Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Tim Eustace
Sponsored
Became law7
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.
Codifies "Project Medicine Drop" program; requires Division of Consumer Affairs to maintain secure prescription medicine drop-off receptacles at certain law enforcement agencies.*
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Permits educational research and services corporations to act as lead procurement agencies for local units, and publically supported educational institutions; permits Council of County Colleges to act as lead procurement agency for county colleges.*
Directs Department of Agriculture to publish on its website "New Jersey Gleaning Week" and "Farmers Against Hunger Day" page.
Prohibits awarding of economic development subsidy to business if business is in default on previously awarded subsidy that was loan or loan guarantee.
Vetoed2
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of carjacking, gang criminality, racketeering and terroristic threats.
Prohibits possession and transport of parts and products of certain animals at PANYNJ airports and port facilities.*
Passed the General Assembly14
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.*
Requires executive county superintendent to provide financial and educational information regarding formation of all purpose regional school district to districts proposing a withdrawal from or dissolution of a limited purpose regional school district.
Establishes "Milkweed for Monarchs" program.
Establishes "Adopt a Monarch Butterfly Waystation" program.
Requires DOLWD to permit veterans and other groups to apply for UI benefits online.
Requires Division of State Lottery to reduce advertising expenses for multi-state lottery games by sharing expenses with other participating states and to conduct evaluation of advertising expenses for State lottery games on annual basis.
Clarifies liability for discharges of hazardous substances from drilling platforms that enter NJ waters.
Requires State to include distributed energy resource in certain new State buildings and consider retrofitting certain existing State buildings with distributed energy resource.
Authorizes transfer of excess medical marijuana inventory between alternative treatment centers.
Establishes Small Business Unit and Small Business Task Force within Business Action Center in Department of State.
Requires online parking ticket payment system, NJMCDirect, to process payments 24 hours per day.
Facilitates identification of municipal liens on residential property of certain seniors and disabled persons.
Requires DCA to establish county assistance programs aiding seniors in property tax lien foreclosure; notification of certain county offices upon senior property tax lien sale; collector to provide requested lien satisfaction information within seven days
Out of committee16
Establishes energy efficiency standards for battery chargers.
Establishes Capture, Control, and Conserve Reward Rebate Program in DEP to encourage property owners to implement certain techniques to conserve water or control stormwater runoff.
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Concerns low emission and gas emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Prohibits retrofitting diesel-powered vehicles to increase particulate emissions for the purpose of "coal rolling"; prohibits the practice of "coal rolling".
Revises requirements for establishment of central municipal courts.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Allows certain on-site generation facilities to deliver electricity without utilizing electric public utility infrastructure.
Prohibits certain possession, sale, offering for sale, trade or distribution of shark fins.
Establishes microgrid pilot program.
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan to address smart growth and storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues.
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
Revises criteria for determining whether dog is vicious or potentially dangerous.
Directs Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute, Office of Information Technology, NJ Edge.Net Inc., and New Jersey Big Data Alliance to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure strategic plan; appropriates $150,000.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.*
In committee65
Concerns methods of paying wages.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Provides primary and school election sample ballots may be sent to registered voter by electronic mail if so requested.
"Blue Acres Floodplain Protection and Home Elevation Bond Act of 2013," authorizes bonds for $100 million, and appropriates $5,000.
Permits toll-free passage on State toll roads for certain buses traveling to casinos.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program; appropriates $95,000.
Permits temporary casino gaming at Meadowlands Complex for 2014 Hambletonian Race.
Requires mandatory imprisonment for child luring and requires certain information about Megan's Law to be provided to sex offenders annually.
Dedicates sales and use tax collections from sales of medical marijuana to the "Medical Marijuana for a Cure Fund" for medical research grants on certain debilitating medical conditions.
Requires employer notification when relocating call center services outside the United States.
Concerns importation and delivery of motor fuel during certain emergencies.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Requires hazard mitigation plan element in municipal master plan; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes the "New Jersey Sunshine in Litigation Act"; requires disclosure of judgements, records, and settlements concerning public hazards.
Requires BPU to provide grants for cost of purchase and installation of certain electric metering equipment for solar electric power generation systems.
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Establishes a limited license for threading within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Establishes "Collaborative Mental Health Care Pilot Program" in DOH; appropriates $750,000.
