Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Vincent Prieto
Sponsored
Became law3
Permits school boards to charge certain students for remedial or advanced courses provided during summer school.
Authorizes State oversight of municipalities in the Transitional Aid to Localities Program; appropriates $140,500,000 to DCA for Transitional Aid to Localities and administrative costs.
Revises statutes concerning crematories and the cremation of human remains.
Vetoed1
Concerns regulation of court reporting firms.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires alarm business licensee to maintain business office in this State.
Mandates notaries public under certain circumstances to advertise information to public regarding limitations on their scope of authority.
Revises scope of practice of genetic counselors.
Revises statutes concerning dental hygienists and dentists.
Out of committee7
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Requires physician supervision of nurse anesthetists.
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days.
Revises statutes concerning public adjusters. *
Allows certain plumbers and Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration contractors to perform propane services.
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customers.
Requires certain civil actions against certain licensed persons to be brought within two years.
In committee60
Prohibits motor fuel wholesaler from increasing price more than once in 24-hour period.
Establishes grant program to rehabilitate veterans' organizations posts; appropriates $300,000.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Authorizes Casino Control Commission to permit Atlantic City casinos to offer Internet casino gambling.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Requires that chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, allopathic physicians, and osteopathic physicians be reimbursed at same rate as other health care providers under various health and accident plans.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Prohibits HMOs from denying provider participation to orthotists, prosthetists and pedorthists willing to meet terms of HMO contract.
Revises filing requirements for minor subdivisions.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Extends responsibilities of tow truck operators responding to calls for assistance from motorists.
Revises various provisions of the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003."
Provides for registration of mold inspectors and remediators.
Requires demonstration of compliance with municipal zoning requirements as a condition for the issuance of certain construction and occupancy permits.
Requires costs of contract for construction be revealed to municipal construction office for construction permit.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Requires youth baseball league coaches to comply with pitch count standards to minimize injury to youth baseball pitchers.
Creates Construction Trades Licensing Board for licensing and regulation of several construction professions; creates new division for homeowner protection in Department of Law and Public Safety.
Imposes a four percent gross revenues tax on providers of direct-to-home satellite services.
Revises "Landscape Irrigation Contractor Certification Act of 1991."
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Provides limits for late charge and returned check fee payments for certain loans.
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Requires ATM operators to disclose balance inquiry fees.
Changes statutory provisions regarding who may interpret and perform evoked potentials or nerve conduction studies.
"Tree Experts and Tree Care Operators Licensing Act."
Concerns continuing education for dentists.
Grants certain veterans preference in affordable housing.
Permits landscape irrigation contractors to install backflow prevention devices under certain circumstances.
Requires on-site care for children in school bus accidents.
Establishes additional investigative and enforcement powers in Division of Consumer Affairs to deter individuals from engaging in unauthorized practice of professions and occupations.
Mandates education program for "at risk" mortgage borrowers as condition for residential purchase or refinance.
The "Residential Distressed Property Leaseback Act."
The "Residential Property Lease-Purchase Act."
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Provides for annual appropriation to NJ Sports and Exposition Authority of 50 percent of revenue from sales tax on admissions to and sales at new Meadowlands stadium to fund debt service, maintenance, repair, and replacement.
Prohibits disclosure of certain personal information by computer services providers.
"Geologist Licensing Act."
"Tax Preparers Licensing Act."
Waives commercial driver's license requirements for certain Office of Emergency Management drivers.
Establishes conditions for exemptions from electrical contracting permit requirements for work done by certain employees of municipal and county utilities authorities on public property.
Expresses legislative intent that "The Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act" notice provisions apply to housing cooperatives.
Modifies certain procedures for the assignment of franchise interests regarding the retail sale of motor fuel.
Lowers several corporation business tax rates, increases withholding rate on nonresident noncorporate partners and establishes separate gross income tax rate on gross income in excess of $500,000 but not including foremost categories of business income.
Requires completion of no more than 18 credits of continuing education for renewal of burglar alarm licenses.
