Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Reed Gusciora
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires all lamps and lighting devices on motor vehicles be kept in working order.
Revises "Electronic Waste Management Act."
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court.
Vetoed2
Establishes conditional dismissal program in municipal court; alters eligibility requirements and increases fees for existing conditional discharge and supervisory treatment programs.
Changes date of 2013 general election from November 5th to October 16th.
Passed the General Assembly7
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Clarifies authority of municipal court to suspend driver's licenses.
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.*
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Enacts "Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Out of committee11
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Permits automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
The " Responsible Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act." *
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter Public School Teachers, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."; appropriates $5 million.*
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements. *
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
Authorizes law enforcement agency to inform the president of a public or independent institution of higher education when a student is charged or convicted of certain crimes.
Creates Voluntary Registry for Individuals with a Mental Illness or Developmental Disability.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Creates craft distillery license.
Requires disclosure of contributions received and expenditures made by committees or organizations not affiliated or coordinated with any candidate, or committee organized to support or oppose public questions.
In committee81
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Requires DEP to designate smoke-free sections of State beaches, parks, and forests.
Clarifies the intent of the Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
Amends RICO to add certain crimes involving public servants.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Authorizes Commission on Higher Education to impose a fine against an institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
Provides public servant is guilty of official misconduct if he knowingly obtains, arranges or provides "no-show" job for himself or another.
Establishes procedures for admitting into evidence blood sample certificates and related lab reports in drunk driving cases.
Prohibits cemetery company from charging additional fee for rendering certain services on Sunday.
Requires filing of report comparing investment returns earned by private money managers and by State employees for public employee retirement funds and State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Consolidates all "doughnut municipalities" and "doughnut-hole municipalities" within 10 years.
Requires sharing of revenues derived from major developments situated near municipal borders under certain circumstances.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Establishes up to four-month extension for expiring carrier contracts with acute care hospitals while parties engage in contract renegotiation.
The "Seaside Lodging and Rental District Act"; imposes tax on certain lodging properties for tourism promotion therein.
Subjects most State property to local property taxation beginning on July 1, 2010.
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Requires legislators to certify in writing, upon introduction of legislation, that no monetary benefit will be derived from it; requires certification be filed with the Legislative Ethics Commission.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to reimburse school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing and adjusts recipient districts' tax levy growth limit.
Creates Craft Distillery License to permit the manufacture of smaller amounts of distilled alcoholic beverages.
Requires ignition interlock device to be installed on vehicle owned or leased by drunk driver only after period of driver's license suspension.
Permits municipality to establish restricted parking spaces for certain volunteer firefighters.
Requires dental benefits coverage for dental composite restorations.
Provides for sales tax exemption for advanced technology partial zero emission vehicles, imposes surcharge on certain automobiles, and deletes surcharge on certain automobiles.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of significant individuals of the American Revolutionary period; appropriates $200,000.
Establishes civil penalty for certain unlawful conduct.
Establishes the "Municipal Court Prosecutors' Automated System."
Increases penalties for violations of certain pet shop laws and regulations.
Revises confiscation, impoundment, and forfeiture procedures for an animal abandoned by owner or seized from abusing owner.
Requires electronic recording of purchases of over-the-counter drugs used to manufacture methamphetamine.
Authorizes donation of forfeited bicycles to charities.
Prohibits use of State funds to lease or purchase certain motor vehicles.
Requires reduction in number of State vehicles over five fiscal years.
Requires State to pay full contribution to State-administered pension systems plus $300 million annually until systems are fully funded; provides members of systems with contractual right to financially sound funding of systems.
Limits tuition increase in school district sending-receiving relationships to percentage increase in State aid and tax levy of sending school district and prohibits severance of such relationships currently in effect.
Requires design of new public schools to incorporate green building practices.
Provides that a charter school may only be established in certain school districts and prohibits further payments to a charter school in the event of closure.
Concerns organ and tissue donation.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for 50% of purchase cost of diesel engine conversion devices.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Raises vehicle registration fees for heavy vehicles and dedicates portion to Transportation Trust Fund Account.
Consolidates various municipalities into the new municipalities of Seaside Township and Long Beach Island Township, or alternatively requires shared services agreements for all major services.
Requires DOE to adopt green cleaning policy for schools and child care centers with 50 or more students.
Creates nine-member New Jersey Legislative Elections Public Financing Study Commission.
Grants EDA broader discretion to approve applications for corporation business tax certificate transfer program and business employment incentive program.
Permits levy cap exclusion for certain monies expended by local unit for shared services.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to make payment to school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing upon adoption of resolution by municipal governing body.
Establishes penalty for unlawfully using handicapped parking placard.
Prohibits feeding of black bears and requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in bear habitat and under certain circumstances, including garbage collection.
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid.
Requires in-network hospitals to notify patients of out-of-network health care professionals who provide services in hospital.
Requires MVC to issue driving privilege cards to persons who cannot prove lawful presence in the country.
