Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, Senate.
Diane B. Allen
Sponsored
Vetoed1
Requires Commissioner of Education to include data on chronic absenteeism and disciplinary suspensions on School Report Card and requires public schools to make certain efforts to combat chronic absenteeism.
Passed the Senate2
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Permits religious institutions to request DCF conduct child abuse record checks of certain prospective and current employees and volunteers.
Out of committee12
Enacts the "NJ Family First Employer Act"; establishes award for certain employers.
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from sales and use tax.
Requires annual General Fund appropriation to DMVA for purposes of base realignment and closure.*
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Exempts honorably discharged United States military veterans from initial insurance producer licensing fee.
Requires Department of Agriculture to develop voluntary guidelines to encourage school districts and institutions of higher education to donate excess food; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" protections to school districts.
"Charlie's Law"; Establishes civil penalties for persons who interfere with or deny persons with disabilities accompanied by service or guide dogs access to places of public accommodation.
Allows counties and municipalities to establish, or request DOT to establish, reduced speed limits near schools.
Modifies charter of Board of Island Managers of Burlington Island to move elections to November.
Requires DMVA to distribute military discharge upgrade information.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State.
In committee69
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
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.
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.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Requires court to issue animal protection order against person found guilty of abusing an animal.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Prohibits cloud computing service providers from disclosing data collected from public, private, or charter schools.
Requires laboratory analysis of waste or material generated by hydraulic fracturing; requires DEP permit, and disclosure of plans, methods, or processes to treat, store, process, or dispose of such waste or material.
Establishes Commission on Career and Technical Education and creates initiatives that promote career and technical education programs in State.
Requires DHS to prioritize placement of parents of children receiving services from DCPP in mental health and substance abuse treatment programs.
Establishes P-20 Workforce Development Advisory Council to advise various State agencies of workforce development needs.
Mandates public school teachers complete professional development related to appropriate professional teacher-student relationships.
Requires inspection of nail salons by NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP health benefits coverage for eating disorders.
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Regulates certain auditing and disclosure practices of pharmacy benefits management companies.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.
Exempts homeless student or student in resource family home who transfers between school districts after second year of high school from local graduation requirements.
Requires DHSS to post on website information concerning hospital emergency department staffing and services for pediatric patients.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employer-provided child care expenditures.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Shortens term of municipal court judges from three years to one year.
Establishes the "Veterans Court Pilot Program," in two vicinages including Burlington County.
Prohibits animal cruelty violators from working at, or owning or operating, an animal-related enterprise; designated as "Moose's Law."
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Requires certain disclosures in advertisements by health care professionals.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for businesses which employ eligible apprentices.
Provides dedicated funding for promotion of apprenticeships and apprenticeship programs from Workforce Development Partnership Fund.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employers engaged in farming operations.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.
Schedules the termination of the realty transfer fees.
Requires municipal court to hear certain violations of animal cruelty statutes within 14 days of the summons date.
Establishes right of sexual assault victim to notification of certain developments in criminal case.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Extends alternate route police training certification for military personnel for time deployed.
Removes black bear from list of game species.
Requires local units and agencies to extend family health coverage for six months to surviving spouse and dependents of public safety officers who had family medical coverage but did not die in the line of duty.
Provides that teacher committing act of sexual penetration with student who is 18 or older is guilty of sexual assault under certain circumstances.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Increases State contract sum eligible for payment and performance bond waiver to not more than $300,000; provides for CPI inflation adjustment every four years.
Places temporary moratorium on use of eminent domain; creates Eminent Domain Study Commission to examine its use Statewide.
Concerns speech rights of student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education.
Requires uniform response procedures for all domestic crisis teams established or participated in by law enforcement agencies, and strengthens Statewide supervision over teams.
Establishes Statewide "Peace: A Learned Solution Program (PALS)."
Establishes standards for Batterers' Intervention Programs in domestic violence cases.
Requires denial of grant by NJEDA or other State agency to include critique of how applicant business falls short of requirements and standards.
Requires Department of Defense and FAA approval of offshore wind projects.
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.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires school districts to notify DOE whenever law enforcement is called to respond to incident occurring at school.
Requires school districts to provide information to high school students on cancers of the reproductive system as part of the health curriculum.
Requires school facilities projects to maintain character of historic school facilities.
Broadens scope of information sharing and civil immunity therefor, related to insurance fraud.
Prohibits dumping dredge spoils on and around certain islands without municipal approval.
Increases penalty for speeding in school zone.
"Antwan's Law"; reduces speed limit on Route 130 near Burlington City High School and Wilbur Watts Intermediate School.
"Stacy Zallie's Law"; standardizes support services available to women seeking termination of pregnancy.
