Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Gabriela M. Mosquera
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Passed the General Assembly3
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signature from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission database.*
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Out of committee4
Permits establishment of countywide purchasing system by a county and requires participation by all school districts within the county.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to businesses for purchase of certain alternative-power trucks.*
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
In committee11
Requires telephone companies regulated by BPU to mail certain service discontinuance notices via certified, return receipt requested.
Requires State Comptroller to report findings of audit compliance reviews.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires State department, agency, authority, or instrumentality thereof to provide link on its website for members of public to submit complaints.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Revises "Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law" to mirror federal law; permits overseas voters to vote in any election; permits use of federal write-in absentee ballot to vote, register or request ballot for all elections.
Requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving; makes appropriation.
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Provides that routine foot care services covered under certain insurance policies include coverage of services provided by podiatric physicians.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed3
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher education institutions
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 49
Authorizes deployment of integrity oversight monitors in implementation of certain recovery and rebuilding projects.*
Establishes study of technology for the tracking of domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law."***
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
Requires Department of Education to biannually distribute a letter to school districts reminding districts of requirement to enroll resident students regardless of immigration status.
Requires direct deposit for all State employee compensation on and after July 1, 2014; allows county, county college, municipality,and local school district to opt for mandatory direct deposit for all employee compensation on or after July 1, 2014.***
Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on drivers license.
"Kulesh and Kubert's, and Bolis Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.*
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Increases penalties for violations committed by precious metals buyers and requires weights and measures officers to seize scales under certain circumstances.
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
Establishes offense of unlawfully accessing location of law enforcement vehicles through certain electronic means.*
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.*
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means, including electronic communications or Internet website, shall be subject to criminal penalties. **
Authorizes BPU to promulgate regulations requiring electricity providers to provide information so customers may compare prices and services.*
Revises State designation of "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" from February to September.
Permits person with developmental disability and legal guardian to audio record sessions of interdisciplinary team in which person or guardian participates.
Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.*
Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.
Concerns disclosure of certain employment information.
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Removes statutory reference to 9-1-1 Commission which was renamed Statewide Public Safety Communications Commission.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications devices by institutions of higher education.
Requires professional boards to provide credits toward requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.*
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Provides for EMT and Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic certification for certain veterans.
Allows certain military spouses with out-of-State teaching license to receive temporary instructional certificate in New Jersey.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Youth and Collegiate Affairs.
Requires certain purchasers of precious metals and jewelry to maintain certain records; grandfathers certain municipal ordinances regarding sales of used and secondhand jewelry.**
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.**
Requires health benefits coverage for refills of prescription eye drops under certain conditions.
Requires Commissioners of Education and Labor and Workforce Development to study and report on departments' efforts in providing students with information on employment in high-demand industries.***
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.
Creates Veterans Haven North Council; renames current Veterans Haven Council to Veterans Haven South Council.
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Provides for temporary approval of WIC vendor applications if the applicant currently operates another approved program.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Provides 180-day window for persons to dispose of certain unlawfully possessed firearms. *
Requires collection and reporting of certain firearms information to interjurisdictional database; requires information relating to crime of firearms trafficking be included in annual Uniform Crime Report.*
"Nikki's Law"; requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs and use variable message signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving.*
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit, select, and train veterans for school security positions in school districts.
Creates pilot program to allow certain county utilities authorities to fund certain local infrastructure.*
Extends the timeline for performing certain budget-related tasks in school districts that have moved the annual school election to November.
Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.
Vetoed · 16
Imposes oversight upon Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Directs NJTA to study and report on potential revenue generating services of NJTA rest areas and service plazas.
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.**
Increases minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on CPI increases.
Requires public contractors to report certain employment information.
Provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected by decision or practice, including each time compensation is paid.
"Common Interest Community Manager Licensing Act."
Limits motor vehicle rental companies vehicle license cost recovery fee to good-faith estimate of actual costs; requires company to annually adjust fee to reflect actual costs.*
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects. *
Establishes procedure for licensure of timeshare salespersons.
