Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law8
Establishes database with certain information about individuals elected to public office in this State.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Authorizes political subdivisions to set aside 0.5 percent of public works funds to recruit and train women and minorities and promote local hiring.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.
Requires Director of Division of Investment to attempt to use qualified minority and women-owned financial institutions to provide brokerage and investment management services.
Changes composition of State Employment and Training Commission.
Authorizes certain local government utilities to impose additional connection fees; requires certain new credits and reductions for these fees.
Expands University Hospital board of directors membership from 11 to 13 members.**
Vetoed1
Requires NJTA to implement certain roadside maintenance safety policies.
Passed the Senate3
Establishes manufacturing business assistance program to encourage manufacturing in certain areas of the State.
Establishes two-generational school readiness and workforce development pilot program for certain low-income households.
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Out of committee13
Requires notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities to be published on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.*
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement. **
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.
Authorizes special assessments and bond issuance to replace lead-contaminated water service lines.
Clarifies and expands landlord registration procedures; creates certain rights for tenants; makes certain changes concerning tenant notifications, inspections, and maintenance in multiple dwellings; permits percentage of affordable housing obligation to b
Establishes "New Jersey Complete Count Commission."
Requires successful applicants for employment and current staff members of child care centers to undergo drug testing as condition of employment. *
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole or probation.
In committee61
Establishes division in Department of Treasury to oversee and enforce equal employment opportunity requirements with regard to public works contracts.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Permits creation of local hire programs for public work contracts of political subdivisions.
Permits sealing of certain criminal records.
Prohibits certain school districts under State intervention from leasing building if purchase price would be less than total costs of lease.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose a tax on the storage of empty shipping containers to fund redevelopment plan activities.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services in certain counties; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher edu
Authorizes EDA to approve additional Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program tax credits; reconciles simultaneous legislative enactments to clarify law which limits tax credits under that program.
Concerns procedure applicable to applicants for professional or occupational licenses who would otherwise be barred from licensure due to certain child support or related obligations.
Eliminates partial and full State intervention under New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
Requires external managers authorized to invest assets of State pension or annuity funds to have physical place of business within State.
Requires State agencies and local government units to report certain information concerning bids on public contracts by minority- and women-owned business enterprises; prohibits discrimination against such enterprises.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Concerns expedited process for foreclosing vacant and abandoned residential properties in uncontested actions.
Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Decriminalizes possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana and personal-use amount of regulated marijuana-infused products; requires substance abuse treatment under certain circumstances.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole, probation, or serving sentence.
Qualifies certain assisted living facilities for certain EDA incentives.
Increases monetary thresholds for certain theft offenses.
Creates a Land Use Court.
Requires health insurance consultants and carriers to provide certain information to certain local units, boards of education, and county colleges; requires local units, boards of education, and county colleges to review information.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Requires firearms purchaser identification card, permit to purchase handgun, or permit to carry handgun for use of firearm at firing range.
Consolidates ethics training for members of Legislature.
Establishes minimum and maximum sentences and penalties for election officers and employees convicted of fraud.
Requires Center for Occupational Employment Information to share labor market information with school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Requires various measures to address effects of low levels of lead exposure.
Requires firearms purchaser identification card, permit to purchase handgun, or permit to carry handgun for temporary transfer of firearm at firing range.
Provides foreclosure stay of proceedings for certain residential borrowers and exempts certain lenders that offer sustainable mortgage modifications.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Delay effective date of various provisions of P.L.2017, c.331 concerning animal cruelty law enforcement for two years until August 1, 2020.
Requires parent to provide financial information to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority if parent's dependent applies to State for student financial aid.
Concerns membership and management of homeowners' associations.
Requires municipal accounting of abandoned properties before receiving certain State aid; establishes State database of abandoned properties; requires owners of abandoned properties to document rehabilitation efforts.
Establishes Energy and Manufacturing Workforce Development Program in DOLWD.
Allows municipalities to adjust deadline to apply for short-term exemption or abatement for dwellings; requires provision of notice to purchasers of dwellings in areas in need of rehabilitation under certain circumstances.
Requires business entity to file annual disclosure statement with ELEC if entity receives $50,000 or more in commissions or fees during calendar year for placing third parties into contractual relationships with public entities.
Creates Commission on Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Minority Males.
Prohibits school district from denying admittance to student due to tardiness or violation of dress code or school uniform policy.
Establishes certain requirements concerning search process for candidates for appointment to county college board of trustees and membership of trustee search committee.
Decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, hashish, and marijuana-infused products; downgrades certain distribution crimes; requires expedited expungement of certain offenses.
Establishes Juvenile Offender Community Conservation and Improvement Services Program.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2018, c.74 regarding local government utility connection fees.
Requires public body to provide advance written notice to employees when employment status is to be considered at meeting.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sensitivity training program for high school athletic directors, coaches, and sports officials of interscholastic athletic sports programs.
