Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Jay Webber
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.
Out of committee1
Designates State Highway Route 53 as "Alex DeCroce Memorial Highway."
In committee30
Provides for priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Prohibits legislative aide who works, or worked, directly for legislator in district office from making political contribution greater than $30 per election to that legislator; prohibits receipt of such contribution.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Allows residents of certain Highlands municipalities to designate on gross income tax returns that a portion of gross income tax paid be returned to municipality of residence.
Clarifies right of employers to require employees to speak English while engaged in work.
Caps noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions at $250,000.
Excludes overtime pay of certain employees from gross income tax.
"Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act in New Jersey."
Prohibits wrongful life/birth suits.
Establishes procedure for notification to, and review by, municipalities of certain grant and loan applications for acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Re-establishes 6.37 percent as top marginal gross income tax rate.
Places restrictions on unsolicited school budget communications sent by a board of education to school district residents 90 days prior to annual school election.
Authorizes the establishment of probationary periods for nontenured faculty members at State colleges.
"Medical Philanthropy Act"; provides physicians who provide uncompensated care with $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in actions alleging medical malpractice.
"Education Investment Act"; establishes an equity financing for education program at certain public institutions of higher education.
Amends State college law to allow boards of trustees to conduct collective bargaining.
Amends State college law to remove certain employees from civil service system.
Allows Governor to remove an executive county superintendent of schools at will.
Provides civil immunity to licensed health care professionals who provide care at health care facilities for no compensation.
Provides for the designation of new charter school authorizers and additional modifications of the charter school program.
"School Children First Act"; modifies evaluation of teachers and principals; revises tenure acquisition process and certain tenure charge procedures; establishes factors for determining compensation; requires mutual consent for teacher placement; and eli
Eliminates public school district budget reduction appeals to the Commissioner of Education.
"Home-Based Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing, or retailing activities.
Consolidates all categories of gross income for cross-claiming of net losses and allows 20 year loss carry forward under the New Jersey gross income tax; repeals alternate business income calculation.
Specifies failure to restrain a cat, dog, or other domestic companion animal while the animal is riding in a motor vehicle is not cruel or inhumane transport.
"School Children First Act"; establishes factors for determining compensation; requires principal consent for teacher placement; eliminates certain seniority rights.
Increases interest rate paid on certain overdue refunds of tax overpayments.
Restricts sale and use of remaining State-owned portion of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital property in Morris County.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates State Highway Route 53 as "Alex DeCroce Memorial Highway."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Alex DeCroce's Law; enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Reappropriates $3 million from "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to fund State flood control projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Authorizes the use of fraud prevention contractors by the Division of Taxation.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Allows nonpublic schools to participate in joint purchasing agreements entered into by two or more school districts.
Provides for temporary professional or occupational licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Requires disposition of remains of active duty service member of Armed Forces of United States pursuant to Department of Defense form completed by service member.*
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Clarifies that the "Uniform Electronic Transactions Act" applies to real estate transactions.
Provides limited exemption from development regulations to allow certain structures to be raised as high as the highest applicable flood elevation standard.**
Vetoed · 1
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Authorizes certain municipalities and rural electric cooperatives to establish a municipal shared services energy authority.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Provides "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" exemption for synthetic turf field construction by local government units.*
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Allows corporations to indemnify corporate agents without approval from board of directors.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the statute concerning issuing or passing bad checks.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Out of committee · 15
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
"Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Reporting Act."
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."*
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Requires school districts to allow charter school students, county vocational school students, and students receiving equivalent instruction elsewhere than at school to participate in interscholastic sports programs on resident district's sports teams.
Concerns voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support New Jersey athletes participating in 2014 Special Olympics USA Games.
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Creates exemption from certain MVC fees for prisoners of war.
Prohibits PANYNJ from imposing cargo facility charge in certain instances.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
In committee · 107
Concerns eligibility for unemployment insurance for certain seasonal workers.
Concerns repayment of unemployment insurance benefits obtained fraudulently.
Revises child pornography law.
Excuses students with conflicts of conscience from certain class requirements of public institutions of higher education.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Eliminates salary for part-time members of certain boards, commissions, and independent authorities.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Expands parity between certain State-chartered financial institutions, and permits interstate banking by such institutions through de novo branching or expanded authority to acquire existing branches or institutions.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Prohibits use of public funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Allows for exclusion of certain properties from Highlands preservation area.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility unit rate assessment surcharge.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Requires fire districts, school districts, and county governments to share in burden of property assessment appeal refunds.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave and deposits moneys from the "Family Temporary Disability Leave Account" into the unemployment compensation fund.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Permits school districts to withdraw from civil service system by referendum or adoption of board of education resolution.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Establishes public bidding and contracting procedures for Rutgers, the State University that mirror those in place for the State colleges.
