Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Sheila Y. Oliver
Sponsored
Vetoed6
Increases gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable year 2010.
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Restores benefit under State earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal credit beginning in Tax Year 2011.
Establishes "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Out of committee4
Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, plan choice, benefit change application, coverage waiver, multiple coverage; requires contributions toward health care benefits by public employees and certain retirees.
Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, enrollment waiver, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contr
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Authorizes various public entities to utilize competitive contracting procedures for certain energy savings improvement projects.
In committee8
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship.
Establishes procedures for guaranteed energy savings contracts by governmental entities.
Authorizes institutions of higher education to grant college credit to high school students who complete the Jersey Boys State or Jersey Girls State program.
Exempts persons engaged in braiding hair from cosmetology-hairstyling licensing requirements.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force.
Authorizes State contracting agencies, local contracting units, boards of education, public institutions of higher education, and other public entities to enter into guaranteed energy savings contracts.
Establishes the "Private Investment in Public Education Fund."
Establishes "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation of $10 million.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, position eligible for service credit, non-forfeitable rights, prosecutors part, PFRS special retirement, employer contributions. *
Makes various changes to SHBP and SEHBP concerning eligibility, cost sharing, plan choice, benefit change application, coverage waiver, multiple coverage; requires contributions toward health care benefits by public employees and certain retirees. *
Revises financial assistance under Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program; repeals requirement to study implementation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
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.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Authorizes State oversight of municipalities in the Transitional Aid to Localities Program; appropriates $140,500,000 to DCA for Transitional Aid to Localities and administrative costs.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Provides State recognition of certain Indian tribes for certain limited purposes, establishes process for future recognition of tribes and revises membership and duties of New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Permits high performing school districts to be monitored by the DOE under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) every seven years rather than every three years.
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Out of committee · 9
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services.
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Heath Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. *
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Authorizes credit unions to serve as depositories of public funds; requires credit unions to provide certain funds for financial literacy education.*
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
In committee · 44
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.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
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.
Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act."
Requires contractors to provide Department of the Treasury with employment information about contracts with public bodies.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Expands State programs to encourage investments in small technology companies.
The "Smart Container Act."
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Increases fine for student truancy and requires truant student to attend court-ordered truancy counseling program or other appropriate program.
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Includes nonpublic schools and incidents occurring off school grounds in school bullying law and provides greater protections for victims of bullying.
Requires Commissioner of Education to oversee, or to authorize the New Jersey School Boards Association to oversee, Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for amount of annual homestead property tax that exceeds 7 percent of homestead owner's New Jersey gross income.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax.
Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.