Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Paul A. Sarlo
Sponsored
Became law9
Creates sporting facility license governing sale of alcoholic beverages under certain circumstances.*
Designates State Highway Route No. 71 bridge between Borough of Belmar and Borough of Avon-by-the-Sea as "Robert A. Briant, Sr. Memorial Bridge."
Adjusts the FY2014 budget by making supplemental appropriations totaling $33,348,000 and modifying language provisions.
Appropriates $32,537,765,000 in State funds and $15,013,691,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.*
Appropriates $33,785,208,000 in State funds and $17,323,048,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2015-2016. *
Eliminates consumer data collection requirements for certain gift cards.
Reinserts in FY 2015 Appropriations Act language that was omitted due to a technical problem.
Makes fiscal year 2015 State supplemental appropriations, reduces State appropriations and amends language provisions.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
Vetoed3
Adds to property tax levy cap exclusions increases in flood insurance premiums.
Amends Fiscal Year 2015 budget to provide one-half of certain environmental damage amounts recovered are appropriated for costs of remediation, restoration, and clean up.
Establishes pilot program in Paterson authorizing non-disclosure of records of certain expungements.
Passed the Senate4
The "Adopt a Stormwater Management Basin Act."
Reinstates transportation planning district for Meadowlands District.
Expands cities permitted to regulate days and hours when packaged goods may be sold.
Criminalizes using drones to conduct surveillance of or fly over critical infrastructures; requires certain drones to be registered and insured.
Out of committee12
The "Green Building and Infrastructure Tax Credit Act"; provides tax credits for certain green buildings and wood utility poles.*
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
"Water Infrastructure Protection Act."
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Concerns certain tobacco sales.
"Hackensack Meadowlands Agency Consolidation Act"; "Hackensack Meadowlands Transportation Planning District Act of 2014"; "New Jersey Meadowlands Tax Relief Act."
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
Allows board of education to award pupil transportation contracts that exceed bid threshold through request for proposals.
Authorizes operation of lottery courier services.
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.
Allows certain businesses to qualify as mega projects under the "Grow New Jersey Assistance Act."
Permits newly created regional school districts or enlarging regional school districts to determine apportionment methodology for their boards of education on basis other than population.
In committee46
Creates a Business Court.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
Increases penalties for counterfeiting if the offense creates risk of bodily injury, serious bodily injury or death; creates new offense within Criminal Code of counterfeiting products related to health.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.
Enacts "Truth in Caller Identification Act"; prohibits manipulation of certain telephone caller identification information.
Adds certain crimes as crimes which have bail restrictions.
Establishes the number of students to be supported under the veterinary medicine education program and a service requirement for students who participate in the program.
Establishes "New Jersey Gaming Industry Study Commission" to evaluate impact of enacted gaming and technological reforms and explore future prospects for casino gaming and horse racing in this State.
Excludes appropriations to reserve for uncollected taxes in excess of two percent from calculations of municipal adjusted tax levy.
Revises responsibility for meadowlands adjustment payments.
Imposes surcharge on motor vehicle offenses to fund upgraded electronic systems for police vehicles.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot; requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to study effectiveness of workers' compensation program.
Establishes Solar Thermal Expansion Loan and Grant program; appropriates $10 million.
Prohibits persons under 19 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Increases monetary penalties to be assessed upon conviction for Megan's Law offenses and fixes amount of penalty.
Provides certain exemptions from sales and use tax for compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or propane fueled vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and for equipment used for refueling or recharging certain vehicles.
Increases penalties for improper prescribing of drugs.
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to include flood control activities.
Revises population formula for issuance of certain plenary retail consumption licenses.
Sets forth certain requirements for sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption of plenary retail distribution licensees or certain retail consumption licenses.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.
Removes examination and educational course requirements for licensure as a real estate referral agent.
Concerns school bus safety inspections.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.
Reduces thresholds for certain heroin offenses.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview.
Requires health insurers, group health plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to share certain health benefits information with Medicaid and other State programs.
Requires property record cards and tax maps prepared in conjunction with revaluations to be produced in electronic format.
Imposes 66 percent tax on gross gaming revenue from wagering at Meadowlands Complex casino; provides distribution to State General Fund, CRDA, and Hackensack Meadowlands Tax Sharing Stabilization Fund.
Eliminates language in FY 2015 appropriation act that restricts participation of certain institutions in the Tuition Aid Grant program.
Revises population formula for issuance of certain plenary retail consumption licenses.
Establishes requirements for sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption by certain plenary retail distribution licensees and retail consumption licenses.
Consolidates Meadowlands Commission and Sports and Exposition Authority; re-establishes Hackensack Meadowlands Transportation Planning District.
Permits service of parking tickets by mail.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Limits payments under health benefits plans to in-network amounts in certain circumstances; prohibits out-of-network health providers from charging carriers more than 150 percent of Medicare rate in certain circumstances.
Requires MVC to offer driver's license knowledge test in Italian.
Provides a gross income tax exclusion for attorney's fees and costs received in connection with certain unlawful discrimination or unlawful retaliation claims or actions.
Provides for regulated consumer choice in the dispensing of fuel at service stations.
Imposes certain requirements on use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement agencies.
Reduces ambulatory care facility assessment.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain county corrections officers.
Provides that county prosecutors receive annual salaries in amount equal to annual salary of full time Superior Court Assignment Judge.
Clarifies threshold eligibility requirements for certain tax credit program.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law2
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.*
Vetoed2
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Authorizes operation of lottery courier services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Waldwick Borough as "Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway."
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Vetoed · 8
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; enhances film and digital media tax credits, revises and expands tax credit eligibility requirements, and requires EDA to study development of film studio at North Jersey location.*
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Requires Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River and Bay Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires PANYNJ to use certain products manufactured in US.
Requires DRPA to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Eliminates school district budget per pupil administrative cost limits.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.*
Passed the Senate · 10
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Prohibits contribution action against local public entity for cleanup and removal costs or any other damages associated with discharge of hazardous substances.*
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Makes FY 2014 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.*
Concerns earned sick leave.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Prohibits the DOE from regulating the maximum salary amount a school district may pay its superintendent of schools.
Makes retroactive current law requiring "palimony" agreements to be in writing; provides that pre-existing palimony agreements are unenforceable unless put into writing within one year of enactment of this bill.
Establishes "New Jersey Business Advisory Council" in Business Action Center.
Requires annual evaluation reports by Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development on survey responses to be obtained from certain employers that end operations in this State.*
Out of committee · 14
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons who are fingerprinted and permits law enforcement officers to collect certain biological samples.
Requires DHS and DMVA to conduct or contract for follow-up studies of former residents transitioning to community from their facilities.*
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.**
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DHS for $5 million for substance abuse prevention, and requires substance abuse prevention programs to be evidence-based.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Establishes Task Force on Engineering Curriculum and Instruction.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Authorizes county vocational school district to request county improvement authority to construct and issue bonds to finance school facilities project.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers.
Requires timeframe of standardbred mare residing in New Jersey breeding farm be inclusive of foaling instead of between foal's conception and birth.
In committee · 18
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Establishes State payment in lieu of taxes to municipalities for loss of revenues due to an overburden of tax-exempt cemetery property; appropriates $66 million.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services in certain counties; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher edu
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the borrower's death.
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of residents of State developmental centers until certain conditions are met.
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
Excludes corrugated containers sold by the manufacturer from definition of "litter-generating product"; exempts such sales from user fee imposed under "Clean Communities Program Act."
Establishes "Business Tax and Incentive Task Force."
Establishes technology transfer assistance program in EDA.
Permits EDA to designate institutions of higher education or other qualified entities as manufacturing and production business resource centers.
Requires combined reporting of corporation business tax by certain members of unitary business groups.
Filed · 2
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.