FY ‘18-‘19 Budget Legislation -- Increasing School Aid, Expanding Earned Income Tax, Fully Restoring Homestead Rebate, Creating Tax Amnesty Program on Tap for Thursday Assembly Session
FY ‘18-‘19 Budget Legislation -- Increasing School Aid, Expanding Earned Income Tax, Fully Restoring Homestead Rebate, Creating Tax Amnesty Program on Tap for Thursday Assembly Session
Assembly Budget Also Restores Funding to Fair Housing Trust & Increases Funding to Pension System, NJ Transit, and Transportation Trust Fund
Also Up for Vote: School Bus Safety Bills, Garden State Growth Zone in Atlantic City Airport, Requiring DMV Stickers to Notify Drivers of Texting While Driving Penalty & Tommy’s Law
(TRENTON) –Restoring funding to state’s invaluable social programs, property tax relief for seniors and middleclass, funding to build affordable housing, and helping New Jersey families with new childcare tax credit are a few of the highlights of Assembly budget bill up for a vote Thursday.
Measures prohibiting discrimination against cash-paying consumers, requiring families to be informed of “dry drowning,” criminalizing “Pink or U-47700,” and designating a portion of Route 27 in Union County as Jerry Green Memorial Highway are also on the agenda.
The session is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. and will be streamed live at:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
| Bill No. | Sponsor | Description | ||
| A-2 | Coughlin, Craig J. /Greenwald, Louis D. |
Modifies school funding law to eliminate adjustment aid and State aid growth limit; allows adjustment to tax levy growth limitation for certain school districts. | ||
| A-591 Aca | Moriarty, Paul D. /Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina |
Prohibits discrimination against cash-paying consumers. | ||
| *A-602 | Danielsen, Joe
/Holley, Jamel C. |
Requires financial institutions to cash payroll checks under certain circumstances. | ||
| A-781 Aca | Andrzejczak, Bob /Land, R. Bruce /Benson, Daniel R./Holley, Jamel C. /Mukherji, Raj |
Establishes process for recovering cost of caring for animals involved in animal cruelty violations. | ||
| *A-841 | Land, R. Bruce
/Andrzejczak, Bob /Calabrese, Clinton |
Provides for establishment of county college certificate programs to meet needs of certain regional employers. | ||
| *A-1048 | Houghtaling, Eric
/Downey, Joann /Mukherji, Raj /Holley, Jamel C. |
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs. | ||
| A-1299 Aa | Greenwald, Louis D./Coughlin, Craig J./Bramnick, Jon M. /Lagana, Joseph A. |
Permits public-private partnership agreements for certain building and highway infrastructure projects; provides for EDA oversight. | ||
| A-1429 | McKnight, Angela V./Vainieri Huttle, Valerie/Chaparro, Annette | Requires municipalities that have public swimming pools to provide information regarding "dry drowning." | ||
| A-1526 | Zwicker, Andrew /Johnson, Gordon M. |
Concerns payment of freelance workers. | ||
| A-1753 | Quijano, Annette/Vainieri Huttle, Valerie/Mukherji, Raj/Giblin, Thomas P. | Imposes State sales and use tax and hotel and motel occupancy fee on transient accommodations; authorizes various municipal taxes and fees on transient accommodations. | ||
| *A-1888 | Muoio, Elizabeth Maher
/Benson, Daniel R. /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Gusciora, Reed /Caputo, Ralph R. /Zwicker, Andrew /Eustace, Tim |
Requires minimum of one school bus aide for every 15 special needs students on school bus. | ||
| A-2169 AcaAa | Mazzeo, Vincent /Armato, John /Kennedy, James J. |
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, and possession of controlled dangerous substance U-47700, known as U-4 or "Pink." | ||
| A-2401 | Wimberly, Benjie E. | Authorizes issuance of Delta Sigma Theta license plates. | ||
| A-2601 | DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Benson, Daniel R. |
Requires motor vehicle inspection stickers to notify drivers of penalty for texting while driving. | ||
| A-2697 | McKeon, John F. | Requires public water systems to compile, and submit to DEP, lead service line inventories. | ||
| A-2732 | Andrzejczak, Bob /Dancer, Ronald S. |
Clarifies that use of propane-powered noise making device is allowed as non-lethal method of wildlife control on farmland. | ||
| A-2762 | Greenwald, Louis D. | Revises law concerning temporary disability leave. | ||
| A-2763 | Greenwald, Louis D. | Requires additional data in annual temporary disability and family leave insurance reports. | ||
| A-2764 | Greenwald, Louis D. /DeAngelo, Wayne P. |
Requires Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to design and make available to public a webinar on TDI, family temporary disability leave, and family leave. | ||
| A-3063 | Lopez, Yvonne
/Mukherji, Raj /Danielsen, Joe |
Establishes gross income tax credit for cost of certain postage for sending goods to members of United States Armed Forces and National Guard who are serving their country away from home. | ||
| *A-3088 | Prieto, Vincent
/Jimenez, Angelica M. /Dancer, Ronald S. |
Increases New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit to 40 percent of federal benefit amount beginning in Tax Year 2018. | ||
| A-3112 | Benson, Daniel R.
