Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Sandra B. Cunningham
Sponsored
Became law2
Delays effective date of provision authorizing certain inmates to be released on parole six months early.
Requires four weeks pre-notification of exhaustion of UI benefits. *
Passed the Senate4
Requires public notice of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board meetings.
Allocates Amistad Commission in the DOE, designates Commissioner of Education as chair and Secretary of State as vice-chair, and requires DOE to serve as staff.
Authorizes incinerator authorities to perform sanitation, public works, and environmental services.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
Out of committee6
Exempts veterans from $15 fee for open and competitive civil service examinations.*
Directs Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Information Technology to study and report potential benefits of expanding the use of electronic transactions, including the use of electronic signature and electronic record by the State.
Allows public contractors paying benefits to count benefit costs toward compliance with local "living wage" ordinances. *
Establishes "Blue Ribbon Panel to Review New Jersey's Inmate Policy."
The "Banking Development District Act."
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
In committee43
Establishes the Garden State New Millennium Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Imposes realty transfer fee on certain transfers of apartments as well as commercial and industrial properties to finance municipal affordable housing projects.
Reduces drug free school and public property zones to 200 feet.
Revises law concerning disposition of assets of a county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that has dissolved or has had its charter revoked, canceled, or suspended.
Changes membership of, and election process for, NJSPCA board of trustees.
Requires certain ambulatory care facilities to provide services to patients without regard to ability to pay or source of payment.
Requires bicycle helmets for certain individuals.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
The "New Jersey Self-Defense Law."
Prohibits employment and licensing background checks to go back further than seven years under certain circumstances.
Allows persons on parole and probation to vote; provides registration assistance to persons on probation, parolees, and persons completing sentences.
Requires prosecution of domestic violence-related cases in Superior Court; removes jurisdiction from municipal court.
Prohibits Medicaid from implementing broker system for medical transportation prior to receiving community input on proposed system.
Exempts persons engaged in braiding hair from cosmetology-hairstyling licensing requirements.
Establishes Task Force on the Production and Use of Cellulosic Biofuels.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Redirects appropriations in "Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act" (2009) to provide more effective foreclosure relief to homeowners.
Modifies laws concerning inmate income and complaints; requires certain correctional officer training; creates uniform identification cards for attorneys to enter State correctional facilities.
Establishes "Prisoners' Reentry Bill of Rights."
Addresses various concerns affecting post-release employment.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation; requires twelve month judicial review hearing when juvenile is placed out-of-home.
Requires accountability of NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals to Attorney General and county prosecutors, respectively.
Permits municipality containing a Health Enterprise Zone, or contiguous with three such municipalities, to grant property tax exemption to acute care hospitals.
Requires DHSS to provide written notice to certain federal, State and local elected officials upon the filing of application for certificate of need to close hospital.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Transfers Juvenile Justice Commission to in, but not of, Department of Children and Families.
The "Smart Container Act."
Authorizes courts to revoke fees at sentencing, include mediation as an alternative sentence, consider testimony from a defendant's family, reduce the waiting period for certain expungements, and impose an alternative to incarceration.
Requires lowest possible price for inmate telephone calls.
Prohibits transfer of certain juveniles to adult correctional facilities.
Provides one-time reduction of pension contribution of local public employer of employee who retires with pension reduced for dishonorable service in amount equivalent to certain previous contributions by that employer.
Establishes residency requirement for police officers and firefighters in certain municipalities.
Reserves $1.078 million of appropriation for New Jersey City University for A. Harry Moore Laboratory School.
Increases maximum permissible rate of hotel occupancy tax authorized to be imposed in certain municipalities.
Allows certain child support obligors in arrears to apply for certain licenses provided that applicant has made 12 consecutive timely child support payments.
Increases penalties for failing to yield when violation results in death to pedestrian.
Concerns removal of certain inmate information from DOC website.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program."
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Requires the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to biannually compile information on school facilities project contracts awarded to minority and female contractors.
