Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Elizabeth Maher Muoio
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Requires government entities to provide law enforcement agencies with access to exterior security recordings under certain circumstances.
Removes restrictions on convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
In committee12
Prohibits charging prospective tenants of affordable units credit and criminal background check fees unless unit will be available within 30 days.
Requires charter school to apply for new charter to open new school building or satellite campus.
Requires charter schools to disclose on website and recruitment materials certain information regarding staff certifications.
Requires State to make charter school payments for initial year of charter school's operation.
Requires public utility employees to immediately place 9-1-1 call to report emergencies that arise from work conducted by public utility employees.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations regarding Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Establishes guidelines for creditworthiness determinations concerning affordable housing programs.
Increases value of Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program residential tax credits to $650 million; restricts $50 million of tax credits to certain qualified residential projects.
Establishes certain network adequacy and standard application requirements for health insurance carriers; requires determination of hospital diversity for tiered networks.
Requires carriers to disclose selection standards for placement of health care providers in tiered health benefits plan network; establishes oversight monitor to review compliance.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Tiered Health Insurance Networks."
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Removes restrictions on convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Authorizes court to order submission of DNA evidence to national database to determine whether evidence matches a known individual or DNA profile from an unsolved crime.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Prohibits sale of powdered alcohol.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
Requires DOC to make reports containing information concerning treatment and reentry initiative participation; requires AOC to establish program that collects recidivism data and make reports concerning adults sentenced to period of probation.*
Provides an excused absence on Veterans Day for pupil who participates in certain activities for veterans or active duty members of United States Armed Forces or New Jersey National Guard.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Expands timeframe for renewal of driver's license, registration, and inspection by military personnel and immediate family members under certain circumstances.*
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
Prohibits withholding of State school aid based on student participation rate on State assessments.
Makes certain changes to Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 8
Excludes from gross income compensation paid to members of district boards of election for services rendered in elections.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Establishes four-year pilot program in Ocean County for electronic monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders; designated as "Lisa's Law"; appropriates $2.5 million.
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires county and municipal police departments to establish cultural diversity training course and plan.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Increases tax credit cap by $165 million for certain qualified residential projects under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program and restricts increase to certain projects.**
Passed the General Assembly · 31
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.*
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with a minor as a passenger.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.*
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Expands military leave benefits for certain public officers and employees subject to proof of servive. *
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Prohibits purchase of certain items by scrap metal businesses.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Revises procedures for processing incomplete Medicaid applications; exempts asset transfers of up to $500 per month during look back period for determining eligibility for long-term care services.*
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking.
Protects right to privacy underneath clothing; establishes crime of "upskirting".
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
Extends urban enterprise zone designation in all qualifying municipalities for additional 10 years. *
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Requires State to include distributed energy resource in certain new State buildings and consider retrofitting certain existing State buildings with distributed energy resource.
Requires DMAVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State. *
Authorizes transfer of excess medical marijuana inventory between alternative treatment centers.
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
Concerns enterprise zone assistance fund project approval; dedicates certain revenues to UEZs or UEZ municipalities.
Establishes "Jersey Canned Goods Program."
Establishes "Jersey Frozen Foods Program."
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding seniors in property tax lien foreclosure; notification of certain county offices upon senior property tax lien sale; collector to provide requested lien satisfaction information within seven days
Requires NJT to limit fare increases under its discount program for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and college students; designated as "Fare Affordability and Ridership Empowerment (FARE) Act."
"Transparency, Responsibility, and Accountability for New Surcharges and Increases in Ticketing (T.R.A.N.S.I.T.) Act"; increases number of public hearings NJT is required to hold prior and subsequent to fare increase or change or abandonment of service.
Out of committee · 34
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."; appropriates $5 million.*
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Increases age for helmet requirement for bicycling, roller skating, and skateboarding to 17 and younger; extends helmet requirement to ice skaters and operators of non-motorized scooters.*
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.*
Concerns earned sick leave.
Requires boil water notices be provided to mayor and municipal clerk within one hour.
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Requires State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts to incorporate those guidelines in grades six through 12.
Requires DOE to conduct study on options and benefits of instituting later school start time in middle school and high school.
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.*
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Permits municipal land banking in conjunction with online property database development.*
Establishes vocational training pilot program in DOC; provides for inmate compensation for education and workforce training participation.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Makes certain reforms to juvenile justice system.
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Concerns conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Establishes the "New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act."*
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
Creates new criminal offenses concerning endangering another person; repeals N.J.S.2C:12-2 and N.J.S.2C:24-7.
Authorizes impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes for certain crimes and offenses.
Appropriates $4,750,000 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
Permits municipality with UEZ to participate in Downtown Business Improvement Zone Loan Fund.
Requires filing of financial agreement for long term tax exemption with county finance officer and counsel; requires quarterly payment of county share of payment in lieu of tax.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Requires law enforcement agencies in this State to establish minority recruitment and selection programs; establishes reporting requirement.
In committee · 30
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid in State Fiscal Year 2012.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
The "Smart Container Act."
Creates New Jersey Coastal Commission; reallocates certain funds from DEP to commission; and appropriates $20 million.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Provides for reimbursement of security officer application and registration fees for applicants who meet certification requirements.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide treatment for behavioral health care services when determined medically necessary.
Revises licensing requirements and procedures under the "Massage and Bodywork Therapist Licensing Act."
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Requires prosecutorial or law enforcement review of fatal incidents involving police officers or State Police.
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Adds two public members to NJT board.
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Concerns random drug testing of certain inmates.
Establishes Study Commission on Gender Pay Discrimination.
"Drama therapists and Dance/Movement Therapists Licensing Act."
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Dedicates five percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Allows expungement of multiple crimes and offenses resulting from one-time spree under certain circumstances.
Permits craft distillery licensee in Garden State Growth Zone to operate restaurant on licensed premises.
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Requires DOBI to obtain and consider certain information from Commissioner of Health concerning provider network adequacy requirements for managed care plans.
Requires health insurance carriers offering tiered network health benefits plans to protect covered persons from excess cost sharing in certain circumstances.
Requires health insurance carriers to comply with certain network adequacy requirements.
Places moratorium on implementation of certain tiered network health benefits plans until January 1, 2017.