Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Christopher Bateman
Sponsored
Became law7
Establishes Hunterdon-Somerset Flood Advisory Task Force.
Allows certain emergency squad volunteers holding municipal elective office to vote on emergency squad concerns.
Revises definition of victim in "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Provides for time period during which complaints may be filed for certain motor vehicle violations.
Requires pesticide applicator to notify beekeeper when applying pesticide within three miles of registered honey or native beehive or beeyard.
Requires training for pesticide applicators and operators concerning pollinating bees.
Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter.
Passed the Senate6
Clarifies when penalty points are to be assessed for convictions of driving in an unsafe manner.
Modifies recordkeeping requirements for secondhand jewelry and precious metal transactions; increases penalties for violations.*
Establishes Task Force on School District Regionalization.
Prohibits snowplow or de-icing service contract from indemnifying promisee against liability for loss or damage in certain instances.
Clarifies that period of suspension remains in effect until driver's license is restored in certain cases.
Appropriates up to $20 million from societal benefits charge to DEP for remediation of lead contamination in drinking water in public buildings.
Out of committee9
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.*
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Provides that offenses committed prior to enactment of P.L.2013, c.70 for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving are not previous violations.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
"Drama Therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
"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.
Provides credit against corporation business and gross income taxes for urban area employers that rehabilitate urban housing for employees.
Changes submission and notice requirements for short-term and long-term financing for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes central registry of residents with special needs for use during emergencies.
In committee64
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
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.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing.
Revises certain motor vehicle fines imposed on motor vehicle drivers or operators for failing to have required documentation.
Makes discretionary driver's license suspension for first offense of driving without motor vehicle liability insurance under certain circumstances.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Authorizes wiretaps for investigation of certain crimes.
Authorizes use of juvenile records for prosecution of gang criminality.
"Uniform Trust Code."
Clarifies that certain drunk driving offenders who drive with suspended driver's license are guilty of fourth degree crime.
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.
Limits time continuing care retirement communities may retain refundable entrance fee after resident vacates facility to no more than one year.
Makes various changes to civil service law concerning seasonal appointments, temporary layoffs, and rescinding adoption of civil service.
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.
Indexes the maximum gross income tax deduction for homestead property taxes to certain changes in the State average residential property tax.
Codifies standards for court to consider in determining application for removal of child of divorced or separated persons from jurisdiction.
Requires fingerprinting for certain disorderly persons offenses.
Excludes deferred compensation of certain public school and federal tax-exempt organization employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility unit rate assessment surcharge.
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Includes boarding of guard dogs in definition of kennel; increases license fees for kennels and pet shops.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Grants law enforcement agencies authority to order road closures; increases penalty for violations.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
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 requirements for sale of home baked goods.
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.
Creates crime of home invasion; makes crime subject to No Early Release Act.
Requires certain health benefits coverage for diagnosing and treating autism and other developmental disabilities.
Provides corporation business and gross income tax credits for three tax years for employers that allow telecommuting.
Directs DEP to classify neonicotinoid pesticides as restricted use pesticides.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Reforms procedures concerning provisions of affordable housing; repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act."
Provides credit against CBT and gross income tax for generators that collect, reuse, and recycle hard-to-recycle materials.
Authorizes school nurses to administer opioid antidotes to overdose victims on school property, with immunity from civil, criminal, and professional liability, pursuant to "Overdose Prevention Act."
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.
Increases civil penalties for certain natural gas or hazardous liquid facility safety violations.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey; makes change retroactive to October 1, 2006.
Permits voter to take photograph of own voted ballot and share it on Internet-based social media.
Requires institutions of higher education to test for lead in drinking water and disclose test results.
Decreases petroleum products gross receipts tax rate on certain petroleum products.
Requires DOH to issue license to provide elective angioplasty services to certain qualifying hospitals located in counties of the third class.
Requires resource family parent, relative, preadoptive parent, or caretaker to be party to reviews or hearings involving a child under the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families' care.
Clarifies that municipality may authorize municipal prosecutor in another municipality in the county to act as substitute municipal prosecutor on occasion.
Removes exclusion of "nonimmigrant aliens" from qualifying for in-State tuition rates at public institutions of higher education under certain conditions.
Requires BPU to conduct study concerning zero emission credits.
Concerns statute of limitations for filing estate tax refund claim for certain settlements reached with Continuing Care Retirement Community.
