Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Fred H. Madden Jr.
Sponsored
Became law11
Designates portion of Route 47 in Glassboro as "South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Highway". *
Provides unemployment insurance benefits for shared work programs; requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development report.*
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.
Establishes "Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program" telephone helpline. *
Reduces employer unemployment taxes during fiscal year 2011.
Establishes New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force.
Establishes New Jersey Multiple Sclerosis Task Force.
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Enhances penalty for killing police dog or dog engaged in search and rescue efforts.
Changes the trigger for extended unemployment benefits.
Changes trigger for certain extended unemployment benefits.
Vetoed3
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
"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.
Passed the Senate6
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Concerns radiologic technology licensure.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Designates State Highway Route 42 as the "Route 42 Purple Heart Memorial Veterans Highway."
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Out of committee12
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Makes sundry changes to taxicab laws.
Requires certain notifications, and provides for guaranteed NJ Spill Compensation Fund coverage, upon sale of property where private well is treated by point of entry water treatment system.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Requires DCA to post on its website the current adopted budget of any county or municipality that does not maintain its own website; also requires posting of three immediately preceding adopted budgets.
Authorizes issuance of a handgun purchaser identification card.
Provides for maintenance of State buildings and facilities by direct hire of certain skilled labor. **
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Modifies employer UI tax rates.
Creates New Jersey Business Action Center; requires center to provide competitive intelligence information to certain businesses.
In committee54
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Makes No Early Release Act applicable to persons convicted of child pornography crimes.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Requires New Jersey DMVA to issue Cold War certificates to Cold War veterans.
Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults as crimes with bail restrictions.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Uphold Democracy."
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.
Establishes New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
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.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.
Requires public and nonpublic high schools to have person trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on site at all school athletic events and practices.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Empowers federal air marshals to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Appropriate $75,000 to DMVA for recreational purposes at NJ veterans' memorial homes.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment.
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Provides for State income tax deduction to private well owners for water testing costs.
Exempts from commercial and industrial property taxation the value of new capital improvements for security enhancement purposes.
Requires DEP to establish certification program for septic system inspectors.
Creates New Jersey World War II medal; appropriates $5,000.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday during first weekend of August for certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Clarifies penalties for trespassers who damage farmland and crops with all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.
Makes certain changes to public access of government records.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Increases membership of State Police Retirement System Board of Trustees; requires membership to include two active and two retired members.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment; establishes registration requirements for certain organizations using such equipment.
Permits licensed facilities currently providing inpatient psychiatric services to add inpatient psychiatric beds without obtaining certificate of need.
Allows municipalities adjacent to one or more municipalities having UEZs and a county where a reduced sales tax is assessed on retail sales to qualify for NJ Redevelopment Authority financing assistance.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Reduces school district, county, and municipal property tax levy cap from 4 percent to 2.5 percent and permits unused county and municipal increases to be banked for three succeeding years.
Provides enhanced tax credits to certain businesses under the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
Exempts stored value cards usable solely for telephone services from State's escheatment processes.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Authorizes certain disbursements from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for transportation of low-level radioactive waste to appropriate disposal facilities.
Requires prenotification of mass layoffs by holding company or franchisor at multiple franchise locations.
Authorizes municipal court judge to enroll convicted drivers in aggressive driving programs.
Authorizes South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association license plates with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management operations.
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contributions. *
Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, plan choice, benefit change application, coverage waiver, multiple coverage; requires contributions toward health care benefits by public employees and certain retirees. *
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Reduces school district, county, and municipal property tax levy cap from 4% to 2.0% and permits unused school district, county, and municipal increases to be banked for three succeeding years.*
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers at health care facilities and human services and veterans' facilities. *
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Establishes task force to study treatment of veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS.
Revises certain unemployment benefit claim procedures and requires registration of authorized agents of parties to the procedures.
Permits development of solar and wind facilities and structures on landfills and resource extraction operations under certain circumstances. **
Establishes State Public Safety Interoperable Communications Coordinating Council.
Requires specific instructions for workers filing unemployment insurance claims.
Provides for annual adjustments in worker taxes paid into the State disability benefits fund.
Phases-in single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula over three years and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Restores eligibility of New Jersey Health ACCESS recipients for NJ FamilyCare effective August 1, 2011.
Establishes Small Business Loan Program in EDA allowing certain small businesses to be eligible for low interest rate loans of up to $250,000 to expand their businesses.
Vetoed · 4
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer. *
Expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers.
Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certification when physician is not available.
Passed the Senate · 13
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund. *
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of National Guard members.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities. **
Requires inclusion of certain types of drugs in public school instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed mental health treatment of veterans. *
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
Permits county clerk to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes.
Out of committee · 30
Supplements the State annual appropriations act for the State fiscal year 2010-2011, makes appropriations for Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled Programs and the Homestead Rebate/Credit Program.
Concerning development subsidies and certain employment practices.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program; extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived. *
Requires DEP to establish free recreational saltwater fishing registry.
Authorizes county colleges and county vocational school districts to establish green job certification programs.
Establishes exception to five-year limit on payment of victim claims.
"Tara's Law"; provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in community care residences and for investigations of abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities.
"Kulesh and Kubert's Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide statute and assault by auto statutes.
Eliminates various inactive boards, commissions, committees, councils, and task forces.
Jaden's Law; requires DHSS to prepare online brochure about the option to donate bone marrow.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Requires development of interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program; requires certain measures to protect student athletes with concussions; and requires continuing education for athletic trainers.*
Establishes "Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Prohibits practice of excluding unemployed individuals in advertisements for job vacancies.
Permits collective bargaining on matters covered by civil service; requires civil service examinations to be offered on continual basis; creates title reduction task force; requires posting of layoff plans.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Appropriates $1,000,000 for outreach and enrollment activities in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare programs.
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to treat earned and unearned income in same manner when calculating gross family income for parents and caretakers.
Supplemental appropriation of $6.4 million in State funds and $11.9 million in federal funds to DHS to restore eligibility to parents in NJ FamilyCare.
Clarifies functions of Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services telephone hotline.
Creates Veterans Haven Council.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Girl Scouts councils in New Jersey.
Establishes "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
In committee · 32
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
"Ricci's Law;" revises ignition interlock device requirements for certain drunk driving offenses.
Provides for Statewide evacuation strategy for hospitals and other health care facilities.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to train pupils in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinances regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Concerns regulation of paratransit vehicles and drivers transporting persons in wheelchairs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Allows surviving spouses between 55 and 64 years of age to carry forward homestead property tax reimbursement of qualified deceased program participant.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
"Tax Preparers Licensing Act."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Removes geographic restrictions on where United States Park Police are authorized to make arrests for certain crimes and offenses.
Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson.
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.
Strengthens State construction code.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of public safety workers who die in the line of duty.
Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.