Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Richard J. Codey
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires DOE to review Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure that they incorporate modern computer science standards where appropriate.**
Requires DOE to conduct study on options and benefits of instituting later school start time in middle school and high school.
Authorizes State-chartered banks, savings banks, savings and loans, and credit unions to conduct certain savings account promotions.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Vetoed4
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Allows installation of solar arrays by municipalities on preserved open space in certain circumstances.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.*
Establishes certain minimum and maximum temperatures in emergency shelters, rooming and boarding houses, and certain nursing homes and residential health care facilities.*
Passed the Senate5
Requires certification of diligent inquiry in residential mortgage foreclosure actions to be filed by attorneys.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Designates five State songs.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Prohibits school districts from joining associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports unless association limits certain student-athletes who repeat middle school grade to only six consecutive semesters of interscholastic eligibility after en
Out of committee13
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Requires that certain motor vehicle surcharge revenues be dedicated to the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Exempts from disclosure as public record personal identifying information provided to government agency for emergency notification purposes.
Requires employers and health care providers to disseminate information regarding certain leave and benefits.
"Nikhil's Law"; requires MVC to inform and test drivers on dangers of failing to comply with traffic safety laws and "STOP for Nikhil Safety Pledge."
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan to address smart growth and storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues.
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.*
Requires certain surgical practices and ambulatory care facilities licensed in this State to be owned by hospital or medical school located in the State.*
Prohibits sale or distribution of liquid nicotine except in child-resistant containers.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Requires certain retailers to provide notice of FAA safety guidelines for flying drones to consumers.
Requires certain drones to contain geo-fencing technology; makes violation a fourth degree crime.
In committee48
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Prohibits use of public funds by employers for certain employee influence activities.
Permits conduct of lottery games on Internet.
Requires members of Legislature and officers and employees of Legislative Branch to disclose to Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards when charged, indicted, or convicted of crime while in office or employment.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
Permits New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and Standardbred Breeders' and Owners' Association of New Jersey to use purse funds received from off-track and account wagering for care of retired race horses.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to certain food service contracts.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer’s rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Establishes Inspector General of Statewide Interscholastic Sports to monitor the operating and financial activities of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing, importing, and selling assault firearms for civilian use.
Reduces lawful maximum capacity of certain ammunition magazines in New Jersey.
Requires certain notifications prior to conducting blasting operations; raises minimum property insurance to use explosives.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2013.
Requires driver's license examination to include questions on distracted driving; makes it a violation for motorists to talk or text on hand-held wireless devices while vehicle is temporarily stopped.
Increases penalities for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Requires an institution of higher education that receives state support to suspend a student for a second violation of cheating on an examination.
Requires State designated children's hospitals to have Pediatric Emergency Physician on duty at all times in emergency department.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Grants subpoena power to Office of Inspector General at Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in furtherance of investigations.
Limits settings where certain surgeries may be performed.
Establishes task force to preserve original Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital main building.
Provides for notification to law enforcement authorities of discharge of certain persons brought to screening services for evaluation and assessment for mental health services.
Requires State designated children's hospitals to have Pediatric Emergency Physician on duty at all times in emergency department.
Applies prevailing wage to work on Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital grounds and facilities.
Permits participation agreements between casinos and casino service industry enterprise licensees for purchase or lease of slot machines, which pay licensees portion of proceeds from operation thereof.
Prohibits sale and possession of undetectable firearms manufactured using three dimensional printing technology.
Allows New Jersey gross income taxpayers to elect to deduct certain losses from certain investment arrangements discovered to be criminally fraudulent.
Requires contracting units and boards of education to credit contractors with interest earned on certain funds withheld from payment to contractors.
Regulates sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels.
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Requires charter schools to annually submit to Commissioner of Education salary and benefit information for certain employees.
Requires hepatitis B to be considered a priority under "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative."
Creates crime of home invasion; makes crime subject to No Early Release Act.
Reforms bi-state transportation authorities.
Requires certain parking garages to have on-site emergency vehicle capable of accessing low-clearance areas.
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.
Authorizes gun violence restraining orders and firearm seizure warrants.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Upgrades crime of photographing, filming, or disseminating photos or films showing person's intimate parts or sexual conduct when person has not consented to the photography, filming, or disseminating.
Restricts use of eminent domain by private pipeline companies to those demonstrating pipeline is in the public interest and that agree to certain regulation by BPU.
Prohibits sale of certain items during certain time on Thanksgiving.
Requires coach of interscholastic sports team to provide athletic director with certification that no one associated with team was involved in player recruitment.
Requires Standardbred organization to use certain portion of purse moneys from in-State Standardbred races to fund foundation providing retired Standardbred race horses pre-adoption care and support Standardbred racing and breeding legislation with nonpub
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150% of Medicare.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law4
"Nikhil's Law"; requires MVC to inform and test drivers on dangers of failing to comply with traffic safety laws and "STOP for Nikhil Safety Pledge."
Prohibits sale or distribution of liquid nicotine except in child-resistant containers.
Requires certain surgical practices and ambulatory care facilities licensed in this State to be owned by hospital or medical school located in the State. *
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed2
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.**
Co-sponsored
Vetoed · 4
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
Passed the Senate · 5
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals; authorizes certain labortories to perform rapid hepatitis C testing.*
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Out of committee · 12
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Requires DHS and DMVA to conduct or contract for follow-up studies of former residents transitioning to community from their facilities.*
Authorizes rural electric cooperative and certain municipalities to establish municipal shared services authority.*
Dedesignates portions of Route 24.
Imposes a wholesale sales and use tax rate on tobacco products, imposes tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base, and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.*
Prohibits development over 35 feet in height in Hudson River Palisades viewshed.
Clarifies liability for discharges of hazardous substances from drilling platforms that enter NJ waters.
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Establishes home elevation fund and dedicates up to $5 million of realty transfer fee revenue annually for this purpose.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
Revises electronic waste recycling laws.
In committee · 22
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Increases penalties for failing to yield when violation results in death to pedestrian.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing, importing, and selling assault firearms for civilian use.
Requires boards of education to adopt policies to make schools asthma-friendly.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
Rescinds recommendation of the Task Force on the Closure of State Developmental Centers and creates new task force.
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.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of residents of State developmental centers until certain conditions are met.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.
Prohibits Governor from using State helicopter for out-of-State political or personal events.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Filed · 2
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."