Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Dawn Marie Addiego
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
In committee38
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service, and their immediate family members.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for retired veterans living in NJ and their immediate family members.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Increases the penalty for certain gang related crimes.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Requires Commissioner of Education to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on school districts.
Allows certain owners of preserved farmland to reacquire development rights for land underlying and next to farm buildings or structures.
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Provides enhanced penalties for making a false report to law enforcement authorities in certain circumstances.
Exempts, for five years, certain new business activities in pinelands area from compliance with Pinelands Commission development approval process.
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.
Concerns sale of cemetery, grave, monument and historical markers.
Eliminates the office of the executive couny superintendent of schools and transfers all the duties of that office to the Commissioner of Education.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Gives priority status for connection of solar photovoltaic systems for customer-generators who are public entities.
Prohibits smoking at State parks, forests, beaches, and wildlife management areas.
Prohibits smoking on property acquired or developed for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units or nonprofit organizations using State funds.
Requires DCA to establish school security construction code applicable to construction of new public school facilities and school additions.
Provides immunity from liability for certain persons who install or inspect child restraint systems.
Exempts certain surviving spouses and surviving civil union partners of certain disabled veterans from components of the realty transfer fee.
Provides counties and municipalities with additional discretion when leasing public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Establishes permanent police and fire interest arbitration cap.
Clarifies law regarding local public contract specifications and leases of public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Clarifies requirements for the display of land surveyor markers on certain types of maps and makes necessary technical corrections.
Requires public utilities to provide priority service to public schools, private schools, and public safety agencies.
Requires DOE to include military-connected student identifier in student-level database; requires district inform teacher when military-connected student enrolls in class taught by teacher.
Provides preferences for certain businesses applying for workforce development grants.
Establishes specialty agriculture development program in Department of Agriculture.
"Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act"; restricts collection and use of personal information by retail establishments for certain purposes.
Concerns disclosure requirements for certain propane sales.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Prohibits certain reductions in reimbursement rates under network services management agreements.
Permits construction of natural gas transmission lines on areas of preserved farmland already subject to existing utility easements under certain circumstances.
Establishes School Transportation Safety Commission in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Establishes Task Force on Safety in School Transportation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Requires annual physical examination of child 19 years of age or younger include certain questions related to cardiac health.*
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to commercial mobile service devices.
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding law enforcement officers.*
Authorizes youth camps to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit trained employees to administer epinephrine to camp members suffering from anaphylaxis.
Authorizes Attorney General to coordinate Statewide law enforcement efforts against opioid drug abuse.*
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.**
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
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.
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
Passed the Senate · 9
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to convene a strategic planning summit to analyze the State's physician workforce supply.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Requires newborn infant screening for tongue tie.
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations and William J. Hughes Technical Center.*
Expands authority of certain schools to issue employment certificates to minors.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Out of committee · 7
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances. *
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.*
Permits administration of epinephrine auto-injector device by persons who complete approved educational program.
Revises electronic waste recycling laws.
In committee · 18
Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to study impact of State business income taxes on business out-migration, business formation, and employment.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing; reinstates moratorium on Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Implements certain governance and transparency reforms at PANYNJ.
Requires Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly to develop informational posters describing phone-based complaint procedure, to be conspicuously displayed in certain facilities.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Strengthens requirements for accreditation, inspection, and general oversight of "surgical practices."
Eliminates employment certificate requirement for minors to engage in gainful employment.
Makes reforms to mental health treatment; clarifies law governing purchase of firearms by persons with history of mental illness.