Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Daniel R. Benson
Sponsored
Became law4
Directs State Board of Education to promulgate regulations requiring school districts to develop a plan to establish stability in special education programming.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.*
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
Vetoed2
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.**
Requires training program for school bus drivers and aides on interacting with students with special needs.
Passed the General Assembly4
Prohibits automatic renewal of service contracts.
Creates "New Jersey Life Science Internship Challenge" program.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.*
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Out of committee10
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on hunting license fees.
Establishes real property assessment demonstration program.
Requires medical oxygen providers to notify fire department whenever they stop delivering oxygen to a local residence.
Permits a student to participate in certain voluntary surveys if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents; limits use of information obtained from survey.*
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or possession of synthetic marijuana.
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
Requires HMFA to expand participation in the NJ HomeKeeper Program.
Clarifies DOBI's regulatory authority over certain flood insurance claims.
Codifies current State Board of Education regulations which limit who may serve as case managers for students with disabilities to members of child study teams and certain speech-language specialists.
Sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.
In committee44
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Requires governmental affairs agents retained by government entities to file certain reports with ELEC; requires certain government entities retaining governmental affairs agents to file annual reports with ELEC.
Provides tax credit against gross income tax for costs of certain property that conserves energy or promotes energy efficiency and for other energy efficiency measures.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Provides for nursing home reimbursement adjustment for cost of energy improvements.
Requires DCA to provide information regarding "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Act" to certain dwelling units approved for Weatherization Assistance Program.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program; extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Authorizes issuance of special emergency notes to finance special emergency appropriations for payment of current year property assessment appeal refunds over three years.
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid in State Fiscal Year 2012.
Requires high school driver education course, certain new driver brochures, and driver's license written exam to include aggressive driving information.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
Prohibits political contributions by county and municipal political party committees to other committees; increases certain penalties.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act," requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or National Guard.
Requires health insurance coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas.
Requires certain CATV companies to make CATV service available throughout residential areas of municipality within specified number of years after CATV company first provides service to municipality.
Requires pawnbrokers to retain purchased property for not less than 20 days and record and report certain information.
Transportation for Hazardous Walking Routes Act; requires school districts to provide busing for students required to walk to school along hazardous routes and prohibits school bus stops within 250 feet of residence of sex offender.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
Exempts certain qualified applicants for commercial driver's licenses from fingerprinting and criminal history record background check.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
Authorizes placement of involved animal with animal welfare agency or similar entity pending adjudication of alleged animal cruelty violation when not adjudicated in seven days.
Requires suspension of pay of local elected officials during period between indictment and conviction for certain offenses involving moral turpitude.
Requires appropriate community notification when sex offender is placed in halfway house; prohibits certain county inmates in halfway house.
Alters the amount school district may charge parents when it elects to offer empty seats on a school bus to students who live less than remote from school along established bus routes.
Makes homeowners' association in which developer's control of executive board has not been surrendered a public body under "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act."
Exempts from sales tax for two years certain highly fuel efficient vehicles and energy efficient appliances.
Requires residential community release programs to file certain financial disclosure documents with DOC.
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Establishes pilot program to provide educational support for foster children; appropriates $900,000.
Authorizes use of electronic bidding by contracting units under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Allows gross income tax deductions for certain contributions to NJBEST college tuition savings program.
Allows consumers to return vehicles for full repayment under the lemon law.
Requires issue advocacy organization disclosure; increases disclosure of campaign finance information; raises amount of money contributable to committees; modifies restrictions on contributions by certain business entities performing public contracts.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Requires medical oxygen providers to notify fire department whenever they stop delivering oxygen to a local residence.
Establishes real property assessment demonstration program.
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or possession of synthetic marijuana.
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
Vetoed3
Permits a student to participate in certain voluntary surveys if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents; limits use of information obtained from survey.*
Requires HMFA to expand participation in the NJ HomeKeeper Program.
Sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 37
Establishes study of technology for the tracking of domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law."***
Fred Baker's Law; establishes July 30th of each year as "Corrections Officer Day."*
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
Prohibits health care facilities from discharging prescription medications into sewer or septic systems in certain circumstances.***
Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on drivers license.
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month."
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries.*
Requires plans, specifications, and bid proposal documents for certain local public contracts to address soil contamination, and requires contracting unit to approve change order under certain circumstances related thereto.*
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding, subject to availability, for burial of indigent veterans.*
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horse flesh for human consumption.
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
Eliminates requirement for CATV companies to provide advance notification of price decreases or addition of channel offerings. *
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Authorizes BPU to promulgate regulations requiring electricity providers to provide information so customers may compare prices and services.*
Revises State designation of "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" from February to September.
Establishes program in DOE to address State's shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
Requires Director of Division of Fire Safety to review preparation of local fire mutual aid plans and determine necessity of designated fire command structure.*
Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.
Removes statutory reference to 9-1-1 Commission which was renamed Statewide Public Safety Communications Commission.