Revises provisions of "New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of 2009" concerning public-private higher education construction and improvement projects and municipal ordinances to adopt stimulus measures.
Provides unemployment insurance benefits for shared work programs; requires Department of Labor and Workforce Development report.*
Concerns gender equity in the workplace. *
Establishes "New Jersey Property Assessment Clean Energy (NJ PACE) Municipal Financing Program."
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.*
Provides dedicated line item on property tax bill to fund municipal free public libraries and joint free public libraries.
"Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act"; provides for use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms and requires physicians and advanced practice nurses to pursue continuing education in end-of life care. *
Establishes NJ Advisory Council on End-of-Life Care in DHSS.
Establishes assisted living facility and comprehensive personal care home resident rights.
Establishes Grow New Jersey Assistance Program to provide tax credits to certain businesses; changes eligibility and certain other requirements for other business assistance programs; authorizes transfer of certain real property.*
Establishes Small Business Loan Program in EDA allowing certain small businesses to be eligible for low interest rate loans of up to $250,000 to expand their businesses.
Vetoed · 4
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
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
Extends certain business tax credit programs to the gross income tax.
Passed the Senate · 10
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Health Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. **
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports. *
Allows for five years corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for . net interest received on loans to certain qualified UEZ businesses.*
Provides partial sales tax exemption for energy and utility service to certain manufacturers. *
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs.
Modifies economic redevelopment and growth grant program for projects involving redevelopment of certain hospitals.*
Out of committee · 25
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Directs Medicaid to establish medical home demonstration project.
Creates Juvenile Transfer Task Force.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Provides sales and use tax exemption for wind energy equipment.
"Meadowlands Regionalization, Efficiency and Property Tax Relief Act of 2010."
Provides for designation of new charter school authorizers. *
Prohibits practice of excluding unemployed individuals in advertisements for job vacancies.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Creates "Earn Your Way Out of Prison Into Supervision, Treatment, and Recovery Program."
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Codifies responsible contractor requirements for contractors bidding for work through the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Imposes certain bail restrictions on persons charged with violating domestic violence restraining orders.
Clarifies that conviction of refusal to submit to breathalyzer constitutes prior conviction for sentencing purposes under drunk driving law.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Boys and Girls Clubs in New Jersey.
Permits diversionary program for juveniles who are criminally charged for "sexting" or posting sexual images.*
Modifies employer UI tax rates.
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.
Restores benefit under State earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal credit beginning in Tax Year 2011.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in the urban enterprise zone program.
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.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Permits liquor licensees to employ certain ex-offenders in certain positions without a special permit.*
In committee · 28
Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund, dedicates $700,000 annually from pleasure boat registration fees to that fund, and appropriates $700,000 for FY2009.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Requires proof of firearms safety training as a condition for issuance of firearms purchaser ID cards and permits to purchase handguns.
Requires licensed exterminators to provide warranty after extermination of bedbugs at residential premises.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply.
"Tree Experts and Tree Care Operators Licensing Act."
Requires 45 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
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.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to certain food service contracts.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Expedites payment of PFRS accidental death benefit.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Establishes certain standards for awarding of school district, county college, and State college contracts.
Amends FY 2011 appropriations act to provide supplemental appropriation of $5,599,000 to the Department of Human Services for orthodontic care for children and kinship care initiatives.
Limits fee charged by hospital to patient for copy of treatment record.
Requires owner of foreclosed property to provide relocation assistance to tenant displaced by termination of illegal occupancy.
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.
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 prenotification of mass layoffs by holding company or franchisor at multiple franchise locations.
Prohibits possession of machetes in certain circumstances.
Directs DOT to establish roadside accident memorial program.
Permits certain victims of domestic violence or stalking, and members of immediate family, to register to vote without disclosing street address and cast provisional ballot at any election under certain circumstances.
Prohibits public and private employers from discriminating against ex-convicts.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.