Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Jon M. Bramnick
Sponsored
Out of committee4
Concerns priority of claims against certain insured tortfeasors as between insurer paying PIP benefits and injured party.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Extends alternate route police training certification from three to five years.
Establishes that certification for police training course lasts five years.
In committee48
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
"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.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
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.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for new motor vehicles with certain fuel efficiency.
"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.
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.
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.
Exempts from the gross income tax New Jersey lottery winnings from drawings before July 1, 2009.
Increases penalty for commercial drivers who use a hand-held telephone or electronic communication device while driving.
Requires police to provide crime victim with free police report.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Allows persons with conditional discharge to receive pretrial intervention as long as discharge did not occur in last five years.
Allows physicians to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions.
Eliminates minimum corporation business tax on New Jersey S corporations.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Allows jurors to designate donation of their jury duty fees to various charitable funds.
Concerns processing and payment of insurance claims for physical therapy services.
Permits certain holders of permits to carry a handgun to carry another licensee's handgun.
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Establishes "Blue Ribbon Panel to Review New Jersey's Driver License Suspension Laws."
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Establishes a municipal court conditional dismissal program for certain first-time offenders.
Makes unauthorized impersonation of another person a crime of the third degree.
Requires requestor to submit request for access to missing government record under certain circumstances.
Allows independent physical therapists to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions.
Upgrades penalties for illegal use of a hand-held cell phone while driving.
Clarifies right to access the judicial system in PIP benefit disputes.
Prohibits opening a motor vehicle door into oncoming traffic.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Concerns priority of claims against certain insured tortfeasors as between insurer paying PIP benefits and injured party.
Establishes that certification for police training course lasts five years.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
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. *
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Provides temporary reduction of annual cap on corporation business tax benefit certificate transfer program for certain technology and biotechnology companies and temporarily suspends certain tax credits for certain film and digital media content product
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Revises provisions of "Franchise Practices Act" relating to motor vehicle franchises.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Vetoed · 3
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides that subcontractors who furnish non-specialty trade work shall not be named in local public bid documents.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages. *
Prohibits application of certain temporary tattoos. *
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Regulates operation of sweepstakes in New Jersey.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means including electronic communications or Internet website shall be subject to criminal penalties.
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Out of committee · 22
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects and $1.371 million in 1992 bond act monies to fund State dam restoration projects. *
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Renames "New Jersey Trauma Center" at University Hospital as "Eric Munoz Trauma Center."
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain violent arrestees.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children. *
Consolidates functions of Office of the Inspector General and Office of the Medicaid Inspector General under Office of the State Comptroller.
Requires inmates be provided with medical discharge summary before release.*
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Establishes a long-term capacity agreement pilot program to promote construction of qualified electric generation facilities. *
Provides credit against ambulatory care facility assessment liability for value of unreimbursed care provided to hospital charity care patients.
"Pamela's law;" criminalizes possession and sale of mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, commonly known as "bath salts."*
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
Appropriates $39 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Appropriates $23 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes procedures for districts, municipalities, or voters to opt to move the annual school election to November and eliminates vote on school budgets for such districts, except for separate proposals to spend above cap.
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Bars solicitation of professional employment for 30 days after date of accident or disaster under certain circumstances.
In committee · 60
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Creates offenses pertaining to unauthorized use of confidential information.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Refines certain review and approval responsibilities under the "Municipal Land Use Law" and the "map filing law."
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
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.
Establishes motor vehicle registration for street rods and custom motor vehicles.
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."
Regulates sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Permits certain minors to consent to forensic care or treatment.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Establishes State Energy Council.
Establishes training wage.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
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.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers.
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Permits approval of certain regional contribution agreements through December 31, 2009.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
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
Revises process for the awarding of certain local public contracts.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Consolidates functions of Office of the Inspector General and Office of the Medicaid Inspector General under Office of the State Comptroller.
Provides temporary reduction of annual cap on corporation business tax benefit certificate transfer program for certain technology and biotechnology companies and temporarily suspends certain tax credits for film and digital media content production expe
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Establishes $100 to $500 fine for owner of animal which attacks, injures, or otherwise interferes with law enforcement animals, search and rescue dogs, or service dogs; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Permits a waiver for high-performing school districts from the State system for monitoring school districts.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Imposes surcharge on motor vehicle offenses to fund upgraded electronic systems for police vehicles.
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Permits direct shipping by wineries and creates Out-of-State Winery license.
Increases production limitations and revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries.
Clarifies that hospitals are not subject to PIP medical fee schedules.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.