Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes Apparel Procurement Board; sets standards for procurement of apparel by the State.
Passed the General Assembly6
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services. *
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Prohibits application of certain temporary "black" or "blue" henna tattoos.
Requires Public Advocate intervention, additional public participation, and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer. *
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Out of committee8
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
Requires managed care plans to pay certain health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Permits smoking ban on grounds of State psychiatric hospitals and other Human Services facilities if smoking cessation program offered. *
Requires staff members of adoption agencies to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Requires staff of shelters for victims of domestic violence and emergency shelters for homeless to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Revises jurisdiction of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission, and transfers administration of Historic New Bridge Landing State Park from DEP to Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding for burial of indigent veterans.
Upgrades unlawful possession of a machine gun or assault firearm to a crime of the second degree.
In committee68
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Includes adult with onset physical disabilities as eligible criteria for assistance through Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Revises certain procedures for municipal redevelopment programs; prohibits certain campaign contributions by redevelopers.
Revises the definition of nonpublic school to include preschools under chapter 192 and chapter 193 State aid programs for nonpublic students.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Provides that payment of alimony shall become judgement by operation of law when due, and shall be enforceable as a civil judgement.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain a warning about volume and hearing loss.
Requires DHSS licensure of surgical practices.
Imposes mandatory interest payment on delinquent child support judgments.
Curbs contributions by certain public contractors and certain developers; curbs contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Oversight Act."
The "Smart Container Act."
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Requires Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare and SHBP to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
Clarifies goal of domestic violence public awareness campaign pertaining to risk factors; requires public awareness notices include language used by substantial segments of local populations.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Establishes the "Firearm Automated Licensing System"; provides for an additional assessment fee for retail dealer licenses, handgun purchaser permits and firearm purchaser identification cards.
Supplemental appropriation of $4 million for Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism.
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Prohibits person from serving as officer of more than two political campaign committees.
Revises laws concerning hate crimes and bullying; establishes Commission on Bullying in Schools.
Requires governmental affairs agents to disclose on notice of representation form compensation amount received from State or local government entities; requires notice to be posted on Internet site of Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Prohibits display of political signs on any property or highway.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Revises criminal history record check process undergone by public and nonpublic school employees and school bus drivers.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from requiring subscribers to purchase new cellular telephone equipment in certain cases.
Requires prices to be quoted over telephone.
Repeals law authorizing special license plates for former legislators and mayors; requires surrender of previously issued plates.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Regulates the disclosure and use of privately negotiated in-network fees and reimbursement rates for certain health care providers.
Eliminates DCF from licensure as approved adoption agency.
Reinstates certificate of need requirement for ambulatory surgical facilities.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.
Establishes a "no mail" list for residents of this State.
Establishes qualifications for zoning enforcement officers.
Concerns pay equity in the workplace.
Provides for assignment of certain homeowners insurance policies under certain circumstances.
Provides tax credit for certain taxpayers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Lowers minimum participation rate of small employer health benefits plans to 50% for groups with two to 10 persons.
Concerns child performers and creates a child performer trust account.
Authorizes payment of added and omitted assessments by property taxpayers over 12-month period.
Reduces interest rate charged to senior citizen delinquent property taxpayers to 5%.
Provides that property owner who negligently contaminates or neglects property shall be assessed property taxes at value of property without consideration of effects of contamination or neglect.
"Distressed Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Establishes the "Celebrity Image Protection Act."
Concerns eligibility for Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief fund assistance when more than one child in family has catastrophic illness.
Requires State to contract with pharmaceutical companies to purchase influenza vaccine for high-risk persons and their care providers.
Requires DEP to establish and maintain a list of persons to be excluded from providing fill material to landfill reclamation project sites.
Presumes motor vehicle registrant wants to register to vote at time of registration, unless person specifically declines.
Designates "North Hackensack Train Station" as "New Bridge Train Station."
Includes nurse midwives among medical professionals authorized to certify medical condition of individuals under "Temporary Disability Benefits Law" and "Work First New Jersey Act."
Concerns environmental permits in low-income, minority communities.
Imposes temporary requirement on county treasurer to forward $300 from certain mortgage execution sales to provide funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Permits NJ courts to not enforce defamation judgments from foreign countries under certain circumstances.
