Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Tim Eustace
Sponsored
Became law7
Creates fencing crime involving stolen domestic companion animals.
Authorizes virtual net metering for certain electric public utility customers connected to certain hydropower facilities and resource recovery facilities.**
Establishes hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold on international airport property.
Authorizes the Unclaimed Property Administrator to verify certain governmental debts before delivering abandoned property.
Requires life insurers to use federal death master file to identify potential matches.
Dedicates one percent of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues to anti-smoking initiatives.*
Precludes DEP from imposing certain certification requirements on installers of individual subsurface sewage disposal systems.
Vetoed3
Creates certain assistance programs for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons, by persons with a disability, and by veterans.*
Prohibits sale and distribution of mercury relays and switches under certain circumstances.
Requires State's full participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Passed the General Assembly7
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program.*
Amends law concerning application, sale, and use of fertilizer to exempt organic fertilizer from certain requirements.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of certain offenses.*
Establishes State park passport to promote outdoor recreation, education, and visitation to State parks, forests, and historic sites.
Prohibits State-sponsored travel to certain states without protections against discrimination based on sex, gender identity or expression, and affectional or sexual orientation.*
Requires collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain surveys by State agencies.
Permits operation of low-speed electric bicycles.
Out of committee37
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.
Requires natural gas pipeline utilities to repair or replace leaking natural gas pipelines.
Establishes solar power incentive program.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for value of certain fruit and vegetable donations made by commercial farm operators.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Requires NJT to provide locations at bus terminals and rail stations where bicycles may be safely secured.
Expands One-Call Damage Prevention System to include underground contamination with engineering or institutional controls.
Requires online parking ticket payment system, NJMCDirect, to process payments 24 hours per day.
Establishes "Solar Roof Installation Warranty Program" in EDA and transfers $2 million from societal benefits charge to initially fund program.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.
Establishes "Milkweed for Monarchs" program.
Establishes "Adopt a Monarch Butterfly Waystation" program.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Prohibits possession and transport of parts and products of certain animals at PANYNJ airports and port facilities.
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Requires NJTA to study impact of constructing rail stations at certain park and ride facilities.
Removes black bear from list of game species.
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Requires DOLWD to permit veterans and other groups to apply for UI benefits online.
Changes statutory reference to pejorative terminology referring to person of certain ethnic background and requires government entities to remove and replace pejorative language in official documents.*
Directs DOT and NJT to construct rail station at Atlantic City International Airport.*
Amends sections of "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act." *
Authorizes current and retired administrative law judges to solemnize marriages and civil unions.*
Clarifies that product approval from U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not required for drug manufacturer to file registration statement, and specifies timeframe by which DOH must review registration statements.
Dissolves New Jersey Hall of Fame Advisory Commission and New Jersey Hall of Fame corporation and transfers their functions to Foundation for New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Enhances resident voting participation rights in common interest communities.
Provides for protection of public's rights under public trust doctrine.
Directs DEP to adopt standards for certain drinking water contaminants based upon recommendations of Drinking Water Quality Institute.*
Requires water purveyors to conduct water loss audits.
Declares that deed restrictions or agreements that prevent raising or constructing of a structure to certain flood elevation standards are unenforceable.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Requires BPU and electric public utilities to conduct energy storage analysis. *
Prohibits use of chlorpyrifos insecticide.
Requires certain buildings and structures in Hackensack Meadowlands to use "bird friendly" glass or other construction and design techniques to reduce bird collisions.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Prohibits DEP from amending certain regulations to be less stringent than certain federal regulations.
Allows expanded use of recycled asphalt pavement.
In committee101
Provides primary and school election sample ballots may be sent to registered voter by electronic mail if so requested.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
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.
Establishes the "New Jersey Sunshine in Litigation Act"; requires disclosure of judgements, records, and settlements concerning public hazards.
Disqualifies individuals for unemployment benefits due to receipt of certain severance payments.
Requires PANYNJ to report monthly to counties within port district.
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 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 use of snares in trapping of wildlife.
Permits elections by mail for certain local government units.
Establishes "North Jersey District Water Supply Commission and Passaic Valley Water Commission Consolidation Committee."
Revises criteria for determining whether dog is vicious or potentially dangerous.
