Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Jack M. Ciattarelli
Sponsored
Became law1
Permits certain military funeral buglers to receive New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.*
Passed the General Assembly1
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the statute concerning issuing or passing bad checks.
Out of committee1
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
In committee25
Grants law enforcement agencies authority to order road closures; increases penalty for violations.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Prohibits double-trailer truck combinations on certain portions of U.S. Route 206 in Mercer and Somerset counties.
Permits board of chosen freeholders to establish "Sharing Resources" grant and loan program to encourage shared services and municipal consolidation.
Concerns unemployment insurance benefits and certain severance payments.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits for crossing guards.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities and counties to implement municipal consolidation, the sharing of services, and the creation of a joint meeting under certain circumstances.
Allows certain emergency squad volunteers holding municipal elective office to vote on emergency squad concerns.
Specifies conditions under which State, county, municipality, independent authority, school district, or higher education institution can grant unpaid or paid leave of absence to public employee to perform work for labor organization.
Establishes offense of advertising commercial sexual abuse of minor.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Directs removal or enhancement of electric public utility infrastructure located in flood hazard area.
Affords immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.
Permits municipalities to enter into shared service agreement for tax assessment.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a public servant, during a state of emergency, to use or make disposition of a public resource in an unauthorized manner with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another.
Revises procedure for transfer of terminated employees of closed local health agency to superseding local health agency.
Requires reauthorization of payroll deduction for contributions to political committees.
Requires employers provide itemized statement of certain payroll deductions for political contributions.
Concerns certain reductions of UI benefits due to receipt of SS payments.
Concerns certain severance payments and unemployment insurance benefits.
Requires explanatory statement of employee contributions to political committees.
Directs public utilities and pipeline operators to reimburse municipalities for certain emergency services.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the civil statute concerning issuing bad checks.
Provides for disclosure of person's medical records related to AIDS or HIV infection for investigations or prosecutions of crime of diseased person committing act of sexual penetration; makes crime ineligible for expungment.
Establishes certain warrant requirements for law enforcement agencies that utilize drones.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Revises law concerning certain professional and occupational licenses.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Allows nonpublic schools to participate in joint purchasing agreements entered into by two or more school districts.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities. *
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.
Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 1
"Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act"; eliminates criminal liability for persons who seek medical assistance in response to drug overdose. *
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
Provides for appointment of certain municipal court judges at the local or county level.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Establishes "Energy Infrastructure Study Commission."
Out of committee · 18
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Tri-County Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Allows commercial farmer to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees of defending against unreasonable complaints under "Right to Farm Act."
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.*
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
Permits local units to enter into joint agreements to purchase fire equipment.
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.
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.
Creates craft distillery license.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
In committee · 37
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Changes membership of, and election process for, NJSPCA board of trustees.
Revises law concerning disposition of assets of a county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that has dissolved or has had its charter revoked, canceled, or suspended.
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.
Creates Craft Distillery License to permit the manufacture of smaller amounts of distilled alcoholic beverages.
Requires that police obtain warrant to seize cell phone data.
Requires person eligible for health care benefits from more than one public entity to choose coverage from only one.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Prohibits possession and sale of shark fins.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Permits counties to share county tax administrators.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrators.
Establishes Hunterdon-Somerset Flood Advisory Task Force.
Increases maximum penalty for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in certain cases.
"The Reliability, Preparedness, and Storm Response Act of 2012"; requires public utilities to file certain information concerning emergency preparedness with BPU and increases certain penalties.
Lengthens amber light at traffic signal with red light camera; sets penalty for failing to stop before turning right on red when detected by red light camera; implements half-second delay for red light camera violations.
Establishes moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for purpose of natural gas exploration or production until certain conditions are met.
Provides that Good Samaritans are not required to pay for ambulance service if injured while rendering emergency care.
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
Prohibits use of tobacco products on the grounds of any public or private institution of higher education.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Establishes pilot program to provide zero-interest loans to certain emergency shelters and food banks for purchase and installation of generator.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to include information on life insurance plans in its student loan repayment information document.
Requires municipalities which license canvassers, peddlers, and solicitors to accept background check results from other municipalities.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with non-copper-based landline or wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature.
Eliminates duplicative requirements for notification to counties of admissions for Division of Developmental Disabilities residential services and for maintenance of those records.