Directs AG to enter into agreement with U.S. Attorney General to empower certain corrections officers to investigate immigration status of inmates.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway."
Bars certain employees of certain public agencies from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits for crossing guards.
Prohibits dual elective office holding and holding of elective office and public office or position.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund, dedicates $400,000 annually from certain power vessel operator license fees to the fund, and appropriates $400,000 for FY2012.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
"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.
Requires certain user fees for the provision of traditional municipal services to be included within the 2% municipal and county property tax levy cap.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Decreases BPU membership from five to three members.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Creates permissive inference of credit card theft in certain cases and requires restitution in certain cases.
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity.
Requires in-network hospitals to notify patients of out-of-network health care professionals who provide services in hospital.
Reduces gross income tax rates by 10 percent over three years.
Directs board of trustees of county college to post information on the compensation paid to college president on its website.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Excludes from gross income tax value of prizes or awards won in athletic competition in Olympic Games.
Prohibits the use of county and municipal vehicles by part-time elected local government officers.
Requires DEP to obtain legislative approval and authorization before increasing a fee or imposing a new fee, but retains DEP authority to use ordinary administrative procedure when decreasing a fee.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes committed during a state of emergency.
Prohibits multiple coverage for public employer health care benefits as employee, dependent, or retiree.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Prohibits municipalities from charging interest on unpaid property taxes for 30 days after payment is due following hurricane or other catastrophic weather event.
Authorizes use of electronic bidding by contracting units under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Provides certain immunities from spectator-based lawsuits arising from youth sports events.
Abolishes the State Real Estate Appraisers Board and transfers regulation of appraisers to the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Requires OLS to provide certain notices and reports to legislators and legislative staff by electronic means only.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires explanatory statement on ballot question for school district capital projects to include certain information.
Eliminates requirement that to participate in interdistrict public school choice program a student be enrolled for one year in a sending district and allows public and nonpublic school students to participate equally in program.
Permits four-year public institution of higher education to establish academic quality standards for the transfer of college credits earned by a student while the student was enrolled in high school.
Exempts from disclosure as public record personal identifying information provided to government agency for emergency notification purposes.
Provides that crime victims do not have to pay fees to obtain government records and that requests for records are not public information.
Criminalizes posting on Internet videotape of aggravated assault.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Extends validity of certain retired law enforcement officers handgun carry permits from one to two years.
Permits municipalities to enter into shared service agreement for tax assessment.
"Direct Tax Relief for New Jersey Families Act"; Establishes the New Jersey Direct Property Tax Relief Program; increases the renter's gross income tax credit for property taxes; and increases the earned income tax credit.
Provides for designation and training of certain law enforcement officers as human trafficking resource officers.
Allows courts to issue restraining orders prohibiting persons charged with certain firearms and gang related offenses from entering premises, locations, or areas where the offense occurred.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Concerns workers' compensation insurance requirements for certain corporations and partnerships.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Permits minors to engage in certain construction work for nonprofit organizations.
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Authorizes disclosure by DCF of child abuse and neglect information to religious institutions.
Requires transfer of certain incarceration records to DOLWD.
Authorizes issuance of duplicate firearms purchaser identification cards for change of address with certain proof.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the civil statute concerning issuing bad checks.
Exempts all transfers made to lineal relatives from the Transfer Inheritance Tax.
Requires sharing of incarceration information between government agencies; prohibits certain benefits program payments to incarcerated individuals.
Requires any State entity administering State or federal public benefit programs to verify recipient's personal information against death records to prevent payment to deceased individual.
Requires court to deny defendant's right to copy or reproduce images of child pornography as part of discovery.
Prohibits incarcerated individuals from receiving Medicaid, Work First New Jersey, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Prohibits use of certain technology for unauthorized electronic surveillance of cellular telephones and portable electronic devices.
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.
Provides that a school business administrator appointed by a school district after a certain date will not be eligible for tenure and may be dismissed pursuant to the terms of the employment contract.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Prohibits distribution of images and information produced by red light cameras.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit proposed tuition and fees for upcoming academic year to Secretary of Higher Education for review.
Concerns alternate methods of wage payment.
Requires access to law enforcement guidelines for processing firearms permit applications upon public records request.
Clarifies that handgun ammunition may be sold to retired law enforcement officers with certain identification.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Allows law enforcement agencies to utilize electronic signatures on police reports; requires Attorney General to adopt uniform guidelines.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric cancer research.