Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Became law5
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents concerning sports-related eye injuries.
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.**
Requires development of a diabetes action plan by DOH.
Removes statutory authority of DOH and Board of Medical Examiners over medical standards governing declarations of death upon the basis of neurological criteria.*
Vetoed4
Establishes moratorium on licensing of certain emergency medical service helicopter response units pending evaluation and report.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.*
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish public awareness campaign about new federally required health insurance exchange.
Passed the General Assembly9
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Requires monitoring of prescriptions for human growth hormones.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for maintenance of certain State memorials honoring war veterans.
Requires public water utilities to provide customers notice in utility bills of request for increase in rates.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Out of committee20
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Concerns liability and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military service absences.*
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers.
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Establishes prescription drug donation repository program.*
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Requires county board of elections provide notice to voters by mail and on county's Internet site when change in polling place location for any election district occurs within 60 days of any election.
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Adds one member to New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force and extends for one year.
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in dental offices, dental clinics, and animal or veterinary facilities.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Establishes certain requirements, including allowable fees, for provision of medical records to patients, legally authorized representatives, and authorized third parties.*
Allows practitioner with financial interest in health care service providing lithotripsy to refer patients to that health care service if certain conditions are met.
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Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Requires applicants for public assistance undergo retinal scan to detect multiple case fraud.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
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.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Revises standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions.
"New Jersey Broadband and Electronic Health Information Network Authority Act."
Relieves municipalities along certain light rail lines of civil liability in Quiet Zones under certain circumstances.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Prohibits school districts from accessing a school-issued electronic communication device to monitor student conduct outside of school property.
Extends Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund and collection of annual surcharges for 5 years.
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.
Enhances pay-to-play provisions applicable to county bridge commission contractors.
Establishes death by auto as first degree crime in certain circumstances; designated as Dirk's law.
Requires use of biometric technology to verify coverage under Medicaid program.
Directs school district to adjust date of group health insurance contract renewal to ensure coordination of any increased costs with adoption of school budget.
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunizations for students.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Establishes health insurance claims database in DOBI.
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.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; requires certain information be posted on DOBI's website.
Clarifies that insurance broker transparency requirement only applies to sale of health benefits plans.
Establishes NJ Health Care Reform Implementation Council.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider.
Requires all assisted living facilities set aside at least 10% of beds for Medicaid-eligible persons and accept at least 5% Medicaid direct admission.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Requires a public body to record public meetings and post proceedings on its Internet website.
Requires pharmacist to dispense epilepsy drug from same manufacturer as previously dispensed for certain patients, unless otherwise prescribed.
Requires hospitals implement Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection prevention programs in all units except inpatient psychiatric units.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of tobacco use cessation services.
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.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of Operation "Noble Eagle."
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.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Requires health insurers that cover speech therapy, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for certain services.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Permits licensed facilities currently providing inpatient psychiatric services to add inpatient psychiatric beds without obtaining certificate of need.
Concerns use of health information technology products.
Extends charity care payments to physicians providing hospital-based charity care.
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.
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
Increases maximum Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Prohibits persons under 19 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Establishes "Task Force on the Closure of State Psychiatric Hospitals."
Establishes county-based centers for transition for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt uniform informed consent form for clinical demonstration projects approved by DHSS.
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Requires New Jersey DMVA to issue Cold War certificates to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits State officer or employee involved in awarding contract from holding employment with party awarded contract for two years after leaving State service.
Makes reforms to "Health Care Quality Act;" requires audits of provider networks.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
Revises "Health Care Quality Act;" requires certain provisions in managed care plan contracts; clarifies certain responsibilities for ordering tests and procedures.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Increases tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rates to be on par with tax rate imposed on cigarettes under cigarette tax; dedicates revenue for smoking and tobacco use cessation programs.
Provides for two-year post-employment restriction on certain employees of the Department of Banking and Insurance.
Requires insurers to provide information about organ donation and allows insurers to limit reimbursement for organ transplant if recipient has not made gift pursuant to Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Revises various laws concerning medical malpractice.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
"New Jersey Long-Term Care Oversight Act."
Revises membership of Public Health Council and fully restores functions, powers, and duties of council.
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Revises residential property mortgage foreclosure process; requires documentation of right to foreclose and consultation on foreclosure alternatives; provides expedited process for foreclosing abandoned properties.
Requires adoption of procedures and standards for remediation of residential property used for illegal methamphetamine manufacture; requires notice to buyer of such use.
Prohibits insurers from increasing premiums or making other adverse underwriting decisions with respect to medical malpractice liability insurance under certain circumstances.
Establishes enhanced penalties for persons who illegally sell or transfer firearms that are subsequently used in a crime.