Designates Bog Turtle as State Reptile.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Amends "Overdose Prevention Act" to clarify that pharmacists and health care practitioners may dispense opioid antidotes pursuant to standing order, and that prescribers may issue such standing order, with immunity from liability.
Allows public libraries to dispose of certain materials without advertising for bids.
Requires prompt payment of certain construction contracts.
Prohibits posting or publishing on Internet home address or telephone number of certain judges and prosecutors.
Prohibits knowingly selling or planting certain invasive plant species.
Establishes sexual assault crime where actor has access to victim through affiliation with care provider service.
Establishes certain requirements for a State entity planting vegetation in certain circumstances; provides for preferences for NJ businesses providing such vegetation.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law3
"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.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Changes submission and notice requirements for short-term and long-term financing for environmental infrastructure projects.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 35
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools and county colleges.*
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.**
Prohibits termination of law enforcement officer or firefighter based upon determination that officer or firefighter is physically unable to perform duty under certain circumstances.*
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Revises "Electronic Waste Management Act."
Enacts new "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act"; repeals previous uniform law.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
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.
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.*
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs; implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Enhances resident voting participation rights in common interest communities.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Upper Freehold Township as "State Trooper Anthony A. Raspa Memorial Highway."
Requires DCF and DHS to study predatory alienation and its effects on young adults and senior citizens.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Increases number of Superior Court judgeships to support implementation of constitutional and statutory criminal justice reform, including new pretrial release and detention proceedings, and speedy trial rights; appropriates $9.3 million.
Appropriates $59,532,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and capital and park development projects.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Extends voting rights of representatives of sending districts on receiving district board of education.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates $71,700,224 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Appropriates $8,992,898 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.
Allows expanded use of recycled asphalt pavement.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2018 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
Appropriates $7.5 million for constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Vetoed · 5
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.*
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.*
Commits $3 million from Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skill to NJ Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Passed the Senate · 16
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Authorizes installation of automatic standby generators in certain residences without zoning or planning board approval.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.*
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Requires certain common interest community associations to publish certain information; requires that homeowners' association contracts for management and maintenance include 24-hour emergency services.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to include crime victims as protected status.
Expands rights of crime victims.
Revises law governing testifying via closed circuit television in certain criminal cases.*
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.
Establishes Task Force on Safety in School Transportation.
Concerns long term tax exemptions on certain age-restricted low-income housing.
Establishes "Volkswagen Settlement Utilization Fund for Motor Vehicle Emissions Reduction and Air Pollution Control"; directs DEP to use moneys in fund to establish and implement certain air pollution control programs.
Provides gross income tax credit for costs to purchase and install smart thermostats.
Requires installation of smart thermostats in all new residential construction.
Out of committee · 60
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Creates fencing crime involving stolen domestic companion animals.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Permits charging late fee for rental payments due on self-service storage units and authorizes sale of property via website.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities; upgrades crimes committed against such individuals; and improves tranparency and accountability in investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of such individuals; designated as
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.*
Authorizes creation of stormwater utilities for certain local government entities.
Requires, after study, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem, and requires DEP to adopt nutrient standards for NJ marine waters.
Creates Office of Clean Energy in BPU.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Requires large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.**
Directs BPU to establish microgrid program for State agencies and local governmentunits.*
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
Increases the personal income tax's pension and retirement income exclusion fivefold over three years.
Establishes "Secondhand Valuables Transaction Reporting Task Force."
Establishes cruel restraint of a dog as an animal cruelty offense.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at seasonal farm markets. *
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Authorizes municipalities to establish program for public or private financing of certain and energy, water and storm resiliency projects under Pace program through use of voluntary special assessments for certain property owners.*
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Allows use of rear view backup camera and parking sensors during road test.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Establishes failure to maintain lane may constitute recklessness under reckless vehicular homicide statute; designated as Eileen's Law. **
Requires Department of Agriculture to develop voluntary guidelines to encourage school districts and institutions of higher education to donate excess food; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" protections to school districts.
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Creates "New Jersey Criminal Justice Information Sharing Environment Coordinating Council."
Directs DEP to adopt standards for drinking water contaminants based upon recommendations of Drinking Water Quality Institute.*
Provides for protection of public's rights under public trust doctrine.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
Allows counties and municipalities to establish, or request DOT to establish, reduced speed limits near schools.
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan to address smart growth, storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues.
Appropriates $22,385,743 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $7,500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $2,900,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Requires State's full participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Requires municipalities, public utilities, and State to use LED technology in certain street lights.