Requires professional boards to provide credits toward requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.*
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Requires certain purchasers of precious metals and jewelry to maintain certain records; grandfathers certain municipal ordinances regarding sales of used and secondhand jewelry.**
Establishes NJ Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.**
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Appropriates $24,290,379 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires emergency operations plans in certain senior occupied buildings.
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
Requires transfer of certain records to DOLWD and DHS.
Prohibits inclusion of bonus in employment contract of school superintendent for reducing number of out-of-district placements of students with special education needs.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit, select, and train veterans for school security positions in school districts.
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.
Vetoed · 15
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Regulates mailed manufacturer's rebates.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.*
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Clarifies intent of Legislature to protect certain senior tenants; aligns housing age restrictions with federal law.**
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Establishes Clean Car Commission.**
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects. *
Requires that contract for private operation of State Lottery be subject to approval by Legislature.
Permits two or more candidates for school board member to circulate petitions jointly and be bracketed together on ballot for same term.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Passed the General Assembly · 43
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Requires adoption of certain rules and regulations by DCA and DEP concerning blue roofs and green roofs.**
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
Permits institutions of higher education to make supplemental contributions to ABP.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.*
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Revises exemption from license requirement for raffles for door prizes of donated or purchased merchandise; increases total retail value from $50 to $200 or higher if permitted.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Clarifies that using an animal to cause bodily injury to another constitutes assault with a deadly weapon.*
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to designation as charter school district of residence or expansion of a charter school.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for qualified investment in certain biotechnology businesses.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires State to enable applicants for State agency-issued permits to track online the progress and status of their permit application.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires State to use energy-efficient outdoor lighting fixtures.
Provides bonus awards to certain businesses who hire employees who were previously unemployed for more than 13 weeks.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.*
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services to foreign country.
Upgrades crime of manslaughter to aggravated manslaughter under certain circumstances.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signature from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission database.*
Establishes Consumer Finance Advisory Board; abolishes certain advisory boards in DOBI.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Permits certain witnesses under the age of 16 and victims of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.*
Authorizes Judiciary to revise or supplement fees, subject to limitations, to fund Legal Services of New Jersey and e-court information system; requires review and reporting on fees and expenditures of such fees.*
Requires BPU to conduct study on how electric chiller equipment and natural gas cooling equipment would increase energy efficiency in commercial buildings.*
Requires businesses receiving State economic development subsidy to report campaign contributions greater than $10,000.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Revises the definition of "responsible charge" as it pertains to licensed professional engineers and land surveyors.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Establishes "Task Force To Review Residential Community Release Programs" to review this State's halfway houses and make recommendations concerning security and inmate services.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Requires Department of the Treasury to collect for overpayment of UI benefits.
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Requires that certain health care facilities be generator ready; allows health care facilities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
Out of committee · 66
Eliminates DOT approval of municipal traffic calming measures in business districts.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the student borrower's death.
Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with a minor as a passenger.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
Requires schools that participate in Statewide interscholastic sports programs to annually inform student-athletes about National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility standards for participation in collegiate athletics.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.
Establishes alternative distributed energy generating requirement; provides financial incentives for certain alternative distributed energy generating facilities.**
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.*
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Jessica Rogers' Law; upgrades assault by auto or vessel. *
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools.
Establishes pilot program for municipalities and school districts to contract for video monitoring systems to assist in enforcing law against unlawfully passing a school bus.*
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Prohibits certain contractors from public works projects.
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
Establishes Solar Thermal Expansion Loan and Grant program; appropriates $10 million.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
"Scholastic Student-Athlete Safety Act;" establishes measures to ensure health of student-athletes.
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Revises certain provisions of farmland assessment law.*
Establishes bill of rights for continuing care retirement community residents.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.*
Concerns certain appeals of unemployment benefits determinations.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Provides that certain personal identifying information may be redacted from certain public records in certain circumstances.
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.
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.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.*
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Concerns voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support New Jersey athletes participating in 2014 Special Olympics USA Games.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.*
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
"Higher Education Epinephrine Emergency Treatment Act."
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Concerns employer contribution reports.
Revises certain provisions of Megan's Law and imposes monthly penalty on sex offenders to fund their monitoring and supervision by the parole board.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Allows SPRS members to purchase SPRS credit for prior military service.
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and provides enforcement tools related to maintenance of these properties.*
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law." *
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Allows practitioner with financial interest in health care service providing lithotripsy to refer patients to that health care service if certain conditions are met.
Provides standards for home elevation contractors.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
In committee · 123
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Removes decal requirement from graduated driver's license law; establishes new system for law enforcement to identify novice drivers.
Provides grants to eligible businesses equal to 5% of annual base salary of new employees hired under employment grant component of Invest in New Jersey Business Grant Program.
Provides tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for certain costs incurred in purchase and installation of certain environmentally responsible business equipment.
Allows corporation business tax credits as incentives for redevelopment of distressed shopping centers.
