Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Robert W. Singer
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes bill of rights for continuing care retirement community residents.
Vetoed1
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
Passed the Senate2
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to convene a strategic planning summit to analyze the State's physician workforce supply.
Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.
Out of committee3
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
Concerns penalties for illegally passing school bus.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.*
In committee51
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Enhances penalties for provisional driver's license holders.
Increases penalties for underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Requires that victims of sex offense be informed of offender's risk of re-offense upon release.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Permits State aid to fund start-up costs for local shared services projects.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Prohibits the employment of unauthorized aliens and requires employers to use E-Verify program.
Creates non-State funded dispute resolution program for common interest community associations.
Requires physician practices that provide intravenous therapies in medical office to register with DHSS.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes the "Study Commission on the Cost-Effectiveness of Contracting with Nonprofit Organizations."
Requires cemeteries to implement woodchuck management strategies.
Requires certain health care facilities and operators of certain transient dwellings to maintain agreements for bedbug eradication services.
Requires persons who transport, store, or sell secondhand mattresses to encase mattresses with protective materials.
Concerns the registration of persons convicted of arson related crimes.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Increases the penalty for hindering the apprehension or prosecution of an offender.
Authorizes planned developments for hospitals and higher educational facilities.
Prohibits board of education or local governing body from providing health insurance to employees who work less than 35 hours a week
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires HIV tests for certain convicted sex offenders.
Provides that videotaping of aggravated assault is a third degree crime.
Requires public and nonpublic schools, municipal and county recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and youth camps to utilize Preparticipation Physical Evaluation Form developed by certain medical professionals prior to child participation
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Appropriates $10 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Directs DEP and Monmouth County to form study commission to examine nonpoint source pollution and stormwater management issues in Wreck Pond Watershed.
Permits the purchase of small employer health benefits plans by certain self-employed persons.
Directs BPU to adopt best practices and standards for public utility disaster response.
Permits certain public and private entities to qualify for BPU grants or low interest loans for cost of alternative power generation devices.
Requires electric public utilities to repair or install street lights within certain time periods after municipal notification.
Permits municipality to use proceeds of beach access fees for areas near beach facilities that are significantly affected by beach tourism; requires municipality to provide explanation of expenditures on website.
Requires electric public utilities to implement flood mitigation plans for certain electric distribution substations; prohibits rate increase pending implementation of flood mitigation plans.
Requires electric public utilities to file with BPU and implement distribution infrastructure protection plans; prohibits rate increase pending implementation of plans.
Establishes penalty for failing to report unintentional discharge of firearm in private residence.
Concerns energy efficiency and renewable energy requirements.
Permits school board members to circulate nominating petitions jointly and be bracketed together at annual school election.
Authorizes disclosure by DCF of child abuse and neglect information to religious institutions.
Establishes Controlled Dangerous Substances Law Enforcement Coordinating Task Force.
Exempts sales of county property from certain requirements under certain circumstances.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Requires prescribers and pharmacists to check prescription monitoring program prior to prescribing and dispensing Schedule II drugs.
Allows adopted person or other authorized requester access to original birth certificate under certain circumstances.
Authorizes county prosecutor to issue rewards to persons who provide information leading to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of persons who have committed certain drug offenses.
Requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in grades preschool through 12 as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Establishes "New Jersey Yellow Dot Program" in MVC.*
Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Allows SPRS members to purchase SPRS credit for prior military service.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction 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.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Eliminates requirement that a full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.**
Vetoed · 2
Requires physicians to complete survey as condition for biennial registration with Board of Medical Examiners and requires board to maintain and disseminate survey data as appropriate.*
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.*
Passed the Senate · 3
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Limits homeowners' association regulation of structures reasonably necessary or convenient for the accommodation or therapy of physically disabled persons.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Out of committee · 19
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month."
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Prohibits minors under 14 years of age from using spay tanning in tanning facilities and prohibits minors under 17 years of age from using tanning beds.**
Prohibits law enforcement agency from conducting certain checkpoints and inspections limited only to motorcycles.*
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Extends time municipalities have to commit fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units to six years.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."*
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Appropriates $4,083,320 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Permits pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to children seven years of age or older.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Removes statutory authority of DOH and Board of Medical Examiners over medical standards governing declarations of death upon the basis of neurological criteria.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
In committee · 30
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights Program Act."
Provides for continuity of religious upbringing, to the maximum extent practicable, for children placed into resource family homes.
Requires certain commissions to maintain meeting minutes; establishes Governor's authority to approve or veto the minutes of those commissions.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians and dentists in first seven taxable years of practice in NJ.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
The "Wildlife Rehabilitation Act"; establishes Wildlife Rehabilitation Board and continuing education requirements and permit program for wildlife rehabilitators.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Prohibits surrogacy agreements; establishes standards for determining custody of children resulting from such agreements.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Revises alimony laws, including eliminating permanent alimony and establishing guidelines for amount and duration of alimony awards.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at a four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Restricts coverage of opioid drugs under workers' compensation system and personal injury protection coverage under automobile insurance.