Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law6
Jaden's Law; requires DHSS to prepare online brochure about the option to donate bone marrow. *
Requires Department of State to establish and maintain a website to provide a clearinghouse of information for nonprofits.
Concerns contracting and licensing procedures for certain organizations under contract with DHS and DCF.
Requires DHS to collect and disseminate data about persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home that surrenders its license and promised not to discharge Medicaid residents to escrow funds to pay for care in alternate facility. *
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Vetoed3
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Amends Fiscal Year 2011 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services.
Passed the General Assembly3
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Prohibits application of certain temporary tattoos. *
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Out of committee21
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services.
Concerns eligibility for Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief fund assistance when more than one child in family has catastrophic illness.
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Heath Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. *
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Requires State-administered pension systems to train employers on enrollment requirements; requires employers to certify validity of employee enrollment with acknowledgement of penalty for providing false information. *
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Concerns gender equity in the workplace.
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.*
Concerns wills, trusts and other governing instruments of decedent estates in the interim of federal estate tax repeal and federal generation-skipping transfer tax repeal.
Establishes New Jersey Aphasia Study Commission.
Changes references of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability" and uses person-first language for persons with disabilities.
Permits Legislature to void closing of State psychiatric hospital or developmental center.
Permits certain patient data to be reported to DHSS under "Health Care Facility-Associated Infection Reporting and Prevention Act".
Authorizes central municipal court to hear cases brought by county office of consumer affairs.
Provides for minor and her child to remain together as family unit in DYFS placement.
Establishes NJ Center for Oral Health at UMDNJ Dental School.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DHSS.
Requires scooter riders under 17 years old to wear helmets.
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
Supplemental appropriation of $6.4 million in State funds and $11.9 million in federal funds to DHS to restore eligibility to parents in NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes three categories for investigative findings of allegations of child abuse or neglect, and requires DCF to track and report certain unfounded cases that subsequently are substantiated.*
In committee85
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Revises certain procedures for municipal redevelopment programs; prohibits certain campaign contributions by redevelopers.
Provides that payment of alimony shall become judgement by operation of law when due, and shall be enforceable as a civil judgement.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
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.
The "Smart Container Act."
Requires Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare and SHBP to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
Establishes the "Firearm Automated Licensing System"; provides for an additional assessment fee for retail dealer licenses, handgun purchaser permits and firearm purchaser identification cards.
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.
Requires managed care plans to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
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.
Revises criminal history record check process undergone by public and nonpublic school employees and school bus drivers.
Requires prices to be quoted over telephone.
Requires staff of shelters for victims of domestic violence and emergency shelters for homeless to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.
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.
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.
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Requires hospitals to report to DHSS number of applications completed by parents or caretakers of children presumptively eligible for NJ FamilyCare or Medicaid programs.
Requires electric public utilities to develop plans to upgrade their distribution equipment in order to accommodate any increased use thereof to charge motor vehicles propelled by electricity.
Makes certain changes to open public records act; formally names open public records act "Martin O'Shea Open Public Records Act."
Directs the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to waive 365-day period of ineligibility for interscholastic sports upon an affirmative demonstration that the transfer is for non-athletic reasons.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Includes adult with onset physical disabilities as eligible criteria for assistance through Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Reinstates certificate of need requirement for ambulatory surgical facilities.
Strengthens public disclosure and monitoring requirements of "Open Public Meetings Act".
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Prohibits certain elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
Establishes county-based centers for transition for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Codifies federal law notice, consent, and other requirements concerning certain employer-owned group life insurance contracts.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
"Tara's Law"; provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in community care residences and for investigations of abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Provides for establishment of county offices for disability services; appropriates $90,000.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Establishes priority of preferences for community settings for persons with developmental disabilities transitioning from developmental centers.
Establishes moratorium on conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer.
Prohibits display of political campaign signs on any public property or highway.
Authorizes county to establish county hospital authority; amends title of "Municipal Hospital Authority Law."
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Prohibits sale of caffeinated alcoholic beverages.
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to register with ELEC and disclose contribution and independent expenditure information.
Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.
Establishes the Technology Business Incubator Program Supplemental Assistance Fund.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Prohibits persons who violated certain laws from registering as governmental affairs agents and from acting as representative before local government units.