Requires municipal agency under MLUL to notify prospective applicant of potential need for additional governmental approvals.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Establishes safety zone speed control device pilot program.
Permits municipalities to use up to 15% of affordable housing trust fund monies to provide financial assistance grants to the owners of real property that sustained certain weather-related damage.
Supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to DOT for installation of a traffic signal on Route 130 at the Shoppes at Hamilton in Hamilton Township, Mercer County.
Requires Secretary of State create e-mail notification system alerting when US and State flags flown at half-staff.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $7,000,000 to DOE to reinstate nonpublic technology initiative aid.
Requires State to provide recipients of State tax refunds, unemployment insurance benefits and State employee compensation certain payment options.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Adds certain cannabis-like chemical substances to list of controlled dangerous substances.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Prohibits certain agencies from establishing checkpoints limited to specific vehicle types.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Requires NJ Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program to give additional weight in ranking system to projects including green or blue roofs.
Establishes program to provide financial assistance towards installation of blue roofs and green roofs; authorizes use of Global Warming Solutions Fund for certain such purposes.
Requires assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes to ensure connection of emergency cords in residential units to facility staff.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; expands jurisdiction of Division of Rate Counsel.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Girl Scouts councils in New Jersey.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from certain drivers involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Establishes pilot project to permit overseas and military voters to vote in certain elections using Internet; makes an appropriation.
"Government Reality Check Act"; prohibits public employers from providing certain benefits to public employees; restricts gifts to public employees; restricts travel by public employees; imposes post-employment restriction on public contracting employees
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Requires surgical practices to be licensed by DHSS as ambulatory care facilities.
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program and requires DOT to conduct study.
Establishes public-private pilot program for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of compressed natural gas vehicles.
Establishes refundable gross income tax credit for certain taxpayers allowed Hope Scholarship Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit under Federal income tax.
Requires public institutions of higher education to implement certain practices concerning academic credits and residency requirements for military servicemembers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Requires gradual replacement of incandescent light bulbs in public school buildings with compact fluorescent light bulbs whenever possible.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Provides corporation business tax credit for certain New Jersey news, weather, and sports content production expenses.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits certain self-employed individuals to purchase small employer health benefits plans.
Requires all campaign contributions to be reported to ELEC.
Revises "Administrative Procedure Act" concerning socio-economic impact statements for proposed rule-making.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Requires a public body to record public meetings and post proceedings on its Internet website.
Supplemental appropriation of $38 million in State and federal funding to DHSS to fund nursing homes.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 2% over the prior academic year.
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility; appropriates $20,000 for municipal reimbursements.
Creates New Jersey Business Action Center.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Provides for registration of mold inspectors and remediators.
Requires State Treasurer to include designated space for e-mail address on application forms for notaries public.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Permits undersheriff to perform administrative duties on behalf of county sheriff.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Appropriates $3.963 million from General Fund to DOE for nonpublic nursing services aid.
Establishes county-based centers for transition for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits possession and sale of shark fins.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Increases State appropriations to Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund by $387 million to restore municipal aid reductions from Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
Increases renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements under "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
Repeals law that established commission, inactive since 1999, to conduct review of salaries of certain public officials.
Eliminates exception to public advertising and bidding requirements for certain public contracts involving insurance coverage and consulting services.
Limits contributions to legal defense fund of candidate for or holder of elective public office; requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Requires certain entities to be equipped with generators and allows those entities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
Provides sales and use tax rebate for certain purchases made by, or on behalf of, individuals and small businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Requires any candidate convicted of crimes or offenses to return campaign contributions to donors; freezes most campaign funds of candidates indicted for crimes or offenses.
Modifies tax levy apportionment methodology in certain school districts; restricts authority for certain municipalities to enter long-term tax exemption agreements.
Requires disclosure of information about contributions and expenditures for candidates for elective public office, or for public questions, by publicly traded corporations doing business in State.
Requires BPU to conduct pilot program to allow free parking for alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Eliminates State aid growth limit for school districts in which individuals age 65 and over comprise at least 33.3 percent of the population.
Requires retirement subdivision and retirement community to install electrical generator to provide electricity to common use area to be used as shelter in case of emergency.
Requires DOC to conduct quarterly site visits at residential community release programs.
Prohibits pre-trial county inmates charged with first, second, or third degree crimes from being placed in halfway houses.
Requires the Division of Purchase and Property to award contracts to halfway houses; sets forth certain contract requirements.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Provides State, county, municipal, and school district contracts for professional services will be awarded pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Requires suspension of member of Legislature indicted for certain crimes or offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumers.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Regulates toll collection transponders in rental vehicles.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a public servant, during a state of emergency, to use or make disposition of a public resource in an unauthorized manner with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another.
Requires cell phone warranties to last throughout initial service contract.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Encourages school districts and nonpublic schools to increase student participation in school breakfast programs.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Revises sales and use tax treatment of garbage removal services.
Establishes a cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit program.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.