Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Scott Rudder
Sponsored
In committee38
Exempts renewable energy systems from real property taxation and from fees for municipal construction permits.
Prohibits release on bail of persons in the country illegally who are charged with crimes of the first or second degree or with two prior criminal convictions.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Permits preference in awarding certain local public contracts.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Revises requirements for distribution of State aid under "Special Municipal Aid Act."
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit customers; adds new penalties for violations.
Prohibits certain expenditures in school districts and establishes State aid penalty for violations.
Requires State agencies to adopt telecommuting programs and reports to be made on implementation of these programs.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain business telecommuting program development and implementation costs.
"Safe Places Safe Kids Act;" makes it a crime to commit certain offenses in school zones and near playgrounds.
Invalidates any nominating petition filed after deadline therefor; voids any attempt by candidate to petition court to accept validity of petition filed after deadline.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates if vacancy occurs after 48th and before 14th day before general election, with certain exceptions; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before general election.
Delays implementation of paid family leave for two years.
"Zero-Based Budget Act;" requires State Treasurer to develop and integrate certain zero-based budgeting practices and procedures in preparation and submission of Governor's annual budget message.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for retired veterans living in NJ and their immediate family members.
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.
Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping for certain retired military personnel.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
Creates New Jersey Invest in Children License Plate.
Revises requirements for distribution of State aid under "Special Municipal Aid Act."
Expands the list of crimes that may not be expunged.
Increases penalties for luring a child and kidnapping.
Establishes crime for adult to misrepresent age in order to join youth serving organization.
Provides for use of alternative dispute resolution to settle disagreements between State agencies concerning public works projects.
Expands number of State officials required to reside in State.
Provides 10% reduction in compensation for members of Legislature.
Increases the penalty for certain gang related crimes.
Provides that minimum local tax levy requirement will only be applicable to certain school districts.
Provides for voluntary waiver of compensation by members of Senate and General Assembly.
Requires a private seller of a used motor vehicle to request identification information from purchaser.
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Establishes penalties for employer who allows unauthorized aliens to operate employer owned motor vehicle.
Requires payment from New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund for costs of installation and maintenance of point of entry water treatment systems.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Requires lobbyists and governmental affairs agents to file annually with ELEC information on certain for profit and not-for-profit activities.
Protects municipalities that have complied with affordable housing obligations from being required to provide more than their fair share.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Imposes moratorium on harvest and possession of horseshoe crabs.
Exempts Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans' Memorial Cemetery from law requiring reforestation plans.
Permits municipalities and counties to make certain traffic engineering decisions without DOT approval.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Abolishes Department of Personnel; transfers functions, powers, and duties primarily to new Civil Service Commission in but not of Department of Labor and Workforce Development; creates Civil Service Reform Task Force. *
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Creates Solar and Wind Energy Commission.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Commission on Higher Education to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom.
Increases permitted axle weights for certain omnibuses with the approval of the Commissioner of Transportation.
Makes sundry changes to limousine laws.
Vetoed · 1
Lengthens service life of certain school buses to 15 years. **
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around occupied building.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Prohibits manufacture or sale of reflective glass beads with high arsenic content; prohibits DOT and two State toll road authorities from using paint mixed with reflective glass beads for roadway markings.
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Clarifies penalties for trespassers who damage farmland and crops with all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools. *
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Makes it a crime to communicate or transmit sexually suggestive communications to a minor under certain circumstances.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain minimum three foot safety distance when overtaking bicycles.
Out of committee · 20
Establishes criteria municipalities and counties are to consider when establishing speed limits. *
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside. *
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. *
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Appropriates $54,917,725 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Provides manufacturers a single sales fraction corporation business tax income allocation formula.
Increases carryover period of net operating loss deduction under corporation business tax. *
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Establishes system for the issuance of special vehicle registration plate decals and medallions and provides for the discontinuance of certain special license plates. *
Provides penalties for sexually offensive communication or harassing communication through social networking websites. *
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $120,123,420 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $19,919,700 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,557,201 from various historic preservation funds to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $574,805 from certain historic preservation bond funds for associated administrative expenses.
Establishes additional investigative and enforcement powers in Division of Consumer Affairs to deter individuals from engaging in unauthorized practice of professions and occupations.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
In committee · 85
Provides that PERS member holding more than one position covered by PERS has to designate one position as the basis for enrollment.
Prohibits elected officials and public employees from enrolling for health benefits with more than one public entity; provides civil action for treble expenses by public entity providing additional coverage.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Prohibits enrollment in PERS of public employee who is also public contractor; requires member to designate only one position as basis of enrollment.
