Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Became law4
Permits cancellation of municipal charges and fees under $10.
Prohibits first responders from photographing persons being assisted or disclosing photographs of such persons without their consent.*
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military absences.*
Permits mayors to appoint municipal emergency management coordinators from among residents of municipalities subject to a shared services agreement.
Passed the Senate1
Permits local government units to increase service charge imposed for check payments returned for insufficient funds.
Out of committee5
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Directs DOT and NJT to study and report on transportation infrastructure needs in coastal counties.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
In committee75
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential and other private property under redevelopment laws.
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Clarifies that harassment made anonymously or otherwise through electronic communication devices constitutes a petty disorderly offense.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Requires DEP rejection of new solid waste facility registration if affected municipality disapproves proposed facility location.
Establishes a New Jersey Coordinating Council on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Generating Facilities.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Exempts transfer of ownership of real property between individual and business entity controlled by that individual from realty transfer fee and one percent assessment on transfer of ownership of certain real property.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Requires DEP assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
Dedicates up to $400,000 annually of fees collected at Island Beach and Liberty State Parks to special funds to be used to support certain park programs, and makes appropriations from the funds.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for home health care services provided by a hospital.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of incarceration on juveniles who use guns to commit acts which, if committed by adults, would constitute serious crimes.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Creates new penalty for convictions or juvenile adjudications of arson; establishes Arson Investigation Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DOT for repair or construction of bridges on Route 72 connecting Long Beach Island to the mainland.
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to fully disabled veterans.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Ends transitional energy facilities assessment (TEFA), caps State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Provides temporary period for making certain estate tax refund claims and directs notice be given to certain affected parties.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Repeals State and local hotel and motel occupancy taxes and voids existing municipal implementing ordinances.
Excludes the value of certain manufacturer rebates from the sales price of motor vehicles taxable under the sales and use tax.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
Requires additional fines for certain crimes against minors to fund Amber Alert system.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new National Crime Information Center terminals.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
"Invest in New Jersey First' Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.
Prohibits nonrenewal of homeowners insurance policies based on proximity to water or risk of windstorm related claims.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
"Breann's Law" requires health insurers, the State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide "out of network" coverage for children with catastrophic illnesses.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Makes public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes or found at fault in certain civil actions liable and subject to pension garnishment for public legal expenses and illegally obtained funds.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facilities will be located.
Concerns awarding of professional services contracts by public agencies and requires certain disclosures by State and local government officials and candidates for elective public office.
Allows lawsuits by home improvement contractors against homeowners to be brought in county in which residential or non-commercial property is located.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Allows CRDA to finance certain highway projects outside of Atlantic City Tourism District.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Revises current law permitting paid leave of absence for municipal police officers.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Provides for payment to small municipalities, in certain cases, of certain penalty moneys assessed for violations of fish and game laws.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Passed the Senate · 3
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.*
Out of committee · 8
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Permits certain military funeral buglers to receive New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.*
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.*
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."*
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for New Jersey Nonprofit Veterans Organizations through gross income tax returns.*
In committee · 14
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Establishes a 2.0 percent cap on annual appropriations increases for certain State government spending.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Transfers all probation functions and employees to Bureau of Probation in State Parole Board.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Concerns valuation of property condemned for dune construction or beach replenishment.
Requires certain common areas and facilities of assisted living facilities to be generator ready; provides related tax relief.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
Concerns permits, letters of exemption, and enforcement with regard to agricultural activities under "Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act".
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act;" provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans.