Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Jeff Van Drew
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires issuance of construction permits for installation of wheelchair ramps on residential real property within 5 business days of application. *
Establishes penalty for failure to include bittering agent in antifreeze.
Authorizes counties to establish mosquito control reserve fund.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Streamlines responsibilities of Division of Local Government Services and local governments; designated as the Division of Local Government Services Modernization and Local Mandate Relief Act of 2015.*
Provides partial exemption and maximum sales and use tax imposition amount for sales and uses of boats and vessels; establishes grace period for use tax imposition on certain boats and vessels used by resident purchasers.*
Requires DMVA assist and mentor veterans through criminal justice system.
Authorizes mobile electronic waste destruction units to operate without DEP permit.
Vetoed1
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.
Passed the Senate8
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Requires DOT and DEP to conduct study on options to alleviate congestion on Route 47.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Establishes Medicaid demonstration project to cover room and board services for certain terminally ill patients in the home or other non-institutional setting.
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.
Authorizes sale of alcoholic beverages to certain spouses of bona fide benevolent organization club members.
Out of committee60
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility.*
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Restores State fiscal year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to commercial beekeepers, with some restrictions.
Designates New Jersey Route 47 from Wildwood City to Maurice River Township as "Veterans Memorial Highway at Delsea Drive."
Makes disabled persons receiving disability payments pursuant to federal Railroad Retirement Act eligible to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires DCA to establish training and certification program and arbitration standards for new home warranty arbitrators and publish a "New Home Buyer's Bill of Rights."
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.*
"Common Interest Community Manager Licensing Act."
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Increases maximum municipal contribution to fire districts and volunteer fire companies; indexes amount biennially for inflation.
Designates certain interchanges of Garden State Parkway in honor of Melvin M. Loftus and Christopher Meyer.*
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.
Prohibits certain agencies from establishing checkpoints limited to specific vehicle types.*
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Extends county-based real property assessment pilot program to Atlantic County. *
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Establishes Menhaden Personal Use and Limited Sale License, and permits use of certain gear for taking of menhaden.
Concerns withholdings and deductions from employee wages for certain payments.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in the urban enterprise zone program.
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.**
Establishes exclusive State regulatory authority over apiary activities and allows for delegation of monitoring and enforcement authority to municipalities.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.
Provides that determination by county agriculture development board or State Agriculture Development Committee as to what qualifies as farm-based recreational activity ine pinelands protection area is binding on Pinelands Commission.*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Requires elevators in new buildings be at least a certain size.
Permits a child whose parent or guardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in the school district where the child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Requires DMVA to encourage and facilitate returning service members' registration with VA. *
Expands exceptions to minimum age requirement for operating a boat to include nontidal waters.
Establishes penalty for destruction of man-made native bee hive.
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of service.*
Authorizes the establishment of federal impact aid reserve account.
Establishes a three-year Statewide "Veterans Treatment Court Pilot Program." *
Reestablishes certain historic driving privileges afforded holders of agricultural driver's licenses in operating farm equipment and vehicles.
Authorizes tax lien holders other than municipalities to institute in rem tax foreclosure actions against abandoned properties.
Provides diamondback terrapins protection as nongame indigenous species.
Provides an excused absence on Veterans Day for pupil who participates in certain activities for veterans or active duty members of United States Armed Forces or New Jersey National Guard.
Authorizes DEP and NJ Marine Fisheries Council to regulate taking and management of striped bass; establishes interim taking restrictions.
Requires DCA to post on its Internet website information about enforcement of maintenance violations for vacant and abandoned properties under foreclosure.
Directs Department of Agriculture to publish on its website "New Jersey Gleaning Week" and "Farmers Against Hunger Day" page.
Requires drivers to slow down before passing slow moving vehicles; establishes Statewide educational campaign on rural roadway safety; updates agriculture-related motor vehicle laws to reflect current industry practices.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
Designates striped bass (Morone saxatilis) as New Jersey saltwater fish.
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Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
Revises qualifications for handgun permit, establishes crimes for certain handgun use; establishes annual fee of $100.
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Permits a joint meeting by the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to review and veto utility rate increases approved by BPU.
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Authorizes school district hiring preference for veterans.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Excludes .22 caliber tubular magazines from large capacity ammunition magazine definition.
Establishes Common Core State Standards Evaluation Task Force; delays use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers until task force submits final report.
Creates State Dredging Task Force.
Establishes pilot project to install global positioning system (GPS) devices on certain State vehicles.
Authorizes the establishment of federal impact aid reserve account.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Provides certain veteran benefits to veterans of the global war on terror conflicts and those of certain military engagements served during certain periods.
Allows school district to teach about traditional winter celebrations, display holiday symbols on school property, and include musical selections with religious themes.
