Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Robert M. Gordon
Sponsored
Became law6
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Stipulates that retail motor fuel dealers shall not be responsible for certain fees associated with credit, debit and rewards cards.
Revises requirements for establishment of central municipal courts.
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Vetoed6
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions quarterly on July 15, October 15, January 15 and April 15.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Passed the Senate1
Permits municipality to establish civil penalty for smoking in public places.
Out of committee13
"Innovative Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act."
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodways.
Concerns importation and delivery of motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Concerns sale of certain motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Requires certain health benefits plans to provide coverage for behavioral health care services.*
Credits increases in employee contributions required by P.L.2011, c.78 as additional contributions to TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS, and SPRS unavailable to reduce normal contributions of State and local employers for actuarial valuations beginning July 1, 2015.
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Requires continuing care retirement communities to provide residents with information on influenza vaccines for older adults.
Reforms annual State revenue estimating and reporting, and executive State budget presentation and revenue certification processes.
Requires certain notifications for termination of services to persons with developmental disabilities and providers.
Requires Public Health Counsel to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.*
In committee25
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
"Blue Acres Floodplain Protection Bond Act of 2012," authorizes bonds for $100 million, and appropriates $5,000.
Requires Financial Policy Review Board to issue certain reports and create and maintain website.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Provides "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act" exemption for artificial turf field construction by local government units.
Permits counties to charge a fee to fund infrastructure through voter approval.
Subjects Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to New York's Freedom of Information Law and New Jersey's Open Public Records Act.
Provides that participation by New Jersey residents in contests of skill does not constitute unlawful gambling.
Establishes "Study Commission on E-Licensing."
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
Establishes a limited license for threading within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
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.
Allows nonpublic schools to participate in joint purchasing agreements entered into by two or more school districts.
Establishes Behavioral Health Insurance Claims Advocacy Program.
Requires carriers to classify medically necessary procedures as covered benefits and remit certain payments to hospitals for services rendered.
Provides that teaching staff member's annual summative evaluation rating for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school years will not include a student growth percentile; delays use of certain assessment.
Establishes program certifying certain broadcast station personnel to undertake certain actions during emergencies.
Permits independent contractors to provide cosmetology and hairstyling services or ancillary services,
Authorizes seizure and impoundment of a dog believed to have attacked, severely injured, or killed another domestic animal.
Requires DHS to develop specific criteria for eligibility of individuals with developmental disabilities for services from adult day health services facilities.
Imposes oversight, cost analysis, and fee requirements for State contracts; includes State contract performance in conscientious employee protection act; limits to three years all State contracts; requires certain disclosures on State contracts.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements if written objection provided and one or more conditions exists.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Filed1
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law7
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Amends "Flood Hazard Area Control Act" to require DEP to take certain actions concerning delineations of flood hazard areas and floodplains.*
Concerns sale of certain motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Allows student with disability to bring service animal on school bus.
Requires continuing care retirement communities to provide residents with information on influenza vaccines for older adults.
Requires certain notifications for termination of services to persons with developmental disabilities and providers.
Vetoed2
Reforms annual State revenue estimating and reporting, and executive State budget presentation and revenue certification processes.
Requires Public Health Counsel to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when their vehicles bear a disabled veteran's or Purple Heart license plate or placard issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.*
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Requires annual physical examination of child 19 years of age or younger include certain questions related to cardiac health.*
Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Designates New Jersey Big Data Alliance as State's advanced cyberinfrastructure consortium.*
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network, and updates crime of animal fighting; amends RICO concerning dog fighting.*
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Provides standards for, and requires registration of, home elevation contractors.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Designates State Highway Route No. 35 bridge between Brielle and Point Pleasant Beach as "Veterans of All Wars Memorial Bridge."
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, sheriff's officers, EMS workers, and firefighters; designated as "Patrolman Joseph Wargo's Law."*
Permits students made homeless by act of terrorism or natural disaster to attend tuition-free the school district in which they resided prior to being homeless for two school years after the event.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Waldwick Borough as "Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway."
Directs certain four-year public institutions of higher education to establish substance abuse recovery housing program.
Extends "Overdose Prevention Act" immunity provisions to certain professionals and professional entities, and permits needle exchange programs to obtain standing order for opioid antidote.*
Prohibits retrofitting diesel-powered vehicles to increase particulate emissions for the purpose of "coal rolling"; prohibits the practice of "coal rolling".
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Permits municipalities and municipal parking authorities to create Senior Citizen Priority Parking Program.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.**
Increases efficiency and transparency in distribution of Superstorm Sandy aid money.
Establishes a process to integrate certain health data and other data from publicly supported programs for population health research.*
Vetoed · 16
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research institutions; allows certain technology businesses located in certain innovation zones to receive certain tax credits under Grow New Jersey Assistan
Adds to property tax levy cap exclusions increases in flood insurance premiums.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; enhances film and digital media tax credits, revises and expands tax credit eligibility requirements, and requires EDA to study development of film studio at North Jersey location.*
Establishes in DOC, supervised community reintegration program for certain victims of domestic abuse.*
Establishes the "Superstorm Sandy Bill of Rights."
