Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, Senate.
Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the Senate4
Allows certain business employment incentives to be taken as a credit under the corporation business tax. *
Prohibits sale and possession of disguised knives.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Provides that person who impersonates law enforcement officer and commits crime is guilty of third degree crime.
Out of committee10
Requires electronic bulletin board on DCA website for local units to advertise shared services opportunities; requires development of computerized survey to match local units together to implement shared services.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Concerns availability of basic and special automobile insurance policies. *
Changes criminal penalties for theft of fuel.
Revises cosmetology and hairstyling statutes. *
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Requires any public question and interpretive statement appearing on ballot be printed in black ink.
Requires DEP Commissioner to establish list and recognition program for certain environmentally responsible companies.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts.
Revises certain eligibility requirements and employment incentive limitations and provides for extension of certain grant agreements under Business Employment Incentive Program.
In committee53
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Establishes County School Business Boards and Abbott Regional School Business Boards to assume certain school district business services and functions.
Establishes the New Jersey State Commission on Education Reform to develop academic outcome-based per pupil public school funding amounts.
Restores the former net operating loss deduction for corporation business tax years 2002-2005.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Abolishes legislative leadership committees; reduces contributions to State political party committees to $12,500 per year, to county committees to $10,000 per year and to municipal committees to $5,000 per year.
Limits Abbott district per pupil State aid and allocates State aid savings to certain enrollment growth districts.
Reduces the sales and use tax from 7% to 6%.
Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
Limits administrative leave to three days and reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 10 for State and local government employees.
Requires that public employees who are married or with domestic partners receive health care benefits from only one public employer.
Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years and in PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to average of three highest-paid years.
Prohibits payments of public employee bonuses not directly contingent upon achieving certain performance goals.
Eliminates membership in various State-administered retirement systems for part-time public employees and elected officials commencing service after enactment; clarifies that part-time public employees and officials are ineligible for employer-paid healt
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Removes charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues from sales and use tax.
Provides enhancements to certain State economic development programs.
Authorizes debarment of bidders convicted of certain crimes and disqualification of certain public contract bidders for employees' crimes.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas.
Permits unused vacation and sick leave by public employee to be carried forward for one year only; requires unused administrative leave to be cancelled.
Requires DEP to post waterfront public access points on Internet.
Permits county recording officer to record electronic image documents at time of receipt.
Requires ambulances to be equipped with global positioning system technology.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on State Advertisements and Promotions; prohibits appearance of Governor in State advertisements or promotions unless appearance is essential to achieve public purpose.
Creates an Official Corruption Unit in the Division of State Police.
Requires retail gasoline stations to maintain alternative power generation devices and allows credit against corporation business tax and New Jersey income tax for purchase of generation devices.
Establishes a "State Authorities Review Commission."
Establishes limits for certain damages in medical malpractice actions.
Directs State owned or operated marinas to provide a 50% discount on boat launching fees for senior citizens on weekdays.
Requires the establishment of a prequalification process for prospective bidders on public school district transportation contracts.
Establishes Task Force on School Transportation to examine the implementation of the recommendations of the 1997 SCI report on school transportation.
Requires that certain information on school bus contractors be filed with executive county superintendent of schools; permits executive county superintendent or board of education to report suspected collusion to prosecuting authorities.
Implements certain changes affecting the administration and performance of the urban enterprise zone program.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Allows qualifying counties to become " agriculture enterprise counties" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing; extends for 3 years adjustment for insurance and domestic security costs; provides adjustment for utility and energy costs; and authorizes 4% surplus.
Clarifies the school construction law concerning the State share of county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Requires income eligibility requirements to be met upon lease renewal of affordable housing units.
Provides that municipalities with minimum amounts of developable land and minimum densities in residential zones are protected from builders' remedy lawsuits.
Requires installation of automatic rain sensors on lawn sprinklers.
Provides State aid for adult high school education and adult postsecondary education programs.
Provides manufacturers a single sales fraction corporation business tax income allocation formula.
Requires DEP to update Shore Protection Master Plan.