/Mukherji, Raj |
Authorizes local units of government subject to "Local Public Contracts Law" and "Public School Contracts Law" to use electronic procurement technologies. | ||
| A-3121 AcaAa | Burzichelli, John J. | Permits students over age 18 years to taste wine, spirits or malt alcoholic beverage for educational purposes while enrolled in authorized enology, distilling, or brewing training program. | ||
| *A-3267 | Vainieri Huttle, Valerie
/Pinkin, Nancy J. /McKeon, John F. |
Establishes fee on single-use carryout bags used in certain stores and dedicates fee revenue to "Healthy Schools and Community Lead Abatement Fund." | ||
| *A-3366 | Pintor Marin, Eliana
/Calabrese, Clinton |
Requires provisions regarding sellers' obligation to deliver marketable and insurable title in certain residential real estate contracts of sale. | ||
| A-3373 | Conaway, Herb
/ Pinkin, Nancy J. / Mukherji, Raj |
Requires DEP to adopt Statewide plan to reduce lead exposure from contaminated soils and drinking water. | ||
| A-3438 | Karabinchak, Robert J. | Requires Director of the Division of Taxation to establish 45-day State tax amnesty period that ends no later than June 15, 2018. | ||
| *A-3463 | Murphy, Carol A.
/Downey, Joann /Houghtaling, Eric |
Requires district boards of election to report every two hours number of voters who have voted at each precinct; authorizes challengers to request reported count. | ||
| A-3627 | Munoz, Nancy F. | Permits eligible claimant who is proportionate owner paying entire property tax bill to collect entire homestead property tax reimbursement amount. | ||
| *A-3628 | Greenwald, Louis D.
/Moriarty, Paul D. /Murphy, Carol A. |
Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium. | ||
| A-3676 Aca | Mazzeo, Vincent /Armato, John /Giblin, Thomas P. |
Creates Garden State Growth Zone at Atlantic City International Airport and surrounding area; adjusts full-time employee designation requirements. | ||
| *A-3703 Aca | DeAngelo, Wayne P. | Revises ownership standards and exemptions under HVACR license law. | ||
| *A-3704 | DeAngelo, Wayne P. | Clarifies training requirements of certain HVACR contractors. | ||
| A-3861 | Quijano, Annette /DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Giblin, Thomas P. |
Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes. | ||
| *A-3871 | Chiaravalloti, Nicholas
/Egan, Joseph V. |
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits for misconduct. | ||
| A-3904 | McKeon, John F. /Jasey, Mila M. /Schepisi, Holly T. |
"Tommy's Law"; requires NJT to take certain action and adopt policies concerning person injured or killed in incidents involving NJT motorbuses and rail or light rail vehicles. | ||
| A-3975 | Quijano, Annette /Giblin, Thomas P. /Downey, Joann |
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave. | ||
| A-4061 | Chiaravalloti, Nicholas | Imposes $0.20 per ride fee on certain prearranged rides; dedicates revenue to schools. | ||
| A-4065 | Lopez, Yvonne | Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus real property located in Township of Woodbridge, Middlesex County. | ||
| A-4073 | Holley, Jamel C.