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.
Provides that graduates of regional or consolidated high schools with constituent municipalities located in different counties are eligible for resident tuition rates at certain county colleges.
Restricts campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations that purchase or acquire property involved in eminent domain proceedings.
Temporarily renames NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury as NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury; establishes Acquired Brain Injury Fund.
Concerns environmental permits in low-income, minority communities.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Requires forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt certain infection control strategies.
Establishes new standard and procedure for forfeiture of elective public office for accepting illegal contributions; removes illegal contribution threshold for such forfeiture.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Oversight Act."
Restricts sale and manufacture of flame retardant chemical decabromodiphenyl ether in certain products.
Permits certain victims of domestic violence or stalking, and members of immediate family, to register to vote without disclosing street address and cast provisional ballot at any election under certain circumstances.
Provides affirmative defense to prostitution charge for persons under 16.
Regulates use of pallets in shipment and storage of certain agricultural commodities, foods, drugs, and medicinal products.
Requires children to wear athletic heart protectors while playing organized baseball or softball.
Concerns use of emergency warning lights.
Establishes "School Bus Safety and Child Protection Act," requires periodic criminal background checks for certain school employees; and prohibits interference with school bus monitoring devices.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Removes appropriations for municipal library purposes from the municipal property tax levy cap.
Provides that charter schools will be subject to monitoring under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Provides for collection on child support arrearages and certain public assistance overpayments through withholding of casino and racetrack winnings.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; expands jurisdiction of Division of Rate Counsel.
Requires medical examination and submission of student work portfolios for home-schooled children; provides that children under supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Establishes new standard for court to grant grandparent or sibling visitation rights under certain circumstances.
Provides gross income tax credit for payment of certain tolls and fares related to certain transportation projects and improvements maintained and operated by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act."
Carried from the Senate
Became law11
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services.
Authorizes central municipal court to hear cases brought by county office of consumer affairs.
Permits certain patient data to be reported to DHSS under "Health Care Facility-Associated Infection Reporting and Prevention Act".
Concerns eligibility for Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief fund assistance when more than one child in family has catastrophic illness.
Provides for minor and her child to remain together as family unit in DYFS placement.
Requires State-administered pension systems to train employers on enrollment requirements; requires employers to certify validity of employee enrollment with acknowledgement of penalty for providing false information. *
Concerns gender equity in the workplace. *
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.*
Establishes New Jersey Aphasia Study Commission.
Changes references of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability" and uses person-first language for persons with disabilities.
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
Vetoed3
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Establishes three categories for investigative findings of allegations of child abuse or neglect, and requires DCF to track and report certain unfounded cases that subsequently are substantiated.*
Establishes NJ Center for Oral Health at UMDNJ Dental School.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Directs Medicaid to establish medical home demonstration project.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Provides for equal opportunity for businesses that pay societal benefits charges to apply for certain energy-related incentives and funding. *
Requires State entities to purchase biofuels in place of fossil fuels when reasonable, prudent and cost effective. *
Permits diversionary program for juveniles who are criminally charged for "sexting" or posting sexual images.*
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Establishes standards for certain fertilizer applications, requires certification of professional fertilizer applicators, and regulates labeling and sale of certain fertilizers. *
Clarifies school district eligibility to receive State funding for special education evaluation services for children enrolled in New Jersey nonpublic school and living out-of-State.
Modifies procedures available under the Drug Offender Restraining Order Act.
Permits local units to participate in cooperative purchasing agreements.
Requires BPU orders to be issued in writing and posted on Internet. *
Eliminates various inactive boards, commissions, committees, councils, and task forces.
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Establishes State Mental Health Facilities Evaluation Task Force.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Permits DOT to contract with county or municipality for certain work on highways to prevent public hazards.
Requires Department of State to create uniform application form for use by small businesses to apply for certain State financial assistance programs.*
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Authorizes Department of Agriculture to implement mobile fresh produce markets for residents of urban "food desert" communities. *
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for purchase of flood-prone properties.
