Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Harold J. Wirths
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Allows long term tax exemption extension for certain low-income housing. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is barred from receiving federal contract.
In committee66
Prohibits State departments and agencies from considering or requiring compliance by Highlands planning area municipalities with Highlands regional master plan in certain circumstances.
Sunsets "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" five years after date of enactment unless certain conditions are met.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Provides for direct property tax relief from Highlands Property Tax Stabilization Fund.
Repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act."
Requires voter registration forms be made available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
Repeals the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote."
Provides municipality with affordable housing credit toward its municipal fair share housing obligation for funds transferred to the New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund pursuant to P.L.2008, c.46.
Provides procedures for crediting certain dwellings used by agricultural workers in determination of municipality's fair share housing obligation.
"Property Assessment Appeal Transparency Act"; revises content of required annual notification of real property assessment.
Eliminates prohibition against purchasing more than one handgun in calendar month.
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
Requires preschool tuition rates equal actual cost per pupil.
Requires certain contractors to verify work authorization of newly hired employees.
Requires law enforcement agency to issue retired law enforcement officer identification card to certain qualified retirees.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Permits farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Limits annual increase in tuition rates charged by school districts, county vocational school districts, county special services districts, jointure commissions, and private schools for students with disabilities to two percent.
Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Exempts rural electric cooperatives from requirement that electric and gas public utilities deposit unclaimed property into Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund.
"Motor Vehicle Insurance Verification Act."
Prohibits harassment of farmers engaged in farming operations.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program for certain farming operation equipment purchases.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from considering number of arrests made and citations issued when evaluating police officer's professional performance.
Permits county correctional facilities to seek reimbursement from inmate welfare fund for certain medical services provided in county jails.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Specifies conditions under which State, county, municipality, independent authority, school district, or higher education institution can grant unpaid or paid leave of absence to public employee to perform work for labor organization.
Eliminates requirement for State residency for public officers and employees with limited historic exceptions.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Allows qualifying counties and municipalities to become "agriculture development counties" and "agriculture development municipalities" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture and relate
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Requires school districts to notify State after receiving offer of assistance from federal government to address environmental issue.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Establishes construction workforce recruitment and training program in DOLWD.
Clarifies that licensed dealers may provide firearms for display at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.
Provides that school district may not prohibit active or retired law enforcement officer or registered security officer from carrying firearm in performance of school security duties if authorized under State law to carry.
Permits public utilities to lease equipment from National Guard in event of emergency.
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether deployment of microgrids and generators will reduce length of power outages.
Allows electric public utilities to enter into agreements to place power restoration equipment on private property in anticipation of certain power outages.
Grants municipal courts discretion to assess court costs for certain dismissals.
Requires children's psychiatric facilities to have on-site staff members supervise patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Expands the law of intestate succession to include certain non-blood heirs.
Prohibits State funding to assist immigrants facing detention or deportation.
Encourages wearing blue to honor law enforcement officers on Peace Officers Memorial Day.
"Motor Vehicle Insurance Verification Act"; requires Motor Vehicle Commission to establish online motor vehicle insurance verification system.
Repeals fee on single-use carryout bags.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Raises minimum wage to $13, with certain exceptions.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program from 35 percent to 80 percent.
Provides small businesses with gross income tax or corporation business tax deduction for wages paid to minimum wage employees.
Increases minimum civil fine for harassing person taking wildlife and increases criminal penalty for subsequent offenses.
Requires electric service providers to integrate energy storage systems into long-term planning process.
Requires public utilities and cable television companies to accommodate and relocate facilities when necessary for transportation infrastructure projects at direction of DOT.
Requires medical testing for certain persons in circumstances when first responders may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
Prohibits State's participation in multi-state cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation sector.
Provides certain sending school districts one nonvoting advisory representative on receiving school district board of education.
Establishes Office of Labor Law Enforcement.
Provides sales tax reduction on certain sales made in municipalities located within Highlands Region Preservation Area.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
Directs BPU to allow broadband telecommunications service providers to use poles belonging to public utilities or CATV companies in certain instances.
Requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development to apply smart labor force data to direct veterans to in-demand fields.
Permits business entities and nonprofit organizations to adopt certain responsibilities related to stormwater management basins; provides corporation business tax credit for adoption of stormwater management basins in certain watersheds.
Allows local units to offer broadband telecommunications service under certain circumstances.
Requires Chief Administrator of MVC to conduct wanted person check of all applicants for licenses, permits, and identification cards.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Allows long term tax exemption extension for certain low-income housing.*
Prohibits person from contracting for public work if person is federally debarred from receiving federal contract.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 53
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.**
Requires school districts to incorporate age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in grades preschool through 12 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.*
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
Requires public utility to charge veterans' organization residential rate for service delivered to property at which veterans' organization primarily operates.
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
Directs the Division of Travel and Tourism to publish on its website information of farm-to-table restaurants.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Requires hospitals and homeless shelters to provide information on services and resources to individuals who are homeless or military veterans.
Revises law governing Class Three special law enforcement officer.*
Requires Department of Education to develop guidelines for school districts concerning child trafficking awareness and prevention.**
Permits theaters with 50 seats or more to apply for liquor license.*
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.
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Exempts certain honorably discharged United States military veterans from initial insurance producer licensing fee.*
Establishes reciprocity requirements for out-of-State certified nurse aides to practice in New Jersey.*
Establishes "Blue Alert System."
Extends pilot program authorizing special occasion events at wineries on preserved farmland; implements reporting requirement.
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law" and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies.
Allows certain joint insurance funds to make certain investments and to form certain investment programs; authorizes school districts and local units of government to deposit public funds into multiple federally-insured accounts.*
Requires prescription opioid medications include warning sticker advising patients of risk of addiction and overdose.
Requires Legislature to adopt and distribute policy prohibiting sexual harassment; requires members, officers, and employees of Legislature to complete online training on policy once every two years.
Clarifies training requirements of certain HVACR contractors.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Township of Howell as "State Trooper Marc K. Castellano Memorial Highway."
Exempts persons providing hair braiding services from licensure requirement, requires registration of hair braiding establishments.
Permits school district superintendent to designate school employee with certain expertise as school safety specialist.
Requires public officer or employee to forfeit pension upon conviction for corruption of public resources, sexual contact, lewdness, or sexual assault when offense involves or touches upon public office or employment.**
Grants veteran discharged under honorable conditions right to peddler's license.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider. *
Requires Commissioner of Health to develop voluntary registry to collect cancer incidence data from firefighters.
Increases membership of board of trustees of Washington Association of New Jersey.
Requires DHS to establish electronic portal to promote surplus food donation collaboration among nonprofit organizations, gleaners, and food retailers.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to establish public awareness campaign for food waste.
Establishes Farm Liaison in Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $1,190,349 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for historic site management grants to certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $1,591,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $8,896,229 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Provides clarification on applicability of "Predatory Towing Prevention Act" to commercial motor vehicles and charging of reasonable fees for certain non-consensual towing.
Permits certain members or retirees of PFRS,SPRS, or PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.**
Requires four-year public institution of higher education to award college credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Requires DHS to study social isolation occurring in certain population groups.
Establishes program for cultivation, handling, processing, transport, and sale of hemp; repeals New Jersey Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.
Establishes uniform standard for acceptable proof of veteran status for veteran's ID cards and various State and local programs.
Provides in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education to individuals living in NJ who are entitled to educational assistance under US Department of Veterans Affairs' Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program.
Requires AG to establish program to detect fentanyl in State's illegal drug supply and make information related to presence of fentanyl available in database accessible by law enforcement.
Expands eligibility for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qualified dairy farmers.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2020 to include new projects, remove certain projects, and modify estimated loan amounts for certain projects.
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020.
Vetoed · 7
Revises law concerning alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.*
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to examine feasibility of centralized property tax information system to verify property taxes paid by homestead property tax reimbursement claimants.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey.*
Removes statutory limitations on number of permits that may be issued by Division of Fish and Wildlife for the taking of beaver.
