Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Celeste M. Riley
Sponsored
Became law1
Concerns exemptions from permits for certain agricultural activities under "Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act". *
Passed the General Assembly5
Requires law enforcement officers to search domestic violence restraining order registry upon conducting an arrest.
Permits a witness who is under the age of 16 or a victim of any age to testify by closed circuit television in prosecutions for crimes or offenses involving domestic violence.
Requires Division of Travel and Tourism to prepare and implement annual advertising and promotion plan.
Directs Department of Law and Public Safety to engage in Internet privacy and social media responsibility campaign.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish a communication and incentive plan to encourage re-enrollment in college; requires Statewide reverse transfer agreement.
Out of committee18
Revises penalty for destruction of, or damage to, trees, saplings, shrubs or other plants; repeals current law thereon.
Establishes offense of criminal mischief committed on historical sites.
Enhances penalties for false incrimination and making fictitious reports.*
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to collect and report employment data for certain graduates.
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Prohibits use of tobacco products on the grounds of any public or private institution of higher education.
Stipulates that retail motor fuel dealers shall not be responsible for certain fees associated with credit, debit and rewards cards.
Requires reporting of the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Requires casino licensee to install and maintain system of security cameras in every stairwell throughout casino hotel facility.
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Requires high school students to be assessed using college placement cut scores to determine readiness for college-level course work, and Commissioner of Education to develop plan to improve college and career counseling for students.
Requires development of longitudinal data system that maintains individuals' data from preschool through entry into workforce.
Requires all school districts and public institutions of higher education to offer dual enrollment programs to provide college-level instruction to high school students and requires these students be charged a reduced tuition rate.
Prohibits employment discrimination based on applicant employment status.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires State Board of Education to develop rigorous computer science curriculum guidelines and school districts to incorporate those guidelines in grades six through 12.
Requires DOT to include certain tourist-oriented facilities in New Jersey Delaware Bayshore in Tourist Oriented Directional Sign Program.
Clarifies provisions with regard to pet trusts.
In committee42
Provides procedure for municipality acquiring school property from non-operating school district following merger to extinguish restrictive deed covenant.
Requires correspondence or notice by public entity contain citations of any appropriate statutes, ordinances, or resolutions.
Requires health care professionals to notify patients of end of health benefits coverage during course of treatment in certain circumstances.
Allows fees to be suspended or vacated for certain persons sentenced to labor assistance programs as alternative to incarceration.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Creates cooperative farm winery licenses.
Requires carriers to clarify whether medically necessary procedures are covered benefits and remit certain payments to hospitals for services rendered.
Requires DHS to dispose of newborn screening specimens within 60 days after testing.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Permits wineries to sell wine at certain farm markets.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides municipalities with discretion to restrict hours for sale of package goods.
Requires certificate of need for hospital-based basic obstetric and pediatric services.
Creates "Inmate Community Service Program" in DOC.
Equalizes standing of private and public colleges before land use agencies.
Requires telecommunications companies to provide prorated refunds for service outages of longer than 24 hours.
Provides that Probation Division would file child support judgment as a lien only when amount of judgment equals or exceeds amount of child support due for a one-month period.
Establishes new crime of domestic violence committed in the presence of a child.
Includes payday lending as a violation of the consumer fraud act.
Requires wireless telecommunications carriers to locate personal wireless service facilities on State or municipal property, when permissible.
Establishes farmland preservation inheritance tax deduction program within Department of Agriculture.
Requires school districts to pay advanced placement examination fees for certain students and the State to reimburse school districts for the cost.
Requires MVC to provide Gold Star Family decals to certain family members of armed services members who died while on active duty.
Provides immunity from civil liability for person who sends text message to motor vehicle operator.
Establishes "New Jersey Works Dual Enrollment Option Program."
Provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant woman during crisis.
Requires mailing of sample ballot for fire district elections.
Establishes pilot program in DCF providing animal-assisted therapy to victims of childhood violence, trauma, or children with behavioral health care needs; appropriates $100,000.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
Requires complaint against juvenile taken into custody be filed within 24 hours.
Establishes electronic reporting system for purchasers of precious metals or jewelry.
Removes statutory limitation on number of permits that may be issued by Division of Fish and Wildlife for the taking of beaver.
Appropriates $3.5 million to Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory improvements project.
Requires DOT and NJTA to conduct study on options to reduce traffic congestion on Interstate 295 and rectify underutilization of NJ Turnpike by motorists traveling in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties.
Establishes the New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program.
Requires certain companies providing local telephone service within 10-mile radius of nuclear electric generating facility to adhere to certain service quality standards.
Requires school districts to ensure that certain student information stored on an electronic data processing system is backed up daily, and that teachers have access to the information for at least150 days.
Requires public schools to allow certain students not enrolled in the school to participate in interscholastic athletics.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances to require certain owners to pay for continuous police patrol of residential rental multiple dwellings located in high-crime areas.
Requires prison host benefit payments to certain municipalities.
Makes Fiscal Year 2015 General Fund appropriation of $250,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.
Establishes NJ Commission on Irish and Irish-American Cultural and Educational Programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Requires president of public institution of higher education to regularly report on-campus criminal and fire events to the institution's governing board.
Enhances penalties for false incrimination and making fictitious reports.*
Establishes "College Affordability Study Commission" to examine issues and develop recommendations to increase the affordability of higher education in New Jersey.
Requires DCA to post on its website information about inspection reports for residential health care facilities, boarding homes, and emergency shelters for the homeless, and requires notifications to DHS and counties.*
Requires DOE to review Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure that they incorporate modern computer science standards where appropriate.**
Stipulates that retail motor fuel dealers shall not be responsible for certain fees associated with credit, debit and rewards cards.
Vetoed1
Prohibits employment discrimination based on applicant employment status.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Requires Department of Agriculture to post on its website certain information regarding State's farm to school program.
Reestablishes certain historic driving privileges afforded holders of agricultural driver's licenses in operating farm equipment and vehicles.*
Designates May of each year "Military Appreciation Month" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Encourages the establishment of "breakfast after the bell" programs in school districts, public school, and nonpublic schools participating in the federal school breakfast program.*
Permits alternate members of county planning boards to vote in place of any absent public member.
Requires hiring preference for veterans seeking position with State Police.
"Art Therapist Licensing Act."
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support farm to school and school gardens programs.
Allows contributions to "New Jersey Farm to School Program.*
Establishes "Best in New Jersey 'Farm to School' Awards Program" to annually recognize the best farm to school programs implemented by a school or school district.
Directs the Dept. of Agriculture to establish a clearinghouse website for farmers to offer produce and dairy products for use by school breakfast programs, school lunch programs, and food banks.*
Requires State Employment and Training Commission to prepare annual report on State workforce.
Provides for licensure of chiropractic assistants.
Establishes Equipment Loan Program in NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust; changes submission and approval requirements for financial plan.
Allows gross income taxpayers to use their gross income tax returns to make voluntary contributions to ALS Association for services to New Jersey residents.
Requires New Jersey School Report Card to include indicators of student career readiness.
Requires preparation programs for teachers and school counselors to include programming to improve student career readiness.*
Establishes four-year County Vocational School District Partnership Grant Program in DOE.
Allows school districts and requires public colleges to enter into dual enrollment agreements to provide college-level instruction to high school students through courses offered on college or high school campuses.*
Provides that if a career and technical education program of a school district is taught in an industry setting, off-site location will be exempt from certain State regulations.*
Extends economic recovery term under "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act."
Allows charitable assets set aside from the sale of a nonprofit hospital to a for-profit entity to be allocated to a successor nonprofit hospital acquiring the for-profit hospital.
Vetoed · 10
Requires school buildings to be equipped with emergency light and panic alarm linked to local law enforcement.
Allows municipalities to designate redevelopment entities and certain non-profits to act as land bank entities.*
Establishes New Jersey Council on Responsible Fatherhood and Responsible Fatherhood Fund.
Requires Department of Health to publish informational guidelines on the inspection, identification, evaluation, and abatement of mold.*
Enacts the "Reader Privacy Act."
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Establishes State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and Energy Bank within New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust.
Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Provides State aid for certain adult education programs.
Passed the General Assembly · 28
Requires Adjutant General of DMVA to issue State flag to resident enrolling in federal service academy.
Establishes task force to study issues related to the establishment of full-day kindergarten.
Concerns membership and management of homeowners associations.
Establishes the "New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act."*
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to prospective students certain cost, loan, and debt information in financial aid shopping sheet.
Requires mail-in ballot applications be available at polling places on election day for voting in future elections; requires establishment of Intrnet webpages to provide instructions for completing mail-in ballot applications.*
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and cyber-harassment under certain circumstances.*
Imposes moratorium on DHS transitions and transfers of certain individuals with developmental disabilities to new residential placements until certain conditions are met. *
Authorizes prescribed burning in certain circumstances.
Establishes certain requirements for a State entity planting vegetation in certain circumstances; provides for NJ businesses providing such vegetation.**
Provides that President of Municipal Clerks' Association of New Jersey and one additional public member serve as members of Government Records Council.
Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Exempts nursing mothers from jury duty.
Establishes "Task Force To Review Residential Community Release Programs" to review this State's halfway houses and make recommendations concerning security and inmate services.
Provides that no more than 120 credits will be required for baccalaureate degree awarded by a public institution and no more than 60 credits for an associate degree.
Requires independent colleges report certain consumer information on their websites; requires information on remedial instruction to be provided by certain colleges; directs how remedial education is delivered at four-year public and independent colleges.
