Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Sheila Y. Oliver
Sponsored
Became law3
Authorizes public entities to implement energy savings improvement programs. *
Requires DHS to report physical assaults and deaths at State psychiatric hospitals on its website and report deaths to Public Advocate. *
Concerns registration, insurance coverage, and consumer notice of owner-operators providing mover's services.
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program. *
Out of committee6
Requires New Jersey Transit Access Link drivers to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights.
Appropriates $7 million in 1992 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.
Requires DHS to assess $25 annual fee for collection of certain child support payments and authorizes DHS to increase child support pass through.
Establishes Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. *
Concerns collective bargaining agreements and subcontracting.
In committee43
Expands eligibility for special automobile insurance policies.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Establishes "The Prosecutorial Cost Relief Pilot Program Act of 2005."
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,000,000.
Creates New Jersey Local Bond Authority to lower cost of capital to local units.
Revises operations of Individual Health Coverage and Small Employer Health Benefits programs.
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship.
Establishes the "Workplace Violence Safety Act."
Requires certain employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.
Authorizes expansion of existing UEZs to include contiguous economically distressed areas.
Increases income eligibility for PAAD for certain individuals with dependent children.
Provides family leave insurance.
Caps supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for school administrators at $15,000.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Provides penalties for leaving individual with a disability unattended in a motor vehicle.
Prohibits job discrimination for reasons unrelated to job performance.
Requires reporting of positive toxicology tests on newborn infants.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Requires health insurance coverage for scalp hair prostheses and for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Establishes a cause of action for intentional failure of employer to follow or correct known health or safety violations or standards.
Requires dogs licensed out of state that are brought into NJ to be licensed in NJ within 60 days, and raises penalties for violations of law requiring licensing of dogs and of kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds.
Provides benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Appropriates $2 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Allows TPAF and PERS members to purchase up to one year of credit for official child-care leave.
Authorizes court to waive license revocation process for certain child support obligors.
Expands definition of abused child to include youths between the ages of 18 and 21 who receive services from DCF.
Authorizes DHS to increase child support pass through collected on behalf of eligible Work First New Jersey families.
Establishes division in Department of Treasury to oversee and enforce equal employment opportunity requirements with regard to public works contracts.
The "Homeless Housing Strategic Planning and Services Act of 2008."
Renames Work First New Jersey program as Family Development Program and makes other revisions to program.
Requires registration and oversight of home education programs.
Permits purchase of goods and services by the State and local government units through electronic means.
Provides support for obstetric services by certain health care facilities.
Jaden's Law; requires physicians to advise certain patients of option to donate bone marrow.
Transfers Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse to DHS.
Concerns per diem rates at hotels and motels that provide emergency housing to public assistance recipients.
Extends workers' compensation surviving spouse lump sum to remarriages occurring after the 450th week of benefits.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights.
Appropriates $7 million in 1992 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.
Requires DHS to assess $25 annual fee for collection of certain child support payments and authorizes DHS to increase child support pass through.
Establishes Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Authorizes court to provide alternatives for persons who default in payment of fines.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Requires training program for and recognizes position of technical assistant to construction code official.
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Denies public access to extinguished psychiatric liens.
Imposes moratorium on harvest and possession of horseshoe crabs.
Requires each general hospital and State psychiatric hospital to annually conduct public meeting for community it serves. *
Enacts "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children."
Requires schools to notify certain students of potential eligibility for NJ STARS Program.
Revises membership of New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Permits counties to create County Homelessness Trust Funds. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Revises the representation of proprietary schools on New Jersey Presidents' Council and on its executive board.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services. *
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Directs Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Information Technology to study and report potential benefits of expanding the use of electronic transactions, including the use of electronic signature and electronic record by the State.
Requires Public Advocate intervention, additional public participation, and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer. *
Out of committee · 23
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list. *
"New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act." *
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Establishes involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment for person in need of involuntary commitment to treatment. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Expands consumer protections under New Jersey's motor vehicle "lemon law."
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Regulates certain credentialing and trade practices of insurance producers, and provides private cause of action for insurance producer violations.
Requires contractors to provide Department of the Treasury with employment information about contracts with public bodies. *
The "New Jersey Homeownership Preservation Act."
Provides for random drug testing and testing for cause of employees of State psychiatric hospitals, developmental centers, and veterans homes and requires applicants for employment to undergo drug testing. *
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Expands State programs to encourage investments in small technology companies.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
In committee · 71
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain a warning about volume and hearing loss.
The "Smart Container Act."
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Allows a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases by full-time undergraduate students at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Requires van accessible handicapped parking spaces be used exclusively by handicapped equipped vans.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Extends right to vote to individuals on probation.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Eliminates enhanced penalties for certain crimes occurring on or in proximity to school property except when such crimes occur in the presence of a child.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DLPS to support Juvenile Justice Commission Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Provides that unused State real property will be offered for sale after three years.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires DYFS to take certain actions to ensure caseworker safety.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to Department of State to continue the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative Statewide database program.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Requires certification and establishes registry in DHS of community agency employees working with persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
Removes licensing requirement for recreational senior citizen bingo games.
Provides that practice of chiropractic includes diagnosis and adjustment of articulations of spinal column and other joints.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Authorizes SDA school districts to construct school facilities projects and receive State debt service aid.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Reinstates certificate of need requirement for ambulatory surgical facilities.
Increases various fees charged by the sheriff's office and dedicates additional revenue to transportation costs of the sheriff's office.
Directs the Office of Information Technology to develop a State Information Technology Master Plan to improve government operations; appropriates $12 million.
Increases fine for student truancy and requires truant student to attend court-ordered truancy counseling program or other appropriate program.
Prohibits hospital from charging patient or third party payer for costs associated with certain hospital-acquired conditions.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Establishes an urban job training and resource center for certain women.
Expands eligibility under "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
Permits counties, municipalities, and school districts to issue bonds to pay a portion of PERS and PFRS liability and other purposes under certain conditions for up to three budget years.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Consolidates various municipalities into the new municipalities of Seaside Township and Long Beach Island Township.
Consolidates all "doughnut municipalities" and "doughnut-hole municipalities" within 10 years.
Enhances protections for new homebuyers.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Provides that sales by UEZ retailers of items delivered to location outside of the UEZ shall not qualify for partial exemption from the sales tax.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.