Limits amount of time vacant teaching position can be filled by substitute teacher.
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Revises provisions of the "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act" to ensure greater compliance.
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet.
Allows independent institutions of higher education to be eligible for NJ alternative fuel vehicle rebate and alternative fuel infrastructure programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
Requires staff members of adoption agencies to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks. *
Requires managed care plans to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Permits smoking ban on grounds of State psychiatric hospitals other Human Services facilities if smoking cessation program offered. *
Upgrades unlawful possession of a machine gun or assault firearm to a crime of the second degree.
Revises jurisdiction of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission, and transfers administration of Historic New Bridge Landing State Park from DEP to Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
Requires facility where patient dies to provide medical examiner with contact information for next-of-kin so medical examiner may obtain additional information about death. *
Provides "Patriots Corner" tribute in State House to New Jersey residents serving in US Armed Forces, reserve components and New Jersey National Guard.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies for the treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities. *
"Self-Directed Support Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Rights Act."
Clarifies that mandatory boat safety course must be taken by June 1, 2009.
Increases cap for underground storage tank remediation grants to independent colleges.
"Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program Act." *
Permits location of certain wind and solar facilities in industrial zones.
Requires disclosure when selling certain clothing apparel containing fur.
Prohibits alimony and awards concerning equitable distribution to persons who commit certain crimes; eliminates inheritance rights for parents who abuse or abandon children. *
Requires schools to provide eligible high school students with voter registration material. *
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Establishes a "Silver Alert System." *
"Ricci's Law;" revises ignition interlock device requirements for certain drunk driving offenders. *
Concerns safety measures at health club swimming pools.
Permits counties to create County Homelessness Trust Funds. *
Establishes the "New Jersey-Israel Commission" as a permanent commission in the Department of State.
Makes permanent traffic ticket surcharge used to fund State's DNA program.
Creates Solar and Wind Energy Commission.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution. *
Establishes the InvestNJ Business Grant Program in NJEDA to stimulate certain capital investment and job creation in New Jersey during a limited period, makes appropriations. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Requires DHS to develop procedures to enable hospitals to promptly transfer emergency department patients with mental illness to appropriate treatment setting. *
Requires DHS and DCF to establish standardized admission protocols and medical clearance criteria for admission to behavioral health care facilities. *
Requires DHS and DCF to identify available mental health services and perform needs assessment. *
Authorizes interception of wire or electronic communications of suspected computer trespasser under certain circumstances.
Creates "Computer Crime Prevention Fund"; imposes penalties on certain offenders.
Eliminates off trigger for additional unemployment benefits during job training program.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Establishes the "New Jersey Scenic and Historic Highways Program."
Permits adult with an autism spectrum disorder to voluntarily register with the State registry of reported diagnoses in children.
Clarifies provisions of "Law Against Discrimination" concerning persons with an autism spectrum disorder.
Establishes New Jersey Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force.
Vetoed · 1
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Passed the General Assembly · 29
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Provides for equal opportunity for businesses to apply for certain energy-related incentives and funding.
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008." *
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider. *
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to create identification card for use by persons with autism.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry. *
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Requires cemetery companies to file certain financial information with New Jersey Cemetery Board. *
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Requires license suspension of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal. *
Requires victims of the criminally insane to be notified upon release, escape, or transfer of offender from mental health facility.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Makes it a crime to communicate or transmit sexually suggestive communications to a minor under certain circumstances.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Out of committee · 63
Creates "The 2009 New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project Act."
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Requires local government officer to file financial disclosure statement within 30 days of taking office.
Establishes NJ Native American Burial Ground Preservation Task Force.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside. *
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
"New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act." *
The "Second Unit Housing Authorization Act."
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Regulates impoundment of shopping carts.
Concerns firefighter training. *
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights.
"Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008."
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Prohibits sale of certain flavored cigarettes.
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Requires adoption of constitutions and bylaws by county political party committees; requires certain information concerning committee members to be filed with county clerk; eliminates fixed terms for committee members and chairs. *
Requires single operating-room facilities to register with DHSS, permits practitioners to refer patients to ambulatory surgery facilities in which practitioners have financial interest under certain circumstances. **
Requires anatomical research recovery organizations to register with DHSS.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Regulates certain credentialing and trade practices of insurance producers, and provides private cause of action for insurance producer violations.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
The "New Jersey Homeownership Preservation Act."
