Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Gabriela M. Mosquera
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Requires complaint for guardianship of person receiving services from Division of Developmental Disabilities to include one of the documents identified in bill.*
Vetoed2
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Out of committee7
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Requires Deleware River Port Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River and Bay Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Concerns UI benefits for claimants who leave work to accept other work and are laid off from subsequent work.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
In committee26
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
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.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain compressed natural gas vehicles.
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 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.
Revises distribution of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers to administer opioid antidotes to overdose victims in an emergency, and extends immunity under Overdose Prevention Act to such officers.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Revises procedures concerning access to decedent's safe-deposit box.
Requires board of education to enter into agreement with law enforcement authorities regarding access to live video streams of public school buildings.
Allows for tri-weekly visits from parents or guardians of infants or toddlers under Division of Child Protection and Permanency care.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Requires DHS to take action to raise public awareness of privacy laws that prevent disclosure of health care enrollment information to immigration authorities.
Requires DHS to create English and Spanish-language Internet websites to promote enrollment in affordable health care plans.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Concerns UI benefits for claimants who leave work to accept other work and are laid off from subsequent work.*
Vetoed3
Requires Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River and Bay Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires DRPA to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 54
Authorizes municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations of certain properties in foreclosure.*
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.
Directs New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority to study and report on potential revenue generating services of rest areas and service plazas.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Prohibits notaries public from falsely representing themselves as attorneys in advertisments.
Abigail's Law; requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodplains.*
Extends protections of the new vehicle "lemon law" to new farm tractors purchased or leased in New Jersey.*
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Provides that beginning with the 2016-2017 grade nine class, Advanced Placement computer science course may satisfy a part of the mathematics credits required for high school graduation.*
Requires one-time application for requesting services for individuals with developmental disabilities from DCF and DHS.
"New Jersey Rural Microenterprise Act." *
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Codifies "Project Medicine Drop" program; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain secure prescription medicine drop-off receptacles at certain law enforcement agencies.*
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Prohibits manufacture, sale or promotion of personal care products containing microbeads.*
Requires UI employer contribution reports and remittances be submitted to the Division of Revenue.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
Requires sober living homes and other substance abuse aftercare treatment facilities to provide certain notifications to next-of-kin when patient is released from care; designated as "Nick Rohdes' Law." **
"Mainland Memoriam Act"; directs MVC to create graduated driver's license informational material to be distributed by motor vehicle dealers.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
"Boys & Girls Clubs Keystone Law"; permits minors to give consent for behavioral health care.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Prohibits sale of powdered alcohol.
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for women veterans.*
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Authorizes county vocational school district to request county improvement authority to construct and issue bonds to finance school facilities project.
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
Requires MVC to allow submission of "Next-of-Kin Registry" information by mail.*
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business is in default on previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Requires certain notifications for termination of services to persons with developmental disabilities and providers.
Prohibits withholding of State school aid based on student participation rate on State assessments.
Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Increases State earned income tax credit from 20% to 30% of federal earned income tax credit for taxable years 2015 and thereafter.*
Extends use of stored driver's license picture for person undergoing chemotherapy or other treatment for certain medical illnesses.
Vetoed · 18
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Requires Department of Health to publish informational guidelines on the inspection, identification, evaluation, and abatement of mold.*
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation. *
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.*
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes. *
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Requires lowest possible price not exceeding certain cap for inmate telephone calls.*
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
Passed the General Assembly · 58
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
"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.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Prohibits automatic renewal of service contracts.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.*
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of certain individuals with developmental disabilities to new residential placements until certain conditions are met. *
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Designates salt water taffy as New Jersey State Candy.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Permits a witness who is under the age of 16 or a victim of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to prepare and implement annual advertising and promotion plan.
Directs Department of Law and Public Safety to engage in Internet privacy and social media responsibility campaign.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Directs Attorney General to develop plan to disseminate Amber and Silver Alert information through social media.
Authorizes issuance of restraining orders for situtations in which domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish a communication and incentive plan to encourage re-enrollment in college; requires Statewide reverse transfer agreement.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.*
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from increasing New Jersey resident undergraduate tuition and fees for nine continuous semesters following student's initial enrollment.*
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.*
Requires State Auditor to conduct audit of fees charged by public institutions of higher education.
Requires teacher preparation program for instuctional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.**
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Enhances opportunities for qualified residential projects under the Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program.
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.*
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Provides for notification of next-of-kin in event of death of senior citizen in senior housing facility.*
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Protects right to privacy underneath clothing; establishes crime of "upskirting".
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Provides for receipts for applications for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires DHS to ensure that expedited benefits under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are made available to certain households.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
"Linnette Lebron's Law" modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.*
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding seniors in property tax lien foreclosure; notification of certain county offices upon senior property tax lien sale; collector to provide requested lien satisfaction information within seven days
Out of committee · 101
Authorizes a teacher leader endorsement to the instructional certificate.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.*
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Permits religious institutions to request DCF conduct child abuse record checks of certain prospective and current employees and volunteers.*
Authorizes school district hiring preference for veterans.