Revises requirements for licensure and creates physician-delegated scope of practice for physician assistants.
Establishes task force to study issues related to use of technology in education.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military absences.*
Adds one member to New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force and extends for one year.
Allows practitioner with financial interest in health care service providing lithotripsy to refer patients to that health care service if certain conditions are met.
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in dental offices, dental clinics, and animal or veterinary facilities.
Vetoed2
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Authorizes deployment of integrity oversight monitors in implementation of certain recovery and rebuilding projects.*
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Establishes pilot program suspending operations of superintendent and deputy superintendent of elections in certain second class counties.
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
"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.*
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. **
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.**
Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.*
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications device by employers.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications devices by institutions of higher education.
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.
Makes various revisions to laws concerning disabled person identification cards and placards related to parking privileges.*
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
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 school districts to provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
Appropriates $24,290,379 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system. *
Requires that certain HIV testing be performed within 48 hours of request by victim.
"Nikki's Law"; requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs and use variable message signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving.*
Vetoed · 13
Imposes oversight upon Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
"Common Interest Community Manager Licensing Act."
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Establishes Clean Car Commission.**
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court; alters eligibility requirements and increases fees for existing conditional discharge and supervisory treatment programs.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects. *
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing assault firearms for civilian use.**
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Passed the General Assembly · 24
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
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 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 destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Clarifies that using an animal to cause bodily injury to another constitutes assault with a deadly weapon.*
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.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for qualified investment in certain biotechnology businesses.
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.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act"; provides expedited process for foreclosing abandoned residential properties.
Requires State to enable applicants for State agency-issued permits to track online the progress and status of their permit application.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.*
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Directs Department of Law and Public Safety to engage in Internet privacy and social media responsibility campaign.
Establishes 12-month moratorium on establishment of new virtual charter schools and creates Virtual Charter School Task force.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Provides for termination of parental rights of certain persons convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.*
Requires certain persons licensed or appointed to inspect homes to pass criminal history background check.
Repeals anachronistic, superceded, or invalidated sections of statutory law.
Out of committee · 37
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Prohibits first responders from photographing persons being assisted or disclosing photographs of such persons without their consent.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Extends for 18 months application submission deadline to EDA for review and approval of certain construction projects involving public institutions of higher education.
Increases fine for failure to keep right or failure to observe traffic lanes; establishes fund to pay for certain signage.*
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes.
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Establishes notification signage, and monitoring requirements related to combined sewer overflows.*
Provides for phased-in mandatory participation in "drug court" program for certain offenders.*
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.
Revises certain solar renewable energy programs and requirements; provides for aggregated net metering of electricity consumption related to properties owned by certain governmental bodies and school districts.**
Permits establishment of countywide purchasing system by a county and requires participation by all school districts within the county.
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."*
Requires labeling of all foods containing genetically modified material.
Permits local units to enter into joint agreements to purchase fire equipment.
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is barred from receiving federal contract.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Requires medical examiner training about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and requesting decedent's medical information and brain donation for research.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.*
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Establishes small business loan guarantee program in EDA to support capital purchases and operating expenses and permits certain qualified businesses in regional centers to qualify for certain EDA loans.
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Requires percentage of motor vehicle fines be used to support safe routes to school initiatives.
Increases fine for violation of certain laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; dedicates funds to certain roadways.
Upgrades certain unlawful possession of firearms to first degree crime; revises certain penalties under the "Graves Act."
Clarifies that information concerning the total number of firearms purchaser identification cards and permits to purchase a handgun issued in a municipality are public records.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
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Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Requires holder of rental security deposit account to provide second notice before account is deemed abandoned under the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act."
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.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DHSS.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
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.
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period.
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 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.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
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.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Establishes standards for commercial insurers and Medicaid program implementing electronic prescribing systems.
Provides for nursing home reimbursement adjustment for cost of energy improvements.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
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.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
"Water Supply Open Space, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund Act."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires contractors to provide Department of the Treasury with employment information about contracts with public bodies.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Provides that a student is ineligible for State financial aid upon a conviction for hazing.
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.
Provides municipalities and fire districts with option to hire firefighters up to age 40 with eligibility for PFRS membership; allows firefighters legally hired after age 35 currently in PERS to transfer to PFRS.
"New Jersey Disaster Victims' Bill of Rights"; authorizes $500 million emergency State bonds and appropriates money for municipal property tax relief program.
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 certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Requires State to reimburse certain municipalities for foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Increases penalties for motor vehicle violations resulting in serious bodily injury or death to certain persons in highway.
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on awareness of eating disorders as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.