Bills in the 2016–2017 Session, General Assembly.
Sheila Y. Oliver
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes Montclair State University as public research university.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires school districts to provide instruction on interacting with law enforcement as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies.*
Prohibits sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
Establishes requirements for sale of home baked goods or cottage foods. *
Enhances protections against fraudulent deed recordings.
Out of committee5
Requires corporations qualifying for certain State development subsidy grants to repay entire grant amount if corporation fails to uphold grant terms.
Provides that AG handle investigation and prosecution of crime involving person's death by law enforcement officer while acting in officer's official capacity or while in custody; requires trial in venue outside county where incident occurred.*
Establishes the "New Jersey Schedules That Work Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Regulates temporary help service firms as employment agencies; expands civil rights protections of certain job seekers.
In committee12
Requires oversight reporting on Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
Lowers age of compulsory school attendance to age five and requires that all school districts establish kindergarten programs.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Ends the estate tax and raises the gross income tax rate on taxable income exceeding $350,000.
Requires notification to certain buyers of health club services of automatic renewal clauses in health club contracts.
Provides for Attorney General to handle investigation and prosecution of crime involving death caused by law enforcement officer while in performance of officer's duties; requires officer indictment by State grand jury.
Applies local public contract bid threshold amounts to local pay to play and prevailing wage laws.
Modifies process for advertising, bidding, and awarding local public contracts.
Requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of complaint-warrant.
Directs four-year public institutions of higher education to develop plan to achieve six-year graduation rate of at least 70 percent for full-time undergraduate students by 2022-2023 academic year.
Requires training program for certain appointed and elected officials.
Provides forbearance of residential mortgage foreclosures under certain circumstances; places additional requirements on attorneys, residential mortgage lenders, and courts, as part of foreclosure process.
Filed1
Appropriates $71,700,224 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Abuse of Persons who are Elderly or Disabled."
Appropriates $71,700,224 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Vetoed1
Provides that AG handle investigation and prosecution of crime involving person's death by law enforcement officer while acting in officer's official capacity or while in custody; requires trial in venue outside county where incident occurred.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
"New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance capital projects at public libraries; appropriates $5,000.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Makes certain veterans eligible for certificates of registration under Security Officer Registration Act.
Establishes Chief Diversity Officer to monitor participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.*
Allows installment payments for senior and disabled property taxpayers to repay overpayments of homestead credits and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Provides two elected members of pension commission of closed Hudson County Employees' Pension Fund may be active or retired county employees.
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary guidelines for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste; extends "Food Bank Good Samaritan Act" immunity protections to public and nonpublic schools.*
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for microentrepreneurs; gives priority status to projects involving microenterprises under Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program.
Excludes amount of certain early withdrawals from qualified retirement plans in determination by Higher Education Student Assistance Authority of applicant's eligibility for and amount of State tuition aid grant.
Extends warranty for partial zero emission vehicles. *
Vetoed · 11
Raises minimum wage rate to $10.10, makes further increases over a four-year period, and maintains annual cost of living increases.*
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Increases amount of benefits under Work First New Jersey program by 30 percent over three years and according to Social Security cost of living increases thereafter.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Provides $21 minimum annual energy assistance to qualified families; qualifies families to receive additional nutritional assistance.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Bars persons under age 18 from marrying or entering into a civil union.
Repeals family cap in Work First New Jersey program.
Establishes process for recovery of Superstorm Sandy aid overpayments and makes General Fund appropriation.*
"Safe Transportation Jobs and Fair Employment Rules Act."
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave.*
Passed the General Assembly · 16
Increases personal needs allowance to at least $50 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities.
Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.
Establishes procedure for notification to, and review by, municipalities of certain grant and loan applications for acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or spouses of veterans and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Establishes that payment plan for motor vehicle surcharges is mandatory upon request; extends payment period.
Grants credit against business income taxes to developer of rental housing reserved for occupancy by veterans.*
Establishes notification standards for certain service contracts with automatic renewal.*
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.
Establishes "Blue Alert System."*
Eliminates use of standardized assessments as measure of student growth or progress in evaluations of teachers, principals, assistant principals, and vice-principals.
Prohibits disqualification of certain minority-owned and women-owned businesses for certification.
Limits fees for using electronic toll transponders in rental cars.
Requires lactation rooms be made available at certain PANYNJ airports.
Out of committee · 26
Requires DHS to ensure distribution to senior citizens of notice from Division of Consumer Affairs concerning risks and prevention of fraud.
Revises treatment requirements for convicted drug offenders receiving general assistance benefits under Work First New Jersey program.*
Requires reporting of suspected abuse of institutionalized elderly to police and that facility employees receive notice of reporting requirement annually; designated as "Peggy's Law."
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Regulates deed procurement services.
Requires safeguards for anonymity and confidentiality with respect to communications presented through phone lines, electronic communication systems, or websites dedicated to accepting anonymous tips for use by law enforcement in criminal investigations.
Adds two public members to NJT board and provides that all NJT board members are voting members.*
"Out-of-network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act."
Creates Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Stabilization Revolving Trust Fund; places temporary surcharge on mortgage foreclosure complaints.
Prohibits a person from charging a fee to stop publishing personal identifying information obtained through the criminal justice system.
