Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires DHS and DMVA to conduct or contract for follow-up studies of former residents transitioning to community from their facilities.*
"Let Them Be Little Act"; provides for screening newborn infants for MPS I and MPS II.*
Provides for licensure of dementia care homes by DOH.
Requires one-time application for requesting services for individuals with developmental disabilities from DCF and DHS.
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
Vetoed2
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
Passed the General Assembly8
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of certain individuals with developmental disabilities to new residential placements until certain conditions are met. *
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Authorizes issuance of restraining orders for situtations in which domestic violence statutes do not apply.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.*
Provides for receipts for applications for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Requires DHS to ensure that expedited benefits under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are made available to certain households.
Out of committee36
Establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Expands definition and licensure requirements for health care service firms.
Clarifies juvenile's right to attorney representation; requires 12 month judicial review hearing when juvenile is placed out-of-home.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.*
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.*
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Creates gallery space on State House grounds for display of certain art works.
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Requires certain parking garages to have on-site emergency vehicle capable of accessing low-clearance areas.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.*
Requires establishment of processes to identify Medicaid eligible incarcerated individuals who are awaiting pre-trail release determinations, are being released following period of incarceration, or are undergoing inpatient hospital treatment. *
Requires DHS and DOC to formulate joint arrangement and plan to ensure provision of mental health and substance use disorder services to inmates. *
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Increases from 17 to 21 public members of New Jersey State Council on the Arts; requires members to be residents iof NJ; imposes specific criteria for four new members initially appointed.*
Protects current out-of-State placements of individuals with developmental disabilities and prohibits transfer in-State under certain conditions.*
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.*
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Permits unregulated solicitation to perform snow shoveling within 24 hours of predicted snowstorm.
Changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities.
Enacts new "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act"; repeals previous uniform law.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Establishes Mike Adler Aphasia Task Force to assess needs of persons with aphasia, and their families, and ensure adequate provision of support services and information thereto.*
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Provides that if minor appears to have been sexually assaulted, health care professionals in addition to physicians may authorize forensic sexual assault examination and medical care without parental consent.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Clarifies best interests of the child should be primary consideration in actions undertaken by State governmental entities and courts of law.
In committee103
Commences payment in lieu of taxes for tax exempt real property owned by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The "Smart Container Act."
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.
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Imposes time constraints on submission and analysis of rape kits.
Designates four State songs.
"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.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
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 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.
Establishes Developmental Disability Awareness license plates; dedicates fees to Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
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.
Permits change in case manager for persons with developmental disabilities under certain circumstances.
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.
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.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
"Reproductive Donation Safety Act."
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.
Concerns availability of services and administrative requirements of federally qualified health centers.
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
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.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Provides for establishment and operation of casino at Meadowlands Complex.
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.
Requires that certain motor vehicle surcharge revenues be dedicated to the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Establishes maximum payment to virtual charter schools and requires State to pay portion of costs for first five years.
Directs portion of Unclaimed Child Support Trust Fund be used to balance certain unpaid receivables of State agency responsible for disbursement of child support.
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
Concerns the delivery and oversight of coverage under certain health benefits plans; establishes Health Care Patient Ombudsperson in the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Establishes Medicaid demonstration project to cover room and board services for certain terminally ill patients in the home or other non-institutional setting.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Prohibits certain elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
Prohibits person from serving as officer of more than two political campaign committees.
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.
Requires an application fee to be paid to the DOE when applying to establish a charter school.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated be credited to electric and gas public utility customers.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
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.
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Requires NJT to remove snow from certain stops, stations, and stands for motorbus regular route service and to make name and contact information of entities responsible for snow removal publicly available.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Permits municipality to establish civil penalty for smoking in public places.
Requires AG to study use of stun guns by Human Services police officers.
Requires State Auditor to report on finances of public institutions of higher education.
Reforms bi-state transportation authorities.
Designates cheerleading as interscholastic sport; requires safety harness at health clubs with members who are cheerleaders.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for behavioral health care services when determined medically necessary.
Requires DHS to develop or purchase electronic health record system for use by certain agencies providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Requires DHS to develop specific criteria for eligibility of individuals with developmental disabilities for services from adult day health services facilities.