Establishes "Electronic Permit Processing Review System."
Establishes expedited construction inspection program.
Requires reporting of opioid deaths.
Passed the General Assembly · 35
Authorizes special Combat Action Badge license plate program.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
Authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Requires publication of certain information related to toll discounts on E-ZPass website.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
" Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.**
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Waives boat safety course requirement for veterans and active duty members of military with maritime training.
Permits certain deer control activities; establishes check-off donation on hunting license applications to support venison donation program; authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.*
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to the ceremony.
Requires public water systems to provide certain notice of boil water notices and violations of drinking water quality standards.
Requires certain public water systems to publish certain financial and employee information on Internet.
Revises certain licensure requirements to operate water supply and wastewater treatment systems.*
Permits DMVA to receive voluntary contributions for veteran suicide prevention public service announcements. *
Requires DOH to license certain qualifying hospitals to provide full service adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization, primary angioplasty, and elective angioplasty services.*
Permits appointment of nonresident municipal emergency management coordinators in municipalities with populations under 5,000 persons in certain circumstances.
Authorizes sharing of municipal court administrator under "Common Sense Shared Services Pilot Program Act," *
Permits transmittal of certain proposed county ordinances by electronic mail.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism establish New Jersey Historical Markers Trail.
Establishes "New Jersey Military Advisory Board."
Authorizes creation of special license plates commemorating horse as State animal.
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
Require business seeking to perform State contract to disclose certain labor and employment law violations.
Requires Business Action Center to develop single application form to determine business assistance program eligibility.
Requires drugs involved in fatal overdoses to be identified.
Requires public transportation employees to complete training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking.
Exempts discharge of student loan debt of certain veterans through the federal Total and Permanent Disability discharge process from taxation under the gross income tax.
Out of committee · 77
Concerns stop-work orders related to prevailing wage and construction worker employment.*
Exempts fuel used for operation of certain school buses from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax; clarifies tax treatment of certain dyed fuel thereunder; clarifies determination of taxable estates of certain decedents.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered a lumber yard.
Exempts disabled veterans from beach buggy permit fees.
Permits, and establishes requirements for, sale of cottage food products.
Authorizes award of reasonable costs and attorney fees to farmers prevailing in certain farm management disputes.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State.
Permits issuance of motorcycle endorsement to certain out-of-State military personnel.
Authorizes veterans' property tax exemption and veterans' property tax deduction for honorably discharged veterans of United States Armed Forces who did not serve in time of war or other emergency. *
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
The "Electronic Construction Procurement Act." *
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Enters New Jersey in enhanced multistate Nurse Licensure Compact. *
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Transfers county college employees and retirees from membership in SEHBP to membership in SHBP.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Concerns baked goods sold at farm markets.
Requires certain contractors to register under "The Public Works Contractor Registration Act."
Exempts governmental entities acquiring lands for open space located in a deed-authorized common interest community from paying community fees if, at time of acquisition, community has never been formed or has been dissolved or discontinued.
Requires DCA to verify that low-income home energy assistance benefits are not awarded to deceased individuals.
Requires DCA to verify income of low-income home energy assistance benefit applicants.
Permits certain health care professionals to waive health insurance copayments for members of military serving on active duty and their family members.*
Requires BPU public meetings held in State-owned building to be broadcast live on Internet provided necessary technology is available in building.
Revises process for development and administration of Transportation Trust Fund projects and capital program oversight; establishes transportation research center.
Concerns certain real estate licensees.
Permits municipalities to provide information on property tax bills concerning amount of local tax dollars saved through shared services.
Directs certain unclaimed electric and gas utility deposits in Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund and societal charge revenues to be paid to Statewide nonprofit energy assistance organizations meeting certain eligibility criteria.*
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.*
Designates High Point State Park as High Point State Park and New Jersey Veterans Memorial.*
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Requires school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and contracted service providers to review employment history of prospective employees who will have regular contact with students to ascertain allegations of child abuse or sexual misconduct.
