Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Ralph R. Caputo
Sponsored
Became law1
Prohibits minors under 14 years of age from using spray tanning in tanning facilities and prohibits minors under 17 years of age from using tanning beds.**
Vetoed2
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.*
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires DHSS to establish carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide air quality standards and certification requirements for ice arenas. *
Authorizes professional and occupational boards to recognize continuing education approval entities.
Reduces dollar amount of full outstanding debt issue that exempts casino institutional investor from requirement to maintain qualifications.
Caps at 35 percent share of State public employee pension and annuity funds portfolio that may be invested in combination of hedge funds, private equity, commodities, and real estate.
Out of committee3
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Changes calculation of years of service from date of enrollment in pension system to date of appointment to determine certain retirees' payment obligations for health care coverage.
Limits political contributions by hedge funds and private equity funds that invest in casinos or in which State funds are invested.
In committee22
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Directs Division of Consumer Affairs to develop informational brochure regarding dental amalgam, and requires dentists to distribute brochure to patients and offer composite alternatives.
Requires public schools to include instruction on caffeine-related health issues as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Allows municipalities to require mortgage lenders to maintain vacant residential properties during foreclosure.
Authorizes creation of 33rd urban enterprise zone in Belleville Township.
Broadens criteria for certain municipalities to qualify as having UEZ-impacted business districts.
Directs DOT, in consultation with other State entities, to study and report on certain solar and wind energy installations.
Permits exemption from mandatory immunization for students in writing for any reason.
Prohibits delivery of more than one magazine issue before billing information is obtained.
Authorizes municipality to adopt ordinance permitting tenant to remain in illegal occupancy with no immediate health or safety risk; requires expiration of ordinance upon evidence of economic stabilization.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands racetrack, upon voter approval; dedicates 1/3 net proceeds to General Fund, 1/3 to State education aid, and 1/3 to horse racing industry.
Requires appointments for safety-related recalls on vehicles to be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Requires State to pay all costs associated with maintaining and operating the office of the executive county superintendent of schools.
Establishes certain specifications for NJ Sports and Exposition Authority sale or lease of Meadowlands Racetrack.
Permits appointment of certain nonpermanent firefighters laid off for reasons of economy to vacant paid positions.
Permits appointment of certain EMTs laid off for reasons of economy to vacant paid positions.
"Caylee's Law;" requires missing child be reported within 12 hours.
Requires certain entities to be equipped with generators and allows those entities to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of generators.
Clarifies application of business personal property tax on local exchange telephone companies that were subject to tax as of April 1, 1997.
Eliminates certificated superintendent and administrator exceptions to TPAF retiree reenrollment requirement.
Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Authorizes deployment of integrity oversight monitors in implementation of certain recovery and rebuilding projects.*
Establishes study of technology for the tracking of domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law."***
Requires all lamps and lighting devices on motor vehicles be kept in working order.
Requires direct deposit for all State employee compensation on and after July 1, 2014; allows county, county college, municipality,and local school district to opt for mandatory direct deposit for all employee compensation on or after July 1, 2014.***
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Modifies process for contested case hearings by OAL with regard to telephone and video conferences, delegation of final decision authority, oral decisions, checklist decisions, electronic filings, and settlements.
Requires BPU, under certain circumstances, to issue a decision within 180 days after receipt of petition by public utilities to sell certain real property.*
Modifies certain service outage compensation and notice requirements for CATV companies.
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
Establishes offense of unlawfully accessing location of law enforcement vehicles through certain electronic means.*
Prohibits imposition of corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations carrying passengers into and out of State in motor vehicle or motorbus.
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Establishes program in DOE to address State's shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
Removes statutory reference to 9-1-1 Commission which was renamed Statewide Public Safety Communications Commission.
Allows certain military spouses with out-of-State teaching license to receive temporary instructional certificate in New Jersey.
Requires Commissioners of Education and Labor and Workforce Development to study and report on departments' efforts in providing students with information on employment in high-demand industries.***
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Requires development of a diabetes action plan by DOH.
Allows monies statutorily dedicated to standardbred or thoroughbred horse racing purses to be used for benefit of horse racing industry, subject to agreement between permitholder and representative horsemen's organization.*
Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Revises permitted amount of surcharge on admission charges at major places of amusement.
Vetoed · 8
Imposes oversight upon Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Requires certain health care facilities to offer, and health care workers to receive, annual influenza vaccination.*
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish public awareness campaign about new federally required health insurance exchange.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Passed the General Assembly · 35
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
Creates a civil cause of action for stalking.
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.*
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
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.
Changes marriage and civil union licensing requirements and increases license fees.**
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.*
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Requires DEP to conduct analysis of "Pollution Prevention Act."
Revises exemption from license requirement for raffles for door prizes of donated or purchased merchandise; increases total retail value from $50 to $200 or higher if permitted.
Reverses certain changes to laws governing State treatment of unclaimed property.
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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Provides for certain psychologists to prescribe medications.
