Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Gabriela M. Mosquera
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires State Comptroller to report findings of audit compliance reviews.
Permits a victim or witness of any age to testify by closed circuit television under certain circumstances in prosecutions for domestic violence, sexual assault, and certain other crimes.*
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Vetoed1
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Passed the General Assembly2
Prohibits mortgage loan discrimination based on familial status.
Requires board of education to post information about child abuse hotline in each school.*
Out of committee9
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.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Requires board of education to enter into agreement with law enforcement authorities regarding access to live video streams of public school buildings.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
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.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Establishes mandatory training program for human resources officers of public employers on handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
In committee29
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.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
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.
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.
Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.
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.
Allows for tri-weekly visits from parents or guardians of infants or toddlers under Division of Child Protection and Permanency care.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Permits certain fire police units to appoint fire police officers.
Requires installation of grab bars in certain public restrooms.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
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.
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."
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.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Establishes certain hiring preferences for Class Two special law enforcement officers seeking position with municipal law enforcement agency.
Replaces references to "alien" and "illegal alien" in statutes with "foreign national" and "undocumented foreign national," respectively; prohibits use of those terms by executive branch agencies.
Prohibits water companies from assessing more than one charge per fire hydrant to fire departments, fire districts, or volunteer fire companies for use of fire hydrants.
Requires certain water companies to provide representative of fire department, fire district, or volunteer fire company access to fire hydrants for water flow rate testing purposes.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Revises "Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law"*
Requires board of education to enter into agreement with law enforcement authorities regarding access to live video streams of public school buildings.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Vetoed1
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 54
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around motor vehicles.
Expands crime of invasion of privacy to include "upskirting"; photographing or filming the image of the undergarment-clad intimate parts of another.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
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.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
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 health care professionals engaged in prenatal care to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.*
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Establishes Chief Diversity Officer to monitor participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Provides for voluntary discharge of personal representitives overseeing administration of estates by application to the Surrogate's Court.**
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Includes all disabled veterans in NJT discount program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Expands civil rights protections to include breastfeeding; requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding mothers.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities; upgrades crimes committed against such individuals; and improves tranparency and accountability in investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of such individuals; designated as
Establishes Military and Defense Economic Ombudsman in DMVA.*
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Expands list of retired law enforcement officers eligible to carry handgun.
Enters NJ in Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
Repeals law suspending certain licenses, registrations and certifications for failure to repay student loans.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" immunity protections to public and nonpublic schools.*
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.*
Provides protections for children under the age of 18 with developmental disabilities and individuals with developmental disabilities ages 18-21 receiving services from Division of Children's System of Care.
Requires Internet-connected baby monitors to include security features.
Requires State to pay educational costs of students who reside in homeless shelter outside district of residence for more than one year.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
Allows School of Osteopathic Medicine at Rowan University to maintain principal clinical affiliation with either osteopathic or allopathic hospital.
Designates USS New Jersey as New Jersey State Ship.
Provides civil immunity to persons who forcibly enter motor vehicles to remove unattended and unsupervised children.
Establishing New Jersey Commission on Veterans' Benefits in DMVA.
Allows domestic violence victims to cancel television and telephone service contracts without paying early termination fee.
Provides for elimination of newly formed non-operating school districts; establishes procedures for eliminating deficit that existed prior to merger; authorizes renting of school building for 10 years.
Establishes Gold Star Family Counseling Program in DMVA; creates tax credit for certain health care professionals.
Authorizes certain benefits for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Provides for emergency assistance to individuals or families that are homeless or in temporary living arrangement due to domestic violence.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 55 as "State Trooper Frankie L. Williams Memorial Highway." *
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, and certain services to maintain and repair breast pumps.
Streamlines authorization for farmers market programs to participate in WIC and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to notify students and parents of availability of summer meals programs and locations where meals are served.
Requires certain State and local government agency employees with access to federal tax information to undergo criminal history background checks.
Vetoed · 11
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
Jake's Law; Incentivizes counties to design and construct completely inclusive playgrounds as a priority for State funding for recreational and conservation purposes.*
Codifies regulations defining justifiable need to carry handgun.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food; appropriates $1 million.
Requires State's full participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Passed the General Assembly · 49
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Requires dealership to notify buyers of recalls on used motor vehicles for sale.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for domestic companion animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
Grants certain employment protections to campus police officers.
"Wage Transparency Act"; requires reporting of public contractor employment information.
Requires health benefits coverage for adolescent depression screenings.*
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
"Linnette Lebron's Law" modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law."
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
"Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act"; permits qualified terminally ill patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner.
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.
Allows termination of motor vehicle lease in event of death; prohibits imposition of fee for early termination.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Requires consumer notification of vehicle warranty for aftermarket and recycled parts.
Requires firearms seizure when mental health professional determines patient poses threat of harm to self or others.
Prohibits permanent change of child custody during period of active military service; provides that absence due to active military duty, by itself, is insufficient justification to modify a child custody or visitation order.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.*
Prohibits employment discrimination based on applicant employment status.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide notice of termination of coverage to covered persons in certain circumstances.
Permits issuance of motorcycle endorsement to certain out-of-State military personnel.
