Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law2
Prohibits certain advertising on real property and related structures without prior permission of owner.
Eliminates requirement that a full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.**
Vetoed2
Requires Commissioner of Health to review impact of disabilities on persons in minority and underrepresented communities.*
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Passed the Senate4
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Requires local unit or authority to provide director of the Division of Local Government Services with report concerning law suits to which it is a party before budget is approved.
Authorizes municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations of certain properties in forclosure.*
Makes FY 2013 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to Department of Community Affairs for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
Out of committee19
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
Allows a gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers for capital improvements made to principal residence.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Requires State Comptroller to perform compliance audit to verify municipal implementation of corrective action plan following performance audit.
Provides additional oversight of municipalities receiving certain State aid.*
Provides for county welfare agency monitoring of welfare emergency assistance motel placements, annual inspection of hotels used for emergency assistance recipients and notice of mobile health van services.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Establishes identification cards for persons without permanent residence.
Establishes crime of entering into certain restricted airport areas.
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank.
Imposes tax on certain State lottery winnings to finance grant program for not-for-profit entities operating after school programs in certain districts.
Requires correctional facilities to submit voting rights information packets to inmates.
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.*
Revises permitted amount of surcharge on admission charges at major places of amusement.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Authorizes creation of special Omega Psi Phi license plate.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school and summer programs; appropriates $60,000.
Requires BPU to regulate rates and terms and conditions of service of alternate operator telephone service providers to protect users of those services.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
In committee80
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose a tax on the storage of empty shipping containers to fund redevelopment plan activities.
Prohibits contracts of executive directors of housing authorities from including incentive bonuses for certain achievements.
Requires employers to verify employment eligibility of new employees and prohibits employment of unauthorized aliens.
Revises laws concerning local redevelopment, relocation assistance and eminent domain.
Strengthens State construction code.
Enhances protections for new homebuyers.
Enhances protections afforded purchasers in planned real estate developments.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Modifies basis for calculating charity care reimbursements, and increases certain insurance premium assessments and taxes to fund reimbursements.
Provides mandatory minimum terms and fines for persons who travel to another municipality and sell or purchase controlled dangerous substances there.
Makes residential mortgage fraud a separate crime.
Prohibits plea bargaining and eliminates sentence reduction in weapons cases involving minors.
Reestablishes and revises public contract set-aside program.
Enhances disclosure and oversight of certain local unit salary actions.
Codifies responsible contractor requirements for contractors bidding for work through the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Establishes the "Private Investment in Public Education Fund."
Provides for certain psychologists to prescribe medications.
Permits creation of local hire programs for public work contracts of political subdivisions.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Requires DCA to provide Internet resources for homeowner assistance programs and makes an appropriation.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Exempts sales to homeowner assistance and recovery programs from realty transfer fees.
Authorizes party to a final divorce judgment or judgment for the dissolution of a civil union to request name change without notifying opposing party.
Concerns certificates of occupancy for public housing projects.
Provides that taxes assessed on new property during period pending municipal-wide property revaluation shall not exceed 105 percent of taxes assessed on replaced property.
Revises certain procedures for real property tax appeals.
Requires electric public utilities to prepare a study to better monitor street light outages.
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.
Exempts from payment certain taxes and energy charges for manufacturing facilities.
Requires school districts to notify DOE of sicknesses resulting from confirmed or suspected air pollution or other contamination.
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
Clarifies permissible payment terms under residential leases and prohibits them from requiring prepayment of rent for entire lease term.
Establishes Interagency Council on Preventing and Reducing Homelessness.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians and dentists in first seven taxable years of practice in NJ.
Strengthens various statutory provisions regarding civil union couples.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
Requires binding arbitration to determine contested cases involving dismissal or reduction in compensation of tenured public school employees.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Authorizes issuance of "municipal solid waste disposal only" license to certain applicants.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Comissioners.
Requires affirmative vote of majority of full membership of municipal council in mayor-council form of government to approve contracts.
Requires three-day attorney review period for residential leases.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Requires county prosecutor to determine and report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement whether persons held for certain violent crimes are lawful residents of the United States.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Provides for information that may be requested for issuance of certain driver's licenses.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Clarifies duties and responsibilities of police directors and chiefs of police.
Establishes program in Department of Law and Public Safety for Attorney General to audit, investigate and review superintendents of elections and county boards of elections.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to ameliorate disparities among school districts with respect to educational technology.
Provides foreclosure forbearance for certain residential borrowers and exempts certain lenders that offer sustainable mortgage modifications.
Requires excuse for voting by mail-in ballot.
Establishes division in Department of Treasury to oversee and enforce equal employment opportunity requirements with regard to public works contracts.
Requires every State and local elected official using agent to represent or undertake scheduling of appearances therefore to disclose information about such service.
Prohibits certain individuals from membership on county boards of elections.
Establishes minimum and maximum sentences and penalties for election officers and employees convicted of fraud.
Requires mandatory audit of new voter registration records before an election and of absentee and provisional ballots after an election in randomly selected districts.
Requires civil service desk audit of provisional employees after layoff action by local employer.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Permits sealing of certain criminal records.
Permits creation of local hire programs for public work contracts of political subdivisions.
Provides that a school district may be placed under full or partial State intervention pursuant to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) for no longer than five years.
Strengthens criminal sanctions for intentionally damaging a rental premises to establish a warranty of habitability violations.
Expands ability of the court to order payment of attorney fees and costs by parties who file frivolous lawsuits.
Requires installation of standby emergency power generators in senior and disabled housing; creates BPU assistance program for generator purchase and installation costs in existing senior and disabled housing.
Requires electric public utilities to provide electric circuit maps to municipalities every five years.
Establishes certain equal employment opportunity requirements in connection with expenditure of federal funds received for Hurricane Sandy relief and for any future emergencies.
Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.
Protects certain politically active employees from retaliatory action by employers.
Concerns project labor agreements for non-building public works projects.
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at a four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Increases pension benefits for certain retirees in certain municipal retirement systems.
Permits municipality to hire private company to provide construction officials, subcode officials, and technical assistants.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Provides for electronic scanning of certain certificates for initiating court proceedings for involuntary commitment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Permits cancellation of municipal charges and fees under $10.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
"New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training Provider Demonstration Project Act."
Declares violence a public health crisis. and establishes "Study Commission on Violence."*
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Vetoed · 3
Requires physicians to complete survey as condition for biennial registration with Board of Medical Examiners and requires board to maintain and disseminate survey data as appropriate.*
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Expands Medicaid eligibility pursuant to federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
Passed the Senate · 2
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Out of committee · 11
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month."
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
Prohibits local officer or employee from lobbying or advocating before any body of the municipality where officer or employee serves.
Clarifies the effect of abstention by a member of a public body.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2012.*
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Requires issuance of construction permits for installation of wheelchair ramps on residential real property within 3 business days of application.
Codifies protections set forth in certain case law and limits use of eminent domain under the "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
In committee · 21
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Requires contracting units and boards of education to credit contractors with interest earned on certain funds withheld from payment to contractors.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Establishes three categories for investigative findings of allegations of child abuse or neglect, and requires DCF to track and report certain unfounded cases that subsequently are substantiated.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of a charter school.
Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
"Telecommunications-Cable Television Deregulation Ensuring Consumer Protection Act"; revises State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and cable television companies.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
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.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires physicians to complete survey as condition for biennial registration with Board of Medical Examiners and requires board to maintain and disseminate survey data as appropriate.
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Requires contracts for professional services be awarded by certain bi-state authorities pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Upgrades penalty for unlawful possession of certain firearms on grounds of an educational institution.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Filed · 1
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.