Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
DiAnne C. Gove
Sponsored
In committee40
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Establishes municipal authority to supervise, discipline and terminate employment of construction code officials.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DOT for repair or construction of bridges on Route 72 connecting Long Beach Island to the mainland.
Requires notaries public to be U.S. citizens.
Requires assessment of bay scallop resource, and authorizes DEP to establish a bay scallop fishery.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new NICS terminals.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Provides immunity from civil liability for persons performing animal rescue and authorizes formation of emergency animal rescue response units.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions to VetGroup, Inc. for services for veterans.
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Provides certain veteran benefits to veterans of the global war on terror conflicts and those of certain military engagements served during certain periods.
Requires State to reimburse counties and municipalities for salary and fringe benefit costs of employee on official leave of absence for military service in war on terror; makes an appropriation.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows PERS ordinary disability retiree to earn up to $3,000 in PERS-covered employment annually before cancellation of disability benefit and reenrollment in PERS.
Extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Increases penalties for identity theft when victim is a senior citizen or veteran.
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.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Establishes NJ Business and the Arts Commission to promote art Statewide.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Exempts veterans' organizations from motor vehicle registration fee.
Revises current law permitting paid leave of absence for municipal police officers.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
"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 Division of Travel and Tourism to develop and promote NJ Heritage Weekend.
Allows municipality to petition county for removal of abandoned vessel after declared state of emergency.
Eliminates the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax and repeals parts of chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
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.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Exempts disabled veterans from beach buggy permit fees.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
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 coordinated permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Establishes Farm to School Coordinating Council.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Appropriates $2,988,859 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
Passed the General Assembly · 7
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.*
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Allows qualified school to be called "New Jersey Farm Fresh School."
Permits school participating in NJ "Farm to School" program to submit recipe for posting on Dept. of Agriculture website.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Out of committee · 22
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Makes consent to register with Selective Service part of driver's license application process for males under age 26.
Adds Sons of The American Legion to list of organizations whose representatives receive paid leaves of absence to attend State and national conventions.
Modifies laws regarding compensation and leaves of absence for certain public employees who served in the military; requires public employers follow certain policies and procedures for leaves of absence.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for maintenance of certain State memorials honoring war veterans.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Expands acceptable military separation forms for county veteran identification card; allows issuance to National Guard veterans of other states.*
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Designates New Jersey Route 47 from Wildwood City to Maurice River Township as "Veterans Memorial Highway at Delsea Drive."
Provides for retained eligibility for members of NJ National Guard or reserve component of US Armed Forces called to active federal military service who met maximum age requirement at closing date of civil service examination.
Requires nursing home facility operated by DMVA for veterans to provide State-funded transportation to health care services outside of facility.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2018 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
In committee · 88
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
Increases penalty for harboring or concealing certain sex offenders.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide information on life insurance plans to borrowers of student loans and requires authority to contract with life insurance company to offer policies to borrowers.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Requires disclosure of water damage prior to household appliance sales.
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
Requires reimbursement of certain Casino Reinvestment Development Authority grants and payment of those grants to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Requires certain funds paid to CRDA to be awarded to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires prosecutor 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 DEP to 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.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Establishes a New Jersey Coordinating Council on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Generating Facilities.
Revises law concerning sexually oriented businesses.
Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential and other private property under redevelopment laws.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Criminalizes fifth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Reestablishes senior citizen supplemental stabilization aid.
Clarifies that harassment made anonymously or otherwise through electronic communication devices constitutes a petty disorderly offense.
Requires BPU to provide funding for purchase and installation of photovoltaic technologies for age-restricted community clubhouse facilities from societal benefits charge.
Requires use of electronic mail for community notification under Megan's law.
Requires certain offenders to register under Megan's Law; upgrades the crimes of invasion of privacy and peering into a window of a dwelling for a second or subsequent offense.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute.
Provides for immediate driver's license suspension under certain circumstances.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicle tires and motor oils to minimize fuel usage.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Establishes "Internet Predator Investigation and Prosecution Fund" with $200 assessment on persons convicted of certain offenses.
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.
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.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Requires any individual seeking elective public office to disclose when filing petition of nomination whether he or she has been convicted of a criminal offense.
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.
Provides for payment to small municipalities, in certain cases, of certain penalty moneys assessed for violations of fish and game laws.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Authorizes municipal dredging of lagoon community waterways and levying of special assessment or issuing of bonds to finance such dredging.
Increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $5 million over period of five years.
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Revises child pornography law.
Appropriates $20,000,000 from General Fund to the Department of State for travel and tourism advertising and promotion to communicate that New Jersey's tourism destinations are operational despite damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
Prohibits use of hands-free wireless telephones and electronic communication devices while providing instruction in operation of a motor vehicle.
"Invest in New Jersey First Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Caps State use portion of energy tax revenues and ensures balance of such revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Prohibits seller of real estate to transfer realty transfer fee liability to buyer.
Directs DOT and NJT to study and report on transportation infrastructure needs in coastal counties.
Allows "Coastal Protection Trust Fund" monies to be used to separate combined sewer systems.
Authorizes veterans to deduct two years military service from age requirement for police officer under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Electromagnetic Infrastructure Advisory Commission."
Permits municipalities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to borrow for current expenses through December 31, 2017, and repay special emergency notes over a 10-year period.
Establishes death benefit for forest firefighters.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Provides State aid to counties and municipalities to fund transportation services for veterans to VA medical centers; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes task force to study technology and other methods used to reduced or eliminate telemarketing harassment intimidation.
Establishes forest firefighter death benefit.
Provides gross income tax deduction for New Jersey fuel taxes paid through purchases of motor fuel for personal use at motor vehicles.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Prohibits issuance or renewal of real estate license under certain circumstances.
Provides population-based cap for municipal fair share affordable housing obligation.
Increases maximum municipal percentage of affordable fair share housing satisfied by age-restricted units to 50 percent.
Excludes flood-prone land from affordable housing vacant land analysis.
Establishes September 11, 2001 Memorial Registry.
Creates Garden State Growth Zone at certain aviation-related facilities in Atlantic County.
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.
Authorizes woman veteran license plates.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning Period of PURPLE Crying program and shaken baby syndrome.
Filed · 3
Appropriates $8,992,898 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $71,700,224 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.