Requires DOH to develop New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Prohibits snowplow operators from depositing snow in front of certain access points used by persons with disabilities.
Permits use of virtual instruction to meet minimum 180-day school year requirement under certain circumstances.
Upgrades crime of photographing, filming, or disseminating photos or films showing a person's intimate parts or sexual conduct when person has not consented to the photography, filming, or disseminating.
Bars domestic violence defendants from participation in Pretrial Intervention.
Requires State contracts for Internet software to include indefinite support from software manufacturer.
Establishes animal importer registration, and animal grooming facility and animal training facility licenses; establishes requirements for animal importers, animal grooming facilities, and animal training facilities and penalties for certain violations.
Requires institution of higher education to provide victim-centered training to employees who assist student victims of sexual assault.
Allows municipality to establish reserved parking zone on property adjacent to disabled person's residence.
Requires students enrolled in public institutions of higher education to complete course on financial literacy.
Requires mental health evaluation for all animal cruelty offenders; designated as "Shyanne's Law."
Transfers Division of Mental Health Advocacy to DHS; re-titles director as Mental Health Advocate; provides diversion for mental health treatment for persons subject to prosecution in municipal court; appropriates $15,000,000.
Expands membership of NJ Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Requires school districts to inform DOE of number of students in certain out-of-State placements and number of students with individualized education programs identifying DHS or DCF for transition services.
Creates NJ Cybersecurity Commission; appropriates $50,000.
Reforms PANYNJ; "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015."
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DOH.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; upgrades crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Permits pharmacists to prescribe self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances; clarifies certain health insurance coverage requirements for contraceptive prescriptions.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Home and Community-Based Settings to implement DHS Statewide Transition Plan.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 12 months.
Expands civil rights protections to include breastfeeding; requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding mothers.
Requires DCF to collect and disseminate data about individuals with developmental disabilities and publish report.
Imposes tax on petroleum received by rail at marine terminals, storage or transfer terminals, and refineries, to fund local emergency preparedness and response to spills.
Requires first responders to transport persons treated for drug overdose to hospital emergency department.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Establishes Medicaid program to provide housing-related services to individuals experiencing chromic homelessness.
Establishes certain standards for health benefits plans with tiered network.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP health benefits coverage for eating disorders.
Requires health insurance carriers to comply with certain network adequacy requirements.
Places moratorium on implementation of certain tiered network health benefits plans until January 1, 2017.
Filed2
Requires comparable level of services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements and for placements to be located within 30 miles of closed centers.
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Expands definition and licensure requirements for health care service firms.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
Requires DHS and DOC to formulate joint arrangement and plan to ensure provision of mental health and substance use disorder services to inmates.*
Permits unregulated solicitation to perform snow shoveling within 24 hours of predicted snowstorm.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Clarifies best interests of the child should be primary consideration in actions undertaken by State governmental entities and courts of law.
Provides that if minor appears to have been sexually assaulted, health care professionals in addition to physicians may authorize forensic sexual assault examination and medical care without parental consent.*
Vetoed11
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.*
Requires necessary services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements.*
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.
Increases from 17 to 21 public members of New Jersey State Council on the Arts; requires members to be residents of NJ; imposes specific criteria for four new members initially appointed.*
Establishes Mike Adler Aphasia Task Force to assess needs of persons with aphasia, and their families, and ensure adequate provision of support services and information thereto.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of certain products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.*
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Provides for electronic scanning of certain certificates for initiating court proceedings for involuntary commitment.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Requires halfway houses to permit attorneys and certain representatives of attorneys to visit incarcerated clients.
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodplains.*
Allows person to request voluntary exclusion from gaming activities without acknowledging being problem gambler.
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Codifies "Project Medicine Drop" program; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain secure prescription medicine drop-off receptacles at certain law enforcement agencies.*
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Concerns property taxes due and owing on real property damaged or destroyed during, or as the result of, a natural disaster when a state of emergency is declared by the Governor. *
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Requires sober living homes and other substance abuse aftercare treatment facilities to provide certain notifications to next-of-kin when patient is released from care; designated as "Nick Rohdes' Law." **
Requires timeframe of standardbred mare residing in New Jersey breeding farm be inclusive of foaling instead of between foal's conception and birth.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Requires preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
"Boys & Girls Clubs Keystone Law"; permits minors to give consent for behavioral health care.
