Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Pamela R. Lampitt
Sponsored
Became law5
Establishes requirements for pharmacists to dispense biological products.*
Implements current car seat safety recommendations.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for women veterans.*
Requires continuing care retirement communities to provide residents with information on influenza vaccines for older adults.
Vetoed2
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
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.*
Passed the General Assembly3
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
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 committee29
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Provides for licensure of human milk banks.
"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.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Extends health benefits coverage of a newborn infant.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Prohibits insurers from setting prices for non-covered dental services.
The "New Jersey Intern Protection Act"; provides legal protections and remedies for persons engaged in internships with employers.
Requires hospitals and birthing centers to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.
"The Child and Family Suicide Prevention Act;" requires training related to screening for suicide prevention for pediatricians, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses.*
Increases reporting requirements for the NJ Basic Skills Training Program for Economic Growth.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.*
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Requires DHS establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollment program.
Ensures equal rights and opportunities for pregnant graduate students in institutions of higher education.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students who have children to purchase meal plans, live in on-campus housing, or pay gym fees.
Prohibits institution of higher education that provides child care from charging student-parent who receives child care voucher under "New Jersey Cares for Kids Program" an amount for child care in excess of voucher amount.
Requires institutions of higher education to inquire about student's marital and parental status.
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
In committee62
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
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.
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.
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.
Requires school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
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.
Revises the period of time required for a State college faculty member to receive tenure.
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.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave; limits employment for certain public employees.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
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 compensati
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.
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 com
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.
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.
Requires textbook publishers to provide public institutions of higher education with information on price and availability of textbooks.
Requires members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education to complete a training program developed by the Commission on Higher Education.
Prohibits home-schooling of children under DYFS care, custody, or supervision without DYFS approval.
Establishes grant program for constructing kitchen facilities in licensed child care centers; appropriates $1,000,000.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Establishes public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
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.
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research data base.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of certain entities from using title of psychologist.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Concerns eligibility requirements for licensed professional counselors and associate counselors.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.
Provides for Medicaid coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation services and prohibits certain restrictions on coverage.
Makes membership in New Jersey Council of County Colleges optional.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
Requires health insurance carriers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for telemedicine.
Creates cidery and meadery license.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Concerns unlawful employment practices based on provision of health benefits plans.
Establishes separate class of claims against insolvent estates for child support judgments; modifies order for payment of claims by representative of insolvent estate.
Authorizes health care practitioners to provide health care services through telemedicine.
Provides veterans with up to 60 credits tuition-free at county college serving county of residence.
Provides for an annual assessment upon certain rail carriers transporting crude oil and dedicates assessment revenue for State aid to municipalities for use by local government unit emergency responders.
Requires health benefits coverage for juvenile depression screenings.
Requires health benefits coverage for donated human breast milk under certain conditions.
Requires HMFA to establish "Sustainable Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to make comprehensive list of its programs available to public.
Establishes protection from adverse employment action for authorized medical marijuana patients.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Prohibits insurers from setting prices for non-covered dental services.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.**
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
Vetoed4
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 54
Requires Department of Agriculture to post on its website certain information regarding State's farm to school program.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
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.
Encourages the establishment of "breakfast after the bell" programs in school districts, public school, and nonpublic schools participating in the federal school breakfast program.*
Directs New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority to study and report on potential revenue generating services of rest areas and service plazas.*
Establishes durational limits and enumerates certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; establishes "open durational" alimony.*
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Prohibits school district from denying student school breakfast or school lunch because payment is in arrears without prior notice to parent.
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.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for New Jersey Nonprofit Veterans Organizations through gross income tax returns.*
Provides that eligibility for NJ STARS Program be based on class rank at completion of student's junior year or senior year of high school.*
Provides remedies for certain fraudulent financing statements.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support farm to school and school gardens programs.
Allows contributions to "New Jersey Farm to School Program.*
Establishes "Best in New Jersey 'Farm to School' Awards Program" to annually recognize the best farm to school programs implemented by a school or school district.
