Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Gordon M. Johnson
Sponsored
Became law10
Authorizes the court to order the deletion, sealing, labeling, or correction of certain personal information in government records involving certain victims of identity theft.*
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.
Requires halfway houses to permit attorneys and certain representatives of attorneys to visit incarcerated clients.
Provides that crime victims do not have to pay fees to obtain records relating to the crime and that requests for such records are not public information.*
Authorizes court to order submission of DNA evidence to national database to determine whether evidence matches a known individual or DNA profile from an unsolved crime.*
Excludes certain conveyances of graves, crypts and niches from 15% fee charged by cemetery company.
Establishes sheriff's officers reemployment lists.
Adjusts and clarifies certain State tax compliance standards and restricts certain State tax benefits.
Requires police departments of certain educational institutions to adopt Attorney General Guidelines on internal affairs policies and procedures.
Revises definition of all-terrain vehicles.
Vetoed2
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Requires lowest possible price not exceeding certain cap for inmate telephone calls.*
Out of committee20
Requires youth sports team organizations or cheerleading programs to implement written head injury policies.*
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
"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.*
Modifies powers and allocation of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.*
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to Victims of Crime Compensation Office.*
Establishes Commission on State-owned Historic Sites in Department of State, transfers administration of State-owned historic sites to commission, and transfers historic preservation programs from DEP to Department of State.
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding law enforcement officers.*
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.*
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Requires AG oversight of transfer of federal surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies; establishes review and reporting requirement.
Establishes licensure for associate marriage and family therapists.
Requires local unit approval of applications for participation in federal 1033 program.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for capital gains from sale of certain employer securities by qualified business that result in net positive benefit to the State.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Allows PFRS to pay pension to member who resigns and retires from PFRS-covered employment to assume elective office with same employer to eliminate conflict of incompatible positions.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Regulates autocycles.
Permits certain health clubs to offer swimming lessons and otherwise remain exempt from first aid and personnel and lifeguarding requirements.*
Increases maximum legal fee to represent victims from $1,000 to $3,000.
Requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
In committee49
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for prostate cancer.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Requires criminal history background check for certain persons working at schools.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Establishes the "Office of the Gang Member Relocation Coordinator."
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Increases juror compensation.
Directs Department of Corrections to provide employment assistance to inmates prior to release.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires DOC employees who recruit, interview, and hire corrections officers to have gang awareness training.
Prohibits job discrimination on basis of credit history or financial status.
Requires preservation of certain biological evidence.
Designated Kevin Apuzzio's Law; allows municipalities to provide increased survivor pensions for certain volunteer emergency workers and requires municipalities to provide health and life insurance coverage to volunteer firefighters.
Redirects vehicle surcharge revenues for Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental delays and disabilities enrolled in the Early Childhood Intervention Program.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
Requires halfway house employees to complete police training course.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Provides for issuance of a uniform identification card for all law enforcement officers.
Revises requirements for private investigator identification cards.
Establishes gubernatorial veto power over Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor's meeting minutes; expands gubernatorial oversight powers over commission.
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank.
Makes certain access changes to open public records act; establishes State public finance website and creates program for development of local websites; makes appropriation.
Provides that labor union representatives cannot be compelled to disclose certain information.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Extends from one to two years after leaving employment period during which Executive Branch department heads cannot act as governmental affairs agent.
Makes various changes to law addressing meetings of public bodies to provide public with greater access to meetings and information about meetings.
Prohibits lawyers and law firms who lobby public entity from simultaneous employment or contract with that public entity.
Revises and clarifies prohibition on certain practices of motor vehicle franchisors with respect to sales promotion plans and incentives.
Grants certain employment protections to campus police officers.
Upgrades crime of assault against certain public employees to aggravated assault in certain circumstances.
Prohibits business receiving State development subsidies from making certain campaign contributions.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by Rutgers University.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Transfers Palisades Interstate Park Commission police force to New Jersey State Park Police.
Requires MVC to automatically transmit applicant information to Secretary of State for automatic voter registration; permits applicant to decline voter registration.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Waives population restriction for issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses to operate brew pub in downtown area.
Revises definition of victim in "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Removes age restriction on testifying via closed circuit television in certain sex crimes cases.
Prohibits victims from being charged certain costs and fees and clarifies victims' right to obtain certain interviews.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Authorizes Victims of Crime Compensation Office to make payment for relocation expenses of certain witnesses of crimes.
