Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph A. Lagana
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires elevators in new buildings be at least a certain size.
"Uniform Trust Code."
Authorizes snow removal from covered fire hydrants and locator pole installation.*
Requires DHS to use and update NJ Elder Index and related data to the extent possible.*
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
Vetoed1
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities. *
Passed the General Assembly5
Defines reasonable deviations in the course of transporting firearms.
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Establishes assessment on criminal offenders for "School Safety and Security Fund."
Authorizes special motion to dismiss a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" ("SLAPP").
Requires DOE to create military-connected student identifier for inclusion in student-level database.
Out of committee11
Gives priority in training programs to long-term unemployed.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.***
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use certain products manufactured in US.
Provides that retired justices and judges collecting pension or retirement allowance are eligible for recall duties until 85 years of age.
Establishes insurance and safety requirements for companies that use digital network or software application to match passengers with drivers.*
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Exempts sales of certain products from sales and use tax, and provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for certain small businesses that use New Jersey goods or agricultural produce.
Modifies the gross income tax to enable the carryforward of capital losses and exclude capital gains from the sale of closely held businesses.
Permits vapor lounges for use of electronic smoking devices to be opened under certain circumstances.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
In committee23
Requires body of water between Korean peninsula and Japan be called "East Sea" for all governmental purposes.
Prohibits incarcerated individuals from receiving Medicaid, Work First New Jersey, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Provides for use of directed trust to administer particular assets separate from other assets placed in trust; clarifies duty to inform between co-fiduciaries concerning administration of trusts and other governing instruments.
Establishes crimes of operating school bus with suspended or revoked driving privileges and being involved in accident causing bodily injury; permanently prohibits passenger and school bus CDL endorsements for persons convicted of those crimes.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities, and against employees of municipalities acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
"Fair Debt Collection Practices of New Jersey."
Requires charter schools to annually submit to Commissioner of Education salary and benefit information for certain employees.
Requires property record cards and tax maps prepared in conjunction with revaluations to be produced in electronic format.
Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.
Requires parole board under certain circumstances to release inmates not convicted of a violent crime under the No Early Release Act at the time of parole eligibility.
Requires successful completion of firearms education program to obtain initial firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase a handgun.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax on Class C beneficiaries and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for New Jersey estate tax to $1,500,000.
Requires public agency responding to record request to redact information contained in accident report, except for drivers' names and diagram of accident.
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Adds as additional aggravating factor in sentencing that the person committed an act of domestic violence in presence of a child under 16 years of age.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to elect to receive corporate or gross income tax credit if grant funds are not available.
Provides preferences for certain businesses applying for workforce development grants.
Permits independent contractors to provide cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services,
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Limits eligibility of certain public employees for health care benefits coverage; prohibits those limited from receiving payments for waiving such coverage.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
Vetoed3
Gives priority in training programs to long-term unemployed.
Requires PANYNJ to use certain products manufactured in US.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 35
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Authorizes the court to order the deletion, sealing, labeling, or correction of certain personal information in government records involving certain victims of identity theft.*
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodplains.*
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.
Includes reverse rate evasion as form of insurance fraud and provides for civil and criminal penalties.
"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.*
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
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. *
Increases and modernizes solvency requirements for certain insurers and authority of DOBI Commissioner to regulate insurer solvency.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Allows school districts and requires public colleges to enter into dual enrollment agreements to provide college-level instruction to high school students through courses offered on college or high school campuses.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
Authorizes tax lien holders other than municipalities to institute in rem tax foreclosure actions against abandoned properties.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Establishes crime-fraud exception to marital and civil union partnership privilege.
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Requires continuing care retirement communities to provide residents with information on influenza vaccines for older adults.
"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.
Eliminates mortgage guaranty insurance coverage cap of 25% of outstanding balance of insured loan.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
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.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Expands timeframe for renewal of driver's license, registration, and inspection by military personnel and immediate family members under certain circumstances.*
Prohibits withholding of State school aid based on student participation rate on State assessments.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 11
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to review construction work on public utilities.*
Revises penalty provisions for certain drunk driving violations, including use of and applicable time periods covering driver's license suspensions and installations of ignition interlock devices on motor vehicles.*
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Reforms annual State revenue estimating and reporting, and executive State budget presentation and revenue certification processes.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental appropriations of $6,500,000 and adds language provision.
