Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Jeff Van Drew
Sponsored
Became law10
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.**
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.*
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
Designates New Jersey Route 47 from Wildwood City to Maurice River Township as "Veterans Memorial Highway at Delsea Drive."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for maintenance of certain State memorials honoring war veterans.
Designates striped bass as NJ State Saltwater Fish; redesignates brook trout as NJ Freshwater Fish.*
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for Jersey Fresh Program through gross income tax returns.
Modifies performance and maintenance guarantee requirements under "Municipal Land Use Law."
Appropriates $1,737,902 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the Senate10
Restores State fiscal year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
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.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
Requires nursing home facility operated by DMVA for veterans to provide State-funded transportation to health care services outside of facility.
Provides State aid to counties and municipalities to fund transportation services for veterans to VA facilities; appropriates $500,000. *
Provides tax credit eligibility for qualified businesses at certain airports under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program.
Out of committee38
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
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 coordinated permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.*
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Establishes aid program for certain municipalities with State correctional facilities.
Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Provides diamondback terrapins protection as nongame indigenous species.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in urban enterprise zone program; allows zone funds to pay for storm related recovery costs for five years.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Eliminates requirement that State reimburse municipalities for construction permit surcharge fee revenues foregone due to exemption for disabled veterans.
Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.
Requires DOT and DEP to conduct study on options to alleviate congestion on Route 47.
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Creates viticulture trail tourist directional signs.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Permits issuance of motorcycle endorsement to certain out-of-State military personnel.
Requires driver's manual to include driver's and law enforcement officer's responsibilities during police stop and under "move over" law; requires testing on responsibilities during police stop; and authorizes testing on duties under "move over" law. *
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.
Requires Internet-connected baby monitors to include security features.
Establishing New Jersey Commission on Veterans' Benefits in DMVA.
Requires State Auditor to annually report on unspent State account balances.
Establishes Veterans Assistance Grant Program for nonprofit organization to provide certain services to veterans.
Extends duration of first five designated UEZs for two additional years; specifies permissible use of UEZ funds; requires DCA Commissioner to assess and issue report on UEZ program.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Permits conduct of punch-board games under raffle license.
Modifies requirements for preliminary site plans and subdivisions under Municipal Land Use Law.
Requires HMFA to post proposed rules, regulations, policies,and underwriting criteria on its Internet website.*
Designates portion of State Highway Route 55 as "State Trooper Frankie L. Williams Memorial Highway."
Modifies requirements for receipt of distinguished service medal; codifies qualifications for receipt of meritorious service medal.*
Concerns assessment of buildings or structures on real property located in certain counties following material depreciation thereof.
Authorizes alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
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Revises qualifications for handgun permit, establishes crimes for certain handgun use; establishes annual fee of $100.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
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.
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Provides court with sentencing discretion in certain cases under the "Graves Act."
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.
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.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State to fund Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station.
Provides that organ donor designation on driver's license or identification card remains upon renewal of license or card under certain circumstances.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.
Creates State Dredging Task Force.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Provides family leave insurance for certain first responders.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Concerns withholdings and deductions from employee wages for certain payments.
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect, care and euthanasia of impounded animals, and the penalties therefor.
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.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Requires civilian employees of DOC to be trained in gang awareness.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
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.
Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs harbored on insured property.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Excludes certain health care service firms from certain requirements.
Requires DHS to approve providers that serve persons with developmental disabilities in all areas of State.
Concerns time frames for establishing or enforcing property rights related to adverse possession.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Concerns UEZ program funding to qualifying municipalities.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service.
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.
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 temporary mortgage relief programs for certain owners of real property impacted by "Superstorm Sandy."
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."
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Permits a joint meeting by the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to review and veto utility rate increases approved by BPU.
Requires retail establishments to allow persons with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Revises animal fighting laws; establishes minimum penalty for criminal animal cruelty offenses; establishes additional penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Establishes cruelly restraining a dog as a criminal and civil animal cruelty offense.
