Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, Senate.
Jeff Van Drew
Sponsored
Became law5
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Expands option of governmental home health care agency to partner with non-governmental providers to deliver health care services.
Establishes marketing and advertising campaign for State wineries and viticulture attractions.*
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Authorizes State Treasurer to convey surplus real property known as Learning Center in City of Vineland, County of Cumberland.
Vetoed2
Provides tax credit eligibility for qualified businesses at certain airports under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program.
Provides funding from the General Fund to the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority; appropriates $4 million.*
Passed the Senate1
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Out of committee7
Authorizes alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.
Prohibits offshore oil and gas exploration, development, and production in State waters, and issuance of DEP permits and approvals for activities associated with offshore oil and gas activities. *
Clarifies that use of propane-powered noise making device is allowed as non-lethal method of wildlife control on farmland.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.
Revises requirements for swimming pools to comply with certain regulations concerning lifeguards, inspections, and circulation systems.*
Provides that former law enforcement officers and firefighters who retired due to disability are eligible to receive tuition assistance to attend public institution of higher education or proprietary institution licensed to confer academic degrees. *
In committee15
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.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
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.
Allows consumption of food on craft distillery premises.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
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 inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
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.
Expands new home warranty protections.
Removes seven-day limitation for continued operation of casinos and racetracks in event that a state of emergency is declared.
Designates drug court program as the "special probation recovery court program" in statutes.
Directs DOE to develop Veterans in the Schools Program to teach students about military experiences of local veterans.
Creates hunting and fishing guide license.
Filed1
FY2019 supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to Shellfish and Marine Fisheries Management for Bureau of Marine Fisheries in DEP.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law8
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
Prohibits offshore oil and gas exploration, development, and production in State waters, and issuance of DEP permits and approvals for activities associated with offshore oil and gas activities.*
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Clarifies that use of propane-powered noise making device is allowed as non-lethal method of wildlife control on farmland.
Establishes Possession In Excess of Daily Limit Vessel License for black sea bass and summer flounder; dedicates fees therefrom to marine fisheries programs.**
Revises requirements for swimming pools to comply with certain regulations concerning lifeguards, inspections, and circulation systems.
FY2019 supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to Shellfish and Marine Fisheries Management for Bureau of Marine Fisheries in DEP.
Vetoed1
Revises law concerning alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Authorizes certain local government utilities to impose additional connection fees; requires certain new credits and reductions for these fees.
Establishes zero emission certificate program for nuclear power plants.
Requires landlords to count federal military service member and veteran housing allowances as income for purposes of qualifying for rental housing; designated as Securing Electronic Records for Veterans Ease Act.
Directs Adjutant General to enter into agreements with legal services organizations to provide legal services to homeless veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness.
Vetoed · 1
Revises law relating to common interest communities.
Passed the Senate · 3
Excludes from gross income taxation military compensation for personnel serving outside of State and combat zone compensation.*
Allows certain persons convicted of certain drug offenses to qualify for casino key employee license and casino employee registration. *
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Out of committee · 26
Provides gross income tax credit to certain totally and permanently disabled veterans for rent constituting property taxes.
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
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 and modifies clean energy and energy efficiency programs; establishes zero emission certificate program; modifies State's solar renewable portfolio standards. *
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.
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 Garden State Young Farmers Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons leasing agricultural land to beginning farmers.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits. *
Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.
Establishes Veterans Assistance Grant Program for nonprofit organizations to provide certain services to veterans.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
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.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of US Armed Forces, NJ National Guard, and reserve component of US Armed Forces and make recommendations to State on issues. *
Creates Garden State Growth Zone at Atlantic City International Airport and surrounding area; adjusts full-time employee designation requirements.*
Establishes and modifies clean energy and energy efficiency programs; modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Requires public utility to charge veterans' organization residential rate for service delivered to property at which veterans' organization primarily operates.
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance; establishes fund to encourage designated drivers.
Allows wagering at casinos and racetracks on certain professional and collegiate sports or athletic events.
Provides civil service preference to military servicemembers who served in humanitarian Operations Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II.
Establishes Possession In Excess of Daily Limit Vessel License for black sea bass and summer flounder; dedicates fees therefrom to marine fisheries programs.*
Concerns reimbursements to Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners subjected to contractor fraud.
In committee · 161
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Exempts certain fuel used for operation of recreational motor boats and vessels from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax.
Clarifies law concerning circumstances in which members of Pinelands Commission may vote.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
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.
"Consumer Freedom From Unwanted Expense in Health Insurance Coverage Act."
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
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.
Provides US Armed Forces and Reserves members with protection against interference with their employment, trade or business.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Requires school bus transporting students using wheelchairs to be equipped with four-point securement system; requires school bus operator to secure students using wheelchairs.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Limits patient information behavioral health care providers may disclose to health insurance carriers.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Concerns time frames for establishing or enforcing property rights related to adverse possession.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
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.
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.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety at certain construction sites.
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Restores State fiscal year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.
Repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act" retroactive to January 1, 2017.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety in large residential projects.