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 cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150 percent of Medicare.
Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards.
Permits use of instant run-off voting in balloting for certain local elective public offices.
Requires local contracting units, boards of education, and county colleges to purchase hybrid electric vehicles or electric vehicles when purchasing vehicles.
Establishes requirements for provision of energy from Class I renewable energy sources.
Directs NJTA and SJTA to apply 10 percent discount to toll payments made by customers having New Jersey electronic toll collection system account in event of motor fuel tax increase; sunsets two years from increase.
Extends certain employment protections to professional cheerleaders.
Defines information required to be included in death certificates.
Requires electric public utilities to enter into long-term contracts for certain forms of Class I renewable energy.
Requires large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."
Requires certain child care center staff members to be tested for tuberculosis every five years as condition of continued employment.
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.
Creates Office of Clean Energy in BPU.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Creates Office of Sustainability.
Establishes microgrid pilot program.
Allows certain on-site generation facilities to deliver electricity without utilizing electric public utility infrastructure.
Requires environmental sustainability plan for State House Complex.
Establishes home elevation fund and dedicates up to $5 million of realty transfer fee revenue annually for this purpose.
Establishes Department of Early Childhood.
Eliminates newspaper publication requirement for unclaimed property and requires electronic notice of unclaimed property online.
Clarifies liability for discharges of hazardous substances from drilling platforms that enter NJ waters.
Prohibits baiting for black bear during authorized bear hunt and requires use of bear-resistant dumpsters and food boxes at certain campgrounds and camping facilities.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinance regulating storage or disposal of food waste or other bear-attractant refuse.
Requires Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center to study potential rail passenger service ridership along New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway right-of-way; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes bi-state commission to study and make recommendations to address rail passenger service needs of certain New Jersey and New York commuters.
Requires airport operators to provide notice and hold public hearings prior to implementation of changes in flight paths.
Establishes credit protections for juveniles in foster care system or receiving services from DCPP.
Authorizes medical marijuana for treatment of dysmenorrhea.
Designates pork roll, egg, and cheese as New Jersey State Sandwich.
Designates Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese as New Jersey State Sandwich.
Establishes NJ Water Supply and Pharmaceutical Product Study Commission.
Appropriates $5 million from General Fund to DOE for Bullying Prevention Fund.
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of State assessment.
Authorizes expedited partner therapy, under which sexual partners or patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted disease are treated without prior clinical examination.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Prohibits sale of municipally-owned sewer or water plant to private entity.
Updates administrative requirements and processes for unclaimed property held by State.
Establishes Clean Energy Technology Center and Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund for purposes of creating clean energy-related employment opportunities; allocates revenues from societal benefits charge to support its activities.
Reduces minimum age to gamble in casino or simulcasting facility to 18 years of age.
Imposes 2.5 percent tax on certain endowment income of private institutions of higher education in State.
Replaces Parole Board members with certain retired judges.
Requires actual transportation occur as a condition of billing for ambulance services.
Requires recycling of scrap tires and licensing of scrap tire haulers.
Provides for confiscation and forfeiture of animals involved in animal cruelty violations, and for cost of their care while being held.
Creates Emergency Unemployment Benefits Program for construction workers laid off due to halted Transportation Trust Fund projects.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.
Requires outer envelope of certain mail-in ballots to indicate amount of required postage.
Authorizes religious organizations to act as emergency homeless shelters in certain circumstances regardless of zoning requirements.
Requires BPU to conduct study concerning zero emission credits.
Adds rock climbing, bouldering, and ice climbing to definition of "sport and recreational activities" in law concerning landowner liability.
Designates little brown bat as NJ State Bat.
Designates adoptable dog as NJ State Dog.
Allows 50 percent credit against societal benefits charge to electric or gas public utility customers who install and maintain publicly available zero emission vehicle charging stations.
Directs DEP to designate areas in each State park and forest for construction of bat houses.
Establishes crime of purchasing components to unlawfully manufacture untraceable firearms.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for equine therapy or rehabilitation under certain circumstances.
Prohibits restrictions on patient receiving organ transplant based on marijuana use.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain pet medication.
Allows New Jersey gross income tax deduction for pet owners for certain pet medical care expenses.
Requires labeling of non-flushable disposable wipes.
Updates notice of elections requirements to include information for voter to obtain polling place locations.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for medication and treatment for hepatitis C.
Requires all students enrolled in grade eight to have certain physical examination that includes cardiac component.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for certain drug regimens for treatment of AIDS or HIV under certain circumstances.
Authorizes virtual net metering for certain electric public utility customers who are connected to resource recovery facilities.
Establishes NJ's right of first refusal regarding conveyance of certain federal lands.
Establishes scholarship program to provide free tuition to certain eligible students attending county college.
Permits institution of higher education to establish income share program.
Requires that certain tenants residing in rental housing be issued monthly rent receipts that itemize heat and electricity costs when those costs are included in monthly rent.
Prohibits holder of machine gun or assault weapon license from carrying in public.
Requires governing boards of certain institutions of higher education to post full texts of resolutions on website five business days prior to vote and to begin public meetings with period of public comment.
Requires BPU to adopt energy efficiency portfolio standards and electric and gas public utilities to adopt energy efficiency and peak demand reduction programs to comply with those standards.
Allows municipality to issue one permit to sell alcoholic beverages in downtown business improvement zone, pedestrian mall, or special improvement district.
Requires landlords to provide receipts for cash payments from tenants.
Authorizes persons 21 years of age or older to purchase and possess stun guns.
Filed1
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Carried from the Senate
Became law19
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Prohibits possession, transport, import, export, processing, sale, or shipment of parts and products of certain animal species threatened with extinction.
Prohibits possession and transport of parts and products of certain animals at PANYNJ airports and port facilities.
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program.*
Amends and repeals sections of "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Establishes "Adopt a Monarch Butterfly Waystation" program.
Authorizes current and retired administrative law judges to solemnize marriages and civil unions.*
Establishes "Milkweed for Monarchs" program.
Requires DOLWD to permit veterans and other groups to apply for UI benefits online.
Clarifies that product approval from U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not required for drug manufacturer to file registration statement, and specifies timeframe by which DOH must review registration statements.
Requires NJTA to study impact of constructing rail stations at certain park and ride facilities.
Dissolves New Jersey Hall of Fame Advisory Commission and New Jersey Hall of Fame corporation and transfers their functions to Foundation for New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Enhances resident voting participation rights in common interest communities.
The "Water Quality Accountability Act"; imposes certain testing, reporting, management, and infrastructure investment requirements on water purveyors.
Declares that deed restrictions or agreements that prevent raising or constructing of a structure to certain flood elevation standards are unenforceable.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates $12.3 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects.
Allows expanded use of recycled asphalt pavement.
Vetoed2
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 39
Appropriates $34,293,697 from "Building Our Future Bond Act" and provides for reallocating amount remaining from project grants not awarded, for public and private institutions of higher education.
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits installation and sale of wheel weights containing lead or mercury; prohibits sale of new motor vehicles equipped with wheel weights containing lead or mercury.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
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.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Authorizes medical marijuana for qualifying patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Revises statutes concerning incorporation and governance of the Protestant Episcopal Church to remove gender-specific references.
Permits bowling alleys, including alleys licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, to conduct amusement games.
Allows certain National Guard and United States Reserve members to temporarily defer mortgage loan payments and suspend property tax payments.*
Establishes "Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Act;" requires promulgation of standards and regulations concerning safe handling of hazardous drugs by certain health care personnel.*
Permits a victim or witness of any age to testify by closed circuit television under certain circumstances in prosecutions for domestic violence, sexual assault, and certain other crimes.*
Requires DLPS to establish and make available to law enforcement agencies cultural diversity training materials and online tutorial.*
Allows fire district elections to be moved to November; eliminates certain fire district budget referenda; and eliminates certain fire district capital purchase referenda.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Establishes "Veterans Affordable Housing Section 8 Voucher Pilot Program."
Exempts homeless from fee for non-driver identification cards.
Criminalizes possession and sale of alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (alpha-PVP) commonly known as "flakka," or "flocka."
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities; upgrades crimes committed against such individuals; and improves tranparency and accountability in investigations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of such individuals; designated as
Allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.
"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.
Enters NJ in Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
Requires DMVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State.
Provides diamondback terrapins protection as nongame indigenous species.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" immunity protections to public and nonpublic schools.*
Authorizes veterans property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans who did not serve in theater of war.
Permits abandoned prescription medication to be re-dispensed up to one year after original preparation.
Provides that certain corporations bidding for public contracts may submit federal Securities and Exchange Commission filings to comply with requirement to disclose certain interest holders; requires submission by limited liability companies.*
Requires DMVA to create registry for organizations providing services to veterans.
Permits eligible students who are members of United States Armed Forces to wear military uniform at high school graduation.
Establishes "High School to College Readiness Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to enhance student preparation for postsecondary education.
Provides for monitoring and evaluation of transition of mental health and substance use disorder treatment service system and developmental disability system to fee-for-service reimbursement model; makes appropriation.*
Requires driver education course, certain new driver brochures, and driver's license written exam to include cyclist and pedestrian safety information. *
Establishes "New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program." **
Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan to address smart growth, storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues.
Prohibits health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, certain health care providers, and Medicaid from discriminating in providing coverage and services based on gender identity.*
Requires analyses and reporting of investment performance of pension funds; requires disclosure of fees paid to managers of certain funds in which State invests pension funds.
Extends warranty for partial zero emission vehicles. *
Vetoed · 16
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Prohibits sale of unsafe supplemental mattresses designed for children's products.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers.
"Healthy Small Food Retailer Act"; provides funding to small food retailers to sell fresh and nutritious food.
Automatically registers or updates voter registration as part of driver's license application or renewal.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Makes FY 2017 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.*
"New Voter Empowerment Act"; permits 17 year olds to vote in primary election if they turn 18 years old before next succeeding general election.
Allows county and municipal police departments to establish designated safe areas for Internet purchase transactions; establishes public awareness campaign.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.*
"Safe Transportation Jobs and Fair Employment Rules Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 45
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety at certain construction sites.
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Concerns installation and maintenance of solar panels in common interest communities.
Enhances the reporting and disclosure requirements concerning State tax expenditures and limits the duration of new State tax expenditure enactments.
"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.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Allows modernization for the form of disbursement for certain State government and local unit payments to individuals and business entities.
Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Tiered Health Insurance Networks."
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Requires electric public utilities to provide priority power restoration to certain medical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes.
Adds to property tax levy cap exclusions increases in flood insurance premiums.
Creates exclusion from municipal property tax levy cap for amounts necessary to provide required matching funds to qualify for grants and other funds.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Allows tax credits for development of qualified wind energy facilities in certain portfield sites.
Allows certain State agencies to sell Internet advertisements on agencies' websites as pilot program.
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher, Corrections Officer, and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements.
Permits municipalities to issue retail liquor licenses for use in certain historic taverns.
Authorizes municipalities to establish program for public or private financing of certain energy, water and storm resiliency projects under PACE program through use of voluntary special assessments for certain property owners.*
"Linnette Lebron's Law" modifies procedures for marriage or civil union where a party is terminally ill.
"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 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 public and nonpublic schools to test for and remediate lead in drinking water, and disclose test results.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods or cottage foods. *
Requires one member of board in charge of institution for persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be family member of resident.
Prohibits juror disqualification based on gender identity or sexual orientation; codifies procedures when discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is alleged.*
Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees.
Requires hospital laboratories and bio-analytical or clinical laboratories to offer test for hepatitis C to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid tests for hepatitis C.
Requires DOH to establish Zika Virus State Action Plan.
Creates New Jersey Crude Oil by Rail Safety Task Force.
Establishes "Succeed in New Jersey" student loan reimbursement program for certain New Jersey residents employed in designated fields.
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Establishes licensing and permit requirements and provides for adoption of standards and regulations for inspection of asbestos in certain structures.
Establishes Transgender Equality Task Force.
Directs DEP to designate native bee nesting habitat areas in each State park and forest.
Includes crime of creating false public alarms as form of bias intimidation.
Prohibits person from buying, selling, making or altering, giving, issuing, obtaining or attempting to obtain high school transcripts with intent to deceive and establishes penalty.
Requires State parks, forests, and other natural and historic areas to remain open to public for seven days if emergency is declared due to failure to enact general appropriation law as prescribed by NJ Constitution.