Vetoed · 7
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Establishes online portal for acceptance of donations to certain funds to which contributions may be made on gross income tax returns. *
Requires, after study, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem, and requires DEP to adopt nutrient standards for NJ marine waters.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 15
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires license suspension of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Directs DOT to allow wineries to erect tourist-oriented directional signs on roads and highways. *
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Provides State recognition of certain Indian tribes for certain limited purposes, establishes process for future recognition of tribes and revises membership and duties of New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Establishes a civil cause of action for gender-motivated violence.
Exempts stored value cards usable solely for telephone services from State's escheatment processes.
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.
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations. *
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. *
Requires monitoring of prescriptions for human growth hormones.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs. *
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Out of committee · 47
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Establishes program for directing motorists to agricultural tourism establishments.*
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Provides alternative annual reorganization meeting date for county political committees if regular date coincides with period of religious observance.*
Requires the design of new public schools to incorporate the "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" (LEED) guidelines.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank. *
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Establishes registry of offenders of individuals with developmental disabilities in DHS.
Permits commercial advertising and sponsorship signs on equipment and materials related to the collection of tolls consistent with State law on outdoor advertising. *
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Prohibits new employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.*
Establishes "New Jersey Property Assessment Clean Energy (NJ PACE) Municipal Financing Program."
Clarifies that sexual assault victims are not responsible for any costs of forensic sexual assault examinations or related services.
Provides dedicated line item on property tax bill to fund municipal free public libraries and joint free public libraries. *
The "Offshore Wind Economic Development Act"; establishes offshore wind renewable energy certificate program, and authorizes EDA to provide tax credits for qualified wind energy facilities in wind energy zones.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
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
Supplemental appropriation of $24.6 million in State funds and $45.7 million in federal funds to the DHS.
Requires holder of rental security deposit account to provide second notice before account is deemed abandoned under the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act."
Requires State toll road authorities to give preference in awarding service station contracts to bidders offering to dispense certain alternative fuels on State's toll roads.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
"Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act"; provides for use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms and requires physicians and advanced practice nurses to pursue continuing education in end-of-life care.*
Decreases annual standardbred race dates to 75 minimum upon consent from Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey; increases to 5% maximum amount of certain purse moneys that may be distributed to aid horsemen.*
Dedicates revenues derived from certain sales and uses subject to sales and use tax to provide enhanced incentives for breeding and development of certain racehorses in this State.
Requires prenotification of mass layoffs by holding company or franchisor at multiple franchise locations.
Permits combination of voter petitions and application by municipal governing body for approval of Municipal Consolidation Study Commission by Local Finance Board.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.*
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.
Requires services be provided for sexually exploited juveniles charged with certain offenses; creates an affirmative defense regarding prostitution.*
Establishes assisted living facility and comprehensive personal care home resident rights.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS.
"Pamela's law;" criminalizes possession and sale of mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, commonly known as "bath salts."*
Appropriates $14,818,787 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Provides for designation of surrogates to make health care decisions for certain patients and decision making process for patients without surrogates; establishes demonstration program for transition of isolated patients from inpatient care to post-acute
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage, in the State, of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.*
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
"Emergency Transportation and Water Infrastructure Recovery Bond Act of 2011;" authorizes bonds for $100,000,000.
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Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Requires schools to provide eligible high school students with voter registration material.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstances.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Requires all direct patient care staff in general hospitals to wear identification badges.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Limits amount of contribution to legal defense fund of holder of elective public office and requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Authorizes the conferral of certain academic degrees by religious corporations.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative Act."
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Increases fees charged for marriage licenses and dedicates monies to Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund.
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.
Concerns certain disciplinary procedures, collective bargaining, and binding arbitration in public employment.
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.
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.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
"Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008."
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.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Requires movie theaters to install captioning technology for use by hearing impaired patrons.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Establishes Office of Airline Consumer Advocate and consumer bill of rights for airline passengers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
"Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Criminalizes driving under the influence with person 17 years of age or younger in vehicle.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Suspends certain tolls during evacuation of coastal areas.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
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.
Requires BPU to offer similar incentives to residents purchasing certain oil heating equipment as are offered to residents purchasing certain natural gas heating equipment.
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 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.
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
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
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.
