Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Joan M. Quigley
Sponsored
Became law9
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
Permits use of overseas absentee ballots for all elections; authorizes transmission of ballots by electronic means. *
The Vote By Mail Law. *
Prohibits disqualification and replacement of cast absentee ballots because of withdrawal of candidate prior to election day.
Delays phase-out schedule of transitional energy facility assessment unit rate surcharges.
Delays requirement that voting machines produce individual permanent paper record for each vote cast due to the State's critical economic situation and lack of appropriate technology.
Establishes certain electoral and campaign finance requirements for Lieutenant Governor candidates.
Directs EDA to transfer up to $22 million in unencumbered reserves to qualifying capital investment grant component of InvestNJ Business Grant Program.
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.
Passed the General Assembly2
Establishes procedures to prevent and eradicate bedbug infestations in certain residential property.
Expedites payment of PFRS accidental death benefit.
Out of committee6
Requires insurers to inform insureds whether certain coverages extend to rental automobiles.
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Requires 45 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Revises law permitting law enforcement agencies to charge additional fees for certain copies of motor vehicle accident reports; replaces exemption for in-person request with exemption for legally affected parties.
Creates permanent paper voting record pilot program; removes requirement that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record by January 1, 2009. *
Directs Medicaid to establish medical home demonstration project.
In committee39
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Provides that DNA test results may be used in establishing parentage.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Provides subsidy for purchase of certain health benefits plans by certain charitable organizations; makes an appropriation therefor.
Gives judge discretion to close court proceedings to the public in cases involving national or State security.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Requires photographic identification cards for certain health care professionals.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Requires certain ambulances to be equipped with global positioning system technology; appropriates $500,000 to DHSS.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Directs AG and State Medical Examiner to study the creation of a secure autopsy facility.
Establishes a State aid program for charter school facilities.
Reduces years of law enforcement experience required for certain law enforcement officers to establish right to carry a firearm.
Permits members of State Police to receive travel and subsistence reimbursement exceeding $500 limit from certain sources other than State for out of State travel for educational purposes.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstances.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Upgrades penalty for unlawfully transferring a firearm to an underage person.
Establishes NJ FamilyCare coverage buy-in program for certain small employers.
Provides $250 homestead property tax credit to senior citizens in first class cities.
Authorizes suspension of motor vehicle registration.
Renames New Jersey Merit Rating Plan and provides for changes in procedures for payment of outstanding surcharges.
Authorizes periodic motor vehicle surcharge amnesty period.
Provides tuition-free enrollment at New Jersey public colleges to certain members of the State Police.
Creates new alcoholic beverage license for facilities that teach winemaking.
Requires county board of elections to notify voters about procedure for changing political party affiliation before any primary election; changes date for publication of notice.
Requires adult corrections officers in State facilities to complete inservice training program.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Requires that automated external defibrillators be located on every floor of State House and State House Annex; requires training for State Police.
Establishes "Comprehensive Geriatric Fall Prevention Pilot Program"; appropriates $20.4 million.
Prohibits sale and distribution of novelty lighters.
Provides the option of the establishment of Type III school district in certain municipalities.
Provides for reciprocity of certain out-of-State EMT certification.
Prohibits State agencies from posting emergency medical technicians' personal information on web sites.
Requires health insurers, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide coverage for interpreter services for persons who have limited English proficiency or deafness.
Permits submission of online voter registration form through secure Department of State Internet site; authorizes use of digitized signature from New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission database for online voter registration form approval.
Adjusts required local employer contributions to PERS and PFRS for State fiscal year 2010.
Filed1
Extends eligibility period of certain retirement benefits for certain State employees.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires 45 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Enacts "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children."
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Requires railroad company to negotiate in good faith with certain entities for sale of railroad right of way proposed for abandonment.
Prohibits sale and distribution of novelty lighters. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Permits prescriber to use electronic health record program to print New Jersey Prescription Blanks for transmission to pharmacist.
Clarifies that certain transfers of handguns are not subject to law prohibiting purchase of more than one handgun in a 30-day period.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances. *
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
Criminalizes certain actions in or on railroad property.
Clarifies immunity from civil liability for volunteers affiliated with Citizen Corps under certain circumstances. **
Prohibits free housing for cabinet members.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow their customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages. *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts. *
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Exempts use of citizen's band and two-way radios by operators of commercial motor vehicles from prohibition on use of hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication devices while driving. *
Increases statute of limitations and provides treble damages for certain violations of "Uniform Securities Law (1997)." *
Out of committee · 23
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT. *
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Provides for issuance of a uniform identification card for all law enforcement officers.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list. *
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Requires State Auditor review of certain Department of Corrections privatization contracts.
Regulates certain credentialing and trade practices of insurance producers, and provides private cause of action for insurance producer violations.
Changes statutory provisions regarding who may interpret and perform evoked potentials or nerve conduction studies.
Prohibits legislative aide who works, or worked, directly for legislator in district office from making political contribution greater than $30 per election to that legislator; prohibits receipt of such contribution. **
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
Makes reforms to "Health Care Quality Act;" requires audits of provider networks.
Requires licensure as insurance producer to sell certain funeral insurance policies; prohibits financing of certain preneed funeral arrangements with reverse mortgage.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
Establishes additional investigative and enforcement powers in Division of Consumer Affairs to deter individuals from engaging in unauthorized practice of professions and occupations.
In committee · 68
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Prohibits municipal prosecutors from making certain recommendations to the court.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Allows a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases by full-time undergraduate students at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Creates Bergen County Transportation Trust Fund.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets.
Eliminates enhanced penalties for certain crimes occurring on or in proximity to school property except when such crimes occur in the presence of a child.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Enhances penalties for driving when license revoked.
Requires forfeiture of public office upon conviction of fourth degree crime or higher; disqualifies person from future office upon conviction of fourth degree crime or higher or conviction of crime involving dishonesty.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison, Keansburg, and two joint urban enterprise zones, one in Cliffside Park and Fairview, and one in Buena Vista Township and Buena Borough.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Creates local police officer and paid firefighter emergency registry.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Revises driver's license suspension for operating a motor vehicle without certain insurance.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Requires certain newspapers to provide free advertising space to candidates.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Changes from two to four number of consecutive general elections where more than 750 votes or less than 250 votes may be cast before election district is redrawn.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to fund CeaseFire pilot program in Camden, Jersey City, Newark, and Trenton.
Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Permits wineries to produce and sell certain distilled alcoholic beverages.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "New Jersey Partnership for Secure Schools Pilot Program" in Department of Education; appropriates $3 million.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Requires nursing homes and ambulatory surgical facilities to implement infection prevention programs.
Allows SPRS members to purchase service credit for military service, out-of-state public employment and employment with federal government.
"Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children in certain urban enterprise zone municipalities.
Enacts the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act."
Increases various fees charged by the sheriff's office and dedicates additional revenue to transportation costs of the sheriff's office.
Lowers maximum interest rate that municipalities can charge on first $1500 of unpaid municipal taxes, assessments, liens or other charges.
Concerns pay equity in the workplace.
Regulates the sale of dextromethorphan.
Requires debt collector to provide debtor certain information.
Requires State Treasurer to organize and publish certain contract and grant data and information on State expenditure Internet website.
Requires Secretary of State to provide voter registration forms to newly naturalized citizens.
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires premium sharing for health care benefits for elected officials and certain appointed officials.
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.
Provides for annual appropriation to NJ Sports and Exposition Authority of 50 percent of revenue from sales tax on admissions to and sales at new Meadowlands stadium to fund debt service, maintenance, repair, and replacement.