Concerns leases of publicly-owned land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Concerns employment discrimination and equal pay for women.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law4
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Modifies charter of Board of Island Managers of Burlington Island to move elections to November.
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.*
"Charlie's Law"; Establishes civil penalties for persons who interfere with or deny persons with disabilities accompanied by service or guide dogs access to places of public accommodation.
Vetoed2
Requires disclosure of breach of security of online account.
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 39
Establishes "Small Business Bonding Readiness Assistance Program" in EDA to assist certain small businesses meet State or federal contract surety bond requirements.*
Requires DOT, NJTA, and SJTA to use only native vegetation for landscaping, land management, reforestation, or habitat restoration.
Requires reservation of portion of tenant vouchers under State rental assistance program for veterans.
Authorizes health care providers to engage in telemedicine and telehealth.*
Creates Veterans Diversion Program to divert eligible servicemembers away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.**
Establishes "Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program."
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
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.
Permits DHS to request waiver of time limits for certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients under certain circumstances.*
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."
Establishes permanent sterile syringe access program.*
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Directs DOE to make database of special education decisions available on website.
Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals, and service animals, and for tethering of dogs.*
Permits municipality to establish civil penalty for smoking in public places.
Establishes "Adopt a Monarch Butterfly Waystation" program.
Provides for retained eligibility for members of NJ National Guard or reserve component of US Armed Forces called to active federal military service who met maximum age requirement at closing date of civil service examination.
Establishes "Milkweed for Monarchs" program.
Facilitates coordination of land use planning between civilian and military interests to preserve viability of federal military installations within State.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70% of final compensation for surviving children of SPRS or PFRS member; redefines child in SPRS.*
Requires pesticide applicator to notify beekeeper when applying pesticide within three miles of registered honey or native beehive or beeyard.
Limits expulsions and suspensions for students in preschool through grade 2 with certain exceptions; requires early detection and prevention programs for behavioral issues in preschool through grade 2.
Permits law enforcement agencies to buy firearms directly from manufacturers; clarifies permits and identification cards not required.*
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter.
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Enables collection of voluntary contributions for Jersey Fresh Program through gross income tax returns.
Changes the time when child placement review hearings are initiated from 45 days to 60 days.
Enhances protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by certain persons; provides for minimum terms of incarceration for offenders who commit physically violent acts.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 195 in Upper Freehold Township as "State Trooper Anthony A. Raspa Memorial Highway."
Increases number of Superior Court judgeships to support implementation of constitutional and statutory criminal justice reform, including new pretrial release and detention proceedings, and speedy trial rights; appropriates $9.3 million.
Prohibits residential substance use disorder treatment facilities and aftercare facilities from denying admission to individuals receiving medication assisted treatment for substance use disorder.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2018.
Designates portion of Interstate Highway Route 295 in West Deptford Township as "State Trooper Sean E. Cullen Memorial Highway."
Appropriates $8,992,898 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Increases number of State-funded positions at four-year public institution of higher education that establishes postsecondary academic and residential facilities in coastal city with gaming in resort area of State.
Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 5
Requires hospital patient's medical record to include notation if patient is at increased risk of confusion, agitation, behavioral problems, and wandering due to dementia related disorder.*
Concerns equal pay for women and employment discrimination.
Establishes Service Dog Pilot Program for inmates in Camden County; appropriates $150,000. *
"Nosey's Law"; prohibits use of elephants and other wild or exotic animals in traveling animal acts.*
Allows public schools to let certain students not enrolled in school participate in high school interscholastic athletics; allows public high schools in same district to enter into cooperative sports programs under certain conditions.**
Passed the Senate · 11
Authorizes public financing of primary election campaigns to fill gubernatorial vacancy and general election campaigns to fill vacancy in offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
Authorizes use of school bus monitoring systems.*
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
Transfers responsibility for establishment and enforcement of ethical standards for local officials to State Ethics Commission.
Establishes Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council.
Directs installation of electric vehicle charging stations at service areas on State's toll roads.
Provides for representation of certain regions of State on New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Provides tuition benefits at public institutions of higher education to New Jersey residents who are members of reserve component of Armed Forces of United States.
Increases minimum annual amounts for appropriation for certain arts, historical heritage, and tourism purposes from hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues.
Requires employers to disclose certain wage information to employees.
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
Out of committee · 31
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Permits charging late fee for rental payments due on self-service storage units and authorizes sale of property via website.
Establishes Response to Intervention initiative in DOE to support and encourage school districts in implementation of Response to Intervention framework.
Requires health insurance coverage for contraceptives to include prescriptions for 12 months.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and State Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.*
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to war veterans with certain service-connected disabilities. *
Establishes veterans' preference for affordable housing in certain housing projects.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Requires public school student with concussion to be evaluated by physician or other licensed health care provider before return to school and return to physical activity at school.*
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Increases penalties for unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing fentanyl.
