Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Holly T. Schepisi
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires public schools which have automated external defibrillators to adopt policies concerning usage.
Out of committee1
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
In committee38
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act and other laws relating thereto.
Establishes tuition aid grant pilot program for part-time county college students.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property.
Provides for forwarding of criminal history record background check information among State agencies under certain circumstances.
Excludes individual building single family home as his primary residence from provisions of "Fair Housing Act."
Exempts security deposits by residential tenants from provisions of "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act."
Provides that an "attorney-in-fact" is a fiduciary for purposes of theft statutes.
Requires certain public utilities to notify an appropriate law enforcement officer of service shutoffs to residential customers under certain circumstances.
Authorizes courts to include animals in domestic violence restraining orders.
Establishes Office of Asset and Revenue Recovery within Office of Attorney General in DLPS.
Requires county board of taxation to transmit written memorandum of judgment to assessor and taxpayer within 15 days of judgment.
Exempts child under age six from hepatitis B vaccine requirement if child's mother tested negative for hepatitis B during her pregnancy.
Prohibits the unauthorized photographing or videotaping of a child.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
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.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Authorizes board of education to pay stipend to superintendent for performance of additional duties.
Revises property assessment calendar.
Imposes civil penalty for income falsification for Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and state and federal housing assistance program benefits.
Provides preference in certain State contracting to businesses that do not employ individuals with H-1B visas.
Clarifies that records custodians are not subject to penalties under State's open public records law if due diligence is exercised.
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for school and local employees; limits sick leave use by new public employees before retirement.
Increases and makes uniform mileage reimbursement rate for sheriffs, constables, and other court officers for various duties performed.
Enhances "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights"; prohibits defendant from entering crime victim's home throughout criminal justice process, including in relation to any investigation or discovery.
Modifies notary public application process by removing requirement for application endorsement by member of Legislature.
Provides PERS or PFRS member who continues to be volunteer firefighter after retirement with employer from whom member retires has bona fide severance from employment for compliance with NJ regulations and Internal Revenue Code.
Establishes fast track hearing for challenges to shared service agreements and municipal consolidations.
Requires insurers to reimburse for medically necessary emergency and urgent care health care services in outpatient settings.
Extends eligibility for short-term financial assistance under Transitional Aid to Localities program to municipalities that lose a major commercial ratable.
Establishes Office of International Trade and Protocol in EDA.
Establishes "Business Tax and Incentive Task Force."
Permits individuals to possess pepper spray in larger quantities for purpose of repelling aggressive bears.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Establishes exclusive State regulatory authority over apiary activities and allows for delegation of monitoring and enforcement authority to municipalities.
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Authorizes rural electric cooperative and certain municipalities to establish municipal shared services authority.*
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Limits access to data recorded by motor vehicle recording devices.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
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.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
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.*
Out of committee · 24
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
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.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Extends for five years expiration date of special appraisal process for Green Acres program and farmland preservation program for lands in Highlands Region; makes change to special appraisal process for certain farmers. *
Appropriates $22,463,000 in 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
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.
Provides that retired justices and judges collecting pension or retirement allowance are eligible for recall duties until 85 years of age.
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Requires DHS and DOC to formulate joint arrangement and plan to ensure provision of mental health and substance use disorder services to inmates. *
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Protects current out-of-State placements of individuals with developmental disabilities and prohibits transfer in-State under certain conditions.*
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.
Provides certain definitions for biofuels under "Motor Fuels Tax Act."
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.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
In committee · 88
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Creates a civil "rape shield" law.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Clarifies procedure for municipalities sharing police patrol responsibilities.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Revises child pornography law.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Specifies failure to restrain a cat, dog, or other domestic companion animal while the animal is riding in a motor vehicle is not cruel or inhumane transport.
Establishes NJ Business and the Arts Commission to promote art Statewide.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes Common Core State Standards Evaluation Task Force; delays use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers until task force submits final report.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Allows certain fuel dealers and distributors refunds of petroleum products gross receipts tax and credits against motor fuel tax for certain bad debts from sale of fuel.
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Repeals traffic control signal monitoring system pilot program; prohibits future use of red light cameras in State.
Expands definitions of "abused child" or "abused or neglected child" to include prenatal exposure of child to controlled substances.
Provides for disclosure of person's medical records related to AIDS or HIV infection for investigations or prosecutions of crime of diseased person committing act of sexual penetration; makes crime ineligible for expungment.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to order reduction in reservoir levels prior to weather emergency; requires DEP to adopt regulations concerning reservoir levels.
Prohibits sale of prepaid and wireless telephone service and equipment unless certain buyer information is recorded.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of purchasing and installing battery backups for certain home solar electrical generators.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric cancer research.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Directs State agencies to take certain action to expedite permitting through use of general permits.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children; appropriates $1,500,000 to Treasury.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Establishes Bergen Watershed Flood prevention and Protection Task Force.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Requires fire districts, school districts, and county governments to share in burden of property assessment appeal refunds.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
Authorizes retired law enforcement officers to provide security in public schools.
Requires Family Part under certain circumstances to dispose of charge of contempt of a domestic violence order on an emergency basis, without setting bail.
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.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments not required under State or federal law.
Permits juveniles to be admitted to drug court program under certain circumstances.
Establishes various good governance requirements at certain bi-state authorities.
Establishes various good governance requirements at State and local authorities.
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.
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Establishes "Opioid Abuse Prevention Commission."
Increases criminal penalties related to certain illegal activities involving controlled dangerous substances.
Upgrades and expands crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances.
Requires property record cards and tax maps prepared in conjunction with revaluations to be produced in electronic format.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Establishes traffic law public awareness campaign.
Clarifies that law enforcement officers may possess firearms in casinos.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Provides for early termination of terms of office for certain appointed municipal court positions when two or more municipalities enter into agreements to establish joint or shared municipal courts.
Requires MVC to accept Transportation Worker Identification Credential as proof of identity for issuance of driver's licenses, certain permits, and nondriver identification cards.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Exempts principal residences from the transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to place security freeze on consumer reports of protected consumers under certain circumstances.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Permits use of virtual instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
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.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements under certain conditions.
Prohibits local units of government from adopting increased minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave for private employers.
Provides that crimes committed outside the State under certain circumstances may be prosecuted in New Jersey.
Authorizes establishment of regional economic development partnerships.
Regulates the authority of the court to make provision for the educational expenses of an unemancipated child in certain instances involving child support.
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Establishes Office of Economic Research in Department of State.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Links police and fire interest arbitration base salary cap to property tax levy; makes cap permanent.