/Carter, Linda S. /Kennedy, James J. /Quijano, Annette |
Designates portion of State Highway Route 27 in Union County as "Jerry Green Memorial Highway." | ||
| A-4101 | Downey, Joann
/Wimberly, Benjie E. /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie |
Requires DHS to develop outreach plan to inform certain students about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. | ||
| *A-4102 | Johnson, Gordon M.
/DeAngelo, Wayne P. |
Allows cigar bars and lounges to renew lapsed exemption from ban on indoor smoking under certain circumstances. | ||
| *A-4110 | Lopez, Yvonne
/Benson, Daniel R. /Swain, Lisa /Tully, Christopher P. |
Requires certain school buses to be equipped with lap and shoulder seat belts. | ||
| A-4118 | Swain, Lisa
/Tully, P. Christopher |
Permits individuals to submit TDI and family temporary disability leave claims to DOLWD prior to commencement of leave under certain circumstances and requires timely payment of benefits for such claims. | ||
| A-4119 | Pintor Marin, Eliana | Adjusts from 30 percent to 27 percent rate at which proceeds accruing from sale of lottery tickets are dedicated for public pensions. | ||
| *A-4120 | Pintor Marin, Eliana
/Tucker, Cleopatra G. |
Authorizes special assessments and bond issuance to replace lead-contaminated water service lines. | ||
| A-4121 | Pinkin, Nancy J. /Pintor Marin, Eliana /DeAngelo, Wayne P. |
Requires DOE and DCF to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results. | ||
| A-4132 | Pintor Marin, Eliana /Timberlake, Britnee N. |
Imposes $0.10 per fluid milliliter tax related to sales of liquid nicotine. | ||
| A-4133 | Freiman, Roy | Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication. | ||
| *A-4135 | Andrzejczak, Bob
/Land, R. Bruce |
Concerns use of digital parking meters to monitor parking compliance; establishes fund to encourage designated drivers. | ||
| A-4163 | Chiaravalloti, Nicholas | Allows municipality with population over 200,000 to impose employer payroll tax; requires employer payroll tax revenues to be paid to school district in certain circumstances. | ||
| A-4169 | Pintor Marin, Eliana /Mukherji, Raj /Lampitt, Pamela R. |
Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019. | ||
| A-4170 | Taliaferro, Adam J. /Carter, Linda S. /Caputo, Ralph R. |
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2019. | ||
| A-4173 | Pinkin, Nancy J. /McKeon, John F. /Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina /Murphy, Carol A. |
Makes various changes to New Jersey Infrastructure Bank's enabling act. | ||
| A-4176 | McKeon, John F. | Provides for recalculation of retirement allowance without reenrollment for certain elected public officials who have retired from PERS. | ||
| *A-4181 | Jones, Patricia Egan
/Barclay, Arthur |
Requires establishment of common enrollment system in renaissance school district; expands definition of urban campus area; clarifies that employees of renaissance school projects are in State-administered retirement systems. | ||
| A-4191 | Andrzejczak, Bob
/Land, R. Bruce |
Provides that facilities exempt from certain swimming pool safety regulations do not lose exemption on basis of having diving board, water slide, or similar feature. | ||
| A-4194 | Coughlin, Craig J. | Requires NJ Historical Commission to establish program for commemorations and observances of 250th anniversary of United States; permits commission to enter into public-private partnership agreement in preparation of anniversary; appropriates $500,000. | ||
| *A-4195 | Benson, Daniel | Criminalizes tampering with school bus recordings; requires schools to have school bus video reviewed and to adopt plan for monthly inspections of cameras and video footage. | ||
| *A-4200 | Pintor Marin, Eliana | Appropriates $36,515,221,000 in State funds and $16,551,418,698 federal funds for the State Budget for fiscal year 2018-2019. | ||
| *A-4201 | Pintor Marin, Eliana | Amends and supplements various appropriations and language provisions in Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriations act. | ||
| *A-4202 | Pintor Marin, Eliana | Imposes surtax on corporation business tax liability; decouples certain provisions from Internal Revenue Code; imposes tax on certain dividends. | ||
| *A-4206 | Quijano, Annette | Imposes certain notification and reporting requirements on certain persons not required or authorized to collect sales and use tax. | ||
| *A-4207 | Greenwald, Louis D. | Establishes Medicaid emergency room triage reimbursement fee for low acuity emergency room encounters. | ||
| *A-4208 | Jasey, Mila | Establishes “New Jersey Complete Count Commission.” | ||
| A-4210 | Armato, John
/Freiman, Roy /Jasey, Mila M. |
Appropriates $15,294,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects. | ||
| A-4211 | Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina
/Chiaravalloti, Nicholas /Andrzejczak, Bob |
Appropriates $9.703 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects. | ||
| *A-4220 | Carter, Linda S.
