Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Scott T. Rumana
Sponsored
In committee36
Establishes measures to improve transparency and accountability of regional authorities of this State; enhances oversight of those authorities by Governor and State Comptroller.
Authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoir levels prior to certain severe weather events.
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.
The "New Jersey Right to Home Defense Law."
Prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from serving on political party committees.
Simplifies the certification process for out-of-State teachers.
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 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.
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 firearms and gang related offenses from entering premises, locations, or areas where the offense occurred.
Establishes Office of River Maintenance in DEP; repeals P.L.1993, c.376 concerning stream cleaning activities.
Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication.
Clarifies law authorizing application of reciprocal limitations against businesses from states that give in-state preference in awarding public contracts.
Concerns proof of workers' compensation coverage with certain legally required annual reports of employers.
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license.
Permits certain individuals not appointed pursuant to will to control funeral and disposition of human remains of decedent and requires executor to provide notification of appointment and other information to appointee.
Prohibits adoption of new rules exceeding federal standards unless specifically authorized by State law or necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare.
Makes various changes to law governing raffles; requires Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission to create online reporting system and develop single license for conducting multiple games.
Requires Passaic Valley Water Commission to obtain approval of certain municipalities before entering into certain contracts concerning open-air reservoirs.
Establishes practice driving requirements for examination and special learner's permit holders.
Bars domestic violence defendants from participation in Pretrial Intervention.
Stipulates that retail motor fuel dealers, when paying interchange fees, shall not be charged for costs associated with certain taxes.
Requires evaluation of appropriateness of light frame construction for multiple dwellings and imposes moratorium on light frame construction until determination and recommendations are adopted.
"Madison Holleran Proper Reporting Act"; requires institutions of higher education to post information on student suicides and attempted suicides on website.
"Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act"; requires institutions of higher education to have health care professionals who focus on reducing student suicides and attempted suicides available 24 hours a day.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement leak detection programs.
Makes reforms to mental health treatment; clarifies law governing purchase of firearms by persons with history of mental illness.
Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season.
Provides sales and use tax exclusion for charges for student parking provided by certain colleges and universities.
Permits police departments to donate unclaimed bicycles to nonprofit organizations.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of natural gas, and charges for transportation or transmission of natural gas, to public colleges and universities.
Requires law enforcement be notified of application to expunge mental commitment record.
Provides for notice to schools of court-ordered domestic violence restraints restricting contact in schools; increases penalty for violation of such orders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for development of Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Requires schools to maintain supply of epinephrine and permit administration of epinephrine to any student having anaphylactic reaction.
Prohibits escrow agent evaluation services from charging escrow agents fees.
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of certain products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.*
Requires pharmacies and prescribers to notify patients about how to ensure proper and safe disposal of unused prescription drugs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process, and from estate recovery under Medicaid program.
Permits child whose parent or guardian is ordered into active military service to remain enrolled in school district where child's parent or guardian resided prior to active military service.
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.
Requires issuance of one free copy of a veteran's death certificate to certain authorized persons upon request.
"Military Dependents Scholarship Fund Act"; provides college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey.
Allows military personnel and veterans to present certain identifying documents in lieu of municipal beach tags to gain admission to certain beaches.
Exempts guide dogs and service dogs temporarily placed in foster homes from dog licensing and registration tag requirements.*
Amends law concerning county and municipal stream cleaning activities.
Creates financial planning assistance program for disabled veterans and their caregivers.
Increases income eligibility cap to receive respite care for certain veterans.*
Prohibits religious entities from engaging in certain practices involving cemeteries, funeral homes and mortuaries, memorials, mausoleums and burial vaults.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain structures; designated as "Korman and Park's Law."
Permits holders of certain alcoholic beverage licenses to be issued amusement game license and updates definition of recognized amusement park.
Expands timeframe for renewal of driver's license, registration, and inspection by military personnel and immediate family members under certain circumstances.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2016.
Appropriates $88,592,361 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Requires warning sign to be posted at pontoon boat rental businesses; designated as "Christopher's Law."
Passed the General Assembly · 5
"Transparency in Government Act"; provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Establishes special license plates for honorably discharged veterans.
Wounded Warrior Caregivers Relief Act; Provides income tax credit to family caregivers of certain armed service members with physical disabilities.
Concerns temporary registration certificates for automobiles.*
Out of committee · 25
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Establishes DOT roadside memorial program for fallen police officers, sheriff's officers, EMS workers, and firefighters; designated as "Patrolman Joseph Wargo's Law.**
Provides protections for individuals with developmental disabilities through accountability and transparency; designated as "Stephen Komninos' Law."