Concerns pre-delivery communications regarding individual life insurance policies and effective date of delivered policies.
Directs Chief Technology Officer to conduct study of costs and benefits of replacing the State's high-volume, basic computing systems with more cost-effective alternatives.
Authorizes hunting of game animals every day of the week during hunting season.
Authorizes issuance of general permit for certain beach maintenance activities within county parks.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
"Public Access and Marina Safety Task Force Act." *
Makes changes to PERS and TPAF concerning retirement age, eligibility, purchase of service credit; makes various changes to SHBP administration; merges Washington and Lincoln holidays for State employees in Presidents Day. *
Increases carryover period of net operating loss deduction under corporation business tax.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Passed the Senate · 1
Provides for the expeditious roadway removal of certain disabled vehicles.
Out of committee · 15
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax; eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days. *
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 35 as "Chosin Few Memorial Highway." *
Authorizes public entities to implement energy savings improvement programs. *
"Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children in certain urban enterprise zone municipalities.
Permits siting of NJ Hall of Fame project anywhere in State; clarifies responsibility of NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to establish corporation to operate project and specifies membership of corporation. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Requires that new employees, appointees and elected officials work 35 or more hours per week to be eligible for SHBP benefits; maintains eligibility of persons with current and continuous SHBP coverage.
Authorizes parent or guardian to request use of individualized health care plan for student with diabetes and provides for the emergency administration of glucagon for certain students.
Requires confirmation of financial assistance for eligible homeowners voluntarily closing or replacing petroleum underground storage tanks, and expands eligibility for financial assistance. *
Requires State Treasurer to issue cost benefit analysis and security report for conversion of military housing to civilian housing at Earle Naval Weapons Station and places moratorium on issuance of certain State permits and plan approvals.
Revises organization and powers of Capital City Redevelopment Corporation.
In committee · 45
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Requires radiation detectors to be mounted on cranes within Port of New York District.
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Limits certain campaign contributions by certain business entities and by political party committees and legislative leadership committees.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Prohibits permanent change of child custody during period of active military duty; provides that absence due to active military duty, by itself, is not sufficient to justify modification of a child custody or visitation order.
Requires DOLWD to adopt air quality standards for public school buildings and appropriates $250,000 to DOLWD to enforce those standards.
Grandfathers use of certain dry cleaning equipment and machinery and perchloroethylene by dry cleaners.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Requires holding of binding Statewide referendum by county on whether responsibility for certain municipal functions should be assumed by county government; repeals various sections of law concerning transfer or termination of employees of terminated loc
"Property Assessment Reform Act"; appropriates $4,000,000.
Expands eligibility under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act by broadening certain municipal qualifier provisions.
Requires executive county superintendent of schools to determine routes and bid and award contracts for all nonpublic school busing in the county.
Requires filing of annual financial reports by certain businesses when receiving more than $25 million from public entities for any redevelopment or environmental remediation project or projects.
Abolishes Department of the Public Advocate.
Permits county government to limit appropriation for county prosecutors' offices.
Eliminates throwout of receipts in allocation of entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Prohibits Council on Affordable Housing from establishing affordable housing need and fees based on commercial and industrial development.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Establishes a Smart Grid Pilot Program and Smart Grid Technology Research Center at Rutgers The State University; appropriates funding for grants.
Consumer Relief Act of 2009; establishes temporary sales and use tax rate reduction periods for sales of certain goods and services.
Establishes in DEP the Environmental Science Review Board to review proposed environmental regulations for consistency with science.
Establishes in DEP the Environmental Policy Review Board to review proposed environmental regulations for consistency with planning policies.
Requires BPU to offer similar incentives to residents purchasing certain oil heating equipment as are offered to residents purchasing certain natural gas heating equipment.
Authorizes use of retail coupons for purchase of milk by consumers.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires the placement of defibrillators on certain trains.
Authorizes educational services commissions to purchase goods or services through nationally-recognized and accepted cooperative purchasing agreement.
Revises Business Employment Incentive Program to spur economic growth.