Increases penalties for improper prescribing of drugs.
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.
Disqualifies individuals for unemployment benefits due to receipt of certain severance payments.
Allows voter who has received mail-in ballot to vote in person on election day by delivering that ballot to polling place.
Establishes Bergen Watershed Flood prevention and Protection Task Force.
Requires actual transportation occur as a condition of billing for ambulance services.
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.
Permits manufacturer to sell electric motor vehicles to consumers under certain conditions.
Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey; makes change retroactive to October 1, 2006.
Allows county governing body to establish uniform polling hours and poll worker compensation for type II school districts holding elections in April.
Terminates enrollment in PERS of certain elected public officials upon expiration of term of office.
Requires PANYNJ to report monthly to counties within port district.
Concerns renewal of notary public commissions under certain circumstances.
Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act.
Directs DOT to establish State highway connecting Green Street and Williams Avenue in Boro of Hasbrouck Heights.
Requires State Lottery Commission to issue licenses for operation and playing of keno games in certain bars and restaurants.
Exempts principal residences from the transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Dedicates portion of sales tax derived from electricity, natural gas, and hydrogen used to fuel motor vehicles to Transportation Trust Fund.
Concerns consolidation of NJTA and SJTA.
Establishes "Delaware River Port Authority and Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission Consolidation Commission."
Requires DOH to adopt rules and regulations to facilitate nursing home compliance with statutory mattress replacement requirements, and to regularly report on its implementation and enforcement efforts.
Clarifies police powers of sheriff's officers in certain counties to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
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.
Establishes amber light duration at traffic control signals.
Prohibits "gay panic" defense for murder; prevents reduction of murder charge to manslaughter committed in heat of passion under certain circumstances.
Imposes certain registration and reporting requirements to prevent illegal trade of tigers.
Permits primary elections to be conducted by mail.
Prohibits homeowners insurance premium increase based on first claim during coverage period.
Prohibits use of snares in trapping of wildlife.
Authorizes use of juvenile records for prosecution of gang criminality.
Permits elections by mail for certain local government units.
Allows intergovernmental transfer of law enforcement officer without consent of sending jurisdiction if officer completed two or more consecutive years of employment and consent was refused previously.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
Establishes "North Jersey District Water Supply Commission and Passaic Valley Water Commission Consolidation Committee."
Requires photographic identification cards for bail agents.
Requires natural gas pipeline utilities to repair or replace leaking natural gas pipelines.
Reduces public employer salary paid to reemployed retiree of TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS or SPRS by $1 for each $2 of pension up to Social Security yearly earnings limit.
Reduces pension paid to TPAF, JRS, PERS, PFRS or SPRS retiree reemployed with public employer by $1 for each $2 earned up to Social Security yearly earnings limit.
Creates nine-member "New Jersey Casino Oversight Consolidation Commission."
Prohibits State-sponsored travel to states adopting religious freedom statutes without protection against discrimination.
Removes cap on tax on transfers of hazardous substances to fund emergency preparedness and response to certain spills.
Establishes solar power incentive program.
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150 percent of Medicare.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Creates fencing crime involving stolen domestic companion animals.
Permits use of instant run-off voting in balloting for certain local elective public offices.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Prohibits retrofitting diesel-powered vehicles to increase particulate emissions for the purpose of "coal rolling"; prohibits the practice of "coal rolling".
Revises requirements for establishment of central municipal courts.
Vetoed4
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
Concerns low emission and zero emission vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 66
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Authorizes municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations of certain properties in foreclosure.*
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Directs New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Transportation Authority to study and report on potential revenue generating services of rest areas and service plazas.*
Establishes durational limits and enumerates certain factors concerning modification and termination of alimony; establishes "open durational" alimony.*
Requires a board of education to consult with appropriate nonpublic school representatives prior to any change in the provision of nursing services.
Requires training program for school bus drivers and school bus aides on interacting with students with special needs, and requires development and use of student information cards.*
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Requires DHS and DMVA to conduct or contract for follow-up studies of former residents transitioning to community from their facilities.*
Provides for licensure of dementia care homes by DOH.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the statute concerning issuing or passing bad checks.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the civil statute concerning issuing bad checks.
Extends Right to Farm Act protections to commercial beekeepers, with some restrictions.
Establishes penalty for destruction of man-made native bee hive.
Creates the option to make a voluntary contribution for the support of local libraries on gross income tax returns.
Allows for waiver of school bus requirements for mobility assistance vehicle technicians who transport students with medical needs to and from school.
Establishes the "New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act." *
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
Requires certain police vehicles to be equipped with cameras.
Requires municipalities to exempt 100% disabled veterans from construction permit surcharge fees for improvements to promote living unit accessibility; appropriates $20,000 for municipal reimbursements.
Requires DEP Commissioner to periodically study and make recommendations concerning blue roofs and green roofs.*
Establishes requirements for pharmacists to dispense biological products.*
Requires elevators in new buildings be at least a certain size.
Excludes certain conveyances of graves, crypts and niches from 15% fee charged by cemetery company.
Requires continuing education for licensed practicing psychologists.
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Authorizes snow removal from covered fire hydrants and locator pole installation.*
Establishes procedure for consolidating fire districts.
Concerns property taxes due and owing on real property damaged or destroyed during, or as the result of, a natural disaster when a state of emergency is declared by the Governor. *
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Prohibits manufacture, sale or promotion of personal care products containing microbeads.*
Permits certain zero emission vehicle manufacturers to directly sell motor vehicles to consumers and requires them to operate service facilities.
Requires sober living homes and other substance abuse aftercare treatment facilities to provide certain notifications to next-of-kin when patient is released from care; designated as "Nick Rohdes' Law." **
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Requires preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Allows school districts and requires public colleges to enter into dual enrollment agreements to provide college-level instruction to high school students through courses offered on college or high school campuses.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
Permits transmittal of certain land use documents via email.
Allows charitable assets set aside from the sale of a nonprofit hospital to a for-profit entity to be allocated to a successor nonprofit hospital acquiring the for-profit hospital.
"Boys & Girls Clubs Keystone Law"; permits minors to give consent for behavioral health care.
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Requires DHS to use and update NJ Elder Index and related data to the extent possible.*
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Requires BPU to provide links to pricing information to customers from electric and gas public utilities, and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.*
Requires BPU to establish procedures allowing electric power and gas supplier customers to switch energy suppliers.
Imposes contract standards between customers and third-party electric power and gas suppliers.
Requires continuing care retirement communities to provide residents with information on influenza vaccines for older adults.
Authorizes operators of motor vehicles to display electronic proof of insurance.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act"; provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans and certain family members living in New Jersey.
"Hackensack Meadowlands Agency Consolidation Act"; "Hackensack Meadowlands Transportation Planning District Act of 2014"; "New Jersey Meadowlands Tax Relief Act."
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
New Jersey Stolen Valor Act; makes unauthorized use of military uniforms, medals or insignias, and certain false statements regarding receipt of military awards with intent to obtain benefit crimes of third degree.
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Requires DHS to notify enrollees in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly of Medicare eligibility.
Requires providers to submit to DHS expenditure details of enrollees in Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Requires DHS to monitor utilization and billing of services for Medicaid home and community-based long-term care.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Prohibits withholding of State school aid based on student participation rate on State assessments.
Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain economic incentive programs.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 23
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Allows municipalities to designate redevelopment entities and certain non-profits to act as land bank entities.*
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
Permits small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Requires Department of Health to publish informational guidelines on the inspection, identification, evaluation, and abatement of mold.*
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Reduces maximum capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; exempts firearms with .22 caliber tubular magazines from 10 round limitation. *
Requires certain State departments, divisions, commissions, and authorities to consider use of green or blue roof in construction of certain new State buildings, facilities, and structures.
Requires NJ Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program to give additional weight in ranking system to projects including green or blue roofs.
Authorizes municipalities to facilitate private financing of water conservation, storm shelter construction, and flood and hurricane resistance projects through use of voluntary special assessments.*
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities. *
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Mandates health benefits coverage for opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties. *
Reforms annual State revenue estimating and reporting, and executive State budget presentation and revenue certification processes.
Requires county and municipal police departments to establish cultural diversity training course and plan.
