Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Marlene Caride
Sponsored
Became law2
Reappropriates $3 million from "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to fund State flood control projects.
Designates State Highway Route 7 bridge between Township of Belleville and Borough of North Arlington "Lance Corporal Osbrany Montes De Oca Memorial Bridge." *
Passed the General Assembly2
Prohibits notaries public from falsely representing themselvesas attorneys in advertisments.*
"Higher Education Citizenship Equality Act;" defines domicile for dependent students for the purpose of eligibility for State student loans, grants, or scholarships and resident tuition rate.*
Out of committee3
Establishes additional penalties for animal cruelty offenses.
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to include flood control activities.
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.
In committee12
Prohibits certain sex offenders from using social networking websites and requires certain identifying information.
Designates ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as Schedule III controlled dangerous substances.
Prohibits notaries public from falsely representing themselves as attorneys in advertisements.
Extends validity of certain retired law enforcement officers handgun carry permits from one to two years.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning electronic communications between employees and students.
Requires State Board of Education regulations regarding school nurse certification to include certain minimum eligibility requirements.
Requires school bus transporting students using wheelchairs to be equipped with four-point securement system; requires school bus operator to secure students using wheelchairs.
Prohibits sale of prepaid and wireless telephone service and equipment unless certain buyer information is recorded.
Allows processing of wild striped bass caught out of State for sale out of State.
Allows sale of wild striped bass caught outside of NJ.
Establishes Statewide Opioid Law Enforcement Coordinating Task Force.
Increases age for helmet requirement for roller skating and skateboarding to 17 and younger; extends helmet requirement to ice skaters.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Requires all lamps and lighting devices on motor vehicles be kept in working order.
Requires Department of Education to biannually distribute a letter to school districts reminding districts of requirement to enroll resident students regardless of immigration status.
Establishes offense of unlawfully accessing location of law enforcement vehicles through certain electronic means.*
Requires private entity primarily engaged in business of providing transportation for passengers in wheelchairs to secure passengers in wheelchairs using four-point securement system and to secure unoccupied wheelchairs.
Authorizes BPU to promulgate regulations requiring electricity providers to provide information so customers may compare prices and services.*
Revises State designation of "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" from February to September.
Removes requirement for one and two-family residences to be equipped with a portable fire extinguisher.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications device by employers.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications devices by institutions of higher education.
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Requires Department of Agriculture to publish on its website information concerning wineries and community supported agriculture entities in NJ.
Directs State Treasurer to review effects of disclosure and nondisclosure of lottery winners on transparency and lottery sales.*
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Protects minors by prohibiting attempts to change sexual orientation.
Prohibits certain energy suppliers from making false and misleading claims to potential customers; prohibits suppliers' calls to customers where no business relationship exists.*
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system. *
Creates crime of cyber-harassment.
Provides limited exemption from development regulations to allow certain structures to be raised as high as the highest applicable flood elevation standard.**
Prohibits inclusion of bonus in employment contract of school superintendent for reducing number of out-of-district placements of students with special education needs.
Vetoed · 9
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Directs NJTA to study and report on potential revenue generating services of NJTA rest areas and service plazas.
Requires Energy Master Plan to include long-term capacity planning and infrastructure planning.
Creates Office of Clean Energy in BPU.*
Increases distributions to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore aid reductions; extends "poison pill" protection to total formula aid provided to each municipality.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Passed the General Assembly · 32
Exempts disabled veterans and recipients of the Purple Heart from the payment of municipal parking meter fees when their vehicles bear a disabled veteran's or Purple Heart license plate issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Establishes licensing program in Department of Agriculture for farmed deer and other cervids.
Authorizes Office of Public Defender to provide legal representation for child in proceedings after parental rights have been terminated.
Concerns stalking and related restraining order protections for adoptive children and their adoptive parents victimized by persons whose parental rights to the adoptive children have been terminated.*
Concerns permits, letters of exemption, and enforcement with regard to agricultural activities under "Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act".
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Expands education requirements for special learner's and examination permits.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Provides bonus awards to certain businesses who hire employees who were previously unemployed for more than 13 weeks.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Provides for certain psychologists to prescribe medications.
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit of entitled person under certain conditions.
Establishes 12-month moratorium on establishment of new virtual charter schools and creates Virtual Charter School Task force.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Codifies the Judiciary's Foreclosure Mediation Program; dedicates monies from foreclosure filing fees and fines.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Requires forms and materials for individuals with developmental disabilities to be available in languages other than English.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain database concerning retail motor fuel dealers.*
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Establishes that volunteer firemen appointed to paid positions are not required to be recertified in certain instances.
Requires at least one State developmental center in each region of State; requires certain factors to be considered for transfer of residents between developmental centers.
Exempts mugshots of arrestees who have not been convicted of the underlying offense from State's open public records law.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 52
Permits municipality to sell certain vehicles in connection with motor vehicle offenses.
