Bills in the 2018–2019 Session, General Assembly.
Matthew W. Milam
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires DEP Commissioner to establish individual transferable quota system for menhaden purse seine fishery.
Modifies powers and duties of New Jersey Infrastructure Bank.
Expands eligibility for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qualified dairy farmers.
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires Business Action Center to develop single application form to determine business assistance program eligibility.
Requires drugs involved in fatal overdoses to be identified.
Out of committee4
Expands eligibility for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qualified dairy farmers. *
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
Allows collection of seeds from wild native plants.
Requires DCA to establish training course concerning certain fire code enforcement activities.*
In committee20
Concerns eligibility of certain federal employees for unemployment compensation benefits.
Shortens term of municipal court judges from three years to one year.
Clarifies disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients are not required to own vehicle to be exempt from municipal parking meter fees.
Authorizes mayors to veto proposed actions of municipal authorities.
Clarifies municipal authority to share construction code officials.
Requires reduction in number of State vehicles over five fiscal years.
Returns control of salaries of county constitutional officers to boards of chosen freeholders.
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.
Eliminates shellfish license fee for veterans and active duty service members.
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.
Exempts certain motorcycle operators from helmet law.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to farm employers for providing lodging or transportation benefits.
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.
Permits use of paid leave by public officers and employees for required inactive duty military training.
Exempts certain veterans from driver's license fee, motorcycle license fee, and digitized picture fee.
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.
Establishes "Business Grievance Board" in but not of DEP.
Requires DMVA to partner with National Guard Association of New Jersey to offer State-sponsored life insurance for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Expands eligibillity for EDA small business loan program to specifically include certain farming operations and qulified dairy farmers. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
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.*
Establishes Possession In Excess of Daily Limit Vessel License for black sea bass and summer flounder; dedicates fees therefrom to marine fisheries programs.**
Makes transient accommodation taxes and fees only applicable if it is obtained through a marketplace or if it is a professionally managed unit.*
Permits certain members or retirees of PFRS,SPRS, or PERS to receive accidental disability retirement allowance for disability resulting from participation in 9/11 World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations.**
Requires DHS to study social isolation occurring in certain population groups.
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.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020.
Increases tax credit provided for qualified investments under "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act."
Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Suspends fines for certain first-time paperwork violations committed by small businesses.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and county colleges. *
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Establishes standard medical expense deduction under SNAP for certain senior citizens.*
Out of committee · 33
Concerns stop-work orders related to prevailing wage and construction worker employment.*
Establishes uniform rates for water and sewer services for residential use based exclusively on metered consumption.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Clarifies law concerning circumstances in which members of Pinelands Commission may vote.
Provides free admission to State parks, forests, and beaches for certain veterans and military personnel.
The "Electronic Construction Procurement Act." *
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Excludes from gross income taxation military compensation for personnel serving outside of State and combat zone compensation.*
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.
Renames county corrections officers as county correctional police officers.
Provides funding from the General Fund to the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority; appropriates $4 million.*
Revises provisions of State law concerning claiming and proper disposal of cremains of veterans and eligible spouses or dependents.
Revises standard for warrantless seizure of animal at risk due to violation of law concerning necessary care and tethering of animals.
Concerns service of food or refreshments on mortuary premises.
Establishes offense of leaving child unattended in motor vehicle. *
Increases prenotification time and requires severance pay in certain plant closings, transfers, and mass layoffs.*
Requires DOH to establish system of reconciliation for provider agencies within Early Intervention Program.
Permits certain firefighter training courses to be taken online; requires tests for courses to be taken in person.
Authorizes certain health care and social service resources to be made available during Code Blue Alert.*
Concerns local taxation of business personal property of local exchange telephone companies.
Creates "Pollinator Pathway" designation for municipalities.
Requires State Board of Agriculture to provide list of environmentally harmful plant species to certain committees of Legislature each year.*
Establishes "pollinator-friendly" label for plants.
Directs DEP to establish pollinator habitat program for closed landfills.
Directs DEP to establish leasing program for State-owned land to be used and managed as pollinator habitat.
Prohibits municipalities from imposing local fire safety standards stricter than State fire safety code in certain circumstances.
Requires promulgation of separate code criteria for certain buildings.
Authorizes issuance of West Virginia University alumni license plates.
