Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Jon M. Bramnick
Sponsored
Became law1
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.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Out of committee1
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
In committee43
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
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.
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.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Creates the "Local Unit Audit Teams" program in the Department of the Treasury.
Authorizes members of the New Jersey State Legislature to solemnize marriages and civil unions.
Provides for public comment period at certain sessions of each house of the Legislature.
Allows physicians to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions.
Eliminates minimum corporation business tax on New Jersey S corporations.
Allows jurors to designate donation of their jury duty fees to various charitable funds.
Permits certain holders of permits to carry a handgun to carry another licensee's handgun.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Permits boards of education to convey certain school property to nonprofit senior citizen organizations for nominal consideration.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain donated vehicles.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Makes all persons convicted of sexual assault subject to the No Early Release Act; specifies that any use of force elevates sexual assault to aggravated sexual assault.
Increases maximum penalty for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in certain cases.
Prohibits information from certain medical malpractice claims from being used by employers or medical malpractice insurers.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
"Vader's Law"; revises law to enhance penalty for injuring or harming certain dogs.
Establishes threats of violence against prosecutors, law enforcement officers and their family members as a second degree crime, subject to the No Early Release Act sentencing.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Clarifies procedure for municipalities sharing police patrol responsibilities.
Prohibits soliciting or phishing for personal identifying information.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Requires State, local, and school appointed and certain elected officials to report behavior that may violate criminal laws or ethics statutes.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a private citizen to use a tracking device to track another person without that person's consent.
Establishes information sharing protocols in DLPS and promotes public awareness concerning computer crime.
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to study impact of State business income taxes on business out-migration, business formation, and employment.
Clarifies circumstances in which school board member may participate in volunteer activities.
Clarifies law on ethical conduct of board of education members and school administrators and provides requirements for boards invoking doctrine of necessity.
Provides that Commissioner of Education rather than school districts will be responsible for implementation of nonpublic textbook and nursing services programs.
Eliminates provision in bias intimidation statute concerning victim's perception of defendant's purpose; replaces provision with language concerning a "reasonable" victim.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Provides that crime victims do not have to pay fees to obtain records relating to the crime and that requests for such records are not public information.*
Dedesignates portions of Route 24.
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008." *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 1
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.**
Out of committee · 10
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, sheriff's officers, EMS workers, and firefighters; designated as "Patrolman Joseph Wargo's Law.**
Establishes compensation limits for licensed public adjusters during certain emergencies.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain contributions to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) program.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Prohibits insurers from setting prices for non-covered dental services.
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Requires Medicaid managed care organizations to meet certain conditions prior to reducing reimbursement rates for personal care assistant services and home-based supportive care services.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
In committee · 60
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Requires managed care plans to disclose allowed amounts for out-of-network health care services under certain circumstances.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires court to consider gang affiliation when making bail determinations.
Authorizes municipality to deliver property tax bills, construction permits, and receipts for payment via e-mail.
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Phases out the transfer inheritance tax over two years.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
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 $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Imposes surcharge on motor vehicle offenses to fund upgraded electronic systems for police vehicles.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities and counties to implement municipal consolidation, the sharing of services, and the creation of a joint meeting under certain circumstances.
Provides for disclosure of person's medical records related to AIDS or HIV infection for investigations or prosecutions of crime of diseased person committing act of sexual penetration; makes crime ineligible for expungment.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Clarifies "knockout game" assault as third-degree aggravated assault; provides mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for such assault.
Establishes special license plates supporting American Red Cross.
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Establishes training wage.
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Makes it unlawful for a private citizen to record a communication unless all parties to the communication have previously consented.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Provides credit against ambulatory care facility assessment liability for value of unreimbursed care provided to hospital charity care patients.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Provides extended validity to wastewater service area designations and sewer service area designations, and revises certain aspects of wastewater management planning process.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children; appropriates $1,500,000 to Treasury.
Increases statute of limitations for prosecution of theft of firearm.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Requires insurers writing homeowners insurance policies in the State to offer certain coverage for heating oil tanks.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Prohibits plea bargaining for certain repeat criminal offenders.
Implements constitutional amendment providing for pretrial detention of certain criminal defendants.
Provides county vocational school districts with the authority to name themselves in a manner that more accurately reflects their mission.
Establishes Partners for Growth Council in DOLWD.
Requires State arts, historical, and cultural grant recipients to offer information on food and lodging in vicinity of event funded.
Establishes publicly accessible Internet registry of offenders who cause bodily harm, or property theft or damage, against disabled persons, senior citizens, or veterans.
Requires EDA and Dept. of State to encourage businesses considering relocation to locate within chronically high unemployment region.
Requires individuals to upload employment resume on Internet website upon filing claim for unemployment insurance benefits.
Increases amount of, and income limit for eligibility to receive, senior citizens' and disabled persons' property tax deduction.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Revises penalty provision of law concerning prohibition of certain unsolicited text messages.
Links police and fire interest arbitration base salary cap to property tax levy; makes cap permanent.
Requires law enforcement be notified of application to expunge mental commitment record.