Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Elizabeth Maher Muoio
Sponsored
Became law3
Concerns emergency assistance which is repaid by the recipient.
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan to address smart growth, storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues.
Requires gubernatorial candidates' statements be posted online.
Vetoed3
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Requires Division of Parole to offer parole services to certain defendants who have served their maximum sentence.
Passed the General Assembly6
Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Tiered Health Insurance Networks."
Requires public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Requires newly-elected municipal, county, and State political party committee members to assume office upon certification for election and hold first meeting on second Thursday, second Monday, and second Tuesday following primary election, respectively.**
Requires DOT to compensate local government entities for contractual delay damages resulting from shutdown of transportation projects funded by Transportation Trust Fund; authorizes local government entities to use certain funds for transportation project
Establishes service for reporting employer and employment service violations and requires posting of certain notifications.
Out of committee18
Requires public utility employees to immediately place 9-1-1 call to report emergencies that arise from work conducted by public utility employees.
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, and establishes certain requirements regarding, placement of health care providers in tiered health benefits plan network. *
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide supplemental reading instruction to students in grades K through 3.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings; requires reporting of inspection results to State.
Requires lead paint inspection prior to home purchases and tenant turnover; establishes educational program on lead hazards.
Requires housing authority to advertise when applications are being accepted for housing assistance waiting lists online.
Requires DOT to create automated system to report traffic accidents and requires political subdivisions to report data; makes appropriation.
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires electric public utility to notify property owner any time account for electric public utility service on owner's property is opened, closed, transferred, or altered.
Allows individual to receive additional lifetime emergency assistance under certain circumstances.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Decreases waiting period to expunge entire juvenile record from five to three years.
Revises procedures for expunging criminal and other records and information, including shortening of certain waiting periods for expungement eligibility and increasing number of convictions which may be expunged.
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
In committee29
Requires government entities to provide law enforcement agencies with access to exterior security recordings under certain circumstances.
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.
Establishes task force to study issues and make recommendations regarding Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf.
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.
Requires municipalities to conduct lead paint inspections in single- and two-family dwellings.
Prohibits certain light frame residential construction in densely populated census tracts; establishes construction requirements for certain light frame residential construction in other census tracts.
Requires certain county inmates be provided with reentry assistance before their release.
Requires child care centers to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Permits family day care providers to care for up to 10 children; requires criminal history record background checks for family day care providers and certain household members.
Directs DOE to develop Veterans in the Schools Program to teach students about military experiences of local veterans.
Requires DCA to expand open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program to include non-electronic pre-application options.
Criminalizes certain actions of individuals who offer rental of residential property that they do not own or legally possess.
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds.
Directs Division of Consumer Affairs to establish public information campaign concerning real estate rental scams.
Requires all creditors that acquire title to non-owner occupied residential property following foreclosure to notify municipality and common interest community.
Requires county and municipal welfare agencies to create certain records of all individuals who inquire about public assistance programs.
Requires new voting machines purchased or leased for use in elections in this State to produce paper record of each vote cast.
Permits establishment by county and four-year institutions of higher education of three plus one degree programs for receipt of baccalaureate degree after spending three years at county college and one year at senior institution.
Requires photo identification for handgun ammunition purchases.
Requires electronic reporting of handgun ammunition sales.
Establishes Working Group on Deaf Education and directs DOE to develop parent resource guide and select early intervention assessments for use in identifying language delays in deaf and hard of hearing children.
Increases fee for firearms purchaser identification card; requires color photo on firearms purchaser identification cards, permits to purchase handgun, and permits to carry handgun.
Designates Eastern Milk Snake as NJ State Reptile.
Designates Pine Barrens Treefrog as NJ State Amphibian.
Establishes "Deaf Student's Bill of Rights."
Filed1
Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.
Carried from the Senate
Became law9
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires housing authority to advertise when applications are being accepted for housing assistance waiting lists online.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Revises procedures for expunging criminal and other records and information, including shortening of certain waiting periods for expungement eligibility and increasing number of convictions which may be expunged.
Decreases waiting period to expunge entire juvenile record from five to three years.
Amends Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriation act to ensure involuntarily furloughed State employees receive retroactive salary payments for State government budget shut down.
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed1
Allows individual to receive additional lifetime emergency assistance under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 38
Expands crime of invasion of privacy to include "upskirting"; photographing or filming the image of the undergarment-clad intimate parts of another.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Requires NJT to hold public hearing and provide notice prior to any curtailment of certain bus and rail services.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Requires health care professionals engaged in prenatal care to provide parents of newborns with information on health insurance coverage for newborn children.*
Requires DLPS to establish and make available to law enforcement agencies cultural diversity training materials and online tutorial.*
Establishes Chief Diversity Officer to monitor participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.*
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Permits homeless to receive certified copy of birth certificate without fee.
