Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Christopher Bateman
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Provides certain definitions for biofuels under "Motor Fuels Tax Act."*
Passed the Senate6
Clarifies when penalty points are to be assessed for convictions of driving in an unsafe manner.
Establishes Hunterdon-Somerset Flood Advisory Task Force.
Provides for time period during which complaints may be filed for certain motor vehicle violations.
Increases penalties for violations of recordkeeping laws pertaining to secondhand jewelry and precious metal transactions.
Removes statutory requirement that health officers and registered environmental health specialists employed by municipalities receive maximum salary within their range within five years from date of appointment.
Establishes Task Force on School District Regionalization.
Out of committee11
Limits when bidders can be required to submit a financial statement in order to bid on a local public contract or county college contract.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the statute concerning issuing or passing bad checks.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
"Uniform Trust Code."
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the civil statute concerning issuing bad checks.
Prohibits manufacture, sale or promotion of personal care products containing microbeads.*
Criminalizes bestiality.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements under certain conditions.*
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
In committee57
Revises certain motor vehicle fines imposed on motor vehicle drivers or operators for failing to have required documentation.
Excludes deferred compensation of certain public school and federal tax-exempt organization employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Indexes the maximum gross income tax deduction for homestead property taxes to certain changes in the State average residential property tax.
Requires fingerprinting for certain disorderly persons offenses.
Revises eligibility for expungement of criminal records for certain youthful offenders.
Makes various changes to civil service law concerning seasonal appointments, temporary layoffs, and rescinding adoption of civil service.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE every seven years rather than every three years.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Grants law enforcement agencies authority to order road closures; increases penalty for violations.
Requires court to deny defendant's right to copy or reproduce images of child pornography as part of discovery.
Requires sex offenders to note criminal status on social network accounts.
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
Makes discretionary driver's license suspension for first offense of driving without motor vehicle liability insurance under certain circumstances.
Requires certain health benefits coverage for diagnosing and treating autism and other developmental disabilities.
Reduces number of rooms necessary for historic hotel to receive liquor license.
Clarifies that aggravated assault on victim of sexual assault constitutes aggravated sexual assault under certain circumstances.
Expands implied consent statute to include blood and urine testing; permits use of reasonable force to obtain blood sample in certain cases.
Provides for disclosure of person's medical records related to AIDS or HIV infection for investigations or prosecutions of crime of diseased person committing act of sexual penetration; makes crime ineligible for expungment.
Reduces number of rooms necessary for certain hotels constructed prior to 1920 to receive liquor license.
Establishes offense of advertising commercial sexual abuse of minor.
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Provides for notice to schools of court-ordered domestic violence restraints restricting contact in schools; increases penalty for violation of such orders.
Directs public utilities and pipeline operators to reimburse municipalities for certain emergency services.
Requires public school districts to provide an annual, in-school community service opportunity for high school pupils; requires DOE to include community service statistics in annual school report card.
Allows certain emergency squad volunteers holding municipal elective office to vote on emergency squad concerns.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrators.
Authorizes wiretaps for investigation of certain crimes.
Revises procedure for transfer of terminated employees of closed local health agency to superseding local health agency.
Authorizes use of juvenile records for prosecution of gang criminality.
Provides for use of directed trust to administer particular assets separate from other assets placed in trust; clarifies duty to inform between co-fiduciaries concerning administration of trusts and other governing instruments.
Clarifies that certain drunk driving offenders who drive with suspended driver's license are guilty of fourth degree crime.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Permits municipalities to reject proposed off-track wagering facility; removes five-year tax exemption, abatement, or payment in-lieu-of taxes for off-track wagering facilities.
Enhances retail competition in electric power and gas supply industries.
Removes exclusion of "nonimmigrant aliens" from qualifying for in-State tuition rates at public institutions of higher education under certain conditions.
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing; reinstates moratorium on Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility unit rate assessment surcharge.
Permits application of certain tinting materials on motor vehicle windows and windshields.
Prohibits installation and sale of wheel weights containing lead or mercury; prohibits sale of new motor vehicles equipped with wheel weights containing lead or mercury.
Establishes program authorizing lease of historic buildings and structures in State parks, forests, and wildlife management areas.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Clarifies five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Authorizes Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to calculate affordable housing obligations.
Directs COAH to use growth share methodology to calculate fair share affordable housing need.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Prohibits victims from being charged certain costs and fees and clarifies victims' right to obtain certain interviews.
Revises definition of victim in "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Prohibits snowplow or de-icing service contract from indemnifying promisee against liability for loss or damage in certain instances.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing.
Includes boarding of guard dogs in definition of kennel; increases license fees for kennels and pet shops.
Limits time continuing care retirement communities may retain refundable entrance fee after resident vacates facility to no more than one year.
