Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Domenick DiCicco Jr.
Sponsored
In committee31
Requires municipality to comply with State audit prior to receiving State aid.
"Property Assessment Appeal Transparency Act"; revises content of required annual notification of real property assessment.
Requires municipal governing bodies and boards of education to provide sufficient time for all requested public comment at open public meetings.
Requires local unit to make adopted budget available for inspection by public in office, without written request, and to make copies available at reasonable fee.
Prohibits candidate's relative from serving as candidate's campaign treasurer.
Prohibits dual elective office holding and holding of elective office and public office or position.
Makes various changes to "Uniform Recall Election Law."
Allows victims and relatives to witness parole hearings.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from hiring governmental affairs agents.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to withhold State aid to school district that fails to address repeat audit findings.
Requires hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.
Makes part-time elected officials and commission and authority appointees ineligible for PERS, DCRP and health benefits; requires pension credit forfeiture if employed former personal services contractor falsely certifies position as full-time.
Requires all State entities to collect information and funds electronically.
Expands type of school bus driver required to undergo DOE criminal record check process and requires matching of data files to ensure school bus drivers remain qualified pursuant to records maintained by DOE and MVC.
Establishes net operating loss carryback deduction under corporation business tax.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion; requires clawback of forfeited credits.
Bars certain employees of certain public agencies from participating in PERS; repeals law permitting PERS and TPAF members on leave who work for labor organization to purchase pension credit.
Directs transfer of up to $22 million to support Main Street Business Assistance Program and provides for program's continuation; confers general power on EDA to collect certain fees.
Allows certain projects in municipalities adjacent to one or more UEZ municipalities and a county where a reduced sales tax is assessed on retail sales to qualify for NJ Redevelopment Authority financing assistance.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Eliminates power of DRPA to finance economic development; imposes restrictions concerning DRPA financing, charitable contributions, commissioners, and employees regarding employment, and conflicts of interest; imposes requirements concerning DRPA audits,
Creates identification cards for certain veterans.
Requires certain increases in compensation for elected municipal officials to be reviewed by Local Finance Board.
Authorizes certain disbursements from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for transportation of low-level radioactive waste to appropriate disposal facilities.
Establishes special license plates to bring awareness to breast cancer.
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Requires Chief Technology Officer in Office of Information Technology to collect and make publicly available online fiscal data of State departments, independent State authorities, and interstate authorities.
Permits EDA to provide financial assistance to businesses that relocate to NJ from sites in Asia.
Allows qualifying counties and municipalities to become "agriculture development counties" and "agriculture development municipalities" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture and relat
Requires DOC to transport inmate to county where crime was committed upon release from correctional facility.
Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Directs the Department of Education to develop a school district dating violence policy and requires school districts to provide dating violence education in the health curriculum.
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.
Establishes professional sports team specialty license plates and dedicates net proceeds to General Fund.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Revises provisions of "Franchise Practices Act" relating to motor vehicle franchises.
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.
Vetoed · 3
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula and establishes airline-specific sales fraction.
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Establishes crime of initiating a false "Amber Alert."
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Out of committee · 19
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Requires certain public officers and employees to reside in State. *
Makes position of treasurer of school moneys optional.
Requires all wireless telephones and electronic communication devices issued by public entities to be activated to receive Amber Alerts.
"Opportunity Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury providing tax credits to entities contributing to scholarships for low-income children. *
"Kulesh and Kubert's Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.
Directs transfer of up to $22 million to support Main Street Business Assistance Program and provides for program's continuation; confers general power on EDA to collect certain fees.
Limits State ABP contributions for higher education faculty whose salary exceeds statutory maximum salary of Executive Branch department heads.
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
"Pamela's law;" criminalizes possession and sale of mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, commonly known as "bath salts."*
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.
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.
Appropriates $23 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $8.831 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Concerns workers' compensation insurance requirements for certain corporations.
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to the "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
In committee · 58
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Eliminates $500 minimum tax on New Jersey S corporations with New Jersey gross receipts less than $100,000 under Corporation Business Tax.
Bars companies which hire illegal aliens from public contracts, grants, loans, or tax incentives for seven years.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Creates the "Local Unit Audit Teams" program in the Department of the Treasury.
Prohibits Internet posting of certain information on law enforcement officers.
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.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Revises and expands duties and responsibilities of State Auditor in performance of certain audits and reviews.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Requires Attorney General to seize campaign funds of convicted candidates; prohibits convicted criminal offenders from making contributions to candidates and committees.
Eliminates public school district budget reduction appeals to Commissioner of Education.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
"Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act in New Jersey."
Allows taxpayers to carryforward and deduct certain losses from net business profits, net gains or income from disposition of property, and distributive share of partnership income under New Jersey gross income tax.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and corrections officers to possess and use stun guns while on duty.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway."
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Prohibits certain public officers and employees from receiving dual health care benefit coverage.
Makes members of county boards of taxation ineligible for membership in State-administered retirement system or for health care benefits coverage under plan for public employees.
Authorizes Sunday bow hunting on federal military installations.
Phases in single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, over five years, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies to provide greater public access to meetings and to information about meetings.
Eliminates salary for part-time members of certain boards, commissions, and independent authorities.
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.
Designated the "Dogfighting Zero Tolerance Act of 2009."
Limits the compensation of school district employees, other than teachers, to $5,000 less than the Commissioner of Education's salary.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Increases penalties for certain motor vehicle right-of-way violations and requires attendance at Driver Improvement Program.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Requires persons convicted of possessing child pornography to register as sex offenders.
Establishes an animal abuser registration system.
Limits State ABP contributions for higher education faculty whose salary exceeds statutory maximum salary of Executive Branch department heads.
Establishes professional sports team specialty license plates and dedicates net proceeds to General Fund.
"Education Investment Act"; establishes an equity financing for education program at certain public institutions of higher education.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes a 2.0 percent cap on annual appropriations increases for certain State government spending.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
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.
Prohibits the unauthorized photographing or videotaping of a child.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act and makes certain other revisions regarding applicability of act.
Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.
Provides for access to adoptee's original birth certificate under certain circumstances.
Creates New Jersey Business Action Center.
Excludes gains on sales of certain real estate purchases from taxation under corporation business tax and gross income tax.
Permits public referendum on certain bond ordinances in municipalities operating under the Walsh Act.
Provides for drug testing of adult recipients of Work First New Jersey program benefits.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
The "New Jersey Parental Rights Program Act."
Suspends pension of any retired public employee who resumes public employment with compensation more than $15,000.
Prohibits use of jobs relocated within State in calculation of net positive benefit under "Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana.