Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Vetoed2
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Requires health care facilities to offer influenza vaccination to their health care workers.
Passed the General Assembly9
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act." *
Requires pharmacist to dispense epilepsy drug from same manufacturer as previously dispensed for certain patients. *
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
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.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents concerning sports-related eye injuries.
Requires monitoring of prescriptions for human growth hormones.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs. *
Out of committee18
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers.
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
Extends Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund and collection of annual surcharges for 5 years.
Establishes New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force.
Enhances pay-to-play provisions applicable to county bridge commission contractors.
Requires licensed health care professionals and facilities to bill Medicare beneficiaries within 90 days of date insurance payment is finalized.
Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Requires use of biometric technology to verify coverage under Medicaid program.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
Provides for designation of surrogates to make health care decisions for certain patients and decision making process for patients without surrogates; establishes demonstration program for transition of isolated patients from inpatient care to post-acute
Requires surgical practices to be licensed by DHSS as ambulatory care facilities.
Authorizes marriage and entry into a civil union by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard.
Establishes New Jersey Multiple Sclerosis Task Force.
In committee115
Concerns use of health information technology products.
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Permits licensed facilities currently providing inpatient psychiatric services to add inpatient psychiatric beds without obtaining certificate of need.
Permits municipalities to defer 100% of payment of property taxes owed by senior citizen homeowners enrolled in PAAD.
Requires applicants for public assistance undergo retinal scan to detect multiple case fraud.
"Prescription Drug Right-to-Know Act"; establishes clinical trials registry in DHSS; requires pharmaceutical companies to publicly disclose clinical trial data.
Exempts drugs for treatment of certain conditions from restrictive mechanisms under Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, AIDS Drug Distribution Program, and PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
Excludes certain Medicare premiums in determining eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Provides for a gross income tax deduction for COBRA premium expenses.
Establishes a financial or personal information "do not sell" list for residents of this State.
Provides that employees no longer must pay full cost of purchase of PERS, PFRS or TPAF credit for military service.
Requires New Jersey DMVA to issue Cold War certificates to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits persons under 19 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Requires managed care plans to cover treatment of overweight and obesity in adults on fee-for-service basis.
Enhances rights and remedies of employees who disclose or refuse to participate in fraudulent employer practices.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Extends charity care payments to physicians providing hospital-based charity care.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
Revises criteria for determining health claim to be "clean claim" for purposes of promptly remitting payment.
Makes reforms to "Health Care Quality Act;" requires audits of provider networks.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county bridge commissions.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Revises "Health Care Quality Act;" requires certain provisions in managed care plan contracts; clarifies certain responsibilities for ordering tests and procedures.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Immunizes policyholders from liability within policy limits when coverage exceeds New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association statutory limit of $300,000.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of tobacco use cessation services.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Requires DHSS to review standard of care at health care facilities in which 40% or more of direct patient care nursing staff are temporary hires.
Establishes procedures for operation of air ambulance services.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt uniform informed consent form for clinical demonstration projects approved by DHSS.
Revises standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
"New Jersey Broadband and Electronic Health Information Network Authority Act."
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Requires all assisted living facilities set aside at least 10% of beds for Medicaid-eligible persons and accept at least 5% Medicaid direct admission.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
Prevents managed care plan from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager initiated by employer or carrier.
Prevents managed care plan from denying coverage for certain health care services provided to covered person solely because covered person did not present referral to provider who performed services.
Requires health insurers that cover speech therapy and SHBP to provide coverage for certain services.
Requires Division of Taxation to provide certain information to applicants deemed ineligible.
Expands eligibility for subsidy payments from CATV Universal Access Fund to include certain Medicaid recipients.
Directs DHS to declare surplus certain unused real property and provides for direct sale thereof.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Prohibits State officer or employee involved in awarding contract from holding employment with party awarded contract for two years after leaving State service.
Establishes Center for the Study of Health Care Billing Data.
Revises requirement for school district participation in Alliance for Competitive Telecommunications program and requires consultation with New Jersey Association of School Business Officials on certain training.
Permits "opt out" of compulsory automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; eliminates territorial rate caps.
Expands scope of claims subject to "Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act"; modifies procedures applicable to health claims reviews.
Requires State Comptroller to establish schedule for each county to undergo performance review by State Comptroller's staff every five years.
Deems utilization management decisions on behalf of certain insurers to be practice of health care profession.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Requires carriers offering managed care plans to report certain utilization management decisions to DOBI.
Permits electric public utilities to earn 15% rate of return on investment in, and installation of, certain voltage regulation technologies.
Provides for complaint forms to register perceived violations of local zoning ordinances and "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Prohibits municipalities from requiring permits for certain voter registration drives.
Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act.
Establishes notice requirements for utility service shut-off and provides for appointment of receiver in place of tenant organization for utility service payments in senior living facilities.
Relieves municipalities along certain light rail lines of civil liability in Quiet Zones under certain circumstances.
Requires discount for certain E-ZPass frequent users of NJ Turnpike Exit 6.
"Plastic Bag Recycling Act."
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Requires second class counties with superintendent of elections to establish office of deputy superintendent; authorizes chair and vice-chair of county committee and county's two State committee members to select superintendent and deputy nominees; appro
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2010.
Prohibits organized delivery systems from denying participation in network to imaging centers willing to meet terms of contract.
"State Medicare Part D Assistance and Information Act."
Requires health care facilities to continuously monitor status of health care practitioner credentials.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
"Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Institute Act"; appropriates $6 million.
Allows exclusion for calculation of adjusted tax levy for expenditures made by municipalities for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Requires health insurers SHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for ancillary medical services in connection with outpatient diagnostic screening and surgical intervention services.
Require property condition disclosure statements for real estate sales.
Requires SHBP to cover prostate cancer screening.
Provides for tattoo pigment labeling requirements.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires applications for certain professional and occupational licenses and certain registrations for controlled dangerous substance distribution to include information on applicant's membership in Armed Forces.
Provides that certain disabled veterans may purchase special automobile insurance policies.
Requires DEP to notify municipality of environmental violations by a local entity.
Establishes notification system for operation of petting zoos and certain animal or agricultural exhibitions; establishes sanitation requirement for human contact with animals.
Requires permit for operation of petting zoos and certain animal or agricultural exhibitions, shows, and fairs; establishes sanitation requirements.
Prohibits sale of mercury batteries and consumer products that use mercury batteries; prohibits disposal of used mercury batteries as solid waste.
Authorizes set-asides, and fees in-lieu thereof, for open space and recreation purposes as conditions to approvals under the MLUL.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction for repeat offender.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Prohibits practice of requiring a credit check as condition of employment.
Prohibits school districts from accessing a school-issued electronic communication device to monitor student conduct outside of school property.
Requires certain health benefits plans to include coverage for treatment at ambulatory surgical centers and surgical practices and prohibits riders to the contrary.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to implement retinal scanning for Medicaid applicants.
Clarifies that insurance broker transparency requirement only applies to sale of health benefits plans.
Establishes death by auto as first degree crime in certain circumstances; designated as Dirk's law.
Establishes NJ Health Care Reform Implementation Council.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of Operation "Noble Eagle."
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Requires a public body to record public meetings and post proceedings on its Internet website.
Directs school district to adjust date of group health insurance contract renewal to ensure coordination of any increased costs with adoption of school budget.
Revises membership of Public Health Council and fully restores functions, powers, and duties of council.
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Establishes State funding for volunteer firefighter training and death benefit.
Reduces amount of fire duty required in order to receive exempt fireman certificate.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunizations for students.
Concerns liability and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Establishes health insurance claims database in DOBI.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; requires certain information be posted on DOBI's website.
Permits reuse of returned prescription drugs within licensed health care facilities; directs Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to evaluate feasibility of reuse for treatment of indigent persons.
Establishes standards of practice for clinical nursing services providers for medically fragile students.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Requires licensed health care professionals and facilities to bill Medicare beneficiaries within 90 days of date insurance payment is finalized.