Requires each nonprofit corporation operating in the State that accepts State funds to hold quarterly board meetings that include time for public participation.
"Appraisal Management Company Registration Act."
Requires NJ Transit and certain commercial bus operators to disclose information about drivers when requested.
Authorizes certain municipalities to establish safety requirements for certain bars and taverns.
Revises responsibility for meadowlands adjustment payments.
Prohibits use of jobs relocated within State in calculation of net positive benefit under "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.
Clarifies that hospitals are not subject to PIP medical fee schedules.
Permits sale of home-baked goods under certain circumstances.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority to designate lanes approaching toll booths on toll roads with appropriate pavement markings.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customers; establishes additional $1,000 penalty for violations.
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days.
Revises statutes concerning public adjusters. *
Allows certain plumbers and Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration contractors to perform propane services. *
Vetoed1
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to provide information to public about sickle cell anemia.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the "American Red Cross-NJ Fund".
Clarifies type of liability insurance coverage certain licensed auto body repair facilities must carry.
Makes sundry changes to taxicab laws. *
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Modifies procedures available under the Drug Offender Restraining Order Act.
"Sara's Law;" requires Motor Vehicle Commission to establish next-of-kin program.
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Requires transfer of municipal free library surplus amounts above 20% to municipality for its general purposes, which may include property tax relief.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for congenital heart defects prior to discharge.
Authorizes Commissioner of NJDOT to procure revenue-generating sponsors for, and permit sponsorship acknowledgment and advertising on, safety and emergency service patrol vehicles and equipment.
Makes certain changes to NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Allows counties and municipalities to use open space trust funds for purchase of flood-prone properties.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Vetoed · 7
Requires designated fire command structure in municipal emergency operations plans involving mutual aid responses to fires.
Establishes a New Jersey Homebuyer Tax Credit Program under the New Jersey gross income tax for home purchases during a qualified period. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Authorizes zero-interest loans to local governments for certain brownfield remediations; changes priorities for financial assistance from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Provides for streamlined review of certain wind energy generation facility installments on farmland. **
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages. *
Allows lawsuits against home improvement contractors to be brought in county in which residential or non-commercial property is located.
Revises statutes regulating bingo, raffles and amusement games.
Allows homestead property tax reimbursement program participants who lose income eligibility due to an IRA withdraw for certain purposes to maintain base year upon requalification.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Regulates mailed manufacturer's rebates.
Provides State recognition of certain Indian tribes for certain limited purposes, establishes process for future recognition of tribes and revises membership and duties of New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Out of committee · 41
Establishes task force to study treatment of veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Prohibits misleading use of senior-specific certifications or professional designations in connection with sales of securities.
Modifies rule governing decisions under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Establishes new motorcycle safety provisions.
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Requires issuance of construction permits for installation of wheelchair ramps on residential real property within 3 business days of application.
Limits electric public utility cost recovery to equipment or software that is compatible with, and capable of interoperating with, a smart grid system.
Requires the design of new public schools to incorporate the "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" (LEED) guidelines.
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Grants EDA broader discretion to approve applications for corporation business tax certificate transfer program and business employment incentive program.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank. *
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Requires public institutions of higher education and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to include link on their websites for access to educational information. *
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Allows students with disabilities to bring service animal to school.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of National Guard members.
Establishes "New Jersey Property Assessment Clean Energy (NJ PACE) Municipal Financing Program."
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain violent arrestees.
Limits DEP regulation of medical diagnostic x-ray equipment in facilities performing 750 or fewer x-rays per year.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
"Meadowlands Regionalization, Efficiency and Property Tax Relief Act of 2010."
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from the sales and use tax.
Permits sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
Creates crime of threatening the life of certain animals.
Reverses certain changes to laws governing State treatment of unclaimed property.
Concerns employee leasing companies.
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Phases out cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.*
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.*
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Establishes uniform real property taxation for commercial renewable energy systems and limits municipal construction permit fees for non-commercial renewable energy systems.*
Requires periodic inspection of exterior walls of certain buildings.