Increases penalties for illegal use of telephone or electronic communication device while driving.
Increases fine for student truancy and requires truant student to attend court-ordered truancy counseling program or other appropriate program.
Authorizes marriage by same-sex couples, and provides for issuance of marriage license to same-sex couples, including those previously joined in civil union, subject to voter approval.
Provides State, county, municipal, and school district contracts for professional services will be awarded pursuant to competitive contracting process.
Imposes civil penalty for the exhibition or use in performance of a living bear, elephant, lion or tiger.
Prohibits voters from voting in primary or general election by electronic communications; permits voting by provisional ballot if state of emergency declared.
Permits court to order involuntary outpatient treatment in any county; concerns patient compliance with taking medication.
Permits new cigar bar or cigar lounge to be opened under certain circumstances.
Expands implied consent statute to include blood and urine testing.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
Requires DEP to establish regulations for approval to install and operate certain solar facilities.
Provides that a school business administrator appointed by a school district after a certain date will not be eligible for tenure and may be dismissed pursuant to the terms of the employment contract.
Revises licensing provisions for orthotists and prosthetists and assistants.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on awareness of eating disorders as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Enhances penalties for committing improper behavior in place of public accommodation.
Authorizes issuance of certificate for additional persons to solemnize marriage.
Elevates strangulation assault of a victim to aggravated assault in all instances.
The "Civil Union Status Clarification Act."
Concerns alterations in child support obligations in response to changes to status of supported child.
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Creates craft distillery license.
Vetoed1
Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Creates crime of threatening the life of certain animals; designated as Dano and Valder's Law.**
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Requires a review of corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit programs for payments to interns.*
Revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries.*
Requires plans, specifications, and bid proposal documents for certain local public contracts to address soil contamination, and requires contracting unit to approve change order under certain circumstances related thereto.*
Establishes offense of unlawfully accessing location of law enforcement vehicles through certain electronic means.*
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Makes various revisions to laws concerning disabled person identification cards and placards related to parking privileges.*
Requires Department of Agriculture to publish on its website information concerning wineries and community supported agriculture entities in NJ.
Directs State Treasurer to review effects of disclosure and nondisclosure of lottery winners on transparency and lottery sales.*
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.*
Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
"The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013."**
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Requires collection and reporting of certain firearms information to interjurisdictional database; requires information relating to crime of firearms trafficking be included in annual Uniform Crime Report.*
Vetoed · 19
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
Requires printers to display average cost per 1,000 printed pages and ink cartridges to display yield.
Increases minimum wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on CPI increases.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Establishes Clean Car Commission.**
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects. *
Revises law concerning the purchase of scrap metal.
Requires that contract for private operation of State Lottery be subject to approval by Legislature.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing assault firearms for civilian use.**
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Authorizes municipalities to finance water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Passed the General Assembly · 35
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Requires certain State departments, divisions, commissions, and authorities to consider use of green or blue roof in construction of certain new State buildings, facilities, and structures.*
Requires adoption of certain rules and regulations by DCA and DEP concerning blue roofs and green roofs.**
Revises penalty for destruction of, or damage to, trees, saplings, shrubs or other plants; repeals current law thereon.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for advanced technology vehicles and alternative fueled vehicles. *
Requires NJ Transit to do study of platform safety issues at rail stations.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Clarifies that using an animal to cause bodily injury to another constitutes assault with a deadly weapon.*
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to designation as charter school district of residence or expansion of a charter school.
Requires affidavits for civil actions concerning certain mental health professionals. *
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Provides for confiscation and forfeiture of mislabeled Jersey Fresh and similarly branded goods.
Requires debt collectors, in certain circumstances, to cease debt collections against certain victims of identity theft.
"Higher Education Citizenship Equality Act;" defines domicile for dependent students for the purpose of eligibility for State student loans, grants, or scholarships and resident tuition rate.*
Permits certain witnesses under the age of 16 and victims of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.*
Requires businesses receiving State economic development subsidy to report campaign contributions greater than $10,000.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Caps at 35 percent share of State public employee pension and annuity funds portfolio that may be invested in combination of hedge funds, private equity, commodities, and real estate.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Establishes a regulatory and reporting program for ammunition sales and transfers.*
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.*
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Establishes certain pet shop requirements and standards for care of dogs.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Permits qualifying patients to possess and use medical marijuana legally obtained from another jurisdiction; extends State medical marijuana laws to qualifying out-of-State patients; expands ability of parents to serve as primary caregiver to minor child
Out of committee · 34
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Tri-County Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the student borrower's death.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Imposes certain registration and reporting requirements to prevent illegal trade of tigers.
Permits health care providers to report certain patient health problems to MVC.
Establishes an industrial hemp license.
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or possession of synthetic marijuana.
Allows distributor, refiner, wholesaler, or supplier to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel in certain circumstances.**
Creates cause of action for failure to maintain certain vacant properties; requires out-of-state creditors to designate in-State representative.
