Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Pamela R. Lampitt
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires building materials dealer to provide uniquely identified delivery ticket to consumer.
Revises the period of time required for a State college faculty member to receive tenure.*
Permits person with developmental disability and legal guardian to audio record sessions of interdisciplinary team in which person or guardian participates.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.*
Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.
Expands neighborhood revitalization State tax credit to include gross income taxpayers; increases annual total amount of tax credits allowable from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.
Provides for temporary approval of WIC vendor applications if the applicant currently operates another approved program.
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.
Vetoed2
Requires public contractors to report certain employment information.
Provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected by decision or practice, including each time compensation is paid.
Passed the General Assembly10
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for advanced technology vehicles and alternative fueled vehicles. *
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Permits institutions of higher education to make supplemental contributions to ABP.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.*
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.*
Establishes public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
Provides for licensure of human milk banks.
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Out of committee14
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Limits payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date by public officers or employees represented by union; for all public employees, limits vacation leave carry-forward and requires suspension and forfeiture of certain supplemental compensat
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Extends for 18 months application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits payment for unused sick leave earned after effective date by public officers and employees not represented by union; for all public employees, limits vacation leave carry-forward and requires suspension and forfeiture of certain supplemental co
Prohibits home-schooling of children under DYFS care, custody, or supervision without DYFS approval.
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.
Appropriates up to $1,000,000 to bridge federal funding for Violence Against Women Act grantees.
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
"New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project Act."
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research database.
Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law."
In committee59
Requires Civil Service Commission to generate compensation guidelines to help counties and municipalities determine appropriate pay for various positions.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Provides a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases made for undergraduate education.
Requires suicide prevention continuing education courses for physicians and podiatrists.
Requires counties, municipalities, fire districts, and boards of education to cooperatively develop and implement five-year financial plans.
Directs certain recoveries of federal funds for services to persons with developmental disabilities be used for grants to support community infrastructure purposes.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Requires Commission on Higher Education to develop accountability and transparency standards for public research institutions and State colleges.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
Creates Office of Energy Savings to implement program to improve energy efficiency and conservation for all State agencies.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Establishes standardized energy audit and training program.
Requires school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
Prohibits retail stores from selling cellular telephone equipment or cellular telephone equipment service contracts unless stores provide information brochures about "sexting" to customers who purchase such equipment or contracts.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to address school climate issues related to harassment, intimidation, and bullying in public schools.
Requires New Jersey Transit to offer discount passes to all New Jersey higher education students.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement for claimants affected by eminent domain.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Provides tax credits to certain businesses for certain capital investment in qualified business facilities and qualified residential projects located in vicinity of designated transit villages.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave; limits employment for certain public employees.
Extends for three years application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
Specifies that doctoral students seeking eligibility for licensure as practicing psychologists shall not be required to physically attend classes.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Extends certain business tax credit programs to the gross income tax.
Establishes "green teams" to develop and advance energy conservation and efficiency and environmental sustainability in State governmental offices.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
Directs MVC to implement certain State Auditor recommendations to enhance integrity of driver database.
Requires lighting and security cameras at sexually oriented businesses; imposes civil penalty for permitting access to minors; permits negative secondary effects study; permits tax on sexually oriented business.
Authorizes DOT, NJ Turnpike Authority, and South Jersey Transportation Authority to permit BPU-certified persons to install and maintain solar photovoltaic panels on noise barriers erected on roads and highways.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Permits commercial advertising and sponsorship signs on equipment and materials related to the collection of tolls consistent with State law on outdoor advertising.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of natural gas, and charges for transportation or transmission of natural gas, to certain colleges and universities.
Provides sales and use tax exclusion for charges for student parking provided by certain colleges and universities.
Limits leave and supplemental compensation benefits for school district superintendents, assistant superintendents, and school business administrators; provides procedures and penalties for enforcement of TPAF provisions.
Requires public institution of higher education to notify the parents of certain dependent students, without prior consent of the student, when student receives mental health treatment at the institution.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to accept for transfer certain academic credits.
Extends eligibility for N.J. World Trade Center Scholarship Program to dependents and spouses of persons totally and permanently disabled as a result of exposure to the attack sites.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Allows an institution of higher education to require the mental health records of a student committed to attend the institution.