Authorizes municipalities operating under State fiscal year to revert to calendar fiscal year.
Concerns biomass, solar, and wind energy generation on farms. *
Requires criminal history background checks for paid firefighters employed by fire districts.
Concerns DEP government records requests.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
Revises certain restrictions on permit holders and provisional driver's licensees; renames provisional license "probationary."
Includes nurse midwives among medical professionals authorized to certify medical condition of individuals under "Temporary Disability Benefits Law" and "Work First New Jersey Act." *
Increases carryover period of net operating loss deduction under corporation business tax. *
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to VCCB.
Makes changes to certain grants for wastewater treatment system projects provided under P.L.2005, c.301.
Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities. *
Establishes forest stewardship and forest certification programs in DEP; establishes Forest Stewardship Incentive Fund. *
Establishes Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. *
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Permanently designates February "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Requires uniform billing and reporting of infection rates by ambulatory surgical centers and requires DHSS to make reported information public. *
Directs Medicaid to establish medical home demonstration project.
Concerns franchisors' assignment of interest relating to franchisees engaged in the retail sale of motor fuel.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive communication or harassing communication through social networking websites. *
Upgrades offense of harassment under certain circumstances.
Establishes New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
The "Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act."
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Concerns certain disciplinary procedures, collective bargaining, and binding arbitration in public employment.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Re-establishes State Board of Education as the rule-making authority under several school district accountability statutes and reinstates its role in considering appeals from any Commissioner of Education determination.
In committee · 191
Limits county committees and chairs thereof from controlling placement of party members on primary ballot and use of party designation.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires criminal history background check for certain persons working at schools.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Requires Local Finance Board approval for proposed loan agreements between local authorities and for-profit entities.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Permits county board of taxation to extend municipality's filing deadline for assessment appeals for any year in which revaluation is implemented.
Establishes presumption of eligibility for accidental disability allowance for certain public employees who worked in certain locations following September 11, 2001 attack in New York City.
Establishes the "Office of the Gang Member Relocation Coordinator."
Creates presumption regarding disability pension and workers compensation eligibility for public employees and emergency personnel participating in World Trade Center operations; requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to develop health regis
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Authorizes municipalities that receive certification pursuant to the Fair Housing Act to make affordable housing units available on a preferential basis to persons of low and moderate income employed in a municipality's housing region.
Changes effective date of section 2 of P.L.2007, c.1 concerning the issuance of construction permits for certain child care centers and schools.
Adds two members to NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Directs AG and State Medical Examiner to study the creation of a secure autopsy facility.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
"Billy's Law"; establishes Council on Out-of-State Placement of Children and registry of qualified out-of-State residential schools and programs in DCF.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Increases fees charged for marriage licenses and dedicates monies to Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Requires hang tag for holders of provisional driver's license and windshield sticker for holders of special learner's permit and examination permit.
Requires availability of athletic heart protectors at certain baseball events; appropriates $2,500.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Establishes penalty for passengers of motor vehicles operated by provisional drivers in certain instances.
Requires New Jersey Transit to offer discount passes to all New Jersey higher education students.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Directs AG to develop guidelines for law enforcement cooperation with municipal prosecutors.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Enacts the "Civil Marriage and Religious Protection Act."
Establishes "In Case of Emergency Contact Program."
Criminalizes driving under the influence with person 17 years of age or younger in vehicle.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Establishes Office of Airline Consumer Advocate and consumer bill of rights for airline passengers.
Provides that student of limited English-speaking ability shall not be required to take certain tests.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
"Toy Safety Act."
Requires that certain relocation notices be bilingual in municipalities where at least one-third of the population are likely to speak a common non-English native language.
Expands number of literacy advocacy programs eligible to receive voluntary taxpayer contributions through gross income tax returns.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires NJ Transit to do study of platform safety issues at rail stations.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; appropriates $425,000.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires school bus safety instruction in all school districts which provide pupil transportation.