Establishes supervised community reintegration program in DOC for certain victims of domestic abuse.
Adds cyber-harassment to the domestic violence statutes.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Establishes Military and Defense Economic Ombudsman in DMVA.*
Establishes New Jersey Military Skills Council.
Provides preference to certain employers applying for workforce development grants.
Jake's Law; Incentivizes counties to design and construct completely inclusive playgrounds as a priority for State funding for recreational and conservation purposes.*
Creates viticulture trail tourist directional signs.
"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.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2017.
Increases accidental death benefit to 70 percent of compensation for surviving spouse or surviving children of PERS law enforcement, correction, and firefighter members; redefines child.
Requires development and maintenance of data dashboard report to advise of open bed availability in residential facilities providing behavioral health services.
Includes all disabled veterans in NJT discount program for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Concerns emergency assistance which is repaid by the recipient.
Provides that strangulation of victim resulting in bodily injury during commission of act of domestic violence constitutes aggravated assault.
Allows domestic violence victims to cancel television and telephone service contracts without paying early termination fee.
Revises and expands laws on trespass and vandalism on agricultural and horticultural lands.
In committee · 70
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
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.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Establishes "Atlantic City Growth Tax Credit Program" to grant tax credits to promote the development of non-rental housing in Atlantic City.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Limits time continuing care retirement communities may retain refundable entrance fee after resident vacates facility to no more than one year.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employing immediate family members of members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were killed in action.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to convene a strategic planning summit to analyze the State's physician workforce supply.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act.
Removes statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands categories of defendants liable in such actions.
Revises procedure for issuance of amended birth certificate for person who has undergone change in sex.
Clarifies definition of reasonably necessary deviation when legally transporting firearm or weapon in motor vehicle.
Updates factors for consideration for grandparent and sibling petitions seeking visits with child over objection of parent, guardian, or custodian; adds preference for child's temporary placement with grandparent under "Child Placement Bill of Rights Act.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Establishes requirements for training programs for homemaker-home health aides in care of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Establishes the "Mental Health Treatment Reform and Violence Prevention Act."
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
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.
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 DOE to train teachers and administrators and monitor districts on bias and discrimination in special education classification.
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Prohibits awarding alimony to domestic violence offenders; permits termination of alimony based on conviction for crime or offense involving domestic violence.
Requires school districts to allow home-schooled students to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities in the student's resident district.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.
Requires health care practitioners to inform patients of addiction potential of controlled dangerous substances prior to issuing prescription.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice care services.
Extends certain employment protections to professional cheerleaders.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Prohibits emergency service fees.
Provides for oversight of DHS contracts with providers serving persons with developmental disabilities.
Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.
Authorizes Secretary of Higher Education to impose a fine against an institution of higher education that fails to appropriately respond to a student's allegation of sexual assault by another student.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics, and federally qualified health centers.
Specifies that certain images generated by body scans violate State statutes prohibiting invasion of privacy, pornography, and endangerment of child welfare under certain circumstances.
Makes certain body searches third degree crime of sexual assault under certain circumstances.
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.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Clarifies that non-credit courses are eligible courses under the volunteer tuition credit program.
The "Municipal Volunteer Property Tax Reduction Act"; permits certain municipal property owners to perform volunteer services in return for property tax vouchers.
Prohibits sale of certain laser pointers that exceed certain power output.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Clarifies that retired campus police officers are eligible for handgun carry permit.
Increases statute of limitations for prosecution of theft of firearm.
Prohibits use of body imaging scanners to screen passengers and airline crew members.
Places freeze on future enrollment in tiered network health benefits plans until new legislation and regulations governing those plans are in effect.
Revises definition of "antique firearm" to include handguns.
Establishes program to provide assistance to qualified veterans in in-patient and out-patient treatment programs to travel to medical counseling in State.
Revises court filing fees, assessments, penalties, fines, and certain licensing fees to fund Pretrial Services Program, e-court information system and Legal Services of New Jersey; repeals certain statutory provisions concerning court fees.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Adds two student representatives to board of governors of Rutgers University.
Establishes primary health care plan with optional riders in SHBP for public employees.
Prohibits surgical declawing of cats and other animals.
Expands crime of bias intimidation to include law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel.
Prohibits hospice from charging patient for days on which patient is not present.
Establishes identical levels of domestic violence training for judges and judicial personnel.
Requires training for law enforcement officers and assistant county prosecutors concerning handling of domestic violence cases.
Establishes mandatory domestic violence training for municipal prosecutors.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support healthcare education.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Prohibits unfair discrimination in issuing or rating life insurance policies based on transgender status or certain gender identity information.