Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Gerald Cardinale
Sponsored
Became law4
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days.
Authorizes display of flashing amber warning lights on sanitation vehicles.
Revises statutes concerning public adjusters. *
Passed the Senate2
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.*
Out of committee4
Establishes grant program to rehabilitate veterans' organizations posts; appropriates $300,000.
Concerns certain taxes and assessments dedicated to the administrative costs of the DOBI.
Reduces benefit under State earned income credit program from 25 percent of federal credit amount to 20 percent beginning in Tax Year 2010.
Requires residential leases to specify when rent payments are due and allows residential leases to require weekly, monthly, or annual payments or a single payment for the entire lease term.
In committee41
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of school each day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Modifies the tort liability of product sellers.
Permits physicians to refer patients to certain physician-owned hospitals.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Makes permanent the previously temporary authority of the Administrative Director of the Courts to set certain fees for the service of process by mail.
Freezes expenditures by public entities on salaries and benefits for period of three years and limits such expenditures thereafter.
Requires psychologists to video record sessions conducted with children alleged to be abused or neglected.
Eliminates urban enterprise zone programs.
Prohibits insurers offering managed care plans from denying participation in network to health care providers willing to meet terms of contract.
Provides for collection of DNA samples to assist in the prosecution of sexual assault.
Prohibits housing allowance in contract between State Board of Education and State district superintendent.
Requires that certain motor vehicle licensees be New Jersey resident.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Limits liability of physicians to their medical malpractice insurance coverage.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Modifies arbitration procedure for police and firefighters.
Concerns certain practices related to recruitment of foreign workers for temporary employment.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against public entities, and against public officers, employees and servants acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Requires administrative law judges to hear disputes over the recovery of certain medical expense or other personal injury protection benefits.
Provides for two-year post-employment restriction on certain employees of the Department of Banking and Insurance.
Allows cultivation of commercial shellfish species in certain coastal and inner harbor waters for research and educational purposes.
Limits right of appeal of disciplinary action taken by employer against certain public employees.
Establishes judicial pre-litigation screening panels for certain actions.
Regulates sale of olive oil.
Clarifies that breath test warnings given to suspected drunk drivers are to be in English; requires applicants for driver's licenses to be able to read and understand English and directs MVC to offer examinations only in English.
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
Modifies certain procedures for the assignment of franchise interests regarding the retail sale of motor fuel.
Provides that requirements of implied consent statutes do not constitute an element of the offense of refusing the breath test.
Requires boards of education to calculate body mass index for students in first, fourth, seventh, and tenth grades.
Establishes Office of Asset and Revenue Recovery within Office of Attorney General in DLPS.
Requires assessment of administrative penalty amount by administrative law judge for environmental violations.
Prohibits certain local officers from authorizing certain transfers, appointments, changes in compensation, and funding for capital projects in local units.
Establishes $100 to $500 fine for owner of animal which attacks, injures, or otherwise interferes with law enforcement animals, search and rescue dogs, or service dogs; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Renders public entity not liable for injury caused by condition of sidewalk in certain circumstances.
Prohibits cause of action against public entity for weather related accident occurring on public property.
Requires review and approval by New York and New Jersey legislatures of toll increases or new tolls proposed by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Requires Legislative review and approval of toll increases or new tolls proposed by toll road authorities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contributions. *
Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, plan choice, benefit change application, coverage waiver, multiple coverage; requires contributions toward health care benefits by public employees and certain retirees. *
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Authorizes central municipal court to hear cases brought by county office of consumer affairs.
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.*
Abolishes the Department of the Public Advocate and transfers certain functions, powers and duties.
Vetoed · 3
Limits DEP regulation of medical diagnostic x-ray equipment in facilities performing 750 or fewer x-rays per year.
Bars solicitation of professional employment fo 30 days after date of accident or disaster under certain circumstances.**
Concerns the sale of portable electronics insurance and licensing of limited lines insurance producers for that purpose.
Passed the Senate · 2
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers; permits in-State wineries to ship to other states. *
Authorizes exception to the hearsay rule for certain out-of-court statements by witnesses in cases involving a crime.
Out of committee · 11
Establishes the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month." *
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Requires landscape irrigation contractors to install backflow prevention devices under certain circumstances. *
Exempts veterans from $15 fee for open and competitive civil service examinations.*
Repeals law allowing PERS member to retire with PERS pension and continue to receive salary for current PERS-covered elective office.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
"New Jersey Trade Secrets Act."
Concerns calculation of value for conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.
In committee · 30
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Requires licensure as insurance producer to sell certain funeral insurance policies; prohibits financing of certain preneed funeral arrangements with reverse mortgage.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Revises Special Municipal Aid program.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to undergo obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram within 48 hours of performing abortion.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Concerns regulation of paratransit vehicles and drivers transporting persons in wheelchairs.
Limits amount of appeal bond in civil actions to the total value of the monetary judgment or $50 million, whichever is less.
Requires health insurers, Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for comprehensive program of pediatric feeding and swallowing services.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Superior Court, Tax Court Judges, Workers' Compensation Judges and Administrative Law Judges to be admitted to the practice of law for at least 15 years prior to appointment to the bench.
Makes members of county boards of taxation ineligible for membership in State-administered retirement system or for health care benefits coverage under plan for public employees.
Establishes "Choose Life" license plate.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Strengthens public entities' immunity for damages against claims of injury occurring on public beaches and boardwalks.
Caps attorney fee awards in actions against public entities.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Repeals early release program for certain inmates established under P.L.2009, c.330.
Increases production limitations and revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights Program Act."
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.