Modifies performance and maintenance guarantee requirements under "Municipal Land Use Law."
Requires Governor's resignation from office if Governor becomes candidate for President of the United States.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding law enforcement officers.*
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
Requires local unit approval of applications for participation in federal 1033 program.
Increases maximum legal fee to represent victims from $1,000 to $3,000.
Permits certain health clubs to offer swimming lessons and otherwise remain exempt from first aid personnel and lifeguarding requirements.*
Vetoed6
"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.*
Establishes in DOC, supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.*
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.**
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Requires AG oversight of transfer of federal surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies; establishes review and reporting requirement.
Requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Shortens waiting periods for expungement of criminal and other records and information; makes various changes to other expungement procedures and requirements.**
Authorizes municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations of certain properties in foreclosure.*
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodplains.*
Concerns sale of certain motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Extends protections of the new vehicle "lemon law" to new farm tractors purchased or leased in New Jersey.*
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility; appropriates $20,000 for municipal reimbursements.
"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.
Codifies "Project Medicine Drop" program; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain secure prescription medicine drop-off receptacles at certain law enforcement agencies.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Prohibits sale, purchase, and possession of certain merchandise designed to conceal license plate to evade law enforcement.*
Concerns property taxes due and owing on real property damaged or destroyed during, or as the result of, a natural disaster when a state of emergency is declared by the Governor. *
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Revises certain laws governing police and fire interest arbitration; incorporates compounding in base salary calculation; extends two-percent cap on base salary awards.
Requires DMVA to encourage and facilitate returning service members' registration with VA.*
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008." *
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance allowing voluntary registration of private outdoor video surveillance cameras.*
Authorizes operators of motor vehicles to display electronic proof of insurance.
"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.
"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."
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
New Jersey Stolen Valor Act; makes unauthorized use of military uniforms, medals or insignias, and certain false statements regarding receipt of military awards with intent to obtain benefit crimes of third degree.
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Provides an excused absence on Veterans Day for pupil who participates in certain activities for veterans or active duty members of United States Armed Forces or New Jersey National Guard.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
Vetoed · 16
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation. *
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Requires county and municipal police departments to establish cultural diversity training course and plan.
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental appropriations of $6,500,000 and adds language provision.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
Passed the General Assembly · 35
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.*
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Establishes "MarcAnthony's Law;" criminalizes use of defaced or stolen firearm to injure a police officer; enhances penalties for defacing a firearm.
Designates New Jersey Route 47 from Wildwood City to Maurice River Township as "Veterans Memorial Highway at Delsea Drive."
Requires appropriate community notification when sex offender is placed in halfway house; prohibits certain county inmates in halfway house.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.*
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Creates "Expungement Study Commission."*
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Requires DCA to provide information regarding "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Act" to certain dwelling units approved for Weatherization Assistance Program.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Defines reasonable deviations in the course of transporting firearms.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
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.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Enhances opportunities for qualified residential projects under the Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Prohibits purchase of certain items by scrap metal businesses.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.*
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.**
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
Extends post-military service protection against mortgage foreclosure.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Permits cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities to provide services.
Out of committee · 70
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, sheriff's officers, EMS workers, and firefighters; designated as "Patrolman Joseph Wargo's Law.**
Requires DOC to conduct quarterly site visits at residential community release programs.
Prohibits certain persons charged with first, second, or third degree crimes from being in halfway houses prior to adjudication.*
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Requires governmental affairs agents retained by government entities to file certain reports with ELEC; requires certain government entities retaining governmental affairs agents to file annual reports with ELEC.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically engineered material.*
Requires blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death; designated as "Michelle Sous' Law."
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Authorizes Attorney General to coordinate Statewide law enforcement efforts against opioid drug abuse.*
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
Concerns low emission and gas emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
"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.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.***
Designates September 11 each year "September 11 Remembrance Day" in New Jersey.
Extends deadline for developer to submit temporary certificate of occupancy for an Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program qualified residential project.
Eliminates school district budget per pupil administrative cost limits.
Grants prescriptive authority to certain psychologists.
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.
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.***
Revises certain laws governing police and fire interest arbitration; extends two-percent cap on base salary awards.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
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 Medicaid managed care organizations to meet certain conditions prior to reducing reimbursement rates for personal care assistant services and home-based supportive care services.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for State student financial aid programs.