Authorizes marriage and entry into a civil union by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard. *
Establishes New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force.
Establishes New Jersey Multiple Sclerosis Task Force.
Vetoed1
Requires surgical practices to be licensed by DHSS as ambulatory care facilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Disqualifies member of board of education or member of charter school board of trustees for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation. *
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Authorizes companies under BPU jurisdiction to bill customers electronically upon customers' request.
Authorizes public providers of utility services to bill customers electronically upon customers' request.
Directs Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Information Technology to study and report potential benefits of expanding the use of electronic transactions, including the use of electronic signature and electronic record by the State.
Authorizes county colleges and county vocational school districts to establish green job certification programs.
Allows DMVA to fundraise for handicap accessible vehicle purchase.
Changes membership requirements of the Veterans' Services Council.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Provides for educational stability of children placed in resource family homes and that school district of residence for the child shall be present district of residence of parent or guardian.
Requires development of interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program; requires certain measures to protect student athletes with concussions; and requires continuing education for athletic trainers.*
Requires Department of State to create uniform application form for use by small businesses to apply for certain State financial assistance programs.*
Provides corporation with right to renounce corporate opportunity doctrine.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by veterans.
Requires assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home that surrenders its license and promised not to discharge Medicaid residents to escrow funds to pay for care in alternate facility. *
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires DOT to study stormwater basins in Barnegat Bay watershed; requires DOT and NJ Turnpike Authority to include repairs of stormwater basins in capital project plans.
Requires DOE to include cheerleaders in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Creates Veterans Haven Council.
Allows all municipalities to sell and lease unneeded public property for "urban" farming and gardening purposes.
Vetoed · 9
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit. *
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Provides State school aid to districts in amount consistent with provisions of "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Passed the General Assembly · 17
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 sale of lottery tickets or shares after claim of top prizes.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires development of uniform fee schedule by Department of Treasury for registration and certification of small and women- and minority-owned businesses; requires collaboration to streamline procurement application process.
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Allows homestead property tax reimbursement program participants who lose income eligibility due to an IRA withdraw for certain purposes to maintain base year upon requalification.
Requires DMVA, through State veterans service offices, to provide surviving beneficiary of deceased service member with comprehensive benefits packet.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Permits a child whose parent or quardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in the school district where the child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Regulates operation of sweepstakes in New Jersey.
Directs DOT to allow wineries to erect tourist-oriented directional signs on roads and highways. *
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service. *
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Maintains right of corporate directors and officers to indemnification under certain circumstances.
Requires Board of Medical Examiners to promulgate regulations regarding botulinum toxin injections for minors.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to designation as charter school district of residence or expansion of a charter school. *
Out of committee · 58
Establishes task force to study treatment of veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings.
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Establishes program for directing motorists to agricultural tourism establishments.*
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires public institutions of higher education and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to include link on their websites for access to educational information. *
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Protects property taxpayers by requiring removal of certain property tax deduction and credit information from documents available for public inspection and provides for homestead property tax benefit in form of credit.
Requires State entities to examine opportunity of minority and women-owned financial institutions to serve as senior managing underwriters, imposes reporting requirements, and enables establishment of aspirational levels of utilization and relative compe
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Reduces number of reports and publications printed by State; provides for most to be available primarily on Internet; requires notice of availability of reports and publications.*
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Changes date for mail-in ballots transmission from 40th to 45th day before an election, with certain exceptions; permits referendum on school levy cap and municipal levy cap to occur on same day. **
Concerns gender equity in the workplace.
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain violent arrestees.
Clarifies that sexual assault victims are not responsible for any costs of forensic sexual assault examinations or related services.
Designates portion of Route 47 in Glassboro as "South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Highway".
"Emma's Law"; provides for screening newborn infants for lysosomal storage disorders.
Requires all wireless telephones and electronic communication devices issued by public entities to be activated to receive Amber Alerts.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Permits sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
Requires holder of rental security deposit account to provide second notice before account is deemed abandoned under the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act."
