Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Gilbert L. Wilson
Sponsored
Became law1
Authorizes Department of Agriculture to implement mobile fresh produce markets for residents of urban "food desert" communities. *
Out of committee2
Establishes pilot program suspending operations of superintendent and deputy superintendent of elections in certain second class counties.
Establishes New Jersey Food Access Initiative; funds initiative with certain sales tax revenue from urban enterprise zones for five years.
In committee14
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Authorizes payment in lieu of taxes for tax exempt institution of higher education property if 25 percent of property of municipality is tax exempt and 12.5 percent is institution's property.
Requires workers on a school facilities construction project to undergo a criminal background check and mandates such checks for nonpublic school employees.
Provides for uniform basic structure of taxicab fares in certain municipalities.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old; increases fine on parent of truant student; and requires truant student to complete community service requirement.
Establishes a pilot program in DOE to increase the length of the school day and school year and provides tax credits for corporate contributions to fund the program.
Allows private passenger automobile usage information as rating factor in insurance underwriting.
Requires corporations qualifying for State development subsidy grants to repay entire grant amount if corporation fails to uphold grant terms.
Requires each charter school to annually employ teachers who hold special education endorsements.
Authorizes local governments to license the use of, or sell in fee simple or as an easement interest, public roads within a municipality to connect a non-contiguous solar, wind, combined heat and power, or biomass generation facility with an end-use cust
Provides for homestead property tax relief for senior homestead owners with certain gross income based on higher of homestead credit or local school property taxes on first $60,000 of homestead value.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
The "Common Sense Shared Services Act"; concerns shared service agreements and joint contracts for certain local personnel under "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act."
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Establishes New Jersey Food Access Initiative; funds initiative with certain sales tax revenue from urban enterprise zones for fives years.*
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Requires DEP to establish free recreational saltwater fishing registry.
Makes sundry changes to taxicab laws. *
Allows DMVA to fundraise for handicap accessible vehicle purchase.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Extends time period during which municipal fire departments may hire certain laid off firefighters.
Permits certain members of Junior Firemen's Auxiliaries to perform non-hazardous support duties at fire sites.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Expands "Jersey Fresh" program to include "Made With Jersey Fresh" designation of certain baked goods and other food products.
Modifies procedures available under the Drug Offender Restraining Order Act.
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms from property taxation.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by veterans.
Allows the parent of a public school pupil eligible for transportation services to waive pupil's right to those services for the school year.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Creates Veterans Haven Council.
Allows all municipalities to sell and lease unneeded public property for "urban" farming and gardening purposes.
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $7,403,340.
Vetoed · 5
Requires designated fire command structure in municipal emergency operations plans involving mutual aid responses to fires.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
Directs BPU to establish standards concerning local government renewable energy generation demonstration projects utilizing renewable energy technologies. *
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Passed the General Assembly · 15
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Establishes conflict resolution procedures through Department of Agriculture for complaints against existing commercial fishing docks and fish processing facilities at established locations. *
Requires DMVA, through State veterans service offices, to provide surviving beneficiary of deceased service member with comprehensive benefits packet.
Directs DOT to allow wineries to erect tourist-oriented directional signs on roads and highways. *
Authorizes free State park and forest admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service. *
Revises the period of time required for a State or county college faculty member to receive tenure. *
Requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop and distribute a document containing student loan repayment information for school districts and nonpublic high schools to disseminate to students.
Provides immunity to institutions of higher education for food donations.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits for purchase of certain electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. *
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
Replaces plenary winery and farm winery licenses with small winery and wine manufacturing licenses.**
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for fish and wildlife management and conservation.
Establishes "Study Commission on E-Licensing."
Requires each public institution of higher education to post its budget on the institution's website.
Establishes linked deposit program allowing State Treasurer to deposit State funds at below market interest rates with certain banks.
Out of committee · 31
Establishes program for directing motorists to agricultural tourism establishments.*
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Allows students with disabilities to bring service animal to school.*
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Creates the criminal offense of affinity fraud.
Requires certain public officers and employees to reside in State. *
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain violent arrestees.
Establishes "Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program" telephone helpline. *
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Authorizes display of flashing amber warning lights on sanitation vehicles.
Permits sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
"Anti-Snow Dumping Act"; prohibits commercial snowplow operators on private property from depositing snow in public roads, streets, and highways or on public lands. *
Enhances penalty for killing police dog or dog engaged in search and rescue efforts.
Extends alternate route police training certification from three to five years.
Exempts certain files of clinical programs at law schools in State from Open Public Records Act.
Designates entire length of New Jersey Route No. 19 in Passaic County as "Congressman William J. Pascrell, Jr. Highway."
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on fishing license fees.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Provides totally disabled persons with discount on hunting license fees.
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customers.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Appropriates $45 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and $12 million from "2009 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
Appropriates $10,250,780 from 2009 Historic Preservation Fund and 2007 Historic Preservation Fund to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $600,000 from "2009 Historic Preservation Fund" for associated administrative
Appropriates $39 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Provides gross income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans.
Revises the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Concerns appeal of assessment of real property in certain municipalities.
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
"Urban Hope Act"; provides a process to permit authorized entities to build, operate, and manage "renaissance school projects" as public schools in no more than three identified failing districts.
In committee · 26
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Extends eligibility for certain benefits to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Provides post-traumatic stress disorder from military service during combat may be mitigating factor during sentencing.
Establishes process by which a fiduciary is discharged.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Changes "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner" in new sections of law and revisions to current law; requires counties to change terms on website.
Transfers the Div. of Fish and Wildlife and related entities to the Dept. of Agriculture.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present.
Requires certain motor vehicle reinspections be conducted at licensed private inspection facilities.
Establishes pilot project to permit overseas and military voters to vote in certain elections using Internet; makes an appropriation.
Adjusts period triggering abandonment for stored value cards from 2 to 5 years and exempts stored value cards useable solely for telephone services from State's escheatment processes.
Permits voter registration of certain persons at age 17 for voting at next election occurring on or after 18th Birthday.
Requires information on pay checks to be provided on the Internet for State employees who elect direct deposit.
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
Provides for a municipal court community service fee.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for business enterprises that are owned by or that employ veterans.
Authorizes labeling of foods that are free of genetically modified material.
Concerns repayment of unemployment compensation overpayments.
Exempts individuals with certain types of military service from certain fees and continuing education or professional competency requirements.