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Requires health insurance coverage for treatment of substance use disorders; places certain restrictions on the prescription of opioid and certain other drugs; concerns continuing education related thereto.
Amends State construction code to increase fire safety in large residential projects.
Requires NJ Clean Energy Program's Residential New Construction incentives be made available Statewide.*
Establishes position of State Oceanographer.
Increases distribution to municipalities from Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund over five years to restore municipal aid reductions; requires additional aid to be subtracted from municipal property tax levy.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Expands eligibility for veterans civil service preference.
Restricts use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities.
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Implements 2014 constitutional dedication of CBT revenues for certain environmental purposes; revises State's open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by state in companies that boycott Isreal or Israeli businesses.*
Implements person-first language and changes pejorative terminology referring to persons with certain disabilities or substance use disorders.*
Revises certain laws concerning domestic violence and firearms.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain reasonable and safe distance when overtaking pedestrians and certain bicycles.
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.
Establishes commission to approve personaliized handguns; requires firearm retailers to sell personalized handguns.*
Expands infertility coverage under certain health insurance plans.
Requires DHS to develop timeline for use by individuals with developmental disabilities to gain benefit of State and federal programs; requires posting timeline on DHS, DCF, and DOE websites.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Study Advisory Council.*
Establishes New Jersey Caregiver Task Force to evaluate and provide recommendations on caregiver support services.
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor on lawn sprinklers as condition of sale and on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail or industrial property and in common interest communities within specified timeframes.
Clarifies intent of P.L.2007, c.340 regarding NJ's required participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Directs Attorney General to establish a criminal firearms recovery clearing house.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch New Jersey Revenue Advisory Board to provide consensus revenue forecasting advice for State budget purposes.
Authorizes establishment of drug donation programs.*
Authorizes Drinking Water Quality Institute to study and recommend maximum contaminant level for 1,2,3-trichloropropane to DEP.
Adds two public members to NJT board and provides that all NJT board members are voting members.*
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Concerns membership and management of homeowners associations.
Establishes artist bank to provide interest-free loans to artist colonies in development.
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ; and regulates capital planning process.
Establishes a small business job creation and preservation account program to incentivize small business workforce expansion in New Jersey with income tax exclusions for interest.
Requires Public Health Council to promulgate rules and regulations for use of quality control programs in bio-analytical and clinical laboratories.
Requires health insurers to limit patient cost-sharing and provide appeal process concerning certain prescription drug coverage.
Revises "Pet Purchase Protection Act" to establish new requirements for pet dealers and pet shops. *
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 small businesses to qualify for loans from NJEDA for costs of energy audit and making energy efficiency or conservation improvements.
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in the event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability and grant deferment for temporary total disability.*
Revises "Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law" to mirror federal law; permits overseas voters to vote in any election; permits use of federal write-in absentee ballot to vote, register or request ballot for all elections.
Prohibits retailers from scanning consumer's identification card for return of merchandise.
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.
Permits BPU to approve qualified wind energy project; requires BPU to provide application periods for those projects.
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.***
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services; designated as the Mental Health Access Act.
Requires certain places of public assembly to have automated external defibrillator on-site.
Requires DOH regulations regarding elevated blood lead levels in children, and appropriate responses thereto, to be consistent with latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Requires prescribers to discuss addiction risk associated with certain drugs prior to issuing prescription to minor patient.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain home elevation expenses.
Establishes fee on single-use carryout bags used in certain stores and dedicates fee revenue to "Healthy Schools and Community Lead Abatement Fund."*
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
Requires institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to improve transparency of tuition and fees.
Establishes procedures for pharmacists to seek approval to dispense alternative product in place of prescribed epinephrine auto-injector device.
Modifies State's solar renewable energy portfolio standards.*
Authorizes certain county to establish county hospital authority; amends title of "Municipal Hospital Authority Law."
Revises "Massage and Bodywork Therapist Licensing Act" to require certain class study and examination requirements.
Establishes New Jersey First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Program; provides gross income tax bebefits for certain contributions to and earnings on assets maintained in accounts established under program.*
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to establish income-driven repayment option and loan rehabilitation program for borrowers under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) Loan Program.
Establishes "New Jersey College Ready Students Program Act"; provides tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity at county college for certain high school students.
