Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Nia H. Gill Esq.
Sponsored
Became law4
Eliminates 10 day advance notification of proposed effective date of certain shareholder action.
Allows professional corporation to use or register an alternate name; allows use of certain abbreviations in certain business names; updates references for certain State business filings. *
Provides dedicated line item on property tax bill to fund municipal free public libraries and joint free public libraries.
Requires services be provided for sexually exploited juveniles charged with certain offenses; creates an affirmative defense regarding prostitution.*
Vetoed1
Requires State to provide recipients of State tax refunds, unemployment insurance benefits and State employee compensation certain payment options.
Passed the Senate1
Clarifies certain dormancy fees chargeable against money orders.
Out of committee6
Permits certain persons 70 and older to prove identity by affidavit for purpose of renewing driver's license.
Regulates captive insurers.
Establishes the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."
Establishes a loan redemption program for teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools in New Jersey.
Includes midwives within definition of "licensed person" for purposes of affidavits of merit in certain actions filed on or after effective date.
Revises statutes concerning crematories and the cremation of human remains.
In committee60
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Establishes pilot program in the Department of Law and Public Safety requiring the electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Applies building code of New York City to World Trade Center, requires fire safety inspections.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
The "New Jersey Homeowners' Equity Protection Act."
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Establishes the Equity in Education program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Requires certain financial institutions to disclose overdraft fees.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Revises provisions of the "Open Public Meetings Act" to ensure greater compliance.
Strengthens public disclosure and monitoring requirements of "Open Public Meetings Act".
Limits finance charge for personal lines insurance premium finance agreements to 14%.
Prohibits department heads in Executive Branch from taking unpaid leave to assist any candidates for election to public office.
Provides for residency requirement for administrative law and workers' compensation judges.
Increases New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $500,000; immunizes policyholders protected by association from certain liability.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Revises and expands New Jersey Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Act.
Clarifies blight criteria under "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law," and prevents use of condemnation to acquire code compliant residential property under that law.
Appropriates $200,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Prohibits use of insurance scoring by property-casualty insurers in rate-making for personal lines insurance coverage.
Establishes the Administrative Law Judges Retirement System.
Provides additional SHBP benefits to certain retired PFRS, CPFPF and PERS survivors.
Gives membership in PERS Prosecutors Part to DLPS employees with title of assistant director, deputy director, assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general.
Reinstates State board of Public Movers and Warehousemen.
Allows Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to open administrative supervision proceedings to guaranty associations under certain circumstances.
Requires registration of qualified journeyman electricians and restricts exemption for certain electrical work by public electric utilities.
Concerns contracts for credit card accounts with certain individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires replacement of all electronic voting machines used in State by district-based optical scan voting systems by June 8, 2010; makes appropriation.
Consolidates nonpartisan municipal election procedures in Title 19 of Revised Statutes.
Establishes the Technology Business Incubator Program Supplemental Assistance Fund.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Regulates sales of certified copies of deeds or conveyances of real estate.
Removes appropriations for municipal library purposes from the four percent municipal property tax levy cap.
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of claims against them; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Requires insurers which provide prescription drug benefits to cover costs of medications for treating sickle cell anemia.
Requires health care providers to obtain informed consent from patients for use of certain reprocessed medical devices.
Requires certain persons seeking license to operate facility to provide magnetic resonance imaging services to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires health insurers to offer benefits for dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Requires that one member of the State Board of Medical Examiners be a practicing podiatric physician.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Prohibits State agencies from including advertisements in mailings to public.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 for FY2010 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Establishes Department of State Police.
Requires health care provider participating in carrier network to give notice to covered person of provider's referral to out-of-network provider.
Establishes waiver, rebate or payment of insured's deductible, copayment, or coinsurance by health care practitioner as a form of insurance fraud subject to criminal and civil penalties.
Excludes from disclosure as public record e-mail addresses provided to government entities to receive emergency notices.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation Allied Force in Kosovo.
Allows certain policy makers previously excluded from unemployment insurance coverage to be covered under "unemployment compensation law."
Prohibits practice of requiring credit check as condition of employment.
Concerns processing and payment of insurance claims for physical therapy services.
Allows certain business combinations between resident domestic corporations and interested stockholders.
Allows certain materials to be included in corporation's proxy solicitation materials.
"New Jersey Healthcare Exchange Act."
Provides for automatic expungement of records of certain juveniles adjudicated delinquent for engaging in prostitution.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Revises scope of practice of genetic counselors.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contributions. *
Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, plan choice, benefit change application, coverage waiver, multiple coverage; requires contributions toward health care benefits by public employees and certain retirees. *
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without a prescription.
Concerns gender equity in the workplace. *
Revises statutes concerning public adjusters. *
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.*
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.*
Restores income eligibility level for AIDS Drug Distribution Program to 500% of the federal poverty level.
Establishes assisted living facility and comprehensive personal care home resident rights.
Maintains right of corporate directors and officers to indemnification under certain circumstances.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Vetoed · 4
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Consolidates certain business-related categories of gross income and provides 20 year carryforward of certain net losses under gross income tax. *
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
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Passed the Senate · 5
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. **
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports. *
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
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.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center. *
Out of committee · 10
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
The "Reinsurance and Surplus Lines Stimulus and Enhancement Act."
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Provides corporation with right to renounce corporate opportunity doctrine.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Boys and Girls Clubs in New Jersey.
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.
Updates provisions governing Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County to comply with Internal Revenue Code.
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for purchase of flood-prone properties.*
Prohibits municipal library trustees from transferring donated funds to municipality.
In committee · 11
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as 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.
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.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of a charter school.
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.
Amends Fiscal Year 2011 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services.
Prohibits siting of industrial wind turbines within 2,000 feet of any residence or residentially zoned property.
Requires insurers to cover comprehensive ultrasound breast screening if a mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue and requires mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.