"Earn Your Way Out Act" ; requires DOC to develop inmate reentry plan; establishes administrative parole release for certain inmates;requires study and report by DOC on fiscal impact.*
The "Smart Container Act."
Extends eligibility for certain individuals for emergency assistance.
Establishes asset forfeiture reporting requirements.
Requires DHS to request waiver of time limits for certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients under certain circumstances.
Establishes program allowing certain applicants to perform community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.
Establishes two-year innovative drinking water supply and wastewater infrastructure grant program in DEP; appropriates up to $20 million from societal benefits charge therefor.
Establishes compensation program for law enforcement officers and certain other employees injured while performing official duties. *
Requires lobby security for certain senior citizen high-rise buildings in areas with high violent crime rates.
Transfers authority to regulate bail agents from DOBI to DLPS; requires certain defendants to be eligible for monetary bail upon issuance of complaint-warrant.
Establishes "Small Business Bonding Readiness Assistance Program" in EDA to assist certain small businesses meet State or federal contract surety bond requirements.*
Includes students who participate in school intramural sports programs in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Allows individual to receive additional lifetime emergency assistance under certain circumstances.
Establishes gubernatorial veto power over Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor's meeting minutes; expands gubernatorial oversight powers over commission.
Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.
Establishes criminal penalties for sale and possession of certain firearm components.
In committee · 68
Revises procedure for transferring motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Establishes reward program in DOE for districts with high academic performance and low per pupil expenditures.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility unit rate assessment surcharge.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Concerns credit card interchange fees and consumer protection.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Removes statute of limitations in certain civil actions for sexual abuse; expands categories of defendants liable in such actions.
Establishes additional county recording fees to support "New Jersey Affordable Housing Trust Fund."
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Establishes procedures for the approval of the closure of a public school.
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.
Requires that if a school district satisfies 80% or more of the required NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum standards in an area of district effectiveness under State intervention, the State must return that area to local control.
Provides that a school district may be placed under full or partial State intervention pursuant to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) for no longer than five years.
Places five-year limit on State control of any school district; requires local control to be returned in any area of district effectiveness under State intervention for which district meets 80 percent or more of standards.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low income persons residing in certain facilities.
Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.
Requires mortgage lenders to maintain vacant, age-restricted dwelling units during foreclosure.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2014," authorizes bonds for $200 million; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits employers from obtaining, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of credit reports.
Concerns earned sick leave.
Clarifies that certain types of sewage and sewage sludge do not constitute hazardous substances under "Spill Compensation and Control Act."
Recognizes same-sex marriages entered into outside the State.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
The "Full Marriage Recognition for Civil Union Couples Act"; recognizes certain civil unions as marriages dating back to inception of such civil unions.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Concerns repayment of unemployment compensation overpayments.
Requires notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of automobile and homeowners insurance policies to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Permits payment of only one co-payment or deductible for follow-up care or treatment after surgery or illness under certain health benefits plans.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to provide additional notification of contracting opportunities to vendors or potential vendors providing or interested in providing home health care services to State agencies.
Imposes $0.25 surcharge on alcoholic beverages to be dedicated to Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires availability of early voting for certain elections; makes appropriation.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank Fund and Clean Energy and Infrastructure Modernization Fund within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Eliminates awarding of attorneys' fees, filing fees, and costs of suit for certain technical violations of consumer fraud act.
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Provides for private cause of action for bad faith in settlement of certain insurance claims.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Concerns reviews of State's economic development incentives.
Requires creditors to maintain vacant and abandoned non-residential properties under foreclosure.
Directs Division of Gaming Enforcement, in consultation with New Jersey Racing Commission, to establish and oversee slot machine gambling operations at horse racetracks.
Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals.
Revises residential property mortgage foreclosure process.
Requires NJT to offer three-month bus and rail passes at discounted rates.
Eliminates partial and full State intervention under New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
Establishes certain benefits for Class Two special law enforcement officers; allows arson investigators to carry a firearm at all times.
Requires personal service of notice of unpaid parking ticket before issuing arrest warrant or suspending license.
Requires disclosure by independent expenditure committees; raises certain campaign contribution limits; repeals ban on certain intraparty fund transfers.
Increases disclosure of political contributions by business entities with public contracts; creates uniform law for contributions by such entities; repeals local option to set contribution limits for business entities.
Provides tax credits for performing certain repairs on primary residences of senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Requires firearms purchaser identification card, permit to purchase handgun, or permit to carry handgun for temporary transfer of firearm at firing range.
Requires firearms purchaser identification card, permit to purchase handgun, or permit to carry handgun for use of firearm at firing range.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Requires outer envelope of certain mail-in ballots to indicate amount of required postage.
Designates portion of U.S. Route 1 as "President Barack H. Obama Highway."
Restricts levy of motor vehicle surcharges to drunk driving offenses.
"Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act"; requires Internet-connected devices to have blocking capability in certain circumstances.
Provides immediate eligibility for participation in interscholastic athletics for certain transfer students.
Dedicates $140,000 from NJ Brain Injury Research Fund for community based services provided by Statewide alliance dedicated to assisting persons with brain injury through advocacy, education, information and resources, outreach, and support services.
Permits certain firefighter training courses to be taken online.
Concerns baked goods sold at farm markets.
Filed · 1
Requires study of program allowing community service in lieu of paying motor vehicle surcharges.