Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Nia H. Gill Esq.
Sponsored
Became law4
Revises scope of practice of genetic counselors.
Repeals and replaces Chapters 1 and 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code and revises various additional provisions of the code.
Requires dental plans to make out-of-network payments based on assignment of benefits.
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in dental offices, dental clinics, and animal or veterinary facilities.
Vetoed2
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Out of committee13
Establishes loan redemption program for teachers to redeem loan amounts received under the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public or nonpublic schools in New Jersey.*
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Allows license suspension or revocation of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal.
Revises law concerning derivative proceedings and shareholder class actions.
Allows corporate shareholder meeting participation by remote communication and clarifies remedies for dissenting shareholders.
Allows certain business combinations between resident domestic corporations and interested stockholders.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing, importing, and selling assault firearms for civilian use.**
Establishes compensation limits for licensed public adjusters.*
Appropriates up to $1,000,000 to bridge federal funding for Violence Against Women Act grantees.
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish public awareness campaign about new federally required health insurance exchange.
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Requires opportunity to vote early in person using paper ballots on October 16, 2013 for both general election and U.S. Senate vacancy candidates.
In committee62
Revises provisions of the "Open Public Meetings Act" to ensure greater compliance.
Strengthens public disclosure and monitoring requirements of "Open Public Meetings Act".
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Requires replacement of all electronic voting machines used in State by district-based optical scan voting systems by June 8, 2010; makes appropriation.
Bars public entities and public employees from entering into confidential settlements of claims against them; provides that such settlements constitute public records.
Allows 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.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 for FY 2010 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
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."
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.
Requires services be provided for sexually exploited juveniles charged with certain offenses; creates an affirmative defense regarding prostitution.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Revises statutes concerning crematories and the cremation of human remains.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Requires State to provide recipients of State tax refunds, unemployment insurance benefits and State employee compensation certain payment options.
Applies building code of New York City to World Trade Center, requires fire safety inspections.
Regulates sales of certified copies of deeds or conveyances of real estate.
Requires registration of qualified journeyman electricians and restricts exemption for certain electrical work by public electric utilities.
Limits finance charge for personal lines insurance premium finance agreements to 14%.
Requires certain persons seeking license to operate facility to provide magnetic resonance imaging services to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Prohibits practice of requiring credit check as condition of employment.
Allows Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to open administrative supervision proceedings to guaranty associations under certain circumstances.
Increases New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $500,000; immunizes policyholders protected by association from certain liability.
The "New Jersey Homeowners' Equity Protection Act."
Reinstates State board of Public Movers and Warehousemen.
Prohibits use of insurance scoring by property-casualty insurers in rate-making for personal lines insurance coverage.
Concerns contracts for credit card accounts with certain individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires certain financial institutions to disclose overdraft fees.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Concerns processing and payment of insurance claims for physical therapy services.
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 health care providers to obtain informed consent from patients for use of certain reprocessed medical devices.
Permits certain persons 70 and older to prove identity by affidavit for purpose of renewing driver's license.
Establishes Department of State Police.
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.
Establishes the Equity in Education program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Prohibits department heads in Executive Branch from taking unpaid leave to assist any candidates for election to public office.
Consolidates nonpartisan municipal election procedures in Title 19 of Revised Statutes.
Prohibits State agencies from including advertisements in mailings to public.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Revises and expands New Jersey Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Act.
Provides local board of education with approval authority of charter school application.
Clarifies blight criteria under "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law," and prevents use of condemnation to acquire code compliant residential property under that law.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Provides that person convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child shall not be awarded custody or visitation under any circumstances.
Establishes a regulatory program for rifle and shotgun ammunition sales.
Strengthens State's assault weapons ban.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
Requires boards of education to adopt policies to make schools asthma-friendly.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Provides legal protections and remedies for persons engaged in unpaid internships with employers.
Filed1
Permits surety companies to issue blanket bonds for certain local government officers and employees; applies rating criteria and underwriting standards to blanket bond coverage.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Prohibits genital mutilation of females under 18 years of age.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran. *
"The Anti-Big Brother Act."
Requires home improvement contractors to display State-issued identification badge; requires surrender in certain circumstances; imposes penalty for improper display of badge.*
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education.***
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Prohibits limitations on number of strains of medical marijuana cultivated, and expands available means of packaging and distribution therof.**
Extends time in which DOBI may waive limit of liability exposure for mortgage guaranty insurance companies.
Vetoed · 8
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
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.
Requires SHBP and SHEBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.*
Expands Medicaid eligibility pursuant to federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care 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.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
Passed the Senate · 4
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program; appropriates $95,000.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Out of committee · 25
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Prohibits drilling technique of 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.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Requires public contractors to report certain employment information.
Provides that unlawful employment practice occurs each time individual is affected by decision or practice, including each time compensation is paid.
Concerns disclosure of certain employment information.
Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Requires correctional facilities to submit voting rights information packets to inmates.
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.
Disqualifies person named on federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining firearms identification card or permit to purchase handgun.
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Authorizes deployment of integrity monitors in implementation of certain Hurricane Sandy recovery and rebuilding projects.
Imposes oversight upon Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Permits pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to children seven years of age or older.*
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.*
Rescinds recommendation of the Task Force on the Closure of State Developmental Centers and creates new task force.*
Establishes a School Security Task Force.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
In committee · 12
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
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.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to the establishment of a charter school.
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.
Establishes 12-month moratorium on establishment of new virtual charter schools and creates Virtual Charter School Task Force.
Establishes the "Prostitution Offender Internet Registry."
Imposes mandatory education requirements and additional penalties for persons convicted of engaging a prostitute; establishes the "Offender Education Program;" requires HIV testing for offender.
Provides tax credits to certain businesses for certain capital investment in qualified business facilities and qualified residential projects located in vicinity of designated transit villages.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Requires ammunition sales and transfers be conducted as face-to-face transactions.
"The Opportunity to Compete Act"; establishes certain employment rights for persons with criminal histories.