Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph V. Egan
Sponsored
Became law1
Concerns stop-work orders and certain violations of workers' compensation requirements.
Vetoed1
The "Jobs, Trade and Democracy Act."
Out of committee5
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Strengthens enforcement against employers for failure to provide workers' compensation coverage.
Concerns emergent medical care under workers' compensation.
Requires Insurance Fraud Prosecutor to establish liaison with DOLWD and authorizes its investigation of cases of failure to provide workers' compensation coverage. **
Provides for annual adjustments in family temporary disability leave contribution rates and limits certain refunds of contributions.
In committee2
Increases certain workers' compensation benefits.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to UEZ assistance.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Strengthens enforcement against employers for failure to provide workers' compensation coverage.
Concerns emergent medical care under workers' compensation.
Requires Insurance Fraud Prosecutor to establish liaison with DOLWD and authorizes its investigation of cases of failure to provide workers' compensation coverage. *
Provides for annual adjustments in family temporary disability leave contribution rates and limits certain refunds of contributions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Authorizes BPU to use Retail Margin Fund monies to provide grants for combined heat and power production, energy efficiency projects and programs promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency; makes an appropriation. **
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Concerns on-site generation facilities.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Commission on Higher Education to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom.
Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.
Eliminates cancellation of charges against employer UI accounts for benefits exceeding 50% of total base year, base week wages.
Concerns court actions against uninsured employers for non-payment of workers' compensation.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of family child care providers.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Concerns payment of prevailing wage in certain construction undertaken with BPU financial assistance.
Establishes NJ PLACE program to facilitate college credit for registered apprenticeship programs.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Abigail's Law; requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request.
Provides that contracts for maintenance, repair or improvement of State buildings and facilities may require use of certain skilled labor.
Out of committee · 19
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list. *
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Requires reporting of wage records under certain solid waste contracts.
Increases power of judges of compensation to enforce workers' compensation law.
Revises membership of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau and clarifies its authority. *
Requires proof of workers' compensation coverage with certain legally required annual reports of employers.
Appropriates $27.75 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $120,123,420 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $19,919,700 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,557,201 from various historic preservation funds to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $574,805 from certain historic preservation bond funds for associated administrative expenses.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of community care residential providers.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain for-sale housing projects. *
Concerns apprenticeship programs and other standards for public works contractors.
In committee · 56
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.
Designates Jersey tomato as State Vegetable.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Establishes New Jersey Pharmacy Discount Prescription Drug Program in DHSS.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the Higher Education Study Commission.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Provides that applicant for business permit as electrical contractor must meet certain requirements.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides support for full-day kindergarten through the T&E budget.
Provides family leave insurance.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Sets standards regarding New Jersey Transit Corporation contracts privatizing public transit services.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Increases amount of realty transfer fees annually credited to the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund by $5 million.
Requires reimbursement of physical damage deductible paid by insured under private passenger automobile insurance policy within 180 days under certain circumstances.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit under certain conditions.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Prohibits registration of identical or similar corporate alternate names.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Requires certain financial institutions to make certain disclosures on periodic account statements.
Requires certain conditions affecting development of buildings, structures, or land to be recorded with municipality.
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Authorizes SDA school districts to construct school facilities projects and receive State debt service aid.
Requires Secretary of State to prepare standard absentee ballot design.
Requires outer envelope for mailing of voted absentee ballot by voter to include postage prepaid.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Increases penalties for violations of special learner's permits, examination permits, and probationary driver's licenses; changes "provisional" license to "probationary" license.
Requires Council on Affordable Housing to adjust municipal fair share to reflect job loss in a municipality.
Establishes pilot program in DOC for detection and location of cerain wireless communications devices.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to establish program to implement technology to block cellular telephone equipment transmissions that originate from, or terminate within, State correctional facilities.
Limits job creation estimation under COAH regulations for warehousing activities.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.