Requires issuance of construction permits for installation of wheelchair ramps on residential real property within 5 business days of application.
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certification of patient if nurse is patient's primary caregiver.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning electronic communications between employees and students.
Authorizes Attorney General to coordinate Statewide law enforcement efforts against opioid drug abuse.*
Requires annual physical examination of child 19 years of age or younger include certain questions related to cardiac health.*
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.
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.
Provides for licensure of human milk banks.
Permits Internet gaming equipment to be located at certain secure facilities in Atlantic City.
Revises penalty for destruction of, or damage to, trees, saplings, shrubs or other plants; repeals current law thereon.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th birthday.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Requires casino licensee to install and maintain system of security cameras in every stairwell throughout casino hotel facility.
Establishes procedures for the approval of the closure of a public school.
"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.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Extends deadline for developer to submit temporary certificate of occupancy for an Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program qualified residential project.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Gives priority in training programs to long-term unemployed.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.***
Creates gallery space on State House grounds for display of certain art works.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use certain products manufactured in US.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.*
Appropriates $34,133,290,000 in State funds and $15,013,691,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.
Adjusts the FY2014 budget by making supplemental appropriations totaling $33,348,000 and modifying language provisions.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
"Tyler Banuls' Law"; provides protections for children with developmental disabilities receiving services from DCF.
Requires Commissioner of Health to review impact of disabilities on persons in minority and underrepresented communities.
Establishes Special Needs Housing-for Work Pilot Program within DHS to provide certain individuals with supportive housing in exchange for work activity or alternative work experience.*
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.*
Requires DHS and DOC to formulate joint arrangement and plan to ensure provision of mental health and substance use disorder services to inmates. *
Requires hospitals and birthing centers to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
"The Child and Family Suicide Prevention Act;" requires training related to screening for suicide prevention for pediatricians, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses.*
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Protects current out-of-State placements of individuals with developmental disabilities and prohibits transfer in-State under certain conditions.*
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Requires DHS establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollment program.
Establishes "New Jersey Business Advisory Council" in Business Action Center.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Ensures equal rights and opportunities for pregnant graduate students in institutions of higher education.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Makes certain reforms to juvenile justice system.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.*
Changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities.
Prohibits institutions of higher education from requiring students who have children to purchase meal plans, live in on-campus housing, or pay gym fees.
Prohibits institution of higher education that provides child care from charging student-parent who receives child care voucher under "New Jersey Cares for Kids Program" an amount for child care in excess of voucher amount.
Requires institutions of higher education to inquire about student's marital and parental status.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Appropriates $35,347,174,000 in State funds and $17,323,048,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2015-2016.
Makes fiscal year 2015 State supplemental appropriations, reduces State appropriations and amends language provisions.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
Requires notification of member or retiree of State-administered retirement system under certain circumstances when member or retiree requests change in beneficiary for group life insurance.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
In committee · 83
Creates Veterans Haven North Council; renames current Veterans Haven Council to Veterans Haven South Council.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
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.
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.
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means, including electronic communications or Internet website, shall be subject to criminal penalties.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
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.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
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.
Requires Legislative approval of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey minutes.
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.
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Establishes grant program for constructing kitchen facilities in licensed child care centers; appropriates $1,000,000.
Establishes public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
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.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
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.
Requires persons to report incidents of domestic violence to law enforcement and makes it a disorderly persons offense to fail to report.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
"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.
Establishes the "Neighborhood Scholar Revitalization Pilot Program."
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.
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.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
The "Jobs, Trade and Democracy Act."
Consumer Electronics Warranty Lemon Law.
Prohibits charging vehicle storage fees for days on which storage facility is closed.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Provides that teaching staff member's annual summative evaluation rating for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school years will not include a student growth percentile; delays use of certain assessment.
Requires written residential leases to be provided in both English and Spanish in certain municipalities.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online a
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Creates pilot program to fund adult education programs for residents of certain communities.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Increases pension and retirement income exclusions under gross income tax for certain taxpayers.
Designates cheerleading as interscholastic sport; requires safety harness at health clubs with members who are cheerleaders.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Makes FY 2014 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Requires school districts, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education to report allegations of sexual assault to law enforcement.
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Requires Office of Information Technology to review Consolidated Assistance Support System development project and issue recommendations.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances.
Establishes crime of sexual assault by fraud.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Adds as additional aggravating factor in sentencing that the person committed an act of domestic violence in presence of a child under 16 years of age.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Increases number of signatures required for petition of nomination for election to school board of education.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to have one veteran coordinator for every 200 veteran students; requires veteran coordinator to work with DMVA to ensure veterans have access to all available services.