Establishes "Monica's Law" requiring evidence-based risk assessments in certain domestic violence cases. *
Requires training for law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes Statewide program to provide treatment services for children exposed to domestic violence. *
Expands health insurance coverage for behavioral health services and autism and enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health parity laws. *
Clarifies excuse from jury service for active duty members of the military or reserve; repeals N.J.S.38A:4-6.
Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information on "baby boxes" and safe sleep education on their websites.*
Creates grant program for business accelerator and incubator networks; transfers $1 million in societal benefits charge revenues to EDA to administer program.
Establishes Green Jobs Training Partnership Program.
Directs Department of Agriculture in consultation with DOE to establish online applications for National School Lunch Program and school breakfast programs.*
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Out of committee · 81
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
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 annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure. *
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Establishes certain requirements for domestic violence training for certain judges and judicial personnel.*
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
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.
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Implements person-first language and changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities or substance use disorders.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Schedules That Work Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Imposes certain requirements on telephone service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities.*
Provides for registration and accreditation of human milk banks.*
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
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.
"Lactation Consultants Licensing Act."
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Ensures equal rights and opportunities for pregnant students in institutions of higher education.*
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 health benefits coverage for donated human breast milk under certain conditions.
Directs State agencies to take certain actions to expedite permitting through use of general permits and permits-by-rule. *
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
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.
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Allows expungement of multiple crimes and offenses resulting from one-time spree under certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of DCA to promulgate rules and regulations providing for veterans' affordable housing assistance preference.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Establishes a small business job creation and preservation account program to incentivize small business workforce expansion in New Jersey with income tax exclusions for interest.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Establishes the New Jersey Film and Television Project and Employment Incentive Program.
Requires anyone administered opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.*
Facilitates coordination of land use planning between civilian and military interests to preserve viability of federal military installations within State.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
Establishes special motorcycle license plates for veterans.
Establishes "Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Bond Financing Act," authorizing issuance of bonds secured by pledge of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant proceeds, municipal liens, and special assessment; expands "Redevelopment Area Bond Financ
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability and grant deferment for temporary total disability.*
Requires school districts to offer course in computer science and DOE to adopt changes to NJ Student Learning Standards in computer science.*
Credits increases in employee contributions required by P.L.2011, c.78 as additional contributions to TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS, and SPRS unavailable to reduce normal contributions of State and local employers for actuarial valuations beginning July 1, 2015.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties. *
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70 % of final compensation for surviving children of SPRS or PFRS member; redefines child in SPRS.*
Establishes Women's Vocational Training Pilot Program to promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations; authorizes allocation of certain funds therefor.*
Concerns excessive price increases during state of emergency.
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to improve transparency of tuition and fees.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain psychiatrists who work in underserved areas or psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey.*
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to promulgate Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Revises penalties for drunk driving and ignition interlock device violations.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Provides that driver's license and identification cards expire every four years on licensee cardholder's birthday.*
Permits county improvement authorities to establish student loan refinancing loan programs.
Creates "Economic Gardening Program" in Department of State to provide customized services to certain businesses.
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
Requires Office of Emergency Management to establish county storm preparedness funding program. *
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires bidders on certain State contracts to disclose, and Department of Treasury to publish, certain gender wage information.
Provides a voucher to certain TANF recipients to purchase diapers.
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Requires DMVA to notify county veterans' affairs office of death of certain military service members; requires office to have Gold Star liaison.
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for Gold Star families.
Extends full protection of Law Against Discrimination to persons having liability for service in Armed Forces of United States; guarantees equal employment opportunity in State contracting to all veterans.
Requires DCA to verify income of low-income home energy assistance benefit applicants.
Requires DCA to verify that low-income home energy assistance benefits are not awarded to deceased individuals.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
In committee · 81
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Makes various changes to tenure of faculty and other professional staff at State and county colleges.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Requires State Auditor to conduct audit of fees charged by public institutions of higher education.
"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
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
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.
Increases pension and retirement income exclusions under gross income tax for certain taxpayers.
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.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Establishes procedures for the approval of the closure of a public school.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
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.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
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.
Establishes public awareness campaign advising pregnant women, new parents, and women who are breast feeding about dangers of casual milk sharing.
"Unfair Wage Recovery Act"; provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected.
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.
"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.
Requires institutions of higher education to inquire about student's marital and parental status.
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.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
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.
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 to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Establishes publicly accessible domestic violence Internet registry.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Prohibits use of anti-concurrent causation clauses in homeowners insurance policies.
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.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires installation of baby-changing stations in certain public restrooms.
Establishes certain requirements for 9-1-1 public safety answering points and public safety dispatch points.
Prohibits home-schooling of children under DCPP care, custody, or supervision without DCPP approval.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires public institutions of higher education to grant academic credit to certain veterans.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault if committed against county or municipal official in certain circumstances.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Establishes State School Aid Funding Fairness Commission.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal anxiety.
Provides State aid to counties and municipalities to fund transportation services for veterans to VA medical centers; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Gold Star Family Scholarship Program; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires newly appointed members of boards of trustees of county colleges to complete training program concerning duties of board member.
Requires members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education to complete training program as condition of board membership.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who donate organs.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who provide blood donations.
Permits certain firefighter training courses to be taken online.
Establishes Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault.
Filed · 1
Requires study of program allowing community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.