Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, Senate.
Paul A. Sarlo
Sponsored
Became law14
Revises penalties for certain violations of law by public movers and warehousemen.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.*
Requires Police Training Commission to develop supplemental training course for certain county corrections officers.*
Extends transmittal date deadline for fiscal year 2018-2019 gubernatorial budget message to Legislature from fourth Tuesday in February to March 13, 2018.
Authorizes municipality, county or school district to establish charitable funds for specific purposes; permits property tax credit for certain donations.
Appropriates $36,517,421,000 in State funds and $16,551,418,698 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2018-2019.
Appropriates $38,748,610,000 in State funds and $16,748,645,972 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2019-2020.
Establishes STEM Loan Redemption Program.
Amends and supplements various appropriations and language provisions in Fiscal Year 2019 annual State appropriations act.
Revises requirements for grant recipients of Transportation Trust Fund Authority local aid program.
Creates subaccounts for SHBP and SEHBP health care services and prescription drug claims; requires procurement by State of third-party medical claims reviewer.*
Establishes elective pass-through entity business alternative income tax and allows corresponding refundable gross income tax and corporation business tax credit.*
Establishes program to increase participation of underrepresented students in New Jersey's science and engineering workforce.
Prohibits local governments from imposing fines on alarm companies in certain circumstances.
Vetoed5
Provides a gross income tax exclusion for attorney's fees and costs received in connection with certain unlawful discrimination, unlawful retaliation, and qui tam claims or actions.*
Exempts fuel used for operation of certain school buses from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax; clarifies tax treatment of certain dyed fuel thereunder; clarifies determination of taxable estates of certain decedents.
Establishes the "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Act."
Allows certain preserved farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms.*
Establishes "New Jersey Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Commission" to provide ongoing review of State and local tax structure, economic conditions, and related fiscal issues.
Passed both houses1
Applies Meadowlands regional hotel use assessment to all municipalities that participate in Meadowlands tax sharing program.
Passed the Senate3
Exempts wages earned by nonresident taxpayers, present in State for job training for 14 days or less, from gross income tax and employer withholding requirements.
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.
Provides accidental death benefits in certain circumstances to surviving spouse and surviving child of SPRS member or retiree who participated in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.
Out of committee19
Requires certain disclosures regarding health care costs; allows SHBP to negotiate directly with providers in certain circumstances; and establishes certain out-of-network patient protections.
Permits conduct of raffles at large sporting venues.
Provides that PERS or PFRS member who continues to be volunteer firefighter or emergency services worker after retirement with employer from whom member retires has bona fide severance for compliance with State and federal law.
Permits taxpayers to make dedicated prepayment toward anticipated property taxes.
Re-establishes former NJ Commission on Science and Technology as NJ Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.
Amends law to limit DEP's direct oversight of remediation of portion of contaminated site under certain circumstances.
Establishes Medicaid emergency room triage reimbursement fee for low acuity emergency room encounters.
Imposes $0.10 per fluid milliliter tax related to sales of liquid nicotine. *
Provides State information tecnology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.*
Amends provisions regarding tax base and operative dates relative to CBT and combined reporting; provides CBT deduction in amount of certain foreign-related income; clarifies tax treatment of certain tax credits awarded by EDA.
Revises certain aspects of State procurement process.
Concerns licensure of persons possessing barbering license in another state or foreign country.
Provides clarification on applicability of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act" to commercial motor vehicles and charging of reasonable fees for certain non-consensual towing.
Establishes pilot program to permit use of generally accepted accounting principles in certain county and municipal annual financial statements.
Authorizes alternative procedure for sale of municipal sewerage systems to public utilities.
Concerns sale, taxation, and, forfeiture of container e-liquid.*
Makes Fiscal Year 2019 State supplemental appropriations totaling $34,208,000.
Allows purchase of lottery tickets through decoupled debit payment method.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
In committee16
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Upgrades burglary of residence to crime of the second degree.
Restores property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals with for-profit medical providers on-site; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contribution Study
Requires DOH to license certain qualifying hospitals providing elective angioplasty services.
Transfers NJ Board of Tree Experts from DEP to Dept. of Agriculture.
Upgrades certain penalties for criminal street gang recruitment and criminality; imposes mandatory minimum sentence for certain offenses; establishes accomplice liability and imposes restrictions for certain recruiters.
Requires certain civil actions against certain licensed persons to be brought within two years.
Establishes requirements for sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption by certain plenary retail distribution licensees and retail consumption licenses.
Revises population formula for issuance of certain plenary retail consumption licenses.
Prohibits requirement of advance notice to New Jersey Racing Commission in order to continue horse racing and simulcast activities during state of emergency.
Directs State Health Benefits Commission to study reference-based pricing.
Authorizes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in places of religious worship; requires nonpublic security aid be used for Class Three officers upon request of nonpublic school.
Requires pawnbrokers retain goods for seven days and record and report certain information.
Requires county to provide extraordinary special education aid to school districts located in county for students with costs over $55,000 and State to reimburse county.