Requires DHS to use and update NJ Elder Index and related data to the extent possible.*
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.*
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for women veterans.*
Exempts certain vehicles owned or leased by certain health care facilities and other facilities licensed by Department of Human Services or Department of Health from "Angelie's Law."*
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Requires certain notifications for termination of services to persons with developmental disabilities and providers.
Prohibits withholding of State school aid based on student participation rate on State assessments.
Extends use of stored driver's license picture for person undergoing chemotherapy or other treatment for certain medical illnesses.
Vetoed · 10
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Allows municipalities to designate redevelopment entities and certain non-profits to act as land bank entities.*
"The New Jersey Social Innovation Act"; establishes social innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Provides Medicaid coverage for advance care planning.
Passed the General Assembly · 38
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.**
Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.*
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Requires boil water notices to be provided by certain public water systems via telephone, email or text message.
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Authorizes Attorney General to impose a fine against institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.*
Prohibits persons convicted of animal cruelty offenses from owning domestic companion animals and from working or volunteering at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."*
Requires State agencies to post Internet links to programs and services for women as applicable.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.*
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Requires school districts and charter schools to annually provide to parents or guardians of enrolled students information on certain tests to be administered during the school year.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Establishes third degree crime for certain trespasses involving victim of domestic violence.
Protects right to privacy underneath clothing; establishes crime of "upskirting".
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
"Uncompensated Pending Medicaid Beneficiary Payment Relief Act"; provides compensation relief to nursing facilities when resident's Medicaid eligibility determination is delayed more than 90 days.*
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Authorizes transfer of excess medical marijuana inventory between alternative treatment centers.
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
"Transparency, Responsibility, and Accountability for New Surcharges and Increases in Ticketing (T.R.A.N.S.I.T.) Act"; increases number of public hearings NJT is required to hold prior and subsequent to fare increase or change or abandonment of service.
Out of committee · 94
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Authorizes a teacher leader endorsement to the instructional certificate.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
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.
Permits religious institutions to request DCF conduct child abuse record checks of certain prospective and current employees and volunteers.*
Extends gross income tax medical expense deduction to certain cord blood banking services.
Requires DOH to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically engineered material.*
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Requires BPU to establish uniform Statewide reliability standards for electric and gas public utilities.*
Requires annual physical examination of child 19 years of age or younger include certain questions related to cardiac health.*
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Requires BPU to establish Energy Efficiency Leadership awards program.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Provides for licensure of human milk banks.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Requires insurance coverage in the individual and small employer markets and SHBP and SEHBP for "off-label" uses of certain drugs.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; enhances film and digital media tax credits, revises and expands tax credit eligibility requirements, and requires EDA to study development of film studio at North Jersey location.*
Directs State Board of Agriculture and Dept. of Agriculture to adopt regulations concerning confinement of pregnant sows during gestation.
Modifies powers and allocation of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.*
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.
Extends health benefits coverage of a newborn infant.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of boating accident.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated or spent for at least one year be reappropriated in following fiscal year.*
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Provides that school districts must ensure that students with disabilities have opportunities to participate in athletic activities equal to those of other students.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*
Clarifies that definition of mental illness in law governing involuntary commitment to treatment includes substance use disorder if dangerous standard met.
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Requires Office of Auditing in DHS to review books and receipts of provider of services to persons with mental illness or developmental disabilities before licensing.
Requires nursing homes to obtain form designating beneficiary of personal needs allowance accounts from incoming and current residents.
Requires Medicaid managed care organizations to meet certain conditions prior to reducing reimbursement rates for personal care assistant services and home-based supportive care services.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for State student financial aid programs.
"Tyler Banuls' Law"; provides protections for children with developmental disabilities receiving services from DCF.
Establishes Special Needs Housing-for Work Pilot Program within DHS to provide certain individuals with supportive housing in exchange for work activity or alternative work experience.*
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Directs certain four-year public institutions of higher education to establish substance abuse recovery housing program.
Extends "Overdose Prevention Act" immunity provisions to certain professionals and professional entities, and permits needle exchange programs to obtain standing order for opioid antidote dispensation.*
Concerns street light outage reporting.
