Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, Senate.
Bill Baroni
Sponsored
Became law1
Authorizes N.J. Historical Commission to establish program for roadside markers to designate historic sites.
Out of committee3
Allows surviving spouses between 55 and 64 years of age to carry forward homestead property tax reimbursement of qualified deceased program participant.
Requires schools to notify certain students of potential eligibility for NJ STARS Program.
Designates portion of U.S. Route No. 1 in South Brunswick Township as "Pleasant T. Macon Highway." *
In committee69
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
Expands definition of "safe corridor".
Requires Turnpike Authority to prohibit cars on portion of NJ Turnpike dedicated to trucks and buses during certain times and under certain circumstances.
Requires the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to reduce toll rates for commercial trucks.
Requires federal transition funds received by State under Medicare prescription drug program to be used for purposes specified in federal law.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations performing public contracts.
Directs ELEC to collect fees from certain firms that employ legislative agents; increases certain penalties imposed by ELEC and Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; dedicates funds to those commissions.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and marking of graves of signers of Declaration of Independence; appropriates $200,000.
Appropriates $50,000 for feasibility study on construction of American Revolution Museum.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Prohibits persons who violated certain laws from registering as governmental affairs agents and from acting as representative before local government units.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits, employer unemployment tax rebates, sales tax exemption, property tax freeze and employee skill training program as incentives for business revitalization in distressed shopping centers.
Requires greater disclosure for campaign advertisements broadcast within certain time periods prior to an election.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations that purchase or acquire property involved in eminent domain proceedings.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections; expands period during which poll worker may be absent from polling place.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Caps noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions at $250,000.
Creates offense of road rage and imposes criminal penalties.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Requires NJ Commission on Science and Technology to establish a science and technology business assistance service.
Requires health insurance coverage by health insurers and SHBP for expenses incurred in connection with prophylactic mastectomies and other mastectomy-related procedures.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Creates New Jersey Cold War ribbon; appropriates $5,000.
Provides for interest and enforcement mechanism for qualified private community to collect annual reimbursement payments from municipality.
Requires public school districts to provide CPR training and certification as part of curriculum; requires DOE to provide CPR instructor training; requires certain teachers to obtain training in CPR instruction.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Prohibits awarding of municipal professional services contracts to members of Legislature.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain Energy Star labeled residential lighting and appliances.
Provides for development of universal public procurement application for use by public entities at all levels of government; provides for collaboration to streamline procurement application process.
Provides for development of uniform fee schedule for registration and certification of businesses seeking to perform State contracts; provides for collaboration to streamline procurement application process.
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault.
Regulates receipt of things of value by members and employees of Legislature and officers and employees of Executive Branch.
Prohibits persons charged with certain gun crimes from entering pretrial intervention programs.
Rescinds certain components of realty transfer fee and dedicates certain realty transfer fee collections to newly created "State Lands Stewardship Investment Fund."
Establishes new standard and procedure for forfeiture of elective public office for accepting illegal contributions; removes illegal contribution threshold for such forfeiture.
Prohibits State officer or employee or special State officer or employee with contracting responsibilities from seeking or accepting employment with certain vendors or contractors until two years after leaving office or employment.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Provides that certain absentee ballots will be counted if received within ten days of election.
Provides that graduates of regional or consolidated high schools with constituent municipalities located in different counties are eligible for resident tuition rates at certain county colleges.
Allows gross income tax deduction for taxpayers who provide support for elderly or disabled relative living in their home.
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.
Clarifies that certain ethical standards apply to Governor and Governor's staff.
Prohibits certain relatives of legislators from being employed or assigned in certain positions.
Permits permanently and totally disabled person to obtain free resident's fishing license.
Prohibits elected officials from holding more than one elective office.
Requires all elected officials and candidates and certain other public officials to file financial disclosure statement.
The "Telephone and Commercial Mobile Radio Service Records Protection Act."
Establishes the Senator Peter A. Inverso Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program.
Requires school board member and local elective office candidates to file financial disclosure statements; requires criminal background disclosure for school officials and school board member candidates.