Increases monetary amounts for transfer of estate assets without administration and for exemption from debts of the deceased.*
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.
Permits successful completion of special probation drug court program notwithstading use of medication-assisted treatment.*
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Provides maximum sales and use tax imposition amount for sales and uses of boats and vessels; establishes grace period for imposition of use tax on certain boats and vessels used by resident purchasers.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.*
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Permits municipalities and municipal parking authorities to create Senior Citizen Priority Parking Program.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Requires DEP to adopt regulations to allow cultivation of commercial shellfish species in certain coastal and inner harbor waters for research, educational, or restoration purposes; requires community engagement process for revision therof.*
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Revises requirements for establishment of central municipal courts.
Allows casino and out-of-State racetrack to negotiate amount casino will pay for simulcast races.
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Provides expedited procedure for foreclosing residential properties in uncontested actions.
Requires MVC conduct study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses and mobile applications.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Establishes Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Task Force.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
Establishes vocational training pilot program in DOC; provides for inmate compensation for education and workforce training participation.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Requires government entities to provide law enforcement agencies with access to exterior security recordings under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act."*
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Establishes Mike Adler Aphasia Task Force to assess needs of persons with aphasia, and their families, and ensure adequate provision of support services and information thereto.*
Permits municipality with UEZ to participate in Downtown Business Improvement Zone Loan Fund.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Expands Police Training Commission membership to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey Chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
In committee · 163
Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Amends RICO to add certain crimes involving public servants.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands racetrack, upon voter approval; dedicates 1/3 net proceeds to General Fund, 1/3 to State education aid, and 1/3 to horse racing industry.
Establishes certain specifications for NJ Sports and Exposition Authority sale or lease of Meadowlands Racetrack.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Prohibits residential development fees on reconstruction after natural disasters.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Prohibits emergency shelters for the homeless from refusing to provide services for minimum time frame unless shelters are at maximum capacity.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act and other laws relating thereto.
Authorizes innocent spouse relief under the gross income tax.
Requires court to deny defendant's right to copy or reproduce images of child pornography as part of discovery.
Designates corn as New Jersey State Grain.
Provides employers with various tax incentives for hiring persons with disabilities under insurance premiums tax, corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Concerns compensation and benefits of officers, employees, and members of State and local authorities.
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
Establishes "knockout game" assault as second-degree aggravated assault.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Permits municipal court to order certain offenders to perform community service in lieu of payment of penalty.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "Superstorm Sandy Victims' Bill of Rights."
Establishes compensation program for certain injured probation officers.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Modifies timeframe during which charter school applications are submitted to and approved by DOE.
Establishes State pension fund preference for certain in-State infrastructure investment.
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
Transportation for Hazardous Walking Routes Act; requires school districts to provide busing for students required to walk to school along hazardous routes and prohibits school bus stops within 250 feet of residence of sex offender.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
Codifies current State Board of Education regulations which limit who may serve as case managers for students with disabilities to members of child study teams and certain speech-language specialists.
Appropriates $3.963 million from General Fund to DOE for nonpublic nursing services aid.
The "Smart Container Act."
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Subjects Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to New York's Freedom of Information Law and New Jersey's Open Public Records Act.
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Requires youth baseball league coaches to comply with pitch count standards to minimize injury to youth baseball pitchers.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Creates the "Meadowlands Responsible Development Program."
Authorizes board of education to pay stipend to superintendent for performance of additional duties.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Concerns wage protection and certain penalties for violating laws regarding wages, compensation or benefits.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Authorizes creation of special Omega Psi Phi license plate.
Addresses various concerns affecting post-release employment.
Allows law enforcement agencies to utilize electronic signatures on police reports; requires Attorney General to adopt uniform guidelines.
"Higher Education Citizenship Equality Act;" defines domicile for dependent students for the purpose of eligibility for State student loans, grants, or scholarships and resident tuition rate.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Exempts certain volunteer emergency service organizations from charitable contribution filing fees.
Adds child molestation and endangerment to crimes that subject public school employee offender to pension and retirement benefit forfeiture.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of purchasing and installing battery backups for certain home solar electrical generators.
Concerns regulation of solid waste, hazardous waste, and recycling industries.
