Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Daniel R. Benson
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Requires health benefits coverage for synchronization of prescribed medications under certain circumstances.
Establishes Division of State Museum in Department of State; continues New Jersey State Museum within division; abolishes museum board of trustees.
Vetoed4
Requires Department of Health to publish informational guidelines on the inspection, identification, evaluation, and abatement of mold.*
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.
Requires Public Health Counsel to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.*
Passed the General Assembly8
Prohibits automatic renewal of service contracts.
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 appropriate community notification when sex offender is placed in halfway house; prohibits certain county inmates in halfway house.
Requires DCA to provide information regarding "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Act" to certain dwelling units approved for Weatherization Assistance Program.
Requires residential community release programs to file certain financial disclosure documents with DOC.
Requires teacher preparation program for instuctional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.**
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Requires employers and health care institutions to disseminate information regarding certain leave and benefits.*
Out of committee15
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.
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Requires high school driver education course, certain new driver brochures, and driver's license written exam to include aggressive driving information.
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
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."
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law." and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies.*
Exempts certain qualified applicants for commercial driver's licenses from fingerprinting and criminal history record background check.
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.*
Permits municipalities and municipal parking authorities to create Senior Citizen Priority Parking Program.
Requires full pay for certain health care and public safety workers placed in isolation or quarantine.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
In committee55
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Provides tax credit against gross income tax for cost of certain property that conserves energy or promotes energy efficiency and for other energy efficiency measures.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on hunting license fees.
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.
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid in State Fiscal Year 2012.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
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.
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.
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 certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
Requires suspension of pay of local elected officials during period between indictment and conviction for certain offenses involving moral turpitude.
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.
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.
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.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Allows gross income tax deductions for certain contributions to NJBEST college tuition savings program.
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.
Allows consumers to return vehicles for full repayment under the lemon law.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
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.
Exempts from sales tax for two years certain highly fuel efficient vehicles and energy efficient appliances.
Prohibits political contributions by county and municipal political party committees to other committees; increases certain penalties.
Authorizes issuance of special emergency notes to finance special emergency appropriations for payment of current year property assessment appeal refunds over three years.
Requires pawnbrokers to retain purchased property for not less than 20 days and record and report certain information.
Provides for nursing home reimbursement adjustment for cost of energy improvements.
Establishes pilot program to provide educational support for foster children; appropriates $900,000.
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.
Supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,560,000 for anti-tobacco programs.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts experiencing enrollment increases due to conversion of age-restricted housing developments to non-restricted developments.
Revises homestead property tax reimbursement eligibility requirements for certain claimants relocating homesteads within the same municipality.
Refines process of real property assessment in certain counties.
"Commercial Motor Vehicle State Highway Parking Act."
Requires school districts to observe Veterans Day as school holiday.
Prohibits hotels from interfering with wireless networking services.
Requires online data brokers to establish accountability and transparency measures for collection and use of personal informaton.
Directs DOT to update advisability studies concerning cost difference between using in-house forces versus consultants for bridge inspections, construction inspections, and design projects.
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Makes various changes to tenure of faculty and other professional staff at State and county colleges.
Codifies donated leave program for State employees.
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Designates football as State sport.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires high school driver education course, certain new driver brochures, and driver's license written exam to include aggressive driving information.
Permits municipalities and municipal parking authorities to create Senior Citizen Priority Parking Program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 47
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
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.
Encourages the establishment of "breakfast after the bell" programs in school districts, public school, and nonpublic schools participating in the federal school breakfast program.*
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Allows for waiver of school bus requirements for mobility assistance vehicle technicians who transport students with medical needs to and from school.
Eliminates DOT approval of municipal traffic calming measures in business districts.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
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.
Revises definition of "responsible charge" as it pertains to licensed professional engineers and licensed architects.*
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
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.
Prohibits certain agencies from establishing checkpoints limited to specific vehicle types.
Allows person to request voluntary exclusion from gaming activities without acknowledging being problem gambler.