Legalizes personal use of marijuana, subject to voter approval.
Prohibits passage or enactment of legislation with effective or operative date that is contingent upon passage or enactment of other legislation.
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
The "New Jersey Youth Justice Transformation Act;" annually appropriates $100 million to Juvenile Justice Commission.
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Requires financial institution that has foreclosed on property to remove water service lines that contain lead.
Requires spouse of public officer or employee forfeit pension upon conviction of certain crimes against public officer or employee.
Establishes "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program"; appropriates $10 million.
Requires entities at every level of government to conduct periodic studies of racial and ethnic disparities in public contracting.
Establishes requirements for conducting health impact assessments of pending legislation; makes an appropriation.
Requires contracts for sales of residential property to address lead service lines.
Establishes For-Hire Vehicle License Plate Task Force; requires issuance of uniquely colored license plate for certain for-hire vehicles and registration of certain for-hire vehicles.
Requires certain residential developers to replace lead service lines.
Establishes "New Jersey Reparations Task Force."
Establishes three-year pilot program for school-based mentoring in public schools located within 1,000 feet of gunfire.
Changes expiration date of "New Jersey Complete Count Commission" to January 2021.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law7
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
"Alyssa's Law"; requires public school buildings to be equipped with panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.**
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Authorizes special assessments and bond issuance to replace lead-contaminated water service lines.
Establishes "New Jersey Complete Count Commission."
Requires New Jersey Office on Minority and Multicultural Health to study racial disparities on sexual and reproductive health of African-American women.
Removes prohibition on voting by persons convicted of indictable offense who are on parole or probation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Extends statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse claims; expands categories of potential defendants in civil actions; creates two-year window for parties to bring previously time-barred actions based on sexual abuse.*
Allows long term tax exemption extension for certain low-income housing.*
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.
Permits municipal land banking in conjunction with online property database development.
Requires Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board to study racial and ethnic disparities that contribute to infant mortality.
Permits municipalities to establish temporary supplemental zoning boards of adjustment to address application backlogs.
Codifies current practice regarding completion of Perinatal Risk Assessment form by certain Medicaid health care providers.*
"Create a Respectful and Open Workspace for Natural Hair Act"- CROWN Act; addresses discrimination under "Law Against Discrimination." based on traits historically associated with race, particularly focused on hair texture and style.*
Passed the Senate · 2
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Out of committee · 12
Establishes Maternal Mortality Review Committee to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in New Jersey, and to recommend improvements in maternal care.*
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and provides enforcement tools related to maintenance of these properties.
Requires financial literacy instruction to pupils enrolled in grades six through eight.*
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.
Authorizes creation of special Phi Beta Sigma license plates.
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.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers; establishes standard contribution level of 3 percent.*
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires DOH to create best practices manual for maternity care; appropriates $950,000.
Requires Medicaid coverage for group prenatal care services under certain circumstances.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose parking taxes to fund projects to improve pedestrian access to mass transit.
In committee · 36
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Requires public utilities to set bill due date to no earlier than 28 days past postmarked date if mailed by regular mail or 28 days past sent date if sent electronically.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at seasonal farm markets.
Authorizes restricted breweries to annually sell up to 1,000 barrels of beer to in-State and out-of-state retailers.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Codifies and enhances use of breach of implied warranty of habitability as defense to certain eviction actions.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Revises criteria for payment of charity care to certain hospitals.
Revises health care levy adjustment for school districts; makes various changes for health care benefits for school employees; requires certain information in school budgets; imposes cap on contributions by public employees for health care benefits.
Authorizes creation of Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation license plates.
Requires that pharmacists, prescribers, and hospice programs furnish patients with information and products to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs and medications when issuing or dispensing certain prescriptions.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose parking tax surcharges to fund projects that improve pedestrian access to mass transit; authorizes parking tax discount for residents.
Requires public institution of higher education to post information and provide counseling to students about New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Clarifies that crimes of trespassing and invasion of privacy also include use of unmanned aircraft systems.
Makes FY 2019 supplemental appropriation of $9,000,000 to Department of State for New Jersey Complete Count Commission.
Permits certified animal control officer to enforce municipal animal ordinances; requires such officer to report person suspected of committing animal cruelty to municipal law enforcement officer.
"21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act."
Allows gross income tax credit for residential rent paid in excess of 30 percent of gross income.
Requires Division of Fire Safety to annually distribute smoke alarms; appropriates $1 million.
Requires AOC to issue report to Senate on sentences imposed on persons for drug offenses, categorized by race, by certain non-tenured judges assigned to Superior Court, Law Division as requirement of eligibility for reappointment.
Permits four-year institution of higher education to award associate degrees.
Requires NJHMFA to allocate certain portion of federal low-income housing tax credits to certain high-opportunity areas.
Permits certain municipalities to impose parking taxes to fund mass transit pedestrian access projects on non-residents; permits certain municipalities to require parking facilities to accept credit cards.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be