Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Anthony R. Bucco
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires medical oxygen providers to notify fire department whenever they stop delivering oxygen to a local residence.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law." *
Passed the Senate3
Codifies Lyme disease reporting requirements.
Limits homeowners' association regulation of structures reasonably necessary or convenient for the accommodation or therapy of physically disabled persons.
Requires display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles.
Out of committee16
Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund, dedicates $400,000 annually from certain power vessel operator license fees to the fund, and appropriates $400,000 for FY2012.*
Requires, for roof mounted solar photovoltaic systems, identifying emblem on certain structures, and fire department notification for all structures. *
Requires designated fire command structure in municipal emergency operations plans involving mutual aid responses to fires.
Waives fee to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks for volunteers and affiliates of certain organizations.
Requires MVC to accept death certificate as proof of name change.
Requires security guards at institutions of higher education which do not employ police officers to immediately report crimes committed on campus to the local police department.
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Removes requirement for one and two-family residences to be equipped with a portable fire extinguisher.
Grants certain leaves of absence for Vietnam Veterans of America conventions.
Establishes pilot program suspending operations of superintendent and deputy superintendent of elections in certain second class counties.
Requires Commissioner of Education to change deadline for municipal review of defeated school budgets whenever he changes the annual school election date.
Clarifies law authorizing application of reciprocal limitations against businesses from states that give in-state preference in awarding public contracts.
Concerns requirements to report newly hired employees.
Modifies short-time unemployment benefit law.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Requires school districts to allow charter school students, county vocational school students, and students receiving equivalent instruction elsewhere than at school to participate in interscholastic sports programs on resident district's sports teams.
In committee114
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and corrections officers to possess and use stun guns while on duty.
Allows for certain variances, exemptions, and waivers under "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Provides for the inclusion of home-schooled students in the NJ STARS Program.
Changes membership of Lake Hopatcong Commission and requires DEP to develop water level management plan for Lake Hopatcong to be approved by commission.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for positron emission tomography to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Requires insurers to provide minimum of 30 days inpatient treatment for substance abuse when physician determines treatment is medically necessary.
Requires municipalities that receive State aid to certify that all municipal buildings adhere to fire codes.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Requires court to consider gang affiliation when making bail determinations.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights Program Act."
Requires public schools to include instruction on the events relating to September 11, 2001 and the death of Osama bin Laden, as part of core curriculum content standards.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain costs of home bedbug infestation remediation.
Provides for continuity of religious upbringing, to the maximum extent practicable, for children placed into resource family homes.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of NJ.
Establishes public-private partnership for certain transportation projects; requires 10% of public-private partnership projects to be set aside for small businesses.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Renames the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights" act the "Alex DeCroce Crime Victim's Bill of Rights" act.
Requires DEP and owners of reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures, and authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs in response to severe weather events.
Establishes 80 as maximum age for issuing special handgun carry permits to retired police officers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Clarifies insurance coverage for certain home and health care agency employees under their own private passenger automobile insurance.
Establishes a State aid program for charter school facilities.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students; appropriates $2,500,000.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Exempts sale of recreational safety helmets from sales and use tax.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who employ certain individuals who have received training from certain community rehabilitation programs.
Prohibits State agencies from posting emergency medical technicians' personal information on web sites.
Abolishes Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, transfers bridges to NJ DOT and Penn DOT, removes tolls.
Adds members representing fire fighting and fire safety interests to the Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group.
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Provides for a presumption of joint physical custody in a child custody determination; addresses relocation.
Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Increases certain arson offenses to a crime of the third degree.
Requires replacement of door and ignition locks on county and municipal vehicles prior to sale.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Requires managed care plans to deem valid referral for a covered health care service as satisfying requirements for prior notification.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Establishes process by which a fiduciary is discharged.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of carbon monoxide detectors and any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification.
Clarifies that using motor vehicle to publicly display obscene material is fourth degree crime.
Creates procedure for destruction of all records pertaining to juveniles who are arrested but subsequently not charged with delinquency.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain high-efficiency home heating equipment.
Removes investigation and security services from imposition of sales and use tax.
Establishes free smoke detector program in DCA.
Requires adoption agency, court, or DYFS to maintain child's religious upbringing when placing child in adoptive or resource family home.
Establishes mutual aid assistance request protocols for 9-1-1 ambulance dispatchers.
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Requires retail food establishments to donate surplus unused baked goods and surplus canned and packaged goods close to retail sale date to local nonprofits and charities.
Requires 30-day grace period prior to accrual of interest on late water and sewer bill payments.
Authorizes submission of certification of remediation at unregulated heating oil tank sites by certain persons; requires use of contractors by DEP to review site remediation submissions.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Exempts certain motor vehicle repair dealers from consumer fraud law and regulation under certain circumstances.
Requires municipality to comply with State audit prior to receiving State aid.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain packaging equipment.
Requires minimum water usage charge to be applied per dwelling unit in multi-family dwelling.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
"New Jersey G.I. Bill"; provides higher education benefits to New Jersey veterans.
Upgrades burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree; upgrades it to a crime of the first degree if committed while armed.
Provides two-year window for persons to transfer, render inoperable or surrender assault firearm.
Establishes death benefit for forest firefighters.
Authorizes municipality to deliver property tax bills, construction permits, and receipts for payment via e-mail.
"Property Tax Reduction Work Act"; permits local units to recruit residents to perform services in return for property tax vouchers.
Provides for direct property tax relief from Highlands Property Tax Stabilization Fund.
Requires DHSS to establish carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide air quality standards and certification requirements for ice arenas.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Allows certain fuel dealers and distributors refunds of petroleum products gross receipts tax and credits against motor fuel tax for certain bad debts from sale of fuel.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, EMS workers, and firefighters.
Permits municipal affordable housing trust funds and payments-in-lieu fees transferred to the New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund to be returned to the originating county for affordable housing purposes.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Prohibits emergency service fees.
Requires fire districts, school districts, and county governments to share in burden of property assessment appeal refunds.
Prohibits residential development fees on reconstruction after natural disasters.
Establishes three regional superintendents of schools and eliminates the position of executive county superintendent of schools.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students.
Transfers records management functions of Division of Archives and Records Management from Department of State to Department of Treasury; transfers State Records Committee from Department of State to Department of Treasury.
Directs DOE to develop and implement pilot program for compressed natural gas school buses, and authorizes establishment of permanent voluntary program under certain circumstances.
Limits non-debt service portion of sewerage and utilities authority charge or fee increases to no more than 2% over previous year.
Requires DEP to obtain legislative approval and authorization before increasing a fee or imposing a new fee, but retains DEP authority to use ordinary administrative procedure when decreasing a fee.
Prohibits municipalities from charging interest on unpaid property taxes for 30 days after payment is due following hurricane or other catastrophic weather event.
Provides for establishment of child support lien against life insurance proceeds; requires insurers perform child support judgment search.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Requires health benefits plans in Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, SHBP, and SEHBP to offer equal terms for participation of certain health care providers in their provider networks.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights and Property Tax Reduction Act."
Concerns closure of Fenimore Landfill in Roxbury Twp., Morris County.
Reduces amount of fire duty required in order to receive exempt fireman certificate.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to order reduction in reservoir levels prior to weather emergency; requires DEP to adopt regulations concerning reservoir levels.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to victims injured in September 11th and 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Concerns workers' compensation insurance requirements for certain corporations and partnerships.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Increases maximum penalty under "Local Government Ethics Law."
Prohibits bad faith assertion of patent infringement.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Exempts persons practicing certain techniques from the provisions of the "Massage and Bodywork Therapist Licensing Act."
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Prohibits improper release of photographs or videos captured by public entities.
Limits amount of appeal bond in civil actions to $50 million.
Prohibits workers' compensation reimbursement to certain entities for treatment paid on behalf of injured worker.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,200,000 to Maritime Industry Fund in Office of Maritime Resources in DOT.
Exempts all transfers made to lineal relatives from the Transfer Inheritance Tax.
Exempts mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
Alters eligibility criteria for special probation for drug or alcohol treatment to permit access by certain persons without previous conviction or delinquency for, or without pending charge of, crime of violence.
Filed1
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
"Tara's Law"; provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in community care residences and for investigations of abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Allows SPRS members to purchase SPRS credit for prior military service.
