Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law4
Provides that a school district may implement bullying prevention programs and anti-bullying training programs at no cost through various entities; and appropriates $1 million.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Changes pejorative terminology referring to mental capacity of individuals.
Allows nonpublic schools to participate in joint purchasing agreements entered into by two or more school districts.
Vetoed1
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Passed the General Assembly5
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Requires follow-up studies of developmental center residents transitioning to the community.
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Out of committee14
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
"PANYNJTransparency and Accountability Act." *
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
"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.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Prohibits genital mutilation of females under 18 years of age.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Codifies in statute case law developedlegal standards for establishing grandparent and sibling visitation with a child when visitation objected to by child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian.*
Directs portion of Unclaimed Child Support Trust Fund be used to balance unpaid receivables resulting from federal income tax refund offset reversals.
Establishes bill of rights for continuing care retirement community residents.
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Rescinds recommendation of the Task Force on the Closure of State Developmental Centers and creates new task force.
Increases State hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues required to be annually appropriated to fund certain arts and cultural, historical, and tourism-related programs and activities.*
In committee76
The "Smart Container Act."
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Permits Legislature to void closing of State psychiatric hospital or developmental center.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
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 all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
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.
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet.
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DHSS.
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.
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.
Temporarily renames NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury as NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury; establishes Acquired Brain Injury Fund.
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.
Provides that charter schools will be subject to monitoring under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
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.
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.
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson in the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
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.
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Provides that toll revenue generated from PANYNJ bridges shall not exceed cost of maintenance, operation, and debt service of those bridges.
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
Requires an application fee to be paid to the DOE when applying to establish a charter school.
Prohibits certain elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
Provides for establishment and operation of casino at Meadowlands Complex.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
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.
Prohibits person from serving as officer of more than two political campaign committees.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Regulates semen banks and semen donation; limits sale of human semen.
Establishes maximum payment to virtual charter schools and requires State to pay portion of costs for first five years.
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.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Expands definition and licensure requirements for health care service firms.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Requires DOT to issue guidance on certain aspects of red light camera pilot program.
Requires hepatitis B to be considered a priority under "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative."
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated be credited to electric and gas public utility customers.
Prohibits right on red turns at intersections with red light cameras; requires certain additional signage if red light camera is in safe corridor.
Subjects Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to New York's Freedom of Information Law and New Jersey's Open Public Records Act.
Requires DHS to conduct follow-up study of former residents of North Princeton Developmental Center.
Requires that certain motor vehicle surcharge revenues be dedicated to the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Establishes Developmental Disability Awareness license plates; dedicates fees to Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Permits change in case manager for persons with developmental disabilities under certain circumstances.
"Let Them Be Little Act"; provides for screening newborn infants for Hunter syndrome.
Provides for licensure of dementia care homes by DOH.
Limits easement, acquired by the State or local government unit, for use of beachfront property to dune construction or beach replenishment except under certain circumstances.
Authorizes court to include in domestic violence restraining orders a provision making the order applicable to a pregnant victim's child upon birth of the child.
Imposes supplemental State hotel and motel occupancy fee for certain occupancies occurring on or after January 26, 2014 but before February 3, 2014; dedicates revenues to support arts and tourism.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation; requires twelve-month judicial review hearing when juvenile is placed out-of-home.
Prohibits distribution of images and information produced by red light cameras.
Requires public institutions of higher education to submit proposed tuition and fees for upcoming academic year to Secretary of Higher Education for review.
Requires institutions of higher education to post on their websites information concerning open enrollment period in qualified health plans.
Establishes Medicaid demonstration project to cover room and board services for certain terminally ill patients in the home or other non-institutional setting.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of residents of State developmental centers until certain conditions are met.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
"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.
Prohibits genital mutilation of females under 18 years of age.
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
Establishes bill of rights for continuing care retirement community residents.
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Vetoed4
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.*
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
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.
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Allows license suspension or revocation of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal.*
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, subject to availability, for burial of indigent veterans.*
Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.*
Permits pet owners to board public transportation with domesticated animals during emergency evacuation.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
Requires emergency operations plans in certain senior occupied buildings.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system. *
Creates crime of cyber-harassment.
Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.
Vetoed · 13
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Authorizes Judiciary to revise or fees and other statutory fees, subject to limitations, to fund e-court information system and Legal Services of New Jersey; provides for review of such fees by Judiciary.*
Requires Financial Policy Review Board to issue quarterly reports and create and maintain website.
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Extends time municipalities have to commit fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units to six years.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects. *
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.**
Requires training program for school bus drivers and aides on interacting with students with special needs.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Authorizes municipalities to finance water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Passed the General Assembly · 41
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credits for purchase and installation of certain electric vehicle charging stations.
Commences payment in lieu of taxes for tax exempt real property owned by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Establishes a civil cause of action for gender-motivated violence.
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.*
Establishes bill of rights for authorized family members of persons with developmental disabilities.*
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for advanced technology vehicles and alternative fueled vehicles. *
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Requires NJ Transit to do study of platform safety issues at rail stations.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Port Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River and Bay Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Requires electric, gas, and water public utilities to provide bill credits to volunteer fire companies, first aid, rescue, and emergency squads, and nonprofit homeless and domestic violence assistance organizations.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.*
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Requires monitoring of prescriptions for human growth hormones.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Requires Legislative approval of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey minutes.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Provides primary and school election sample ballots may be sent to registered voter by electronic mail if so requested.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support United Way of New Jersey.
Establishes 12-month moratorium on establishment of new virtual charter schools and creates Virtual Charter School Task force.
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
"Higher Education Citizenship Equality Act;" defines domicile for dependent students for the purpose of eligibility for State student loans, grants, or scholarships and resident tuition rate.*
Authorizes Judiciary to revise or supplement fees, subject to limitations, to fund Legal Services of New Jersey and e-court information system; requires review and reporting on fees and expenditures of such fees.*
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online
Requires proof of firearms safety training as a condition for issuance of firearms purchaser ID cards and permits to purchase handguns.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.*
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Out of committee · 42
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Supplemental appropriation to DOT of $10,000,000 as State contribution towards resolution of flooding issues at Marsellus Street Bridge in Bergen County.
Requires NJMVC to implement procedures for issuing nondriver identification cards to persons rendered immobile by disabilities.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to VCCB.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
"The Truth In Tolling Act"; requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority to display toll amount paid when EZ-Pass user passes through toll collection point.*
Establishes an industrial hemp license.
Permits a student to participate in certain voluntary surveys if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents; limits use of information obtained from survey.*
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Requires BPU to establish uniform Statewide reliability standards for electric and gas public utilities.*
Prohibits emergency shelters for the homeless from refusing to provide services for minimum time frame unless shelters are at maximum capacity.
Criminalizes second or subsequent drunk driving offenses in certain cases.
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."*
Requires labeling of all foods containing genetically modified material.
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
"New Jersey Death with Dignity Act"; permits qualified patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner, subject to voter approval.
Creates Voluntary Registry for Individuals with a Mental Illness or Developmental Disability.
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.*
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Clarifies that a single State college may enter into a joint purchasing agreement with other contracting units. *
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to businesses for purchase of certain alternative-power trucks.*
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.*
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.*
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research database.
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to include flood control activities.
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law."
"Angelie's Law"; regulates the operation of certain autobuses.*
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Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $7,000,000 to DOE to reinstate nonpublic technology initiative aid.
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires DEP to designate smoke-free sections of State beaches, parks, and forests.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
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.
Makes various statutory changes to "Child Care Licensing Act."
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Makes harassment by electronic means a crime of the fourth degree.
Prohibits possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by persons under 21 years of age.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Provides additional penalties for certain crimes involving cemeteries and other property.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas.
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.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
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.
Concerns furloughing of direct care nurses employed by certain State institutions.
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.
Deems employee completion of required training in Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health program standard valid for other employers with same requirement.
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.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Requires holder of rental security deposit account to provide second notice before account is deemed abandoned under the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act."
