Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Jack M. Ciattarelli
Sponsored
Became law3
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the statute concerning issuing or passing bad checks.
Clarifies that electronic funds transfers are included within the scope of the civil statute concerning issuing bad checks.
Criminalizes bestiality.
Out of committee2
Allows certain emergency squad volunteers holding municipal elective office to vote on emergency squad concerns.
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.
In committee36
Grants law enforcement agencies authority to order road closures; increases penalty for violations.
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.
Prohibits possession and sale of shark fins.
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.
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 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.
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.
Removes exclusion of "nonimmigrant aliens" from qualifying for in-State tuition rates at public institutions of higher education under certain conditions.
Permits municipalities to reject proposed off-track wagering facility; removes five-year tax exemption, abatement, or payment in-lieu-of taxes for off-track wagering facilities.
Excludes deferred compensation of certain public school and federal tax-exempt organization employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Increases period over which compensation is averaged for calculation of TPAF and PERS pensions when member has different employer just before retirement or for fiscal year of highest compensation.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for active and retired members of U.S. Armed Forces and their immediate family members.
Permits application of certain tinting materials on motor vehicle windows and windshields.
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.
Permits DOH licensure of elective angioplasty facilities.
Prohibits transfer of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State placements under certain conditions.
Prohibits tobacco use in dormitory and other student residence buildings of institutions of higher education.
Affords civil immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.
Authorizes Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to calculate affordable housing obligations.
Directs COAH to use growth share methodology to calculate fair share affordable housing need.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of certain products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.*
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Requires municipalities which license peddlers and solicitors to accept certain background check results from other municipalities.**
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Provides remedies for certain fraudulent financing statements.*
"Uniform Trust Code."
Permits the incorporation of psychologists.
Increases and modernizes solvency requirements for certain insurers and authority of DOBI Commissioner to regulate insurer solvency.
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Eliminates mortgage guaranty insurance coverage cap of 25% of outstanding balance of insured loan.
Revises certain provisions of dental service corporation law.
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
Upgrades crime of false public alarm under certain circumstances and establishes reporting requirements concerning crime.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed · 1
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Requires Attorney General to establish Statewide gun buyback program.
Requires certain health care facilities to provide information concerning palliative care and hospice services.*
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.*
Out of committee · 23
Establishes pilot program to provide zero-interest loans to certain emergency shelters and food banks for purchase and installation of generator.
Allows commercial farmer to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees of defending against unreasonable complaints under "Right to Farm Act."
Establishes pilot project to permit voters in military service on active duty overseas, and their eligible family members, to vote in certain elections using the Internet; makes appropriation.*
Modifies certain fees charged by, and requirements imposed on, check casher licensees.
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
Increases flexibility, clarity, and available tools of optional municipal consolidation process.
Designates State Route 173 between Clinton and Phillipsburg as "173rd Airborne Brigade Highway."
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
Grants prescriptive authority to certain psychologists.
Designates Black Swallowtail butterfly as State Butterfly.
Extends for five years expiration date of special appraisal process for Green Acres program and farmland preservation program for lands in Highlands Region; makes change to special appraisal process for certain farmers. *
Raises minimum age for purchase and sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices from 19 to 21.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes counties to establish mosquito control reserve fund.
Designates U.S. Route 22 bridge, Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge, as "Sergeant William John Cahir Memorial Bridge."
Establishes insurance and safety requirements for companies that use digital network or software application to match passengers with drivers.*
Requires earlier mandatory polling hours for school elections; requires discretionary additional polling hours be consistent with current primary and general elections.*
Establishes licensure for associate marriage and family therapists.
Authorizes optometrists to continue prescribing medications containing hydrocodone.
"Music Therapist Licensing Act."
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act." *
"Certificates of Insurance Act;" governs use of certificates of insurance; provides DOBI with enforcement authority.
In committee · 76
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.
"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.
Creates "Comprehensive Anti-Nepotism Act."
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrators.
Establishes Hunterdon-Somerset Flood Advisory Task Force.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Requires public utility requesting rate increase to hold public hearings in every county.
Increases maximum penalty for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in certain cases.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Clarifies that first aid, ambulance or rescue squads, as entities, have immunity from civil damages in certain circumstances.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires accountability of NJSPCA and county societies for prevention of cruelty to animals to Attorney General and county prosecutors, respectively.
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.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide information on life insurance plans to borrowers of student loans and requires authority to contract with life insurance company to offer policies to borrowers.
"Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Provides for licensure of pediatric respite care facilities.
Limits amount of appeal bond in civil actions to $50 million.
"Certificates of Insurance Act."
Requires that police obtain warrant to seize cell phone data.
Establishes moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for purpose of natural gas exploration or production until certain conditions are met.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Requires screening of certain high-risk pregnancies and reporting of fetal deaths.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Provides for appointment of certain municipal court judges at the local or county level.
Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Requires person eligible for health care benefits from more than one public entity to choose coverage from only one.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Increases State hotel and motel occupancy fee revenues required to be annually appropriated to fund certain arts and cultural, historical, and tourism-related programs and activities.
Permits municipalities to authorize property tax reward programs; validates actions of municipalities that have created them.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
Authorizes county government to appoint county assessor for taxes.
Requires immediate forfeiture of public office, position or employment, without application by the prosecutor, for public officials and employees convicted under federal law of certain public corruption offenses.
Provides for use of directed trust to administer particular assets separate from other assets placed in trust; clarifies duty to inform between co-fiduciaries concerning administration of trusts and other governing instruments.
Eliminates presumption of non-imprisonment for theft of a firearm.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Establishes manufacturing machine and metal trade apprenticeships tax credit program.
Provides county vocational school districts with the authority to name themselves in a manner that more accurately reflects their mission.
Upgrades and expands crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances.
Establishes Partners for Growth Council in DOLWD.
Requires EDA and Dept. of State to encourage businesses considering relocation to locate within chronically high unemployment region.
Requires individuals to upload employment resume on Internet website upon filing claim for unemployment insurance benefits.
Provides that students attending a choice district may only play interscholastic sports on sending district sports teams unless sending district does not offer a sport that the choice district offers.
Revises property assessment calendar.
Dedicates $140,000 of revenue from motor vehicle violations to DHS for brain injury services.
Provides for early termination of terms of office for certain appointed municipal court positions when two or more municipalities enter into agreements to establish joint or shared municipal courts.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act.
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
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.
Requires prosecutorial or law enforcement review of fatal incidents involving police officers or State Police.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Permits increase in municipal free public library tax upon voter approval.
Requires evaluation of appropriateness of light frame construction for multiple dwellings and imposes moratorium on light frame construction until determination and recommendations are adopted.
Revises definition of "antique firearm" to include handguns.
Criminalizes luring or enticing mentally incapacitated person to commit act likely to be injurious to his welfare.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Clarifies five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Requires DOH license additional angioplasty facilities, with at least one facility in each county.
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
Dedicates five percent of cigarette tax revenue to anti-smoking initiatives.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Requires health care practitioners to discuss risk of addiction when prescribing certain drugs to patients who are minors.