Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Nellie Pou
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Concerns compensation and benefits of officers, employees, and members of State and local authorities. *
Out of committee1
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
In committee15
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Requires employers and birthing facilities to notify insured pregnant women if their health insurance coverage is not subject to 48-hour maternity law.
Authorizes the court to credit an indigent person under certain circumstances.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Permits surcharge of up to 22% to offset private collection fees for certain delinquent debts owed to courts, counties, and municipalities.
Amends Health Enterprise Zone law to allow municipalities more discretion in granting property tax exemptions to medical offices.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Prohibits local public employer continuation of pay programs.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
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. *
Requires Department of State to establish and maintain a website to provide a clearinghouse of information for nonprofits.
Establishes new procedure in "Administrative Procedure Act" to allow substantial changes to agency rule-making upon adoption.
Changes five year chapter expiration date for rules to seven years; changes procedures for readoption of rules. **
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms from property taxation.
Permits DOT to contract with county or municipality for certain work on highways to prevent public hazards.
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.
Directs BPU to establish online process for submission of required documents by BPU regulated and licensed entities.*
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires certain owners of foreclosed property to file contact information with municipality and common interest community.*
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Modifies employer UI tax rates.
Authorizes Commissioner of NJDOT to procure revenue-generating sponsors for, and permit sponsorship acknowledgment and advertising on, safety and emergency service patrol vehicles and equipment.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Vetoed · 13
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
"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.
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
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 for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Increase gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable years 2011 and 2012 and expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers beginning in 2011.
Provides State school aid to districts in amount consistent with provisions of "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Restores benefit under State earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal credit beginning in Tax Year 2011.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
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.
Prohibits application of certain temporary tattoos. *
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Requires electronic submission of certain periodic reports to Governor and Legislature by State agency.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Maintains right of corporate directors and officers to indemnification under certain circumstances.
Increases penalties for violations committed by precious metals buyers and requires weights and measures officers to seize scales under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 30
Exempts local governmental units from supplemental titling fees on passenger automobiles they purchase or lease.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Authorizes credit unions to serve as depositories of public funds; requires credit unions to provide certain funds for financial literacy education.*
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects and $1.371 million in 1992 bond act monies to fund State dam restoration projects. *
Creates the criminal offense of affinity fraud.
Exempts use of citizen's band and two-way radios by operators of commercial motor vehicles from prohibition on use of hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication devices while driving.
Appropriates $1,279,941 from various historic preservation funds to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
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.
Expands availability of general development plan approvals and long-term vesting of preliminary and final site plan approvals in Smart Growth areas.
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.
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. *
"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.
Consolidates certain business-related categories of gross income and provides 20 year carryforward of certain net losses under gross income tax.
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.
Designates entire length of New Jersey Route No. 19 in Passaic County as "Congressman William J. Pascrell, Jr. Highway."
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
Concerns UEZ funding to qualifying municipalities.
Eliminates limit on application of corporation business tax research credit to 50% of liability otherwise due.
Decreases the minimum corporation business tax on certain New Jersey subchapter S corporations by 25%.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
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.*
In committee · 45
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Requires that automated external defibrillators be located on every floor of State House and State House Annex; requires training for State Police.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
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."
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Requires DHS and DCF to establish standardized admission protocols and medical clearance criteria for admission to behavioral health care facilities.
Requires DHS and DCF to identify available mental health services and perform needs assessment.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
Provides for deprivatization of motor vehicle inspection program when vendor contract concludes.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Extends eligibility for certain benefits to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Concerns continuing education for dentists.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Requires certain pools, spas and hot tubs comply with certain barrier requirements.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Requires Treasurer and Division of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by May 15 and November 15 each year.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Provides for continuing education for real estate brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons, and creates a new licensing category of referral agents.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Requires that handicapped indentification cards bear photo of card holder.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Changes "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner" in new sections of law and revisions to current law; requires counties to change terms on website.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Clarifies definition of "managerial executives" and "confidential employees" in the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."
Provides for new and increased court and application fees to fund Legal Services of New Jersey and to fund the Judiciary's computerized court information systems.
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.