Establishes requirements for pharmacists to dispense biological products.*
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Codifies "Project Medicine Drop" program; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain secure prescription medicine drop-off receptacles at certain law enforcement agencies.*
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Limits access to data recorded by motor vehicle recording devices.
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
Requires BPU to provide links to pricing information to customers from electric and gas public utilities, and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.*
Requires BPU to establish procedures allowing electric power and gas supplier customers to switch energy suppliers.
Imposes contract standards between customers and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
"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.
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
Directs Department of Agriculture to publish on its website "New Jersey Gleaning Week" and "Farmers Against Hunger Day" page.
Permits administration of epinephrine auto-injector device by persons who complete approved educational program.
Prohibits sale or distribution of liquid nicotine except in child-resistant containers.
Provides an excused absence on Veterans Day for pupil who participates in certain activities for veterans or active duty members of United States Armed Forces or New Jersey National Guard.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Expands timeframe for renewal of driver's license, registration, and inspection by military personnel and immediate family members under certain circumstances.*
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business is in default on previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.*
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 20
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Revises penalty provisions for certain drunk driving violations, including use of and applicable time periods covering driver's license suspensions and installations of ignition interlock devices on motor vehicles.*
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Authorizes municipalities to facilitate private financing of water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects through use of voluntary special assessments.*
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes. *
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Mandates health benefits coverage for opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties. *
Requires BPU to render decision on case within 12 months of final public hearing or hold another public hearing prior to deciding case.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
Passed the General Assembly · 54
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires driver's license examination to include questions on distracted driving; makes it a violation for motorists to talk or text on hand-held wireless devices while vehicle is temporarily stopped.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with a minor as a passenger.
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Establishes mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for harming or threatening to harm animal owned or used by a law enforcement agency or a search and rescue dog.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Requires ATM operators to disclose balance inquiry fees.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.*
Regulates mailed manufacturer's rebates.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Authorizes Attorney General to impose a fine against institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.*
Permits a witness who is under the age of 16 or a victim of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.
Requires certain CATV companies to provide free Internet access to public libraries.*
Establishes penalty for unlawfully using parking placard issued to person with qualifying disability.
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Directs Attorney General to develop plan to disseminate Amber and Silver Alert information through social media.
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Authorizes issuance of restraining orders for situtations in which domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Requires independent colleges report certain consumer information on their websites; requires information on remedial instruction to be provided by certain colleges; directs how remedial education is delivered at four-year public and independent colleges.
Requires county colleges to develop plan to achieve three-year graduation rate of at least 33 percent for full-time degree-program students by 2019-2020 academic year.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.*
Requires closure of a four-year public institution of higher education that fails to achieve a six-year graduation rate of at least 50% for full-time undergraduate students.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Requires New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to annually prepare report on debt held by public institutions of higher education.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Establishes brain injury screening and education program in DCF.*
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.**
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.*
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.*
Creates exclusion from municipal property tax levy cap for amounts necessary to provide required matching funds to qualify for grants and other funds.
Extends post-military service protection against mortgage foreclosure.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Requires State to include distributed energy resource in certain new State buildings and consider retrofitting certain existing State buildings with distributed energy resource.
Requires DMAVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State. *
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding seniors in property tax lien foreclosure; notification of certain county offices upon senior property tax lien sale; collector to provide requested lien satisfaction information within seven days
Out of committee · 103
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide air quality standards and certification requirements for ice arenas.*
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires DOC to conduct quarterly site visits at residential community release programs.
Prohibits certain persons charged with first, second, or third degree crimes from being in halfway houses prior to adjudication.*
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.*
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Authorizes school district hiring preference for veterans.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Requires that certain health care facilities be generator ready; allows health care facilities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Permits two or more candidates for school board member to circulate petitions jointly and be bracketed together on ballot for same term.
Requires local recreation departments, youth serving organizations, and camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.*
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to award contracts to halfway houses; sets forth certain contract requirements.
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.
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.*
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Concerns low emission and gas emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Designates State Route 173 between Clinton and Phillipsburg as "173rd Airborne Brigade Highway."
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
"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.
