Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, in the General Assembly and then the Senate.
Bob Andrzejczak
General Assembly
Sponsored
Became law7
"Combat to College Act"; grants priority course registration to military service members and veterans attending public institutions of higher education.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.*
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
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.
Vetoed2
Revises law concerning alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee.*
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance; establishes fund to encourage designated drivers.
Passed the General Assembly3
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.*
Authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Permits certain deer control activities; establishes check-off donation on hunting license applications to support venison donation program; authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.*
Out of committee15
Appropriates $3.5 million to Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory improvements project.
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.
Permits, and establishes requirements for, sale of cottage food products.
Authorizes award of reasonable costs and attorney fees to farmers prevailing in certain farm management disputes.
Clarifies law concerning circumstances in which members of Pinelands Commission may vote.
Authorizes certain county fire coordinators to display emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Expands option of governmental home health care agency to partner with non-governmental providers to deliver health care services.
Transfers administration of certain nutrition programs to Department of Agriculture.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Makes various changes to law governing winery salesrooms.
Establishes marketing and advertising campaign for State wineries and viticulture attractions.*
Permits agriculture-related events on preserved farmland.
Provides funding from the General Fund to the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority; appropriates $4 million.*
Revises standard for warrantless seizure of animal at risk due to violation of law concerning necessary care and tethering of animals.
Authorizes school food authority to use cost reimbursable contract or fixed price contract for school meals.
In committee72
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
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.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Requires retail establishments to allow persons with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Allows consumption of food on craft distillery premises.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Excludes veteran disability compensation from income qualification limits under homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Authorizes special striped bass license plate.
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of service.
Eliminates three year renewal requirement for disability parking identification cards and placards.
Requires telemarketers making sales calls to display their name and telephone number on any caller identification service.
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.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities.
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.
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 hiring beginning farmers to perform custom farming.
Establishes "New Farmers Improvement Grant Program" to provide matching grants for farm improvements to beginning farmers.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program to assist beginning farmers in financing capital purchases.
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.
Requires NJT to study and report on commuting needs of residents in Atlantic, Cumberland, and Cape May counties.
Allows choice districts to enroll students on tuition basis under certain circumstances.
Allows certain shipyards to conduct certain work on vessels in water.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for volunteer emergency workers and persons with certain types of military service.
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service.
Excludes corrugated containers sold by the manufacturer from definition of "litter-generating product"; exempts such sales from user fee imposed under "Clean Communities Program Act."
Excluding from gross income taxation certain pension payments received by police officers and firefighters.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Prohibits school bus from stopping for students at certain locations.
Authorizes creation of Wounded Warrior licence plate.
Excludes certain health care service firms from certain requirements.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who commits crime with bail restrictions be detained prior to trial.
Permits qualified person with post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain handicapped parking placard.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
Provides gross income tax credits to support development of New Jersey-based small business start-ups.
Establishes requirements for emergency medical technicians to be authorized to administer epinephrine by syringe.
Allows operators of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and bicycles to proceed through malfunctioning steady red light under certain circumstances.
Requires State to pledge to ensure availability of job training or similar activities to certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to prevent loss of benefits.
Appropriates $5 million from General Fund to Dept. of Agriculture for financial assistance to fishermen affected by 2017 reduction in summer flounder and black sea bass harvest quotas.
Revises organization and duties of Pinelands Development Credit Bank and repeals various parts of "Pinelands Development Credit Bank Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State to fund Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station.
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Concerns reimbursement for epinephrine, naloxone, and continuous positive airway pressure administered as an ambulance service.
Requires driver's manual to include driver's responsibilities during police stop and under State's "move over" law; requires driver testing on responsibilities during police stop; and authorizes driver testing on duties under State's "move over" law.
Establishes Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Task Force.
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.
Concerns assessment of real property; requires cessation of all State aid to municipality under certain circumstances when assessments not kept current.
Provides fair standards for elections and recall of officers for homeowners' associations.
Creates State Dredging Task Force.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
Prohibits Dept. of Agriculture from adopting any rules, regulations, or standards concerning bees or beekeeping until it properly and fully complies with requirement in law to consult with certain entities.
Designates Dept. of Agriculture as sole agency to administer "Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program."
Permits school participating in NJ "Farm to School" program to submit recipe for posting on Department of Agriculture website.
Allows qualified school to be called "New Jersey Farm Fresh School."
Establishes minimum criminal penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Expands new home warranty protections.
Establishes "Adopt-A-Farm" school partnership program in public secondary schools.
Transfers the Division of Fish and Wildlife and related entities to the Dept. of Agriculture.
Allows eligible landscape operators to make certain purchases of certain materials and supplies without payment of sales and use tax.
Revises animal cruelty provisions concerning euthanizing and impoundment of animals, establishes civil penalty for improper euthanizing of animals; repeals conflicting sections of law.
Revises animal cruelty offenses involving neglect and abuse, and the penalties therefor; repeals appropriate sections of law.
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.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Establishes program to allow certain motorcycle events to be held in State parks, forest, and wildlife management areas.
Changes definition of final compensation for benefit calculation to include highest compensation in any year of membership for certain members.
Creates hunting and fishing guide license.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Requires certain schools to maintain supply of opioid antidotes and permits emergency administration of opioid antidote by school nurse or trained employee.
Requires public utility to charge veterans' organization residential rate for service delivered to property at which veterans' organization primarily operates.
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.
Directs the Division of Travel and Tourism to publish on its website information of farm-to-table restaurants.
Establishes NJ "Landowner of the Year" award program.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to create pilot program to research cultivation of industrial hemp.*
"Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act"; permits qualified terminally ill patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner.*
Extends pilot program authorizing special occasion events at wineries on preserved farmland; implements reporting requirement.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from making certain retroactive reductions in claims payments to pharmacies; requires pharmacy benefits managers to disclose certain product information to pharmacies.*
Allows wagering at casinos and racetracks on certain professional and collegiate sports or athletic events.
Appropriates $15,294,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Appropriates $9.703 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Concerns reimbursements to Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners subjected to contractor fraud.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DEP and adds language provisions concerning use of certain environmental settlement monies for natural resource restoration projects.
Establishes Farm Liaison in Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates $1,190,349 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for historic site management grants to certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses.
Makes transient accommodation taxes and fees only applicable if it is obtained through a marketplace or if it is a professionally managed unit.*
Enhances penalties related to counterfeit drugs.
Establishes program for cultivation, handling, processing, transport, and sale of hemp; repeals New Jersey Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.
Establishes uniform standard for acceptable proof of veteran status for veteran's ID cards and various State and local programs.
Requires DEP Commissioner to establish individual transferable quota system for menhaden purse seine fishery.
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Vetoed · 2
Establishes "Electronic Permit Processing Review System."
Requires reporting of opioid deaths.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require criminal history records check for person to serve as official at athletic events sanctioned by association.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Allows consumption of food on limited brewery premises.
Establishes "New Jersey Military Advisory Board."
Requires hospitals to include warning in patient discharge papers concerning risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications.
Out of committee · 15
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Permits issuance of motorcycle endorsement to certain out-of-State military personnel.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish loan program for certain vineyard and winery capital expenses.
Clarifies certain responsibilities of licensed wineries and retail salesrooms.
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.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Exempts governmental entities acquiring lands for open space located in a deed-authorized common interest community from paying community fees if, at time of acquisition, community has never been formed or has been dissolved or discontinued.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to authorize and advise food hubs.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers and carriers from engaging in "clawback" and "gag clause" practices; requires certain disclosures by pharmacists; requires Director of Division of Consumer Affairs to conduct public information campaign.***
Establishes NJ Agricultural Literacy Week.
In committee · 104
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
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.
Decreases Alcoholic Beverage Tax rate paid on certain liquors.
Prohibits dual elective office holding and holding of elective office and public office or position.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Dedicates 30 percent of all UEZ sales tax revenues to respective UEZ account and 70 percent of UEZ sales tax revenues to General Fund.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits certain retired law enforcement officers to possess hollow nose ammunition.
"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.
Establishes "Atlantic City Growth Tax Credit Program" to grant tax credits to promote the development of non-rental housing in Atlantic City.
Provides tax credits to vineyards and wineries for qualified capital expenses.
Removes seven-day limitation for continued operation of casinos and racetracks in event that a state of emergency is declared.
Changes law regulating size limits of lobsters.
Converts loan awarded to Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum from loan to grant.
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
Permits a joint meeting by the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to review and veto utility rate increases approved by BPU.
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
Requires 40 hours annual in-service training for State corrections officers.
Establishes aid program for certain municipalities with State correctional facilities.
Restores State fiscal year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.
Establishes compensation program for State, county, and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Requires DOT and DEP to conduct study on options to alleviate congestion on Route 47.
Reinstates sick leave injury program for State corrections officers and juvenile justice officers under certain circumstances.
Establishes guardianship monitoring program in Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults.
Reduces State hotel and motel occupancy fee from five to two percent starting FY2011; preserves dedication.
Increases amount annually credited to Shore Protection Fund to $50 million.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Provides family leave insurance for certain first responders.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 15-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Exempts certain fuel used for operation of recreational motor boats and vessels from petroleum products gross receipts tax and motor fuel tax.
Requires development of manufacturing business attraction, expansion, and retention marketing plan for areas located in certain counties within southern New Jersey.
Designates portion of the State Highway Route 49 in Cumberland County as "Mike Trout Highway."
Requires county colleges to develop juvenile offender reentry programs.
Establishes task force to determine feasibility of creating New Jersey Marine Science Institute in Atlantic County-Cape May County region.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Provides assistance to manufacturing businesses by having certain State agencies promote economic development and identify credentials needed for careers in modern manufacturing.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Authorizes temporary waiver from requirement that farm winery use NJ grown fruit.
Appropriates $1,737,902 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Transfers authority to regulate bail agents from DOBI to DLPS; requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of complaint-warrant.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit, select, and train veterans for school security positions in school districts.
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.
Extends duration of urban enterprise zones for 10 additional years; specifies permissable use of funds.
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.
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.
Establishes NJ "Farm-to-Table Restaurant" awards program.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Establishes New Jersey Eco-Ag Tourism Council.
Designates Common Eastern Bumble Bee as New Jersey State Native Pollinator.
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.
Exempts veterans from non-driver identification card fees.
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Authorizes restricted breweries to annually sell up to 1,000 barrels of beer to in-State and out-of-state retailers.
Prohibits incarcerated individuals from receiving Medicaid, Work First New Jersey, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from collecting copayments in excess of certain amounts "clawbacks"; requires certain language prohibiting "gag clauses" in contracts with pharmacists.
Requires NJEDA to establish loan program for certain farming operation equipment purchases.
Establishes Loan Redemption Program for Teachers of Agriculture in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Concerns withholdings and deductions from employee wages for certain payments.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
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.
Directs State Comptroller to identify and recommend certain programmatic budget reductions for certain State agencies, authorities, and instrumentalities.
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."
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."
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults as crimes with bail restrictions.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Makes "Skinner's and Michelle's Law" violators subject to No Early Release Act sentencing guidelines.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Revises qualifications for handgun permit, establishes crimes for certain handgun use; establishes annual fee of $100.
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 DOE to develop Veterans in the Schools Program to teach students about military experiences of local veterans.
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 school district hiring preference for veterans.
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Provides gross income tax deduction to certain surviving spouses of veterans.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Permits community gardens to sell excess produce.
Authorizes wagering at casinos and racetracks on results of certain professional or collegiate sports or athletic events.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Creates civil service preference for peacetime veterans.
Provides limited civil liability immunity to farmers hosting agritourism activities.
Establishes annual grant program to recognize public institutions of higher education that offer comprehensive array of veteran programs and services.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.
Waives business formation and registration fees for establishment of businesses owned by veterans.
Requires Dept. of Agriculture to provide for electronic submittal of milk dealer license applications.
Excludes transient accommodations in shore counties from various State and local taxes.
Reduces residency requirement for resident hunting licenses from six months to 60 days.
Requires Legislative approval for automatic increases of petroleum products taxes.
"New Jersey Safe Haven for Protection of Domestic Companion Animals Act."
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.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Establishes procedures for disqualification from public office or employment upon conviction of certain crimes; creates registry.
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.
Exempts certain water quality management structures, funded by certain federal and State grants, from real property taxation.
Creates rebuttable presumption in workers' compensation cases of respiratory disease of casino employees working in smoking areas.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Requires permanent loss of driver's license for three drunk driving offenses in 10 years.
Filed · 1
Provides tax credit eligibility for qualified businesses at certain airports under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program.
Senate
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
Allows alcoholic beverages to be consumed outdoors in Atlantic City Tourism District.
Out of committee15
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth 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.*
Designates portion of State Highway Route 55 in City of Millville as "Mike Trout Interchange."
Enhances penalties related to counterfeit drugs.
Authorizes mayors to veto proposed actions of municipal authorities.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Requires counties to appoint shared services coordinators; appropriates $2 million to fund these appointments.
Requires DEP Commissioner to establish individual transferable quota system for menhaden purse seine fishery.
Establishes NJ "Landowner of the Year" award program.
Prohibits municipalities from imposing local fire safety standards stricter than State fire safety code in certain circumstances.
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.*
Requires promulgation of separate code criteria for certain buildings.
In committee168
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
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.
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.
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.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety at certain construction sites.
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."
Reduces State hotel and motel occupancy fee from five to two percent starting FY2019; preserves dedication.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State to fund Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Establishes program to allow certain motorcycle events to be held in State parks, forest, and wildlife management areas.