Revises penalties for animal cruelty, increasing degree of certain offenses; designated as Patrick's Law.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
Establishes "Veterans Higher Education Commission."
Establishes bill of rights for continuing care retirement community residents.
The "Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act."
Lieutenant Scott Jenkin's Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from cargo carriers; amends theft statute.*
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.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
Increases civil and criminal penalties involving unstamped and counterfeit cigarettes and cigarette smuggling and establishes crime involving transfers of counterfeit cigarettes.
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Designates State Highway Route 53 as "Alex DeCroce Memorial Highway."
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
Prohibits relieving certain charges of employer unemployment insurance accounts.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Concerns closure of, and other activities at, certain landfills.
Appropriates $32,976,962,000 in State funds and $13,427,159,762 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2013-2014.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Passed the Senate · 5
Encourages sharing of services; makes appropriations.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.
Codifies in statute case law developed legal standards for establishing grandparent and sibling visitation with a child when visitation objected to by child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian.*
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of a boating accident.
Out of committee · 41
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
"Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries. *
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose.*
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Revises exemption from license requirement for raffles for door prizes of donated or purchased merchandise; increases total retail value from $50 to $200 or higher if permitted.
Provides for modification of child support and certain alimony payments due to changed circumstances.
"Kulesh, Kubert's, and Bolis' Law; " establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.*
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Requires voter registration forms be available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license; requires display and collection of completed application if the applicant wishes to register at public agency.*
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Requires certain parents and caretakers to be enrolled in NJ Family Care if they meet income eligibility criteria.*
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."*
Removes licensing requirement for recreational bingo games.
Establishes NJ Council on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.*
Requires professional boards to provide waivers or exemptions from requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.*
Revises law concerning certain professional and occupational licenses.
Permits electronic mail notification, and makes certain other revisions, regarding the "Self-Service Storage Facility Act."
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
Permits inclusion of volunteer firefighters and other emergency responders within municipal eligible employee group for purposes of the small employer health benefits plan statutes.
Appropriates $24,290,379 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Codifies protections set forth in certain case law and limits use of eminent domain under the "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Creates crime of cyber-harassment.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Provides for temporary professional or occupational licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Permits pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to children seven years of age or older.*
Creates New Jersey Cold War medal.
Establishes pediatric respite care program licensure requirements.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
In committee · 157
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Extends alternate route police training certification from three to five years.
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of school each day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Provides for certain psychologists to prescribe medications.
Enhances penalties for provisional driver's license holders.
Increases penalties for underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Requires that victims of sex offense be informed of offender's risk of re-offense upon release.
Permits State aid to fund start-up costs for local shared services projects.
Prohibits the employment of unauthorized aliens and requires employers to use E-Verify program.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Requires certain health care facilities and operators of certain transient dwellings to maintain agreements for bedbug eradication services.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Increases the penalty for hindering the apprehension or prosecution of an offender.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Provides for no net loss of DEP lands for fishing, hunting, and trapping purposes.
Prohibits use of public funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from considering or requiring compliance by Highlands planning area municipalities with Highlands regional master plan in certain circumstances.
"Zero-Based Budget Act;" requires State Treasurer to develop and integrate certain zero-based budgeting practices and procedures in preparation and submission of Governor's annual budget message.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to undergo obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram within 48 hours of performing abortion.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $500 income tax deduction.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes and designates it as natural area and wildlife sanctuary.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Requires immediate resumed qualification as dependent covered person under certain health benefits plans after active military duty under certain circumstances.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Permits veteran's property tax deduction for tax year when veteran was previously qualified to receive deduction and became owner of real property after October 1 of pretax year.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Eliminates imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to or use of certain health and fitness clubs and organizations.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Establishes the "Corrupt Gains Restitution Act."
Repeals "Statewide Non-Residential Development Fee Act"; prohibits COAH from basing prospective need portion of fair share obligation on commercial development.
Reduces corporation business tax rate and provides an additional rate reduction for three years for taxpayers that relocate corporate headquarters to New Jersey.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Prohibits release on bail of persons in the country illegally who are charged with crimes of the first or second degree or with two prior criminal convictions.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for retired veterans living in NJ and their immediate family members.
