Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Scott T. Rumana
Sponsored
Became law1
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Passed the General Assembly2
Concerns proof of workers' compensation coverage with certain legally required annual reports of employers.
Clarifies law authorizing application of reciprocal limitations against businesses from states that give in-state preference in awarding public contracts.
Out of committee1
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement leak detection programs.
In committee31
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.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain off-road diesel equipment and certain retrofit devices.
Requires motion sensor light switches in State buildings.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Authorizes the conferral of certain academic degrees by religious corporations.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from serving on political party committees.
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Authorizes Global Warming Solutions Fund monies to be used to support freshwater wetlands stewardship and restoration.
Requires State to use pervious concrete whenever appropriate.
Simplifies the certification process for out-of-State school district administrators.
Simplifies the certification process for out-of-State teachers.
Requires certain not-for-profit agencies comply with open public meetings act and open public records act.
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.
Expands authority of emergency management departments in requesting assistance outside normal territorial jurisdictions.
Upgrades the crime of invasion of privacy if it results in death or serious bodily injury to a crime of the second degree.
Requires counties to fix curbs and surrounding areas when damaged during county road projects.
Upgrades simple assault on a public works employee to aggravated assault.
Establishes measures to improve transparency and accountability of regional authorities of this State; enhances oversight of those authorities by Governor and State Comptroller.
Permits school districts to withdraw from civil service system by referendum or adoption of board of education resolution.
Requires State, whenever possible, to purchase and utilize energy efficient light bulbs when replacing incandescent and non-functioning light bulbs in State-owned buildings.
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.
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.
Upgrades motor vehicle theft to a crime of the second degree.
Expands list of crimes with bail restriction to include gun related crimes with mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment under "Graves Act."
Allows courts to issue restraining orders prohibiting persons charged with certain firearms and gang related offenses from entering premises, locations, or areas where the offense occurred.
Limits law enforcement officers' civil and criminal liability for injuries occurring during motor vehicle pursuits.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Expands scope of law prohibiting certain kinds of fraudulent political activity; increases penalty for violations.
"Solar Installation and Wind Turbine Decommissioning Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.*
Modifies process for contested case hearings by OAL with regard to telephone and video conferences, delegation of final decision authority, oral decisions, checklist decisions, electronic filings, and settlements.
"Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act."
Revises law concerning certain professional and occupational licenses.
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Requires private entity primarily engaged in business of providing transportation for passengers in wheelchairs to secure passengers in wheelchairs using four-point securement system and to secure unoccupied wheelchairs.
Reappropriates $3 million from "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to fund State flood control projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Amends "Administrative Procedure Act" to require State agencies to use various electronic technologies in rule-making procedures.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Establishes School Security Task Force.*
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Requires homeowners insurance consumer information brochure to contain one page summary of policy.
Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law. *
Authorizes creation of special Omega Psi Phi license plate.
Modifies rights of judgment creditor of limited liability company member; makes certain technical corrections to the "Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act." *
Appropriates $1,393,084 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Passed the General Assembly · 12
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives. *
Revises exemption from license requirement for raffles for door prizes of donated or purchased merchandise; increases total retail value from $50 to $200 or higher if permitted.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act": imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.**
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
The "Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act"; places certain requirements on issuance of mortgage pay-off letters; provides additional process for discharging mortgages of record.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Repeals anachronistic, superceded, or invalidated sections of statutory law.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
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.
Out of committee · 22
Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.*
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Designates portion of U.S. Route 206 bypass in Hillsborough Township as "Peter J. Biondi Bypass."
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Directs State agencies to take certain action to expedite permitting through use of general permits.
Requires certain local and State government entities to issue certain emergency warning light permits.
Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Eliminates requirement that full-time students at a county college in New Jersey maintain health insurance coverage.*
Permits real estate licensees to prepare broker price opinions and comparative market analyses.
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act." *
Designates State Highway Route 53 as "Alex DeCroce Memorial Highway."
Clarifies charitable contributions are not a factor in determining where person is domiciled under New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law." *
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Prohibits PANYNJ from imposing cargo facility charge in certain instances.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
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." *
In committee · 68
Prohibits sex offenders from entering school property.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Exempts government-owned property from adverse possession and eliminates statute of limitation period for recovery.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Requires DEP and owners of reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures, and authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs in response to severe weather events.
Provides sales and use tax rebates for certain purchases made by victims of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Creates "New Jersey Senior Labor Task Force."
Allows former mayors to perform marriages.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires accountability of NJSPCA and county societies for prevention of cruelty to animals to Attorney General and county prosecutors, respectively.
Changes membership of, and election process for, NJSPCA board of trustees.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Revises law concerning disposition of assets of a county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that has dissolved or has had its charter revoked, canceled, or suspended.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
"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.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoir levels prior to certain severe weather events.
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain arrestees; designated "Katie's Law."
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
Prohibits siting of industrial wind turbines within 2,000 feet of any residence or residentially zoned property.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Establishes a 2.0 percent cap on annual appropriations increases for certain State government spending.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Replaces TPAF, PERS, PFRS and SPRS accidental disability benefits with reduced work-related disability benefit; modifies JRS disability benefit.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Establishes grant program for school districts to develop in-district and collaborative special education programs and services to reduce need to place classified students out-of-district.
Provides Student Population Density Aid to certain public school districts.
Exempts local governmental units from supplemental titling fees on passenger automobiles they purchase or lease.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Requires driver's licenses to indicate veteran status.
Establishes practice driving requirements for examination and special learner's permit holders.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires public utilities and cable television companies to accommodate and relocate facilities when necessary for transportation infrastructure projects at direction of DOT.
Modifies school funding law to incorporate recommendations of DOE's Education Funding Report.
Specifies failure to restrain a cat, dog, or other domestic companion animal while the animal is riding in a motor vehicle is not cruel or inhumane transport.
"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.
Lengthens amber light at traffic signal with red light camera; sets penalty for failing to stop before turning right on red when detected by red light camera; implements half-second delay for red light camera violations.
Requires sex offenders to note criminal status on social network accounts.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Underground Utility Lines.
Requires retail motor fuel dealer to use generator during power outage.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes committed during a state of emergency.
Requires electric public utilities to undertake vegetation management practices near power lines.
Revises statutes and enhances penalties for offenses involving child pornography; makes crime of causing a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act subject to "No Early Release Act."
Allows Hurricane Sandy victims to claim gross income tax deduction for certain personal casualty losses.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Directs BPU to coordinate with PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. concerning development of offshore transmission infrastructure.
"Direct Tax Relief for New Jersey Families Act"; Establishes the New Jersey Direct Property Tax Relief Program; increases the renter's gross income tax credit for property taxes; and increases the earned income tax credit.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.