Bills in the 2012–2013 Session, General Assembly.
Scott Rudder
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Provides for lower speed limits on certain residential access streets.*
In committee53
Requires person eligible for health care benefits from more than one public entity to choose coverage from only one.
Imposes a two-year moratorium on increases in public utility rates.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Penalizes employment of unauthorized aliens; requires verification of citizenship for employment.
Establishes penalties for drivers who have never obtained driver's license.
Provides enhanced penalties for making a false report to law enforcement authorities in certain circumstances.
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.
Revises procedure for removal of municipal administrator by municipal council; provides for payment of balance of salary to municipal administrator upon removal.
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.
Prohibits certain expenditures in school districts and establishes State aid penalty for violations.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain business telecommuting program development and implementation costs.
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.
Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.
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.
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.
Establishes penalties for employer who allows unauthorized aliens to operate employer owned motor vehicle.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on municipalities and counties.
Expands authorization for use of dealer and temporary license plates and establishes fines for their misuse.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave and deposits moneys from the "Family Temporary Disability Leave Account" into the unemployment compensation fund.
Permits preference in awarding certain public contracts.
Requires a private seller of a used motor vehicle to request identification information from purchaser.
Creates permissive county-based housing assistance program.
Exempts sheltered workshops from disclosure and fingerprinting requirements for certain solid waste operations.
Renames quail management area within Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area as "Dr. A. Hunter Wilcox Field Trial Grounds."
Establishes crime of using blue lights or other insignia on vehicle to impersonate law enforcement authority.
Requires use of pervious concrete by State agencies under certain circumstances.
"Melanie A. Cantwell Law;" requires MVC to issue modified license to person convicted of driving under the influence.
Requires withholding of the State operating aid of any public or independent institution of higher education that enrolls students who are not lawfully present in the U.S.
Prohibits use of emergency warning lights or other insignia to impersonate law enforcement officer; prohibits sale of these lights to unauthorized persons and increases penalties for unauthorized use.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition by more than 2% over the prior academic year.
Restricts occupancy of dwelling unit in age-restricted community to older adults following resale.
Upgrades penalties for assaults committed against process servers and licensed private investigators and detectives.
Provides for voluntary waiver of compensation by members of Senate and General Assembly.
Defines and removes limits on municipal market to affordable programs.
Establishes fine for committing motor vehicle offense that results in collision with bicyclist.
Requires Commissioner of Education to compile and annually update list of all unfunded State and federal mandates on school districts.
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Requires permanent driver's license suspension for third drunk driving offense.
Establishes requirements governing the closing of any State prison.
Eliminates the office of the executive county superintendent of schools and transfers all the duties of that office to the Commissioner of Education.
Exempts, for five years, certain new business activities in pinelands area from compliance with Pinelands Commission development approval process.
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.
Provides corporation business tax credits and gross income tax credits to certain manufacturers who donate green or sustainable products to schools.
Codifies DEP's New Jersey Recycling Awards Program to annually recognize outstanding recycling achievements.
Allows New Jersey Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy to accept alternative proof of education for licensure of current practitioners.
Clarifies that timely deposits and withdrawals constitute sufficient activity to prevent State escheatment of certain private financial accounts and interests.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.
Requires BPU, under certain circumstances, to issue a decision within 180 days after receipt of petition by public utilities to sell certain real property.*
Allows license suspension or revocation of certain health care professionals and medical waste facilities, generators, and transporters for willful illegal or improper medical waste disposal.*
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Revises "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Exempts certain properties acquired by municipalities from county, school, and fire district taxes immediately upon aquisition.*
Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
Provides limited exemption from development regulations to allow certain structures to be raised as high as the highest applicable flood elevation standard.**
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Creates a civil "rape shield" law.
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.**
Revises law concerning ticket sales.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
"Disaster Information Access Act"; requires utility service providers to report severe weather and emergency related service interruptions; directs utility service providers and State Office of Emergency Management to present reported information online
Requires notification of certain domestic violence victims through the Victim Information and Notification Everyday System (VINE).
Requires Department of the Treasury to collect for overpayment of UI benefits.
Replaces NJ Wine Industry Advisory Council with NJ Wine Board and establishes new duties and authorizes revenue-producing activities.
Out of committee · 14
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Tri-County Purple Heart Memorial Highway."
Eliminates DOT approval of municipal traffic calming measures in business districts.
Revises penalties for animal cruelty, increasing degree of certain offenses; designated as Patrick's Law.
Immunizes from civil liability first responders who forcibly enter property to provide emergency assistance.
Requires BPU to establish uniform Statewide reliability standards for electric and gas public utilities.*
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.
Lieutenant Scott Jenkins' Law; creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.*
The "Bio-based Heating Oil Act."
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 $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.
Repeals law providing CAFRA permit exemption for certain grading or excavation of a dune.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2014.
Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.
In committee · 42
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of the murder of a minor under the age of 18 in the course of the commission of a sex crime.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
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.
Adds certain cannabis-like chemical substances to list of controlled dangerous substances.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires motorists operating vehicles to maintain minimum three foot safety distance when overtaking bicycles.
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.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
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 priority consideration, by State, of permit applications by counties and municipalities with 10 or more shared services.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from certain drivers involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Prohibits sale of emergency warning lights to unauthorized motorists.
Increases penalties for unauthorized display or use of emergency warning lights.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes penalties for manufacture, purchase or possession of certain keys.
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 for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective and appointive positions.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Provides for public comment period at certain sessions of each house of the Legislature.
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.
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.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Prohibits terminal leave compensation for local government employees.
Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave.
Requires condominium and homeowners' associations to provide information to federal home loan insurance providers at no cost to potential buyers.
Establishes criminal penalties for killing, injuring or interfering with a guide dog; designated as "Dusty's Law."
"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 public utility from filing rate increase petition under certain circumstances.
Increases insurance requirements on operators of autobuses; requires driver of autobus to possess commercial driver license.
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.