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs harbored on insured property.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for maintenance of certain State memorials honoring war veterans.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard and reserve components of the United States Armed Forces.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Makes "Skinner's and Michelle's Law" violators subject to No Early Release Act sentencing guidelines.
Permits certain retired law enforcement officers to possess hollow nose ammunition.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Establishes mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for harming or threatening to harm animal owned or used by a law enforcement agency or a search and rescue dog.
Directs State Comptroller to identify and recommend certain programmatic budget reductions for certain State agencies, authorities, and instrumentalities.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Provides family leave insurance for certain first responders.
Directs DOT to establish roadside accident memorial program.
Establishes cruelly restraining a dog as a criminal and civil animal cruelty offense.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in urban enterprise zone program; allow zone funds to pay for storm related recovery costs for five years.
Authorizes mayors to veto proposed actions of municipal authorities.
Provides fair standards for elections and recall of officers for homeowners' associations.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Establishes farmland preservation inheritance tax deduction program within Department of Agriculture.
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.
Requires any State entity administering State or federal public benefit programs to verify recipient's personal information against death records to prevent payment to deceased individual.
Requires reduction in number of State vehicles over five fiscal years based on cost analysis.
Establishes "State Vehicle Reduction Task Force."
Revises animal fighting laws; establishes minimum penalty for criminal animal cruelty offenses; establishes additional penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Revises animal cruelty offenses and penalties concerning animal abandonment and failure to report injuring certain animals with a motor vehicle; increases civil penalties for certain other animal cruelty offenses.
Concerns recorded telephone messages.
Requires State to enable applicants for State agency-issued permits to electronically track the progress and status of their permit application.
Concerns UEZ program funding to qualifying municipalities.
Reinstates sick leave injury program for State corrections officers and juvenile justice officers under certain circumstances.
Reinstates State sick leave injury program for State employees who are members of PFRS or SPRS.
Provides for one-time increase of PFRS retiree annual pensions under $32,000.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Concerns time frames for establishing or enforcing property rights related to adverse possession.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Prohibits incarcerated individuals from receiving Medicaid, Work First New Jersey, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Requires DHS to approve providers that serve persons with developmental disabilities in all areas of State.
Designates four State songs.
Makes certain repeat offenders ineligible for parole.
Repeals State moratorium prohibiting taking of horseshoe crabs from State waters.
Requires person convicted of criminal sexual contact with person with intellectual disability to register under Megan's Law.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Establishes recreational fishing license plate; dedicates fees to coastal fishing research.
Requires civilian employees of DOC to be trained in gang awareness.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 15-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Requires 40 hours annual in-service training for State corrections officers.
Increases certain penalties for vehicular homicides involving intoxicated drivers; designated "Josh's and Craig's Law."
Establishes aid program for certain municipalities with State correctional facilities.
Provides for early termination of terms of office for certain appointed municipal court positions when two or more municipalities enter into agreements to establish joint or shared municipal courts.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service.
Provides for appointment of certain municipal court judges at the local or county level.
"Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator Act;" establishes licensure requirements for wildlife rehabilitators.
"Wildlife Rehabilitation Act"; establishes Wildlife Rehabilitation Board and continuing education requirements and permit program for wildlife rehabilitators.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Establishes designated driver motor vehicle license plates.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Authorizes municipalities to contract with appropriately trained municipal firefighters to provide paramedic services.
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex, and Warren Counties, and requires existing bus stops to be used.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Establishes licensing program in Department of Agriculture for farmed deer and other cervids.
Provides tax relief through three refundable tax credits under the gross income tax, for homestead property taxpayers, renters and working poor.
Requires electric or gas public utilities to apply residential rates and charges to any business heated or cooled by residential heating or cooling system.
Prohibits certain unsolicited political calls by political organizations or candidates to persons in this State.
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Establishes compensation program for State, county, and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Revises animal cruelty offenses concerning abuse, abandonment, neglect, and improper euthanizing of animals; increases criminal and civil penalties therefor; establishes such penalties for new offenses; repeals conflicting sections of law.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect, care and euthanasia of impounded animals, and the penalties therefor.
Exempts individuals with certain types of military service from certain professional and occupational fees and continuing education requirements.
Exempts veterans' organizations from motor vehicle registration fee.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Requires MVC to provide Gold Star Family decals to certain family members of armed services members who died while on active duty.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Establishes tiered-preference system for purchase of agricultural products by school districts.
Requires written contract between customers and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.
Provides for drug testing of certain recipients of Work First New Jersey program benefits.
Prohibits sale of certain laser pointers that exceed certain power output.
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements.
Designates Common Eastern Bumble Bee as New Jersey State Native Pollinator.
Expands authority of emergency management departments in requesting assistance outside normal territorial jurisdictions.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Phases out ambulatory care facility assessment over five years.
