Bills in the 2022–2023 Session, Senate.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
Authorizes municipalities to establish dredging control reserve fund.
Out of committee6
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Permits municipalities to charge reduced or no beach fee for children ages 12 to 17; revises law concerning beach fees for veterans.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.
Establishes "Volunteer Fire Company Assistance Program" in DCA to support operations and sustainability of volunteer fire companies; appropriates $10 million.
Increases maximum lease in certain public-private partnership agreements from 30 to 40 years.
In committee78
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
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.
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.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
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.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Exempts small businesses from apprenticeship requirement under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
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.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes forest firefighter death benefit.
Eliminates the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax and repeals parts of chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Establishes immunity for youth sports leagues and senior planned real estate development associations relating to COVID-19.
Makes permanent certain immunity relating to COVID-19 spread in planned real estate developments.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
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 funds.
Allows law enforcement officers in PERS to transfer to and enroll in PFRS; requires all law enforcement officers to be enrolled in PFRS.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
Mandates wage garnishment and community service for defendants in default of court orders to compensate crime victims.
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.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.
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.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facilities will be located.
Provides for payment to small municipalities, in certain cases, of certain penalty moneys assessed for violations of fish and game laws.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Allows CRDA to finance certain highway projects outside of Atlantic City Tourism District.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Requires SJTA to allow certain vehicles based in any part of State to use SJTA projects without being charged toll.
Designates State Highway Route 72 as "Burlington-Ocean Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Requires additional fines for certain crimes against minors to fund Amber Alert system.
Requires use of email for certain community notification under Megan's law.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
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.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential and other private property under redevelopment laws.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Provides that former law enforcement officers who retired due to disability are eligible to receive tuition assistance to attend public institution of higher education or proprietary institution licensed to confer academic degrees.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
"Breann's Law" requires health insurers, SHBP and NJ FamilyCare to provide "out of network" coverage for children with catastrophic illnesses.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Excludes value of certain manufacturer rebates from sales price of motor vehicles taxable under sales and use tax.
Caps State use portion of energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Extends veteran's gross income tax exemption to spouses of deceased veterans.
Provides gross income tax deduction for New Jersey fuel taxes paid through purchases of motor fuel for personal use of motor vehicles.
Deems spent nuclear fuel from decommissioned nuclear power plant to be real property.
Requires decommissioned nuclear power facility to pay annual community service payment in lieu of property taxes.
Subjects spent nuclear fuel located in a decommissioned nuclear power plant to taxation as business personal property.
Permits certain municipalities to impose stranded nuclear waste fee.
Makes $2.5 million in federal funds available to EDA to support veteran-owned businesses in need.
Authorizes creation of New Jersey Maritime Museum license plates.
Allows municipalities to administer responsibilities of Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act under certain conditions.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Requires schools to report certain assaults to law enforcement.
Exempts veterans from camping facilities fees at State parks and forests.
Co-sponsored
Passed the Senate · 2
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over two years; prohibits anticipation of certain revenue in municipal budget; requires additional aid be subtracted from municipal property tax levy. *
Requires DMVA establish Disabled Veterans Transportation Task Force.
Out of committee · 9
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected disability and proclaims that the State shall reimburse municipalities for cost of exemptions.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides free admission to State parks and forests, and certain historic sites and historic properties for certain veterans on certain days.*
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $2,000 gross income tax exemption.*
Allows property tax rebate for disabled veterans.
Requires State Board of Education to administer New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment as field test for class of 2023.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
In committee · 12
Establishes Office of Inspector General for Veterans' Facilities.
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Reinstates automatic COLA for retirement benefits of members of the State-administered retirement systems.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Limits to 14 days effective period of certain emergency orders, rules, or regulations.
Permits Legislature to terminate certain declarations by Governor for state of emergency or public health emergency and limits duration of such declarations unless Legislature approves extension.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
"Gas Price and Inflation Tax Credit Act."
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Credits $2.35 billion to "New Jersey Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund"; appropriates $4.32 billion to Department of Treasury to provide funds to municipalities and counties for debt retirement and avoidance.