Exempts homeless from fee for non-driver identification cards.
Expands civil rights protections to include breastfeeding; requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding mothers.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 6 months.*
Authorizes students in Marie H. Katzenbach school for the deaf to operate State vehicle for driver education and provides protection for such activity under tort claims act.*
Requires that certain inmates with detainers be provided access to drug treatment programs.
Repeals law suspending certain licenses, registrations and certifications for failure to repay student loans.
Establishes Farm to School Coordinating Council.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for microentrepreneurs; gives priority status to projects involving microenterprises under Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.*
Requires DMVA to create registry for organizations providing services to veterans.
Permits eligible students who are members of United States Armed Forces to wear military uniform at high school graduation.
Establishes "High School to College Readiness Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to enhance student preparation for postsecondary education.
Requires public employers to implement certain policies for handling and responding to reports of domestic violence.
Requires State Auditor to annually report on unspent State account balances.
Requires health insurance carriers; SHBP, and SEHBP to inform covered persons about organ and tissue donation.
Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*
Provides for emergency assistance to individuals or families that are homeless or in temporary living arrangement due to domestic violence.
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Appropriates $22,385,743 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $32.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, and certain services to maintain and repair breast pumps.
Designates building where NJEDA is located as "Caren Franzini Memorial Building" to commemorate her outstanding service to State.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to notify students and parents of availability of summer meals programs and locations where meals are served.
Vetoed · 18
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program by 30 percent over three years and according to Social Security cost of living increases thereafter.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Extends duration of urban enterprise zones for 10 additional years; specifies permissable use of funds.*
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Concerns employer inquiries about worker's wage and salary experience.*
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Extends duration of first five designated UEZs for two additional years; specifies permissible use of UEZ funds; requires DCA Commissioner to assess and issue report on UEZ program.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave.*
Concerns law regarding failure to pay wages.
Passed the General Assembly · 48
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from the tax levy cap applicable to school districts.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
Directs DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to permit certain wineries to participate in certain sign programs on freeways, interstate highways, and toll roads.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
Requires DEP to establish "private wildlife habitat certification program"; creates affirmative defense against municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program.
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
Provides for jurisdiction for prosecution for certain crimes against minors committed outside New Jersey.
Limits forum of certain consumer contract disputes to New Jersey.*
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Requires DCA to make information on homeless prevention programs and services available on its Internet website.
Establishes certain requirements for a State entity planting vegetation in certain circumstances; provides for preferences for NJ businesses providing such vegetation.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of sexual assault and stalking.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Directs NJEDA to establish pilot program to assist with permit and approval process related to redevelopment of certain properties.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Provides for priority consideration, by DCA, DEP, DOT, and municipalities, of permit applications for green building projects.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to include description and fiscal analyses of recommendations to raise State revenue estimated at $1 million or more.
Requires, after study, DEP to adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem, and requires DEP to adopt nutrient standards for NJ marine waters.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.*
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.
Creates restricted distillery license; permits holder therof to operate restaurant on licensed premises in Garden State Growth Zone.*
Requires consumer notification of vehicle warranty for aftermarket and recycled parts.
Permits persons convicted of driving with suspended license to be sentenced to labor assistance program.
Establishes "New Jersey Farm to Public Institution of Higher Education Program."
Allows qualified school to be called "New Jersey Farm Fresh School."
Permits school participating in NJ "Farm to School" program to submit recipe for posting on Dept. of Agriculture website.
Increases penalties for energy "slamming" practices.
Prohibits State-sponsored travel to certain states without protections against discrimination based on sex, gender identity or expression, and affectional or sexual orientation.*
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Creates New Jersey Crude Oil by Rail Safety Task Force.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Increases civil penalties for certain natural gas or hazardous liquid facility safety violations.
Concerns timely provision of TDI and family temporary disability benefits.*
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Directs DEP to designate native bee nesting habitat areas in each State park and forest.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Creates grant program for business accelerator and incubator networks; transfers $1 million in societal benefits charge revenues to EDA to administer program.
Establishes Green Jobs Training Partnership Program.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Out of committee · 84
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
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.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Provides job security to certain organ and bone marrow donors.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Establishes certain requirements for domestic violence training for certain judges and judicial personnel.*
Concerns enforcement, penalties, and procedures for law regarding failure to pay wages.*
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.*
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Establishes Council of Women in Higher Education in Department of State to study and promote women's issues within institutions of higher education.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Regulates deed procurement services.
Establishes "Neighborhood Solar Energy Investment Program."
Authorizes establishment of drug donation programs.*
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.
