Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Fred H. Madden Jr.
Sponsored
Became law13
Concerns radiologic technology licensure.
Designates State Highway Route 42 as the "Route 42 Purple Heart Memorial 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.
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
"Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Reporting Act."
"Scholastic Student-Athlete Safety Act;" establishes measures to ensure health of student-athletes.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Adds one member to New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force and extends for one year.
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
Prohibits relieving certain charges of employer unemployment insurance accounts.
Concerns employee leasing companies and unemployment compensation.
Vetoed1
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.
Passed the Senate4
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Changes UI contribution rates for certain employers. *
Requires annual physical examination of child under 19 years of age include certain questions related to cardiac health.
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.
Out of committee14
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
"Kulesh, Kubert's, and Bolis' Law; " establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.*
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
Requires health insurance coverage for certain student athlete physical examinations.
Requires health benefits coverage for refills of prescription eye drops under certain conditions.
Requires Department of State to post on its website notice of days, weeks, and months designated by State law as special commemorations.
Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.
"Nikki's Law"; Requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs and use variable message signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving.*
Provides for temporary approval of WIC vendor applications if the applicant currently operates another approved program.
Requires transfer of certain records to DOLWD and DHS.
Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.
In committee31
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
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 Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Increases penalties for certain motor vehicle right-of-way violations and requires attendance at Driver Improvement Program.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires DEP to establish certification program for septic system inspectors.
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.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
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.
Authorizes South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association license plates with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management operations.
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving and dedicates fines to public information program; designated as the Toni Donato-Bolis and Baby R.J. Act.
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Authorizes establishment through collective bargaining of alternative workers' compensation program and group self-insurance plans.
Concerns job order contracts for public work.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription eye drop refills under certain conditions.
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
Concerns payment of independent contractors.
Requires BPU to provide grants for cost of purchase and installation of certain electric metering equipment for solar electric power generation systems.
Concerns employer contribution reports.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Makes revisions to the "Contractors' Registration Act."
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Highway Work Zone Safety.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes. *
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law." *
Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.*
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
"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.
Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.
Permits affordable housing occupancy preferences for veterans through municipal agreements with developer.*
Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
Affords DRPA police officers authority to inspect hazardous materials carriers and cargoes; clarifies authority of State Police to conduct inspections.*
Concerns the escheat of stored value cards.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Requires medical examiner training about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and requesting decedent's medical information and brain donation for research.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
Provides for development and implementation of State trauma system.
Vetoed · 7
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Requires SHBP and SHEBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.*
Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certification of patient if nurse is patient's primary caregiver.*
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Expands Medicaid eligibility pursuant to federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
Passed the Senate · 5
Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.
Affords immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.
Establishes small business loan guarantee program in EDA to support capital purchases and operating expenses and permits certain qualified businesses in regional centers to qualify for certain EDA loans.*
Out of committee · 48
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
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.
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Alex DeCroce's Law, enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights." *
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities.
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding, subject to availability, for burial of indigent veterans.*
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.*
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.*
Requires certain parents and caretakers to be enrolled in NJ Family Care if they meet income eligibility criteria.*
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.
Provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected by decision or practice, including each time compensation is paid.
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horse flesh for human consumption.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Establishes NJ Council on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.*
Requires professional boards to provide waivers or exemptions from requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.*
Concerns certain appeals of unemployment benefits determinations.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."*
Changes pejorative terminology referring to mental capacity of individuals.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice or represent oneself to others concerning certain licensed or certified health care related professions.*
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes pediatric respite care program licensure requirements.
Concerns requirements to report newly hired employees.
Modifies short-time unemployment benefit law.
Requires disposition of remains of active duty service member of Armed Forces of United States pursuant to Department of Defense form completed by service member.*
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.*
Requires school districts to provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology.
Allows nonpublic schools to participate in joint purchasing agreements entered into by two or more school districts.
Grants immunity from liability for certain professional services rendered during emergencies under certain circumstances.
In committee · 27
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Strengthens State construction code.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of public safety workers who die in the line of duty.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinances regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.
Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Appropriates $1,000,000 for outreach and enrollment activities in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare programs.
Authorizes certain disbursements from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for transportation of low-level radioactive waste to appropriate disposal facilities.
Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians and dentists in first seven taxable years of practice in NJ.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
Establishes penalty for failure to include bittering agent in antifreeze.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
"New Jersey Disaster Victims' Bill of Rights"; authorizes $500 million emergency State bonds and appropriates money for municipal property tax relief program.
Permits county correctional facilities to seek reimbursement from inmate welfare fund for certain medical services provided in county jails.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Implements recommendations of the SCI report entitled "Scenes from an Epidemic" concerning prescription drug and heroin abuse.