Provides annual salary supplement for teachers earning National Board certification; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Makes "Skinner's and Michelle's Law" violators subject to No Early Release Act sentencing guidelines.
Prohibits sale of certain laser pointers that exceed certain power output.
Establishes compensation program for State, county, and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Increases certain penalties for vehicular homicides involving intoxicated drivers; designated "Josh's and Craig's Law."
Requires reduction in number of State vehicles over five fiscal years based on cost analysis.
Establishes "State Vehicle Reduction Task Force."
Excludes .22 caliber tubular magazines from large capacity ammunition magazine definition.
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
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.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
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.
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.
Directs DOT to establish roadside accident memorial program.
Establishes recreational fishing license plate; dedicates fees to coastal fishing research.
Creates striped bass license plates.
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Provides fair standards for elections and recall of officers for homeowners' associations.
"New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of service.
Increases statute of limitations for prosecution of theft of firearm.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
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.
Provides certain veteran benefits to veterans of the global war on terror conflicts and those of certain military engagements served during certain periods.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
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.
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.
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Makes Fiscal Year 2016 General Fund appropriation of $500,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault if committed against county or municipal official in certain circumstances.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Eliminates three year renewal requirement for disability parking identification cards and placards.
Eliminates DOLWD licensing for operators of refrigerating plants using anhydrous ammonia.
Requires baby monitors with Internet connection to include security features and warning.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to make certain consumer reviews and complaints publicly available.
Creates public awareness campaign concerning risks associated with unsecured, Internet-connected baby monitors.
Prohibits electric power supplier or gas supplier from providing service to customer unless it is disclosed to customer in large print that its rates are not regulated by BPU.
Permits certain retired law enforcement officers to possess hollow nose ammunition.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of certain replacement goods and services made by certain persons affected by natural disasters.
Permits agriculture-related events on preserved farmland.
Designates Dept. of Agriculture as sole agency to administer "Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program."
Establishes minimum criminal penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Allows qualified school to be called "New Jersey Farm Fresh School."
Establishes Dept. of Agriculture cooking contest.
Permits school participating in NJ "Farm to School" program to submit recipe for posting on Dept. of Agriculture website.
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service.
Permits qualified person with post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain handicapped parking placard.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for volunteer emergency workers and persons with certain types of military service.
Establishes maximum fees for providing copies of patient medical records.
Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults as crimes with bail restrictions.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Entitles nursing home residents to monitor and record in-room treatment, care, and living conditions using electronic monitoring devices, upon notice to nursing home.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
Establishes Office of Common Interest Community Association Ombudsman.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
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 Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Task Force.
Allows operators of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and bicycles to proceed through malfunctioning steady red light under certain circumstances.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Makes Fiscal Year 2016 General Fund appropriation of $250,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.
Reinstates sick leave injury program for State corrections officers and juvenile justice officers under certain circumstances.
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.
Allows consumption of food on craft distillery premises.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to develop and undertake annual public awareness campaign concerning State's emergency coastal evacuation plan.
Reduces State hotel and motel occupancy fee from five to two percent starting FY2017; preserves dedication.
Clarifies that use of propane-powered noise making device is allowed as non-lethal method of wildlife control on farmland.
Allows eligible landscape operators to make certain purchases of certain materials and supplies without payment of sales and use tax.
Directs State Comptroller to identify and recommend certain programmatic budget reductions for certain State agencies, authorities, and instrumentalities.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to make certain consumer reviews and complaints publicly available.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities.
Establishes NJ "Landowner of the Year" award program.
Requires training of certain staff and health care professionals in interacting with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Provides for immediate issuance of marriage and civil union licenses; provides for 72 hour waiting period prior to the ceremony.
Appropriates $3.5 million to Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory improvements project.
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.
Upgrades penalties for violating certain veterinary practice licensure laws.
Creates State Spending Commission to study expenditures of State government.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
Creates New Jersey Military Working Dog Handler and Military Working Dog medal.
Directs Office of CATV to promulgate rules and regulations concerning customers applying to establish CATV service, including requirement that customers provide two proofs of identity.
Permits eviction of tenant from rental housing under certain circumstances due to illegal or dangerous activity.
"Disaster Victims Protection Act"; requires Governor to allocate federal and State disaster aid to municipalities in proportion to amount of catastrophic physical damage sustained within each municipality.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Directs that decision by administrative law judge be considered final agency decision if Civil Service Commission has not met for more than 60 days.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to develop and implement beginning farmer mentoring program in cooperation with certain agricultural and educational organizations and entities.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Establishes Garden State Young Farmers Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons hiring beginning farmers to perform custom farming.
Appropriates $3 million from General Fund to Dept. of Agriculture for financial assistance to farmers whose crops have been affected by Dickeya dianthicola disease and for related research.
Requires school district to admit child who is not resident of school district if grandparent resides in district and provides substantial afterschool care to child.
Authorizes certain county fire coordinators to display emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Exempts certain fuel used for operation of recreational motor boats and vessels from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax.
Establishes requirements for emergency medical technicians to be authorized to administer epinephrine by syringe.
Concerns reimbursement for epinephrine, naloxone, and continuous positive airway pressure administered as an ambulance service.
Expands option of governmental home health care agency to partner with non-governmental providers to deliver health care services.
Requires NJT to study and report on commuting needs of residents in Atlantic, Cumberland, and Cape May counties.
Requires development of manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in certain counties within southern New Jersey.
Establishes task force to determine feasibility of creating New Jersey Marine Science Institute in Atlantic County-Cape May County region.
Requires county colleges to develop juvenile offender reentry programs.
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
Clarifies law concerning circumstances in which members of Pinelands Commission may vote.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety in large residential projects.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Permits municipalities, by ordinance, to prohibit release of balloons.
Allows choice districts to enroll students on tuition basis under certain circumstances.
Prohibits school bus from stopping for students at certain locations.
Authorizes temporary members to fill certain vacancies on Fish and Game Council.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods or cottage foods.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety at certain construction sites.
Permits independent State authorities to establish joint insurance funds.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits crime with bail restrictions be detained prior to trial.
Allows driver's license to indicate post office box mailing address.
Prohibits offshore drilling in State waters and issuance of DEP permits and approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling.
Requires public utility to charge veterans' organization residential rate for service delivered to property at which veterans' organization primarily operates.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 49 in Cumberland County as "Mike Trout Highway."
Provides that Maintenance of Certification is not required for licensed physicians to perform certain professional activities in State.
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.
Repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act" retroactive to January 1, 2017.
Provides for operation of casinos, racetracks, State parks, and motor vehicle agencies in event that state of emergency is declared.
Revises organization and duties of Pinelands Development Credit Bank and repeals various parts of "Pinelands Development Credit Bank Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Allows certain shipyards to conduct certain work on vessels in water.
Limits fees for using electronic toll transponders in rental cars.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law16
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
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 coordinated permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.*
Concerns Code Blue alert plans to shelter at-risk individuals. *
Requires OAL to maintain Internet database summarizing all State rule-making actions.
Provides diamondback terrapins protection as nongame indigenous species.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Requires Internet-connected baby monitors to include security features.
Requires State Auditor to annually report on unspent State account balances.
Establishing New Jersey Commission on Veterans' Benefits in DMVA.
Modifies requirements for receipt of distinguished service medal; codifies qualifications for receipt of meritorious service medal.*
Permits conduct of punch-board games under raffle license.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 55 as "State Trooper Frankie L. Williams Memorial Highway." *
Concerns assessment of buildings or structures on real property located in certain counties following material depreciation thereof.
Authorizes alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.
Vetoed3
Creates viticulture trail tourist directional signs.
Extends duration of first five designated UEZs for two additional years; specifies permissible use of UEZ funds; requires DCA Commissioner to assess and issue report on UEZ program.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties.*
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Provides US Armed Forces and Reserves members with protection against interference with their employment, trade or business.
