Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Chris A. Brown
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires disclosure of water damage prior to household appliance sales.
In committee39
Increases the types of matters eligible to be voted upon by a sending district representative on a receiving district board of education.
Limits State appointment or employment of members of Legislature for two years after completion of legislative service.
Prohibits nonrenewal of homeowners insurance policies based on proximity to water or risk of windstorm related claims.
Provides that certain districts are not penalized in the calculation of State debt service aid for school facilities projects in which bonds were authorized but not issued prior to effective date of P.L.2008, c.39.
Decreases the threshold percentages of student enrollment necessary for a sending school district to obtain representation on a receiving school district board of education.
Authorizes counties to participate in property tax appeals for real property having a value of $10 million or more.
Makes all members of Legislature ineligible to participate in SHBP.
Requires persons convicted of possessing child pornography to register as sex offenders.
Requires SJTA to provide a cash payment option at every toll plaza.
Provides temporary exemption from sales and use tax for rental of certain hotel rooms.
Permits municipality to sell certain vehicles in connection with motor vehicle offenses.
Reduces number of voters for whom person can serve as messenger; limits to three number of voted mail-in ballots transmittable by bearer; modifies conviction standard under vote by mail law.
Makes various changes to registration and community notification requirements under Megan's Law.
Requires certain services be prearranged before homeless person is relocated.
Provides public access to certain information received or possessed by legislators.
Permits installation of GPS navigation devices which do not obstruct a motor vehicle operator's vision.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to approve waiver of salary cap for school district superintendent under certain circumstances.
Establishes certain exceptions for emergency personnel operating personal watercraft while providing rescue services.
Provides certain employees access to certain personnel records.
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Provides supplemental enrollment growth aid to districts that experienced significant enrollment growth; appropriates $21,881,000 to DOE.
Requires appropriation of revenues collected in excess of amount anticipated for fiscal year for State hotel and motel occupancy fee for additional allocation among certain cultural, historical, and tourism-related programs and activities.
Eliminates statute of limitations for theft of fine art and amends theft statute concerning such art.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Establishes "Tourism Mentor and Matchmaker Program" in Department of State.
Authorizes NJ State Council on the Arts to establish program to promote developing artist projects on website and collect donations for projects on behalf of artist.
Amends "Main Street New Jersey" program to provide assistance to arts and tourism organizations.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to create webpage listing wall murals in NJ.
Increases amounts municipalities may appropriate and grant for fire safety purposes.
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Imposes a two-year moratorium on increases in public utility rates.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
Directs Division of Gaming Enforcement to prohibit certain deed restrictions limiting use of casino hotel facility properties.
Limits number of casino licenses issued to person.
Provides casino licensee must repay any grants received from State entity when casino hotel facility is not sold at fair market value and used for casino gambling.
Provides gross income tax credit for income derived from certain live performances contracted for and rendered by A-list performing artists within the Atlantic City Tourism District on a recurring basis and within the State.
Requires reimbursement of certain Casino Reinvestment Development Authority grants and payment of those grants to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Requires certain funds paid to CRDA to be awarded to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Authorizes establishment of regional economic development partnerships.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
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.
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Allows person to request voluntary exclusion from gaming activities without acknowledging being problem gambler.
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.*
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 1
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Passed the General Assembly · 14
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.**
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires appropriate community notification when sex offender is placed in halfway house; prohibits certain county inmates in halfway house.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Designates salt water taffy as New Jersey State Candy.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to prepare and implement annual advertising and promotion plan.
Requires residential community release programs to file certain financial disclosure documents with DOC.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Expands acts of animal cruelty to include theft or release of animal during burglary.
Extends urban enterprise zone designation in all qualifying municipalities for additional 10 years. *
Out of committee · 14
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations and William J. Hughes Technical Center.*
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Permits Internet gaming equipment to be located at certain secure facilities in Atlantic City.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; enhances film and digital media tax credits, revises and expands tax credit eligibility requirements, and requires EDA to study development of film studio at North Jersey location.*
"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.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Increases mandatory retirement age for Administrative Law Judges, Workers' Compensation Judges and county prosecutors from 70 to 75.
Conforms Megan's Law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.*
Extends eligibility to participate in Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program to areas located in municipality in which casino gaming is authorized.