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.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Eliminates limit on application of corporation business tax research credit to 50% of liability otherwise due.
In committee · 197
Increases period of license suspension for certain drunk driving offenses.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Exempts certain State authorities and local government contracting units from bidding requirements when goods and services are procured below prices available under State contract.
Clarifies certain standards for regulation of recreational vehicles as housing.
Allows municipalities to require mortgage lenders to maintain vacant residential properties during foreclosure.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Provides that DNA test results may be used in establishing parentage.
Requires insurers to inform insureds whether certain coverages extend to rental automobiles.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Requires 45 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Establishes NJ FamilyCare coverage buy-in program for certain small employers.
Provides tuition-free enrollment at New Jersey public colleges to certain members of the State Police.
Prohibits disqualification and replacement of cast absentee ballots because of withdrawal of candidate prior to election day.
Expedites payment of PFRS accidental death benefit.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act and other laws relating thereto.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Provides that MIA-OON flag be displayed at certain public buildings annually for 30 days beginning September 11.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Requires certain arbitrators to file financial disclosure statements.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Permits price adjustments in local public contracts for asphalt cement and fuel.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Creates Bergen County Transportation Trust Fund.
Provides for Autism Advocate in Division of Advocacy for the Developmentally Disabled.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Requires legal action against certain licensed persons to be brought within two years.
Creates crime of exposure to toxic pollutants.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in hedge funds and derivative contracts.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Provides additional penalties for violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)" involving certain persons.
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Establishes that passenger vehicles other than police vehicles have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Clarifies that certain former New Jersey National Guard members may be eligible for higher education tuition assistance.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
"Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Enhances penalties for driving when license revoked.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
Revises animal fighting laws; increases existing, and establishes new, penalties.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes a Smart Grid Pilot Program and Smart Grid Technology Research Center at Rutgers The State University; appropriates funding for grants.
The "Smart Container Act."
Increases from $15,000 to $30,000 annual compensation in PERS-covered employment retiree may earn without reenrollment.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Authorizes legal permanent resident aliens to sit for examination for certification as municipal clerk, chief financial officer, tax collector, or public works manager.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Prohibits cemetery company from charging additional fee for rendering certain services on Sunday.
Requires dental benefits coverage for dental composite restorations.
Requires study of availability of certain health care services by independent entity.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs.
Establishes the "Healthy New Jersey Labor-Management" demonstration program.
"The Muhammad Ali/Rocky Marciano Boxing Reform Act"; enhances regulation of boxing.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Provides certain requirements for donation container solicitations by charities.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Extends eligibility for certain benefits to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Upgrades offense of harassment under certain circumstances.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Concerns contents of zoning ordinances.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Clarifies functioning high-mounted rear stop lamp is required under State law.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Requires school districts to take all steps to ensure adequate security for students when school is open as a polling place and provides that school district costs shall be deducted from the itemized list of expenses submitted by the county board of elec
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Provides for the expeditious roadway removal of certain disabled vehicles.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Exempts experienced firefighters from certification requirement.
Requires State firewarden to consult with local fire department commander upon arrival at scene of wildfire.
Changes definition of "small qualified business" in UEZ statute from having less than $3,000,000 to having less than $5,000,000 in annual gross receipts in that business.
Requires licensure as insurance producer to sell certain funeral insurance policies; prohibits financing of certain preneed funeral arrangements with reverse mortgage.
Makes sundry changes to limousine laws.
Permits municipalities to recover certain costs and fees from alcoholic beverage licensees charged with violations.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Permits county, county college, or municipality to offer additional retirement benefits to certain employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Limits use of inherently beneficial use doctrine when municipality making variance determination has received substantive certification from the Council on Affordable Housing; provides repose from litigation.
Includes services performed by professional musicians or persons otherwise engaged in performing arts as employment for purposes of unemployment insurance and workers' compensation benefits.