Requires pilot programs on both advanced imaging services and elective surgical procedures in SHBP and SEHBP.
Authorizes special financing by municipalities, counties and, school districts to compensate sexual harassment and abuse survivors; establishes "Sexual Harassment and Abuse Survivor Fund."
Filed3
Requires members of unitary business groups to file combined reports of corporation business tax.
Restructures tickets sales law.
Amends FY 2019 Appropriations Act to make corrections to appropriations and language to conform with sponsors' original intent.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law15
Provides that PERS or PFRS member who continues to be volunteer firefighter or emergency services worker after retirement with employer from whom member retires has bona fide severance for compliance with State and federal law.
Permits conduct of raffles at large sporting venues.
Permits taxpayers to make dedicated prepayment toward anticipated property taxes.
Concerns licensure of persons possessing barbering license in another state or foreign country.
Re-establishes former NJ Commission on Science and Technology as NJ Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.
Imposes $0.10 per fluid milliliter tax related to sales of liquid nicotine.
Establishes Medicaid emergency room triage reimbursement fee for low acuity emergency room encounters.
Applies Meadowlands regional hotel use assessment to all municipalities that participate in Meadowlands tax sharing program.
Restructures tickets sales law.
Amends provisions regarding tax base and operative dates relative to CBT and combined reporting; provides CBT deduction in amount of certain foreign-related income; clarifies tax treatment of certain tax credits awarded by EDA.
Provides clarification on applicability of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act" to commercial motor vehicles and charging of reasonable fees for certain non-consensual towing.
Concerns sale, taxation, and, forfeiture of container e-liquid.*
Makes Fiscal Year 2019 State supplemental appropriations totaling $34,208,000.
Allows purchase of lottery tickets through decoupled debit payment method; makes appropriation.*
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Passed the General Assembly1
Provides State information technology contracts will require use of software to document computer use by contractor.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Concerns certain real estate licensees.
Exempts sales of certain materials used in industrial sand casting processes from sales and use tax.
Prohibits the DOE from regulating maximum salary amount school district may pay its superintendent of schools and codifies standards for contract review.*
Increases annual salary of Governor's cabinet officers, judges, county prosecutors, and certain other public employees.*
Establishes loan redemption program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.*
Establishes grant program and tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; appropriates $5 million to DOE.*
Amends and supplements various appropriations and language provisions in Fiscal Year 2018 annual State appropriations act.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; provides funding for hotline through fire inspection fees and penalties.
Requires hotels to provide panic devices to certain hotel employees for protection from unsafe working conditions while performing housekeeping duties.*
Provides for horse racing purse subsidies and that portion of sums received by the horse racing permit holder from sports wagering will be paid to horsemen's associations pursuant to agreement with racetrack; makes appropriation.*
Requires limited purpose regional school districts to coordinate with constituent districts regarding school calendar and curriculum.
Renames joint meetings as regional service agencies; grandfathers existing joint meetings.
Passed the Senate · 4
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to conduct study to determine extent and cause of outmigration of high school graduates to out-of-State colleges.
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."
Requires MVC to establish process to submit application for or renew non-driver identification card through county clerk. *
Provides for vacancy in county surrogate, clerk, register of deeds and mortgages, and sheriff offices occurring 70 days before general election to be filled at second succeeding general election.
Out of committee · 10
Imposes State sales and use tax and hotel and motel occupancy fee on transient accommodations; authorizes various municipal taxes and fees on transient accommodations.
Requires DOH to license certain qualifying hospitals to provide full service adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization, primary angioplasty, and elective angioplasty services.*
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Changes use of certain revenue derived from sports wagering at racetracks.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $11,300,000 from General Fund to DOE to increase per pupil funding for nonpublic security aid from $75 to $150.
Makes transient accommodation taxes and fees only applicable if rented through marketplace or travel agency.*
Permits certain members or retirees of PFRS,SPRS, or PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.*
Provides for temporary travel license to practice chiropractic.
Requires municipalities, counties, school districts, and local authorities to regularly meet to discuss shared service agreements.
Extends availability period for tax credits for certain expenses incurred for production of certain film and digital media content, raises annual cap related to film production, and provides for annual administration of film tax credits.*
In committee · 21
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Eliminates requirement for State residency for public officers and employees with limited historic exceptions.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
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.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods.
Eliminates school district budget per pupil administrative cost limits.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Requires suspension of driver's license for gross income tax deficiency under certain circumstances.
Limits payment to public employees for accumulated unused sick leave upon retirement to $15,000 or higher amount under certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $20,000,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission for horse racing purse subsidies.
Repeals imposition of State sales and use tax and hotel and motel occupancy fee on transient accommodations; repeals authorization of various municipal taxes and fees on transient accommodations.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Clarifies that crimes of trespassing and invasion of privacy also include use of unmanned aircraft systems.
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to promulgate regulations pertaining to training and duties of Junior Firefighter Auxiliary members.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Provides for direct State payment of cost of special education and related services for certain students.
Establishes Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission.
Provides for reorganization of health service corporation into mutual holding company system.