Concerns custody and parenting time issues for military parents.
Establishes procedure for destroying certain contraband tobacco products and cigarettes.
Prohibits municipal zoning ordinances from regulating solar panels under certain circumstances; limits fees for certain renewable energy installations.
Provides for development of searchable "Bulletin NJ" local public bidding and employment database.
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers.
Establishes NJ Center for Oral Health at UMDNJ Dental School.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain wages paid to qualified interns in tax years 2012 and 2013.
Requires four weeks pre-notification of exhaustion of UI benefits. *
"Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act"; provides for use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms and requires physicians and advanced practice nurses to pursue continuing education in end-of-life care.*
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DHSS.
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
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.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Concerns creation of benefit corporations.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.*
Provides for nursing reimbursement adjustment for cost of energy improvements.
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customers.
Establishes uniform real property taxation for commercial renewable energy systems and limits municipal construction permit fees for non-commercial renewable energy systems.*
Supplemental appropriation of $6.4 million in State funds and $11.9 million in federal funds to DHS to restore eligibility to parents in NJ FamilyCare.
Requires that Board of Pharmacy compile and publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs and that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug. *
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $10,250,780 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and 2007 Historic Preservation Fund to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $600,000 from "2009 Historic Preservation Fund" for associated administrative
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Concerns the sale of portable electronics insurance and licensing of limited lines insurance producers for that purpose.
Establishes Grow New Jersey Assistance Program to provide tax credits to certain businesses; changes eligibility and certain other requirements for other business assistance programs; authorizes transfer of certain real property.*
Establishes New Jersey Food Access Initiative; funds initiative with certain sales tax revenue from urban enterprise zones for five years.
Establishes Small Business Loan Program in EDA allowing certain small businesses to be eligible for low interest rate loans of up to $250,000 to expand their businesses.
Restores eligibility of New Jersey Health ACCESS recipients for NJ FamilyCare effective August 1, 2011.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
In committee · 85
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstances.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative Act."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
Requires telephone number to report suspicious activities or behavior related to terrorism be printed on certificates of approval.
Affords employment protection to certain volunteer emergency responders.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Modifies laws concerning inmate income and complaints; creates uniform identification cards for attorneys to enter State correctional facilities.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Excludes financial benefit received by volunteer emergency responder from gross income.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Creates eight additional judgeships; increases certain court fees to fund judgeships and to supplement funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Provides official State recognition of Powhatan Renape Nation, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Inc., and Ramapough Mountain Indians as American Indian Tribes for certain purposes.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Directs New Jersey Turnpike Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to POW-MIA's.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Grants credit against business taxes to developer of rental housing reserved for occupancy by veterans.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program."
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.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for maintenance of certain State memorials honoring war veterans.
Authorizes municipality to require enhanced notice of applications for development under MLUL by posting signs and expanding scope of individual notice to property owners within 400 feet of subject property.
Exempts certain purchases by school food service providers from the sales and use tax.
Requires certain physicians to complete course in recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Increases maximum Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue resulting from veterans' total property tax exemption.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Establishes the "Safe Drop Off of Drugs Program" for the collection and disposal of unused prescription drugs and other medicines; authorizes use of recycling tax revenues for program; establishes Corporation Business Tax Credit for companies providing d
Establishes death benefit for certain first aid volunteers and volunteer firefighters.
"Water Supply Open Space, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund Act."
Clarifies that "entering" a public place for a drug deal is conduct included in C.2C:33-2.1.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present.
Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians in their first seven taxable years of practice in New Jersey.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Prohibits retail dealer from charging in excess of five cents more per gallon for credit purchase of fuel than for cash purchase; requires certain price disclosures.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Prohibits NJ member of Delaware River Basin Commission from supporting use of drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Establishes standards for commercial insurers and Medicaid program implementing electronic prescribing systems.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Filed · 2
Phases-in single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula over three years and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Establishes alternative business calculation under gross income tax to permit consolidation and carryforward of certain business-related losses.