Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, Senate.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Became law1
Exempts disabled veterans from beach buggy permit fees.
Passed the Senate1
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Out of committee3
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
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 committee66
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
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.
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.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facilities will be located.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
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.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
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.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Caps State use portion of energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Eliminates the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax and repeals parts of chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Provides gross income tax deduction for New Jersey fuel taxes paid through purchases of motor fuel for personal use of motor vehicles.
Excludes value of certain manufacturer rebates from sales price of motor vehicles taxable under sales and use tax.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Establishes forest firefighter death benefit.
Prohibits issuance or renewal of real estate license under certain circumstances.
"Breann's Law" requires health insurers, SHBP and NJ FamilyCare to provide "out-of-network" coverage for children with catastrophic illnesses.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
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.
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 special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Allows persons diagnosed with autism to voluntarily enter medical information in MVC database and make notation on driver's licenses, permits, and non-driver identification cards.
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
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.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Mandates wage garnishment and community service for defendants in default of court orders to compensate crime victims.
Requires SJTA to allow certain vehicles based in any part of State to use SJTA projects without being charged toll.
Extends veteran's gross income tax exemption to spouses of deceased veterans.
Exempts small businesses from apprenticeship requirement under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law1
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2019 to include new projects and remove certain projects.
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Passed the Senate · 2
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Out of committee · 13
Prohibits offshore oil and gas exploration, development, and production in State waters, and issuance of DEP permits and approvals for activities associated with offshore oil and gas activities. *
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard and reserve components of the United States Armed Forces.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
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.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Concerns reimbursements to Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners subjected to contractor fraud.
Grants veteran discharged under honorable conditions right to peddler's license.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Creates New Jersey Global War on Terrorism Medal.
Extends foreclosure protection and mortgage relief programs for certain Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
In committee · 9
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
Permits short-term tax exemption for certain improvements to dwellings damaged by natural disasters.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.
Allows municipalities and boards of education to jointly contract for certain group insurance benefits for their employees.
Permits boards of chosen freeholders to hold annual meeting at certain public buildings.
Upgrades unlawful taking thefts in certain instances.