Requires lowest possible price not exceeding certain cap for inmate telephone calls.*
Passed the General Assembly · 47
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."*
Requires mail-in ballot applications be available at polling places on election day for voting in future elections; requires establishment of Intrnet webpages to provide instructions for completing mail-in ballot applications.*
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.**
Allows certain State agencies to sell Internet advertisements on agencies' websites as pilot program.*
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires appropriate community notification when sex offender is placed in halfway house; prohibits certain county inmates in halfway house.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.*
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of certain individuals with developmental disabilities to new residential placements until certain conditions are met. *
Requires public schools which have automated external defibrillators to adopt policies concerning usage.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain reasonable and safe distance when overtaking pedestrians and certain bicycles.*
Requires OLS to provide certain notices and reports to legislators and legislative staff by electronic means only.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Permits a witness who is under the age of 16 or a victim of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
"Aid in Dying for the terminally Ill Act"; permits qualified terminally ill patient to self-administer medication to end life in humane and dignified manner.**
Requires oversight reporting on Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Requires residential community release programs to file certain financial disclosure documents with DOC.
Requires Division of Rate Counsel to evaluate NJT fare increases and determine whether increases are necessary and fair to NJT customers.
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from increasing New Jersey resident undergraduate tuition and fees for nine continuous semesters following student's initial enrollment.*
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.*
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Enacts "Truth in Caller Identification Act"; prohibits manipulation of certain telephone caller identification information.
Requires school districts and charter schools to annually provide to parents or guardians of enrolled students information on certain tests to be administered during the school year.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Prohibits knowingly selling or planting certain invasive plant species.*
Expands acts of animal cruelty to include theft or release of animal during burglary.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Regulates planting and sale of running bamboo.**
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires DOE to create military-connected student identifier for inclusion in student-level database.
Prohibits award of State contracts and development subsidies to inverted domestic corporations.*
"Disaster Victims Protection Act"; requires Governor to allocate federal and State disaster aid to municipalities in proportion to amount of catastrophic physical damage sustained within each municipality.
Authorizes medical marijuana for qualifying patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
Requires money transmitters to provide training materials to delegates concerning financial abuse and exploitation of elder adults.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Requires public school students with concussion to be evaluated by licensed health care professionals before return to school; requires school districts to provide restrictions or limitations to student as needed.*
Requires DMAVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State. *
"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.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Requires NJT to limit fare increases under its discount program for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and college students; designated as "Fare Affordability and Ridership Empowerment (FARE) Act."
"Transparency, Responsibility, and Accountability for New Surcharges and Increases in Ticketing (T.R.A.N.S.I.T.) Act"; increases number of public hearings NJT is required to hold prior and subsequent to fare increase or change or abandonment of service.
Out of committee · 104
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."; appropriates $5 million.*
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Authorizes a teacher leader endorsement to the instructional certificate.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Concerns prompt payment of construction contracts.
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Requires labeling of foods containing genetically engineered material.*
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Creates Office of Clean Energy.
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
Authorizes creation of stormwater utilities for certain local government entities.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to recruit disadvantaged or minority men to teach in certain failing schools under alternate route program.
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.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th birthday.
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.*
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 one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
Extends county-based real property assessment pilot program to Atlantic County.
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act;" provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members on federal active duty to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.***
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.*
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Extends health benefits coverage of a newborn infant.
Enhances penalty for leaving the scene of boating accident.
Permits local unit to contract with private entities to lease advertising space on local unit's official Internet website.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer opioid antidotes.
Removes statutory requirement that health officers and registered environmental health specialists employed by municipalities receive maximum salary within their range within five years from date of appointment.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to commercial mobile service devices.
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) every seven years rather than every three years.
Extends for five years expiration date of special appraisal process for Green Acres program and farmland preservation program for lands in Highlands Region; makes change to special appraisal process for certain farmers. *
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.***
Repeals anachronistic, superceded, or invalidated sections of statutory law.
Debars permanently from government contracting any person convicted of certain crimes involving government contracts.
Requires funds collected through societal benefits charge not allocated or spent for at least one year be reappropriated in following fiscal year.*
Requires each State agency to review permits issued by agency and make necessary changes to expedite and facilitate permitting.
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use certain products manufactured in US.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Provides standards for, and requires registration of, home elevation contractors.
Establishes additional requirements, and penalties for failure to comply, concerning information to be provided to persons purchasing cats or dogs from pet shops. *
Adds to property tax levy cap exclusions increases in flood insurance premiums.