Provides for civil and criminal penalties for giving false information pertaining to violations of environmental laws.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Requires adoption and distribution of constitutions and bylaws by county political party committees; requires certain oaths of office by committee members; requires certified list of committee members to be filed with county clerk.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Establishes NJ Coastal and Ocean Protection Council; appropriates $75,000.
Provides that unused State real property will be offered for sale after three years.
Directs NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct feasibility study of Meadowlands convention center project.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Expands homestead property tax rebate program for certain non-senior and non-disabled tenants based on revised income qualifications.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Suspends certain tolls during evacuation of coastal areas.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
The "New Jersey Spam Deterrence Act."
Prohibits hold or block on debit card accounts unless disclosed to and authorized by consumer.
The "Pet Food Safety Act."
Establishes NJ Commission on Global Climate Change.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Act."
Requires the design of new public schools to incorporate the "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" (LEED) guidelines.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $5,000.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Requires greater disclosure for campaign advertisements broadcast within certain time periods prior to an election.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for roadside markers to designate historic sites; appropriates $90,000.
Exempts the parking of certain container-loaded intermodal chassis from the sales and use tax.
Requires movie theaters to install captioning technology for use by hearing impaired patrons.
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Provides that if wireless telephone service subscriber terminates service, any applicable subscriber termination fee is to be prorated.
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Prohibits vaccinating children under three and pregnant women with vaccines containing mercury above certain level.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Mandates training for school bus drivers.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for alternative fueled vehicles.
Removes licensing requirement for recreational senior citizen bingo games.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Increases civil penalty payable to the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" by persons who commit domestic violence.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies.
Provides for establishment of county offices for disability services; appropriates $90,000.
Prohibits the sale of cosmetics containing lead or mercury.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain Energy Star labeled residential lighting and appliances.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Increases and revises membership of New Jersey Cemetery Board.
Directs DHSS to investigate mercury use in dental fillings and study health and occupational effects.
Requires certain public restrooms to be equipped with baby-changing stations.
Requires DEP to notify municipality of environmental violations by a local entity.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools.
Requires owner to immediately report loss or theft of firearm to police.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Requires DEP to designate smoke-free sections of State beaches, parks, and forests.
Requires public institution of higher education to notify the parents of certain dependent students, without prior consent of the student, when student receives mental health treatment at the institution.
Allows an institution of higher education to require the mental health records of a student committed to attend the institution.
Requires parents of children receiving influenza vaccinations to be informed of thimerosal-free alternatives.
Clarifies that the definition of "racketeering activity" in the RICO statute includes securities fraud offenses.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Provides exception to local cap law for purchases of fuel efficient vehicles and permits loans by New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust for those purchases.
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Requires notification of certain fee increases by assisted living residences within certain time frames.
Permits counties, municipalities, and school districts to issue bonds to pay a portion of PERS and PFRS liability and other purposes under certain conditions for up to three budget years.
Imposes a one-year moratorium on the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association reorganization of certain school athletic conferences under certain circumstances.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Requires SHBP and School Employees' Health Benefits Program audit programs to review employee, retiree and dependent eligibility at least every five years.
Imposes New Jersey gross income tax on winnings from multistate lottery games in which New Jersey Lottery participates.
Revises standards used by charitable organizations in determining permissible expenditures of endowment funds.
Requires newly manufactured handguns be micro-stamped.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Requires State entities to purchase biofuels in place of fossil fuels when it is reasonable, prudent and cost effective to do so.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Requires school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
Establishes pilot program in DOC for detection and location of cerain wireless communications devices.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to establish program to implement technology to block cellular telephone equipment transmissions that originate from, or terminate within, State correctional facilities.
Allows New Jersey gross income taxpayers to elect to deduct certain losses from certain investment arrangements discovered to be criminally fraudulent.
Increases loss ratio reporting and disclosure requirements for carriers offering individual and group health insurance plans; applies loss ratio requirement to large group health insurance plans.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Requires premium sharing for health care benefits for elected officials and certain appointed officials.
Imposes certain conditions on NJPDES permit for energy generation facilities that withdraw water from, or discharge water to, a shallow lagoonal estuary.
Provides for spend-down eligibility category for Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Requires certain DOC, county and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
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Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."