Extends health benefits coverage of a newborn infant.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of boating accident.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer opioid antidotes.
Requires development of longitudinal data system that maintains individuals' data from preschool through entry into workforce.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated or spent for at least one year be reappropriated in following fiscal year.*
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support autism programs.
Provides that school districts must ensure that students with disabilities have opportunities to participate in athletic activities equal to those of other students.
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Appropriates $22,463,000 in 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.*
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Requires State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts to incorporate those guidelines in grades six through 12.
Regulates pharmacy benefits managers and requires certain disclosures concerning multiple source generic drug pricing.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Provides for issuance of certificate of rehabilitation to certain offenders with substance abuse disorders.
Requires health insurers, group health plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to share certain health benefits information with Medicaid and other State programs.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.*
Extends "Overdose Prevention Act" immunity provisions to certain professionals and professional entities, and permits needle exchange programs to obtain standing order for opioid antidote dispensation.*
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Increases electric power net metering capacity threshold to 2.9 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in State.*
Requires DOE to conduct study on options and benefits of instituting later school start time in middle school and high school.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.*
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Authorizes optometrists to continue prescribing medications containing hydrocodone.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Provides gross income tax exclusion for capital gains from sale of certain employer securities by qualified business that result in net positive benefit to the State.
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.*
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Establishes position of State Oceanographer.
Prohibits certain possession, sale, offering for sale, trade or distribution of shark fins.
Requires MVC conduct study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses and mobile applications.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Authorizes mobile electronic waste destruction units to operate without DEP permit.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Criminalizes using drones to conduct surveillance of or fly over critical infrastructures; requires certain drones to be registered and insured.*
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities.
Requires DMVA assist and mentor veterans through criminal justice system.
Creates new criminal offenses concerning endangering another person; repeals N.J.S.2C:12-2 and N.J.S.2C:24-7.
Makes changes to funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
Directs Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute, Office of Information Technology, NJ Edge.Net Inc., and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure strategic plan; appropriates $150,000.
Directs DOLWD to provide information regarding employee leave and benefit rights.
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.
Establishes a process to integrate certain health data and other data from publicly supported programs for population health research.*
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
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"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires certain entities to be equipped with generators and allows those entities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
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.
Requires destruction of records stored on digital copy machines under certain circumstances.
"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.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
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.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Provides that certain personal identifying information may be redacted from certain public records in certain circumstances.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Requires suspension of member of Legislature indicted for certain crimes or offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office.
"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
Establishes a cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit program.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes a loan redemption program for public school teachers who meet certain academic requirements and teach Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics subjects or special education.
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
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.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
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.
Appropriates $3.963 million from General Fund to DOE for nonpublic nursing services aid.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Prohibits possession and sale of shark fins.
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.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Directs MVC to establish driver's license endorsement for autonomous vehicles.
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Establishes alternative distributed energy generating requirement; provides financial incentives for certain alternative distributed energy generating facilities.
Requires State Treasurer to follow usual procurement process prior to entering into cooperative purchasing agreements.
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.
Permits municipalities to use up to 15% of affordable housing trust fund monies to provide financial assistance grants to owners of real property that sustained certain weather-related damage.
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.
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.
Modifies tax levy apportionment methodology in certain school districts; restricts authority for certain municipalities to enter long-term tax exemption agreements.
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.
Regulates toll collection transponders in rental vehicles.
Requires cell phone warranties to last throughout initial service contract.
Revises sales and use tax treatment of garbage removal services.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
The "Green Building and Infrastructure Tax Credit Act"; provides tax credits for certain green buildings and wood utility poles.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
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.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Increases renewable energy and energy efficiency requirements under "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
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.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in school buildings.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer’s rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
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.
Requires certain purchasers of precious metals and jewelry to maintain certain records; grandfathers certain municipal ordinances regarding sales of used and secondhand jewelry.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Requires surgical practices to be licensed by DHSS as ambulatory care facilities.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Creates New Jersey Innovation Council Program.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes the Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Advanced Technology Vehicle Task Force.