Exempts disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients from payment of municipal parking meter fees when their vehicles bear a disabled veteran's or Purple Heart license plate or placard issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.*
Designates State Route 173 between Clinton and Phillipsburg as "173rd Airborne Brigade Highway."
Prohibits posting, publishing on the Internet, or disclosing certain information regarding law enforcement officers.*
Appropriates $22,463,000 in 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.*
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2015.
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 No. 71 bridge between Borough of Belmar and Borough of Avon-by-the-Sea as "Robert A. Briant, Sr. Memorial Bridge."
Directs Governor to withdraw from compact establishing Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor; dissolves compact and commission; transfers commission's NJ operations to State Police.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Waldwick Borough as "Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway."
Designates State Highway Route No. 35 bridge between Brielle and Point Pleasant Beach as "Veterans of All Wars Memorial Bridge."
Authorizes certain county veteran identification cards to serve as proof of status for veteran designation on driver's license or identification card.
Authorizes optometrists to continue prescribing medications containing hydrocodone.
Designates State Highway Route 17 in Borough of Ramsey as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway."
Designates State Highway Route 15 in Sussex County as "Senator Robert E. Littell Memorial Highway."
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Authorizes mobile electronic waste destruction units to operate without DEP permit.
Permits unregulated solicitation to perform snow shoveling within 24 hours of predicted snowstorm.
Establishes Mike Adler Aphasia Task Force to assess needs of persons with aphasia, and their families, and ensure adequate provision of support services and information thereto.*
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.
Allows businesses due to receive grant under Business Employment Incentive Program to receive tax credit instead of grant.
Authorizes DEP to require public access to waterfront and adjacent shoreline as condition of waterfront development approvals and CAFRA permits.
In committee · 77
"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.
"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.
"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.
Prohibits sex offenders from entering school property.
Requires sex offenders to note criminal status on social network accounts.
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.
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.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes committed during a state of emergency.
Allows Hurricane Sandy victims to claim gross income tax deduction for certain personal casualty losses.
Makes desecration of a military monument a crime of the third degree.
Phases out estate tax over five-year period.
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.
Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Extends time period for municipalities to commit to expend collected development fees and payments-in-lieu of constructing affordable units.
Eliminates duplication and redundancy in registration of certain apartments.
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Authorizes special Support Our Veterans license plate with proceeds supporting New Jersey homeless veteran's centers.
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.
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.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Allows certain drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a service animal or guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
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.
Changes restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under gross income tax, eliminates income cap on exclusion.
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.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Modifies school funding law to incorporate recommendations of DOE's Education Funding Report.
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.
Establishes pilot program to utilize value-based benefit design in SHBP to increase health benefits coverage for certain employees concerning chronic health conditions.
Prohibits PANYNJ from imposing cargo facility charge in certain instances.
Authorizes creation of special Omega Psi Phi license plate.
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires public utilities and cable television companies to accommodate and relocate facilities when necessary for transportation infrastructure projects at direction of DOT.
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
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.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from charging a fee to an applicant solely to correct clerical errors on any application form.
Directs State agencies to take certain action to expedite permitting through use of general permits.
Makes certain technical corrections to the "Revised Uniform Limited Liabiltiy Company Act."
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Revises exemption from "unemployment compensation law" for operators of certain motor vehicles.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Provides courts with sentencing discretion for certain convictions concerning possession of a firearm.
Establishes crime-fraud exception applicable to marital and civil union partnership privilege.
Prohibits student's individualized education program or 504 plan to include use of physical restraints or seclusion.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide greater assistance to certain students with military obligations.
Removes anhydrous ammonia used for refrigeration as substance regulated by "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act"; eliminates DOLWD licensing for operators of refrigerating plants using anhydrous ammonia.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to place security freeze on consumer reports of protected consumers under certain circumstances.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Establishes the State Debt Capacity Advisory Commission.
Establishes air quality standards and requires certificate from Commissioner of Health for operation of indoor ice arenas, indoor motorsports arenas, and special indoor motorsports events.
Permits certain breweries to sell beer at community farm markets.
Authorizes restricted breweries to annually sell up to 1,000 barrels of beer to in-State and out-of-state retailers.
Increases judicial salaries by set amount over multiple years, and thereafter provides for annual salary cost of living adjustment.
Provides governance, transparency, and accountability reforms at PANYNJ.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.