Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Edward H. Thomson
Sponsored
In committee22
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Exempts certain volunteer emergency service organizations from charitable contribution filing fees.
Provides that person who impersonates law enforcement officer and commits crime is guilty of third degree crime.
Designates portion of New Jersey Route No. 34 in Wall Township as the "Duncan Thecker Memorial Highway."
Criminalizes participation in criminal street gang.
Revises "Contractors' Registration Act" to include water remediation services.
Makes revisions to the "Contractors' Registration Act."
Grants full police status to special agents in the Department of the Treasury; authorizes special agents to carry firearms at all times.
Requires AG to defend challenges to certain municipal ordinances that establish residency requirements for convicted sex offenders.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include unsupervised door-to-door sales by students.
Allows planning and zoning board members to satisfy training requirements on Internet.
Permits municipalities to charge a fee to cover ancillary costs of traffic control; limits fee.
Regulates assignment and use of State vehicles.
Requires school district that includes grades kindergarten through six to offer Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.
Authorizes affordable housing obligation reduction in exchange for lead hazard remediation fund deposit.
Prohibits performance of revaluation in county by firm in which tax assessor has interest if assessor serves in the county.
Permits contracting units to disqualify local public contract bidder with whom any contracting unit had prior negative experience; establishes prior negative experience database.
Permits local contracting units to disqualify local public contract bidder for creating conflict of interest with respect to prior contract.
Permits issuance of additional alcoholic beverage licenses in municipalities located in certain project areas.
Establishes fourth degree crime of providing locksmithing services without license under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Ethanol Study Commission."
Co-sponsored
Vetoed · 1
Establishes an apprenticeship requirement to qualify for an electrical contractor's license.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Out of committee · 9
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Concerns employment status of certain truck operators.*
Requires appropriate insurance company to provide coverage to Good Samaritan injured at scene of accident.*
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2018 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018; allocates funds from Local Aid Infrastructure Fund for operating and administrative expenses for transportation
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
In committee · 68
Appropriates $10 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Appropriates $2 million in constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for hazardous substance discharge remediation to DEP for White Swan Cleaners/Sun Cleaners Superfund site cleanup in Monmouth County.
Allows siblings who share and equally co-own a primary residence to claim a joint homestead property tax reimbursement.
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
Permits demonstration county to terminate its participation in the "Real Property Assessment Demonstration Program."
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to place security freeze on consumer reports of protected consumers under certain circumstances.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
Imposes criminal penalties for discharges of untreated sewage from containment devices installed on watercraft.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain donated vehicles.
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.
Clarifies law on ethical conduct of board of education members and school administrators and provides specific requirements for boards invoking doctrine of necessity.
Establishes criminal penalties for unlawful control over weapons of any law enforcement officer and interference with equipment or duties of law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Establishes training wage.
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Permits municipality to use proceeds of beach access fees for areas near beach facilities that are significantly affected by beach tourism; requires municipality to provide explanation of expenditures on website.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Establishes fourth degree crime of possessing firearms locator application; enhances penalty if such application is used in theft of firearm.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments not required under State or federal law.
Allows parent, guardian, or adult student to prevent disclosure of student information to certain entities.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop lists of approved testing vendors and commercially-developed standardized assessments for use by public school districts.
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching disabled vehicles displaying warning lights.
Establishes Office of Tourism Research; requires specific measures concerning tourism advertising, marketing, research, and tourism-related business training.
Authorizes creation of Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation license plates.
Establishes "Superstorm Sandy Homeowners Protection Act."
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Clarifies that chief of police or Superintendent of State Police has burden of proving applicant's disqualification for permit to purchase handgun or firearms purchaser identification card.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Permits use of electronic smoking devices in vapor retail establishments.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Requires law enforcement agency to issue retired law enforcement officer identification card to certain qualified retirees.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Concerns attorney fees for workers' compensation awards.
Upgrades certain types of assault against sports officials to aggravated assault.
Directs Commissioner of Education to study safety of school bus passengers in emergencies.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
Clarifies that retired campus police officers are eligible for handgun carry permit.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and corrections officers to possess and use stun guns while on duty.
Provides mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain crimes of domestic violence.
Extends certain benefits to family members of military members who died while in service.
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.
Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potenial eligibilty.
Prohibits release of police internal investigation information under State's open public records law.
Increases fines for failing to have required markings on commercial vehicles.
Requires driver education course to include instruction on interacting with law enforcement officer during traffic stop.
Limits amount of real property that may be exempt from property taxation under "Long Term Tax Exemption Law."
Requires DCA to collect information about State residents seeking affordable housing in State and provide that information to COAH.
Allows municipalities to establish affordable housing preference for their residents.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2.125 million to Howell Township in Monmouth County for drinking water infrastructure project.
Provides anti-stigmatization protections to public school student whose school breakfast or school lunch bill is in arrears.
Establishes Red Tape Review Commission.
Revises gross income tax rates for joint filers and similar taxpayers and designated as Marriage Penalty Elimination Act.
Provides gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Excludes under gross income tax certain contributions to qualified pension plans, deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct cost-benefit analyses of certain programs and initiatives.
Reduces taxable wage base applied to certain tax contributions.
Allows gross income tax deduction for functional improvements and home repairs made to taxpayer's primary residence.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Township of Howell as "State Trooper Marc K. Castellano Memorial Highway."