Exempts certain lake association membership fees and dues from imposition of sales and use tax.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Requires certain commissions to maintain meeting minutes; establishes Governor's authority to approve or veto the minutes of those commissions.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Excludes appropriations to reserve for uncollected taxes in excess of two percent from calculations of municipal adjusted tax levy.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
Grants law enforcement agencies authority to order road closures; increases penalty for violations.
"Flood Control, Mitigation, and Prevention Bond Act of 2012," authorizes bonds for up to $2 billion, and appropriates $5,000.
Suspends "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" until certain conditions are met.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Heating Oil and Propane Reserves.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Allows for exclusion of certain properties from Highlands preservation area.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Bars certain employees of certain public agencies from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
David's Law; establishes crime of negligent vehicular homicide.
Authorizes reimbursement for EMT training from EMT Training Fund for certain volunteer firefighters.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Requires certain CATV companies to make CATV service available throughout residential areas of municipality within specified number of years after CATV company first provides service to municipality.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on hunting license fees.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
"Vader's Law"; revises law to enhance penalty for injuring or harming certain dogs.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from using social networking websites and requires certain identifying information.
Establishes offense of advertising commercial sexual abuse of minor.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on the dangers of texting while driving as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Prohibits surrogacy agreements; establishes standards for determining custody of children resulting from such agreements.
Establishes special motorcycle license plates for veterans.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Transfers responsibility for establishment and enforcement of ethical standards for local officials and school officials to the State Ethics Commission.
Authorizes penalties for failure to file certain public employment contracts; clarifies requirement for electronic posting of public employment contracts and interest arbitration awards.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Increases the State earned income tax credit from 20 percent to 25 percent of the federal earned income tax credit over two taxable years.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
Eliminates payments for unused sick leave earned after effective date; limits carry forward of unused vacation leave; requires suspension and forfeiture of certain payments; limits use of unused sick leave in year before retirement.
Requires State oversight of budgets of joint meetings.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes committed during a state of emergency.
Directs BPU to adopt best practices and standards for public utility disaster response.
Requires electric distribution lines be located underground in areas affected by severe weather or natural disasters.
Requires electric public utilities to repair or install street lights within certain time periods after municipal notification.
Directs BPU to study whether State's electric distribution system meets certain standards.
Amends Fiscal Year 2013 annual appropriations act to prohibit application of budget adjustment factor when determining Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain nursing facilities.
Authorizes chiefs of part-time municipal police forces to issue firearms ID cards and handgun purchase permits.
Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.
Upgrades vehicular homicide to first degree crime under certain circumstances; designated as "Rosie's law."
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations.
Upgrades motor vehicle theft to a crime of the second degree.
Limits law enforcement officers' civil and criminal liability for injuries occurring during motor vehicle pursuits.
Authorizes disclosure by DCF of child abuse and neglect information to religious institutions.
Revises alimony laws, including eliminating permanent alimony and establishing guidelines for amount and duration of alimony awards.
"Direct Tax Relief for New Jersey Families Act"; Establishes the New Jersey Direct Property Tax Relief Program; increases the renter's gross income tax credit for property taxes; and increases the earned income tax credit.
Strengthens rights of certain sexual assault victims to sole custody; allows victim to place child for adoption without notice to person who committed sexual assault resulting in birth of the child.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Expands definitions of "abused child" or "abused or neglected child" to include prenatal exposure of child to controlled substances.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Requires prescribers and pharmacists to check prescription monitoring program prior to prescribing and dispensing Schedule II drugs.
Creates crime of home invasion; makes crime subject to No Early Release Act.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Authorizes county prosecutor to issue rewards to persons who provide information leading to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of persons who have committed certain drug offenses.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Extends Class Two special law enforcement training for time deployed.
Requires any State entity administering State or federal public benefit programs to verify recipient's personal information against death records to prevent payment to deceased individual.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Increases penalties for certain heroin offenses by revising threshold amounts for first, second, and third degree crimes of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing heroin.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with non-copper-based landline or wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature.
Changes when proof of veteran status is required for civil service examinations for certain veterans.
Restricts sale and use of remaining State-owned portion of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital property in Morris County.