Requires nursing homes to obtain form designating beneficiary of personal needs allowance accounts from incoming and current residents.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Increases transparency and accountability at PANYNJ.
Requires State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts to incorporate those guidelines in grades six through 12.
Requires Medicaid managed care organizations to meet certain conditions prior to reducing reimbursement rates for personal care assistant services and home-based supportive care services.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Waldwick Borough as "Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway."
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Revises statutes concerning incorporation and governance of the Protestant Episcopal Church to remove gender-specific references.
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Increases statutory mandatory retirement age for Superior Court and Tax Court judges from 70 to 75.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to annually prepare substance use treatment provider performance report, and make available to public.*
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 dispensation.*
Authorizes establishment of three pilot recovery alternative high schools that provide high school education and substance dependency plan of recovery to test the effectiveness of this model.*
Streamlines responsibilities of Division of Local Government Services and local governments; designated as the Division of Local Government Services Modernization and Local Mandate Relief Act of 2015.
Conforms Megan's Law to requirements of federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.*
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault if committed against certain law enforcement officers and employees because of job status.
Increases electric power net metering capacity threshold to 2.9 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in State.*
Requires DOE to conduct study on options and benefits of instituting later school start time in middle school and high school.
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Authorizes State-chartered banks, savings banks, savings and loans, and credit unions to conduct certain savings account promotions.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.*
Establishes NJ Innovation and Research Fellowship Program in DOWLD.
Requires Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos; prohibits waiver of licensing requirements.
Requires DEP to adopt regulations to allow cultivation of commercial shellfish species in certain coastal and inner harbor waters for research, educational, or restoration purposes; requires community engagement process for revision therof.*
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Protects current out-of-State placements of individuals with developmental disabilities and prohibits transfer in-State under certain conditions.*
Creates "Fishing Buddy License."
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Provides expedited procedure for foreclosing residential properties in uncontested actions.
Requires annual evaluation reports by Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development on survey responses to be obtained from certain employers that end operations in this State.*
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.*
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Clarifies that Alzheimer's disease and related disorders may be listed as secondary cause of death on death certificate when appropriate.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Permits unregulated solicitation to perform snow shoveling within 24 hours of predicted snowstorm.
Amends Fiscal Year 2015 budget to provide one-half of certain environmental damage amounts recovered are appropriated for costs of remediation, restoration, and clean up.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail.
Makes certain reforms to juvenile justice system.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.*
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act." *
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Appropriates $4,750,000 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.*
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.*
Limits liability of caregivers when facilitating normalcy for children in foster care.
Requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.
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.
Establishes a process to integrate certain health data and other data from publicly supported programs for population health research.*
Authorizes establishment of recovery high school alternative education programs.
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.
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Enacts the "Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Requires disclosure of contributions received and expenditures made by committees or organizations not affiliated or coordinated with any candidate, or committee organized to support or oppose public questions.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Requires notice prior to lapse of life insurance policy due to nonpayment of premium.
Allows military member to qualify for resident tuition rate at county college.
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Exempts electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit persons with mental illness unless they pose danger.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Port Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River and Bay Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Requires hospitals to post notice in emergency departments concerning prescription drug diversion.
Authorizes award of attorney's fees and expenses in landlord-tenant actions under certain circumstances.
Allows direct deposit of adoption subsidy payments.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Establishes green infrastructure financing program.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Guarantees each municipality, at a minimum, Fiscal Year 2010 distribution of Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Aid in State Fiscal Year 2012.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $7,000,000 to DOE to reinstate nonpublic technology initiative aid.
Makes permanent certain temporary authorizations that expanded permitted investment by Director of Division of Investment of State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund and State pension funds.
Eliminates 15% fee charged by cemetery company on transfer of graves, crypts and niches.
Appropriates $3.963 million from General Fund to DOE for nonpublic nursing services aid.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
"PANYNJ Transparency and Accountability Act."
Provides that toll revenue generated from PANYNJ bridges shall not exceed cost of maintenance, operation, and debt service of those bridges.
Requires DHS to conduct follow-up study of former residents of North Princeton Developmental Center.
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.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Allows permitholder that leases Meadowlands Racetrack from New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct wagering on simulcast horse races at sports, retail, and entertainment development at Meadowlands Complex, subject to agreement and approvals.
