Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Adam J. Taliaferro
Sponsored
Became law3
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish food desert produce pilot program.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Vetoed1
Removes statutory limitations on number of permits that may be issued by Division of Fish and Wildlife for the taking of beaver.
Passed the General Assembly2
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Requires certain special law enforcement officers to be under 65 years of age.*
Out of committee8
Revises certain licensee filing requirements for alcoholic beverage price lists; removes requirement that limited brewery and distillery licensees provide tour when selling certain alcoholic beverages to consumers.
Establishes restricted use of driver's license endorsement for certain motor vehicle offenders with suspended license.
Authorizes impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes for certain crimes and offenses.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.
Exempts certain plenary winery licensees from filing requirements imposed on retail sellers of litter-generating products.
Increases death benefit of active member of PFRS and SPRS to 50 percent of final compensation for surviving child or children.
Corrects project list in P.L.2018, c.85, which appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $21 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee11
Criminalizes mental or emotional hazing.
Provides for investment of State pension fund assets in certain debt obligations issued by New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority and New Jersey Infrastructure Bank.
Requires public institutions of higher education to provide student-athletes who lose athletic scholarships because of injuries sustained while participating in athletic program with equivalent scholarships.
Requires institutions of higher education to develop plan to offer open textbooks to students.
Requires four-year institutions of higher education to offer bachelor's degree programs that may be completed in three years.
Requires spaying or neutering of cats or dogs prior to sale or other release from animal rescue organization facility, kennel, pet shop, shelter, or pound.
Establishes certain requirements concerning animal rescue organizations, breeders, importation of cats and dogs, and sale or adoption of cats and dogs; revises shelter and pound law.
Establishes "Jersey Canned Goods Program."
Establishes "Jersey Frozen Foods Program."
Establishes farmland preservation inheritance tax deduction program within Department of Agriculture.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Authorizes impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes for certain crimes and offenses.
Increases death benefit of active member of PFRS and SPRS to 50 percent of final compensation for surviving child or children.
Corrects project list in P.L.2018, c.85, which appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $21 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Directs the Division of Travel and Tourism to publish on its website information of farm-to-table restaurants.
Establishes NJ "Landowner of the Year" award program.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Allows wagering at casinos and racetracks on certain professional and collegiate sports or athletic events.
Appropriates $1,190,349 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for historic site management grants to certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $1,591,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes program for cultivation, handling, processing, transport, and sale of hemp; repeals New Jersey Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.
Vetoed · 2
Revises law concerning alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.*
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance; establishes fund to encourage designated drivers.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Out of committee · 17
Requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbook plan.*
Authorizes award of reasonable costs and attorney fees to farmers prevailing in certain farm management disputes.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Clarifies certain responsibilities of licensed wineries and retail salesrooms.
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all elections under certain conditions.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Amends definition of "existing major hazardous waste facility" in "Major Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Act."
Allows charitable assets set aside from the sale of nonprofit hospital to for-profit entity to be allocated to successor nonprofit charitable entity that is establishing and operating equivalent nonprofit hospital.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Establishes perinatal episode of care pilot program in Medicaid.
Expands distracted driving violations to include additional forms of communication and transmission of data on wireless telephone or electronic communication device.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish temporary loan program for small business and farm employers.
Prohibits municipalities from imposing local fire safety standards stricter than State fire safety code in certain circumstances.
Requires promulgation of separate code criteria for certain buildings.
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.*
In committee · 41
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations and William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Requires State and local law enforcement agencies to assist officers receiving nomination petitions to investigate validity of any objection thereto when requested.
Requires retail establishments to allow persons with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Appropriates $3 million from General Fund to Dept. of Agriculture for financial assistance to farmers whose crops have been affected by Dickeya dianthicola disease and for related research.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to develop and implement beginning farmer mentoring program in cooperation with certain agricultural and educational organizations and entities.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons hiring beginning farmers to perform custom farming.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Establishes Garden State Young Farmers Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Authorizes temporary waiver from requirement that farm winery use NJ grown fruit.
Appropriates $1,737,902 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires certain medical transportation vehicles to be equipped with stop signal arms and requires drivers to stop for vehicles under certain circumstances.
Authorizes issuance of craft distillery license to certain other alcoholic beverage manufacturing licensees.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Creates grant program for business accelerator and incubator networks; transfers $1 million in societal benefits charge revenues to EDA to administer program.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees, fines and penalties.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Designates Common Eastern Bumble Bee as New Jersey State Native Pollinator.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program for certain farming operation equipment purchases.
Allows qualifying counties and municipalities to become "agriculture development counties" and "agriculture development municipalities" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture and relate
Prohibits DEP from demolishing or requiring removal of certain cabins or similar structures located in certain tidal wetlands.
Permits community gardens to sell excess produce.
Establishes "Adopt-A-Farm" school partnership program in public secondary schools.
Transfers the Division of Fish and Wildlife and related entities to the Dept. of Agriculture.
Allows eligible landscape operators to make certain purchases of certain materials and supplies without payment of sales and use tax.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees; revises type of injury needed to qualify for program.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Establishes pilot program for integrated system of treatment for opioid use disorders.
Requires DHS to take certain measures concerning Integrated Case Management Services program.
Filed · 1
Requires certain voters who filed vote by mail applications from 2016 to 2018 to receive mail-in ballot for all future elections, unless voter requests otherwise; appropriates $2 million.