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Prohibits employment discrimination based on applicant employment status.
Gives priority in training programs to long-term unemployed.
Establishes certain minimum and maximum temperatures in emergency shelters, rooming and boarding houses, and certain nursing homes and residential health care facilities.*
Requires necessary services and supports to be provided to former residents of developmental centers transitioning to community placements.*
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Establishes Mike Adler Aphasia Task Force to assess needs of persons with aphasia, and their families, and ensure adequate provision of support services and information thereto.*
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.*
Passed the Senate · 25
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to convene a strategic planning summit to analyze the State's physician workforce supply.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
The "New Jobs for New Jersey Act."
Provides certain small businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy a corporation business tax or gross income tax credit for certain reinvestment in shore municipalities.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold regular meetings in various counties in the State.
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.*
The "New Jersey Intern Protection Act"; provides legal protections and remedies for persons engaged in internships with employers.*
Establishes "New Jersey Higher Education Funding Formula Commission."
Modifies powers and allocation of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.*
Makes FY 2014 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.*
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 35 as "Chosin Few Memorial Highway."
Reinstates transportation planning district for Meadowlands District.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.*
Establishes Task Force on School District Regionalization.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses.
Prohibits possession and transport of parts and products of certain animals at PANYNJ airports and port facilities.*
Out of committee · 46
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Requires DOT Commissioner to develop public awareness programs and use variable message signs to inform motorists about State's "move over" law.*
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Requires DHS and DMVA to conduct or contract for follow-up studies of former residents transitioning to community from their facilities.*
Requires use of bear-resistant containers, dumpsters, or food boxes in certain areas located in black bear habitat under certain circumstances, including garbage collection, and prohibits certain actions that would result in feeding of black bears.
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.
Excludes certain conveyances of graves, crypts and niches from 15% fee charged by cemetery company.
Permits health care providers to report certain patient health problems to MVC.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Provides that crime victims do not have to pay fees to obtain records relating to the crime and that requests for such records are not public information.*
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Encourages the establishment of "breakfast after the bell" programs in school districts, public school, and nonpublic schools participating in the federal school breakfast program.
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Requires elevators in new buildings be at least a certain size.
Permits a child whose parent or guardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in the school district where the child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
Exempts school district employees in certain counties from requirement to reside in State as pilot project; requires DOE report.
Requires Medicaid coverage for diabetes self-management education, training, services, and equipment for patients diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes, and pre-diabetes.*
Requires bi-state transportation authorities to make advance notification of certain projects or operations expected to impede traffic.
Requires teachers of health and physical education in grades kindergarten through six in public schools to possess the appropriate endorsement to the instructional certificate, and includes a "grandfather" provision.
Establishes remote medical consultation assistance grant program in DOH.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
"Boys & Girls Clubs Keystone Law"; permits minors to give consent for behavioral health care.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements under certain conditions.*
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Requires development and maintenance of database to advise public about open bed availability in residential substance use disorders treatment facilities.
Establishes task force to study issues related to sexual assault on college campuses.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers.
Increases required public notice from 30 days to 60 days for settlements entered into by DEP pursuant to Spill Compensation and Control Act.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Provides Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Establishes procedure for consolidating fire districts.
In committee · 42
Requires installation of low-flow toilets and low-flow showerheads in multiple dwellings having 3 or more units.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.
Requires executive county superintendent to designate a county special services school district, jointure commission, or educational services commission as the county education services agency to assist local school districts in sharing services.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Clarifies that a single State college may enter into a joint purchasing agreement with other contracting units.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from imposing surcharges on consumer credit card purchases.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a public servant, during a state of emergency, to use or make disposition of a public resource in an unauthorized manner with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another.
Requires video cameras at certain ATMs.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
"Flood Control, Mitigation, and Prevention Bond Act of 2012," authorizes bonds for up to $2 billion, and appropriates $5,000.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish public awareness campaign about new federally required health insurance exchange.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Reduces lawful maximum capacity of certain ammunition magazines in New Jersey.
Allows establishment of county-wide purchasing system for certain school district services in certain counties; offers employment protections for certain food or custodial services employees; and regulates subcontracting by districts and public higher edu
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
Excludes appropriations to reserve for uncollected taxes in excess of two percent from calculations of municipal adjusted tax levy.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Increases and revises membership of New Jersey Cemetery Board.
Requires insurers to cover comprehensive ultrasound breast screening if a mammogram demonstrates certain dense breast tissue and requires certain mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.
Establishes procedures for awarding of design-build contracts.
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
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.
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of residents of State developmental centers until certain conditions are met.
Concerns occupational safety and health for public employees of certain interstate authorities.
Provides for an annual assessment upon certain rail carriers transporting crude oil and dedicates assessment revenue for State aid to municipalities for use by local government unit emergency responders.
Modifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.
"Secure Schools for All Children Act"; establishes State aid program for security services, equipment, or technology to ensure safe and secure school environment for nonpublic school students.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Filed · 2
Establishes "The Democracy Act" to modify various voter registration and voting procedures.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.