/Kennedy, James J. |
Revises special charter for City of Plainfield. | ||
| *A-4224 | Tully, P. Christopher
/Swain, Lisa /Benson, Daniel R. |
Directs Commissioner of Education to study safety of school bus passengers in certain emergency situations, including school bus accidents.
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| *A-4225 | Benson, Daniel R. | Revises effective dates of various provisions of P.L.2017, c.331 concerning animal cruelty law enforcement. | ||
| *A-4228 | Murphy, Carol A. | Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish audit program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider of health benefits coverage. | ||
| *A-4229 | Calabrese, Clinton | Applies Meadowlands regional hotel use assessment to all municipalities that participate in Meadowlands tax sharing program. | ||
| *A-4230 | Burzichelli, John J. | Changes use of certain revenue derived from sports wagering at racetracks. | ||
| *ACR-134 | Benson, Daniel R.
/Murphy, Carol A. |
Proposes constitutional amendment to extend eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans' property tax exemption to residents of continuing care retirement communities. | ||
| ACR-178 | Murphy, Carol A. | Approves FY 2019 Financial Plan of NJ Infrastructure Bank. | ||
| *ACR-180 | Vainieri Huttle, Valerie | Urges support for the "Keep Families Together Act." | ||
| AJR-113 | Dancer, Ronald S. /Andrzejczak, Bob /Houghtaling, Eric |
Designates last full week of June of each year as New Jersey "Dairy Week." | ||
| AJR-114 | Houghtaling, Eric
/Taliaferro, Adam J. /Andrzejczak, Bob |
Designates last full week of July of each year as "Buy Local Week." | ||
| AJR-137 | Pinkin, Nancy J. | Designates month of July of each year as "Smart Irrigation Month." | ||
| *AR-11 | DeAngelo, Wayne P. | Urges residents of New Jersey to shop locally and support local businesses and organizations. | ||
| AR-29 | Andrzejczak, Bob
/Land, R. Bruce |
Urges Congress and President to fund FAA Drone Test Site Program. | ||
| AR-52 | Chaparro, Annette | Urges Congress to amend Stafford Act to require FEMA to provide financial assistance for certain personal property damaged by natural disaster. | ||
| AR-76 | Quijano, Annette | Urges President and Congress to maintain Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve to ensure gasoline supply and distribution stability in an emergency. | ||
| AR-156 | Taliaferro, Adam J.
/Dancer, Ronald S. /Houghtaling, Eric |
Urges increased exportation of NJ dairy products to other nations. | ||
| AR-160 | Schaer, Gary S.
/Bucco, Anthony M. /Holley, Jamel C. |
Affirming historical connection of Jewish people to Jerusalem; condemns efforts by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to deny Jews' historical, religious, and cultural ties to Jerusalem. | ||
| *AR-175 | Vainieri Huttle, Valerie | Condemns federal government's policy of separating immigrant families and contends that federal government's actions are sanctioned child abuse. | ||
| *S-5 ScaSa w/GR | Sweeney, Stephen M.
/Kean, Thomas H. /Johnson, Gordon M. /Dancer, Ronald S.
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Transfers management of PFRS to Board of Trustees of PFRS. | ||
| *S-122 ScaAca
w/GR |
Weinberg, Loretta
/Sarlo, Paul A. /Johnson, Gordon M. /Moriarty, Paul D. /Greenwald, Louis D. |
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for certain expenses incurred for production of certain films and digital media content; designated as Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act.