Increases statute of limitations for prosecution of theft of firearm.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to, or purchases of credits from, federally qualified tuition program.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Allows nonprofit organizations to serve food made from wild game animals at charity and fundraising events and meetings.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Requires newly-constructed multiple dwellings with 25 or more residential units to install standby generators to provide electricity in case of emergency.
Provides court with sentencing discretion in certain cases under the "Graves Act."
Establishes "no mail" list for residents of this State.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
Exempts certain property from attachment.
Provides annual salary supplement for teachers earning National Board certification; appropriates $500,000.
Provides certain employees access to certain personnel records.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Requires students in grade 12 to pass United States Citizenship and Immigration Services civics test as part of high school graduation requirements.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Extends eligibility to participate in Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program to areas located in municipality in which casino gaming is authorized.
Requires prison host benefit payments to certain municipalities.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Allows parent, guardian, or adult student to prevent disclosure of student information to certain entities.
Modifies requirements concerning preliminary site plan and subdivision approvals under the MLUL.
Creates striped bass license plates.
Updates factors for consideration for grandparent and sibling petitions seeking visits with child over objection of parent, guardian, or custodian; adds preference for child's temporary placement with grandparent under "Child Placement Bill of Rights Act.
Allows motor vehicle dealers to temporarily remove records from premises in certain instances and requires MVC to provide motor vehicle dealers time to correct certain violations.
Creates additional judgeships for Superior Court in northern, central, and southern regions of State with purpose of providing additional support for special probation drug court program.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Establishes failure to provide certain specific protections from weather and during emergencies for domestic companion animals as animal cruelty.
Requires retail establishments to allow persons with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
Sets fees for DEP permits and approvals for repair or reconstruction of Sandy-damaged structures at no more than amount in effect on October 28, 2012.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Makes Fiscal Year 2015 General Fund appropriation of $500,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.
Establishes school breakfast kiosk pilot program.
Requires adult recipients of Work First NJ benefits to engage in community service.
Directs DEP to establish three-year pilot program to permit for-hire vessels to fish for summer flounder in Delaware waters pursuant to Delaware regulations.
Provides reduced rate and maximum sales and use tax imposition amount for sales and uses of boats and vessels; establishes use tax exemption for temporary use of certain boats and vessels by resident purchasers.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to work with US Army Corps of Engineers to establish joint permit application process for aquaculture projects.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to adopt joint permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.
Concerns operation of vehicle by family of deceased.
Permits juveniles age 14 years and younger to be tried as adults for certain homicides.
Provides automatic farmland assessment for owners of permanently preserved farmland.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State to fund Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Requires deeds presented for recording to include description of property based on survey completed within five years of presentment.
Allows consumption of food on craft distillery premises.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Provides public employee in State-administered retirement system who continues preexisting volunteer relationship with employer from whom employee retires has bona fide severance from employment for compliance with NJ and federal regulations.
Requires county emergency management coordinators to establish Code Blue Program to shelter homeless during severe weather events.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law23
Reestablishes certain historic driving privileges afforded holders of agricultural driver's licenses in operating farm equipment and vehicles.*
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Authorizes the establishment of federal impact aid reserve account.
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to commercial beekeepers, with some restrictions.
Establishes exclusive State regulatory authority over apiary activities and allows for delegation of monitoring and enforcement authority to municipalities.
Establishes penalty for destruction of man-made native bee hive.
Permits child whose parent or guardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in school district where child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility; appropriates $20,000 for municipal reimbursements.
Designates certain interchanges of Garden State Parkway in honor of Melvin M. Loftus and Christopher Meyer.*
Prohibits certain agencies from establishing checkpoints limited to specific vehicle types.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Provides that certain field sports conducted or occurring in agricultural production area in pinelands area constitute low intensity recreational use under pinelands comprehensive management plan.***
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Expands exceptions to minimum age requirement for operating a boat to include nontidal waters.
Requires DMVA to encourage and facilitate returning service members' registration with VA.*
Requires drivers to slow down before passing slow moving vehicles; establishes Statewide educational campaign on rural roadway safety; updates agriculture-related motor vehicle laws to reflect current industry practices.
Directs Department of Agriculture to publish on its website "New Jersey Gleaning Week" and "Farmers Against Hunger Day" page.
Authorizes DEP and NJ Marine Fisheries Council to regulate taking and management of striped bass; establishes interim taking restrictions.
Provides an excused absence on Veterans Day for pupil who participates in certain activities for veterans or active duty members of United States Armed Forces or New Jersey National Guard.
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
Vetoed3
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.**
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to commercial mobile service devices.
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, sheriff's officers, EMS workers, and firefighters; designated as "Patrolman Joseph Wargo's Law."*
Permits DCA to nominate a municipality as a qualified municipality for purposes of NJ Redevelopment Authority program participation.
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Exempts board of education and local government payments to entities under BPU jurisdiction from certain certification requirements.*
Prohibits insurers from setting prices for non-covered dental services.