Passed the General Assembly · 39
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.*
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."*
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires mail-in ballot applications be available at polling places on election day for voting in future elections; requires establishment of Intrnet webpages to provide instructions for completing mail-in ballot applications.*
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.**
Increases penalties for drunk driving with a minor as a passenger.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Permits a witness who is under the age of 16 or a victim of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Requires certain CATV companies to provide free Internet access to public libraries.*
Requires oversight reporting on Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Requires report and public hearing prior to DEP recommendation of site for inclusion on Superfund list.
Requires State to offer surplus State Police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish a communication and incentive plan to encourage re-enrollment in college; requires Statewide reverse transfer agreement.
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from increasing New Jersey resident undergraduate tuition and fees for nine continuous semesters following student's initial enrollment.*
Requires State Auditor to conduct audit of fees charged by public institutions of higher education.
Requires certain undergraduate students to file degree plan and requires public institutions of higher education to develop pathway systems to graduation.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Prohibits award of State contracts and development subsidies to inverted domestic corporations.*
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
"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.*
"Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act"; restricts collection and use of personal information by retail establishments for certain purposes.*
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
Requires employees of private entity with access to student information under contract with DOE, school districts, or charter schools to undergo criminal background check.
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding seniors in property tax lien foreclosure; notification of certain county offices upon senior property tax lien sale; collector to provide requested lien satisfaction information within seven days
Out of committee · 78
Eliminates awarding of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for certain technical violations of consumer fraud act.*
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Provides that certain personal identifying information may be redacted from certain public records in certain circumstances.
"Health Care Consumer Cost Transparency Act" *
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Requires local recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.*
Authorizes creation of stormwater utilities for certain local government entities.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Revises "Administrative Procedure Act" concerning conflicts between rules of different State agencies.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th birthday.
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.*
Expands definition and licensure requirements for health care service firms.
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law." and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies.*
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
"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 the "Superstorm Sandy Bill of Rights."*
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.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer opioid antidotes.
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) every seven years rather than every three years.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network, and updates crime of animal fighting; amends RICO concerning dog fighting.**
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Repeals anachronistic, superceded, or invalidated sections of statutory law.
Allows local government deferred compensation plans to invest in collective investment trusts.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Regulates certain servicing activities provided by mortgage servicing organizations for residential mortgage loans.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Requires certification of diligent inquiry in residential mortgage foreclosure actions to be filed by attorneys.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Provides standards for, and requires registration of, home elevation contractors.
Requires Deleware River Port Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
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 health insurance carriers to encrypt certain information.
Adds to property tax levy cap exclusions increases in flood insurance premiums.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Prohibits insurers from setting prices for non-covered dental services.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Concerns UI benefits for claimants who leave work to accept other work and are laid off from subsequent work.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers and requires certain disclosures concerning multiple source generic drug pricing.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Requires health insurers, group health plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to share certain health benefits information with Medicaid and other State programs.
"Consumer Litigation Funding Act."
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.*
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Provides State Investment Council must report private money managers' fee information and that council's regulations addressing political contributions will apply to federal or national committees and non-State political committees.
Requires State agencies to periodically review administrative rules and regulations to ensure continued efficacy.
Conforms Megan's Law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.*
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5.
Establishes pilot program to allow certain counties and municipalities to use single firm for design and inspection services on certain transportation projects.
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.*
Establishes "New Jersey Business Advisory Council" in Business Action Center.
Permits group self-insurance plans for, and collective bargaining agreements improving the provision of, workers' compensation.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Includes all disabled veterans in NJT discount program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Criminalizes using drones to conduct surveillance of or fly over critical infrastructures; requires certain drones to be registered and insured.*
Requires MVC to check Social Security Administration records and mark deceased individuals in MVC database once per month.
Appropriates $4,750,000 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
"Certificates of Insurance Act;" governs use of certificates of insurance; provides DOBI with enforcement authority.
Maintains property tax exemption for certain nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contributi
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"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Clarifies the intent of the Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Consolidates all "doughnut municipalities" and "doughnut-hole municipalities" within 10 years.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to adopt guidelines for the employment contracts of county college presidents.
Criminalizes operation of school bus with suspended driver's license.
Requires DEP and owners of reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures, and authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs in response to severe weather events.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
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.
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits municipalities to provide information on property tax bills concerning amount of local tax dollars saved through shared services.
