Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, Senate.
Diane B. Allen
Sponsored
Passed the Senate2
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.**
Concerns special needs trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.*
Out of committee10
Requires State Treasurer to disseminate information about organ and tissue donation; designates April each year as "Donate Life Month."
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Establishes the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate.
Exempts certain medically appropriate tattooing services from the sales and use tax.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Provides that a school district may implement bullying prevention programs and anti-bullying training programs at no cost through various entities; and appropriates $1 million.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from owning domestic companion animals and from working at animal-related enterprises; designated as "Moose's Law."*
Makes various revisions to laws concerning disabled person identification cards and placards related to parking privileges.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional STEM programs.*
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.*
In committee87
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Places temporary moratorium on use of eminent domain; creates Eminent Domain Study Commission to examine its use Statewide.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Creates "Green E-ZPass" discounts for certain fuel-efficient vehicles.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Eliminates imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to or use of certain health and fitness clubs and organizations.
Requires municipal court to hear certain violations of animal cruelty statutes within 14 days of the summons date.
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking, promoting prostitution of a child and certain child endangerment crimes shall not be expunged.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Requires payment of certain attorney's fees, expenses and costs in identity theft cases; adds debit card numbers to definition of "personal identifying information".
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Clarifies that "entering" a public place for a drug deal is conduct included in C.2C:33-2.1.
Concerns free access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Authorizes the AG or the Commissioner of DOLWD to obtain expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Exempts sales of methane gas fuel conversion machinery and equipment from sales and use taxes.
Requires BPU to conduct pilot program to allow free parking for alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Requires Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group to conduct mock exercise pertaining to agricultural bioterrorism; and appropriates $150,000 therefor from New Jersey Domestic Security Account.
Requires court to issue animal protection order against person found guilty of abusing an animal.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive one year suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loan.
Revises procedures for the use of eminent domain and compensation for loss of business in municipal redevelopment programs.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Utility Sub-metering.
Requires Division of Property Management and Construction to conduct analysis of State buildings to determine energy and cost savings through use of renewable energy equipment or technology.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Relieves municipalities and counties along light rail lines of civil liability in Quiet Zones under certain circumstances.
Requires municipalities accepting long-term tax exemption payment in lieu of taxes to distribute portion of payments to county and other taxing districts; limits payment in lieu of tax agreements to 15-20 years.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
Exempts electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Requires State toll road authorities to give preference in awarding service station contracts to bidders offering to dispense certain alternative fuels on State's toll roads.
Revises child pornography law.
Creates special fallen firefighter plates with proceeds to children of fallen firefighters.
Requires school districts and child care centers to distribute information on Megan's Law and instructions on how to access the Megan's Law sex offender registry website.
Exempts certain New Jersey teachers' purchase of qualified teaching materials from sales and use tax.
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $6.3 million to DHSS for certain grants to counties for women's health services.
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from the sales and use tax.
Exempts certain materials and labor used to convert traditional motor vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicles from sales and use tax.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under the gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Establishes a regional transportation coordinator unit in each office of the executive county superintendent to improve the coordination of pupil transportation services within the county.
Reorganizes the provisions in Title 18A regarding public and nonpublic school pupil transportation.
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Requires school facilities projects to maintain the character of historic school facilities.
Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in resource family homes.
Includes transportation costs in the calculation of extraordinary special education costs incurred by public school districts.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Requires school districts to provide information to high school students on cancers of the reproductive system as part of the health curriculum.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Authorizes awards to State and local government employees for suggestions to save taxpayers money through sharing and consolidation.
Shortens term of municipal court judges from three years to one year.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Requires school districts to notify DOE whenever law enforcement is called to respond to incident occurring at school.
Requires DHSS to post on website information concerning hospital emergency department staffing and services for pediatric patients.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Creates a civil "rape shield" law.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Requires certain official State forms to contain the language oath or affirmation and swear to or affirm when the forms are reprinted.
Prohibits certain drunk driver claims against licensed alcoholic beverage servers.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Youth and Collegiate Affairs.
Requires certain persons licensed or appointed to inspect homes to pass criminal history background check.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program," in two vicinages including Burlington County.
Establishes enhanced penalties for licensed firearms dealers under certain circumstance.
Makes crime of firearms trafficking subject to No Early Release Act.
Clarifies that motor vehicles used in firearms trafficking are subject to seizure and forfeiture.
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Increases fine for violation of certain laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; dedicates funds to certain roadways.
Requires percentage of motor vehicle fines be used to support safe routes to school initiatives.
Increases penalties for motor vehicle violations resulting in serious bodily injury or death to certain persons in highway.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Requires public school student to receive instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of automated external defibrillator as requirement for high school graduation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 33
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes. *
Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law." *
"Tara's Law"; provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in community care residences and for investigations of abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.
Requires school buses transporting certain disabled persons to use flashing lights and establishes penalties for drivers who fail to yield.
Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator.
Eliminates prosecutorial objection to admission to drug court program; expands eligibility and provides for phased in mandatory drug court program.***
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Concerns child custody and parenting time arrangements related to certain military absences.*
Allows SPRS members to purchase SPRS credit for prior military service.
Revises penalties for animal cruelty, increasing degree of certain offenses; designated as Patrick's Law.
Establishes Helmets to Hardhats pilot program in New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
"Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act."
Prohibits discrimination against potential organ transplant recipient on basis of mental or physical disability.
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Requires emergency shelters for the homeless to admit persons with mental illness unless they pose danger.
Prohibits emergency shelters for the homeless from refusing to provide services for minimum time frame unless shelters are at maximum capacity.
Establishes "Veterans Higher Education Commission."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Adds one member to New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force and extends for one year.
Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.**
Authorizes impoundment of motor vehicles for certain crimes and offenses.
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
"Building Our Future Bond Act"; authorizes the issuance of $750,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance higher educational capital projects for increasing of academic capacity; appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes release or reduction of original performance guarantee after deposit of adequate replacement performance guarantee by successor developer.
Enhances penalties for certain firearms offenses; designated as Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
"Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act"; requires DOH to establish protocols for stillbirths, establishes stillbirth research data base.
Vetoed · 7
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State four years.*
Prohibits sale of certain laser pointers that exceed certain power output.*
Requires SHBP and SHEBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.*
Authorizes certain gestational carrier agreements.
Requires HMFA to expand participation in the NJ HomeKeeper Program.
Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.*
Permits real estate licensees to prepare broker price opinions and comparative market analyses.
Passed the Senate · 12
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to convene a strategic planning summit to analyze the State's physician workforce supply.
Permits Governor to notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*
Requires spousal consent to election of certain pension payout options under TPAF, JRS and PERS.
Allows victims and relatives to witness parole hearings.
Codifies Lyme disease reporting requirements.
Limits homeowners' association regulation of structures reasonably necessary or convenient for the accommodation or therapy of physically disabled persons.
Establishes "Commission on College Tuition."
Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.
Requires constitutionally dedicated moneys be used to provide grants toward the replacement of certain diesel vehicles and diesel equipment with lower emission vehicles and equipment.**
Affords immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.
Increases statute of limitations for prosecution of theft of firearm. *
Permits adoptees and certain others to obtain adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
Out of committee · 52
Prohibits health care facilities from discharging prescription medications into sewer or septic systems in certain circumstances. **
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Provides partial sales tax exemption for energy and utility service to certain manufacturers.
Increases penalty for harboring or concealing certain sex offenders. *
Allows municipalities to provide veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.*
Permits a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
Requires school districts to adopt policies concerning electronic communications between employees and students.
Concerns penalties for illegally passing school bus.
"New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program Act;" establishes New Jersey Homeless Veterans Grant Program and allows voluntary contributions on gross income tax returns to support homeless veterans.**
Permits certain military funeral buglers to receive New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.*
Removes statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands categories of defendants liable in such actions.
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications device by employers.
Prohibits requirement to disclose user name, password, or other means for accessing account or service through electronic communications devices by institutions of higher education.
Allows certain military spouses with out-of-State teaching license to receive temporary instructional certificate in New Jersey.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Reorganizes Department of Children and Families.
Requires DOE to develop educational fact sheet for distribution to parents concerning sports-related eye injuries.
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Creates Veterans Haven North Council; renames current Veterans Haven Council to Veterans Haven South Council.
Limits motor vehicle rental companies vehicle license cost recovery fee to good-faith estimate of actual costs; requires company to annually adjust fee to reflect actual costs.**
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from permitting direct solicitation of students for credit card accounts.
Requires DOE to train teachers and administrators and monitor districts on bias and discrimination in special education classification.
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.
Codifies protections set forth in certain case law and limits use of eminent domain under the "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Requires municipalities to submit economic growth plans to DCA for approval of continued participation in urban enterprise zone program; allow zone funds to pay for storm related recovery costs for five years.
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Requires school districts provide pupil directory information to county vocational schools upon request.
Requires submission of certain mental health records to National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Provides for temporary professional or occupational licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.
Authorizes public schools to serve to students certain produce grown in community garden.
Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes Office of the Special Education Ombudsman in DOE.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Establishes a School Security Task Force.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.
Permits charter school to limit admission to students with a substance abuse or dependence disorder.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for New Jersey Nonprofit Veterans Organizations through gross income tax returns.*
In committee · 48
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Specifies that certain images generated by body scans violate State statutes prohibiting invasion of privacy, pornography, and endangerment of child welfare under certain circumstances.
Establishes program authorizing lease of historic buildings and structures in State parks, forests, and wildlife management areas.
Transfers all probation functions and employees to Bureau of Probation in State Parole Board.
Provides life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for all murders.
Concerns custody and parenting time issues for military parents.
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools.
Requires services be provided for sexually exploited juveniles charged with certain offenses; creates an affirmative defense regarding prostitution.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of 25 years to life for aggravated sexual assault against a child under the age of 13 and increases penalties for harboring certain sex offenders.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Revises definition of class I renewable energy to include energy produced by certain geothermal heat pumps.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of incarceration on juveniles who use guns to commit acts which, if committed by adults, would constitute serious crimes.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics, and federally qualified health centers.
Provides support for obstetric services by certain health care facilities.
Authorizes party to a final divorce judgment or judgment for the dissolution of a civil union to request name change without notifying opposing party.
Establishes Interagency Council on Preventing and Reducing Homelessness.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Clarifies blight criteria under "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law," and prevents use of condemnation to acquire code compliant residential property under that law.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
Permits municipalities and school districts to contract for video monitoring systems to assist in enforcing law against unlawfully passing a school bus.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Allows gross income tax refunds to be credited against a taxpayer's delinquent local property taxes and adjusts administration of setoffs against gross income tax refunds and homestead rebates or credits.
Prohibits use of body imaging scanners to screen passengers and airline crew members.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
Makes certain body searches third degree crime of sexual assault under certain circumstances.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Makes various statutory changes to "Child Care Licensing Act."
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Prohibits emergency service fees.
Prohibits requirement to provide information for access to account on social networking website by employer.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Provides that nonpublic school nursing services may include nursing services for a preschool pupil in the event of an emergency.
Filed · 2
Requires State pay educational costs of students who reside in domestic violence shelter or transitional living facility outside district of residence for more than one year.
Extends statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands the categories of potentially liable defendants; and revives certain actions. *