Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Passed the Senate3
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Out of committee3
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property owned by disabled veterans during reconstruction of homes destroyed by flood, storm, or other act of God.
In committee62
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.
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.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
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 State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
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.
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.
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.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
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.
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.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Revises current law permitting paid leave of absence for municipal police officers.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to fully disabled veterans.
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.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Provides temporary period for making certain estate tax refund claims and directs notice be given to certain affected parties.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
"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.
Requires additional fines for certain crimes against minors to fund Amber Alert system.
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DOT for repair or construction of bridges on Route 72 connecting Long Beach Island to the mainland.
Excludes the value of certain manufacturer rebates from the sales price of motor vehicles taxable under the sales and use tax.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
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.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Caps State use portion of energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Provides that civil actions concerning home improvement contracts for residential or non-commercial property may be brought in the county where the property is located.
Eliminates the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax and repeals parts of chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Authorizes fine for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out--of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers and requires certain disclosures concerning multiple source generic drug pricing.
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.
Vetoed · 1
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Passed the Senate · 3
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Out of committee · 8
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances. *
Authorizes municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations of certain properties in foreclosure.*
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
"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 and certain family members living in New Jersey.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and veterans' property tax exemption to residents of continuing care retirement communities.*
Requires complaint for guardianship of a person receiving services from Division of Developmental Disabilities to include one of documents identified in bill.*
Designates striped bass (Morone saxatilis) as New Jersey saltwater fish.
In committee · 18
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with non-copper-based landline or wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Concerns valuation of property condemned for dune construction or beach replenishment.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Increases penalty for harboring or concealing certain sex offenders.
Requires fire suppression systems in all elementary and secondary schools 12,000 square feet or larger.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Requires adult recipients of Work First NJ benefits to engage in community service.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to work with US Army Corps of Engineers to establish joint permit application process for aquaculture projects.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to adopt joint permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.
Concerns operation of vehicle by family of deceased.