Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Cleopatra G. Tucker
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
In committee4
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Requires applicants for liquor licenses and license transfers to notify residents within 200 feet of licensed premises.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Authorizes parent or guardian to request use of individualized health care plan for student with diabetes and provides for the emergency administration of glucagon for certain students. *
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 eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Enacts "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children."
Permits municipalities to set strict absentee policies for service on authorities, boards, and commissions.
Increases EDA bonding limit for State share of school facilities projects; specifies debt service for these bonds will first be payable from revenues received from gross income tax; establishes priority categories for non-SDA district projects. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Commission on Higher Education to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Appropriates $12,500,000 from Long Term Obligation and Capital Expenditure Fund and $51,471,000 in federal funds for housing related purposes.
Increases penalties for the crime of jury tampering.
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. **
Establishes "Women and Families Strengthening Act."
Provides for programs and services for inmates and formerly incarcerated persons; and institutes certain administrative procedures. *
Concerns parole eligibility and supervision, prison visitation, and training and education standards for incarcerated persons.
Requires member of New Jersey National Guard to apply for tuition benefits under Post-911 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to qualify for tuition-free enrollment at public institutions of higher education. *
Establishes New Jersey Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force.
Passed the General Assembly · 14
Requires certain public utilities to notify an appropriate law enforcement officer of service shutoffs to multi-family housing unit customers or any other residential customers under certain circumstances.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Requires DCF to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Changes membership requirements of the Veterans' Services Council.
Chloe and Samantha's Law; requires notice to consumers of availability of products to prevent tip-over accidents involving certain furniture or televisions.
Requires ATM operators to disclose balance inquiry fees.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Expands membership of Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment.
Permits sheriffs, local police, and county corrections facilities to hire certain laid off officers without utilizing certain Civil Service lists. *
Allows DMVA to fundraise for handicap accessible vehicle purchase.
Out of committee · 33
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT. *
Provides for allocation of $25 million from available balances from societal benefits charge revenues for utility assistance grants for qualified households. **
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
"New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act." *
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Grants $250,000 military death benefit to survivors of New Jersey National Guard members killed on active duty; makes appropriation.
Authorizes State Treasurer to provide group life insurance coverage for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Excludes certain military compensation for combat zone duty, qualified hazardous duty and duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger of New Jersey military personnel from gross income tax.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Uphold Democracy."
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
The "New Jersey Homeownership Preservation Act."
Clarifies that certain sports and entertainment projects are an essential public and governmental use and purpose and exempt from property taxation.
Authorizes special Gold Star Parent motor vehicle plates for parents of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Prohibits employment and licensing background checks to go back further than seven years under certain circumstances.
Requires staff members of adoption agencies to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose and securitize a motor vehicle rental tax funding certain redevelopment activities, and to impose parking and ticket surcharges at certain facilities to fund senior and youth health and recreation purposes. **
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities. *
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Establishes a one-year pilot program to assist separating service members pursue higher education goals.
Permanently designates February "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs. *
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Establishes Criminal Sentencing Commission to study and review the criminal law and recommend revisions; repeals existing commissions. *
"Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act;" creates Mortgage Stabilization Program and Housing Assistance and Recovery Program; imposes additional requirements on lender foreclosing mortgage; appropriates $40 million from "Long Term Obligation and Capital E
Establishes procedure to insure inmates with military service receive all the veteran benefits to which they are entitled upon release.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Requires residential mortgage lenders to provide debtors with certain information about curing default prior to initiation of mortgage foreclosure action.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Modifies laws concerning inmate income and complaints; creates uniform identification cards for attorneys to enter State correctional facilities. *
In committee · 43
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires DYFS to take certain actions to ensure caseworker safety.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
"New Jersey G.I. Bill"; provides higher education benefits to New Jersey veterans.
Permits exemption from mandatory immunization for students in writing for any reason.
Establishes division in Department of Treasury to oversee and enforce equal employment opportunity requirements with regard to public works contracts.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Provides support for obstetric services by certain health care facilities.
Requires study of availability of certain health care services by independent entity.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to prepare and distribute informational booklet about sickle cell anemia; appropriates $95,000.
Lowers maximum interest rate that municipalities can charge on first $1500 of unpaid municipal taxes, assessments, liens or other charges.
Establishes the "Healthy New Jersey Labor-Management" demonstration program.
Creates tax exemption for public parks and recreational facilities owned, maintained, or operated by joint municipal recreation commission.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
"The Muhammad Ali/Rocky Marciano Boxing Reform Act"; enhances regulation of boxing.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Provides certain requirements for donation container solicitations by charities.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Provides for registration and regulation of athlete agents.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Extends eligibility for certain benefits to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Authorizes special Alpha Kappa Alpha license plate.
Transfers Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to DHS.
Establishes an urban job training and resource center for certain women.
Expands eligibility under "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
Permits counties, municipalities, and school districts to issue bonds to pay a portion of PERS and PFRS liability and other purposes under certain conditions for up to three budget years.
Requires Secretary of State to provide voter registration forms to newly naturalized citizens.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Disqualifies member of board of education for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Praying Mantis."
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.