Clarifies that period of suspension remains in effect until driver's license is restored in certain cases.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law2
"Uniform Trust Code."
Criminalizes bestiality.
Vetoed2
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Expands definition and licensure requirements for health care service firms.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network, and updates crime of animal fighting; amends RICO concerning dog fighting.*
Enhances penalties for false incrimination and making fictitious reports.*
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of boating accident.
Provides standards for, and requires registration of, home elevation contractors.*
Extends for five years expiration date of special appraisal process for Green Acres program and farmland preservation program for lands in Highlands Region; makes change to special appraisal process for certain farmers.*
Appropriates $22,463,000 in 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.*
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Prohibits import, sale, purchase, barter, or possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn and items containing ivory or rhinoceros horn, with limited exceptions.*
Increases electric power net metering capacity threshold to 2.9 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in State.**
Requires earlier mandatory polling hours for school elections; requires discretionary additional polling hours be consistent with current primary and general elections.*
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault if committed against certain law enforcement officers and employees because of job status.
Provides up to $25 million in tax credits under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program for certain infrastructure at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Increases maximum legal fee to represent victims from $1,000 to $3,000.
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.
Requires county superintendent of elections to operate pursuant to county administrative code; subjects certain salary costs of office of county superintendent of elections to review and approval by county governing body.*
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
"Certificates of Insurance Act;" governs use of certificates of insurance; provides DOBI with enforcement authority.
Authorizes DEP to require public access to waterfront and adjacent shoreline as condition of waterfront development approvals and CAFRA permits.
Vetoed · 11
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
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.*
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.*
Passed the Senate · 17
Prohibits contribution action against local public entity for cleanup and removal costs or any other damages associated with discharge of hazardous substances.*
Permits municipalities and school districts to contract for video monitoring systems to assist in enforcing law against unlawfully passing a school bus.
Authorizes creation of stormwater utilities for certain local government entities.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Requires BPU financial incentives for photovoltaic equipment for residences that are Energy Star compliant receive preferred treatment.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Prohibits certain possession, sale, offering for sale, trade or distribution of shark fins.
Authorizes installation of automatic standby generators in certain residences without zoning or planning board approval.
Designates five State songs.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.*
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.*
Guarantees full and equal access to all housing to disabled persons who retain their retired service or guide dog as a pet, and who also obtain a new service or guide dog.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools.
Out of committee · 44
Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances. *
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Concerns importation and delivery of motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Establishes per se standard for driving under influence of inhalant; designated as "Kimmie's Law."
Establishes durational limits and enumerates certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; establishes "open durational" alimony."*
Concerns combined sewer overflows; exempts improvements thereto from 2% property tax cap; requires certain permit holders address such overflows in capital improvement plans; and appropriates $5 million.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and veterans' property tax exemption to residents of continuing care retirement communities.*
Concerns property taxes due and owing on real property damaged or destroyed during, or as the result of, a natural disaster when a state of emergency is declared by the Governor. *
Increases State hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues required to be annually appropriated to fund certain arts and cultural, historical, and tourism-related programs and activities.
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Establishes moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for purpose of natural gas exploration or production until certain federal laws are changed.
Requires NJ Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program to give additional weight in ranking system to projects including green or blue roof.
Requires adoption of certain rules and regulations by DCA and DEP concerning blue roofs and green roofs.
Requires certain State departments, divisions, commissions, and authorities to consider use of green or blue roof in construction of certain new State buildings, facilities, and structures.
Authorizes municipalities to facilitate private financing of water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects through the use of voluntary special assessments.*
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits and approvals for development related to drilling for oil and natural gas off NJ coast.
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Prohibits development over 35 feet in height in Hudson River Palisades viewshed.
Provides remedies for certain fraudulent financing statements.*
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Clarifies liability for discharges of hazardous substances from drilling platforms that enter NJ waters.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for school and local employees; limits sick leave use by new public employees before retirement.
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Prohibits sale of powdered caffeine to minors.
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Prohibits termination of law enforcement officer based upon determination that officer is physically unable to perform duty under certain circumstances.
Allows certain on-site generation facilities to deliver electricity without utilizing electric public utility infrastructure.
Establishes microgrid pilot program.
Authorizes DEP and NJ Marine Fisheries Council to regulate taking and management of striped bass; establishes interim taking restrictions.
Requires drivers to slow down before passing slow moving vehicles; establishes Statewide educational campaign on rural roadway safety; updates agriculture-related motor vehicle laws to reflect current industry practices.
Increases required public notice from 30 days to 60 days for settlements entered into by DEP pursuant to Spill Compensation and Control Act.
Expands timeframe for renewal of driver's license, registration, and inspection by military personnel and immediate family members under certain circumstances.
Makes certain changes to Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Revises electronic waste recycling laws.
