Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Robert Schroeder
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes professional sports team specialty license plates and dedicates net proceeds to General Fund.
In committee18
Requires that DMV suspension and revocation notices be given by certified mail.
Requires notification of municipalities by public utilities under certain circumstances.
Exempts government-owned property from adverse possession and eliminates statute of limitation period for recovery.
Allows publication of legal advertisements in "free" newspapers.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
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.
Establishes professional sports team specialty license plates and dedicates net proceeds to General Fund.
Requires removal of equipment and markings on certain used police cars.
Repeals Kyleigh's Law decal requirement; requires MVC to provide parents of graduated driver license applicants detailed information about program's conditions and restrictions; imposes penalties on parents when licensees fail to comply.
Establishes $100 to $500 fine for owner of animal which attacks, injures, or otherwise interferes with law enforcement animals, search and rescue dogs, or service dogs; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Requires removal of equipment and markings on certain used emergency vehicles.
Makes humane officers for NJSPCA and county societies eligible for body armor grants.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in companies doing business in North Korea.
Provides sales and use tax rebates for certain purchases made by victims of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
Requires DEP and owners of reservoirs to implement certain flood control measures, and authorizes Office of Emergency Management to order lowering of reservoirs in response to severe weather events.
Requires identifying emblems on certain structures to notify firefighters of solar panels; requires exterior disconnection for solar panels.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the "American Red Cross-NJ Fund".
Requires sports and entertainment facilities to submit emergency operations plan to municipal emergency management coordinator. *
Authorizes the court to include provisions for animals in domestic violence restraining orders.*
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Regulates captive insurers.
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.
Concerns certain taxes and assessments dedicated to the administrative costs of the DOBI.
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Requires DOE to include cheerleaders in the student-athlete head injury safety program.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Establishes new crimes concerning service dogs and upgrades crimes against certain other animals.
Expands parity between certain State-chartered financial institutions, and permits interstate banking by such institutions through de novo branching or expanded authority to acquire existing branches or institutions.
Prohibits access to police vehicle global positioning system.
Out of committee · 10
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide every person engaged in raising a dog for guide or service the right to access public facilities.
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain violent arrestees.
Renames the Division of Insurance Fraud Prevention as the Bureau of Fraud Deterrence in the Department of Banking and Insurance; modifies structure of Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
Enhances penalty for killing police dog or dog engaged in search and rescue efforts.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
In committee · 24
"New Jersey Jobs Protection Act;" requires verification of employment.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency.
Requires third-party disbursement service organization that contracts with local government unit or board of education to post bond against failure to meet obligations.
Regulates sale of olive oil.
Limits scope of inmates whose cases must be reviewed for parole eligibility every three years.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Establishes that only non-violent offenders should have their cases reviewed by the parole board every three years.
Sets State's mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Reduces unemployment benefits and employer unemployment taxes.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Renames the Division of Insurance Fraud Prevention as the Bureau of Fraud Deterrence in the Department of Banking and Insurance; modifies structure of Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
Increases minimum penalty for aggravated manslaughter under certain circumstances.
Establishes Commission on State-owned Historic Sites in Department of State, transfers administration of State-owned historic sites to commission, and transfers historic preservation programs from DEP to Department of State.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Temporarily renames NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury as NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury; establishes Acquired Brain Injury Fund.
Expands DNA database to include samples from certain arrestees; designated "Katie's Law."
Raises maximum eligibility age for exempt fireman certificates and membership in New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Repeals early release program for certain inmates established under P.L.2009, c.330.