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.
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.
Requires NJ Division of Travel and Tourism prepare report on State travel and tourism industry recovery since Superstorm Sandy.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to New Jersey Library Network for continuation of services.
Permits transmittal of certain land use notices via regular mail.
Establishes penalties for leaving child unattended in motor vehicle.
Concerns eligibility of certain federal employees for unemployment compensation benefits.
Expands definitions of seasonal employment and seasonal employer with respect to payment of minimum wage.
Returns control of salaries of county constitutional officers to boards of chosen freeholders.
Expands implied consent statute to include urine testing.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Clarifies municipal authority to share construction code officials.
Provides school district will receive no less than amount of State aid received in 2017-2018 school year.
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
Recognizes Howell House in Cape May as Harriet Tubman Museum in New Jersey.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline SNAP application process for senior citizens and conduct outreach regarding senior SNAP participation.
Establishes grant program in DOE for school districts' purchase of technology for virtual inclusion programs to allow students with medical conditions to participate in classroom setting remotely.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Provides that driver's licenses and identification cards are valid for 48 months.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Requires inclusion of senior citizen and disability status in foreclosure case information statement.
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
Eliminates automatic increases of petroleum products taxes.
Requires local authorities to include veterans' organizations in class of ratepayers charged lowest rates.
"Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral Act"; allows certain seniors to defer property tax payments.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding senior citizens in property tax lien foreclosure; requires notification of certain county offices upon senior citizen property tax lien sale; requires collector to provide requested lien satisfac
Establishes $140 standard medical expense deduction under SNAP for certain senior citizens.
Permits self-verification of unearned income, household size, residency, identity, and shelter expenses on New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program application for certain senior citizens.
Requires reduction in number of State vehicles over five fiscal years.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Requires DCA to provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update its low-income home energy assistance program handbook, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program.
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Exempts certain motorcycle operators from helmet law.
Revises DEP's Green Acres Program to encourage promotion and protection of urban forests.
Allows persons 65 and older to operate all-terrain vehicles on certain State lands while hunting.
Requires new gasoline-powered motor vehicles purchased by State to have fuel mileage of more than 30 miles to the gallon; encourages State purchase of electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles.
Exempts certain officers trained in animal cruelty from certain additional Police Training Commission training courses.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to farm employers for providing lodging or transportation benefits.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers related to increase in State minimum wage.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers for increases in certain mandatory employer contributions.
Directs DEP to establish leasing program for State-owned land to be used and managed as pollinator habitat.
Requires EDA, in consultation with Department of Agriculture, to establish temporary loan program for small business and farm employers.
Requires State Board of Agriculture to provide list of environmentally harmful plant species to Legislature each year.
Directs DEP to establish pollinator habitat program for closed landfills.
Allows taxpayers to deduct cost of certain depreciable assets under corporation business and gross income taxes.
Allows collection of seeds from wild native plants.
Creates "Pollinator Pathway" designation for municipalities.
Establishes "pollinator-friendly" label for plants.
Requires reduced worker's compensation premiums for farm employers and small employers.
Establishes three-year study on impact of minimum wage increases on businesses.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $200,000 for the Delaware River Basin Commission.
Prohibits certain substance use disorder treatment facilities from paying fees, commissions, or rebates to any person to refer patients to facility.
Requires retail companies that subcontract work or services to provide certain notifications to consumers; makes these companies liable to consumers for certain damages.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DMVA for ancillary transportation for residents of Veterans' Memorial Homes.
Requires State Lottery to award lottery sales agent of winning ticket percentage, commission, or bonus agent is entitled to receive even if prize money is unclaimed.
Authorizes award of reasonable costs and attorney fees to farmers prevailing in certain farm management disputes.
Provides that certain school districts will not be subject to reduction in State school aid.
Establishes "Business Grievance Board" in but not of DEP.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans property tax exemption to members of United States Armed Forces who served during Libyan conflict.
Includes in resident enrollment of county vocational school district all pupils enrolled on full-time basis regardless of county of residence.
Designates 9-1-1 operators or dispatchers as 9-1-1 first responder dispatchers.
Incorporates boardwalks into transportation local aid program and provides for Local Aid Infrastructure Fund grants to boardwalk projects.
Provides certain health care benefits to surviving dependents of accidental disability retiree who participated in 9/11 WTC rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations; clarifies eligibility criteria for recalculation of retirement allowance for such particip
Requires Sexual Assault Response Team to include person trained in interacting with persons with developmental disabilities; designated as "Harrison's Law."
Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.
Requires DMVA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
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.*
Exempts governmental entities acquiring lands for open space located in a deed-authorized common interest community from paying community fees if, at time of acquisition, community has never been formed or has been dissolved or discontinued.
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Directs Dept. of Agriculture to authorize and advise food hubs.
Establishes goals and initiatives for increased use of use of plug-in electric vehicles.**
Revises standard for warrantless seizure of animal at risk due to violation of law concerning necessary care and tethering of animals.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers and carriers from engaging in "clawback" and "gag clause" practices; requires certain disclosures by pharmacists; requires Director of Division of Consumer Affairs to conduct public information campaign.***
Increases prenotification time and requires severance pay in certain plant closings, transfers, and mass layoffs.**
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Provides tax credit eligibility for qualified businesses at certain airports under Grow New Jersey Assistance Program.
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states.
Provides funding from the General Fund to the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority; appropriates $4 million.*
Revises law relating to common interest communities.
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Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Authorizes grants to purchase and rehabilitate abandoned homes for homeless veterans.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees.*
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
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Requires municipalities to share certain payments received in lieu of property taxes with school districts; informs counties and school districts of application for property tax exemption.
"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.
Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from making certain retroactive reductions in claims payments to pharmacies; requires pharmacy benefits managers to disclose certain product information to pharmacies.*
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.
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.
Requires institution of higher education to award appropriate credit for student's military service.
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. *
Permits municipal, county, and regional police and fire forces to establish five-year residency requirement for police officers and firefighters; allows exceptions to requirement under certain circumstances.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes notification standards regarding automatic renewal of service contracts.
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance; establishes fund to encourage designated drivers.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Makes transient accommodation taxes and fees only applicable if rented through marketplace or travel agency.*
Concerns reimbursements to Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners subjected to contractor fraud.
Requires owner notification of rabies testing protocol and owner options prior to testing of owner's animal for rabies.
Requires Department of Community Affairs to approve credentialing entity to develop and administer a voluntary recovery residence certification program.
Increases days of paid leave of absence for public employees who serve in United States Reserves.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
Establishes program for cultivation, handling, processing, transport, and sale of hemp; repeals New Jersey Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.
Permits use of paid leave by public officers and employees for required inactive duty military training.
Establishes uniform standard for acceptable proof of veteran status for veteran's ID cards and various State and local programs.
Requires reporting of opioid deaths.
Establishes "Electronic Permit Processing Review System."
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
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Revises certain Class Three special law enforcement officer appointment qualifications.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Establishes certain exceptions for emergency personnel operating personal watercraft while providing rescue services.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
Authorizes woman veteran license plates.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Expands eligibility for property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes presumption of joint legal and physical custody in child custody matters.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
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.
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.
Permits taxpayers to deduct the total amount of State property taxes paid on principal residence from gross income tax obligation.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
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.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
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.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
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.
Allows consumption of food on craft distillery premises.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education for dependents of certain veterans.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Requires 40 hours annual in-service training for State corrections officers.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for restricted use license.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Establishes Loan Redemption Program for Teachers of Agriculture in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Establishes grant program for homeless veterans shelters.
Reinstates sick leave injury program for State corrections officers and juvenile justice officers under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires certain ratios of school library media specialist to students in public schools.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Designates drug court program as the "special probation recovery court program" in statutes.
Authorizes issuance of multi-species depredation permit for wildlife control on farmland.
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Permits boards of chosen freeholders to hold annual meeting at certain public buildings.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Clarifies that crimes of trespassing and invasion of privacy also include use of unmanned aircraft systems.
Permits participation in law enforcement officer category of PERS by members who were not eligible for enrollment in PFRS due to age or medical restrictions.
Revises definition of "veteran" for eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and veterans' property tax exemption.
Changes definition of veteran for civil service hiring preference.
Changes definition of veteran and eliminates requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations for certain pension benefits.
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Requires preservation of employee benefits and contractual rights as condition of sale of Atlantic City International Airport.
Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Clarifies bilingual Spanish and English language accessibility requirements applicable to printing primary and general election ballots in certain districts.
Requires municipal authorities to include veterans' organizations in class of ratepayers charged lowest rates.
Establishes reasonableness standard for persons lawfully transporting firearm who deviate from course of travel.
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Extends certain civil service and tuition benefits to family members of servicemembers who died while in service.
Expands EDA small business loan program to include certain broadband telecommunications service providers.
Requires certain health care plans to be offered by SEHBP and local boards of education; requires SEHBP commission to establish employee contribution rates for certain plans; requires local boards of education provide certain information on health care be