Creates crime of cyber-harassment.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to order reduction in reservoir levels prior to weather emergency; requires DEP to adopt regulations concerning reservoir levels.
Requires prevailing wage be paid to certain workers.
"Consumer Protection Act of 2012."
Establishes special parking for hybrid, electric, and alternative fuel vehicles.
Establishes alternative distributed energy generating requirement; provides financial incentives for certain alternative distributed energy generating facilities.
Enhances retail competition in electric power and gas supply industries.
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to include flood control activities.
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warnings."
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Provides sales and use tax rebate for certain purchases made by, or on behalf of, individuals and small businesses affected by natural disasters.
Increases penalties for careless driving when violation results in injury or death to pedestrian.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal, primary, and general elections.
Requires Legislative approval of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey minutes.
Establishes "Rutgers, The State University Study Commission."
Requires background check for private gun sales.
Establishes animal cruelty offense of cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
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.
Requires certain purchasers of precious metals and jewelry to maintain certain records; grandfathers certain municipal ordinances regarding sales of used and secondhand jewelry.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Establishes prescription drug donation repository program.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Revises statutes concerning firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits; makes handgun purchase permit valid for four years.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology.
Requires cost-saving reforms to administration of correctional health care.
Waives certain commercial driver license fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Provides for establishment and operation of casino at Meadowlands Complex.
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Requires body of water between Korean peninsula and Japan be called "East Sea" for all governmental purposes.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Establishes public-private pilot program for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Requires immediate forfeiture of public office, position or employment, without application by the prosecutor, for public officials and employees convicted under federal law of certain public corruption offenses.
Reduces thresholds for certain heroin offenses.
Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
Requires law enforcement officer to verify vehicle registration with MVC before issuing summons for violation of red light camera.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online a
Eliminates restriction on placement of special education students in sectarian schools.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with minor as passenger.
Requires DOH to establish minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for hospitals.
Requires NJT to remove snow from certain stops, stations, and stands for motorbus regular route service and to make name and contact information of entities responsible for snow removal publicly available.
Permits zero emission vehicle manufacturer to directly sell motor vehicles to consumers based on vehicle market.
Increases statutory mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices, Superior Court Judges, Tax Court Judges, Administrative Law Judges, Workers' Compensation Judges and county prosecutors from 70 to 72.
The "Adopt a Stormwater Management Basin Act."
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
Makes FY 2014 supplemental appropriation to DOH for $7,453,000 for family planning services.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Provides loans and tax credits to businesses for costs incurred in purchase and installation of certain equipment to mitigate damage from natural disasters.
Allows gross income tax credit for contributions to nonprofit public school support organizations.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of the borrower's death.
Concerns dissemination of wage and hour information for tipped workers.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Requires successful completion of firearms education program to obtain initial firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase a handgun.
Establishes NJ Commission on Irish and Irish-American Cultural and Educational Programs.
Prohibits certain credit card issuers from reporting student credit card holders to credit reporting agencies for 90 days following missing payment.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
Requires disclosures of out-of-network services performed by health care providers under certain circumstances.
Transfers Palisades Interstate Park Commission police force to New Jersey State Park Police.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Clarifies that law enforcement officer who knowingly chokes another person engages in use of deadly force.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
Establishes "Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Act;" requires DOLWD to promulgate standards and regulations concerning safe handling of hazardous drugs by health care personnel.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure.
Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory.
Prohibits DOE from regulating maximum salary amount school district may pay superintendent of schools and eliminates TPAF enrollment exception for certain certified superintendents and administrators.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Requires MVC to automatically transmit applicant information to Secretary of State for automatic voter registration; permits applicant to decline voter registration.
Criminalizes possession and sale of alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (alpha-PVP) commonly known as "flakka," or "flocka."
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Creates Clinical Trials Working Group.
Increases the amount of the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit for certain taxpayers.
Expands cities permitted to regulate days and hours when packaged goods may be sold.
Reforms PANYNJ; "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015."
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Dedicates five percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Transit Ridership Innovation and Participation Act; provides income tax credits for employer-provided public transportation benefits.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Filed · 1
Imposes moratorium on Returning Home New Jersey initiative and prohibits transfers from out-of-State placements under certain conditions.