Makes New Jersey National Guard members with NGB-22 form eligible for certain veterans' benefits.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to authorize and advise food hubs.
Revises and updates public utility franchise process; allows State's political subdivisions to revoke franchises; increases certain penalties.
Expands eligibility for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qualified dairy farmers. *
Requires landlords to count federal military service member and veteran housing allowances as income for purposes of qualifying for rental housing; designated as Securing Electronic Records for Veterans Ease Act.
Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
"Securing Our Children's Future Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $1,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance certain school, school district, and county college capital projects; appropriates $5,000.*
Changes title of DEP "conservation officer" to "conservation police officer."
Directs Adjutant General to enter into agreements with legal services organizations to provide legal services to homeless veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness.
Provides preferences for certain businesses applying for workforce development grants.
Exempts sales of certain materials used in industrial sand casting processes from sales and use tax.
Requires boards of education and nonpublic schools to provide law enforcement authorities with copies of blueprints and maps of schools and school grounds.
Limits liability for persons who deliver heating oil to unregulated tanks for discharges from that tank under certain circumstances.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete industry-valued credentials in 12 months. *
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Concerns regulation of solid waste, hazardous waste, and soil and fill recycling industries.*
Requires Commissioner of DOLWD to create list of labor organizations that represent workers on public work projects.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; provides funding for hotline through fire inspection fees and penalties.
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Establishes funding allocations for constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for Fiscal Year 2020and thereafter and revises law for State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs; appropriates $500,000.*
Directs BPU to conduct study to determine whether microgrid and distributed energy resource deployment will reduce length of power outages. *
Establishes the "Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Act."
Establishes "Invasive Species Task Force."
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses that participate in DOL registered apprenticeship programs; establishes grant program for tax-exempt organizations participating in DOL registered apprenticeship programs.
Creates five year High-Growth Industry Regional Apprenticeship Development Grant Pilot Program.
Creates subaccounts for SHBP and SEHBP health care services and prescription drug claims; requires procurement by State of third-party medical claims reviewer. *
Provides tuition fee waiver apprenticeship courses.
"New Jersey Transit Corporation Employee Protection Act"; prohibits NJT from asserting sovereign immunity in certain situations and subjects NJT to certain federal statutes and regulations.*
Establishes elective pass-through entity business alternative income tax and allows corresponding refundable gross income tax and corporation business tax credit.*
Requires railroad operators to remove obstructive vegetation near railroad crossings.
Clarifies assessment payment and election participation requirements in planned real estate developments.
Directs State Mosquito Control Commission to establish grant program for counties to study and develop methods of tick control; appropriates $250,000. *
Permits certain firefighter training courses to be taken online; requires tests for courses to be taken in person.
Allows certain preserved farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms.*
Provides certain employment protections for National Guard members employed in New Jersey.
Appropriates $13,902,723 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates $21 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $5,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires limited purpose regional school districts to coordinate with constituent districts regarding school calendar and curriculum.
Renames joint meetings as regional service agencies; grandfathers existing joint meetings.
Establishes "New Jersey Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Commission" to provide ongoing review of State and local tax structure, economic conditions, and related fiscal issues.
In committee · 237
Authorizes municipalities that petition for or receive substantive certification pursuant to the "Fair Housing Act" to make certain affordable housing units available on a preferential basis to certain eligible persons.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Allows for exclusion of certain properties from Highlands preservation area.
Repeals sections of law pertaining to transfer of civil service and non-civil service employees of terminated local health agency to superseding agency.
Eliminates expansion of preschool education programs in "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Exempts contaminated and industrially-zoned sites from affordable housing rules.
Prohibits the imposition of affordable housing need and related fees upon the local transfer or move of a business.
Eliminates seniority in Civil Service and other jurisdictions for reductions in force in certain circumstances.
Requires women incarcerated in county correctional facilities to cover full cost of abortion.
Provides for drug testing of adult recipients of Work First New Jersey program benefits.
Expands range of local units eligible to join an insurance fund established by a municipality or county under certain circumstances.