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| S-430 Sca
(A-2726 Aca) |
Pou, Nellie
/Oroho, Steven V. (Giblin, Thomas P.) |
Concerns certain real estate licensees. | ||
| S-647 ScsSca
(A-1186) |
Beach, James
/Cruz-Perez, Nilsa (Jones, Patricia Egan /Lampitt, Pamela R. /Barclay, Arthur /Taliaferro, Adam J. |
Permits registered voters to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all elections under certain conditions. | ||
| *S-767
(A-3829) |
Cunningham, Sandra B.
/Sweeney, Stephen M. /Kean, Thomas H. (Jasey, Mila M.) |
Directs Secretary of Higher Education to establish communication campaign to encourage students to enroll in 30 credits per year and institutions to report to secretary on strategies and incentives to accomplish this goal. | ||
| S-844
(A-1980) |
Turner, Shirley K.
/Cruz-Perez, Nilsa (Sumter, Shavonda E. |
Establishes a partial return to work TDI program. | ||
| *S-847 ScaSa
(A-4076) |
Turner, Shirley K.
/Diegnan, Patrick J. (Jasey, Mila M.) |
Requires a public school district to provide a daily recess period for students in grades kindergarten through 5. | ||
| S-878
(A-3084) |
Madden, Fred H.
/Sweeney, Stephen M. /Singleton, Troy (Greenwald, Louis D. |
Restricts authority to terminate reciprocal personal income tax agreements with other states. | ||
| *S-879 w/GR | Sweeney, Stephen M.
/Burzichelli, John J. /Taliaferro, Adam J. /Murphy, Carol A. |
Amends definition of "existing major hazardous waste facility" in "Major Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Act." | ||
| *S-976 ScaSca
w/GR |
Vitale, Joseph F.
/Bateman, Christopher /Vainieri Huttle, Valerie /Lagana, Joseph A. /Mukherji, Raj |
"Revised State Medical Examiner Act"; establishes Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in DOH.
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| S-1208 Sca
(A-997) |
Beach, James
/Oroho, Steven V. (Rooney, Kevin J. |
Prohibits investment of pension and annuity funds by State in entities that avoid Superfund obligations to State. | ||
| S-1247 ScaSca
(A-2779) |
Rice, Ronald L.
/Kean, Thomas H. (Greenwald, Louis D.) |
Authorizes certain local government utilities to impose additional connection fees; requires certain new credits and reductions for these fees. | ||
| *S-1265
(A-3634) |
Turner, Shirley K.
/Cruz-Perez, Nilsa /Singer, Robert W. (Jasey, Mila M.) |
Provides that no more than 120 credits will be required for baccalaureate degree awarded by a public institution and no more than 60 credits for an associate degree. | ||
| *S-1968 w/GR | Pou, Nellie
/Wimberly, Benjie E. /Mukherji, Raj /Sumter, Shavonda E. |
Extends document submission deadline for certain residential and mixed use parking projects under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program; increases maximum credit amounts awarded for certain residential and mixed use
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| *S-2145
(A-2510) |
Scutari, Nicholas P.
/Sweeney, Stephen M. (DeAngelo, Wayne P. /Downey, Joann /Mukherji, Raj) |
Concerns attorney fees for workers' compensation awards. | ||
| *S-2293 SaSa
(A-3902) |
Sweeney, Stephen M.
/Oroho, Steven V. /Gordon, Robert M. /Bucco, Anthony R. (Benson, Daniel R. /Burzichelli, John J. /Lampitt, Pamela R.) |
"Securing Our Children's Future Bond Act"; authorizes issuance of $1,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance certain school and county college capital projects; appropriates $5,000. | ||
| *S-2333 ScaSa
(A-3654 AcaAa) |
Gordon, Robert M.
(Lopez, Yvonne /Benson, Daniel R. /Jones, Patricia Egan) |
Requires NJT to establish office of real estate economic development and transit-oriented development; requires annual report of certain real property information. |
