Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Bill Baroni
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Allows gross income tax credit for twenty-five percent of adoption expenses incurred by taxpayers filing individually earning less than $75,000 and those filing jointly earning less than $150,000.
In committee23
Allows surviving spouses between 55 and 64 years of age to carry forward homestead property tax reimbursement of qualified deceased program participant.
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.
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.
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.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections; expands period during which poll worker may be absent from polling place.
Creates offense of road rage and imposes criminal penalties.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for the purchase price of monthly passes used for commuting to work by train, bus or ferry.
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.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of certain Energy Star labeled residential lighting and appliances.
Exempts from sales and use tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient motor vehicles.
Provides for interest and enforcement mechanism for qualified private community to collect annual reimbursement payments from municipality.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Creates New Jersey Cold War ribbon; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes the Senator Peter A. Inverso Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program.
Requires health insurance coverage by health insurers, SHBP and SEHBP for expenses incurred in connection with prophylactic mastectomies and other mastectomy-related procedures.
Allows gross income tax deduction for taxpayers who provide support for elderly or disabled relative living in their home.
Rescinds certain components of realty transfer fee and dedicates certain realty transfer fee collections to newly created "State Lands Stewardship Investment Fund."
Provides partial tax credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for cost of renewable energy property.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Authorizes marriage and entry into a civil union by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard. *
Concerns dispensation by an optometrist or ophthalmologist to a patient of drugs delivered to the eye through a contact lens.
Passed the Senate · 2
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.
Out of committee · 5
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.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Requires sex offenders in satellite-based monitoring program to pay for certain equipment and monitoring costs.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
Lowers age of eligibility for surviving spouse under homestead property tax reimbursement program; extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived. *
In committee · 46
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires Department of the Treasury to calculate State motor vehicle fleet miles per gallon average and to increase it over four years.
Requires State to purchase energy efficient and hybrid vehicles; provides for phase-in of the requirement.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Revises laws governing provision of affordable housing; reestablishes regional contribution agreement as method of meeting affordable housing obligation; repeals Statewide non-residential development fee.
"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.
Creates "Green E-ZPass" discounts for certain fuel-efficient vehicles.
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking, promoting prostitution of a child and certain child endangerment crimes shall not be expunged.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinances regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Extends eligibility for total property tax exemption to 100% disabled Cold War veterans; requires State to reimburse municipality for local tax revenue loss.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
"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.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
Expands definition of "safe corridor."
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.
Prohibits persons who violated certain laws from registering as governmental affairs agents and from acting as representative before local government units.
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.
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.
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
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.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Clarifies that retention of unearned wages by a public servant is theft under certain circumstances.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Criminalizes driving under the influence with person 17 years of age or younger in vehicle.
Requires the placement of defibrillators on certain trains.
Provides that receipt of public pension or retirement allowance will be suspended during reemployment with public employer; allows enrollment in DCRP based on such reemployment.
Requires policy on use of alternative dispute resolution for State agencies; expands duties of Dispute Settlement Office of Department of Public Advocate.
Limits job creation estimation under COAH regulations for warehousing activities.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Superior Court, Tax Court Judges, Workers' Compensation Judges and Administrative Law Judges to be admitted to the practice of law for at least 15 years prior to appointment to the bench.
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.
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.
Provides life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for all murders.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Prohibits persons charged with certain gun crimes from entering pretrial intervention programs.
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.