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
"The Child and Family Suicide Prevention Act;" requires training related to screening for suicide prevention for pediatricians, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses.*
Requires DOE to conduct study on options and benefits of instituting later school start time in middle school and high school.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.*
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.*
Requires Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos; prohibits waiver of licensing requirements.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Revises requirements for establishment of central municipal courts.
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Establishes "breakfast after the bell" incentive fund.
Requires State contracts to include provisions imposing penalties on vendor or contractor for contract violations.
Requires DHS establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollment program.
Establishes certain minimum and maximum temperatures in emergency shelters, rooming and boarding houses, and certain nursing homes and residential health care facilities.
Requires annual evaluation reports by Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development on survey responses to be obtained from certain employers that end operations in this State.*
Establishes "New Jersey Business Advisory Council" in Business Action Center.
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain enviromental purposes; revises States's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.**
Requires NJ State Council on Arts to establish "Artist District" designation and select certain municipalities or areas within municipalities for such designation.
Permits municipal land banking in conjunction with online property database development.*
Establishes "MVP Emergency Alert System" for missing persons with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Establishes Behavioral Mental Health Advisory Board in Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in DHS.
Establishes the "New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act."*
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act." *
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Establishes Main Street Economic Growth Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Revises certain requirements concerning provision of emergency medical services.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide notice of termination of coverage to covered persons in certain circumstances.
Clarifies DHS authority to regulate sober living homes and halfway houses as residential substance abuse aftercare facilities; requires background checks and other protections for residents of residential substance abuse facilities.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
Requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
Establishes a process to integrate certain health data and other data from publicly supported programs for population health research.*
Maintains property tax exemption for certain nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contributi
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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.
Concerns alternate methods of wage payment.
Requires candidates keep detailed records of how campaign funds are spent for the ordinary and necessary expenses of holding public office.
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Creates Voluntary Registry for Individuals with a Mental Illness or Developmental Disability.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on awareness of eating disorders as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Exempts electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
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.
Prohibits emergency shelters for the homeless from refusing to provide services for minimum time frame unless shelters are at maximum capacity.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
Extends time municipalities have to commit fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units to six years.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
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.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain compressed natural gas vehicles.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
"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.
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 State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
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.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Expands role of temporary guardian to include arranging placement of alleged incapacitated person in appropriate, less restrictive environment.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions, earnings, and qualified distributions associated with special needs trusts.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
Limits amount of contribution to legal defense fund of holder of elective public office and requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $7,000,000 to DOE to reinstate nonpublic technology initiative aid.
"Protection for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Institutional and Community Settings Act."
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Repeals traffic control signal monitoring system pilot program; prohibits future use of red light cameras in State.
Establishes offense of advertising commercial sexual abuse of minor.
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.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
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.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support United Way of New Jersey.
Regulates certain practices of pharmacy benefits management companies.
Allows New Jersey gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions for Hurricane Sandy relief in New Jersey.
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.
"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.
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to include flood control activities.
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.
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.
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.
Imposes certain restrictions on sale of products containing dextromethorphan.
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.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires Legislative approval of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey minutes.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Provides primary and school election sample ballots may be sent to registered voter by electronic mail if so requested.
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Hambletonian Race.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
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.
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.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
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.
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.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
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
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
Requires DHS to dispose of newborn screening specimens within 60 days after testing.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Establishes bill of rights for authorized family members of persons with developmental disabilities.
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Permits restaurants without a liquor license to advertise that they are BYOB or a winery salesroom.
Establishes Bergen Watershed Flood prevention and Protection Task Force.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Permits veteran's property tax deduction for tax year when veteran was previously qualified to receive deduction and became owner of real property after October 1 of pretax year.
Requires school districts to include information on reproductive coercion as part of the dating violence education program.
Establishes "Art in Storefronts" initiative within the Main Street New Jersey program.
Requires body of water between Korean peninsula and Japan be called "East Sea" for all governmental purposes.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits and approvals for development related to drilling for oil and natural gas off NJ coast.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2014.
Permits conduct of lottery games on Internet.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Requires actual transportation occur as a condition of billing for ambulance services.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Establishes voluntary program to provide caregivers of children diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities with GPS tracking devices; designated as "Avonte's Law."