Requires members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education to complete a training program developed by the Commission on Higher Education.
Permits undersheriff to perform administrative duties on behalf of county sheriff.
Establishes grant program for constructing kitchen facilities in licensed child care centers; appropriates $1,000,000.
Provides for $5 million rebate program for purchase and installation of residential compressed natural gas vehicle fueling stations and electric vehicle charging stations using funds from societal benefits charge.
Provides that as of September 2013 only low-fat or fat-free milk may be sold, served, or given away on school property.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from tax levy and appropriation cap, as applicable, for school districts, municipalities, and counties.
Expands coverage for infertility under certain health insurance plans to women who are not currently covered.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Requires school districts to include information on reproductive coercion as part of the dating violence education program.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law." *
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Extends for 18 months application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
"New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project Act."
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research data base.
Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on drivers license.
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Modifies certain service outage compensation and notice requirements for CATV companies.
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means, including electronic communications or Internet website, shall be subject to criminal penalties. **
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Authorizes BPU to promulgate regulations requiring electricity providers to provide information so customers may compare prices and services.*
Prohibits minors under 14 years of age from using spray tanning in tanning facilities and prohibits minors under 17 years of age from using tanning beds.**
Revises State designation of "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" from February to September.
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to review preparation of local fire mutual aid plans and determine necessity of designated fire command structure.*
Concerns disclosure of certain employment information.
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Directs State Board of Education to promulgate regulations requiring school districts to develop a plan to establish stability in special education programming.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications device by employers.
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Provides for EMT and Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic certification for certain veterans.
Allows certain military spouses with out-of-State teaching license to receive temporary instructional certificate in New Jersey.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Youth and Collegiate Affairs.
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.**
Requires health benefits coverage for refills of prescription eye drops under certain conditions.
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.
Requires Commissioners of Education and Labor and Workforce Development to study and report on departments' efforts in providing students with information on employment in high-demand industries.***
Changes pejorative terminology referring to mental capacity of individuals.
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Provides for temporary professional or occupational licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Requires development of a diabetes action plan by DOH.
Establishes highway-related sponsorship programs in DOT, NJTA, and SJTA.*
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
Establishes School Security Task Force.*
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court.
Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.
Vetoed · 12
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Provides for uniform basic structure of taxicab fares in certain municipalities.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.**
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court; alters eligibility requirements and increases fees for existing conditional discharge and supervisory treatment programs.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Concerns registration of contractors and sets criteria for responsible bidders in public work.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and aides on interacting with students with special needs.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish public awareness campaign about new federally required health insurance exchange.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Passed the General Assembly · 41
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Requires certain State departments, divisions, commissions, and authorities to consider use of green or blue roof in construction of certain new State buildings, facilities, and structures.*
Establishes a civil cause of action for gender-motivated violence.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
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.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires report and public hearing prior to DEP recommendation of site for inclusion on Superfund list.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.*
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Expands education requirements for special learner's and examination permits.
Creates "New Jersey Life Science Internship Challenge" program.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for qualified investment in certain biotechnology businesses.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
Permits small, women or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires affidavits for civil actions concerning certain mental health professionals. *
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signature from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission database.*
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Directs Department of Law and Public Safety to engage in Internet privacy and social media responsibility campaign.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Places certain limitations on attorney solicitation letters.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Requires proof of firearms safety training as a condition for issuance of firearms purchaser ID cards and permits to purchase handguns.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Provides for termination of parental rights of certain persons convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.*
Establishes workplace training program for unemployment compensation recipients; makes an appropriation.
Concerns enforcement, penalties, and procedures for law regarding failure to pay wages.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.*
Establishes that volunteer firemen appointed to paid positions are not required to be recertified in certain instances.
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Out of committee · 33
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Requires school buses transporting certain disabled persons to use flashing lights and establishes penalties for drivers who fail to yield.
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Provides for licensure of elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanics by State board.**
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military service absences.*
Designates State Highway Route 42 as the "Route 42 Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Extends hiring preference for certain civilian federal firefighters.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Requires physicians to complete survey as condition for biennial registration with Board of Medical Examiners and requires board to maintain and disseminate survey data as appropriate.*
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Establishes "Veterans Higher Education Commission."
"Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Reporting Act."
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.*
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
Establishes new public-private partnership agreement option for construction of State and county college facilities and changes reference from "Commission on Higher Education" to "Secretary of Higher Education" in higher education construction Educationa
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $7,453,000 for family planning services, and requires filing of State Plan Amendment to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to persons with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level.
Clarifies that a single State college may enter into a joint purchasing agreement with other contracting units. *
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Concerns voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support New Jersey athletes participating in 2014 Special Olympics USA Games.
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Eliminates requirement that full-time students at a county college in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.*
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
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Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires BPU to increase credit provided when issuing Solar Renewable Energy Certificates for solar energy produced by equipment manufactured in NJ.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Establishes new crimes concerning service dogs and upgrades crimes against certain other animals.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Concerns UEZ funding to qualifying municipalities.
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Requires high-mounted rear stoplights on certain passenger vehicles.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
Permits breweries to offer samples and to sell directly to consumers at brewery premises.
Restores benefit under State earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal credit beginning in Tax Year 2011.
Requires certain motor vehicle reinspections be conducted at licensed private inspection facilities.
Extends period for requested medical exam for disability benefits under PFRS to every two years until 55 years of age.
Establishes "Study Commission on E-Licensing."
Requires labeling of food containing any product from a cloned animal or its progeny.
Requires retail store operators to establish in-store recycling programs that provide opportunities for customers to return clean plastic carryout bags.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain sales of personal computers and certain sales of school supplies and equipment during first full weekend of August.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from certain drivers involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period.
Establishes limited retail religious distribution license.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Provides corporation business tax incentives for life sciences research.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Requires causes of driver inattention to be noted in traffic accidents.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Exempts from payment certain taxes and energy charges for manufacturing facilities.
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Establishes three-year Nurse Educator Pilot Program in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Permits public records custodian to require deposit for OPRA record requests exceeding $15.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Establishes the Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Advanced Technology Vehicle Task Force.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to, or purchases of credits from, federally qualified tuition program.
Requires public institutions of higher education to implement certain practices concerning academic credits and residency requirements for military servicemembers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to NJ Alliance for Children Youth and Families.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
Requires mandatory drug addiction assessments and participation in "drug court" program under special probation statute for certain offenders.
Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new parents information about crib safety.
Concerns prevailing wage payment in certain housing projects.
Requires workers employed in certain public works to have completed a registered apprenticeship program.
Establishes permanent task force to review and guide implementation of process improvement programs for Executive Branch based on Lean Six Sigma management approach.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $7,453,000 for family planning services, and requires filing of State Plan Amendment to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to persons with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level.
Authorizes placement of involved animal with animal welfare agency or similar entity pending adjudication of alleged animal cruelty violation when not adjudicated in seven days.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
"Drug Dealer Accountability Act;" increases penalties for distribution of phencyclidine; establishes criminal liability for drug dealers under certain circumstances; imposes civil and criminal penalties for combinations of controlled dangerous substances
Provides that a school district may be placed under full or partial State intervention pursuant to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) for no longer than five years.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Criminalizes mental or emotional hazing.
Provides that institutions of higher education require candidates for membership in or members of fraternities, sororities, sports teams, and other student organizations to sign anti-hazing agreement.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
"Child Food and Beverage Packaging Act"; restricts sale of child food and beverage containers made with bisphenol A.
Abolishes the State Real Estate Appraisers Board and transfers regulation of appraisers to the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program and provides a State match for contributions to NJBEST accounts for families meeting certain income guidelines.
Establishes enhanced penalties for licensed firearms dealers under certain circumstance.
Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Permits restaurants without a liquor license to advertise that they are BYOB or a winery salesroom.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide notice and grace period before enrolling student who has not provided proof of coverage in health insurance plan offered by institution.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Prohibits sex offenders from holding any job, position, or type of employment that primarily consists of contact with children.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Exempts veterans and members of military from boat license and registration fees under certain circumstances.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for pediatric cancer research.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Clarifies certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; eliminates the term "permanent alimony" from the statutes.