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs harbored on insured property.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires immediate forfeiture of public office, position or employment, without application by the prosecutor, for public officials and employees convicted under federal law of certain public corruption offenses.
Establishes compensation program for State and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Establishes the New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Establishes voluntary program to provide caregivers of children diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities with GPS tracking devices; designated as "Avonte's Law."
Allows credit against certain charges to CATV customers opting out of premium service within 30 days of CATV company notice of network or programming change.
Requires entertainment facilities to provide calorie information for food and beverage items offered for sale.
Removes exclusion of "nonimmigrant aliens" from qualifying for in-State tuition rates at public institutions of higher education under certain conditions.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program and provides a State match for contributions to NJBEST accounts for families meeting certain income guidelines.
Permits instruction on backpack safety to be included in the curriculum of elementary, middle, and high school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Provides explicit authorization for the Schools Development Authority to use the design/build/operate/maintain procurement model for school facilities projects.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Establishes "Opioid Abuse Prevention Commission."
Requires Rutgers University to create a liberal studies program for intellectually disabled students; appropriates $500,000.
Authorizes executor or administrator to take control of online accounts of deceased person.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires telemarketers to provide name, mailing address, and telephone number of person on whose behalf call is made.
Increases pension and retirement income exclusions under gross income tax for certain taxpayers.
Establishes "Government Crowdfunding Act" to allow government entities to conduct fundraising for certain government projects.
Provides for reimbursement of security officer application and registration fees for applicants who meet certification requirements.
Allows gross income tax credit for contributions to nonprofit public school support organizations.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for behavioral health care services when determined medically necessary.
Directs Commissioner of Education to appoint coordinator and regional consultants to coordinate the education of students with traumatic brain injury.
Requires anyone receiving opioid antidote to treat drug overdose be provided with information concerning substance treatment programs and resources.
Requires school districts to provide listing of bus stops near residence of sex offender to law enforcement.
The "Full Marriage Recognition for Civil Union Couples Act"; recognizes certain civil unions as marriages dating back to inception of such civil unions.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide advocates for victims of sexual assault.
Requires institutions of higher education to post information on sexual assaults on website and provide the information to prospective students.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Provides for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare coverage and reimbursement for health care services provided through telemedicine.
Requires health insurance carriers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for telemedicine.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
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.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DHS for $5 million for substance abuse prevention, and requires substance abuse prevention programs to be evidence-based.
Requires insurers to provide minimum of 30 days inpatient treatment for substance abuse when physician determines treatment is medically necessary.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a private citizen to use a tracking device to track another person without that person's consent.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone under certain conditions.
Establishes "Veterans Court Pilot Program in several counties."
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax on Class C beneficiaries and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for New Jersey estate tax to $1,500,000.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax for step-grandchildren.
Requires disclosures of out-of-network services performed by health care providers under certain circumstances.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
Revises penalty provision of law concerning prohibition of certain unsolicited text messages.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Restricts use of eminent domain by private pipeline companies to those demonstrating pipeline is in the public interest and that agree to certain regulation by BPU.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Imposes a wholesale sales tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Implements certain governance and transparency reforms at PANYNJ.
Upgrades domestic violence-related assault to crime of the fourth degree; upgrades second or subsequent offense to crime of the third degree.
Adds two public members to NJT board.
Directs State Board of Education to authorize computer science education endorsement to instructional certificate.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Criminalizes possession and sale of alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (alpha-PVP) commonly known as "flakka," or "flocka."
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Creates Clinical Trials Working Group.
Increases the amount of the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit for certain taxpayers.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Authorizes Victims of Crime Compensation Office to make payment for relocation expenses of certain witnesses of crimes.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child and dependent care expenses.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for certain pension, annuity, and retirement income to $45,000.
Creates fourth degree crime of operating drone equipped with weapon.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance prohibiting operation of drones under certain circumstances.
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Permits holding companies of eligible New Jersey emerging technology companies to receive investments under "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act."
Concerns standard for involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment; requires police training on behavioral health issues.
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Requires comparable level of services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements and for placements to be located within 30 miles of closed centers.
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.