Prohibits certain provisions in consumer contracts.
In committee · 90
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Requires certain contractors to verify work authorization of newly hired employees.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Exempts individuals with certain types of military service from certain professional and occupational fees and continuing education requirements.
Tax Relief for New Jersey Families Act; provides income tax credits for property tax relief, quadruples the homestead property tax credit and increases the earned income tax credit.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Limits political contributions by certain government contractors; revises disclosure standards applicable to State officials; expands disclosure for lobbyists; prohibits certain types of dual office holding.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Allows person calling certain State or local government entities to have option of speaking or leaving a recorded message with a human telephone operator during normal business hours.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Eliminates salary for part-time members of certain boards, commissions, and independent authorities.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Establishes NJ Business and the Arts Commission to promote art Statewide.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Permits municipal court to order certain offenders to perform community service in lieu of payment of penalty.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
Restricts access to motor vehicle accident reports under certain circumstances.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Establishes Common Core State Standards Evaluation Task Force; delays use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers until task force submits final report.
Requires health insurance coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each unit of transitional housing occupied by a veteran.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Clarifies "knockout game" assault as third-degree aggravated assault; provides mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for such assault.
"Consumer Protection Act of 2012."
Concerns disclosure and reimbursement procedures of board of education and municipal employee health care benefit contracts.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
Permits toll-free passage on State toll roads for certain buses traveling to casinos.
Authorizes licensing of operators to provide restricted foreign Internet wagering under certain circumstances.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Appropriates $20,000,000 from General Fund to the Department of State for travel and tourism advertising and promotion to communicate that New Jersey's tourism destinations are operational despite damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Exempts, for five years, certain new business activities in pinelands area from compliance with Pinelands Commission development approval process.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Eliminates requirement that at least one of two licenses issued under small-scale and staged casino facility pilot program must be staged casino facility license; permits these facilities to be located in renovated buildings.
Requires issue advocacy organization using certain candidate information in advertisements to register with ELEC as political committee or continuing political committee.
Prohibits loans as political contributions by certain persons; prohibits certain inducements for political contributions; reduces permitted amount of outstanding loans in certain cases.
Provides for no net loss of DEP lands for fishing, hunting, and trapping purposes.
Authorizes permits for certain New Jersey casinos for interstate and foreign Internet wagering; requires Internet gaming payment processors be licensed as casino service industry enterprises.
Requires immediate forfeiture of public office, position or employment, without application by the prosecutor, for public officials and employees convicted under federal law of certain public corruption offenses.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employers engaged in farming operations.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires actual transportation occur as a condition of billing for ambulance services.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
"Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator Act"; establishes licensure requirements for wildlife rehabilitators.
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
Requires law enforcement officer to verify vehicle registration with MVC before issuing summons for violation of red light camera.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online a
Provides county vocational school districts with the authority to name themselves in a manner that more accurately reflects their mission.
Establishes Partners for Growth Council in DOLWD.
Requires EDA and Dept. of State to encourage businesses considering relocation to locate within chronically high unemployment region.
Requires individuals to upload employment resume on Internet website upon filing claim for unemployment insurance benefits.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment, facility renovation, modernization, and expansion.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for student loan debt relief.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
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.
Establishes high technology corridor program in EDA to attract and retain high technology businesses.
Requires adoption of business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan for southern New Jersey.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Allows deduction of certain patent income under gross income tax and corporation business tax for high technology corridor businesses.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes "Veterans Court Pilot Program in several counties."
Provides that superintendent salary caps are applicable to charter school administrators and requires charter schools to annually submit list of employees subject to cap.
Limits authority of court to order one or both parents to pay post-high school education expenses on behalf of a child if both parents agree that they will not pay such expenses.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at community farm markets.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Authorizes restricted breweries to annually sell up to 1,000 barrels of beer to in-State and out-of-state retailers.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Makes reforms to mental health treatment; clarifies law governing purchase of firearms by persons with history of mental illness.
"Empower the Principal Act"; eliminates local school superintendents and prohibits schools from having more than one assitant or vice-principal.
Expands acceptable military separation forms for county veteran identification card; allows issuance to National Guard veterans of other states; allows issuance only for certain classifications.
Filed · 1
Partially repeals prohibitions against sports wagering at racetracks and casinos in New Jersey.