Adds two public members to NJT board and provides that all NJT board members are voting members.*
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Allows expungement of multiple crimes and offenses resulting from one-time spree under certain circumstances.
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Directs Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute, Office of Information Technology, and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure strategic plan; appropriates $150,000.*
"Earn Your Way Out Act" ; requires DOC to develop inmate reentry plan; establishes administrative parole release for certain inmates;requires study and report by DOC on fiscal impact.*
The "Smart Container Act."
Requires health insurance carriers to comply with certain network adequacy requirements.
Establishes certain standards for health benefits plans with tiered network.
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Revises "Electronic Waste Management Act."
Establishes public-private pilot program for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Requires health insurance carriers offering tiered network health benefits plans to protect covered persons from excess cost sharing in certain circumstances.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Establishes asset forfeiture reporting requirements.
Establishes telemarketing fraud investigation unit.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties. *
Requires prescribers to discuss addiction risk associated with certain drugs prior to issuing prescription to minor patient.
Establishes restricted use driver's license endorsement for certain motor vehicle offenders with suspended license.
Clarifies the intent of the Legislature that the attempt or conspiracy to commit certain offenses may constitute acts of domestic violence.
Establishes "Small Business Bonding Readiness Assistance Program" in EDA to assist certain small businesses meet State or federal contract surety bond requirements.*
Appropriates $20 million from societal benefits charge to DEP for drinking water infrastructure improvements and lead abatement in City of Newark.
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Establishes "New Jersey Investing in You Promise Neighborhood Commission"; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes "Atlantic City Plan for Implementing Economic Recovery Act"; exempts casino gaming property from local taxation and establishes payment in lieu of taxation; creates Atlantic City Planning Committee.
Upgrades assault on victims who are elderly or disabled.
Establishes fee on single-use carryout bags used in certain stores and dedicates fee revenue to "Healthy Schools and Community Lead Abatement Fund."*
Establishes Women's Vocational Training Pilot Program to promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations; authorizes allocation of certain funds therefor.*
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
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Permits young adult who is claimed as a dependent on a relative's tax return to receive Work First New Jersey General Public Assistance benefits.
Makes supplemental appropriations totaling $9,563,415 to DOH for grants of $7,765,325 to Newark Beth Israel Hospital and $1,798,090 to St. Francis Medical Center to implement improved health outcomes and sustainable transformation of healthcare delivery.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish income-driven repayment option and loan rehabilitation program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Establishes "New Jersey College Ready Students Program Act"; provides tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity at county college for certain high school students.
Directs DEP to adopt standards for certain drinking water contaminants based upon recommendations of Drinking Water Quality Institute.*
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Requires health care facilities to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Modifies scope of "Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015" and enforcement of protective orders under that act.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide annual New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program report to Governor and Legislature and develop student loan comparison information document to increase program transpa
Revises New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program to require applicants first exhaust federal student loans, require income verification, and limit total student loan amounts.
Requires bidders on certain State contracts to disclose, and Department of Treasury to publish, certain gender wage information.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Imposes requirements on video visitation service contracts for inmates in certain correctional facilities; requires correctional facilities to allow contact visits.
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for inpatient hospital beds for treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorder dual diagnosis.
Provides tax credits to vineyards and wineries for qualified capital expenses.
Requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns to appear on ballot; prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns.*
Imposes temporary surcharge on hotel occupancies in certain cities to fund public safety services.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Appropriates $59,532,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and capital and park development projects.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Establishes additional penalties related to child pornography and expands crime to include portrayal of child in sexual manner; establishes crime of leader of child pornography network.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Requires AG to conduct survey of untested sexual assault examination kits.*
Prohibits certain employment discrimination based upon expunged criminal record.
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Authorizes chiefs of part-time municipal police forces to issue firearms ID cards and handgun purchase permits.
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.
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.
Imposes certain registration and reporting requirements to prevent illegal trade of tigers.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.
Revises licensing requirements and procedures under the "Massage and Bodywork Therapist Licensing Act."
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Establishes the "New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Out-of-School Time Advisory Commission" to review before-school, after-school, and summer programs.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
"Garden State Manufacturing Jobs Act."
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.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Requires that school district's request for permission to use unrecognized position title include list of abolished positions and positions in which there have been layoffs and detailed job descriptions for them.
Concerns enterprise zone assistance fund project approval; dedicates certain revenues to UEZs or UEZ municipalities.
Requires DOBI to obtain and consider certain information from Commissioner of Health concerning provider network adequacy requirements for managed care plans.
Establishes "Jersey Canned Goods Program."
Establishes "Jersey Frozen Foods Program."