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
Requires labeling of all foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires owner or operator of industrial establishment applying for de minimis exemption from "Industrial Site Recovery Act" to certify as to no actual knowledge of contamination exceeding remediation standards.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
"Property Tax Lien Pilot Program," establishes pilot program to allow certain municipalities greater control over sale of tax liens.
Declares violence a public health crisis and establishes "Study Commission on Violence."*
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Increases benefit amounts under New Jersey earned income tax credit program to 25 percent of federal earned income tax credit amounts beginning in Tax Year 2013.
Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Creates New Jersey Coastal Commission; reallocates certain funds from DEP to commission; and appropriates $20 million.
Requires home improvement contractors to display State-issued identification badge; requires surrender in certain circumstances; imposes penalty for improper display of badge.
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Requires presumption that any bail paid by defendant charged with certain weapons offenses will be in the form of full cash.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.*
Provides for similar requirements for minor and adult patients in medical marijuana program; prohibits limitations on number of strains of medical marijuana cultivated and expands available means of packaging and ditribution thereof.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.*
In committee · 84
Phases out the transfer inheritance tax over two years.
Gives Director subpoena powers in administration of Division of Pensions and Benefits.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands racetrack, upon voter approval; dedicates 1/3 net proceeds to General Fund, 1/3 to State education aid, and 1/3 to horse racing industry.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Revises law concerning scrap metal businesses.
Permits all municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from seasonal rental landlords in certain circumstances and increases penalties for subsequent offenses.
Upgrades harassment under certain circumstances; restricts cyberbullying offenders' access to the Internet.
Clarifies that conviction of refusal to submit to breathalyzer constitutes prior conviction for sentencing purposes under drunk driving law.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for fish and wildlife management and conservation.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires boards of education to provide civics instruction in elementary and middle school grades and requires DOE to provide funding to enhance civics instruction.
Establishes black bear special hunting permit and a per-day permit fee of $5 for State residents and $15 for out-of-State residents.
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Makes changes to manner in which State-administered retirement systems operate and to public employee pension benefits.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Requires high-mounted rear stoplights on certain passenger vehicles.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property.
The "Smart Container Act."
Directs State Lottery Commission to permit purchase of lottery tickets by electronic means.
Requires counseling for certain domestic violence offenders.
Requires that contracts by non-utility load serving entities to purchase solar renewable energy certificates shall extend for a term of 15 years or longer.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Provides for receipt for voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election; provides State reimbursement.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Qua-Daishia's Law: bars disclosure of personal identifying information contained in grand jury materials; creates fourth degree offense for unauthorized disclosure.
Establishes "Smart Housing Incentives Act."
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Requires graduated driver licensees who plead guilty to non-point violations to complete driver safety course.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Amends the "Fair Housing Act" to change details of regional contribution agreements.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
"New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act."
Makes it a crime to sell or possess products or materials designed to alter firearms to look like toy guns.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
Extends "Right to Farm" protections to cultivation or production of marijuana for medical use; permits such activity on preserved farmland; prohibits county or municipal interference with such activity.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Provides purchasing preference to local and environmentally responsible businesses in the awarding of State contracts.
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies.
Requires affordable housing be built to green building standards; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to issue standards.
Exempts carsharing rentals from State imposed $5 per day motor vehicle rental fee.
"New Jersey Transit Villages Act."
Provides farmland assessment incentive for landowner to lease land for community garden.
Subjects certain municipal and school property to property taxation.
Restricts bail for persons charged with violent crimes; establishes bail alternatives for non-violent offenders.
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program; appropriates $95,000.
Clarifies application of business personal property tax on local exchange telephone companies that were subject to tax as of April 1, 1997.
Requires boards of education to adopt policies to make schools asthma-friendly.
Dedicates sales and use tax collections from sales of medical marijuana to the "Medical Marijuana for a Cure Fund" for medical research grants on certain debilitating medical conditions.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2013," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits enforcement, for a period of 12 months, of homeowners' association bylaws prohibiting domesticated animals if owner is FEMA designated displaced individual following emergency declaration by President or Governor.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumers.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2013"; authorizes bonds for $500 million; appropriates $5,000.
The "Preserve New Jersey Act of 2013"; implements constitutional dedication of sales tax revenue for open space, including flood prone areas, farmland, and historic preservation purposes.
Revises alimony laws, including eliminating permanent alimony and establishing guidelines for amount and duration of alimony awards.
Establishes Capture, Control, and Conserve Reward Rebate Program in DEP to encourage property owners to implement certain techniques to conserve water or control stormwater runoff.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning safety of certain pedestrians.
Concerns installation and maintenance of solar panels in common interest communities.
Allocates $10 million to City of Trenton to hire 75 additional police officers.
Recognizes same-sex marriages entered into outside the State.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Establishes the "Superstorm Sandy Victims' Bill of Rights."
Establishes sexual assault training requirements for law enforcement officers.