"New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act."
Allows certain joint insurance funds to make certain investments and to form certain investment programs; authorizes school districts and local units of government to deposit public funds into multiple FDIC-insured accounts.*
Requires certain notification prior to mosquito spraying applications.
Requires compilation of, and public access to, tests of soil lead levels.
Requires soil testing to determine lead content prior to certain home sales.
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water.
Regulates temporary help service firms as employment agencies; expands civil rights protections of certain job seekers.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for digital tomosynthesis for screening and diagnostic purposes related to breast cancer.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise allowable loan amounts for already approved projects.
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus.
Creates "Nourishing Young Minds Initiative Fund" in Dept. of Agriculture to help pay for child food and nutrition programs.
Establishes Office for Women's Advancement in DOLWD to facilitate full and equal participation of women in workplace; makes an appropriation.
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Authorizes psychiatric advanced practice nurses to complete certain certificates required for involuntary commitment to treatment.*
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for inpatient hospital beds for treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorder dual diagnosis.
Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.
Directs Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development to work to promote basic skills training through organizations dedicated to the economic empowerment of specific segments of society, such as the African American Chamber of Comme
Requires DCA to verify income of low-income home energy assistance benefit applicants.
Requires DCA to provide certain information on low-income home energy assistance program, annually update its low-income home energy assistance program handbook, and provide quarterly training sessions on administering program.*
Requires DCA to verify that low-income home energy assistance benefits are not awarded to deceased individuals.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled verterans' property tax exemption to members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to the rescue and recovery mission at the World Trade Center between September 11, 2001 and May 3
Encourages local units to plan for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Appropriates $59,532,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects, and capital and park development projects.
Establishes State food waste reduction goal of 50 percent by 2030.
Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for school districts regarding transgender students.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Provides gross income tax credit for costs to purchase and install smart thermostats.
Requires practitioners to check prescription monitoring information before issuing certain prescriptions to emergency department patients; authorizes medical scribes and licensed athletic trainers to access prescription monitoring information under certai
Permits solar electric power generation facility projects not having commenced commercial operation to retain designation through May 31, 2018 as connected to distribution system.
Requires NJ to join U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold Paris Climate Accord.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of certain firearm components.
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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.
Expands eligibility to receive the veterans' property tax deduction and the veterans' property tax exemption.
"Corporate Disinvestment Property Tax Relief Act"; appropriates $13.5 million.
Provides sales and use tax rebate for certain purchases made by, or on behalf of, individuals and small businesses affected by natural disasters.
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.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, and certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.
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.
Establishes "Local Governmental Process Activities Disclosure Act."
Regulates planting and sale of running bamboo.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
"Holocaust Reparations Tax Exemption Act"; exempts value of certain payments to Holocaust survivors and their eligible descendants from transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Requires public schools which have automated external defibrillators to adopt policies concerning usage.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
"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
Modernizes the distribution of gross income tax refunds by making direct deposit the default distribution method.
Requires DOE to create military-connected student identifier for inclusion in student-level database.
Requires successful completion of firearms education program to obtain initial firearms purchaser identification card and permit to purchase a handgun.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Waives certain commercial driver license fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Establishes minimum certified nurse aide-to-resident ratios in nursing homes.
Requires prevailing wage be paid to certain workers.
Requires registered qualifying patient's authorized use of medical marijuana to be considered equivalent to use of any other prescribed medication.
"Pet Groomers Licensing Act;" designated as "Bijou's Law."
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Reforms PANYNJ; "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015."
Provides transparency and accountability reforms at PANYNJ; modifies governance structure; provides legislative oversight of PANYNJ.
Provides for the designation of new charter school authorizers.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit persons with mental illness unless they pose danger.
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.
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.
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.
Provides for involuntary commitment to treatment for substance use disorders.
Requires oversight reporting on Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Increases minimum wage for tipped workers.
Allows direct deposit of adoption subsidy payments.
Concerns dissemination of wage and hour information for tipped workers.
Requires combined reporting of corporation business tax by certain members of unitary business groups.
"Government Energy Reliability and Savings Public-Private Partnership Act."
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.
Revises grades and sentencing determinations for certain controlled dangerous substances.
