Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, Senate.
Stephen M. Sweeney
Sponsored
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Requires certain fiduciaries to post bond, and provides for accounting to court if beneficiary is developmentally disabled. *
Provides triggers for reductions of employer unemployment insurance taxes.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Concerns rights of DRPA employees.
Concerns procedural requirements associated with closing of Fort Monmouth.
Establishes pilot program in Gloucester County, transferring municipal tax assessment function to county through appointment of a county assessor and deputy county assessors.*
Extends range of investment vehicles in which Director of the Division of Investment and State Investment Council may invest moneys in the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund and State pension funds.
Appropriates $6.45 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $66 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," "2007 Green Acres Fund," and "2007 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Concerns suspension and revocation of employer licenses for repeated violations of wage, benefit and tax laws.
Provides for annual adjustments in family temporary disability leave contribution rates and limits certain refunds of contributions.
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of community care residential providers.
Prohibits SDA from restricting the ability of certain firms or persons from competing for contracts in more than one Division of Property Management and Construction classification or prequalification category.
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Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations. *
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Provides useful life of three years for certain permitted maintenance projects with Transportation Trust Fund monies.
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Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Concerns chiropractic scope of practice. *
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Requires candidates nominated by direct petition for general election to file petitions on same day as candidates seeking nomination in primary must file petitions of nomination.
Provides exclusive jurisdiction to PERC for certain unfair labor practice claims.
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists; criminalizes unauthorized practice of acupuncture.
Changes deadline for voter-verified paper record of votes cast on voting machines to January 1, 2009.
Permits imposition of municipal host community petroleum bulk processing impact fees under certain circumstances. *
Requires law enforcement agency to inform school principal of certain crimes committed by students.
Prohibits school districts from hiring certain governmental affairs agents.
Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years from average of three highest-paid years. *
Abolishes Department of Personnel; transfers functions, powers, and duties primarily to new Civil Service Commission in but not of Department of Labor and Workforce Development; creates Civil Service Reform Task Force. *
Provides one year extension of 4% surcharge on corporation business tax liability and decouples corporation business tax from federal Internal Revenue Code deferral of certain discharge of indebtedness income.
Concerns taxation of certain lines of insurance and dedicates certain additional revenues to the Health Care Subsidy Fund.
Directs EDA to transfer up to $22 million in unencumbered reserves to qualifying capital investment grant component of InvestNJ Business Grant Program.
Directs NJHMFA to transfer up to $12 million in unencumbered reserves to the State for rental assistance program and makes appropriation.
Concerns safety measures at health club swimming pools.
Provides for continuing education for real estate brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons, and creates a new licensing category of referral agents. *
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus real property and improvements thereon located in City of Camden.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Dedesignates portion of State Highway Route 45 and conveys that portion to Gloucester County.
Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.
Creates voter-verified paper record pilot program; removes requirement that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record by January 1, 2009.
Clarifies that a county and another local unit of government may enter into shared services agreement for the county to provide a service that the local unit may provide. *
Concerns extension of certain local government financial agreements.
Establishes registry of offenders of individuals with developmental disabilities in DHS.
Revises "Landscape Irrigation Contractor Certification Act of 1991."
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus real property in City of Trenton and Township of Ewing, Mercer County, to winning auction bidder.
Reduces common council membership from nine to five members in city of Beverly charter and increases terms of office of mayor and council members to four years.
Requires local unit public employers to maintain and preserve retiree health benefits of PFRS retirees at least at the same level as provided at employee retirement.
Affords employment protection to certain volunteer emergency responders.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain for-sale multi-family housing. *
In committee93
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Creates State Board of Examiners for Fire Sprinkler Fitters and establishes new qualifications for persons installing fire sprinkler systems.
The "Public Dam Rehabilitation Project Bond Act," authorizes bonds for $90,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Allows New Jersey S corporations to elect to transfer corporation business tax credits to shareholders to apply against the shareholders' gross income tax liability.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Requires municipality to remit to county and school district at least 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of annual service charge received under long term tax exemption agreement.
Requires one half of natural resource damage payments to State to be remitted to municipality where damage occurred.
Authorizes municipality to request DEP to require additional remediation of certain landfill sites.
Increases maximum LOSP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Authorizes director of board of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed actions of county authorities.
Prohibits display of gift card account numbers.
Allows confidential communication between majority representative and union member under certain circumstances.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Raises minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on increases in the Statewide average weekly wage.
Permits municipalities to agree to share municipal court services while each appointing their own municipal court judge.