Requires BPU and electric public utilities to conduct energy storage analysis.*
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Establishes Montclair State University as public research university.
Establishes Campus Sexual Assault Commission.
In committee · 128
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Provides for issuance of certificate of rehabilitation to certain offenders with substance abuse disorders.
Exempts all transfers made to lineal relatives from the Transfer Inheritance Tax.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
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.
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.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Requires notification of local law enforcement prior to expungement of certain mental health records of prospective firearms purchasers.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Limits use and supplemental compensation for certain leave.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
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.
Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DOH.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
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.
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Amends State college law to remove certain employees from civil service system and allow boards of trustees to conduct collective bargaining.
Ends the estate tax and increases the gross income tax's retirement income exclusions.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Designates five State songs.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Suspends "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" until certain conditions are met.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and veterans' property tax exemption to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Modifies school funding law to incorporate recommendations of DOE's Education Funding Report and Educational Adequacy Report.
Establishes moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for purpose of natural gas exploration or production until certain federal laws are changed.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
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.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
"Linnette Lebron's Law"; modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
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.
Prohibits development over 35 feet in height in Hudson River Palisades viewshed.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
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.
Establishes insurance and safety requirements for companies that use digital network or software application to match passengers with drivers.
Allows certain on-site generation facilities to deliver electricity without utilizing electric public utility infrastructure.
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property owned by disabled veterans during reconstruction of homes destroyed by flood, storm, or other act of God.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Restricts State and municipal government employee health plans to gold level and directs related savings to property tax relief.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Authorizes restricted breweries to annually sell up to 1,000 barrels of beer to in-State and out-of-state retailers.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Requires narcotic and drug abuse treatment centers to offer Hepatitis C testing to clients.
Requires retail food establishments to donate surplus unused baked goods and surplus canned and packaged goods close to retail sale date to local nonprofits and charities.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from working at, or owning or operating, an animal-related enterprise; designated as "Moose's Law."
Requires institutions of higher education to offer cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research, or scientific purposes to animal rescue organizations for adoption.
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.
Removes cap on tax on transfers of hazardous substances to fund emergency preparedness and response to certain spills.
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.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits and approvals for development related to drilling for oil and natural gas off NJ coast.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect, care and euthanasia of impounded animals, and the penalties therefor.
Revises animal cruelty offenses concerning abuse, abandonment, neglect, and improper euthanizing of animals; increases criminal and civil penalties therefor; establishes such penalties for new offenses; repeals conflicting sections of law.
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
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.
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.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Establishes program authorizing lease of historic buildings and structures in State parks, forests, and wildlife management areas.
Modifies "inherently beneficial use" definition for purposes of zoning variance to discourage siting of wind and solar energy facilities on agricultural land and open space.
Establishes State Transportation Cost Analysis Task Force.
Increases maximum gross income tax deduction for homestead property taxes paid to $25,000.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Removes black bear from list of game species.
Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids for children 17 years of age and younger.
Authorizes creation of new POW-MIA license plate.
"The Highway Worker Safety Act"; increases penalties for vehicular homicide and assault by auto of highway workers; increases fines for certain highway maintenance, construction, or incident zone violations.
Permits school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school pupils and charge parents when the per pupil amount of the route exceeds the maximum nonpublic school transportation costs per pupil.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Establishes primary health care plan with optional riders in SHBP for public employees.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who provide blood donations.
Prohibits hospice from charging patient for days on which patient is not present.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax for step-grandchildren.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
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.
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Permits persons at horse racetracks and off-track wagering facilities to place wagers on previously-recorded live horse races.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Limits certain unused sick leave pay and vacation leave carry-forward for public officers and employees.
Creates Statewide Housing Bank.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Allows 50 percent credit against societal benefits charge to electric or gas public utility customers who install and maintain publicly available zero emission vehicle charging stations.
Allows 50 percent credit against societal benefits charge to local governments that utilize traffic signals that use light emitting diode technology.
Imposes moratorium on affordable housing litigation through December 31, 2017.
Increases electric power net metering capacity threshold to 5.8 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in State.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose information.
Requires electric efficiency portfolio standard.
Encourages development of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Establishes defacement of certain gravesites where human remains are stored or interred as possible bias intimidation offense.
Provides specific restitution for certain offenses pertaining to places of burial.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Provides gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Requires COAH to calculate affordable housing obligations on Statewide basis.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.