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to VCCB.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Expands homestead property tax rebate program for certain non-senior and non-disabled tenants based on revised income qualifications.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Directs AG to develop guidelines for law enforcement cooperation with municipal prosecutors.
Imposes certain conditions on NJPDES permit for energy generation facilities that withdraw water from, or discharge water to, a shallow lagoonal estuary.
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.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
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.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Upgrades offense of harassment under certain circumstances.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
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.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Requires SHBP and School Employees' Health Benefits Program audit programs to review employee, retiree and dependent eligibility at least every five years.
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.
Requires certain public restrooms to be equipped with baby-changing stations.
Makes various statutory changes to "Child Care Licensing Act."
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Establishes New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for alternative fueled vehicles.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
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 school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to accept for transfer certain academic credits.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Provides that if wireless telephone service subscriber terminates service, any applicable subscriber termination fee is to be prorated.
Requires notification of certain fee increases by assisted living residences within certain time frames.
Requires premium sharing for health care benefits for elected officials and certain appointed officials.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Requires DEP to designate smoke-free sections of State beaches, parks, and forests.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires DOC employees who recruit, interview, and hire corrections officers to have gang awareness training.
Expands number of literacy advocacy programs eligible to receive voluntary taxpayer contributions through gross income tax returns.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Raises minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on increases in the Statewide average weekly wage.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Allows New Jersey gross income taxpayers to elect to deduct certain losses from certain investment arrangements discovered to be criminally fraudulent.
Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies.
"Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act."
"Water Supply Open Space, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund Act."
Provides for voluntary contributions to the "Homelessness Prevention Program" through real estate sales.
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Makes certain changes to open public records act; formally names open public records act "Martin O'Shea Open Public Records Act."
Adds three members to New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Requires development of guidelines and educational fact sheet concerning the nature, risk, and treatment of sports-related head injuries to student-athletes.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Authorizes unemployment benefits for shared work programs.
Limits the compensation of school district employees, other than teachers, to $5,000 less than the Commissioner of Education's salary.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to disclose contributions and expenditure information.
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Creates new taxable category of alcoholic beverages called flavored malt beverages, imposes separate rate of taxation on new category pursuant to alcoholic beverages tax and allocates associated revenue.
Requires NJMVC to implement procedures for issuing nondriver identification cards to persons rendered immobile by disabilities.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Requires each general hospital that accepts public funds to hold monthly board meetings that include time for public participation.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Requires DHSS to include in NJ Hospital Performance Report data from hospital pediatric emergency medicine registries.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
Provides one-time reduction of pension contribution of local public employer of employee who retires with pension reduced for dishonorable service in amount equivalent to certain previous contributions by that employer.
Establishes Commission on State-owned Historic Sites in Department of State, transfers administration of State-owned historic sites to commission, and transfers historic preservation programs from DEP to Department of State.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Regulates use of pallets in shipment and storage of certain agricultural commodities, foods, drugs, and medicinal products.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Prohibits NJ member of Delaware River Basin Commission from supporting use of drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Requires DHSS to dispose of newborn screening specimens within 60 days after testing.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Makes harassment by electronic means a crime of the fourth degree.
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment.
Provides that a charter school may only be established in certain school districts and prohibits further payments to a charter school in the event of closure.
Establishes the number of students to be supported under the veterinary medicine education program and a service requirement for students who participate in the program.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Provides additional penalties for certain crimes involving cemeteries and other property.
Prohibits possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by persons under 21 years of age.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Authorizes public institution of higher education to establish in-municipality tuition rate for students who graduate from public high schools located in the same municipality as the institution.
Exempts electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Prohibits elected public official from approving certain promotions or increases in compensation during period immediately prior to leaving office.
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.
Requires local authorities and commissions to establish an Internet website and post information related to each entity's mission, finances, meetings, and employees.
Establishes bill of rights for parents of persons with developmental disabilities.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Increases surcharge for drunk driving conviction.
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.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana.
Permits establishment of county-wide purchasing system by county employing qualified purchasing agent and requires participation by all municipalities and school districts within the county.
Establishes teacher residency as component of a higher education teacher preparation program; requires teachers who serve as mentors in residency program to meet certain qualifications.