Requires foreign corporations providing electronic communication services or remote computing services to comply with New Jersey subpoenas, court orders and search warrants.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Provides one-third of motor vehicle fine moneys generated through State Police issued tickets go to municipality where violation occurred.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide information on life insurance plans to borrowers of student loans and requires authority to contract with life insurance company to offer policies to borrowers.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
Provides for priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
The "Digital Impersonation Prevention Act."
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plan for public institutions of higher education.
Makes harassment by electronic means a crime of the fourth degree.
Requires proof of identification for dispensation of certain prescription medications.
Creates an integrated State medical examiner system by increasing the authority of the State Medical Examiner regarding forensic investigations, establishing regional medical examiner offices, and eliminating the county medical examiner system.
"New Jersey Venture Investment and Employment Program Act;" establishes program under NJ EDA to provide for qualified investments of capital in qualified businesses.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Provides that toll revenue generated from PANYNJ bridges shall not exceed cost of maintenance, operation, and debt service of those bridges.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated be credited to electric and gas public utility customers.
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 public institutions of higher education to submit proposed tuition and fees for upcoming academic year to Secretary of Higher Education for review.
Creates Construction Trades Licensing Board for licensing and regulation of several construction professions; creates new division for homeowner protection in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Requires MVC to publish driver's manual on website in certain languages.
Eliminates requirement that notice of elections list polling place locations; requires notice include Division of Elections Internet site providing polling place locations.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.
Increases State appropriations to Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund by $387 million to restore municipal aid reductions from Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Eliminates exception to public advertising and bidding requirements for certain public contracts involving insurance coverage and consulting services.
Eliminates State aid growth limit for school districts in which individuals age 65 and over comprise at least 33.3 percent of the population.
Establishes a "Blue Alert System."
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Exempts experienced firefighters from certification requirement.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal, primary, and general elections.
Permits toll-free passage on State toll roads for certain buses traveling to casinos.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Disqualifies individuals for unemployment benefits due to receipt of certain severance payments.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Establishes prescription drug donation repository program.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Exempts mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
Provides that a charter school may only be established in certain school districts and prohibits further payments to a charter school in the event of closure.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Repeals application of gross income tax to certain New Jersey Lottery prize winnings.
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Establishes Bergen Watershed Flood prevention and Protection Task Force.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Provides for establishment and operation of casino at Meadowlands Complex.
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of home service enterprises.
Authorizes permits for certain New Jersey casinos for interstate and foreign Internet wagering; requires Internet gaming payment processors be licensed as casino service industry enterprises.
Prohibits charging vehicle storage fees for days on which storage facility is closed.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Requires immediate forfeiture of public office, position or employment, without application by the prosecutor, for public officials and employees convicted under federal law of certain public corruption offenses.
Permits municipalities to purchase and issue certain surplus retail alcoholic beverage licenses.
Permits juveniles to be admitted to drug court program under certain circumstances.
Grants subpoena power to Office of Inspector General at Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in furtherance of investigations.
Requires electric public utilities to implement flood mitigation plans for electric distribution substations and transfer stations in certain flood zones.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to conduct international criminal history background checks and check employer references for licensees.
Requires actual transportation occur as a condition of billing for ambulance services.
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain student loan interest.
Reduces thresholds for certain heroin offenses.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for enrollment at a New Jersey college or university.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Makes various changes to law addressing meetings of public bodies to provide public with greater access to meetings and information about meetings.
Provides that teaching staff member's annual summative evaluation rating for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school years will not include a student growth percentile; delays use of certain assessment.
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Prohibits the DOE from regulating the maximum salary amount a school district may pay its superintendent of schools.
Provides tax relief through three refundable tax credits under the gross income tax, for homestead property taxpayers, renters and working poor.
"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
Requires practitioners prescribing Schedule II drugs to check prescription monitoring program prior to issuing prescription and to report prescriptions for Schedule II drugs to program; expands access to program.
Establishes per se standard for driving under influence of inhalant; designated as "Kimmie's Law."
Requires pharmacies to report dispensation of Schedule II drugs to prescription monitoring program at least once every five days.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Upgrades and expands crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers to administer opioid antidotes to overdose victims in an emergency, and extends immunity under Overdose Prevention Act to such officers.
Regulates certain activities of religious corporations operating cemeteries.