Replaces references to Civil Service Commission with chairperson of commission to clarify duties and responsibilities of chairperson.
Expands scope of review of Pension and Health Benefits Review Commission.
Provides that certain absentee ballots will be counted if received within ten days of election.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee and one percent fee on transfers of certain commercial real estate and tax on sale of controlling interests in certain commercial real property.
Establishes motor vehicle registration for street rods and custom motor vehicles.
Restricts use of electronic benefit cards by cash assistance recipients.
Requires access to law enforcement guidelines for processing firearms permit applications upon public records request.
Requires eligibility checklist and audit for enrollment in PERS of certain public employees who provide professional services; imposes fine on certifying officer or supervisor for ineligible enrollments.
Provides for no net loss of DEP lands for fishing, hunting, and trapping purposes.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Authorizes chiefs of part-time municipal police forces to issue firearms ID cards and handgun purchase permits.
Revises "Administrative Procedure Act" concerning socio-economic impact statements for proposed rule-making.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex, and Warren Counties, and requires existing bus stops to be used.
Revises procedure for transferring motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Requires certain documentation as proof of voter identity to vote; updates procedures for challenging voters regarding proof of identity.
Requires legislative approval of changes to core curriculum content standards and Statewide assessments.
The "School Safety and Security Act"; establishes penalties for certain criminal acts committed on school property.
Repeals certain restrictions on future retail sales of handguns.
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations and William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Provides for early termination of terms of office for certain appointed municipal court positions when two or more municipalities enter into agreements to establish joint or shared municipal courts.
Decreases Alcoholic Beverage Tax rate paid on certain liquors.
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Directs AG to enter into agreement with U.S. Attorney General to empower certain corrections officers to investigate immigration status of inmates.
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.
Requires municipalities to file copies of tax abatement and exemption agreements with county chief financial officer and county counsel within 10 days of execution.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Caps noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions at $250,000.
Excludes overtime pay of certain employees from gross income tax.
"Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act in New Jersey."
"Home-Based Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing, or retailing activities.
Revises timeframes for issuance of certain construction permits by DEP in 90 days.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act.
Requires explanatory statement on ballot question for school district capital projects to include certain information.
Creates exemption from certain MVC fees for prisoners of war.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions to certain New Jersey-based charitable organizations.
Requires cost-benefit analyses and local government financial impact findings for approval of long term property tax exemption.
Revises distribution of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Limits amount of appeal bond in civil actions to $50 million.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to undergo obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram within 48 hours of performing abortion.
Requires public referendum prior to issuance of general obligation bonds by local units.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Prohibits DEP from imposing conditions on projects exempt from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Clarifies that BB guns are not firearms under New Jersey law.
Allows commercial farmer to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees of defending against unreasonable complaints under "Right to Farm Act."
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 one-third of motor vehicle fine moneys generated through State Police issued tickets go to municipality where violation occurred.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Provides "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" exemption, and clarifies municipal planning or zoning authority, for certain development along commercial corridors in Highlands Region.
Provides discounted hunting and trapping license, permit, and stamp fees for senior citizens.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
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.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to develop and implement beginning farmer mentoring program in cooperation with certain agricultural and educational organizations and entities.
Bars certain employees of certain public agencies from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility unit rate assessment surcharge.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Requires 10 percent bail; prohibits installment payments.
Authorizes hunters to wear hunter's hot pink caps and outer garments as alternative to hunter's orange.
Eliminates age restriction for issuing special permits to carry handgun to retired law enforcement officers.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
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 free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Allows veteran to establish veterans' preference retroactively for civil service employment list.
Transfers probation employees from Judiciary to State Parole Board.
Phases out the transfer inheritance tax over two years.
Requires municipal governing bodies and boards of education to provide sufficient time for all requested public comment at open public meetings.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Clarifies that chief of police or Superintendent of State Police has burden of proving applicant's disqualification for permit to purchase handgun or firearms purchaser identification card.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Requires school district that includes grades kindergarten through six to offer Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.
