Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Elease Evans
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to provide information to public about sickle cell anemia.*
Vetoed1
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support NJ SHARES.
Out of committee3
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Creates the criminal offense of affinity fraud.
Designates entire length of New Jersey Route No. 19 in Passaic County as "Congressman William J. Pascrell, Jr. Highway."
In committee40
Permits payments in subsidized adoption until child becomes 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Requires certain nongovernmental employers to provide health care premium conversion plans for employees; excludes certain employee health care premium conversions from taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes the crime of negligent homicide.
Provides for civil action and treble damages for a violation of the "New Jersey Trademark Counterfeit Act."
Requires owner to immediately report loss or theft of firearm to police.
Requires DHSS to establish emergency action plan for hospitals.
Requires study of availability of certain health care services by independent entity.
Excludes from income for gross income tax and PAAD eligibility purposes victims' remuneration for involuntary internment received under judgments or settlement agreements.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs.
Establishes the "Healthy New Jersey Labor-Management" demonstration program.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
"The Muhammad Ali/Rocky Marciano Boxing Reform Act"; enhances regulation of boxing.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Provides certain requirements for donation container solicitations by charities.
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.
Restricts sale or lease of certain ultrasound equipment.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Extends eligibility for certain benefits to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Imposes liability insurance requirement on alcoholic beverage licensees and provides penalties for occupancy and fire code violations.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Requires managed care companies to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits and disclosed fee schedules; requires coverage under certain conditions; authorizes civil actions against violators.
Changes composition of board of directors of health service corporations.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Permits certain minors to consent to forensic care or treatment.
Upgrades offense of harassment under certain circumstances.
Concerns the issuance and forfeiture of bail bonds.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Establishes Task Force on Underage Drinking in Higher Education.
Modifies laws concerning inmate income and complaints; creates uniform identification cards for attorneys to enter State correctional facilities.
Requires municipalities to include unique identifier on signs at certain handicapped parking spots.
Requires training for constables.
Changes "board of chosen freeholders" to "board of county commissioners" and "freeholder" and "chosen freeholder" to "county commissioner" in new sections of law and revisions to current law; requires counties to change terms on website.
Concerns repayment of unemployment compensation overpayments.
Establishes illegal use of a hand-held cell phone as reckless driving; requires education component.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Permits hiring of certain laid off law enforcement officers without utilizing Civil Service lists. *
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Disqualifies member of board of education or member of charter school board of trustees for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation. *
Prohibits manufacture or sale of reflective glass beads with high arsenic content; prohibits DOT and State's toll road authorities from using paint mixed with reflective glass beads for roadway markings. *
Makes sundry changes to taxicab laws. *
Eliminates use of rebate procedure for claims of sales and use tax exemption made in connection with certain sales to certain UEZ qualified businesses. *
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Requires sports and entertainment facilities to submit emergency operations plan to municipal emergency management coordinator. *
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Permits certain members of Junior Firemen's Auxiliaries to perform non-hazardous support duties at fire sites.
Requires development of interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program; requires certain measures to protect student athletes with concussions; and requires continuing education for athletic trainers.*
Streamlines process for State and local agency business permits related to economic development projects.
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms from property taxation.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by veterans.
Prohibits practice of excluding unemployed individuals in advertisements for job vacancies.
Revises procedure for police and fire contract disputes; imposes a "cap" on certain arbitration awards. **
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for congenital heart defects prior to discharge.
Modifies employer UI tax rates.
Allows all municipalities to sell and lease unneeded public property for "urban" farming and gardening purposes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Girl Scouts councils in New Jersey.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Vetoed · 12
Creates Juvenile Transfer Task Force.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises requirements for emergency medical services delivery.
Permits developer to qualify for low-interest loan from NJEDA when building a high performance green building.
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
Expands treatment of mixed use projects under urban transit hub tax credit. *
Establishes a closing fund to provide financial resources for certain economic development projects.
Creates "Back to Work NJ Program"; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes local public contract set-aside program for employers who hire former prisoners.
Increase gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable years 2011 and 2012 and expands gross income tax exclusion for pensions, annuities and other retirement income for certain taxpayers beginning in 2011.
Provides State school aid to districts in amount consistent with provisions of "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Restores benefit under State earned income credit program to 25 percent of federal credit beginning in Tax Year 2011.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Provides for appointment to board of directors of New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange by Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Requires electronic submission of certain periodic reports to Governor and Legislature by State agency.
Clarifies immunity from civil liability for volunteers affiliated with Citizen Corps under certain circumstances.
Prohibits towing of motor vehicles displaying wheelchair placards or license plates under certain conditions, requires clear signage for restricted handicapped parking zones, and requires 24-hour access to certain towed motor vehicles.
Provides State recognition of certain Indian tribes for certain limited purposes, establishes process for future recognition of tribes and revises membership and duties of New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Requires DOE to develop and distribute information regarding hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and expands role and membership of New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Allows licensing authorities to grant a license to certain child support obligors under certain circumstances.*
Revises the period of time required for a State or county college faculty member to receive tenure. *
The "Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act," alters State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and CATV companies.
Out of committee · 42
Restructures ticket sales law.
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 a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Concerns eligibility for Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief fund assistance when more than one child in family has catastrophic illness.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Regulates advertising of manufacturer's rebates by retail mercantile establishments.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects and $1.371 million in 1992 bond act monies to fund State dam restoration projects. *
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Authorizes court to waive certain fees, offer mediation as sentence; authorizes defendant information in presentence report; reduces certain expungement waiting periods; requires benefits be considered in juvenile plan. *
Clarifies provision authorizing certain inmates to be released on parole six months early.
Authorizes director of board of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed actions of county authorities.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers at health care facilities and human services and veterans' facilities.