Directs the Dept. of Agriculture to establish a clearinghouse website for farmers to offer produce and dairy products for use by school breakfast programs, school lunch programs, and food banks.*
Requires one-time application for requesting services for individuals with developmental disabilities from DCF and DHS.
"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.
Requires complaint for guardianship of person receiving services from Division of Developmental Disabilities to include one of the documents identified in bill.*
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Permits certain zero emission vehicle manufacturers to directly sell motor vehicles to consumers and requires them to operate service facilities.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
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 preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Revises the "Self-Funded Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement Regulation Act."
"Boys & Girls Clubs Keystone Law"; permits minors to give consent for behavioral health care.
Requires DHS to use and update NJ Elder Index and related data to the extent possible.*
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
"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.
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
Directs Department of Agriculture to publish on its website "New Jersey Gleaning Week" and "Farmers Against Hunger Day" page.
Permits administration of epinephrine auto-injector device by persons who complete approved educational program.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Requires certain notifications for termination of services to persons with developmental disabilities and providers.
Requires facilities providing services to persons with developmental disabilities and schools to adopt policies permitting administration of medical marijuana to qualifying patients.
Vetoed · 19
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Requires Department of Health to publish informational guidelines on the inspection, identification, evaluation, and abatement of mold.*
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Requires DOE to review Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure they incorporate standards regarding engineering where appropriate.*
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities. *
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Passed the General Assembly · 40
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
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.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Expands education requirements for special learner's and examination permits.
Designates salt water taffy as New Jersey State Candy.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires OLS to provide certain notices and reports to legislators and legislative staff by electronic means only.
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
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.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Authorizes issuance of restraining orders for situtations in which domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.*
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Authorizes special motion to dismiss a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" ("SLAPP").
Requires DOLWD to permit veterans and other groups to apply for UI benefits online.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.*
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
"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.*
Extends post-military service protection against mortgage foreclosure.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Requires employers and health care institutions to disseminate information regarding certain leave and benefits.*
"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.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Requires NJT to limit fare increases under its discount program for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and college students; designated as "Fare Affordability and Ridership Empowerment (FARE) Act."
"Transparency, Responsibility, and Accountability for New Surcharges and Increases in Ticketing (T.R.A.N.S.I.T.) Act"; increases number of public hearings NJT is required to hold prior and subsequent to fare increase or change or abandonment of service.
Out of committee · 66
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.*
"Health Care Consumer Cost Transparency Act" *
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain contributions to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) program.*
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunizations for students.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th birthday.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation; requires 12 month judicial review hearing when juvenile is placed out-of-home.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when their vehicles bear a disabled veteran's or Purple Heart license plate or placard issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.*
Designates State Route 173 between Clinton and Phillipsburg as "173rd Airborne Brigade Highway."
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act;" provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.***
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
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.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Regulates certain servicing activities provided by mortgage servicing organizations for residential mortgage loans.
Provides that school districts must ensure that students with disabilities have opportunities to participate in athletic activities equal to those of other students.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Requires certification of diligent inquiry in residential mortgage foreclosure actions to be filed by attorneys.
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
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.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
"Tyler Banuls' Law"; provides protections for children with developmental disabilities receiving services from DCF.
Establishes Special Needs Housing-for Work Pilot Program within DHS to provide certain individuals with supportive housing in exchange for work activity or alternative work experience.*
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Extends "Overdose Prevention Act" immunity provisions to certain professionals and professional entities, and permits needle exchange programs to obtain standing order for opioid antidote dispensation.*
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Concerns expedited process for foreclosing vacant and abandoned residential properties in uncontested actions.*
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Requires full pay for certain health care and public safety workers placed in isolation or quarantine.
Protects current out-of-State placements of individuals with developmental disabilities and prohibits transfer in-State under certain conditions.*
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Exempts certain property from attachment.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Establishes temporary mortgage relief programs for certain owners of real property impacted by "Superstorm Sandy."*
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Establishes microgrid pilot program.