Requires DEP to allow for correction of technical and administrative permit application violations; and subjects adoption of DEP technical manuals to Administrative Procedure Act." *
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Establishes grant program to provide rebate of sales and use tax paid for purchase of certain materials and supplies used for construction of certain off-track wagering facilities.*
Establishes 12-month moratorium on establishment of new virtual charter schools and creates Virtual Charter School Task force.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Authorizes Judiciary to revise or supplement fees, subject to limitations, to fund Legal Services of New Jersey and e-court information system; requires review and reporting on fees and expenditures of such fees.*
Establishes compensation limits for licensed public adjusters during certain emergencies.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Provides for termination of parental rights of certain persons convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.*
Makes direct deposit the default distribution method for gross income tax refunds and allows gross income tax refunds via prepaid debit cards.*
Modernizes the form of disbursement for certain State and local government payments to individuals and business entities.*
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Exempts mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
Establishes pilot program within Office of Emergency Management to provide zero-interest loans to certain gas stations that install appropriate wiring for generators.
Authorizes a teacher leader endorsement to the instructional certificate.
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.
Out of committee · 36
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Exempts certain car-sharing programs from motor vehicle rental fees.
Enacts "Truth in Caller Identification Act"; prohibits manipulation of certain telephone caller identification information.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
"PANYNJTransparency and Accountability Act." *
Requires court to consider gang affiliation when making bail determinations.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing certain sex offender.*
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Permits Type II district with board of school estimate to opt to move school election to November; eliminates board of school estimate's approval of budgets for such districts, except for proposals to spend above cap.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Updates provisions governing Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County to comply with Internal Revenue Code.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Prohibits emergency shelters for the homeless from refusing to provide services for minimum time frame unless shelters are at maximum capacity.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit persons with mental illness unless they pose danger.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
Criminalizes second or subsequent drunk driving offenses in certain cases.
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."*
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Clarifies that certain types of sewage and sewage sludge do not constitute hazardous substances under "Spill Compensation and Control Act."
Requires labeling of all foods containing genetically modified material.
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Requires State agencies to submit required reports by posting, on agency website, the information required to be reported.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Eliminates requirement that full-time students at a county college in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.*
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Revises penalties for certain drunk driving offenses, including mandating installation of ignition interlock device, and creates restricted use driver's license.
Codifies current State Board of Education regulations which limit who may serve as case managers for students with disabilities to members of child study teams and certain speech-language specialists.
Appropriates $715,706,303 from the "Building Our Future Bond Act" to the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education for public and private institutions of higher education.
In committee · 91
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Prohibits certain alcoholic beverage advertisements within 300 feet of a school, church, or public park.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Excludes gains on sales of certain real estate purchases from taxation under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
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.
Authorizes public institution of higher education to establish in-municipality tuition rate for students who graduate from public high schools located in the same municipality as the institution.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Requires training for constables.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Allows for five years corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for net interest amount received on loans to certain qualified UEZ businesses.
Requires health care providers to observe certain practices concerning collection of outstanding balances on patient accounts.
Prohibits sale of merchandise designed to conceal license plates.
Limits applicability of vacancy decontrol under local rent control ordinances under certain circumstances.
Creates "Inmate Community Service Program" in DOC.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
The "Smart Container Act."
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DHSS.
Authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoir levels prior to certain severe weather events.
Establishes mandatory, uniform attorney identification card.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th birthday.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to provide information to public about sickle cell anemia.
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.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Requires applicants for liquor licenses and license transfers to notify residents within 200 feet of licensed premises.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Provides for the removal of a State Board of Education member for failure to attend three consecutive board meetings without good cause.
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 the number of students to be supported under the veterinary medicine education program and a service requirement for students who participate in the program.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
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.
Requires recalls on motor vehicles to be repaired prior to sale.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Changes the scope of public notification regarding contaminated site remediation.
Provides that PFRS board of trustees may request physical exam of PFRS accidental disability retiree until age 55.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Redirects vehicle surcharge revenues for Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental delays and disabilities enrolled in the Early Childhood Intervention Program.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Expands health benefits coverage for early intervention services provided through DHSS.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
Permits levy cap exclusion for certain monies expended by local unit for shared services.
Requires charter schools to annually submit to Commissioner of Education salary and benefit information for certain employees.
Repeals law that established commission, inactive since 1999, to conduct review of salaries of certain public officials.
Requires permit from DHSS to refurbish mattresses.
Permits toll-free passage on State toll roads for certain buses traveling to casinos.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Provides that student truancy cases would be heard in municipal court and requires truants to attend an appropriate intervention program.
Lengthens amber light at traffic signal with red light camera; sets penalty for failing to stop before turning right on red when detected by red light camera; implements half-second delay for red light camera violations.
Requires MVC to offer driver's license knowledge test in Italian.
Stipulates that applicants for pawnbroker license are not required to submit CPA-certified financial statement.
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.
Requires firearms to be unloaded and securely locked or stored within home.
Establishes task force to study the relationships among video games, mental health, and violence.
Requires minimum level of police staffing based on municipal population and violent crime rate.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Clarifies that municipalities that failed to fill police vacancies created by retirements are eligible for "Safe and Secure Communities" grants.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of purchasing and installing battery backups for certain home solar electrical generators.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Establishes a charter school review board in DOE to review charter school applications and modifies aspects of the charter school program including approval, monitoring, and evaluation of charter schools.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Allows a gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers for capital improvements made to principal residence.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Requires telephone number to report reckless or aggressive driving be displayed on school buses.
Prohibits improper release of photographs or videos captured by public entities.
Imposes criminal penalties for illegally obtaining or disclosing personally identifiable health information.
Requires judge approval prior to installation of video camera by public entity.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Allows school districts to enter into school construction public-private partnership agreements with private entities.