"New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Reduces State hotel and motel occupancy fee from five to two percent starting FY2019; preserves dedication.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
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.
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.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
Authorizes temporary members to fill certain vacancies on Fish and Game Council.
Provides certain veteran benefits to veterans of the global war on terror conflicts and those of certain military engagements served during certain periods.
Establishes requirements for emergency medical technicians to be authorized to administer epinephrine by syringe.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods or cottage foods.
Excludes certain health care service firms from certain requirements.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.
Requires DHS to approve providers that serve persons with developmental disabilities in all areas of State.
Requires training of certain staff and health care professionals in interacting with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service.
Concerns UEZ program funding to qualifying municipalities.
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.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities.
Directs State Comptroller to identify and recommend certain programmatic budget reductions for certain State agencies, authorities, and instrumentalities.
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.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for volunteer emergency workers and persons with certain types of military service.
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."
"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.
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Establishes Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Task Force.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State to fund Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Allows choice districts to enroll students on tuition basis under certain circumstances.
Allows operators of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and bicycles to proceed through malfunctioning steady red light under certain circumstances.
Concerns withholdings and deductions from employee wages for certain payments.
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
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.
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.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to persons hiring beginning farmers to perform custom farming.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
Eliminates DOLWD licensing for operators of refrigerating plants using anhydrous ammonia.
Permits qualified person with post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain handicapped parking placard.
Authorizes certain county fire coordinators to display emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Creates striped bass license plates.
Prohibits school bus from stopping for students at certain locations.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Provides family leave insurance for certain first responders.
Establishes Office of Common Interest Community Association Ombudsman.
Permits eviction of tenant from rental housing under certain circumstances due to illegal or dangerous activity.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Authorizes medical marijuana for qualifying patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Permits a joint meeting by the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to review and veto utility rate increases approved by BPU.
Establishes aid program for certain municipalities with State correctional facilities.
Makes "Skinner's and Michelle's Law" violators subject to No Early Release Act sentencing guidelines.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits crime with bail restrictions be detained prior to trial.
Requires civilian employees of DOC to be trained in gang awareness.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Requires 40 hours annual in-service training for State corrections officers.
Provides court with sentencing discretion in certain cases under the "Graves Act."
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Increases certain penalties for vehicular homicides involving intoxicated drivers; designated "Josh's and Craig's Law."
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.
"Tipped Wage Worker Protection Act."
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Decriminalizes possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana and personal-use amount of regulated marijuana-infused products; requires substance abuse treatment under certain circumstances.
Requires all sex offender registration information to be published on Internet registry.
Establishes Loan Redemption Program for Teachers of Agriculture in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to make certain consumer reviews and complaints publicly available.
Makes Fiscal Year 2018 General Fund appropriation of $500,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.
Reinstates sick leave injury program for State corrections officers and juvenile justice officers under certain circumstances.
Revises animal cruelty provisions concerning euthanizing and impoundment of animals, establishes civil penalty for improper euthanizing of animals; repeals conflicting sections of law.
Establishes minimum criminal penalties and additional court-ordered penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Permits agriculture-related events on preserved farmland.
Creates State Dredging Task Force.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to develop and implement beginning farmer mentoring program in cooperation with certain agricultural and educational organizations and entities.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.
Requires DOT and DEP to conduct study on options to alleviate congestion on Route 47.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Recognizes residential property tax advance payments for gross income tax homestead property tax deduction.
Requires handlers of dogs used in law enforcement be provided opioid antidote.
"Steven Schmincke's Law"; facilitates sober living home construction financing.
Prohibits emergency medical services providers from billing patients unless provider actually provided necessary services when responding to emergency dispatch.
Requires DOH to approve credentialing entity to develop and administer a voluntary recovery residence certification program.
Establishes uniform rates for water and sewer services for residential use based exclusively on metered consumption.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMVA for air quality studies to support campaign for award of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets at 177th Air National Guard base.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes program to allow certain motorcycle events to be held in State parks, forest, and wildlife management areas.
Authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Permits boards of chosen freeholders to hold annual meeting at certain public buildings.
Repeals imposition of State sales and use tax and hotel and motel occupancy fee on transient accommodations; repeals authorization of various municipal taxes and fees on transient accommodations.
Provides certain State assistance to qualified federal opportunity zone businesses.
Amends effective date of P.L.2018, c.49 concerning taxes and fees imposed on rentals of transient accommodations and allows refund for already paid taxes and fees.
Requires licensure for veterinary technicians.
Excludes transient accommodations in shore counties from various State and local taxes.
Requires Legislative approval for automatic increases of petroleum products taxes.
Establishes "New Jersey Military Advisory Board."
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses."
Clarifies that municipalities may not prohibit sale and use of legal consumer fireworks.
Permits DEP to enter into solar energy redevelopment agreements with owners or operators of sanitary landfill facilities under certain circumstances.
Establishes Emergency Green Alert System for missing members and veterans of Armed Forces.
Requires NJ Division of Travel and Tourism prepare report on State travel and tourism industry recovery since Superstorm Sandy.