Requires disclosure of data recording devices in motor vehicles; limits access to recorded data.
Requires cost disclosures by health care providers under certain circumstances; applies certain restrictions to charges for medical supplies.
Requires PANYNJ to report monthly to counties within port district.
The "Adopt a Stormwater Management Basin Act."
Clarifies that records custodians are not subject to penalties under State's open public records law if due diligence is exercised.
Prohibits person appointed as arbitrator who subsequently serves as mediator from resuming the role of arbitrator unless the parties agree.
Establishes Center for the Study of Health Care Billing Data.
Excludes deferred compensation of certain public school and federal tax-exempt organization employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Concerns renewal of notary public commissions under certain circumstances.
Reforms bi-state transportation authorities.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of certain green home improvements that increase building systems resiliency.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
Regulates passenger transportation companies that use an online application program to connect drivers to passengers.
Prohibits release of home addresses of certain public safety employees by governmental entities.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree to unlawfully use a controlled dangerous substance or prescription drug while pregnant.
Allows gross income tax credit for contributions to nonprofit public school support organizations.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the borrower's death.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Prohibits submission of New Jersey license plate information to national photo ticketing system or other states for certain purposes.
Concerns dissemination of wage and hour information for tipped workers.
Establishes a small business job creation and preservation account program to incentivize small business workforce expansion in New Jersey with income tax exclusions for interest.
Requires State Lottery Commission to issue licenses for operation and playing of keno games in certain bars and restaurants.
Directs MVC to establish permit and safety requirements for companies that use online application program to match passengers with drivers.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Requires prison host benefit payments to certain municipalities.
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires executive county superintendents to submit school district consolidation plan to Commissioner of Education within one year and every five years thereafter and commissioner to approve or modify plan within six months of submission.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires insurers to provide minimum of 30 days inpatient treatment for substance abuse when physician determines treatment is medically necessary.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a private citizen to use a tracking device to track another person without that person's consent.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
Prohibits certain credit card issuers from reporting student credit card holders to credit reporting agencies for 90 days following missing payment.
Subjects county and municipal sewerage authority service rate increases to approval by Board of Public Utilities.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Increases period over which compensation is averaged for calculation of TPAF and PERS pensions when member has different employer just before retirement or for fiscal year of highest compensation.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.
Permits use of electronic smoking devices in vapor retail establishments.
Prohibits hospitals from referring certain unpaid medical bills to collection agencies.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
Revises homestead property tax reimbursement eligibility requirements for certain claimants relocating homesteads within the same municipality.
Permits use of virtual instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Requires disclosures of out-of-network services performed by health care providers under certain circumstances.
Transfers Palisades Interstate Park Commission police force to New Jersey State Park Police.
Establishes amber light duration at traffic control signals.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors accept and provide a rebate for certain returned drugs.
Requires casino licensee to apply every five years for casino license renewal.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank Fund within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Revises law concerning foreign country money-judgment recognition.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Requires online data brokers to establish accountability and transparency measures for collection and use of personal informaton.
Requires students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to complete course on financial literacy.
Authorizes health care practitioners to provide health care services through telemedicine.
The "New Jersey Corporation Political Expenditure Shareholder's Protection Act."
"Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act"; requires institutions of higher education to have health care professionals who focus on reducing student suicides and attempted suicides available 24 hours a day.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
Exempts certain real estate brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons from continuing education requirement.
Sets criteria for online learning provided to public school students.
Requires State Police to conduct criminal history record background check for taxicab driver applicants.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opiod addiction.
Prohibits DOE from regulating maximum salary amount school district may pay superintendent of schools and eliminates TPAF enrollment exception for certain certified superintendents and administrators.
Authorizes issuance of craft distillery license to certain other alcoholic beverage manufacturing licensees.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Establishes surplus revenue reserve account in the Property Tax Relief Fund if certain levels of unanticipated gross income tax revenue are collected.
Requires Governor to file annual report disclosing expenditures made from funds provided thereto as allowance.
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business failed to repay previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Reforms PANYNJ; "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015."
Prohibits use of light frame construction in certain municipalities; establishes fire safety protocols for light frame construction projects.
Requires Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly to develop informational posters describing phone-based complaint procedure, to be conspicuously displayed in certain facilities.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Requires certain health care professionals to complete continuing education courses regarding issues related to prescription opioids.