Provides that teaching staff member's annual summative evaluation rating for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school years will not include a student growth percentile; delays use of certain assessment.
Establishes additional county recording fees to support "New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund."
Establishes "Fund to Prevent Use of Tobacco and Electronic Smoking Devices"; supports activities to prevent use and promote awareness of associated health conditions.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Creates pilot program to fund adult education programs for residents of certain communities.
Requires Rutgers University to create a liberal studies program for intellectually disabled students; appropriates $500,000.
Requires DOH to establish minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for hospitals.
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.
Requires insurance producers to perform bona fide services for public entities in order to share commissions; requires disclosure of commission sharing.
Requires PANYNJ to evaluate certain land holdings to determine if proposed use is consistent with core mission.
Requires PANYNJ to set certain performance goals and prepare annual progress reports.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Expands exemption to wage and hour requirements for certain summer camp workers.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Clarifies that records custodians are not subject to penalties under State's open public records law if due diligence is exercised.
Authorizes the EDA to issue additional $50,000,000 in bonds to provide grants for certain county vocational school district facilities projects and increases debt service district aid percentage for such projects.
Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Makes FY 2014 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Authorizes free fishing licenses for persons with disabilities.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree to unlawfully use a controlled dangerous substance or prescription drug while pregnant.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the borrower's death.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for psychiatrists.
Prohibits submission of New Jersey license plate information to national photo ticketing system or other states for certain purposes.
Revises procedure for transferring motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Requires school districts, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education to report allegations of sexual assault to law enforcement.
Removes statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands categories of defendants liable in such actions.
Exempts principal residences from the transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Creates pilot program concerning domestic violence; creates additional Superior Court judgeships.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Requires Office of Information Technology to review Consolidated Assistance Support System development project and issue recommendations.
Requires DHS to use funds awarded from performance bonuses to increase staffing for processing certain applications and providing certain services.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Requires health benefits coverage for buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone under certain conditions.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax on Class C beneficiaries and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for New Jersey estate tax to $1,500,000.
Exempts county college from motor vehicle registration fee.
Requires institutions of higher education to adopt affirmative consent standard and other policies regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Clarifies police powers of sheriff's officers in certain counties to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
Establishes "Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State; appropriates $5 million.
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Establishes amber light duration at traffic control signals.
Limits authority of court to order one or both parents to pay post-high school education expenses on behalf of a child if both parents agree that they will not pay such expenses.
Prohibits "gay panic" defense for murder; prevents reduction of murder charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion under certain circumstances.
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient has Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires casino licensee to apply every five years for casino license renewal.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Authorizes health care practitioners to provide health care services through telemedicine.
Establishes NJ STEM Entrepreneur Fellowship Program in DOLWD.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Imposes a wholesale sales tax on electronic cigarettes and similar nicotine delivery products, changes tax base and requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products.
Requires counties to establish crisis intervention services programs and advisory councils.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Adds as additional aggravating factor in sentencing that the person committed an act of domestic violence in presence of a child under 16 years of age.
Establishes a one-year pilot program in the Office of the Attorney General concerning field testing for synthetic drugs.
Requires criminal history record background check for rifle and shotgun purchases.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Dedicates 0.1 percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Provides for an annual assessment upon certain rail carriers transporting crude oil and dedicates assessment revenue for State aid to municipalities for use by local government unit emergency responders.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations related to use of educational technology in public school classrooms.
"Drama therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
Waives population restriction for issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses to operate brew pub in downtown area.
Dedicates five percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.
Repeals law suspending certain licenses, registrations and certifications for failure to repay student loans.
Requires NJT to hold public hearing and provide notice prior to any curtailment of certain bus and rail services.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Requires DHS to re-evaluate closures and consider reopening developmental center in Northern NJ.
Prohibits disclosure of personal information pertaining to certain health care workers who are victims of assault; makes violation disorderly persons offense.
Requires DHS to ensure distribution to senior citizens of notice from Division of Consumer Affairs concerning risks and prevention of fraud.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Requires carriers to disclose selection standards for placement of health care providers in tiered health benefits plan network; establishes oversight monitor to review compliance.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes and dispense such reserve stock to first responders and hospital pharmacies, on interim basis, in order to ensure uninterrupted supply.