Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Eliana Pintor Marin
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires insurance producer licensing examination and registration materials to be offered in English and Spanish, and examination instructional materials to be available in Spanish.
Makes certain changes to Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Vetoed2
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental appropriations of $6,500,000 and adds language provision.
Passed the General Assembly1
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking.
Out of committee6
Extends deadline for developer to submit temporary certificate of occupancy for an Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program qualified residential project.
Requires State to use certain energy-efficient outdoor lighting fixtures.
"Port Support Zone Act of 2015."
Permits municipal redevelopers to receive tax credits under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program for certain mixed use parking projects.*
Requires that school district's request for permission to use unrecognized position title include list of abolished positions and positions in which there have been layoffs and detailed job descriptions for them.
Delays certain documentation submission deadlines under certain business tax credit programs.*
In committee5
Requires every State contract to establish fixed price for purchase of goods or services under contract.
Authorizes executive county superintendent of schools to require implementation of shared services arrangements.
Authorizes water supply public-private partnerships.
Requires registration, inspection, testing, cleaning, and disinfection of cooling towers to control outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease.
Requires State to reimburse counties for portion of holiday pay to county employees performing State services on certain holidays.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Permits municipal redevelopers to receive tax credits under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program for certain mixed use parking projects.**
Delays certain documentation submission deadlines under certain business tax credit programs.*
Vetoed1
Requires that school district's request for permission to use unrecognized position title include list of abolished positions and positions in which there have been layoffs and detailed job descriptions for them.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Eliminates DOT approval of municipal traffic calming measures in business districts.
Requires school business administrator to annually report to board of education on district contracts.*
Permits child whose parent or guardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in school district where child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Exempts certain offers and sales of securities from registration.*
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Authorizes snow removal from covered fire hydrants and locator pole installation.*
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
Establishes the Task Force on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in DOH.
Increases and modernizes solvency requirements for certain insurers and authority of DOBI Commissioner to regulate insurer solvency.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Permits Newark to use rental car tax proceeds over three-year period to help reduce its "cash deficit for preceding year" appropriation and operational deficit.
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for women veterans.*
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008." *
Requires BPU to provide links to pricing information to customers from electric and gas public utilities, and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.*
Requires BPU to establish procedures allowing electric power and gas supplier customers to switch energy suppliers.
Imposes contract standards between customers and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.
Permits correctional facilities to utilize body imaging scanning equipment.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act"; provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans and certain family members living in New Jersey.
Requires DOC to make reports containing information concerning treatment and reentry initiative participation; requires AOC to establish program that collects recidivism data and make reports concerning adults sentenced to period of probation.*
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.*
Vetoed · 13
Allows municipalities to designate redevelopment entities and certain non-profits to act as land bank entities.*
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Realigning the transfer inheritance tax payment due date to coincide with the payment due dates for State and federal estate taxes.
Authorizes municipalities to facilitate private financing of water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects through use of voluntary special assessments.*
Requires development of fact sheet about bedbugs to be posted on the Department of Education's website.
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.**
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Increases tax credit cap by $165 million for certain qualified residential projects under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program and restricts increase to certain projects.**
Passed the General Assembly · 33
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."*
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of certain individuals with developmental disabilities to new residential placements until certain conditions are met. *
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Requires report and public hearing prior to DEP recommendation of site for inclusion on Superfund list.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Directs Attorney General to develop plan to disseminate Amber and Silver Alert information through social media.
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Establishes "Task Force To Review Residential Community Release Programs" to review this State's halfway houses and make recommendations concerning security and inmate services.
Requires State to offer surplus State Police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.
Allows parent, guardian, or adult student to prevent disclosure of student information to certain entities.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish a communication and incentive plan to encourage re-enrollment in college; requires Statewide reverse transfer agreement.
Requires independent colleges report certain consumer information on their websites; requires information on remedial instruction to be provided by certain colleges; directs how remedial education is delivered at four-year public and independent colleges.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Requires certain undergraduate students to file degree plan and requires public institutions of higher education to develop pathway systems to graduation.
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Requires school districts and charter schools to annually provide to parents or guardians of enrolled students information on certain tests to be administered during the school year.
Enhances opportunities for qualified residential projects under the Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program.
Requires certain sanitation procedures for mattresses and product labeling regarding such procedures.
Requires persons who transport, store, or sell secondhand mattresses to encase mattresses with protective materials.
Requires written contract between customers and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.
Expands definition of "acquisition," for purposes of county and municipal open space trust funds, to include demolition, removal of debris, and restoration of lands being acquired.
Requires local governments and authorities to obtain financing cost estimate from NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust for certain projects; revises bond maturities and sale of bonds by NJ Enviromental Infrastructure Trust.*
Provides for notification of next-of-kin in event of death of senior citizen in senior housing facility.*
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Requires DHS to ensure that expedited benefits under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are made available to certain households.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Extends urban enterprise zone designation in all qualifying municipalities for additional 10 years. *
Requires Commissioner of Education to declare educational state of emergency for certain districts with low proficiency rates in language arts and literacy and provides for corrective measures.
Out of committee · 22
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning electronic communications between employees and students.
Establishes procedures for the approval of the closure of a public school.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.*
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.***
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Permits school district to request and receive from MVC name and address of student's parent or guardian to verify student's eligibility for enrollment in school district. *
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
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 Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Concerns street light outage reporting.
Concerns the recording of mortgages.
Requires Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos; prohibits waiver of licensing requirements.
Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain enviromental purposes; revises States's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.**
Permits municipal land banking in conjunction with online property database development.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act."*
Revises certain requirements concerning provision of emergency medical services.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Maintains property tax exemption for certain nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contributi
In committee · 15
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
The "Green Building and Infrastructure Tax Credit Act"; provides tax credits for certain green buildings and wood utility poles.
Creates New Jersey Innovation Council Program.
Requires DOH to establish minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for hospitals.
Requires that if a school district satisfies 80% or more of the required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, the State must return that area to local control.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Establishes red light camera program in DOT; requires one-half of red light camera ticket revenue be used to improve highway traffic safety.
Directs the Department of Corrections to advise new inmates of child support obligations and modification procedures.
Requires casino licensee to apply every five years for casino license renewal.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Social Studies.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for open space, farmland and historic preservation purposes.
Applies local public contract bid threshold amounts to local pay to play and prevailing wage laws.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Filed · 1
Requires comparable level of services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements and for placements to be located within 30 miles of closed centers.