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
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.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Expands homestead property tax rebate program for certain non-senior and non-disabled tenants based on revised income qualifications.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Prohibits placing primary election candidates into political party lines on primary ballot.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Establishes "New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Cost Control" to recommend measures for efficiency and cost reduction in State government.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
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.
"Home-Based Jobs Creation Act"; classifies certain home businesses as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing, or retailing activities.
Exempts electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
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.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Expands number of literacy advocacy programs eligible to receive voluntary taxpayer contributions through gross income tax returns.
Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for construction of buildings in accordance with certain energy and environmental performance standards.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
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 each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
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.
Exempts stored value cards usable solely for telephone services from State's escheatment processes.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
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.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
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.
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.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Requires local authorities and commissions to establish an Internet website and post information related to each entity's mission, finances, meetings, and employees.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
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.
Permits county board of taxation to extend municipality's filing deadline for assessment appeals for any year in which revaluation is implemented.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Permits alternative annual reorganization meeting date for county political committees if regular date coincides with period of religious observance.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
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
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.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
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.
Suspends certain tolls during evacuation of coastal areas.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution.
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.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Allows New Jersey gross income taxpayers to elect to deduct certain losses from certain investment arrangements discovered to be criminally fraudulent.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
"Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act."
"Water Supply Open Space, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund Act."
The "Green Building Tax Credit Act."
Provides $3,000 gross income tax deduction for certain taxpayers providing home care for an elderly relative.
Requires, after assessment, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Permits commercial advertising and sponsorship signs on equipment and materials related to the collection of tolls consistent with State law on outdoor advertising.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 4% over the prior academic year.
Requires State Treasurer to include designated space for e-mail address on application forms for notaries public.
Designates four State songs.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Creates new offenses and penalties regarding animal fighting.
Requires charter schools to annually submit to Commissioner of Education salary and benefit information for certain employees.
Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies.
Provides for voluntary contributions to the "Homelessness Prevention Program" through real estate sales.
Increases fees charged for marriage or civil union licenses and dedicates monies to Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
Provides farmland assessment incentive for landowner to lease land for community garden.
Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide after school programs to students in certain districts and allows tax credit for contributions to "After School Program Support Fund."
Repeals traffic control signal monitoring system pilot program; prohibits future use of red light cameras in State.
Requires candidates keep detailed records of how campaign funds are spent for the ordinary and necessary expenses of holding public office.
Requires insurance producers to perform bona fide services for public entities in order to share commissions; requires disclosure of commission sharing.
Establishes offense of advertising commercial sexual abuse of minor.
Regulates certain practices of pharmacy benefits management companies.
"New Jersey Long-Term Care Oversight Act."
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Super Bowl.
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Hambletonian Race.
Requires BPU to report annually on certain public utility bill assistance program expenditures.
Lengthens amber light at traffic signal with red light camera; sets penalty for failing to stop before turning right on red when detected by red light camera; implements half-second delay for red light camera violations.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.
Provides that a school district may be placed under full or partial State intervention pursuant to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) for no longer than five years.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Permits certain businesses to qualify for NJEDA loans for cost of alternative power generation devices; requires toll road authority contracts to provide for alternative power generation devices at service stations.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.
Allows New Jersey gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions for Hurricane Sandy relief in New Jersey.
Lengthens yellow light at traffic signal with red light camera; sets penalty for failing to stop before turning right on red when detected by camera; implements one second delay for red light camera violations.
Revises laws concerning traffic control signals and traffic control signal monitoring systems.
Expands coverage for infertility under certain health insurance plans to women who are not currently covered.
Increases firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase a handgun fee.
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
"Protection for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Institutional and Community Settings Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
Permits court to order involuntary outpatient treatment in any county; concerns patient compliance with taking medication.
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Requires resource family parent, relative, preadoptive parent, or caretaker to be party to reviews or hearings involving a child under the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families' care.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Requires forms for homestead property tax reimbursement, veterans' property tax exemption, veterans' property tax deduction, and senior and disabled property tax deduction to be available in certain languages.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on awareness of eating disorders as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Provides for electronic scanning of certain certificates for initiating court proceedings for involuntary commitment.
Concerns alternate methods of wage payment.
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Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.