Changes certain public contracting processes; limits use of certain State funds; changes State Ethics Commission membership; adds public corruption to crimes comprising racketeering activity; changes campaign contributions limits and reporting requiremen
Limits job creation estimation under COAH regulations for warehousing activities.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Provides that L-1 visa holders may establish domicile for tuition purposes at public institutions of higher education.
Requires public school districts to include instruction on the problems of obesity as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Limits awarding of no-bid contracts by the State, counties, municipalities, school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Implements constitutional amendment establishing office of Lieutenant Governor.
Provides partial tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for cost of renewable energy property.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings under the gross income tax.
Clarifies that pay-to-play law applies to federally funded State contracts.
Requires the placement of defibrillators on certain trains.
"Transparency in Local Government Act."
Designates State Highway Route 29 tunnel in the City of Trenton as "Robert D. Prunetti Tunnel."
Designates State Coordinator for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Awareness.
Provides life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for all murders.
Designates Hamilton State Police technical facility as "Peter A. Inverso State Police Technical Center."
Provides petitions signed by voters for local government initiative, candidate nominations, recall, and other purposes are government records open to public.
Criminalizes driving under the influence with person 17 years of age or younger in vehicle.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Requires managed care plans to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. **
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
"New Jersey Hero Act"; concerns organ and tissue donation.**
Concerns rights of DRPA employees.
Appropriates $1,068,921 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Provides marketing, information disclosure, and suitability requirements for certain annuities directly solicited to consumers. *
Defines "inherently beneficial use" for purposes of zoning variance and specifically includes facilities and structures that supply electrical energy produced from wind, solar, or photovoltaic technologies. *
Requires reporting of wage records under certain solid waste contracts.
Concerns biomass, solar, and wind energy generation on farms. **
Provides for improved structure and fiscal management of higher education in New Jersey. *
Concerns continuing education for dentists. *
Appropriates $27.75 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6.45 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11,293,478 from various farmland preservation bond funds and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $66 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," "2007 Green Acres Fund," and "2007 Blue Acres Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects.
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.
Concerns suspension and revocation of employer licenses for repeated violations of wage, benefit and tax laws.
Permits certain managers and deputy attorneys general of the State to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act;" changes definition of managerial executives and removes confidential status of deputy attorneys general a
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of community care residential providers.
Prohibits SDA from restricting the ability of certain firms or persons from competing for contracts in more than one Division of Property Management and Construction classification or prequalification category.
Permits wage withholding for costs associated with certain employee identification.
Passed the Senate · 8
Requires inclusion of certain types of drugs in public school instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Restricts the participation of school and county college employees in the search for and handling of explosive devices. *
Encourages purchase of "Jersey Fresh" and other NJ agricultural products by State agencies, departments and facilities.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers. *
Establishes 21-day grace period for property tax installment payments by senior citizens meeting income requirements.
Requires certain conditions be met in order for school districts to provide their employees with tuition assistance for coursework or additional compensation upon acquisition of a degree.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
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.
Out of committee · 51
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Allows gross income tax credit for purchase of health club memberships by taxpayers 55 and older.
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation.
Requires prompt parental and staff notification of contaminated soil found on school property. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for active duty members of United States Armed Forces, Reserve components thereof, and National Guard from New Jersey. *
Requires consumer complaints to licensing boards of regulated professions to be resolved within 120 days. *
Removes appropriations for municipal library purposes from the four percent municipal property tax levy cap.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general elections. *
Permits municipalities to set strict absentee policies for service on authorities, boards, and commissions. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Establishes a "Silver Alert System." *
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS. *
Changes membership requirements of the Veterans' Services Council.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies for the treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Prohibits hospitals from charging certain uninsured persons more than 15% greater than applicable Medicare rate.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Requires owners and employees of international labor matching or matchmaking organizations to undergo background check and these organizations' recruits be given domestic violence information.
Permits municipalities and counties to make certain traffic engineering decisions without DOT approval.
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Makes revisions to personal assistance services program in DHS.
Exempts Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans' Memorial Cemetery from law requiring reforestation plans.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom. *
Establishes the "New Jersey-Israel Commission" as a permanent commission in the Department of State.