Reduces number of reports and publications printed by State; provides for most to be available primarily on Internet; requires notice of availability of reports and publications.*
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Reduces employer unemployment taxes during fiscal year 2011.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Concerns outreach and training for minorities and women in the construction industry.
Makes FY 2011 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 for Women's Health and Family Planning Services, reduces FY 2011 appropriation for State Employees' Prescription Drug Program by $7,453,000, and requires filing of application for expansion of Medica
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Allows for five years corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for net interest amount received on loans to certain qualified UEZ businesses.
Requires fire suppression systems in new single and two family homes.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Educational Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain wages paid to qualified interns in tax years 2012 and 2013.
Requires four weeks pre-notification of exhaustion of UI benefits. *
Allows for unemployment insurance beneficiaries to file, reopen, cancel or close claims online.
Permits small, women or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
Directs New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education to promote the establishment of higher education and business partnerships.
Creates grant program for newly established small businesses engaged in life sciences.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Establishes that certification for police training course lasts five years.
Requires schools that participate in Statewide interscholastic sports programs to annually inform student-athletes about National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility standards for participation in collegiate athletics.
Broadens municipal arson investigators' powers.
Appropriates $30,609,343,000 in State funds and $12,128,463,665 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
Makes Fiscal Year 2011 State and federal supplemental appropriations, and amends certain Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations and other provisions of P.L.2010, c.35.
Eliminates limit on application of corporation business tax research credit to 50% of liability otherwise due.
Decreases the minimum corporation business tax on certain New Jersey subchapter S corporations by 25%.
Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Concerns basic skills training provided by the New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development.
In committee · 89
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Permits the conversion of nonpublic schools into charter schools.
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Authorizes the conferral of certain academic degrees by religious corporations.
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Creates "New Jersey Senior Labor Task Force."
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
"Statewide Drought Management Act."
Includes limitations on amount of retirement compensation which may be provided by a school board in the employment contracts of superintendents of schools, assistant superintendents of schools, and school business administrators.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
"Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008."
Prohibits display of gift card account numbers.
Wireless Telephone Consumer Protection Act; establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Requires contractors to provide Department of the Treasury with employment information about contracts with public bodies.
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
Requires notice to primary and secondary borrower before repossession of motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Authorizes the court to credit an indigent person under certain circumstances.
Amends Health Enterprise Zone law to allow municipalities more discretion in granting property tax exemptions to medical offices.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Requires development and distribution of curriculum guidelines on Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
The "Animal Cruelty Recodification and Modernization Act."
Prohibits Internet posting of certain information on law enforcement officers.
Permits municipality to determine permissible parking distance from intersection, crosswalk or "stop" sign.
Prohibits businesses that outsource jobs overseas from receiving State contracts or grants; prohibits investment of State funds in such businesses.
Revises approval process for rate changes applicable to medical malpractice liability insurance.
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.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of significant individuals of the American Revolutionary period; appropriates $200,000.
Raises vehicle registration fees for heavy vehicles and dedicates portion to Transportation Trust Fund Account.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support improvement of State parks and forests.
Requires NJ Transit to do study of platform safety issues at rail stations.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Prohibits certain sales of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or religious institutions.
Requires mandatory registration of family day care providers.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Upgrades penalties for assaulting certain health care professionals and workers.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Requires building materials dealer to provide uniquely identified delivery ticket to consumer.
Requires counties, municipalities, fire districts, and boards of education to cooperatively develop and implement five-year financial plans.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for alternative fueled vehicles.
Requires DHS to establish training, educational assessment, and remedial instruction programs, and minimum educational standards for staff at State psychiatric hospitals.
Establishes "green teams" to develop and advance energy conservation and efficiency and environmental sustainability in State governmental offices.
Requires weekly reporting of construction and building permit approvals to municipal tax assessor.
Establishes "New Jersey Partnership for Secure Schools Pilot Program" in Department of Education; appropriates $3 million.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for certain prepaid bank cards, such as mall gift cards.
Provides useful life of three years for certain permitted maintenance projects with Transportation Trust Fund monies.
Reduces sales tax rate on certain sales and admission charges at places of amusement in urban enterprise zone areas and provides that sales tax revenue be for municipal purposes.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Establishes New Jersey Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Qua-Daishia's Law: bars disclosure of personal identifying information contained in grand jury materials; creates fourth degree offense for unauthorized disclosure.
Authorizes special Alpha Kappa Alpha license plate.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Concerns regulation of paratransit vehicles and drivers transporting persons in wheelchairs.
Requires Commissioner of Education to accept charter school applications throughout the calendar year and expedites approval of charter school applications.
Prohibits the sale of certain children's products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Permits municipalities to establish weapons free zones around schools and public facilities.
Requires certain motor vehicle reinspections be conducted at licensed private inspection facilities.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Prohibits authorized bearer from mailing or transporting voted ballots to county board on behalf of more than 10 qualified voters in an election.
Prohibits retail dealer from charging in excess of five cents more per gallon for credit purchase of fuel than for cash purchase; requires certain price disclosures.
Revises individual cause of action under consumer fraud act and makes certain other revisions regarding applicability of act.
Requires Commissioner of Education to oversee, or to authorize the New Jersey School Boards Association to oversee, Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Prohibits retail motor fuel dealer from charging customer more for debit card purchase of fuel than for cash purchase.
Establishes the number of students to be supported under the veterinary medicine education program and a service requirement for students who participate in the program.
Excludes appropriations to reserve for uncollected taxes in excess of two percent from calculations of municipal adjusted tax levy.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for the amount of net interest received on loans to certain qualified UEZ businesses.
Permits release of certain student information.
Prohibits public and private employers from discriminating against ex-convicts.