Prohibits knowingly selling or planting certain invasive plant species.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Authorizes creation of stormwater utilities for certain local government entities.
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.
Modifies powers and allocation of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
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.
Creates Clinical Trials Working Group.
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.
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.
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.
Revises laws concerning real estate licensees.
Expands cities permitted to regulate days and hours when packaged goods may be sold.
Requires State to pay its pension contributions on quarterly basis by August 1, November 1, February 1 and May 1 of each year.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
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.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, imposes civil penalties, and establishes fund for drug education.
Requires posting of information about availability of services from substance abuse treatment facilities on county and DHS websites.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Permits use of electronic smoking devices in vapor retail establishments.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warnings."
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Provides gross income tax deduction for costs of certain green home improvements that increase building systems resiliency.
Requires owner of railroad bridge to submit bridge inspection records to DOT.
Requires composting or recycling of food waste by large volume generators.
Expands acts of animal cruelty to include theft or release of animal during burglary.
Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Prohibits the DOE from regulating the maximum salary amount a school district may pay its superintendent of schools.
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.
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.
Eliminates 15% fee charged by cemetery company on transfer of graves, crypts and niches.
Requires Division of Consumer Affairs to publish list of certain tamper-resistant opioid drugs; establishes that certain conditions be met for pharmacist to substitute for tamper-resistant opioid drug.
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.
Restricts health insurers from limiting access to pain medication.
"New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act"; establishes retirement savings program for certain workers.
Provides that public school used as polling place may not be open for classes on day of election.
Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Authorizes transfer of excess medical marijuana inventory between alternative treatment centers.
Requires members of unitary business groups to file combined reports of corporation business tax.
Increases certain penalties for violations of wage and hour law.
Clarifies scope of affordable housing obligations.
Establishes "Tiny Home Pilot Program" in three regions of State.
Establishes DEP rebate program for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles.
Provides gross income tax credit to persons purchasing or leasing alternative fuel vehicles.
Requires opioid antidote dispensation to be monitored under Prescription Monitoring Program, and authorizes certain entities to submit info regarding opioid antidote administration for inclusion in secondary, linked database; designated as "John Wagner's
Revises various requirements concerning State medical marijuana program, including facilitating access to medical marijuana for children with debilitating medical conditions and their caregivers.
Directs Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to forgive certain student loans in event of student borrower's death or total and permanent disability.
Establishes program to provide free tuition under State Tuition Aid Grant Program to certain students who are accepted to public four-year institutions of higher education and elect to attend county college for first two years.
Requires DOH to establish comprehensive searchable website concerning educational programs and resources available to special education students.
"New Townhouse Fire Safety Act"; requires installation of fire suppression system in new townhouses.
Permits municipality in which private golf club holds plenary retail consumption license to issue additional license.
Authorizes use of electric school buses.
Defines information to be included on death certificates, including gender identification.
Provides corporation business tax credit to taxpayers that develop qualified native pollinator habitat on undeveloped property.
Provides corporation business tax credit to public utilities that develop qualified native pollinator habitat in their rights of way.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to farmers who develop qualified native pollinator habitat on farms.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Establishes standards for food date labeling; requires Commissioner of Health to establish public education program and promulgate guidelines related to food safety.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who donate organs.
Provides gross income tax credits for certain taxpayers who provide blood donations.
Directs four-year public institutions of higher education to develop plan to achieve six-year graduation rate of at least 70 percent for full-time undergraduate students by 2022-2023 academic year.
Allows students to use certain grant awards during summer session.
Requires municipalities, public utilities, and State to use LED technology in certain street lights.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Provides tax credits and other assistance to farmers transitioning to organic agricultural production; appropriates $2 million to Dept. of Agriculture.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Legalizes possession and personal use of small amounts of marijuana for persons age 21 and over; creates Division of Marijuana Enforcement and licensing structure.
Requires Internet service providers to keep confidential subscriber's personally identifiable information unless subscriber authorizes Internet service provider in writing or email to disclose information; prohibits subscriber penalty.
Requires display of identifying information on rear of school bus so public may report bus driver misconduct.
Permits certain physical therapists to perform dry needling.
Establishes "New Jersey Net Neutrality Act."
Changes ratio for earnings offset of workers' compensation permanent total disability benefit payments.