Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Joan M. Voss
Sponsored
Out of committee3
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.
Revises "Notaries Public Act of 1979."
Limits DEP regulation of medical diagnostic x-ray equipment in facilities performing 750 or fewer x-rays per year.
In committee37
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative Act."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances.
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified vocational-technical education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Increases fees charged for marriage licenses and dedicates monies to Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Increases funding for compulsive gambling prevention, education, and treatment programs.
Establishes certain specific gambling offenses connected with animal fights under the animal cruelty laws; establishes minimum jail time for first offenders.
Exempts testing of cigarettes in tobacco businesses from "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act."
Prohibits convicted former elected or appointed public official from registering as governmental affairs agent.
Increases membership of the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry.
Creates Bergen County Transportation Trust Fund.
Increases amount of divorce filing fees to be allocated to displaced homemaker services.
Establishes the Preschool Through Grade 20 Council; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified technology education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to The College of New Jersey to expand technology education teacher preparation program.
Requires van accessible handicapped parking spaces be used exclusively by handicapped equipped vans.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Appropriates $200,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties.
Prohibits certain breeding and sales practices; requires persons selling cats or dogs to provide certain information; and provides penalties.
Provides for Autism Advocate in Division of Advocacy for the Developmentally Disabled.
Requires simple majority for proposal to increase school tax levy above tax levy growth limit.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Limits motor bus owner responsibility for no-fault medical expense benefits coverage for certain injured passengers.
Increases New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $250,000 for certain annuities.
Requires installation of low-flow toilets and low-flow showerheads in multiple dwellings having 3 or more units.
Clarifies that executive county superintendent's authorities regarding special education services do not allow him to require a child study team to make a specific determination on the special education placement for a student.
Increases certain sentences and imposes bail restrictions on persons who violate domestic violence restraining orders under certain circumstances; authorizes the court to order evaluation and treatment.
Eliminates contractual tenure for certain superintendents of schools and administrative principals and reinstates career tenure for these positions.
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Requires certain persons to refund monies to school district if the DOE determines that the monies were non-allowable costs for the district.
Creates advisory council to oversee revision of core curriculum content standards.
The "Teacher and School Administrator Protection Act."
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Limits DEP regulation of medical diagnostic x-ray equipment in facilities performing 750 or fewer x-rays per year.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Establishes a permanent Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
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. *
Imposes certain bail restrictions on persons charged with violating domestic violence restraining orders.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Lengthens service life of certain school buses to 15 years.
Clarifies school district eligibility to receive State funding for special education evaluation services for children enrolled in New Jersey nonpublic school and living out-of-State.
Requires State Soil Conservation Committee to adopt standards concerning soil restoration measures. *
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.*
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms from property taxation.
Directs the Department of Education to develop a school district dating violence policy and requires school districts to provide dating violence education in the health curriculum.
Requires Department of State to create uniform application form for use by small businesses to apply for certain State financial assistance programs.*
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Authorizes Commissioner of NJDOT to procure revenue-generating sponsors for, and permit sponsorship acknowledgment and advertising on, safety and emergency service patrol vehicles and equipment.
Requires certain qualifications for employment as a surgical technologist.
Vetoed · 3
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires AG to study and report on graduated driver's license program. *
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Directs the BPU to establish certain energy-conservation programs.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Directs DOT to allow wineries to erect tourist-oriented directional signs on roads and highways. *
Requires DOE to develop and distribute information regarding hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and expands role and membership of New Jersey Student Athlete Cardiac Screening Task Force.
Requires voter approval at the annual school election or by the board of school estimate prior to designation as charter school district of residence or expansion of a charter school. *
Out of committee · 19
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools.
Establishes program for directing motorists to agricultural tourism establishments.*
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Heath Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. *
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without a prescription.
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Requires physician supervision of nurse anesthetists.
Establishes New Jersey Aphasia Study Commission.
Expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs; designated as the Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
Permits sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
Requires public institutions of higher education to waive application fees and transcript fees for veterans and members of the military.
"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.
Establishes Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project in DHS.
The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers, and certain schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields.*
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
In committee · 135
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
Clarifies certain standards for regulation of recreational vehicles as housing.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act and other laws relating thereto.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Establishes grant program for school districts to develop in-district and collaborative special education programs and services to reduce need to place classified students out-of-district.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment for contempt for violation of domestic violence orders.
Provides that MIA-OON flag be displayed at certain public buildings annually for 30 days beginning September 11.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Requires DHSS to establish "New Jersey Autism Website."
Authorizes wiretap orders for investigation of luring or enticing a child, identity theft, stalking and harassment under certain circumstances.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Adds two student representatives to board of governors of Rutgers University.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans' service office.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
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.
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008."
Regulates sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels.
"Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008."
Establishes annual sales tax holiday for certain sales of personal computers and certain sales of school supplies and equipment during first full weekend of August.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Authorizes a board of education to reject the lowest bid for a school transportation contract based on the school bus safety inspection record of the bidder.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Upgrades certain sex crimes against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
The "Smart Container Act."
Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Requires Local Finance Board approval for proposed loan agreements between local authorities and for-profit entities.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
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."
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.
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Directs AG to develop guidelines for law enforcement cooperation with municipal prosecutors.
Establishes the "Municipal Court Prosecutors' Automated System."
Increases fine for student truancy and requires truant student to attend court-ordered truancy counseling program or other appropriate program.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
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.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Requires bittering agent to be added to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election.
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Requires school districts to disseminate information that stresses the importance of rigorous coursework.
Requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Mandates education program for "at risk" mortgage borrowers as condition for residential purchase or refinance.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Prohibits cruel restraint and confinement of dogs.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside.
Establishes loan redemption program for certain teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts received under New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Excludes financial benefit received by volunteer emergency responder from gross income.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Requires premium sharing for health care benefits for elected officials and certain appointed officials.
Abolishes Landscape Architect Examination and Evaluation Committee; transfers powers to New Jersey State Board of Architects.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Prohibits boards of education from charging students a fee to participate in extracurricular activities.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency.
Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Requires court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals.
Requires health insurers that cover speech therapy and SHBP to provide coverage for certain services.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election.
Requires municipalities to include unique identifier on signs at certain handicapped parking spots.
Requires municipal governing bodies and boards of education to provide sufficient time for all requested public comment at open public meetings.
Includes adult with onset physical disabilities as eligible criteria for assistance through Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Requires development of guidelines and educational fact sheet concerning the nature, risk, and treatment of sports-related head injuries to student-athletes.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack, subject to voter approval.
Revises law concerning disposition of assets of a county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that has dissolved or has had its charter revoked, canceled, or suspended.
Amends Kyleigh's Law to remove requirement that holder of a special learner's permit, examination permit, and probationary driver's license display decal.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Requires certain cable television companies to offer free Internet access to public libraries.
Establishes Rutgers University as charter school authorizer and expedites approval of charter school applications.
Reorganizes New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority as New Jersey Public Media Corporation.
Provides criminal penalties for unauthorized use of images or likeness of minors and establishes civil action.
Establishes NJ Animal Abuser Registry.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
Allows cultivation of commercial shellfish species in certain coastal and inner harbor waters for research and educational purposes.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain warning about volume and hearing loss.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
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.
Renders public entity not liable for injury caused by condition of sidewalk in certain circumstances.
Strengthens public entities' immunity for damages against claims of injury occurring on public beaches and boardwalks.
Provides for termination of child support obligation upon certain conditions.
Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.
Requires that wheelchairs be secured using four-point securement system in paratransit vehicles.
Permits direct shipping by wineries and creates Out-of-State Winery license.
Increases production limitations and revises privileges of limited and restricted breweries.
Permits freeholders and municipal clerks to solemnize marriage and civil union ceremonies.