Bills in the 2020–2021 Session, General Assembly.
Sean T. Kean
Sponsored
In committee42
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Requires DEP to establish artificial reef plan for commercial and recreational fishing.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits for certain seasonal employees.
Establishes restrictions and requirements for use of fishing gear and conch, fishing, and lobster pots on artificial reefs.
Exempts sales of county property from certain requirements under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $10 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Requires electric public utilities to implement flood mitigation plans for certain electric distribution substations; prohibits rate increase pending implementation of flood mitigation plans.
Disqualifies person named on federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining firearms identification card or permit to purchase handgun.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Requires certain health benefits coverage for diagnosing and treating autism and other developmental disabilities.
Prohibits conflict of interests by governing board members or management employees of homeowners' associations.
Prohibits person appointed as arbitrator who subsequently serves as mediator from resuming the role of arbitrator unless the parties agree.
"Drew's Law"; establishes 15 miles per hour speed limit in or near certain public parks.
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
Permits modification of alimony award based on cohabitation of supported spouse.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
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.
Exempts judges and justices from jury duty.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2.125 million to Howell Township in Monmouth County for drinking water infrastructure project.
"P.I.C.K. Awareness Act"; authorizes issuance of special support recovery license plates.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on water safety as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Bars custody of and visitation rights to child for a person convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child under age 13.
Allows law enforcement officer to immediately impound motor vehicle operated by uninsured driver.
Requires provision of parking spaces reserved exclusively for persons unable to ambulate without aid of wheelchair in certain parking facilities.
Permits demonstration county to terminate its participation in the "Real Property Assessment Demonstration Program."
Directs COAH to adopt regulations to require municipalities to prioritize current residents in affordable housing applications.
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.
Designates Earth Day week each year as Litter Law Enforcement Week for special effort to enforce littering laws.
Provides tax levy growth limitation adjustment for school districts experiencing reduction in State aid.
Permits cardiologist to bear full legal and medical responsibility for medical treatment of patient within ambulatory care facility irrespective of whether cardiologist is physician who treats patient within ambulatory care facility.
Establishes affirmative defense to liability for licensed alcoholic beverage servers.
Allows consideration of purchased PERS credit for federal service abroad in Central Intelligence Agency to qualify for employer-provided health care benefits in retirement.
Establishes Office of Tourism Research; requires specific measures concerning tourism advertising, marketing, research, and tourism-related business training.
Establishes certain protocols for prescribing and dispensing benzodiazepine.
Enables municipality to allow newly elected member of municipal governing body to participate in meeting where public is excluded.
Requires written notification to parent or guardian of underage person who unlawfully purchases or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis; repeals police liability for law enforcement encounters with underage persons under certain circumstances.
Provides gross income tax credits to taxpayer who purchase certain low-speed electric bicycles.
Delays prosecution of law enforcement officers for crime of official deprivation of civil rights related to underage possession or use of cannabis or alcohol for one year.
Clarifies circumstances under which licensed private detectives gain access to personal information stored with New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
"Daniel's Law" prohibits disclosure of certain personal information of active, formely active, and retired judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and their family members; establishes crime and civil action for disclosing such infor
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Designates 9-1-1 operators or dispatchers as 9-1-1 first responder dispatchers.
Concerns delivery and sale of alcoholic beverages during declared state of emergency; requires ABC director to notify licensees of certain tax exemptions during emergency.**
Permits volunteer paramedics to operate within mobile intensive care units.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes NJ Hospitality Emergency Loan Program in EDA to provide no-interest loans to qualified small hospitality businesses; makes $100 million appropriation to EDA from federal funds for qualified small business assistance.***
Out of committee · 9
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Reopens Workers Compensation Judges Part of PERS and requires Workers' Compensation Judges to be enrolled in PERS. *
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Provides assistance to manufacturing businesses by having certain State agencies promote economic development and identify credentials needed for careers in modern manufacturing.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Supports activities of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2021.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of implementation of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.
In committee · 72
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from tax levy and appropriation cap, as applicable, for municipalities and counties.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Requires school district that includes grades kindergarten through six to offer Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potenial eligibilty.
Extends certain civil service and tuition benefits to family members of servicemembers who died while in service.
Establishes Children's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Provides for identification and study of infant fatalities and near fatalities resulting from vaccination; requires inclusion of vaccination information in sudden infant death reports; and requires use of federal infant death reporting form.
Provides for municipal review and submission of report opposing amendment to solid waste management plan; requires hearing and consideration by solid waste advisory council.
Allows school district to develop delayed building evacuation plan to investigate source of fire alarm activation prior to evacuation.
Requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for leaving scene of accident resulting in serious bodily injury.
Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.
Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fee for children ages 12 to 17; revises law concerning beach fees for veterans.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Provides that amounts remaining in inactive Internet gaming accounts will be abandoned property after three years under unclaimed property law.
"Stop Social Media Censorship Act"; creates private right of action for users of social media websites whose political or religious speech has been deleted or censored by social media websites.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes and sale or distribution of flavored electronic smoking devices and related products.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by all public employees for health care benefits.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Requires young children entering public schools or Head Start Programs for first time to have comprehensive eye examination completed.
Establishes publicly accessible Internet registry of offenders who cause bodily harm, or property theft or damage, against disabled persons, senior citizens, or veterans.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Provides gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Revises test for employment or independent contractor status under certain State labor laws.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Allows deduction from New Jersey gross income of certain capital gains from sale or exchange of New Jersey qualified small business stock held for more than five years.
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.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Requires DCA to collect information about State residents seeking affordable housing in State and provide that information to COAH.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Authorizes municipal challenge to non-redevelopment housing projects ordered by COAH unless order is based on exclusionary zoning; excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis; provides housing obligation cap.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to issue annual report on public contracts awarded to women-owned and minority-owned businesses; requires Division of Revenue to operate Selective Assistance Vendor Information (SAVI) database.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Provides for advocate in criminal cases concerning welfare or care of animal.
Requires at least one member of BPU to reside in either Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, or Ocean County.
Establishes assistance program to assist landlord of one- and two-family dwellings during COVID-19 pandemic; appropriates $50 million.
Establishes municipal liability for gross negligence in failing to protect person and property during riots.
Prohibits State aid and grants to municipalities that reduce law enforcement budgets by certain amount.
Broadens offense of riot and disorderly conduct; enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.
Increases from $750 to $3,000 annual State payment made to certain veterans and their surviving spouses.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Provides that if minor under age 18 unlawfully buys or possesses alcoholic beverages or cannabis and receives written warning from law enforcement, the minor's parent or guardian would be notified in writing.
Prohibits discrimination against individuals who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Filed · 1
Creates monetary penalty for violating social mitigation strategy of barring or limiting social gatherings, implemented pursuant to "Emergency Health Powers Act," or government order issued pursuant to act, during declared public health emergency under ac