Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, Senate.
Dawn Marie Addiego
Sponsored
Became law5
Provides preferences for certain businesses applying for workforce development grants.
Requires disclosure of identifying information prior to sale of horse at auction.
Permits school district of residence to provide aid in-lieu-of transportation to pupil attending Marine Academy of Science and Technology provided certain conditions are met.*
Establishes pilot program in DCF to study impact of child care services provided by community providers operating in public school facilities; requires community providers to meet certain criteria. *
Renames joint meetings as regional service agencies; grandfathers existing joint meetings.
Passed the Senate1
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
Out of committee4
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight.*
Requires institutions of higher education to send out annual student debt letters; requires students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to complete course on student loan debt repayment.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Provides tax credits to certain employers of employees less than 18 years old.
In committee28
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Provides enhanced penalties for making a false report to law enforcement authorities in certain circumstances.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility 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.
Provides counties and municipalities with additional discretion when leasing public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Exempts certain surviving spouses and surviving civil union partners of certain disabled veterans from components of the realty transfer fee.
Establishes Task Force on Safety in School Transportation.
Establishes School Transportation Safety Commission in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires Silver Alert System receive same broadcast alerts as Amber Alert System.
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.
Requires breath or blood sample be taken in certain pedestrian-involved motor vehicle accidents.
Establishes that failure to maintain lane may constitute recklessness under vehicular homicide statute; designated as Eileen's Law.
Authorizes counties to issue promotional labeling for county agricultural products.
Increases penalties for unauthorized display or use of emergency warning lights.
Concerns emergency warning lights; criminalizes using vehicle to impersonate law enforcement officer.
Establishes system in which State and local government entities are made aware of certain public safety issues involving medications for certain public employees and applicants.
Establishes Good Samaritan Law to provide immunity from civil liability for veterinarians or emergency responders who assist animals at accident scene or emergency.
Waives boat safety course requirement for veterans and active duty members of military with maritime training.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Requires school district monitoring system, New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC), to include assessment of number of district employees trained in administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis.
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered a lumber yard.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $450,000 for National Aviation Research and Technology Park.
Establishes civil action for damages for injury or death of certain animals in certain circumstances.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law1
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Requires school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and contracted service providers to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Meals on Wheels.
Requires acceptance of universal dentist application for participation form by dental plan carriers.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program.
Permits establishment by county and four-year institutions of higher education of three plus one degree programs for receipt of baccalaureate degree after spending three years at county college and one year at senior institution.
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact.*
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Permits service credit transferred from another State-administered retirement system to apply toward creditable service requirement for retirement in SPRS.
Revises criteria for determining whether dog is vicious or potentially dangerous.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers and carriers from engaging in "clawback" and "gag clause" practices; requires certain disclosures by pharmacists; requires Director of Division of Consumer Affairs to conduct public information campaign.***
Requires institutions of higher education to offer cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research, or scientific purposes for adoption; designated the "Homes for Animal Heroes Act." *
Revises requirements for grant recipients of Transportation Trust Fund Authority local aid program.
Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military on active duty and their family members. *
Revises definition of hemophilia and expands hemophilia treatment program.
Establishes owning or possessing animal fighting or dog fighting paraphernalia as crime of third degree; establishes civil animal cruelty penalties therefor.
Requires receivership appointment application prior to certain foreclosure actions; requires notice of intention to foreclosure on residential mortage to be filed within 180 days prior to commencing foreclosure; limits reinstatements of dismissed mortgage
Makes certain changes to summary action foreclosure process under "Fair Foreclosure Act."
Clarifies that "New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act" applies to certain out-of-state persons and involved in residential mortgage lending in the State.*
Revises certain procedures for real estate foreclosure sales; alters adjournment of sale process.
Establishes Office of Homelessness Prevention; appropriates $3 million to DCA.
Vetoed · 3
Provides a gross income tax exclusion for attorney's fees and costs received in connection with certain unlawful discrimination, unlawful retaliation, and qui tam claims or actions.*
Establishes loan program and provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for establishment of new vineyards and wineries.
Allows certain preserved farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms.*
Passed the Senate · 12
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Creates Task Force on Driver Distractions.
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Provides tax credits to vineyards and wineries for qualified capital expenses.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from EDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Establishes Main Street Assistance Program to encourage business development in small municipalities.
Allows certain persons convicted of certain drug offenses to qualify for casino key employee license and casino employee registration. *
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish apprenticeship mentoring program for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
"Timothy J. Piazza's Law"; expands scope of activities constituting hazing; increases penalties for hazing resulting in injury; requires institutions of higher education and public and nonpublic high schools and middle schools to adopt anti-hazing policie
Provides for advocate in criminal cases concerning welfare or care of animal.*
Out of committee · 28
Establishes surplus revenue reserve account in the Property Tax Relief Fund if certain levels of unanticipated gross income tax revenue are collected.
Establishes animal abuser registry; prohibits person convicted of criminal animal cruelty violation from owning, keeping, or harboring any animal, and establishes enforcement mechanisms therefor.*
Revises certain motor vehicle fines imposed on motor vehicle drivers or operators for failing to have required documentation.
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law" and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies.
Increases penalties for energy "slamming" practices.
Authorizes parking privileges for certain healthcare workers who render care at patients' home residences.
Requires Department of Education to develop guidelines for school districts concerning child trafficking awareness and prevention.*
Appropriates $15,294,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Requires study of safety of school bus passengers in certain emergency situations, including school bus accidents; appropriates $250,000. *
Allows for cancellation of certain service contracts without paying early termination fee if customer becomes deceased prior to end of service contract.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires public works contractors to have certain certifications; requires certain contractors to participate in apprenticeship program.*
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to establish public awareness campaign for food waste.
Establishes New Jersey Food Waste Task Force to make recommendations concerning food waste in New Jersey.
Establishes Farm Liaison in Department of Agriculture.
Directs Department of Agriculture to establish food desert produce pilot program.
Permits self-administration of hydrocortisone sodium succinate by students for adrenal insufficiency and requires that school districts and nonpublic schools establish policy for emergency administration of medication.
Requires DCA to produce and maintain database and interactive map concerning residential properties under foreclosure; increases certain recording fees as funding mechanism.
Permits certain planned real estate developments to file certain liens; concerns limited priority of certain liens.
Requires filing of certain contact information of creditors with residential mortgage foreclosure complaint and lis pendens.
"Mortgage Servicers Licensing Act."
Revises statute of limitations for residential mortgage foreclosures.
Prohibits municipalities from imposing local fire safety standards stricter than State fire safety code in certain circumstances.
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.*
Requires promulgation of separate code criteria for certain buildings.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Revises definition of "public works projects" to permit project labor agreements for more projects.
In committee · 20
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Establishes process for individual to petition court for involuntary commitment of another person to treatment for substance use disorder.
Establishes crime of "sexual extortion": using explicit sexual images to extort victims.
Allows commercial farmer to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees of defending against unreasonable complaints under "Right to Farm Act."
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations and William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Requires Petroleum Products Gross Receipts Tax rate reduction if certain Legislative action is taken that includes increases in other State tax rates and revenue; dedicates revenues from certain sales and use tax increases to "Transportation Trust Fund Ac
Permits boards of chosen freeholders to hold annual meeting at certain public buildings.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Permits DEP to enter into solar energy redevelopment agreements with owners or operators of sanitary landfill facilities under certain circumstances.
"Mary's Law"; requires Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide direct payments for purchases of specialized, modified motor vehicles.
Establishes "Stillbirth Resource Center" and programs for the prevention and reduction of incidences of stillbirth; appropriates $1 million.