Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph V. Egan
Sponsored
Became law1
Modifies employer UI tax rates.
Out of committee4
Reduces employer unemployment taxes during fiscal year 2011.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Changes the trigger for extended unemployment benefits.
Changes trigger for certain extended unemployment benefits.
In committee1
Concerns bid specifications for local public contracts.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Reduces employer unemployment taxes during fiscal year 2011.
Changes the trigger for extended unemployment benefits.
Changes trigger for certain extended unemployment benefits.
Vetoed1
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
Revises law relating to title recordation.
Authorizes Commissioner of NJDOT to procure revenue-generating sponsors for, and permit sponsorship acknowledgment and advertising on, safety and emergency service patrol vehicles and equipment.
Makes certain changes to NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Vetoed · 3
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides for maintenance of State buildings and facilities by direct hire of certain skilled labor. **
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Establishes standards regarding the disqualification of claimants for unemployment compensation for misconduct.
Requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs informing motorists of State's "move over" law.
Out of committee · 11
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit under certain conditions.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Requires BPU to increase credit provided when issuing Solar Renewable Energy Certificates for solar energy produced by equipment manufactured in NJ. *
Revises statutes concerning public adjusters. *
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Requires contracting units and boards of education to credit contractors with interest earned on certain funds withheld from payment to contractors.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
In committee · 42
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
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.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Limits job creation estimation under COAH regulations for warehousing activities.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Provides PFRS member 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.
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 for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Includes services performed by professional musicians or persons otherwise engaged in performing arts as employment for purposes of unemployment insurance and workers' compensation benefits.
Provides that applicant for business permit as electrical contractor must meet certain requirements.
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
Provides exemption from tax on sales of certain energy saving products and services purchased from businesses located in UEZ.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain for-sale housing projects.
Revises the definition of "public works projects" related to project labor agreements to include bridges.
Permits construction workers to file a lien against the owner of real property under "Construction Lien Law."
Provides for regulation of small wind energy systems by municipalities.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Adds three members to New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
"Sara's Law;" requires Motor Vehicle Commission to establish next-of-kin program.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
Revises list of documents required to be submitted when bidding on public contracts.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Prohibits credit inquiry as a condition of employment.
Requires direct deposit for all State employee compensation on and after July 1, 2014.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.