Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Thomas H. Kean Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Adds two nurse educators to the New Jersey Board of Nursing.
Passed the Senate2
Transfers responsibility for establishment and enforcement of ethical standards for local officials to State Ethics Commission.
Requires certain common interest community associations to publish certain information; requires that homeowners' association contracts for management and maintenance include 24-hour emergency services.
Out of committee9
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission."
Expands crime of invasion of privacy to include "upskirting"; photographing or filming the image of the undergarment-clad intimate parts of another.
Provides gross income tax credit for A-list performing artists for income derived from certain live performances contracted for and rendered within the Atlantic City Tourism District on a recurring basis and within the State.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at seasonal farm markets. *
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide mental health care services in underserved areas in New Jersey.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to conduct study to determine extent and cause of outmigration of high school graduates to out-of-State colleges.
In committee42
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Establishes new limits for campaign contributions by individuals, certain groups and campaign committees.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Amends State college law to remove certain employees from civil service system and allow boards of trustees to conduct collective bargaining.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Restricts certain campaign contributions by public employee labor organizations.
Directs MVC to establish driver's license endorsement for autonomous vehicles.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Modifies spousal or civil union partner privilege against testifying in criminal actions to prevent invoking of privilege under certain circumstances.
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Ends the estate tax and increases the gross income tax's retirement income exclusions.
Requires MVC conduct study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses and mobile applications.
Eliminates requirement for State residency for public officers and employees with limited historic exceptions.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Makes reforms to mental health treatment; clarifies law governing purchase of firearms by persons with history of mental illness.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
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 a Medical Malpractice Court.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Expands registration requirements under Megan's Law to include persons committing human trafficking crimes or engaging in prostitution, when crimes involve minors.
Grants discretion to Parole Board in determining whether inmate should be released on parole.
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.
Clarifies that encouraging another person to cause bodily injury, by filming, photographing, or otherwise recording injury-causing act for circulation, publication, or distribution, is form of crime of endangering an injured victim.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations related to use of educational technology in public school classrooms.
Establishes trunk fighting as animal cruelty offense and crime of the third degree.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Permits boards of education to convey certain school property to nonprofit senior citizen organizations for nominal consideration.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Establishes New Jersey Dietary Supplements Task Force to make recommendations concerning safety and regulation of dietary supplements sold in New Jersey.
Prohibits hospice from charging patient for days on which patient is not present.
Requires cost-benefit analyses and local government financial impact findings for approval of long term property tax exemption; requires DCA to post Statewide database of these exemptions on its Internet website.
Exempts sales of certain materials used in industrial sand casting processes from sales and use tax.
Requires public institution of higher education to maintain minimum level of reserves established by Secretary of Higher Education.
Concerns termination of child support and other financial support for emancipated child.
Requires institutions of higher education to compile and report success in meeting performance metrics.
Requires NJT to adopt plan to evacuate passengers when rail passenger vehicle becomes immobilized in tunnel.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Revises law concerning reciprocity for out-of-State professional and occupational licenses.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law4
Expands crime of invasion of privacy to include "upskirting"; photographing or filming the image of the undergarment-clad intimate parts of another.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and Business Partnerships.
Authorizes New Jersey Racing Commission to grant special horse racing permit for steeplechase races; allows wagering on such races.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Requires health insurance coverage for treatment of substance use disorders; places certain restrictions on the prescription of opioid and certain other drugs; concerns continuing education related thereto.
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools and county colleges.*
Establishes "Small Business Bonding Readiness Assistance Program" in EDA to assist certain small businesses meet State or federal contract surety bond requirements.*
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
"New Jersey International Arbitration, Mediation, and Conciliation Act."
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.
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.
Clarifies DCA rulemaking authority over free-standing residential health care facilities, and prohibits eviction of residents from such facilities, except for good cause.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by September 30, December 31, March 31, and June 30 of each year, beginning July 1, 2017.
Establishes additional penalties related to child pornography and expands crime to include portrayal of child in sexual manner; establishes crime of leader of child pornography network.
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.
Vetoed · 3
Provides that PERS or PFRS member who continues to be volunteer firefighter or emergency services worker after retirement with employer from whom member retires has bona fide severance for compliance with State and federal law.*
Transfers management of PFRS to Board of Trustees of PFRS.
Authorizes certain local government utilities to impose additional connection fees; requires certain new credits and reductions for these fees.
Passed the Senate · 6
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potenial eligibilty.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to obtain court order prior to using certain collection practices for defaulted loans under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish communication campaign to encourage students to enroll in 30 credits per year and institutions to report to secretary on strategies and incentives to accomplish this goal.*
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.*
Out of committee · 23
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
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
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and State Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.*
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
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.*
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition prevents enrollment as full-time student.
Limits eligibility of certain public employees for health care benefits; prohibits those so limited from receiving payments for waiving benefits.*
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Permits animal facilities to use artificial turf in outdoor enclosures.
"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.
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.
Appropriates $34,293,697 from "Building Our Future Bond Act" and provides for reallocating amount remaining from project grants not awarded, for public and private institutions of higher education.
Appropriates $2,988,859 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Establishes 9/11 Memorial Registry.
Directs State Auditor to conduct performance review audits of public institutions of higher education.
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.
Permits theaters with 100 seats or more to apply for liquor license.
In committee · 28
Eliminates requirement that public-private partnership agreements for construction of certain higher education facilities be submitted to EDA for review and approval by certain dates.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
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.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
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.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Requires inspection of nail salons by NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
"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.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods.
Increases maximum gross income tax deduction for homestead property taxes paid to $25,000.
Reforms procedures concerning provisions of affordable housing; repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act."
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Establishes primary health care plan with optional riders in SHBP for public employees.
"Health Care Consumer's Out-of-Network Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who provide blood donations.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who donate organs.
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Expands health insurance coverage for behavioral health care services and enhances enforcement and oversight of mental health parity laws.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Removes requirement that limited brewery licensees provide tour when selling beer to consumers and permits certain food consumption on premise.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain contributions to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) program.
Permits students at public institutions of higher education to donate unused meal plan funds to emergency meal fund for distribution to New Jersey food banks.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.