"New Jersey Open Data Initiative;" to require certain information be provided on Internet to public and State agencies.**
Requires report on status of lead-safe program in DCA.*
Establishes special motorcycle license plates for veterans.
Limits application of DEP shellfish habitat rules for certain dredging activities.
Requires DMVA to notify county veterans' affairs office of death of certain military service members; requires office to have Gold Star liaisons.
Requires Adjutant General to create informational webpage for Gold Star families.
Allows counties to prioritize county homelessness trust fund grants for homeless veterans.
Increases number of State-funded positions at four-year public institution of higher education that establishes postsecondary academic and residential facilities in coastal city with gaming in resort area of State.
Vetoed · 1
Provides certain incentives to qualified businesses in Garden State Growth Zones; creates Garden State Growth Zone at Atlantic City International Airport and surrounding area.
Passed the Senate · 1
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Out of committee · 32
Permits State aid to fund start-up costs for local shared services projects.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.**
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
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.
Increases exclusion amount under New Jersey estate tax; phases out estate tax over five years.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Expands list of retired law enforcement officers eligible to carry handgun.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Requires gubernatorial candidates' statements be posted online.
Permits authorities and local units operating water supply or sewerage facilities to waive, reduce, or defer sewerage and water service fees for deployed military personnel.
Creates exemption from certain MVC fees for prisoners of war.
Exempts honorably discharged United States military veterans from initial insurance producer licensing fee.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Includes all disabled veterans in NJT discount program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Requires school bus transporting students using wheelchairs to be equipped with four-point securement system; requires school bus operator to secure students using wheelchairs.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires State Comptroller to report findings of audit compliance reviews.
Codifies DEP's New Jersey Recycling Awards Program to annually recognize outstanding recycling achievements.
Authorizes certain benefits for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.
Establishes Gold Star Family Counseling Program in DMVA; creates tax credit for certain health care professionals.
Requires DMVA to distribute military discharge upgrade information.
Establishes Gold Star Family Scholarship Program; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Exempts disabled veterans from beach buggy permit fees.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Removes seven-day limitation for continued operation of casinos and racetracks in event that a state of emergency is declared; deems certain employees essential during budget-related state of emergency.*
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
Establishes Nuclear Diversity Certificate program.
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Revises law concerning ticket sales.
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.
Provides certain small businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy a corporation business tax or gross income tax credit for certain reinvestment in shore municipalities.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
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.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
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.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Designates five State songs.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Requires certain commissions to maintain meeting minutes; establishes Governor's authority to approve or veto the minutes of those commissions.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Reduces thresholds for certain heroin offenses.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public service privatization contracts.
Changes law regulating size limits of lobsters.
Shortens term of municipal court judges from three years to one year.
Requires various measures to address effects of low levels of lead exposure.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act.
Requires four-year public institutions of higher education to have one veteran coordinator for every 200 veteran students; requires veteran coordinator to work with DMVA to ensure veterans have access to all available services.
Requires certain CATV companies to make CATV service available throughout residential areas of municipality within specified number of years after CATV company first provides service to municipality.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Excludes paraffin used in manufacture of candles from petroleum products gross receipts tax.
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Transfers authority to regulate bail agents from DOBI to DLPS; requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of complaint-warrant.
Establishes New Jersey Business Action Center in Department of State.
Decreases petroleum products gross receipts tax rate on certain petroleum products.
Requires driver education course to include instruction on interacting with law enforcement officer during traffic stop.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Establishes annual grant program to recognize public institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Reinstates death penalty for certain murders.
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each housing unit occupied by a veteran; permits municipalities to satisfy fair share affordable housing obligation through 35 percent set aside for ve
Authorizes COAH to credit municipalities with 1.5 units of fair share affordable housing obligation for each unit of transitional housing occupied by a veteran.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
"Voter Privacy Act"; establishes protections for privacy of voters; prohibits automated programs to remove names of ineligible voters from official lists of eligible voters; prohibits sharing of certain voter information with federal government.