Decreases the premium receipts tax for surplus lines insurance coverage.
Makes various changes to civil service; permits institution of temporary layoffs; permits government entities to opt-out of civil service; requires civil service examinations be offered on continual basis.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Allows gross income tax refunds to be credited against taxpayer's delinquent local property taxes.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to defendant at sentencing.
Revises procedures for securing permit to carry handgun.
Increases amount of, and income limit for eligibility to receive, senior citizens' and disabled persons' property tax deduction.
Allows county sheriffs to issue firearms identification cards and permits to purchase handguns; authorizes county sheriffs to accept applications for permits to carry handguns.
Requires State to recognize permits to carry handguns issued to certain New Jersey residents by other states.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets under New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture to create clearinghouse website for vendors to provide surplus food to charities in State.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.
Authorizes Governor to enter into interstate compact to clarify Fourteenth Amendment.
Amends and repeals certain parts of New Jersey firearm statutes.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Concerns liability and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Increases maximum municipal percentage of affordable fair share housing satisfied by age-restricted units to 50 percent.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Establishes additional factors for municipal adjustment used in calculating fair share affordable housing obligations; provides population-based cap for these obligations.
Prohibits affordable housing obligation exemptions for urban aid municipalities.
Prohibits imposition of builder's remedy in exclusionary zoning litigation.
Establishes fourth degree crime of possessing firearms locator application; enhances penalty if such application is used in theft of firearm.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Establishes New Jersey Eco-Ag Tourism Council.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Directs DEP to designate native bee nesting habitat areas in each State park and forest.
Adds rock climbing, bouldering, and ice climbing to definition of "sport and recreational activities" in law concerning landowner liability.
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.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Eliminates minimum corporation business tax on New Jersey S corporations.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Requires Director of Division of Taxation to study impact of State business income taxes on business out-migration, business formation, and employment.
Imposes daily fine of $250 upon each member of Legislature during state of emergency due to failure to enact annual appropriations law.
Revises procedure for removal of municipal administrator by municipal council; provides for payment of balance of salary to municipal administrator upon removal.
Requires opioid antidote dispensation to be monitored under Prescription Monitoring Program, and authorizes certain entities to submit info regarding opioid antidote administration for inclusion in secondary, linked database; designated as "John Wagner's
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to advertise and promote tours of breweries in the State.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Authorizes temporary members to fill certain vacancies on Fish and Game Council.
Eliminates $375 minimum Corporation Business Tax on New Jersey S corporations with New Jersey gross receipts of less than $100,000.
Prioritizes applications for firearms purchaser identification cards, permits to purchase a handgun, and permits to carry a handgun under certain circumstances.
Authorizes issuance of duplicate firearms purchaser identification cards for change of address with certain proof.
Permits certain off-duty law enforcement officers to carry firearms on State property.
Requires employers within construction industry to notify employees of certain rights.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Decriminalizes manufacture and certain possession of slingshots.
Prohibits for 10 years applicability of new State and local rules and regulations to certain manufacturing facilities.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Prohibits municipal ordinance to create sanctuary city; Establishes State and local employee ethics violation upon noncompliance with federal immigration enforcement request.
Requires State personal income tax materials to include notice of certain property tax relief programs.
Permits layoff plans as substitute for employment reconciliation plans for joint meetings or shared service agreements under certain circumstances.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Allows possession of bear spray under certain conditions.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) every seven years rather than every three years.
Authorizes deer hunting with firearm on Sundays on private property.
Establishes Loan Redemption Program for Teachers of Agriculture in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Repeals requirement for general hospitals and State psychiatric hospitals to hold annual public meetings.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Revises definition of "antique firearm" to include handguns.
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.
Exempts certain persons providing hair braiding or eyebrow threading services from licensure requirement.
Concerns workers' compensation insurance requirements for certain corporations and partnerships.
Permits governing body of municipalities having population of 30,000 or less to serve as local board of health; validates certain actions.
Requires school district's general fund tax levy account for at least 25 percent of school district's total general fund revenue; provides four-year phase-in.