Limits payment to $15,000 for accumulated sick leave upon retirement for local public employees.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Increases enrollment threshold in PERS and TPAF to $10,000; requires assessment of adding annual minimum hour requirement to qualify for service credit.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Restricts public employer health care benefits to full-time employees and appointees.
Prohibits vaccinating children under three and pregnant women with vaccines containing mercury above certain level.
Creates "Green E-ZPass" discounts for certain fuel-efficient vehicles.
Revises membership and duties of Pension and Health Benefits Review Commission.
Authorizes creation of local gypsy moth control commissions.
Upgrades penalties for assaults committed against process servers and licensed private investigators and detectives.
Removes proposed exemption from State's public records act for certain domestic nonprofit corporations under certain circumstances.
Reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 10 for all State and local government employees.
Imposes new criteria of $18,000 compensation and 30 hours weekly for TPAF and PERS membership as well as for TPAF and PERS credit after break in service.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
Limits payment upon retirement to $10,000 to State and local public officers and employees for accumulated sick leave.
Provides New Jersey gross income tax credit for purchase of certain fuel efficient ultra low emission motor vehicles.
Eliminates PERS credit and health care benefits for appointees to State or local agency, board, commission, authority or instrumentality with annual compensation less than $20,000 and weekly hours fewer than 35.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Prohibits use of hands-free wireless telephones and electronic communication devices while providing instruction in the operation of a motor vehicle.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Requires prospectively that public employees, appointees and elected officials work 35 or more hours per week with annual compensation equivalent to 1820 times State minimum wage for health care benefits.
Provides for priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2008"; authorizes issuance of $300 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Requires State to purchase certain vehicle tires and motor oils to minimize fuel usage.
Requires permanent driver's license suspension for third drunk driving offense.
Provides temporary period for making certain estate tax refund claims and directs notice be given to certain affected parties.
Requires motor vehicle dealer to pay off loan on trade-in within seven days.
Requires person eligible for health care benefits from more than one public entity to choose coverage from only one.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding local appointive office or position; removes provision allowing current members holding more than one elective position as of February 1, 2008 to continue to do so if service continuous.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Requires proposed State budgets be balanced against recurring revenues and places related constraints on budget messages.
Requires NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency to create program to assist municipalities in purchasing foreclosed properties for affordable housing use.
Allows corporation business tax credit to foster donation of foreclosed real property to municipalities for use as affordable housing.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Provides sales tax exemption for sales of prepared foods.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
Provides procedures for crediting certain dwellings used by agricultural laborers in determination of municipality's fair share housing obligation.
" 'Invest in New Jersey First' Act;" requires preference in awarding certain contracts for critical infrastructure projects.
Defines and removes limits on municipal market to affordable programs.
Requires notice to consumers of availability of pet health insurance.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Creates feral cat public education program.
Creates Feral Cat Health Commission.
Authorizes creation of local animal health and population control commissions.
Exempts provisional driver licensees participating in Safe Rides programs from passenger and hour restrictions.
Imposes a two-year moratorium on increases in public utility rates.
Offers surviving spouse of TPAF or PERS member with 25 or more years of service choice of deferred pension instead of current return of contributions and non-contributory life insurance.
Provides for public comment period at certain sessions of each house of the Legislature.
Permits approval of certain regional contribution agreements through December 31, 2009.
Establishes 18-month moratorium on promulgation of new administrative rules and issuance of new policy circular letters by State agencies.
Permits certain portion of municipal development trust funds to be spent on housing affordability assistance to veterans.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Establishes task force to study treatment of veterans diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in judicial proceedings.
Establishes requirements governing the closing of any State prison.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Authorizes the executive county superintendent of schools to reduce the required local share of a non-operating district.
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.
Penalizes employment of unauthorized aliens; requires verification of citizenship for employment.
Establishes penalties for drivers who have never obtained driver's license.
Requires MVC to provide itemization of motor vehicle registration and driver's license and permit fees.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Provides enhanced penalties for making a false report to law enforcement authorities in certain circumstances.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed psychiatric treatment of veterans.
Requires Commissioner of Education to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on school districts.
Restricts certain former DEP employees from employment with a permit applicant for one year after termination of DEP employments.
Prohibits implementation of formula-based rates for sewerage authorities and electric, gas and water public utilities.
Extends requirement of wastewater management planning agencies to establish or update wastewater management plans, and extends validity of sewer service areas and wastewater service areas, until April 7, 2011.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.
Revises procedure for removal of municipal administrator by municipal council; provides for payment of balance of salary to municipal administrator upon removal.