Concerns environmental permits in burdened communities.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Allows homestead property tax reimbursement program participants who lose income eligibility due to an IRA withdraw for certain purposes to maintain base year upon requalification.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
Requires forms for homestead property tax reimbursement, veterans' property tax exemption, veterans' property tax deduction, and senior and disabled property tax deduction to be available in certain languages.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Requires school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer’s rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers.
Equalizes standing of private and public colleges before land use agencies.
Provides immunity from civil liability for person who sends text message to motor vehicle operator.
Requires lowest possible price for inmate telephone calls.
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes Bergen Watershed Flood prevention and Protection Task Force.
Permits veteran's property tax deduction for tax year when veteran was previously qualified to receive deduction and became owner of real property after October 1 of pretax year.
Requires MVC to issue driving privilege cards to persons who cannot prove lawful presence in the country.
Requires body of water between Korean peninsula and Japan be called "East Sea" for all governmental purposes.
The "Jobs, Trade and Democracy Act."
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Prohibits the DOE from regulating the maximum salary amount a school district may pay its superintendent of schools.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online a
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Establishes "Opioid Abuse Prevention Commission."
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.
Increases number of commissioners on Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor to six; changes process for appointment of commissioners.
Reduces number of manufacturing jobs required to qualify for NJEDA financing and incentive programs.
Provides partial sales tax exemption for energy and utility service to certain manufacturers.
Permits EDA to provide financial assistance to businesses that relocate to NJ from sites in Asia.
Establishes construction workforce recruitment and training program in DOLWD.
Provides county vocational school districts with the authority to name themselves in a manner that more accurately reflects their mission.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Establishes Partners for Growth Council in DOLWD.
"Medicare Advantage Disclosure Act," requires health plans to notify subscribers of differences between plan benefits and original Medicare.
Requires EDA and Dept. of State to encourage businesses considering relocation to locate within chronically high unemployment region.
Authorizes the EDA to issue additional $50,000,000 in bonds to provide grants for certain county vocational school district facilities projects and increases debt service district aid percentage for such projects.
Establishes "Government Crowdfunding Act" to allow government entities to conduct fundraising for certain government projects.
Establishes "County Career Technical Education Annual Recognition Awards" to annually recognize best programs implemented by county vocational school districts.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Requires certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for behavioral health care services when determined medically necessary by physician or psychologist.
Requires display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for behavioral health care services when determined medically necessary.
Increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $5 million over period of five years.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Prohibits submission of New Jersey license plate information to national photo ticketing system or other states for certain purposes.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
The "Full Marriage Recognition for Civil Union Couples Act"; recognizes certain civil unions as marriages dating back to inception of such civil unions.
Establishes young entrepreneurs program in EDA.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Requires prosecutorial or law enforcement review of fatal incidents involving police officers or State Police.
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.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Increases and makes uniform mileage reimbursement rate for sheriffs, constables, and other court officers for various duties performed.
Provides additional State aid to county colleges for students enrolled in certain postsecondary career and technical education certificate programs.
Establishes special veteran motorcycle license plates.
Clarifies police powers of sheriff's officers in certain counties to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
Requires pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Limits authority of court to order one or both parents to pay post-high school education expenses on behalf of a child if both parents agree that they will not pay such expenses.
Establishes "Stun Gun Purchase and Training Fund" to provide stun guns and training to law enforcement officers.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Authorizes trustees of PERS, TPAF, PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to control investment of assets of each system.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Adds two public members to NJT board.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
"Digital Currency Jobs Creation Act."
Establishes criminal penalties for unlawful control over weapons of any law enforcement officer and interface with equipment or duties of law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel.
Revises court filing fees, assessments, penalties, fines, and certain firearms licensing fees to fund Pretrial Services Program, e-court information system and Legal Services of New Jersey; repeals certain statutory provisions concerning court fees.
"Drama therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
Reforms PANYNJ; "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015."
Reforms PANYNJ; requires appearance by PANYNJ before legislative committees.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships.
Directs BPU to promulgate rules and regulations concerning gas public utilities' response to public reporting of suspected natural gas leaks.
Expands Medicaid eligibility to the age of 26 for certain former foster children.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Establishes "Police Body Camera Implementation Task Force" to study and make recommendations concerning use of body cameras by law enforcement agencies in this State.
Permits individuals to possess pepper spray in larger quantities for purpose of repelling aggressive bears.