Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Gerald Cardinale
Sponsored
Became law2
Permits local units to enter into joint agreements to purchase fire equipment.
Concerns interest rate chargeable by licensed pawnbrokers on certain transactions.
Passed the Senate2
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
Establishes "Commission on College Tuition."
Out of committee3
Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.
Increases and makes uniform mileage reimbursement rate for sheriffs, constables, and other court officers for various duties performed.
Allows distributor, refiner, wholesaler, or supplier to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel in certain circumstances.*
In committee29
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.
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 service of process by mail.
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Prohibits housing allowance in contract between State Board of Education and State district superintendent.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Permits farm wineries to create alternating proprietorship for production of wine.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Allows cultivation of commercial shellfish species in certain coastal and inner harbor waters for research and educational purposes.
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.
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.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Limits amount of appeal bond in civil actions to the total value of the monetary judgment or $50 million, whichever is less.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
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 Division of Purchase and Property to establish Internet commerce site for purchase of fire equipment approved by State contract.
Consolidates certain county police departments with certain county sheriff's offices.
Prohibits surrogacy agreements; establishes standards for determining custody of children resulting from such agreements.
Establishes certain traffic privileges for funeral processions.
Regulates sale of olive oil.
Creates offense of making false child abuse report; permits assessment of penalty.
Requires notice and payment of amounts that may be due for New Jersey transfer inheritance and estate taxes from funds held in escrow arising from real estate transactions.
Increases threshold value of surplus State-owned real property and easements above which legislative review and approval is required before sale.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Permits court to order involuntary outpatient treatment in any county; concerns patient compliance with taking medication.
Authorizes DOC and county correctional facilities to create program providing inmate labor to separate recyclables at landfills.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Clarifies trustee's discretionary authority concerning income tax liability.
Establishes registry of certain cemeteries that accept Work First New Jersey and SSI allowance for burial expenses.*
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran. *
Requires cemetery companies to file annual financial report.
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
Strengthens enforceability of premarital and pre-civil union agreements.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
Vetoed · 1
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons.*
Passed the Senate · 2
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Limits homeowners' association regulation of structures reasonably necessary or convenient for the accommodation or therapy of physically disabled persons.
Out of committee · 16
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month."
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.
Revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries. *
Restricts access to motor vehicle accident reports under certain circumstances.*
Authorizes annulments of marriages and civil unions, without cause, when demanded by party less than 30 days from date of ceremony; changes marriage and civil union licensing requirements and increases fees for such licenses.*
Concerns calculation of value for conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
Provides for modification of child support and certain alimony payments due to changed circumstances.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Requires certain parents and caretakers to be enrolled in NJ Family Care if they meet income eligibility criteria.*
Reappropriates $3 million from "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to fund State flood control projects.
Changes marriage and civil union licensing requirements and increases license fees.*
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
Amends "Administrative Procedure Act" to require State agencies to use various electronic technologies in rule-making procedures.
Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.
In committee · 31
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to undergo obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram within 48 hours of performing abortion.
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
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.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights Program Act."
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
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.
Authorizes exception to the hearsay rule for certain out-of-court statements by witnesses in cases involving a crime.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Establishes "Choose Life" license plate.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Concerns calculation of value for conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Authorizes certain municipalities and rural electric cooperatives to establish a municipal shared services energy authority.
"New Jersey G.I. Bill"; provides higher education benefits to New Jersey veterans.
Provides for two-year post-employment restriction on certain employees of the Department of Banking and Insurance.
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 court to deny defendant's right to copy or reproduce images of child pornography as part of discovery.
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.
Eliminates payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date; limits carry forward of unused vacation leave; requires suspension and forfeiture of certain payments; limits use of unused sick leave in year before retirement.
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Directs DOE to develop and implement pilot program for compressed natural gas school buses, and authorizes establishment of permanent voluntary program under certain circumstances.
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.
Clarifies that members of volunteer first aid squads that bill third parties do not lose right to use emergency warning lights.
Revises alimony laws, including eliminating permanent alimony and establishing guidelines for amount and duration of alimony awards.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.