Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
David P. Rible
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Allows parent, guardian, or adult student to prevent disclosure of student information to certain entities.
Out of committee2
Reduces amount of fire duty required in order to receive exempt fireman certificate.
Concerns attorney fees for workers' compensation awards.
In committee47
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to taxpayers contributing to scholarships for low-income children.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
Requires AG to defend challenges to certain municipal ordinances that establish residency requirements for convicted sex offenders.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
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.
Establishes training wage.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Exempts certain volunteer emergency service organizations from charitable contribution filing fees.
Provides that person who impersonates law enforcement officer and commits crime is guilty of third degree crime.
Requires all new State buildings to have solar or geothermal energy systems, where feasible.
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include unsupervised door-to-door sales by students.
Requires disclosure of all campaign contributions received and expenditures made by school board candidates.
Allows planning and zoning board members to satisfy training requirements on Internet.
Permits municipalities to charge a fee to cover ancillary costs of traffic control; limits fee.
Designates portion of New Jersey Route No. 34 in Wall Township as the "Duncan Thecker Memorial Highway."
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Criminalizes participation in criminal street gang.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Provides that videotaping of aggravated assault is a third degree crime.
Establishes a "Blue Alert System."
Concerns interest rate chargeable by licensed pawnbrokers on certain transactions.
Permits municipality to use proceeds of beach access fees for areas near beach facilities that are significantly affected by beach tourism; requires municipality to provide explanation of expenditures on website.
Requires electric public utilities to file with BPU and implement distribution infrastructure protection plans; prohibits rate increase pending implementation of plans.
Requires DOBI to provide notification of suspension or revocation of license or registration of third party administrators.
Increases threshold value of surplus State-owned real property and easements above which legislative review and approval is required before sale.
Requires health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of lymphedema.
Protects home addresses of law enforcement officers from being released by governmental entities.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,200,000 to Maritime Industry Fund in Office of Maritime Resources in DOT.
Revises "Contractors' Registration Act" to include water remediation services.
Establishes fourth degree crime of possessing firearms locator application; enhances penalty if such application is used in the theft of firearm.
Makes revisions to the "Contractors' Registration Act."
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments not required under State or federal law.
Upgrades initiating, circulating, or transmitting false public alarm to crime of the second degree.
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop lists of approved testing vendors and commercially-developed standardized assessments for use by public school districts.
Requires printed advertisements to bear the word "advertisement."
Grants full police status to special agents in the Department of Treasury; authorizes special agents to carry firearms at all times.
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching disabled vehicles displaying warning lights.
Makes it crime of the fourth degree to recklessly engage in conduct which creates substantial risk of serious injury to another.
Requires DOH to increase the number of contracted early intervention service providers in areas experiencing significant population growth.
Establishes defense against exclusionary zoning litigation seeking builder's remedy.
Establishes Office of Tourism Research; requires specific measures concerning tourism advertising, marketing, research, and tourism-related business training.
Authorizes creation of Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation license plates.
Establishes "Superstorm Sandy Homeowners Protection Act."
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Reduces amount of fire duty required in order to receive exempt fireman certificate.
Vetoed1
Concerns attorney fees for workers' compensation awards.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
"Let Them Be Little Act"; provides for screening newborn infants for MPS I and MPS II.*
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
"Art Therapist Licensing Act."
Exempts certain persons from licensing requirements of the "New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act."
Requires public school students in grades 9 through 12 to receive instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of an automated external defibrillator prior to graduation.*
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
Exempts certain persons from HVACR licensing requirement; clarifies definition of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration.
Establishes certain requirements for hospitals regarding patient-designated caregivers.
Prohibits administration of standardized assessments in kindergarten through second grade.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Requires preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Allows school districts and requires public colleges to enter into dual enrollment agreements to provide college-level instruction to high school students through courses offered on college or high school campuses.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
Amends definition of "Class II renewable energy."
Extends for one year expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008." *
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Expands scope of law governing registration of security guards; designated as " Detective Vincent Santiago's Law." *
"New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act."*
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 · 5
Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring optometrists to become providers with vision care plans as condition of becoming providers in carriers' panel of providers.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Requires each school district with middle school or high school to establish food services advisory committee to consider menu options that reflect students' cultural, traditional, and dietary preferences.*
Passed the General Assembly · 12
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Permits new cigar lounges to be opened under certain circumstances.*
Codifies AG recommendations for issuing Amber Alert when family member abducts child.
