Bills in the 2014–2015 Session, General Assembly.
Christopher J. Brown
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes fine for committing motor vehicle offense that results in collision with bicyclist.
In committee29
Prohibits the construction of school facilities on a contaminated or remediated site.
Prohibits sale of emergency warning lights to unauthorized motorists.
Increases penalties for unauthorized display or use of emergency warning lights.
Requires person eligible for health care benefits from more than one public entity to choose coverage from only one.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Provides enhanced penalties for making a false report to law enforcement authorities in certain circumstances.
Prohibits implementation of formula-based rates for sewerage authorities and electric, gas and water public utilities.
Revises procedure for removal of municipal administrator by municipal council; provides for payment of balance of salary to municipal administrator upon removal.
Increases penalties for luring a child and kidnapping.
Establishes crime for adult to misrepresent age in order to join youth serving organization.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Exempts sheltered workshops from disclosure and fingerprinting requirements for certain solid waste operations.
Establishes crime of using blue lights or other insignia on vehicle to impersonate law enforcement authority.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 2% over the prior academic year.
Defines and removes limits on municipal market to affordable programs.
Eliminates the office of the executive county superintendent of schools and transfers all the duties of that office to the Commissioner of Education.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Exempts, for five years, certain new business activities in pinelands area from compliance with Pinelands Commission development approval process.
Requires public utilities to mail customers detailed explanation of rate settlement agreements prior to final BPU vote.
Requires public utilities to provide customers notice of request for increase in rates; revises requirements related to hearings on proposed rate increases.
Gives priority status for connection of solar photovoltaic systems for customer-generators who are public entities.
Prohibits smoking on property acquired or developed for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units or nonprofit organizations using State funds.
Prohibits smoking at State parks, forests, beaches, and wildlife management areas.
Allows New Jersey Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy to accept alternative proof of education for licensure of current practitioners.
Exempts certain surviving spouses and surviving civil union partners of certain disabled veterans from components of the realty transfer fee.
Provides counties and municipalities with additional discretion when leasing public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Transfers records management functions of Division of Archives and Records Management from Department of State to Department of Treasury; transfers State Records Committee from Department of State to Department of Treasury.
Requires public utilities to provide priority service to public schools, private schools, and public safety agencies.
Limits authority of court to order one or both parents to pay post-high school education expenses on behalf of a child if both parents agree that they will not pay such expenses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" imposes mandatory term of imprisonment; provides for negotiated reduction of mandatory term under certain circumstances.
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.
Extends protections of the new vehicle "lemon law" to new farm tractors purchased or leased in New Jersey.*
"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.
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.
Vetoed · 3
Requires an annual State debt affordability analysis be included in the State Debt Report.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Concerns registration of contractors and sets criteria for responsible bidders in public work.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Exempts veterans' organizations from nonprofit corporation annual report filing fee.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive or reimburse application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
Out of committee · 4
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.
Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create Gold Star Parent identification card.
In committee · 38
"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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Establishes task force to study issues facing returning members of the United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard and make recommendations on how State should address issues.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Prohibits public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Creates exemption from certain MVC fees for prisoners of war.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of services performed to certain prewritten computer software delivered electronically.
Replaces NJ Wine Industry Advisory Council with NJ Wine Board and establishes new duties and authorizes revenue-producing activities.
Provides for use of alternative dispute resolution to settle disagreements between State agencies concerning public works projects.
Requires use of pervious concrete by State agencies under certain circumstances.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Requires BPU to issue written decision concerning utility rate increase approvals to public via its website.
Revises requirements related to public hearings on proposed public utility rate increases.
Codifies DEP's New Jersey Recycling Awards Program to annually recognize outstanding recycling achievements.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain employers engaged in farming operations.
Clarifies law regarding local public contract specifications and leases of public land for agricultural or horticultural use.
Establishes permanent police and fire interest arbitration cap.
Makes various changes to interest arbitration procedures; repeals sunset provision.
Excludes certain Medicaid income from gross income tax.
Increases filing threshold and applicable exclusion amount for the New Jersey estate tax to $5 million over period of five years.
Revises requirements and training standards for first responders under New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1987.
Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Prohibits MVC from imposing duplicate license or identification card fee and digitized picture fee if duplicate is requested to reflect change in organ donor status.
Provides credits under corporation business tax and gross income tax for qualified wages of certain disabled veterans.
Provides gross income tax credit for income derived from certain live performances contracted for and rendered by A-list performing artists within the Atlantic City Tourism District on a recurring basis and within the State.
Requires reimbursement of certain Casino Reinvestment Development Authority grants and payment of those grants to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Requires certain funds paid to CRDA to be awarded to Atlantic County for property tax relief.
Regulates the authority of the court to make provision for the educational expenses of an unemancipated child in certain instances involving child support.
Concerns disclosure requirements for certain propane sales.
Gives priority to applicants for firearms purchaser identification card and permits to purchase handguns when domestic violence restraining order is in effect.
Links police and fire interest arbitration base salary cap to property tax levy; makes cap permanent.