Allows certain businesses to qualify as mega projects under the "Grow New Jersey Assistance Act."
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
In committee · 113
Eliminates payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date; limits carry forward of unused vacation leave; requires suspension and forfeiture of certain payments; limits use of unused sick leave in year before retirement.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Directs BPU to adopt best practices and standards for public utility disaster response.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
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.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Requires Commissioner of Education to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on school districts.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Suspends "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" until certain conditions are met.
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.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
"Flood Control, Mitigation, and Prevention Bond Act of 2012," authorizes bonds for up to $2 billion, and appropriates $5,000.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of a boating accident.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Provides for electronic monitoring of domestic violence offenders and notification to the victim; designated as "Lisa's Law."
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement a drought interconnection system.
Authorizes sale of certain property interests in public roads by local governments to connect certain electric generating facilities with customers; provides for net metering, virtual net metering and connections by public utility.
Amends law concerning application, sale, and use of fertilizer to exempt organic fertilizer from certain requirements.
Prohibits use of certain fishing gear at artificial reef sites.
The "Preserve New Jersey Act of 2013"; implements constitutional dedication of sales tax revenue for preservation of open space, including lands that protect water supplies and flood prone areas, farmland, and historic properties.
Provides sales and use tax exclusion for charges for student parking provided by certain colleges and universities.
Requires adoption of 2012 International Building Code and 2012 International Green Construction Code.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Imposes certain registration and reporting requirements to prevent illegal trade of tigers.
Provides for issuance of certificate of rehabilitation to certain offenders with substance abuse disorders.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Amends State college law to remove certain employees from civil service system and allow boards of trustees to conduct collective bargaining.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
"Drug Dealer Accountability Act;" increases penalties for distribution of phencyclidine; establishes criminal liability for drug dealers under certain circumstances; imposes civil and criminal penalties for combinations of controlled dangerous substances.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Exempts all transfers made to lineal relatives from the Transfer Inheritance Tax.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Prohibits sale, distribution, and use of urea as an ice melt.
Requires labeling of ingredients and restricts phosphorus in household cleansing products.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Phases out the transfer inheritance tax over two years.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DOH.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Requires certain persons licensed or appointed to inspect homes to pass criminal history background check.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
Requires construction of new buildings, facilities, and structures using State, EDA, or NJ Schools Development Authority funds to include green or blue roofs.
Establishes the Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Advanced Technology Vehicle Task Force.
Repeals law providing CAFRA permit exemption for certain grading or excavation of a dune.
Provides matching grant program for local governments to facilitate energy efficiency and conservation of resources in public buildings; appropriates $50 million.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Eliminates power of DRPA to finance economic development; changes composition of board; imposes restrictions regarding financing, contract procedures, conflicts of interest, and review audits; creates commuter's council.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Requires repeat violator of unsafe driving law who committed previous offense more than five years ago to be sentenced as first offender.
Schedules the termination of the realty transfer fees.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements between municipalities within a 10-mile radius of each other for special needs housing; permits units transferred to be counted toward recipient municipality's fair share obligation.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Provides that retired justices and judges collecting pension or retirement allowance are eligible for recall duties until 85 years of age.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Prohibits contribution action against local public entity for cleanup and removal costs or any other damages associated with discharge of hazardous substances.
Requires natural gas pipeline utilities to repair or replace leaking natural gas pipelines.
"Shyanne's Law"; requires mental health counseling for all animal cruelty offenders.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for certain persons to willfully and knowingly fail to report child abuse if they know the child abuse has occurred.
Ends the estate tax and increases the gross income tax's retirement income exclusions.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
Establishes insurance and safety requirements for companies that use digital network or software application to match passengers with drivers.
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.
Requires evaluation of appropriateness of light frame construction for multiple dwellings and imposes moratorium on light frame construction until determination and recommendations are adopted.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Implements certain governance and transparency reforms at PANYNJ.
Establishes State Transportation Cost Analysis Task Force.
Increases nonpublic pupil transportation to 30 miles from the pupil's residence.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
Requires certain new residential buildings to have fire barriers in cocklofts, concrete or steel frames, and fire stops.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Affords immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at community farm markets.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.
Requires accountability of NJSPCA and county societies for prevention of cruelty to animals to Attorney General and county prosecutors, respectively.
Revises law concerning disposition of assets of a county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that has dissolved or has had its charter revoked, canceled, or suspended.
Changes membership of, and election process for, NJSPCA board of trustees.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Removes cap on tax on transfers of hazardous substances to fund emergency preparedness and response to certain spills.
Permits cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Removes age restriction on testifying via closed circuit television in certain sex crimes cases.
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.
Establishes that police vehicles have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires large food waste generators to seperate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."
Filed · 1
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.