Validates certain local parking, speed limit and traffic direction regulations.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison, Keansburg, and two joint urban enterprise zones, one in Cliffside Park and Fairview, and one in Buena Vista Township and Buena Borough.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Clarifies that certain local administrative agency decisions involving monetary penalties or awards shall be docketed judgments.
Requires certain pools, spas and hot tubs comply with certain barrier requirements.
Provides certified municipal fire inspectors and fire officials having more than four consecutive years service with tenure in office.
Provides that applicant for business permit as electrical contractor must meet certain requirements.
Criminalizes certain actions in or on railroad property.
Establishes "New Jersey Partnership for Secure Schools Pilot Program" in Department of Education; appropriates $3 million.
Grants workers' compensation coverage to volunteer firefighters going to or returning from their stations when called to a fire.
Eliminates 15% fee charged by cemetery company on transfer of graves, crypts and niches.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Abolishes Landscape Architect Examination and Evaluation Committee; transfers powers to New Jersey State Board of Architects.
Authorizes expenditures from open space trust funds to develop or maintain recreation and conservation land although the land was not acquired by the municipality.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Permits historic motor vehicles to be used for pleasure driving one day per week.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Provides for licensure of elevator, escalator, and moving sidewalk contractors by State board.
Mandates professional engineers to complete continuing professional competency requirements during each biennial licensure period.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for 50% of purchase cost of diesel engine conversion devices.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing; abolishes Council on Affordable Housing.
Authorizes creation of 33rd urban enterprise zone in Town of Harrison, Hudson County.
Concerns regulation of paratransit vehicles and drivers transporting persons in wheelchairs.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Requires municipalities to include unique identifier on signs at certain handicapped parking spots.
Increases and revises membership of New Jersey Cemetery Board.
Requires certain cemeteries to accept Work First New Jersey and SSI allowance for burial expenses.
Requires cemetery companies to file annual financial report.
Permits veterans' organization to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Requires training for constables.
Requires health insurers to disclose broker commissions to purchasers.
Requires electric power suppliers to pay retail power prices for purchase of certain renewable energy production.
Requires DHSS to authorize Jersey City to issue certified copies of birth certificates by December 31, 2010.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands racetrack, upon voter approval; dedicates 1/3 net proceeds to General Fund, 1/3 to State education aid, and 1/3 to horse racing industry.
Requires MVC to notify Medicaid if driver's license of medical transportation services provider is suspended or revoked.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Requires sellers collecting New Jersey sales tax for locations in New Jersey to record and report on their returns the amount of sales tax collected within each municipality in New Jersey.
Establishes animal hoarding as a criminal and civil animal cruelty offense.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present.
Requires employers to pay their employees when serving on a jury.
Clarifies that publication of all county ordinances may be by title and summary.
Reorganizes New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority as New Jersey Public Media Corporation.
Creates enabling act for certain homeowners' associations; provides standards for governing documents, membership and management of all homeowners associations.
Creates new offense of theft by financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Prohibits retail dealer from charging in excess of five cents more per gallon for credit purchase of fuel than for cash purchase; requires certain price disclosures.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Prohibits NJ member of Delaware River Basin Commission from supporting use of drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Prohibits BPU from requiring or authorizing basic generation service suppliers after May 31, 2011 to impose charge on customers for not choosing to switch to an alternative electric power supplier.
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances; eliminates presumption of nonimprisonment.
Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.
Provides for termination of child support obligation upon certain conditions.
Prohibits possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by persons under 21 years of age.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th Birthday.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for amount of annual homestead property tax that exceeds 7 percent of homestead owner's New Jersey gross income.
Requires information on pay checks to be provided on the Internet for State employees who elect direct deposit.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax.
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
Concerns sale of cemetery, grave, and historical markers and plaques.
Establishes "Truck Operator Independent Contractor Act."
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.
Prohibits public and private employers from discriminating against ex-convicts.
Requires owner of autocab to provide proof of financial responsibility.
Concerns radiologic technology licensure.