Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Bob Andrzejczak
Sponsored
Became law1
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Out of committee2
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
In committee16
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
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.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Requires shore municipalities to provide active members of the military and veterans free access to beaches.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Authorizes school district hiring preference for veterans.
Designates New Jersey Route 47 from Wildwood City to Maurice River Township as "Veterans Memorial Highway at Delsea Drive."
Designates Stone Harbor Boulevard Interchange of Garden State Parkway as "Christopher Meyer Memorial Interchange."
Authorizes municipalities to contract with appropriately trained municipal firefighters to provide paramedic services.
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.
"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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Vetoed1
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding, subject to availability, for burial of indigent veterans.*
Requires DOE provide professional development opportunities related to reading disabilities; mandates certain school district personnel annually compete two hours of professional development related to reading disabilities.*
Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.
Establishes directed bait and human food fishery for menhaden, and clarifies existing law regarding taking of menhaden.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit, select, and train veterans for school security positions in school districts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Establishes certain pet shop requirements and standards for care of dogs.
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.*
Out of committee · 20
Creates State Beach Task Force.
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.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.*
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.*
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*
Enhances penalty for tampering with evidence after fleeing the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Establishes cruelly restraining a dog as a criminal and civil animal cruelty offense.
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Establishes minimum criminal penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.*
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.*
Revises animal cruelty provisions concerning euthanizing and impoundment of animals, and provisions for court disposition of seized animals; establishes civil penalty for improper euthanizing of animals; repeals conflicting sections of law.
Allows SPRS members to purchase SPRS credit for prior military service.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
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.
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.*
In committee · 31
Bars sales of aerosol dusters to persons under the age of 18.
Authorizes property tax levy cap banking by local units and boards of education.
Revises qualifications and requirements for permits to carry handgun; establishes annual fee of $100.
Eliminates imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to or use of certain health and fitness clubs and organizations.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations.
Requires the State Police to implement reverse lane strategy on certain roads.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution.
Requires State Treasurer, in consultation with State Comptroller, to promulgate rules and regulations concerning best practices for awarding independent State authority contracts.
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.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 2% over the prior academic year.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Restores Fiscal Year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.
Makes "Skinner's and Michelle's Law" violators subject to No Early Release Act sentencing guidelines.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.
Establishes "State Vehicle Reduction Task Force."
Requires that candidates for certain teaching certificates, in addition to existing requirements, also pass a written test on the foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Provides family leave insurance for certain first responders.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher education institutions
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Establishes additional standards regulating the conduct of licensed public adjusters.
Makes disabled persons receiving disability payments pursuant to federal Railroad Retirement Act eligible to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Establishes farmland preservation inheritance tax deduction program within Department of Agriculture.
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."
Designates four State songs.
Reduces fire service requirement for exempt fireman certificate.
Requires MVC to provide Gold Star Family decals to certain family members of armed services members who died while on active duty.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to fund the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for portion of foregone property tax revenue resulting from veterans' property tax exemption.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.