Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Sandra B. Cunningham
Sponsored
Became law4
Authorizes certain incinerator authorities to perform sanitation, public works, and environmental services.*
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.
Increases amount of tax credits authorized to be issued under Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit program and extends application deadline.*
Vetoed1
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Passed the Senate1
Increases penalties for failing to yield when violation results in death to pedestrian.
Out of committee7
Requires incarcerated individual from State to be counted at residential address for legislative redistricting purposes.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Sets forth certain reporting requirements when out-of-State law enforcement entities conduct counter-terrorism investigations within New Jersey.
Requires reporting of the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Youth and Collegiate Affairs.
Changes certain eligibility and benefit provisions of Employees' Retirement System of Jersey City.
In committee25
Reduces drug free school and public property zones to 200 feet.
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.
Exempts persons engaged in braiding hair from cosmetology-hairstyling licensing requirements.
Allows public contractors paying benefits to count benefit costs toward compliance with local "living wage" ordinances.
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 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.
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.
Prohibits transfer of certain juveniles to adult correctional facilities.
Establishes residency requirement for police officers and firefighters 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.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances and reduces waiting period.
Prohibits employers from requiring applicants to disclose prior criminal convictions.
Concerns licensure exemptions for boiler operators.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Establishes "MarcAnthony's Law;" criminalizes use of defaced or stolen firearm to injure a police officer; enhances penalties for defacing a firearm.
"The Opportunity to Compete Act"; establishes certain employment rights for persons with criminal histories.
Revises alimony laws, including eliminating permanent alimony and establishing guidelines for amount and duration of alimony awards.
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
Establishes compensation program for State and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes. *
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Requires Commissioner of Health to review State hospital financial reporting requirements, report recommendations to Governor.*
Permits liquor licensees to employ certain ex-offenders in certain positions without a special permit.
Eliminates prosecutorial objection to admission to drug court program; expands eligibility and provides for phased in mandatory drug court program.***
Increases compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
Revises penalties for animal cruelty, increasing degree of certain offenses; designated as Patrick's Law.
Provides for distributions from ABP during transition to retirement programs for faculty at institutions of higher education.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.*
Requires medical examiner training about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and requesting decedent's medical information and brain donation for research.
"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."*
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education.***
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
"Angelie's Law"; regulates the operation of certain autobuses.*
Vetoed · 14
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $7,453,000 for family planning services, and requires filing of State Plan Amendment to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to persons with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher education institutions
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act"; provides expedited process for foreclosing abandoned residential properties.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastucture Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Enviromental Infrastructure Trust.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Requires HMFA to expand participation in the NJ HomeKeeper Program.
Revises eligibility criteria for shore protection funding.
Extends moratorium on the imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until 2016; establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."**
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Passed the Senate · 4
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Establishes "Commission on College Tuition."
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Out of committee · 41
Increases minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on CPI increases.
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.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
"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.*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
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.*
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.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in the urban enterprise zone program.
Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund, dedicates $400,000 annually from certain power vessel operator license fees to the fund, and appropriates $400,000 for FY2012.*
Provides partial sales tax exemption for energy and utility service to certain manufacturers.
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
"Higher Education Citizenship Equality Act;" defines domicile for dependent students for the purpose of eligibility for State student loans, grants, or scholarships and in State tuition rate.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.*
Requires DCA to establish training and certification program and arbitration standards for new home warranty arbitrators and publish a "New Home Buyer's Bill of Rights."
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Authorizes Judiciary to revise or supplement fees, subject to limitations, to fund e-court information system and Legal Services of New Jersey; provides for review of such fees by Judiciary.
Requires Department of Education to biannually distribute a letter to school districts reminding districts of requirement to enroll resident students regardless of immigration status.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
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.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.*
Requires emergency operations plans in certain senior occupied buildings.
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.
"Local Hospital Fee Pilot Program Act."*
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Requires transfer of certain records to DOLWD and DHS.
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Directs DOH to develop plan to phase out use of latex gloves in health care facilities and food establishments.
Modifies short-time unemployment benefit law.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at an institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.
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.
"New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act II of 2013."
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
In committee · 46
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to certain food service contracts.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Codifies responsible contractor requirements for contractors bidding for work through the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Provides for designation of new charter school authorizers.
Directs DOT to establish roadside accident memorial program.
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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under the age of 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.
Requires proof of firearms safety training as a condition for issuance of firearms purchaser ID cards and permits to purchase handguns.
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.
Prohibits possession of machetes in certain circumstances.
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
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.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
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 parole board under certain circumstances to release inmates not convicted of a violent crime under the No Early Release Act at the time of parole eligibility.
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.
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Prohibits payment of supplemental compensation for unused sick earned by public officers and employees after effective date.
Expands eligible municipalities under the "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act" to include Harrison Town in Hudson County.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Decriminalizes possession of 50 grams or less of marijuana.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to fund mandatory drug court.
Requires NJHMFA to establish reverse mortgage program for certain retirees living in cooperatives.
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.
"Save New Jersey Electric and Gas Public Utility Customer Service and Call Center Jobs Act"; requires notification by electric and gas utilities when relocating customer and call centers out of State.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Requires electric public utilities to provide electric circuit maps to municipalities every five years.
Requires newly-constructed multiple dwellings with six or more residential units to install standby generators to provide electricity in case of emergency.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Protects certain politically active employees from retaliatory action by employers.
Establishes Job Opportunity Benefit Program to provide tax credits to certain businesses having large number of employees in the State.
Requires county prosecutor to apply for revocation of convicted person's firearms purchaser identification card or handgun permit.
Eliminates requirement that every full-time student at a four-year institution of higher education in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Establishes alternatives to monetary bail for certain criminal offenders.
Permits charter schools to establish an enrollment preference for certain student populations and requires a uniform application for admission to a charter school which will be prescribed by the Commissioner of Education.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Prohibits sale and possession of undetectable firearms manufactured using three dimensional printing technology.