Permits New Jersey Historic Trust to charge fees for publications and access to seminars; permits Trust to become tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Enacts "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children."
Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.
"The Solar Energy Advancement and Fair Competition Act."
Concerns court actions against uninsured employers for non-payment of workers' compensation.
Concerns stop-work orders and certain violations of workers' compensation requirements.
Provides for regulation of small wind energy systems by municipalities.
Requires schools to provide eligible high school students with voter registration material.
Makes technical correction to definition of "creditable coverage" in individual, small employer and larger group insurance laws.
Reduces common council membership from nine to five members in city of Beverly charter and increases terms of office of mayor and council members to four years.
Requires mandatory jail time for certain driving while intoxicated convictions with high blood alcohol concentration.
Increases penalties for the crime of jury tampering.
Provides that certain drunk driving offenders who drive with a suspended driver's license are guilty of a fourth degree crime.
Increases penalties for loaning motor vehicle to person with suspended driver's license in certain circumstances.
Requires that one member of the State Board of Medical Examiners be a practicing podiatric physician.
Provides "Patriots Corner" tribute in State House to New Jersey residents serving in US Armed Forces, reserve components and New Jersey National Guard.
Affords employment protection to certain volunteer emergency responders.
Concerns payment of prevailing wage in certain construction undertaken with BPU financial assistance.
Establishes the "New Jersey Scenic and Historic Highways Program."
Clarifies provisions of "Law Against Discrimination" concerning persons with an autism spectrum disorder.
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of family child care providers.
Establishes NJ PLACE program to facilitate college credit for registered apprenticeship programs.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Permits member of volunteer fire company and emergency response squad to hold municipal elective office.
Expands exemption for legal and other professional service entities associated with certain former public officers and employees from restrictions with regard to representation of casino licensees and applicants.
In committee · 62
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Allows a gross income tax credit for the incremental cost of an alternative fuel vehicle.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Phases out sales and use tax on certain initiation fees, membership fees and dues.
Extends eligibility for total property tax exemption to 100% disabled Cold War veterans; requires State to reimburse municipality for local tax revenue loss.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Prohibits campaign contributions between county party committees; makes such contributions a third degree crime; increases to third degree crimes certain other campaign finance offenses.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Creates "Green E-ZPass" discounts for certain fuel-efficient vehicles.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Permits electric public utilities, electric power suppliers and basic generation service providers to enter into certain agreements with building owners for use of solar energy systems for such buildings.
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for alternative fueled vehicles.
Limits leave and supplemental compensation benefits for school district superintendents, assistant superintendents, and school business administrators; provides procedures and penalties for enforcement of TPAF provisions.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
"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.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Authorizes local law enforcement officers to inspect trucks.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Requires executive county superintendent of schools to determine routes and bid and award contracts for all nonpublic school busing in the county.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Requires municipalities accepting long-term tax exemption PILOTs to distribute portion of payments to county and other taxing districts; limits PILOT agreements to 15-20 years.
Clarifies that retention of unearned wages by a public servant is theft under certain circumstances.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Authorizes marriages by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard.
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking, promoting prostitution of a child and certain child endangerment crimes shall not be expunged.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
Requires installation of automatic rain sensors on lawn sprinklers.
Requires savings from recent changes in PERS and TPAF to ease unfunded liability of those systems.
Prohibits loans as political contributions by certain persons; prohibits certain inducements for political contributions; reduces permitted amount of outstanding loans in certain cases.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinances regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on certain properties and premises receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
Requires certain electric service extensions to be installed only by electric public utility employees.
Requires Attorney General to seize campaign funds of convicted candidates; prohibits convicted criminal offenders from making contributions to candidates and committees.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Consumer Relief Act of 2009; establishes temporary sales and use tax rate reduction periods for sales of certain goods and services.
Establishes "Solar Equipment Purchase and Installation Assistance Program" in NJ EDA.
Provides that MIA-OON flag be displayed at certain public buildings annually for 30 days beginning September 11.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires physicians to provide patients opportunity to view obstetrical ultrasound or sonogram prior to performing abortion.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Concerns dispensation by an optometrist or ophthalmologist to a patient of drugs delivered to the eye through a contact lens.