Requires legal action against certain licensed persons to be brought within two years.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and requires peer review and performance evaluation for contract renewal.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
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.
Revises law concerning tastings and samplings conducted by certain alcoholic beverage licensees.
Prohibits public safety directors from exercising police powers.
Creates e-mail registration requirement for convicted stalkers.
Clarifies school district employees subject to statutory provisions concerning supplemental compensation for unused sick leave and vacation carry forward requirements.
Requires DHS to develop procedures to enable hospitals to promptly transfer emergency department patients with mental illness to appropriate treatment setting.
Requires DHS and DCF to establish standardized admission protocols and medical clearance criteria for admission to behavioral health care facilities.
Requires DHS and DCF to identify available mental health services and perform needs assessment.
Extends time period for renewal of lapsed alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
Reduces required local employer contributions to PERS and PFRS for State fiscal years 2009 through 2011.
Permits certain persons holding elective public office to remain eligible for enrollment in PERS.
Concerns certain disciplinary procedures, collective bargaining, and binding arbitration in public employment.
Increases loss ratio reporting and disclosure requirements for carriers offering individual and group health insurance plans; applies loss ratio requirement to large group health insurance plans.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Increases reimbursement rate for certain special education costs.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Establishes in DOE a four-year Community Service Phase Two Pilot Enhancement Program.
Re-establishes State Board of Education as the rule-making authority under several school district accountability statutes and reinstates its role in considering appeals from any Commissioner of Education determination.
Provides that executive reorganization plan cannot take effect unless approved by the Legislature within 60 days of transmittal.
Requires vacancies in US Senate be filled only by special election.
Requires all candidate and campaign committee reports be filed electronically beginning January 1, 2012.
Clarifies tax status of certain construction projects undertaken at State and county colleges through public-private partnerships and eliminates the sunset provision for such projects.
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Limits punitive damages in certain cases involving two or more comparatively negligent defendants.
Increases sheriffs' fees for executing arrest warrants in Special Civil Part.
Permits the issuance of restraining orders against persons charged with certain prostitution related offenses.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action (a "SLAPP" suit) arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech.
Establishes lawn watering restrictions; authorizes DEP to adopt water conservation regulations and to reduce water supply application backlog; and requires installation of automatic rain sensor devices under certain circumstances.
Concerns patient billing by emergency medical services providers.
Permits municipalities to use auxiliary police in non-emergency situations.
Requires notice of sheriff's sale of goods to be published in newspapers and on county sheriff websites.
Authorizes paid leaves of absence for certain delegates of employee organizations representing corrections officers attending conventions.
Allows child support payor to petition court for accounting of recipient's disposition of child support funds under certain circumstances.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Excludes cosmetic dentistry from cosmetic medical procedures gross receipts tax.
Makes it unlawful practice to sell certain products via Internet auction.
Provides that the salary of an administrator of an approved private school for students with disabilities may not exceed median salary of comparable school district administrators.
Clarifies that motor vehicle rental companies may recover, through a "vehicle registration recovery fee" separately stated in rental agreement, certain costs of doing business.
Establishes uniform lower contribution limits and requires greater disclosure of all campaign contributions received by candidates; repeals laws regulating campaign contributions by entities performing certain public contracts.
Exempts certain State authorities and local government contracting units from bidding requirements when goods and services are procured below prices available under State contract; modifies process for contracting through certain cooperative purchasing a
Requires four-year institutions of higher education to achieve a minimum 50% five-year graduation rate for full time students within five years.
Removes provision requiring application of certain changes State-negotiated to all participating employers and employees in SHBP and SEHBP.
Establishes penalties for willful and intentional violation of certain campaign reporting requirements.
Provides temporary property tax levy cap exclusion for certain increases in public safety personnel costs.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Concerns calculation of value for conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
Requires certain municipal, school and fire district elections occur on date of nonpartisan municipal elections.
Requires municipalities to file copies of tax abatement and exemption agreements with county chief financial officer and county counsel within 30 days of execution.
Requires municipalities to notify counties of traffic control signal monitoring systems within prescribed period of time.
Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.
Requires annual notice to local employers in PERS and PFRS include contribution rate and calculation for current year, preceding two years, and projection for subsequent two years.
Prohibits distribution of campaign materials at any facility owned, maintained, operated or leased by unit of local government.
Prohibits certain political activity by members and employees of local boards of education.
Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator.
Filed2
Establishes registry of offenders of individuals with developmental disabilities in DHS.
Prohibits soliciting of campaign contributions on any public property by elective public office candidates; prohibits persons from making contributions to such candidates on any public property.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Establishes new motorcycle safety provisions.
Authorizes director of board of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed actions of county authorities.
Requires certain conditions be met in order for school districts to provide their employees with tuition assistance for coursework or additional compensation upon acquisition of academic credits or completion of a degree program.
Extends time period for renewal of lapsed alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority Act." *
Restores eligibility of New Jersey Health ACCESS recipients for NJ FamilyCare effective August 1, 2011.
Prohibits soliciting of campaign contributions on any public property by elective public office candidates; prohibits persons from making contributions to such candidates on any public property.
Vetoed1
Allows municipalities adjacent to two or more municipalities having urban enterprise zones to qualify for NJ Redevelopment Authority financing assistance. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Provides an additional month for the completion of a school district's annual audit.
Disqualifies member of board of education or member of charter school board of trustees for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation. *
Requires State entities to purchase biofuels in place of fossil fuels when reasonable, prudent and cost effective. *
Permits bars and restaurants to serve alcohol at bingo games on premises.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the "American Red Cross-NJ Fund".
Eliminates separate presidential primary election; provides for delegates and alternates to political party national conventions to be elected at regular June primary election.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Vetoed · 2
Increases gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable year 2010.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Removes licensing requirement for recreational bingo games.
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) every seven years rather than every three years.
Out of committee · 9
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Creates the criminal offense of affinity fraud.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children. *
Provides corporation business tax incentives for life sciences research.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
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.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $10,250,780 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and 2007 Historic Preservation Fund to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $600,000 from "2009 Historic Preservation Fund" for associated administrative
In committee · 40
Establishes NJ FamilyCare coverage buy-in program for certain small employers.
Requires that automated external defibrillators be located on every floor of State House and State House Annex; requires training for State Police.
Requires certain arbitrators to file financial disclosure statements.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
Prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from serving on political party committees.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
Establishes Task Force on Public School Student Recess to study benefits of student recess and make recommendations on advisability of mandatory recess in school districts.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Changes statutory provisions regarding who may interpret and perform evoked potentials or nerve conduction studies.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Expands qualifications of county corrections officers; clarifies certain administrative and managerial policies of county correctional institutions.
Requires DHSS to authorize Jersey City to issue certified copies of birth certificates by December 31, 2010.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Requires certain State public employees and officers and members of Legislature to file financial disclosure statement with State Ethics commission or Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics.
Creates "Earn Your Way Out of Prison Into Supervision, Treatment, and Recovery Program."
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $7,453,000 for family planning services, and requires filing of State Plan Amendment to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to persons with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level.
Makes changes to manner in which State-administered retirement systems operate and to public employee pension benefits.
Limits insurance producer commissions to 1.5% of premium in any case in which insured is a board of education.
Permits establishment of county-wide purchasing system by county employing qualified purchasing agent and requires participation by all municipalities and school districts within the county.