Revises law concerning the rights and responsibilities of motor vehicle franchisees and franchisors.**
Requires teacher preparation program for instuctional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.**
Requires school districts and charter schools to annually provide to parents or guardians of enrolled students information on certain tests to be administered during the school year.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays implementation of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Prohibits purchase of certain items by scrap metal businesses.
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities be equipped with Next Generation 9-1-1 system and provides funding for that purpose; makes texting the 9-1-1 emergency system without purpose of reporting need for 9-1-1 service a fourth degree crime.**
Allows parent or guardian to exclude student from administration of certain assessments.
Imposes three-year moratorium on use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers for certain purposes.
Establishes Military and Defense Economic Ombudsman in Department of State.*
Out of committee · 23
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Authorizes Attorney General to coordinate Statewide law enforcement efforts against opioid drug abuse.*
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
Establishes time periods for adverse possession of certain property.*
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Imposes criminal penalties for discharges of untreated sewage from containment devices installed on watercraft.
Permits local unit to contract with private entities to lease advertising space on local unit's official Internet website.
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding law enforcement officers.*
Revises certain provisions of New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program.
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.
Designates State Highway Route No. 71 bridge between Borough of Belmar and Borough of Avon-by-the-Sea as "Robert A. Briant, Sr. Memorial Bridge."
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Requires interior light of motor vehicle be turned on when stopped by law enforcement under certain circumstances.*
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Directs poison control and drug information program to establish clearinghouse of drug overdose information, report on trends, and provide education on safe storage and disposal of medications; appropriates $500,000.
Requires DHS and DOC to formulate joint arrangement and plan to ensure provision of mental health and substance use disorder services to inmates. *
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight.
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5.
Establishes Response to Intervention initiative in DOE to support and encourage school districts in implementation of Response to Intervention framework.
Establishes New Jersey Military Skills Council.
Permits local units of government to enter into shared services agreements with federal military installations located in the State.
Maintains property tax exemption for certain nonprofit hospitals with on-site for-profit medical providers; requires these hospitals to pay community service contributions to host municipalities; establishes Nonprofit Hospital Community Service Contributi
In committee · 128
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Requires law enforcement agency to issue retired law enforcement officer identification card to certain qualified retirees.
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.
Concerns eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain seasonal workers.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises definition of "necessary care" in the State's animal cruelty law to include more specific requirements.
Appropriates $10 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Directs DEP and Monmouth County to form study commission to examine nonpoint source pollution and stormwater management issues in Wreck Pond Watershed.
Directs BPU to adopt best practices and standards for public utility disaster response.
Requires electric public utilities to repair or install street lights within certain time periods after municipal notification.
Permits certain public and private entities to qualify for BPU grants or low interest loans for cost of alternative power generation devices.
Upgrades theft to a crime of the first degree if amount involved is $500,000 or more.
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Allows physicians to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain donated vehicles.
Creates first degree crime of home invasion, makes crime subject to No Early Release Act, and upgrades burglary of a residence to a second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Repeals the New Jersey estate tax.
Establishes public-private alternative fueling station pilot program.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students.
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Requires municipal governing bodies and boards of education to provide sufficient time for all requested public comment at open public meetings.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Excludes gains on sales of certain real estate purchases from taxation under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Prohibits dual elective office holding and holding of elective office and public office or position.
Regulates assignment and use of State vehicles.
Clarifies criteria for issuing Amber Alert when child abducted by family member.
Provides for satellite-based monitoring of homeless registered sex offenders.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Expands eligibility under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act by broadening certain municipal qualifier provisions.
Requires that sexual abuse against a child be reported to law enforcement officials.
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.
Permits municipality to hire private company to provide construction officials, subcode officials, and technical assistants.
Establishes Common Core State Standards Evaluation Task Force; delays use of assessments developed by Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers until task force submits final report.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Increases penalties for violations committed by provisional driver's license holder.
Eliminates transfer inheritance tax and increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amounts under New Jersey estate tax in accordance with provisions of federal tax law.
Upgrades penalties for crimes committed with aid of firearms locator application.
Prohibits PANYNJ from imposing cargo facility charge in certain instances.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Makes it unlawful for a private citizen to record a communication unless all parties to the communication have previously consented.
Requires disclosure of original purchase price for land to be sold to a county, county agriculture development board, or municipality for farmland preservation purposes.
Repeals statutory requirement of annual or biennial dog census.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on brothers and sisters of a decedent.
