Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Jon M. Bramnick
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Regulates the placing or posting of certain commercial advertisements on public or private property.
Out of committee2
Reforms the review, processing, and payment of certain private passenger automobile insurance personal injury protection claims.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism. *
In committee56
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Eliminates exception allowing supplier to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
Requires traffic to stop for senior citizen transportation vehicles with certain equipment.
Requires public schools to weight courses in visual and performing arts equally with other courses worth same number of credits in calculating grade point average.
Directs the Office of the Attorney General to develop fee schedule for discovery in municipal court; imposes limit on fees charged for discovery in certain cases.
Provides that limitation on lawsuit option does not apply in accident caused by drunk driver.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Establishes campaign advertising ethics committee; imposes penalties for making false, deceptive, misleading or fraudulent statements about candidates for public office.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Requires restaurants to carry minimum amount of commercial general liability insurance.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Requires attorneys engaged in the private practice of law to maintain malpractice insurance coverage.
Allows person calling certain State or local government entities to have option of speaking or leaving a recorded message with a human telephone operator during normal business hours.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions.
Requires notice prior to cancellation or nonrenewal of health benefits plans under certain circumstances.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Eliminates membership in the legislative part of PERS for future members of the Legislature.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to adopt a Code Adam program.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Provides budget cap adjustments and transfer authority for school districts which receive certain dissolution payments.
Exempts certain charges for postage in distribution of direct mail processing services from sales and use tax.
Provides exemption from UI taxes for certain retirees.
"Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Establishes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for assaulting a public or nonpublic school teacher.
Establishes a post release period of parole supervision for inmates who "max-out."
Requires prosecutors to verify with federal authorities the immigration status of persons charged with certain offenses.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Requires ballot question on approval of State bond issue to disclose total amount of debt of State or other entity, debt service on which is funded through annual State appropriation.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for new motor vehicles with certain fuel efficiency.
The "New Jersey Senior Citizen Taxpayer Reverse Mortgage Program."
Creates the "Local Unit Audit Teams" program in the Department of the Treasury.
Eliminates provision that permits current members of Legislature who hold more than one elective public office on February 1, 2008 to continue to do so if service is continuous.
Requires health insurance coverage for anesthesiology services in connection with outpatient diagnostic screenings, including colonoscopies.
Establishes a mandatory six-month period of post-release supervision for all State inmates.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Allows a gross income tax credit for the incremental cost of an alternative fuel vehicle.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Concerns priority of claims against certain insured tortfeasors as between insurer paying PIP benefits and injured party.
Allows credit against corporation business tax or gross income tax for 50% of cost of constructing facilities for sale of certain alternate fuels.
Increases statute of limitations for violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)."
Provides Bureau of Securities with certain authority concerning variable annuities.
Provides bureau chief with explicit authority to assess civil penalties for certain violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)."
Establishes Educational Security Task Force.
Authorizes members of the New Jersey State Legislature to solemnize marriages and civil unions.
Requires graduated driver licensees who plead guilty to non-point violations to complete driver safety course.
Provides for public comment period at certain sessions of each house of the Legislature.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Concerns chiropractic scope of practice.*
Removes maximum price limitation for sale of certain tickets of admission to places of entertainment.
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Grants immunity to certain underage persons for unlawful possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Clarifies that certain transfers of handguns are not subject to law prohibiting purchase of more than one handgun in a 30-day period.
Passed the General Assembly · 9
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008." *
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. *
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Provides exemption from 3-day cancellation provision of home improvement contract in case of bona fide emergency.
Prohibits application of certain temporary "black" or "blue" henna tattoos.
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts. *
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Prohibits the use of simulated government documents in advertising.
Out of committee · 22
Expands State law enforcement powers of United States Park Police.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Regulates impoundment of shopping carts.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page.
Regulates sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels. *
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
Authorizes each municipality that shares courtroom facilities with one or more municipalities to appoint a judge and an administrator. *
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. *
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation. *
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Appropriates $54,917,725 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Requires scrap metal dealers to maintain certain records regarding purchases. *
Permits eligible claimant who is proportionate owner paying entire property tax bill to collect entire homestead property tax reimbursement amount.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers. *
Concerns franchisors' assignment of interest relating to franchisees engaged in the retail sale of motor fuel.
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $120,123,420 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $19,919,700 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,557,201 from various historic preservation funds to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $574,805 from certain historic preservation bond funds for associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
In committee · 64
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Makes it an unlawful practice to apply temporary "black henna" tattoos without first notifying consumer of possible adverse reactions.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Regulates operation of sweepstakes in New Jersey.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Prohibits certain elected officials and appointed officers from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Recognizes co-fired biomass energy as method to meet renewable energy portfolio standards.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Revises child pornography law.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Requires DOT to create map showing refueling facilities where alternative fuel is dispensed.
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission," appropriates $95,000.
Creates offenses pertaining to unauthorized use of confidential information.
Requires corrections officers be notified when inmates test positive for certain communicable diseases.
Caps bond counsel legal fees and costs on public issuers' bond transactions and requires a competitive selection process for retaining bond counsel.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Requires scrap metal dealers to maintain certain records regarding purchases.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for costs of electric power infrastructure for use by heavy duty vehicles to reduce idling times.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Establishes State Energy Council.
Establishes additional penalties for violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)" involving senior citizens.
Provides treble damages for violation of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)."
Removes exemption from registration requirements for certain investment adviders.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Refines review and approval responsibilities within the "Municipal Land Use Law" and the "map filing law."
Delays implementation of paid family leave for one year.
Establishes training wage.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits approval of certain regional contribution agreements through December 31, 2009.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Disqualifies member of board of education for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.