Provides for retained eligibility for members of NJ National Guard or reserve component called to active federal military service who met fire department maximum age requirement at closing date of civil service examination.
Excludes bonuses for reenlistment or voluntary extension of enlistment in armed forces from gross income.
Designates "Franklinite" as official mineral of State of NJ.
Designates Lake Mohawk German Christmas Market as New Jersey State German Christmas Market.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of school each day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Reinstates the death penalty for certain murders.
Limits annual increase in tuition rates charged by county vocational school districts to two percent.
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
"The Smarter Lunchroom Act;" promotes healthy food choices in school cafeterias.
Permits idling of motor vehicles on residential property.
Provides for agreement between Secretary of State and AOC to match information in Statewide voter registration system with certain jury records in order to identify and remove ineligible non-citizen voter registrants from system.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Provides for appointment of certain municipal court judges at the local or county level.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Permits possession of certain types of ammunition and increases penalties for possession for an unlawful purpose.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to victims injured in September 11th and 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
Exempts public institutions of higher education from motor vehicle registration fee.
Authorizes certain persons age 10 or older to participate in boat races.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Directs Attorney General to provide annual training to public and nonpublic school students and staff on roles and responsibilities before, during, and after school emergencies.
Requires school districts to institute policies to improve emergency communications to increase school security.
Requires State Police to maintain 24-hour hotline for receiving anonymous tips regarding potential threats to school safety and security.
Requires school districts to implement policy mandating all students and school employees have identification cards.
Requires school district to submit emergency communication policies and protocols to Department of Education for review.
Requires DOE to establish online school security resource clearinghouse.
Requires Police Training Commission to adopt training course on school emergency response.
Requires Commissioner of Education to review school safety and security plans.
Includes value of certain properties exempt from taxation in valuation used to calculate State school aid.
Prohibits exemption of school purposes property taxes under "Long Term Tax Exemption Law."
Provides limited civil liability immunity to farmers hosting agritourism activities.
Allows members of Junior Firefighter's Auxiliaries to perform certain fire support duties.
Imposes moratorium on affordable housing litigation through December 31, 2018.
Revises workers' compensation coverage for certain injuries to volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Permits certain applicants to submit personal statement of veteran status, in lieu of determination of veteran status, prior to issuance of civil service eligible list; requires submission of determination of status prior to employment.
Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Requires State parks, forests, State-owned beaches, and MVC offices to remain open to public if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Limits long term tax exemptions in municipalities with school districts receiving certain State school aid.
Includes value of certain properties exempt from taxation in valuation used to calculate State school aid in SDA districts.
Requires DCA to provide certain long term tax exemption information on website.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture to provide for electronic submittal of milk dealer license applications.
Allows deduction from New Jersey gross income of certain capital gains from sale or exchange of New Jersey qualified small business stock held for more than five years.
Concerns endangered plant species in NJ.
Reduces residency requirement for resident hunting licenses from six months to 60 days.
"New Jersey Safe Haven for Protection of Domestic Companion Animals Act."
Repeals imposition of State sales and use tax and hotel and motel occupancy fee on transient accommodations; repeals authorization of various municipal taxes and fees on transient accommodations.
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.
Exempts certain water quality management structures, funded by certain federal and State grants, from real property taxation.
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when vehicle bears veteran's or recipient's special license plate or placard issued by MVC.
Prohibits MVC from charging fee for restoring driver's license suspended due to mental or physical condition.
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Imposes moratorium on affordable housing litigation through December 31, 2020.
Repeals surtax imposed on certain businesses.
Prohibits candidates from nomination for more than one elective office at primary or general election.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Exempts persons who blow dry and style hair from cosmetology and hairstyling licensure.
Directs DEP to develop model ordinance for municipalities to regulate deposit and storage of soil and fill materials.
Requires DEP to evaluate extending sewer service in Lake Hopatcong region; allows gross income tax deduction for septic system maintenance under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $4 million annually from General Fund to Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Establishes Volunteer Emergency Responder Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.