Requires county colleges to develop plan to achieve three-year graduation rate of at least 33 percent for full-time degree-program students by 2019-2020 academic year.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish common course numbering system for public institutions of higher education.*
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from increasing New Jersey resident undergraduate tuition and fees for nine continuous semesters following student's initial enrollment.*
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to study prevalence, cost, and quality of certain on-line courses compared to traditional classroom courses offered by institutions of higher education.*
Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans and permits the institutions to only offer meal plans in the form of a spending allowance.
Requires closure of a four-year public institution of higher education that fails to achieve a six-year graduation rate of at least 50% for full-time undergraduate students.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Requires New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to annually prepare report on debt held by public institutions of higher education.
Requires State Auditor to conduct audit of fees charged by public institutions of higher education.
Requires certain undergraduate students to file degree plan and requires public institutions of higher education to develop pathway systems to graduation.
Requires annual notice of assessment on property to contain bolded notice of filing deadline for appeal.
Out of committee · 28
Establishes process for consideration of offers from short sale buyers during residential mortgage foreclosures.
Establishes the four-year "New Jersey Innovation Inspiration School Grant Pilot Program" in DOE to fund non-traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.*
Establishes microenterprise training program and assistance for micro entrepreneurs.
Establishes the "Mortgage Assistance Pilot Program."
Creates "New Jersey Life Sciences Internship Challenge" program.
Extends "Right to Farm" protection to certain agricultural tourism acttivities and events; requires adoption of agricultural management practices therefor; permits special occasion events that promote agricultural tourism conducted at wineries under certa
Requires BPU to establish uniform Statewide reliability standards for electric and gas public utilities.*
Requires paint producers to implement or participate in paint stewardship program.*
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Requires DEP to conduct vibration analysis along routes for disposal of dredged material from Delaware River.
Requires county elections board give notice by Internet posting or mail when polling place location changes unexpectedly before election; requires board develop plan for polling place change notification.**
Prohibits treatment, discharge, disposal, application to roadway, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings or other byproducts from natural gas exploration or production using hydraulic fracturing.*
Establishes one-year moratorium on replacement of copper-based landline telephone service with wireless telephone service; requires BPU to report to Governor and Legislature. *
"New Jersey Tuition Equality for America's Military (NJTEAM) Act;" provides in-State tuition at New Jersey public institutions of higher education to military veterans.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Requires Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with various entities, to design a manufacturing career pathway to provide students with skills necessary to gain employment in manufacturing sector.
Directs Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to establish a pilot program to assist certain unemployed and underemployed individuals to complete a career and technical education certificate program in 12 months.*
Establishes "Higher Education Manufacturing Grant Program" for public institutions of higher education to establish or expand programs in manufacturing fields.
Creates the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Council.
Creates gallery space on State House grounds for display of certain art works.
Exempts certain temporary farm structures from permit and transition area requirements of "Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act."
Requires disclosure of all fees and charges associated with prepaid debit cards on the package of such cards.
Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*
The "New Jersey Intern Protection Act"; provides legal protections and remedies for persons engaged in internships with employers.
Provides for licensure of ambulatory care facilities to provide integrated primary care services including behavioral health care.
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
In committee · 96
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires compounding pharmacies be accredited by Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes program authorizing lease of historic buildings and structures in State parks, forests, and wildlife management areas.
Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to provide information on life insurance plans to borrowers of student loans and requires authority to contract with life insurance company to offer policies to borrowers.
Requires Secretary of State to establish secure Internet website for online voter registration; authorizes use of digitized signatures from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission's database.
Requires pawnbrokers to file transaction reports online.
Requires independent State authority member to disclose contractual relationship between authority and authority member's relatives.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Port Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River and Bay Authority commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Imposes restrictions concerning Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission commissioners, officers, and employees regarding employment, gifts, and compensation.
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish performance-based funding plans for public institutions of higher education.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
Clarifies that criminal impersonation committed by any means, including electronic communications or Internet website, shall be subject to criminal penalties.
"Naturopathic Doctors Licensing Act."
Extends period for requested medical exam for disability benefits under PFRS to every two years until 55 years of age.
Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.
"Assistance to Firefighters' Families Act"; doubles State survivor pension amounts for beneficiaries of certain deceased volunteer emergency service providers; requires municipal life insurance and burial expenses for volunteer firefighters; permits fire
Makes a $3 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.
Allows school districts to enter into school construction public-private partnership agreements with private entities.
Creates the "Mold Safe Housing Act."
Requires certain electric public utilities to file emergency response plan with Board of Public Utilities.
Requires certain energy tax receipts to be paid directly to municipalities.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor.
Eliminates the board of trustees of Rutgers University and provides that its powers will be exercised by the board of governors of the university.