Authorizes impoundment of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes for certain crimes and offenses.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Permits pharmacists to prescribe self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances; clarifies certain health insurance coverage requirements for contraceptive prescriptions.
Places moratorium on implementation of certain tiered network health benefits plans until January 1, 2017.
Establishes compensation program for State and juvenile corrections officers and parole officers injured while performing official duties.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program and requires DOT to conduct study.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of fuel cell vehicles.
Establishes the Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Advanced Technology Vehicle Task Force.
Requires large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Establishes up to four-month extension for expiring carrier contracts with acute care hospitals while parties engage in contract renegotiation.
Requires boil water notices be provided to mayor and municipal clerk within one hour.
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.
Establishes employment goals and requirements for development subsidies.
Concerning development subsidies and certain employment practices.
Requires repayment of development subsidies in certain cases of failure to meet job creation or retention requirements.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Provides for designation of acute stroke ready hospitals; establishes Stroke Care Advisory Panel and Statewide stroke database; requires development of emergency services stroke care protocols; and mandates insurance coverage for telemedicine for stroke c
Requires boards of education to conduct student vision screenings that include evaluation of visual acuity and binocular vision.
Establishes procedures for consolidating fire districts and for moving annual fire district election to November; eliminates vote on fire district budgets, except for proposals to raise revenue above the permissible levy cap.
Prohibits baiting for black bear during authorized bear hunt and requires use of bear-resistant dumpsters and food boxes at certain campgrounds and camping facilities.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinance regulating storage or disposal of food waste or other bear-attractant refuse.
Requires development and implementation of mitigation plans for radon contamination in certain child care centers; requires DOE to develop such plans for child care centers operating in public schools, request funding, and implement plans when funded.
"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.
"Early Childhood Innovation Act"; establishes early childhood innovation loan pilot program and study commission within EDA.
Places freeze on future enrollment in tiered network health benefits plans until new legislation and regulations governing those plans are in effect.
Temporarily maintains property tax exemption for previously exempt non-profit hospital properties; establishes "Non-Profit Hospital Property Tax Exemption Study Commission."
Authorizes expedited partner therapy, under which sexual partners or patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted disease are treated without prior clinical examination.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Requires teachers of health and physical education in grades kindergarten through six in public schools to possess appropriate endorsement to instructional certificate.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Prohibits inclusion of provision in agreements, contracts, or settlements related to pipeline siting or hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," that would restrict parties from disclosing information, statements, or assertions related to public health or saf
Restricts initial prescriptions for opioid drugs to seven day supply.
Limits use of student progress on standardized assessments to no more than 10 percent of overall evaluation.
Revises and codifies schedule for childhood lead screening along with other immunization and wellness checks as precondition of child's initial entry into school system.
Establishes program to provide free tuition under State Tuition Aid Grant Program to certain students who are accepted to public four-year institutions of higher education and elect to attend county college for first two years.
Concerns employer inquiries about wage and salary history.
Requires DOH to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
Requires high schools to offer computer science course.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey; makes change retroactive to October 1, 2006.
Provides for an additional aggravating factor in sentencing person who has committed act of domestic violence against certain minors.
Establishes confidentiality of landlord-tenant court records; addresses adverse actions on rental applications.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Allows electric energy produced from biofuel to be eligible as Class II renewable energy.
Requires four-year institutions of higher education to offer accelerated three-year baccalaureate degree programs.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential and prohibit any disclosure, sale, or unauthorized access to subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing to disclose informatio
Provides tax credits and other assistance to farmers transitioning to organic agricultural production; appropriates $2 million to Dept. of Agriculture.
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.
Ensures continued access of family planning services in event of federal action.
Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; transfers $20 million annually from New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority to consortium over five-year period.
Permits students over 18 years of age to taste wine or malt alcoholic beverage for educational purposes while enrolled in authorized enology or brewing training program.
Clarifies and codifies certain inflatable ride safety requirements.
Increases fines for selling single cigarettes and cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Establishes compensation program for certain county corrections officers injured while performing official duties.
Requires water purveyors to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing under certain circumstances.
Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to allow public high schools in same school district to merge varsity football teams if schools are unable to field varsity teams individually.
Requires institutions of higher education to use procedures in response to allegations of sexual harassment that are consistent with certain federal guidance and to report incidence of sexual assault.
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Makes appropriation from revenues and other funds of Transportation Trust Fund Authority of $260,000,000 to DOT for bridge and road repairs; $140,000,000 to New Jersey Transit Corporation for technology improvements and system safety.*
Requires study of program allowing community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Appropriates $8,992,898 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Clarifies role of health service corporations, revises membership of board of directors, regulates surplus, and requires timely publication of certain information by DOBI.