Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Mila M. Jasey
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes a permanent Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Permits the conversion of high-performing nonpublic schools located in failing school district into charter schools.*
Vetoed1
Requires plans, specifications, and bid proposal documents for certain local public contracts to address soil contamination.
Passed the General Assembly1
Provides for the designation of new charter school authorizers. *
Out of committee3
Clarifies informed consent provisions of "Access to Medical Research Act" for persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires schools that participate in Statewide interscholastic sports programs to annually inform student-athletes about National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility standards for participation in collegiate athletics.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
In committee7
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Permits the conversion of nonpublic schools into charter schools.
Requires Commissioner of Education to accept charter school applications throughout the calendar year and expedites approval of charter school applications.
Establishes Rutgers University as charter school authorizer and expedites approval of charter school applications.
Provides for notification to law enforcement authorities of discharge of certain persons brought to screening services for evaluation and assessment for mental health services.
Permits release of certain student information.
Revises the dates for submission and approval of school district applications for designation as a choice district.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Clarifies informed consent provisions of "Access to Medical Research Act" for persons with developmental disabilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
Provides an additional month for the completion of a school district's annual audit.
Disqualifies member of board of education or member of charter school board of trustees for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation. *
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to provide information to public about sickle cell anemia.*
The "Banking Development District Act."
Eliminates use of rebate procedure for claims of sales and use tax exemption made in connection with certain sales to certain UEZ qualified businesses. *
Authorizes the court to include provisions for animals in domestic violence restraining orders.*
Requires DCF to provide information on home visitation resources and shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants. *
Establishes standards for certain fertilizer applications, requires certification of professional fertilizer applicators, and regulates labeling and sale of certain fertilizers. *
Clarifies school district eligibility to receive State funding for special education evaluation services for children enrolled in New Jersey nonpublic school and living out-of-State.
Requires State Soil Conservation Committee to adopt standards concerning soil restoration measures. *
Requires development of interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program; requires certain measures to protect student athletes with concussions; and requires continuing education for athletic trainers.*
Establishes "Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week."
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms from property taxation.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Requires DHS to collect and disseminate data about persons with developmental disabilities.
Directs the Department of Education to develop a school district dating violence policy and requires school districts to provide dating violence education in the health curriculum.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires certain owners of foreclosed property to file contact information with municipality and common interest community.*
Requires DOT to study stormwater basins in Barnegat Bay watershed; requires DOT and NJ Turnpike Authority to include repairs of stormwater basins in capital project plans.
Authorizes Department of Agriculture to implement mobile fresh produce markets for residents of urban "food desert" communities. *
Requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for congenital heart defects prior to discharge.
Requires DOE to include cheerleaders in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Makes certain changes to NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Vetoed · 14
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit. *
Amends Fiscal Year 2011 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services.
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Requires, after study, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem, and requires DEP to adopt nutrient standards for NJ marine waters.*
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Clarifies trustee's discretionary authority concerning income tax liability.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Increase gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable years 2011 and 2012 and expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers beginning in 2011.
Provides State school aid to districts in amount consistent with provisions of "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Permits a child whose parent or quardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in the school district where the child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Requires DOE to develop and distribute information regarding hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and expands role and membership of New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Extends suspension of Statewide non-residential development fee to October 30, 2010.
Transfers $5,000,000 of unexpended balance from Purchase of Service for Inmates Incarcerated in County Penal Facilities account in Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Appropriations Act and appropriates that amount for Women's Health and Family Planning Services.
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.
Allows licensing authorities to grant a license to certain child support obligors under certain circumstances.*
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools. *
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to designation as charter school district of residence or expansion of a charter school. *
Establishes real property assessment demonstration program.
Out of committee · 27
Permits a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in a public school complex.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Permits bid for public works contract to be withdrawn due to mistake in certain circumstances. *
Authorizes credit unions to serve as depositories of public funds; requires credit unions to provide certain funds for financial literacy education.*
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Requires certain conditions be met in order for school districts to provide their employees with tuition assistance for coursework or additional compensation upon acquisition of academic credits or completion of a degree program.
Requires the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to biannually compile information on school facilities project contracts awarded to minority and female contractors.
Establishes "New Jersey Property Assessment Clean Energy (NJ PACE) Municipal Financing Program."
Provides dedicated line item on property tax bill to fund municipal free public libraries and joint free public libraries. *
Changes references of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability" and uses person-first language for persons with disabilities.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Makes FY 2011 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 for Women's Health and Family Planning Services, reduces FY 2011 appropriation for State Employees' Prescription Drug Program by $7,453,000, and requires filing of application for expansion of Medica
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing; abolishes Council on Affordable Housing.
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Permits small, women or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Designates entire length of New Jersey Route No. 19 in Passaic County as "Congressman William J. Pascrell, Jr. Highway."
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
In committee · 54
Clarifies that executive county superintendent's authorities regarding special education services do not allow him to require a child study team to make a specific determination on the special education placement for a student.
Requires DHS to develop procedures to enable hospitals to promptly transfer emergency department patients with mental illness to appropriate treatment setting.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
"Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
The "Smart Container Act."
Establishes Task Force on Public School Student Recess to study benefits of student recess and make recommendations on advisability of mandatory recess in school districts.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment.
Modifies laws concerning inmate income and complaints; creates uniform identification cards for attorneys to enter State correctional facilities.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Qua-Daishia's Law: bars disclosure of personal identifying information contained in grand jury materials; creates fourth degree offense for unauthorized disclosure.
Exempts sales to homeowner assistance and recovery programs from realty transfer fees.
Establishes "Smart Housing Incentives Act."
Requires municipalities to include unique identifier on signs at certain handicapped parking spots.
"Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act."
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor on lawn sprinklers as condition of sale and on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail or industrial property and in common interest communities within specified timeframes.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Requires continuing education for athletic trainers.
Changes "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner" in new sections of law and revisions to current law; requires counties to change terms on website.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
Provides for transfer of certain funds from "Main Street Business Assistance Program" to "Main Street New Jersey Program Fund."
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Designates New Jersey Commuter Pass Credit Act; provides for temporary gross income tax credit for certain commuting passes.
Eliminates adjustment of tuition rate for special education students enrolled in a private school for students with disabilities.
Provides that school districts may not be required to have an automated work order system for recording maintenance and repair requests for school district facilities.
Establishes the number of students to be supported under the veterinary medicine education program and a service requirement for students who participate in the program.
Provides for termination of child support obligation upon certain conditions.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for amount of annual homestead property tax that exceeds 7 percent of homestead owner's New Jersey gross income.
The "Child Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at schools, child care centers and recreational fields.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax.
Requires local law enforcement officer or firefighter prescribed anabolic steroids or human growth hormone to report to designated physician for evaluation of fitness for duty.
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Establishes $2 surcharge upon building permits for payments to Community Health Law Project.
Requires DCA to provide information regarding "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Act" to certain dwelling units approved for Weatherization Assistance Program.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana.