Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, Senate.
Thomas H. Kean Jr.
Sponsored
Became law2
Permits parent of stillborn child to request certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth directly from State registrar.
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
Passed the Senate1
Permits eligible claimant who is proportionate owner paying entire property tax bill to collect entire homestead property tax reimbursement amount.
Out of committee9
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation.
Allows certain local public entities to enter into contracts of up to 15 years for energy conservation or provision of renewable energy production at buildings owned by such entities. *
Requires municipality to report all long and short-term financial and tax agreements to DCA; makes reporting a condition for receipt of special Municipal Aid.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Permits parent of twins or higher order multiples enrolled in public school to select shared or separate classroom placement of their children.
Establishes Educational Security Task Force.
Denies public access to extinguished psychiatric liens.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions.
Prohibits unmuffled use of compression release engine brakes; creates fine.
In committee65
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission," appropriates $95,000.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Establishes a Medical Malpractice Court.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Clarifies offenders are not eligible for parole under "Michael's Law".
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Allows a gross income tax credit for the incremental cost of an alternative fuel vehicle.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for new motor vehicles with certain fuel efficiency.
Allows credit against corporation business tax or gross income tax for 50% of cost of constructing facilities for sale of certain alternate fuels.
Requires DOT to create map showing refueling facilities where alternative fuel is dispensed.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Eliminates provision that permits current members of Legislature who hold more than one elective public office on February 1, 2008 to continue to do so if service is continuous.
Requires global warming index label on new motor vehicles beginning in model year 2010.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for costs of electric power infrastructure for use by heavy duty vehicles to reduce idling times.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Establishes parental orientation program in certain school districts.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Requires prospectively compensation of $15,000 or more for membership or certain service credit in TPAF or PERS.
Expands eligibility under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act by broadening certain municipal qualifier provisions.
Exempts certain charges for postage in distribution of direct mail processing services from sales and use tax.
Requires municipalities accepting long-term tax exemption PILOTs to distribute portion of payments to county and other taxing districts; limits PILOT agreements to 15-20 years.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Requires DHSS to make available on its website a New Jersey Report Card for Pediatric Emergency Room Services.
Requires certain condition affecting application for development or zoning variance to be recorded with municipality and county.
Prohibits display of political party affilliation on absentee ballot envelopes.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Establishes new limits for campaign contributions by individuals, certain groups and campaign committees.
Requires Attorney General to seize campaign funds of convicted candidates; prohibits convicted criminal offenders from making contributions to candidates and committees.
Requires training and registration for in-house security officers.
Increases from seven to 60 the number of calendar days casinos and racetracks may continue to operate during state of emergency.
Consumer Relief Act of 2009; establishes temporary sales and use tax rate reduction periods for sales of certain goods and services.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Prohibits legislative aide who works, or worked, directly for legislator in district office from making political contribution greater than $30 per election to that legislator; prohibits receipt of such contribution.
Grants discretion to Parole Board in determining whether inmate should be released on parole.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Modifies calculation of adjusted tax levy for municipalities and counties to allow two-year levy cap banking and eliminate levy cap penalty when debt servicing expenditures are reduced.
Provides for warning letter in lieu of monetary penalty for certain first-time raffles law violations; provides that person owning or controlling premises not liable for raffles law violation occurring without person's knowledge.
Renames "New Jersey Trauma Center" at University Hospital as "Eric Munoz Trauma Center."
Allows gross income tax credit for certain contributions to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program and to certain other federally qualified tuition savings programs.
Permits municipalities and fire districts to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Directs the BPU to establish advanced metering infrastructure standards and authorizes licensing of local renewable energy collaboratives by the BPU.
The "Dog Ownership Guarantee Act."
Requires provision of detailed information regarding any State school aid shortfall in Governor's proposed budget.
Authorizes county colleges and county vocational school districts to establish aviation related job certification, training, and internship programs and provides a corporation business tax credit for funds donated to support such programs.
Establishes innovation zone program and creates innovation zone around Aviation Research and Technology Park in Atlantic County.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for income earned in aviation related employment during or after qualified aviation related job training.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Authorizes courts to include animals in domestic violence restraining orders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Revises certain restrictions on permit holders and provisional driver's licensees; renames provisional license "probationary." *
"New Jersey Hero Act"; concerns organ and tissue donation.**
Appropriates $33 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Revises statutes concerning abandoned vessels to include sunken vessels; authorizes certain entities to remove abandoned vessels. *
Authorizes enhanced DHSS monitoring of hospital financial performance and intervention in management of identified distressed hospitals.
Makes changes to PERS and TPAF concerning retirement age, eligibility, purchase of service credit; makes various changes to SHBP administration; merges Washington and Lincoln holidays for State employees in Presidents Day. *
Requires uniform billing and reporting of infection rates by ambulatory surgical centers and requires DHSS to make reported information public. **
"Kyleigh's law;" requires holders of special learner's permits, examination permits, and provisional driver's licenses to display certain decals. *
Establishes "New Jersey Lung Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
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 $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6.45 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11,293,478 from various farmland preservation bond funds and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $66 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," "2007 Green Acres Fund," and "2007 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
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.
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.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Passed the Senate · 1
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.
Out of committee · 34
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax; eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey.
Requires facility where patient dies to provide medical examiner with contact information for next-of-kin so medical examiner may obtain additional information about death. *
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for certain first responders. *
Changes deadline for voter-verified paper record of votes cast on voting machines to January 1, 2009.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Requires training program for and recognizes position of technical assistant to construction code official.
Changes Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards from 16 to eight members; makes various procedural changes; requires annual ethics training for legislators. *
"Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children in certain urban enterprise zone municipalities.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
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. **
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide certain mental health benefits for eating disorders under same terms and conditions as for other illnesses and diseases.
Makes revisions to personal assistance services program in DHS.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom. *
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of National Guard members.
Establishes the "New Jersey-Israel Commission" as a permanent commission in the Department of State.
Amends P.L.1999, c.23 concerning renewable energy.
Changes the procedure for delivery of bills to the Secretary of State that have been enacted over the Governor's veto.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Permits person to donate blood at 16 years of age with parental consent.
Requires school security drills to improve emergency preparedness. *
Eliminates off trigger for additional unemployment benefits during job training program.
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Revises procedure for reassessment of certain real property by assessor and appeal of assessment by certain property taxpayers. *
Establishes a permanent Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects and $1.371 million in 1992 bond act monies to fund State dam restoration projects. *
Clarifies provisions of "Law Against Discrimination" concerning persons with an autism spectrum disorder.
Provides for asset disregard for Medicaid recipients under long-term care insurance partnership.
In committee · 31
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Authorizes certain non-emergency mutual agreements between municipalities for law enforcement purposes.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts to certain persons under certain circumstances.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Requires DHSS to apply for federal Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waiver for certain early intervention services.
Extends term of ELEC commissioners; requires Governor to fill expired term or vacancy within 90 days; provides for reappointment if expired term not filled.
Grandfathers use of certain dry cleaning equipment and machinery and perchloroethylene by dry cleaners.
Clarifies that retention of unearned wages by a public servant is theft under certain circumstances.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
"Zero-Based Budget Act;" requires State Treasurer to develop and integrate certain zero-based budgeting practices and procedures in preparation and submission of Governor's annual budget message.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
Makes Housing Assistance and Recovery Program effective immediately.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Provides that MIA-OON flag be displayed at certain public buildings annually for 30 days beginning September 11.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain minimum three foot safety distance when overtaking bicycles.
Increases the penalty for certain gang related crimes.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.