Supplemental appropriation to DOT of $10,000,000 as State contribution towards resolution of flooding issues at Marsellus Street Bridge in Bergen County.
"PANYNJTransparency and Accountability Act." *
Requires corporations qualifying for State development subsidy grants to repay entire grant amount if corporation fails to uphold grant terms.
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on hunting license fees.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Requires insurers to cover breast evaluations and other additional medically necessary testing under certain circumstances and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.**
Limits fees charged in connection with certain prepaid debit accounts; requires access to certain account information.
Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.*
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers.
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Provides for discounted resident trapping license fees for senior citizens.
Prohibits manufacture, sale, or possession of synthetic marijuana.
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
"Blue Acres Floodplain Protection and Home Elevation Bond Act of 2013," authorizes bonds for $100 million, and appropriates $5,000.*
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."*
Clarifies that certain types of sewage and sewage sludge do not constitute hazardous substances under "Spill Compensation and Control Act."
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.*
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Strengthens enforceability of premarital and pre-civil union agreements.
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.
Permits compressed natural gas as fuel source to power school buses.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
"Vegetation Management Response Act"; concerns vegetation management related to electric public utility infrastructure.*
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." *
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Rescinds recommendation of the Task Force on the Closure of State Developmental Centers and creates new task force.
Codifies current State Board of Education regulations which limit who may serve as case managers for students with disabilities to members of child study teams and certain speech-language specialists.
Sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.
Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.
Makes FY 2013 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Upgrades penalty for unlawfully transferring a firearm to an underage person; permits transfer for instruction and training.*
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.*
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to commercial beekeepers, with some restrictions.*
Establishes exclusive State regulatory authority over apiary activities and allows for delegation of monitoring and enforcement authority to municipalities.*
Establishes penalty for destruction of man-made native bee hive.
Allows use of master meter system in residential dwellings under certain conditions.
Provides standards for home elevation contractors.
"Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act"; provides student-athletes, parents, and coaches with information on sudden cardiac arrest and establishes protocol concerning removal-from-play for athletes exhibiting symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest.
Requires use of headlights on motor vehicles when motor vehicle is operated in an area of highway construction or repair.
Prohibits operator of motor vehicle from engaging in distracted driving.
In committee · 45
Creates motor vehicle offense of smoking in motor vehicle with a child present and dedicates penalties to "Smoking Cessation Fund."
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.
Prohibits use of volunteer driving activities in underwriting for private passenger automobile insurance; revises charitable immunity statute as applied to volunteer drivers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires that each school district conducting an interscholastic athletic program must employ one or more school athletic trainers.
Designates Pine Barrens treefrog as New Jersey State Amphibian.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Appropriates $3.963 million from General Fund to DOE for nonpublic nursing services aid.
Provides a NJHOPE credit, increases the current gross income tax homestead property tax credit, and increases the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $1,000,000.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically modified material.
Exempts disabled veterans from certain fees at State parks and forests.
Clarifies that certain offenders who drive during periods of license suspension are eligible for certain alternatives to incarceration.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Super Bowl.
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Hambletonian Race.
Requires MVC to issue driving privilege cards to persons who cannot prove lawful presence in the country.
Increases penalties for illegal use of telephone or electronic communication device while driving.
"Save New Jersey Electric and Gas Public Utility Customer Service and Call Center Jobs Act"; requires notification by electric and gas utilities when relocating customer and call centers out of State.
Requires disclosure of information about contributions and expenditures for candidates for elective public office, or for public questions, by publicly traded corporations doing business in State.
Provides certain exemptions from sales and use tax for hybrid electric vehicles, compressed natural gas vehicles, and equipment used for refueling or recharging certain vehicles.
Allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for in-State tuition at public institutions of higher education and State financial aid.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
"New Jersey Disaster Victims' Bill of Rights"; authorizes $500 million emergency State bonds and appropriates money for municipal property tax relief program.
Provides for voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Prohibits municipalities from charging interest on unpaid property taxes for 30 days after payment is due following hurricane or other catastrophic weather event.
Allows for waiver of school bus requirements for mobility assistance vehicle technicians who transport students with medical needs to and from school.
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."
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Makes crime of firearms trafficking subject to No Early Release Act.
Increases insurance requirements on operators of autobuses; requires driver of autobus to possess commercial driver license.
"Protection for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Institutional and Community Settings Act."
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Allows donations to funds supported by special license plates.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Establishes a charter school review board in DOE to review charter school applications and modifies aspects of the charter school program including approval, monitoring, and evaluation of charter schools.
Increases penalties for improper prescribing of drugs.
Permits minors to engage in certain construction work for nonprofit organizations.
Requires boards of education to calculate body mass index for students in first, fourth, seventh, and tenth grades.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Establishes specialty street rod and historic motor vehicle license plates and dedicates net proceeds to General Fund.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Requires forms for homestead property tax reimbursement, veterans' property tax exemption, veterans' property tax deduction, and senior and disabled property tax deduction to be available in certain languages.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Requires MVC to publish driver's manual on website in certain languages.