Allows monies statutorily dedicated to standardbred or thoroughbred horse racing purses to be used for benefit of horse racing industry, subject to agreement between permitholder and representative horsemen's organization.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund."
Requires retail store operators to establish in-store recycling programs that provide opportunities for customers to return clean plastic carryout bags.
Prohibits PANYNJ from imposing cargo facility charge in certain instances.
Permits qualifying patients to possess and use medical marijuana legally obtained from another jurisdiction; extends State medical marijuana laws to qualifying out-of-State patients; expands ability of parents to serve as primary caregiver to minor childr
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 each school district to offer a summer payment plan for school district employees.
Provides certain exemptions from sales and use tax for hybrid electric vehicles, compressed natural gas vehicles, and equipment used for refueling or recharging certain vehicles.
Requires school districts to take all steps to ensure adequate security for students when school is open as a polling place and provides that school district costs shall be deducted from the itemized list of expenses submitted by the county board of elect
Authorizes special Ancient Order of Hibernians license plate.
Encourages development of electric vehicle charging stations in transportation projects.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $2,700,000 to DCA for Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Increase gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable years 2011 and 2012 and expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers beginning in 2011.
Establishes New Jersey Food Access Initiative; funds initiative with certain sales tax revenue from urban enterprise zones for five years.
Provides a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases made for undergraduate education.
Requires Commission on Higher Education to develop accountability and transparency standards for public research institutions and State colleges.
Requires New Jersey Transit to offer discount passes to all New Jersey higher education students.
Revises the period of time required for a State college faculty member to receive tenure.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Creates matching grant program for small businesses engaged in life sciences.
Encourages local unit sharing of services; makes appropriations.
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Secretary of Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.
"Consumer Credit Fairness Act."
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Applies provisions of "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act" to proprietary schools and limits eligibility for State student assistance programs to students enrolled in certain proprietary schools.
Requires toll road authorities to award contracts for motor fuel services on toll roads to retail dealers who dispense motor fuel provided by suppliers with refineries located in this State.
Requires certain user fees for the provision of traditional municipal services to be included within the 2% municipal and county property tax levy cap.
Restricts bail for persons charged with violent crimes; establishes bail alternatives for non-violent offenders.
Expands notification when an offender is released from custody or transferred within the criminal justice system.
Provides that certain funds in Casino Simulcasting Special Fund will be paid to Atlantic City Racetrack and prescribes use thereof with certain amounts remaining paid to other racetracks.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Removes plenary retail distribution license limit for certain stores.
Provides credit against ambulatory care facility assessment liability for value of unreimbursed care provided to hospital charity care patients.
Appropriates $20,000,000 from General Fund to the Department of State for travel and tourism advertising and promotion to communicate that New Jersey's tourism destinations are operational despite damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Tuition Waiver Program."
The New Jersey Battlefield to Boardroom Act; Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for qualified wages of certain veterans.
Requires establishment of and compliance with infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards for hospital construction work.
Mandates "breakfast after the bell" program in schools with significant low income population.
"New Jersey Housing Assistance for Veterans Act," establishes pilot program to assist certain veterans with housing modification and rehabilitation; appropriates $5 million.
Permits wineries to operate salesrooms in certain municipalities with restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Requires school districts to employ a certain number of student assistance coordinators based on district enrollment.
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Establishes "County Tourism Incentive Grant Fund" within Department of Treasury to provide funding for grants to counties to support tourism advertising and promotion.
Requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbooks available to students at no charge and requires buyback of used textbooks at 50 percent of purchase price.
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain student loan interest.
Prohibits a person from charging a fee to stop publishing personal identifying information obtained through the criminal justice system.
Restores State fiscal year 2011 reductions to Garden State Preservation Trust payments in lieu of taxes; appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service, and their immediate family members.
Clarifies that only products assembled in U.S. meet "Buy-American" standards of public contracts laws.
Establishes a manufacturing reinvestment account program to incentivize capital investment and workforce training in New Jersey with income tax rate reductions, deferrals, and accelerated deductions.
Provides corporation business tax and the gross income tax credits for insourcing business to New Jersey.
Creates pilot program to fund adult education programs for residents of certain communities.
Provides for coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid.
Extends from 60 days to 120 days amount of time for municipality to refund excess property taxes paid following successful property assessment appeal.
Modifies education requirement for licensure by the NJ State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.
Requires regulation of autocabs in certain cities.
Requires distribution of homestead benefits on or before October 31 of the State fiscal year during which an appropriation is made.
Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.
Makes FY 2015 supplemental appropriation to DHS for $5 million for substance abuse prevention, and requires substance abuse prevention programs to be evidence-based.
Permits agriculture-related events on preserved farmland.
Filed · 1
Partially repeals prohibitions against sports wagering at racetracks and casinos in New Jersey.