Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, Senate.
Kevin J. O'Toole
Sponsored
Became law2
Authorizes youth camps to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit trained employees to administer epinephrine to camp members suffering from anaphylaxis.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Waldwick Borough as "Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway."
Passed the Senate1
Establishes certain requirements for use of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities in school districts and approved private schools for students with disabilities.; requires DOE to collect and report data regarding restraint and inclusion.*
Out of committee10
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.*
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoir levels prior to certain severe weather events.
Prohibits escrow agent evaluation services from charging escrow agents fees.
Requires bi-state transportation authorities to make advance notification of certain projects or operations expected to impede traffic.
Exempts guide dogs and service dogs temporarily placed in foster homes from dog licensing and registration tag requirements.*
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Upgrades violation of a stalking restraining order to a crime of the third degree.*
"Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act"; requires institutions of higher education to have individuals who focus on reducing student suicides and attempted suicides available 24 hours a day.*
"Madison Holleran Proper Reporting Act"; requires institutions of higher education to post information on student suicides and attempted suicides on website.
In committee36
Prohibits posting of certain personal information on the Internet or misrepresentation of identity on the Internet for the purpose of harassment of a minor child.
Prohibits candidates and elected public officials charged with crimes from using campaign contributions for their legal defense.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment on persons convicted of certain sex crimes against minors.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Upgrades crime of invasion of privacy under certain circumstances.
Upgrades the crime of invasion of privacy if it results in death or serious bodily injury to a crime of the second degree.
Prohibits the unauthorized photographing or videotaping of a child.
Requires certain commissions to maintain meeting minutes; establishes Governor's authority to approve or veto the minutes of those commissions.
Provides for automatic waiver of juvenile case to adult court for repeat juvenile offenders.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes committed during a state of emergency.
Upgrades burglary of a residence to a crime of the second degree; requires mandatory period of parole ineligibility if residence was occupied at time of offense.
Regulates certain activities of religious corporations operating cemeteries.
Provides exceptions to garnish exemption against benefits from State-administered pension systems for certain financial claims under State law.
Increases number of votes needed to remove Director of Division of Investment in Department of Treasury from office.
Reauthorizes use of regional contribution agreements between municipalities within a 10-mile radius of each other for special needs housing; permits units transferred to be counted toward recipient municipality's fair share obligation.
Establishes a fixed term for Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director of PANYNJ; requires approval from Governors of New Jersey and New York prior to employment of directors.
Establishes new crime of official interference with transportation.
Establishes "Bi-State Commission to Recommend Reforms to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey."
Requires State Comptroller to receive and provide certain independent authority employee information on State Comptroller's website.
Establishes various good governance requirements at State and local authorities.
Establishes various good governance requirements at certain bi-state authorities.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Prohibits student's individualized education program or 504 plan to include use of physical restraints or seclusion.
Prohibits adoption of new rules exceeding federal standards unless specifically authorized by State law or necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare.
Establishes crime-fraud exception applicable to marital and civil union partnership privilege.
Requires Passaic Valley Water Commission to obtain approval of certain municipalities before entering into certain contracts concerning open-air reservoirs.
Bars domestic violence defendants from participation in Pretrial Intervention.
Requires electric public utilities to provide training, equipment, indemnity, and reimbursement to certain municipal employees for moving and securing detached, above-ground distribution lines impeding vehicular traffic during lengthy power outages.
Requires that certain information be redacted from motor vehicle accident reports submitted to the public.
Establishes committee to develop consolidation plan for Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation, North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, and Passaic Valley Water Commission.
Creates Office of Licensing, Grant-making, Approvals and Permitting Efficiency Ombudsman and establishes task force on feasibility of online State permit and approval transactions.
Increases judicial salaries by set amount over multiple years, and thereafter provides for annual salary cost of living adjustment.
Eliminates requirement for forensic laboratory analysis of substance in cases involving distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute, imitation CDS.
Clarifies that "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" covers elder abuse in domestic settings.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law3
Prohibits escrow agent evaluation services from charging escrow agents fees.
Exempts guide dogs and service dogs temporarily placed in foster homes from dog licensing and registration tag requirements.*
Upgrades violation of a stalking restraining order to a crime of the third degree.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Clarifies that county sheriff may simultaneously hold position of emergency management coordinator.
Requires PANYNJ be subject to NY Freedom of Information Law and NJ open public records act.
Removes presumption of nonimprisionment in certain assault cases involving domestic violence victims; expands criminal coercion statute; revises Pretrial Intervention procedures in certain criminal cases.*
Authorizes establishment of Achieving a Better Life Experience accounts for persons with certain disabilities.**
Prohibits Division of Developmental Disabilities from compelling transfers of individuals with developmental disabilities from out-of-State to in-State facilities unless certain exceptions apply.
Limits increase in annual budget requests of certain county entities.
Creates definition of certified.*
Establishes a process to integrate certain health data and other data from publicly supported programs for population health research.*
Vetoed · 5
Requires use of goods made in the United States for public contracts; requires disclosures by businesses that receive public contracts or development assistance.**
Requires Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires Delaware River and Bay Authority to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Requires PANYNJ to use certain products manufactured in US.
Requires DRPA to use certain products manufactured in U.S.
Passed the Senate · 3
Authorizes municipalities to regulate use of certain explosives.
Upgrades crime of stalking when stalking activity is carried out or assisted by installation or use of communication or location monitoring program or device on cellular phone or wireless mobile device.*
Criminalizes using drones to conduct surveillance of or fly over critical infrastructures; requires certain drones to be registered and insured.
Out of committee · 8
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances. *
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Expands crime of invasion of privacy to include "upskirting"; photographing or filming the image of the undergarment-clad intimate parts of another.*
Prohibits existing child care subsidy recipient from being treated as a new applicant for subsidy after moving to a new county of residence.
Establishes crime-fraud exception to marital and civil union partnership privilege.*
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Removes presumption of non-imprisonment when drunk drivers commit assault by auto resulting in serious bodily injury.
Establishes Child Advocacy Center-Multidisciplinary Team Advisory Board and certification program for child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; appropriates $10 million.
In committee · 34
Encourages sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Establishes a 1,000 foot drug free zone around playgrounds and other public parks, buildings and housing facilities.
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Requires tenure charges be filed against any public school employee found to have bullied a student and requires the employment of any nontenured public school employee be terminated for such activity.
"Compounding Pharmacy Quality Assurance Act"; requires accreditation of compounding pharmacies.
Revises certain provisions of Megan's Law and imposes monthly penalty on sex offenders to fund their monitoring and supervision by the parole board.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from considering or requiring compliance by Highlands planning area municipalities with Highlands regional master plan in certain circumstances.
"Zero-Based Budget Act;" requires State Treasurer to develop and integrate certain zero-based budgeting practices and procedures in preparation and submission of Governor's annual budget message.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Reduces gross income tax rates by ten percent over three years.
"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.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Increases filing threshold for the New Jersey estate tax to $1,000,000.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Requires forfeiture of public office, position or employment upon conviction of certain offenses.
Establishes measures to improve transparency and accountability of regional authorities of this State; enhances oversight of those authorities by Governor and State Comptroller.
Reinstates moratorium on imposition of Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
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.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Schedules the termination of the realty transfer fees.
Creates Education Reform Review Task Force; delays certain uses of certain assessments and certain changes to teacher evaluation system.
Reforms procedures concerning provision of affordable housing; reinstates moratorium on Statewide non-residential development fees until January 2015.
Implements certain governance and transparency reforms at PANYNJ.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.