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights and Property Tax Reduction Act."
Provides for life imprisonment without parole for killing an emergency responder.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Removes requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal; requires certain novice drivers submit motor vehicle information to chief administrator.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Requires certain public contract bid advertisements to contain certified cost estimate ranges, specifies grounds for rejection of all bids, and requires 50% guaranty on bids; designated as the Fairness in Bidding Act.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children; appropriates $1,500,000 to Treasury.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Concerns organ and tissue donation.
The "New Jersey Homeowners' Equity Protection Act."
Appropriates $2 million in constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for hazardous substance discharge remediation to DEP for White Swan Cleaners/Sun Cleaners Superfund site cleanup in Monmouth County.
Requires State agencies to review operations and to implement use of Internet to conduct public business when cost savings may be realized, with certain exceptions.
Permits voter registration up to 29 days before an election; reduces polling place hours by one hour in the morning.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employers engaged in farming operations.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Permits juveniles to be admitted to drug court program under certain circumstances.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain seasonal employers.
Requires Rutgers University to create a liberal studies program for intellectually disabled students; appropriates $500,000.
Prohibits plea bargaining for certain repeat criminal offenders.
Implements constitutional amendment providing for pretrial detention of certain criminal defendants.
Provides county vocational school districts with the authority to name themselves in a manner that more accurately reflects their mission.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Establishes Partners for Growth Council in DOLWD.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Requires State arts, historical, and cultural grant recipients to offer information on food and lodging in vicinity of event funded.
Establishes publicly accessible Internet registry of offenders who cause bodily harm, or property theft or damage, against disabled persons, senior citizens, or veterans.
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.
Extends authority to appoint Class Two special law enforcement officers to perform court security duties to all county sheriffs.
Clarifies that law enforcement officers may possess firearms in casinos.
Amends and repeals certain parts of New Jersey firearm statutes.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Establishes electronic database of occupants of hotels and multiple dwellings for use by fire safety and emergency service providers.
Allows siblings who share and equally co-own a primary residence to claim a joint homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes the EDA to issue additional $50,000,000 in bonds to provide grants for certain county vocational school district facilities projects and increases debt service district aid percentage for such projects.
Establishes "Government Crowdfunding Act" to allow government entities to conduct fundraising for certain government projects.
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.
Requires display of State vehicle abuse hotline bumper stickers on all State vehicles.
Prohibits discontinuance of certain State facilities and services in counties with chronic high unemployment.
Concerns Superstorm Sandy recovery.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Establishes second degree crime for threatening to kill law enforcement officers.
Permits application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained after January 2003 while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Establishes Task Force on School District Regionalization.
Permits use of electronic smoking devices in vapor retail establishments.
Changes State assistance to urban enterprise zones over seven years by increasing reduced sales tax in enterprise zones and dedicating increase to zone municipalities.
Permits demonstration county to terminate its participation in the "Real Property Assessment Demonstration Program."
Provides assistance to manufacturing businesses by having certain State agencies promote economic development and identify credentials needed for careers in modern manufacturing.
Requires county clerk to set annual compensation of personnel in office of county clerk.
Establishes affirmative defense against builder's remedy lawsuits.
Provides that Secretary of State, as leader of tourism and economic development, will have authority to designate and prepare special commemorative day, week, month, or year for the State.
Clarifies that chief of police or Superintendent of State Police has burden of proving applicant's disqualification for permit to purchase handgun or firearms purchaser identification card.
Eliminates certain sales restrictions on recreational vehicles.
Provides mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain crimes of domestic violence.
Clarifies five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Clarifies that defendants are to be credited for pre-sentence jail time directly attributable to specific offense for which sentence is imposed.
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.
Establishes Class Three special law enforcement officers to provide security in public and nonpublic schools.
Establishes criminal penalties for unlawful control over weapons of any law enforcement officer and interface with equipment or duties of law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel.
Regulates tethering of, and outdoor shelter for, dogs.
Refines five-month window established by Supreme Court begins after trial court establishes standards.
Provides incentives for certain businesses associated with military installations.
Amends definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" in Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Establishes process by which a fiduciary is discharged.
Allows shore municipalities to provide spouse and dependent children of veterans free or reduced cost access to beaches.
Expands number of child care programs exempted from State child care licensing requirements.
Clarifies law on ethical conduct of board of education members and school administrators and provides requirements for boards invoking doctrine of necessity.