Amends Fiscal Year 2015 budget to provide one-half of certain environmental damage amounts recovered are appropriated for costs of remediation, restoration, and clean up.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act." *
Directs DOLWD to provide information regarding employee leave and benefit rights.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
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Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Authorizes innocent spouse relief under the gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
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.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means, including electronic communications or Internet website, shall be subject to criminal penalties.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
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."
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.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
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.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Requires retail store operators to establish in-store recycling programs that provide opportunities for customers to return clean plastic carryout bags.
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
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 possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Prohibits sex offenders from holding any job, position, or type of employment that primarily consists of contact with children.
Clarifies certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; eliminates the term "permanent alimony" from the statutes.
Requires causes of driver inattention to be noted in traffic accidents.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to, or purchases of credits from, federally qualified tuition program.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer’s rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
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.
Exempts veterans and members of military from boat license and registration fees under certain circumstances.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Prohibits permanent change of child custody during period of active military service; provides that absence due to active military duty, by itself, is insufficient justification to modify a child custody or visitation order.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Establishes limited retail religious distribution license.
Establishes teacher recruitment grant program in DOE; appropriates $6 million to DOE.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Places certain limitations on attorney solicitation letters.
"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.
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.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires establishment of and compliance with infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards for hospital construction work.
Mandates "breakfast after the bell" program in schools with significant low income population.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Permits restaurants without a liquor license to advertise that they are BYOB or a winery salesroom.
Allows issuing of stop-work orders for failure to pay prevailing wage.
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Requires Rutgers University to create a liberal studies program for intellectually disabled students; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Permits zero emission vehicle manufacturer to directly sell motor vehicles to consumers based on vehicle market.
Reduces number of manufacturing jobs required to qualify for NJEDA financing and incentive programs.
Establishes Consumer Finance Advisory Board; abolishes certain advisory boards in DOBI.
Concerns victim's right to rape care advocate under certain circumstances.
Prohibits pharmacies from charging additional fee for processing prescriptions transmitted by telephone or electronic means.
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.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Allows gross income tax credit for contributions to nonprofit public school support organizations.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide advocates for victims of sexual assault.
Requires institutions of higher education to post information on sexual assaults on website and provide the information to prospective students.
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 health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
Establishes a 1,000 foot drug free zone around playgrounds and other public parks, buildings and housing facilities.
Prohibits sex discrimination in pay and reprisals against employees disclosing employment information or requesting flexible work arrangements.
Creates pilot program concerning domestic violence; creates additional Superior Court judgeships.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Establishes crime of sexual assault by fraud.
Requires disclosures of out-of-network services performed by health care providers under certain circumstances.
Requires pharmacies to install and maintain secure prescription medication drop-off receptacles, and Division of Consumer Affairs to post receptacle location information online.
Requires institution of higher education to provide victim-centered training to employees who assist student victims of sexual assault.
Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse network providers of diagnostic radiologic services at the same rate.
Prohibits "gay panic" defense for murder; prevents reduction of murder charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion under certain circumstances.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Prohibits homeowners insurance premium increase based on first claim during coverage period.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Provides that unlawful use, manufacture, or distribution of controlled dangerous substance by parent or caregiver in presence of child constitutes crime of endangering welfare of that child.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Amends and repeals sections of "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
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.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault to crime of the fourth degree; upgrades second or subsequent offense to crime of the third degree.
Transfers Division of Mental Health Advocacy to DHS; re-titles director as Mental Health Advocate; provides diversion for mental health treatment for persons subject to prosecution in municipal court; appropriates $15,000,000.
Makes changes to electronic waste recycling program.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Requires health care facilities make efforts to ensure inclusion in managed care plan networks.
Reduces ambulatory care facility assessment.
Permits certain audiologists to dispense and fit hearing aids.
Requires certain disclosures by non-fiduciary investment advisors.
Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Transit Ridership Innovation and Participation Act; provides income tax credits for employer-provided public transportation benefits.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Waives annual teacher evaluation requirement for certain teachers who supervise student teachers.
Establishes process by which a fiduciary is discharged.