Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Anthony Chiappone
Sponsored
In committee34
Requires certain ambulatory care facilities to provide services to patients without regard to ability to pay or source of payment.
Requires public notice of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board meetings.
Requires off-track wagering licensee to pay 5% of its wagering revenues to host municipality.
Requires bicycle helmets, reflectors and lights for certain individuals.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Eliminates maximum age requirement for appointment as police officer or paid firefighter.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Requires prosecution of domestic violence-related cases in Superior Court; removes jurisdiction from municipal court.
Authorizes "Proud to Be an American" license plate with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management organizations.
Authorizes local contractor preference program.
Permits municipalities to install traffic-lights on self-contained municipal streets without approval of the Commissioner of Transportation.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Directs NJTA to study and report costs of expanding Vincent R. Casciano Bridge.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos and horse racetracks on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
Establishes Senior Citizen Pet Companionship Program in DHSS.
Validates certain local parking, speed limit and traffic direction regulations.
Requires the court, in determining disposition of juvenile offender, to take into account juvenile's status as student receiving special education services.
Authorizes seizure of firearms possessed by persons taken involuntarily into custody by police for mental health screenings and assessments.
Commences payment in lieu of taxes for tax exempt real property owned by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers.
Provides that amendments to municipal budget may be provided in writing at public hearing rather than being read in full.
Exempts veterans from $15 fee for open and competitive civil service examinations and from local residency requirements.
Requires State and local government employers to adopt maternity policy.
Permits police chiefs to issue handgun purchase permits to officers who are regularly employed, full-time members of their departments.
"Personal Seat License Holder's Bill of Rights."
Prohibits cruel restraint and confinement of dogs.
Prohibits job discrimination on basis of credit history or financial status.
Establishes New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include grants equal to one month of rent for new qualified businesses as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or certain bodily injury.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; supports New Jersey film and digital media industry and strengthens film and digital media production tax credits.
Establishes crime of using a defaced or stolen firearm to cause serious bodily or bodily injury to a law enforcement officer; enhances penalties concerning defaced firearms.
Exempts certain databases from public access under Open Public Records Act under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Directs Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Information Technology to study and report potential benefits of expanding the use of electronic transactions, including the use of electronic signature and electronic record by the State.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to provide information to public about sickle cell anemia.*
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Modifies procedures available under the Drug Offender Restraining Order Act.
"Sara's Law;" requires Motor Vehicle Commission to establish next-of-kin program.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Requires electronic submission of certain periodic reports to Governor and Legislature by State agency.
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Requires pharmacist to dispense epilepsy drug from same manufacturer as previously dispensed for certain patients. *
Out of committee · 3
Allows credit against certain charges to CATV customers opting out of premium service within 30 days of CATV company notice of network or programming change.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
In committee · 46
Enhances duty and broadens liability concerning security of personal information, and response to breach of security, under "Identity Theft Prevention Act."
The "New Jersey Self-Defense Law."
Requires 45 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Establishes measures to provide employment stability for teaching paraprofessionals employed in school districts that receive federal funding under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Requires DHS and DCF to establish standardized admission protocols and medical clearance criteria for admission to behavioral health care facilities.
Requires debt collector to provide debtor certain information.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Authorizes local law enforcement officers to inspect trucks.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Establishes Task Force on Public School Student Recess to study benefits of student recess and make recommendations on advisability of mandatory recess in school districts.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Requires study of availability of certain health care services by independent entity.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Requires bittering agent to be added to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Concerns continuing education for dentists.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Requires counties, municipalities, fire districts, and boards of education to cooperatively develop and implement five-year financial plans.
Permits person with developmental disability and legal guardian to audio record sessions of interdisciplinary team in which person or guardian participates.
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Requires DHSS to authorize Jersey City to issue certified copies of birth certificates by December 31, 2010.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to disclose contributions and expenditure information.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present.
Requires certain motor vehicle reinspections be conducted at licensed private inspection facilities.