The "Restoring the Ranks of Full-Time Faculty Act"; requires public institutions of higher education to ensure minimum level of full-time teaching faculty.
Adds supplementary budget language authorizing deposit and utilization of monies recovered from MTBE contamination.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review and transmit driver abstract to judge prior to recommending plea agreements for unsafe driving.
Waives commercial driver's license fees for certain volunteer firefighters.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Increases county portion of payment in lieu of tax; requires portion of payment to be paid to school district and notice of public hearing on financial agreement to board of freeholders and school board.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Permits labor peace agreements in projects in which public entities have proprietary interests.
Makes solid waste collection and transportation contracts subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Extends unemployment benefits to certain college and university adjunct faculty members.
Allows certain chiropractors licensed in other states to be licensed in New Jersey.
Prohibits display of political campaign signs on any public property.
Prohibits boards of education from charging students a fee to participate in extracurricular activities.
Authorizes special license plates for former freeholders.
Prohibits employment of unauthorized aliens.
Expands covered claims under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to include liquor law liability insurance claims.
Allows State to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for other health care coverage.
Permits hiring of special law enforcement officers to supplement county park police departments during summer.
Requires all cats and dogs released from shelters and pounds be sterilized with certain exceptions, and establishes penalty for noncompliance.
Creates eight additional judgeships; increases certain court fees to fund judgeships and to supplement funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for anesthesiology services in connection with outpatient colorectal cancer screening.
Permits county government to limit appropriation for county prosecutors' offices.
Authorizes DHSS to recover monies from certain charity care claims through contracted entity.
Requires all public officers and employees to reside in State.
Expands parity between certain State-chartered financial institutions, and permits interstate banking by such institutions through de novo branching or expanded authority to acquire existing branches or institutions.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Establishes an Ombudsman for Injured Workers in, but not of, DOLWD.
Reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 12 for all State and local government employees.
Extends reimbursement for EMT training from EMT Training Fund to paid technicians.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund."
Provides for establishment of "Highway Construction Zone Safety Program."
Prohibits public entities from engaging certain governmental affairs agents.
Dedicates $200,000 from tax on cosmetic medical procedures for annual grant to the Burn Foundation for services and outreach to residents of South Jersey.
Requires certain persons to wear helmets when operating personal watercraft.
Establishes additional penalties for motor vehicle right-of-way violations.
Establishes special license to serve alcoholic beverages in qualifying redevelopment areas.
"Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Financial Assurance Act."
Authorizes credit unions to serve as depositories of public funds.
Expands calibers of rim-fire rifles permitted on State wildlife management target ranges.
Establishes fees for copies of documents or papers made on self-service technology in office of county clerk, deputy clerk of Superior Court, or public records custodian.
Establishes preference for State-chartered banks in custodianship and investment of financial holdings from New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
Eliminates requirement that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record by January 1, 2009.
Extablishes parallel testing procedure for voting machines on day of, and simultaneous with, annual school, primary and general elections; makes appropriation.
Requires electronic submission of certain periodic reports to Governor and Legislature by State agency.
Provides alternative handgun purchase permit application procedures for municipal police officers and members of State Police.
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 health insurers that cover speech therapy and SHBP to provide coverage for certain services.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Transfers Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to DHS.
Permits locally designated weights and measures enforcement officers and employees to perform additional, unrelated duties.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Exempts certain databases from public access under Open Public Records Act under certain circumstances.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Requires executive county superintendent to designate a county special services school district or educational services commission as the county education services agency to assist local school districts in sharing services.
Modifies rule governing decisions under the "Municipal Land Use Law."; requires economic impact analysis by EDA.
Establishes county-based centers for transition for young adults with developmental disabilities.
The "Residential Distressed Property Leaseback Act."
The "Residential Property Lease-Purchase Act."
Mandates education program for "at risk" mortgage borrowers as condition for residential purchase or refinance.
Provides for licensure of elevator, escalator, and moving sidewalk contractors by State board.
Allows student who is eligible for special education programs and services for autism or other developmental disability to bring medically-recommended service dog to school.
Filed1
Delays requirement that voting machines produce individual permanent paper record for each vote cast due to the State's critical economic situation and lack of appropriate technology.
Co-sponsored
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"New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act." *
Requires DCF to provide Safe Haven information to county and municipal agencies, social service agencies, physicians, pregnancy crisis centers, adoption agencies and colleges and universities. *
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. **
Permits student whose high school special education program requires instruction beyond four years to participate with his class in graduation ceremony and to receive certificate of attendance.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Bars certain sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Designates Rt. 9 in Cape May County as "Police Unity Tour Memorial Highway." *
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Provides marketing, information disclosure, and suitability requirements for certain annuities directly solicited to consumers. *
Makes changes to PERS and TPAF concerning retirement age, eligibility, purchase of service credit; makes various changes to SHBP administration; merges Washington and Lincoln holidays for State employees in Presidents Day. *
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. **
Appropriates $11,293,478 from various farmland preservation bond funds and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Makes emergency medical technician certification valid for five years.
Requires chief administrator to establish certain promotional payment incentives. *
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Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Out of committee · 28
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax; eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Revises laws concerning local redevelopment, relocation assistance and eminent domain. *
Directs the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to establish adapted athletic programs.
Provides tax exemption for portion of property value attributable to energy cost savings measures that reduce consumption of water or energy.
Imposes moratorium on harvest and possession of horseshoe crabs.
The Vote By Mail Law. **
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Requires training program for and recognizes position of technical assistant to construction code official.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies for the treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities. *
Lengthens service life of certain school buses to 15 years. **
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
Exempts certain transactions of parent or affiliate companies of telecommunications and cable television companies from BPU review and approval. *
Establishes licensing program for site remediation professionals; changes laws concerning site remediation. *
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Prohibits use of purchased out-of-State service pension credit for post-retirement health care benefits.
Requires practitioners to disclose business relationship with out-of-State facilities when making patient referrals to those facilities.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
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.*
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
"Tree Experts and Tree Care Operators Licensing Act."
Establishes "Smart Housing Incentives Act."
Requires Public Advocate intervention, additional public participation, and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer. *
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a 45-day State tax amnesty period that ends no later than June 15, 2009.
Transfers management, administration and duties of "the workers' compensation security fund" to the New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association.
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of family child care providers.
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Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Requires certain public contract bid advertisements to contain certified cost estimates or estimate ranges of projected contract costs and specifies grounds for rejection of all bids.
Authorizes special Recreational Fishing Alliance license plate.
Restores the former net operating loss deduction for corporation business tax years 2002-2005.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Exempts direct sellers from workers' compensation law.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults as crimes with bail restrictions.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement a drought interconnection system.
Prohibits use of public funds by employers for certain employee influence activities.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Increases VCCB assessments.
Reduces municipal library tax levy cap from 15% to 4%.
Directs certain recoveries of federal funds for services to persons with developmental disabilities be used for grants to support community infrastructure purposes.
Requires certification and establishes registry in DHS of community agency employees working with persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for payment of VCCA assessments out of defendant's bail monies.
Permits use of perchloroethylene in dry cleaning equipment through 2011 and requires DEP study alternatives.
Upgrades possession of child pornography to a crime of the third degree; provides for parole supervision for life for production and transmission of child pornography.
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Revises "Administrative Procedure Act" concerning socio-economic impact statements for proposed rule-making.
Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund, dedicates $700,000 annually from pleasure boat registration fees to that fund, and appropriates $700,000 for FY2009.
Concerns hazardous waste transporter fee.
Authorizes hunting of game animals every day of the week during hunting season.
Creates crime of exposure to toxic pollutants.
Requires site remediation procedures for structures to be used for residential purposes; modifies procedures for structures to be used for child care and educational purposes; and sites previously used for agricultural purposes.
Increases penalties for certain motor vehicle right-of-way violations and requires attendance at Driver Improvement Program.
Requires DCF to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants.
Prohibits legislative aide who works, or worked, directly for legislator in district office from making political contribution greater than $30 per election to that legislator; prohibits receipt of such contribution.
Establishes in DEP the Environmental Science Review Board to review proposed environmental regulations for consistency with science.
Establishes in DEP the Environmental Policy Review Board to review proposed environmental regulations for consistency with planning policies.
Establishes mandatory term of imprisonment for unlawful sales, purchases, and transfers of firearms.
Expands scope of review of Pension and Health Benefits Review Commission.
Amends State fiscal year 2009 appropriations provision to remove prohibition on payment of scheduled salary increase for judges of the Division of Workers' Compensation.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to reside on campus.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.
Prohibits mislabeling and misbranding of farm products; directs Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and enforce violations; increases penalties for certain violations.
Designates portion of Route 47 in Glassboro as "South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Highway"; appropriates $2,500.
Repeals restriction on weights and measures officers' and employees' duties.
Extends COBRA benefits to employees of workplaces that cease to exist.
Provides that contracts for maintenance, repair or improvement of State buildings and facilities may require use of certain skilled labor.