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.**
Concerns registration of contractors and sets criteria for responsible bidders in public work.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing assault firearms for civilian use.**
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Modifies certain fees charged by, and requirements imposed on, check casher licensees.*
Passed the General Assembly · 65
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives. *
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Permits institutions of higher education to make supplemental contributions to ABP.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.*
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Changes marriage and civil union licensing requirements and increases license fees.**
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide bill credits to volunteer fire companies, first aid, rescue, and emergency squads, and nonprofit homeless and domestic violence assistance organizations.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires DEP to conduct analysis of "Pollution Prevention Act."
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Prohibits automatic renewal of service contracts.
Creates "New Jersey Life Science Internship Challenge" program.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for qualified investment in certain biotechnology businesses.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Requires Legislative approval of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey minutes.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Includes reverse rate evasion as form of insurance fraud and provides for civil and criminal penalties.
Requires State to enable applicants for State agency-issued permits to track online the progress and status of their permit application.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Provides bonus awards to certain businesses who hire employees who were previously unemployed for more than 13 weeks.
Prohibits notaries public from falsely representing themselvesas attorneys in advertisments.*
"Christopher's Law;" provides court with option of ordering juveniles adjudicated delinquent to receive interactive instruction in preventing gang involvement and gang and youth violence.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Directs Department of Law and Public Safety to engage in Internet privacy and social media responsibility campaign.
Establishes Consumer Finance Advisory Board; abolishes certain advisory boards in DOBI.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.*
Permits certain witnesses under the age of 16 and victims of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.*
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Establishes "Task Force To Review Residential Community Release Programs" to review this State's halfway houses and make recommendations concerning security and inmate services.
Provides for termination of parental rights of certain persons convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.*
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain database concerning retail motor fuel dealers.*
Makes direct deposit the default distribution method for gross income tax refunds and allows gross income tax refunds via prepaid debit cards.*
Modernizes the form of disbursement for certain State and local government payments to individuals and business entities.*
Establishes workplace training program for unemployment compensation recipients; makes an appropriation.
Concerns enforcement, penalties, and procedures for law regarding failure to pay wages.
Establishes a regulatory and reporting program for ammunition sales and transfers.*
Establishes public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
Provides for licensure of human milk banks.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.*
Authorizes a teacher leader endorsement to the instructional certificate.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
Out of committee · 53
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the student borrower's death.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certificate of patient if nurse is patient's primary care giver.*
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Permits affordable housing occupancy preferences for veterans through municipal agreements with developer.*
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military service absences.*
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Changes UI contribution rates for certain employers.
Designates State Highway Route 42 as the "Route 42 Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
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.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Prohibits genital mutilation of females under 18 years of age.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Affords DRPA police officers authority to inspect hazardous materials carriers and cargoes; clarifies authority of State Police to conduct inspections.*
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.*
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
Increases civil and criminal penalties involving unstamped and counterfeit cigarettes and cigarette smuggling and establishes crime involving transfers of counterfeit cigarettes.*
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is barred from receiving federal contract.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
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.
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.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Eliminates requirement that full-time students at a county college in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.*
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Appropriates up to $1,000,000 to bridge federal funding for Violence Against Women Act grantees.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
"New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project Act."
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2013.
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
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.
Revises certain provisions of Megan's Law and imposes monthly penalty on sex offenders to fund their monitoring and supervision by the parole board.
Makes certain changes to NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.*
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research database.
Increases State hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues required to be annually appropriated to fund certain arts and cultural, historical, and tourism-related programs and activities.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law."
In committee · 30
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Requires persons to report incidents of domestic violence to law enforcement and makes it a disorderly persons offense to fail to report.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
"Kulesh, Kubert, and Bolis' Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes; enhances penalties for illegal cell phone use while driving.
Requires the Board of Public Utilities in the Department of the Treasury to administer certain federal energy assistance programs.
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
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.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children; appropriates $1,500,000 to Treasury.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Permits EMT, paramedic, or investigator for county medical examiner's office to make determination and pronouncement of death under certain circumstances.
Establishes bio-recovery specialist license and requires first responders to provide certain support to victims.
Establishes grant program for constructing kitchen facilities in licensed child care centers; appropriates $1,000,000.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.
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.
Establishes Job Opportunity Benefit Program to provide tax credits to certain businesses having large number of employees in the State.
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Requires forms for homestead property tax reimbursement, veterans' property tax exemption, veterans' property tax deduction, and senior and disabled property tax deduction to be available in certain languages.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.