Abolishes Landscape Irrigation Contractors Examining Board in the Department of Environmental Protection and transfers regulation of landscape irrigation contractors to Department of Community Affairs.
Permits municipality with UEZ to participate in Downtown Business Improvement Zone Loan Fund.
Authorizes DEP to require public access to waterfront and adjacent shoreline as condition of waterfront development approvals and CAFRA permits.
Vetoed · 8
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.**
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Requires Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River and Bay Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires PANYNJ to use certain products manufactured in US.
Requires DRPA to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
Passed the Senate · 9
Provides certain small businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy a corporation business tax or gross income tax credit for certain reinvestment in shore municipalities.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.*
Renames Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility as "William H. Fauver Youth Correctional Facility."
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Authorizes municipality to deliver property tax bills, construction permits, and receipts for payment via e-mail.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Designates five State songs.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
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Provides sales and use tax exemption for compressed natural gas used to fuel certain bus operation.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances. *
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.*
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Requires gubernatorial candidates' statements be posted online.
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.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act"; provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans and certain family members living in New Jersey.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Authorizes rural electric cooperative and certain municipalities to establish municipal shared services authority.*
Limits when bidders can be required to submit a financial statement in order to bid on a local public contract or county college contract.
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.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Permits alternate members of county planning boards to vote in place of any absent public member.
Revises "Administrative Procedure Act" concerning conflicts between rules of different State agencies.
"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.
Concerns exemptions from permits for certain agricultural activities under "Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act". *
Concerns authority of DOLWD to inspect prevailing wage public work projects.
Requires Commissioner of DOLWD to disseminate certain information to contractors who bid on or perform prevailing wage public work.
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
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 female veterans.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements under certain conditions.*
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property owned by disabled veterans during reconstruction of homes destroyed by flood, storm, or other act of God.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
"Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015"; authorizes the court to issue protective orders for victims of certain nonconsensual sexual conduct.
New Jersey Stolen Valor Act; makes unauthorized use of military uniforms, medals or insignias, and certain false statements regarding receipt of military awards with intent to obtain benefit crimes of third degree.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers.
Requires DCPP to implement policies and procedures to ensure caseworker safety; "Leah's Law." *
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Permits State aid to fund start-up costs for local shared services projects.
Permits certain public and private entities to qualify for BPU grants or low interest loans for cost of alternative power generation devices.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
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 prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Shortens term of municipal court judges from three years to one year.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Transportation for Hazardous Walking Routes Act; requires school districts to provide busing for students required to walk to school along hazardous routes and prohibits school bus stops within 250 feet of residence of sex offender.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service, and their immediate family members.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
"Consumer Protection Act of 2012."
Prohibits motor fuel wholesaler from increasing price more than once in 24-hour period.
Establishes annual sales tax holiday during first weekend of August for certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Permits automatic expungement for certain persons completing a sentence to drug court under the special probation statute.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions by certain taxpayers to New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program and provides a State match for contributions to NJBEST accounts for families meeting certain income guidelines.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services in certain counties; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher edu
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
Requires certain commissions to maintain meeting minutes; establishes Governor's authority to approve or veto the minutes of those commissions.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Provides corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from tax levy and appropriation cap, as applicable, for school districts, municipalities, and counties.
Requires all temporary emergency shelters be equipped with alternative emergency power generators; designated the "Safe Shelter Act."
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Clarifies DOBI's regulatory authority over certain flood insurance claims.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Allows certain fuel dealers and distributors refunds of petroleum products gross receipts tax and credits against motor fuel tax for certain bad debts from sale of fuel.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Clarifies insurance coverage for certain home and health care agency employees under their own private passenger automobile insurance.
Codifies in statute case law developed legal standards for establishing grandparent and sibling visitation with a child when visitation objected to by child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian.
Exempts certain surviving spouses and surviving civil union partners of certain disabled veterans from components of the realty transfer fee.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Revises definition of volunteer first aid, rescue, and ambulance squad under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Clarifies that members of volunteer first aid squads that bill third parties do not lose right to use emergency warning lights.
Reduces thresholds for certain heroin offenses.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Regulates operation of low-speed electric bicycles.
Concerns access to records of wages for prevailing wage public work projects.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Schedules the termination of the realty transfer fees.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act.
Eliminates penalties for asset transfers up to $500 per month during look-back period for determining eligibility for Medicaid long-term care services.
Requires that certain inmates with detainers be provided access to drug treatment programs.
Provides civil service preference to military service members who did not serve in theater of operation but received campaign or expedition medal.
Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse network providers of diagnostic radiologic services at the same rate.
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.
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.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Reduces ambulatory care facility assessment.
"New Jersey Open Data Initiative;" requires certain information be made available on Internet by State departments and agencies.
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Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.