In committee · 154
Requires instruction on information literacy in curriculum of students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Requires electronic bulletin board on DCA website for local units to advertise shared services opportunities; requires development of computerized survey to match local units together to implement shared services.
Requires cost-benefit analyses and local government financial impact findings for approval of long term property tax exemption.
Requires executive county superintendents to submit school district consolidation plan to Commissioner of Education within one year and every five years thereafter and commissioner to approve or modify plan within six months of submission.
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 multi-species depredation permit.
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.
Requires NJT to study and report on commuting needs of residents in Atlantic, Cumberland, and Cape May counties.
Allows certain shipyards to conduct certain work on vessels in water.
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.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Establishes Main Street Assistance Program to encourage business development in small municipalities.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Permits State employment on temporary basis of workers with certain skills to perform routine maintenance in State facilities.
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.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for certain firefighter training graduates.
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.
Concerns withholdings and deductions from employee wages for certain payments.
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.
Permits sale of motor fuels that have not been blended with ethanol for certain purposes.
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.
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.
Revises certain Class Three special law enforcement officer appointment qualifications.
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 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.
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Designates Dept. of Agriculture as sole agency to administer "Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program."
Establishes minimum criminal penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Requires owner notification of rabies testing protocol and owner options prior to testing of owner's animal for rabies.
Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires local recreation departments and youth serving organizations to have defibrillators for youth athletic events.
Expands new home warranty protections.
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.
Requires certain accessible public restroom facilities be equipped with signs reserving use for persons with disabilities.
Allows members of Junior Firefighter's Auxiliaries to perform certain fire support duties.
Eliminates requirement under veterans' gross income tax exemption that taxpayer serve in active duty status or federal active duty status to qualify for exemption.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 30-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities.
Extends from six to 12 months compensation program for injured law enforcement officers and other employees; revises type of injury needed to qualify for program.
Establishes program to allow certain motorcycle events to be held in State parks, forest, and wildlife management areas.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Changes definition of final compensation for benefit calculation to include highest compensation in any year of membership for certain members.
Eliminates automatic increases of petroleum products taxes.
Excludes transient accommodations in shore counties from various State and local taxes.
Requires Legislative approval for automatic increases of petroleum products taxes.
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.
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.
Designates portion of State Highway Route 55 in City of Millville as "Mike Trout Interchange."
Establishes Catch and Cook program.
Permits transmittal of certain land use notices via regular mail.
Requires revocation of parole for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officers.
Expands definitions of seasonal employment and seasonal employer with respect to payment of minimum wage.
Extends certain benefits to veterans who received a badge, medal, or ribbon for serving in federal military campaign or expedition.
Removes principal place of business requirement of "Set-Aside Act for Disabled Veterans' Businesses."
Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.
Allows $250 gross income tax deduction for members of military on active duty.
Expands implied consent statute to include urine testing.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate to military veteran.
Increases days of paid leave of absence for public employees who serve in United States Reserves.
Establishes three-year study on impact of minimum wage increases on businesses.
Establishes "Military Pro Bono Program" to provide pro bono legal representation to active-duty service members and veterans of military.
Recognizes Howell House in Cape May as Harriet Tubman Museum in New Jersey.
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.
"Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral Act"; allows certain seniors to defer property tax payments.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Provides that driver's licenses and identification cards are valid for 48 months.
Requires local authorities to include veterans' organizations in class of ratepayers charged lowest rates.
Permits conduct of Queen of Hearts raffle games.
Establishes School Security Task Force.
Expands scope of law prohibiting age discrimination.
Requires State Board of Education to include instruction on mental health first aid training as part of professional development requirement for public school teachers.
Requires preservation of employee benefits and contractual rights as condition of sale of Atlantic City International Airport.
Establishes Regulatory Improvement Commission.
Provides excused absence for public school student who participates in musical performance at military funeral, including playing "Taps."
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to small business employers and farm employers for increases in certain mandatory employer contributions.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for restricted use license.
Prohibits autodialed telephone calls to mobile telecommunications devices with certain exceptions.
Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.
Defines indigent veteran and veteran status for certain veteran interment purposes.
Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DMVA for ancillary transportation for residents of Veterans' Memorial Homes.
Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $450,000 for National Aviation Research and Technology Park.
Provides that certain school districts will not be subject to reduction in State school aid.
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
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
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.
Places cap of $100 on amount paid by covered persons for purchase of insulin.
Authorizes creation of active duty military license plates.