Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, General Assembly.
Charlotte Vandervalk
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Creates a civil "rape shield" law.
Out of committee1
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
In committee53
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Limits operation of personal watercraft in coastal wetlands.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Requires pharmacists to report prescription drug-related deaths and substantial bodily injuries to Board of Pharmacy.
Raises monetary threshold for at-fault automobile accidents to $1,000.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act and other laws relating thereto.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Establishes tuition aid grant pilot program for part-time county college students.
Requires all direct patient care staff in general hospitals to wear identification badges.
Requires police departments and parole board to adopt maternity policies.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology, marriage and family therapy, chiropractic or State-certified psychoanalysis without the appropriate license or certification.
Requires DOE to establish working group to develop a plan for the regional provision of special education services.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Changes maximum stream length and width restrictions on certain county or municipal stream cleaning activities.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain flood victims.
Authorizes special license plates for county and municipal emergency management volunteers.
Provides for forwarding of criminal history record background check information among State agencies under certain circumstances.
Excludes individual building single family home as his primary residence from provisions of "Fair Housing Act."
Prohibits health care institutions from discharging medications into sewer or septic systems.
Allows for certain capital asset loss and capital asset loss carryforward deductions under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Prohibits public financing of privately-owned, for-profit projects within the meadowlands complex.
Requires three specific categories of public members on Board of Medical Examiners.
Requires notification and authorization of DHSS prior to transfer of hospital license to another entity.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Exempts sales of services by counties and municipalities from sales and use tax.
Establishes motor vehicle registration for street rods and custom motor vehicles.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Exempts security deposits by residential tenants from provisions of "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
Prohibits use of equipment and facilities to produce obscene materials in public school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Excuses students with conflicts of conscience from certain class requirements of public institutions of higher education.
Establishes moratorium on the installation of synthetic turf pending a comprehensive public health study.
Provides that an "attorney-in-fact" is a fiduciary for purposes of theft statutes.
Requires certain public utilities to notify an appropriate law enforcement officer of service shutoffs to residential customers under certain circumstances.
Limits scope of inmates whose cases must be reviewed for parole eligibility every three years.
Requires full and complete disclosure to the BPU by foreign corporations that own or control certain public utilities; prohibits majority ownership or control by foreign corporations of certain public utilities.
Sets State's mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires development of guidelines and educational fact sheet concerning the nature, risk, and treatment of sports-related head injuries to student-athletes.
Authorizes courts to include animals in domestic violence restraining orders.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
Creates enabling act for certain homeowners' associations; provides standards for governing documents, membership and management of all homeowners associations.
Establishes Commission on State-owned Historic Sites in Department of State, transfers administration of State-owned historic sites to commission, and transfers historic preservation programs from DEP to Department of State.
Establishes Office of Asset and Revenue Recovery within Office of Attorney General in DLPS.
Requires county board of taxation to transmit written memorandum of judgment to assessor and taxpayer within 15 days of judgment.
Prohibits application of foreign laws when application violates constitutional rights.
Requires legislators and local lawmakers to disclose names of nonconfidential clients from whom more than $10,000 is earned.
Requires public schools which have automated external defibrillators to adopt policies concerning usage.
Exempts child under age six from hepatitis B vaccine requirement if child's mother tested negative for hepatitis B during her pregnancy.
Requires review and approval by New York and New Jersey legislatures of toll increases or new tolls proposed by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Requires Legislative review and approval of toll increases or new tolls proposed by toll road authorities.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Increases specialized care nursing facility beds for persons with Huntington's Disease. *
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. *
Expands the provisions of Operation Recognition to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Authorizes the court to include provisions for animals in domestic violence restraining orders.*
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
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 New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Requires DCF to develop and adopt Statewide youth suicide prevention plan.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2012.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
Vetoed · 1
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Permits sale of raw milk under certain conditions and establishes raw milk permit program.
Prohibits application of certain temporary tattoos. *
"New Jersey Fair Debt Collection Practices Act."
Out of committee · 9
Modifies rule governing decisions under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
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.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family motor vehicle license plates for certain family members of military personnel who died while on active duty.*
Includes e-mail addresses in list of confidential items to be redacted from public records under OPRA
Requires Board of Medical Examiners to take certain actions to investigate licensees.
Appropriates $84,495,199 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" and "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $39 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund," and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.
In committee · 47
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment for contempt for violation of domestic violence orders.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Provides local governments may limit political contributions by business entities performing or seeking to perform public contracts; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes certain ethical standards and financial control requirements for State authorities.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Provides that municipalities with minimum amounts of developable land may file certification with the Council on Affordabe Housing, even if no petition for substantive certification is filed.
Authorizes the conferral of certain academic degrees by religious corporations.
Provides sales tax exemption for sales of prepared foods.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations that purchase or acquire property involved in eminent domain proceedings.
Establishes a "State Authorities Review Commission."
Establishes a "Local Authorities Review Commission."
Allows State agencies, counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Repeals law providing benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Provides PFRS member in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Provides a plan to rebalance State resources to provide community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits water supply service and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Requires municipal governing bodies and boards of education to provide sufficient time for all requested public comment at open public meetings.
Establishes that only non-violent offenders should have their cases reviewed by the parole board every three years.
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Requires MVC to notify Medicaid if driver's license of medical transportation services provider is suspended or revoked.
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 Commissioner of Education to withhold State aid to school district that fails to address repeat audit findings.
Transfers authority over Palisades Interstate Park Commission patrolmen to State Police.
Requires a minimum assessed value of $1,000,000 to have appeal of property assessment heard directly by Tax Court in certain circumstances.
Modifies requirements for local unit to dissolve certain authorities.
Repeals "Global Warming Response Act" and related sections of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implementing law.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Establishes $100 to $500 fine for owner of animal which attacks, injures, or otherwise interferes with law enforcement animals, search and rescue dogs, or service dogs; designated as "Dusty's Law."
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Prohibits certain local officers from authorizing certain transfers, appointments, changes in compensation, and funding for capital projects in local units.
Clarifies enforcement responsibility of State Housing Code concerning multiple dwellings from municipalities to the State under the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Decriminalizes possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana.