New Jersey Sen. Fred H. Madden Jr. (D)

NJ - Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens (Senate)

Title:

vice-chair

NJ - Labor (Senate)

Title:

chair

NJ - S2613 Requires BPU to provide grants for cost of purchase and installation of certain electric metering equipment for solar electric power generation systems.

NJ - S2295 Concerns job order contracts for public work.

NJ - S1469 Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.

NJ - S1413 Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.

NJ - S2201 Authorizes establishment through collective bargaining of alternative workers' compensation program and group self-insurance plans.

NJ - S573 Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.

NJ - S2177 Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

NJ - S578 Designates State Highway Route 42 as the "Route 42 Purple Heart Memorial Highway."

NJ - S1851 Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving and dedicates fines to public information program; designated as the Toni Donato-Bolis and Baby R.J. Act.

NJ - S2894 Establishes Medicaid Smart Card Pilot Program.

NJ - S560 Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults as crimes with bail restrictions.

NJ - S2210 Requires Department of State to post on its website notice of days, weeks, and months designated by State law as special commemorations.

NJ - S2166 Requires health benefits coverage for refills of prescription eye drops under certain conditions.

NJ - S563 Eliminates eligibility time limit on tuition benefits for spouses of certain public safety workers killed in performance of their duties.

NJ - S1712 Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.

NJ - S1910 Requires health insurance coverage for certain student athlete physical examinations.

NJ - S567 Increases penalties for certain motor vehicle right-of-way violations and requires attendance at Driver Improvement Program.

NJ - S2353 Adds one member to New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force and extends for one year.

NJ - S2918 Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.

NJ - S575 Establishes annual sales tax holiday during first weekend of August for certain retail sales of computers, school computer supplies, school supplies, school art supplies, and school instructional materials.

NJ - S2336 Requires health benefits coverage for prescription eye drop refills under certain conditions.

NJ - SJR83 Designates September of each year as "Distracted Walking Awareness Month."

NJ - S1755 Establishes the "New Jersey Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."

NJ - S579 Provides enhanced tax credits to certain businesses under the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant Program.

NJ - S2663 Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.

NJ - S559 Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.

NJ - S577 Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.

NJ - SJR42 Designates March of each year as "Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month."

NJ - S565 Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.

NJ - S566 Concerns radiologic technology licensure.

NJ - S2997 Establishes NJ Task Force on Highway Work Zone Safety.

NJ - S2484 Provides for temporary approval of WIC vendor applications if the applicant currently operates another approved program.

NJ - S3087 Concerns employee leasing companies and unemployment compensation.

NJ - S564 Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.

NJ - S1121 Changes UI contribution rates for certain employers.

NJ - SJR61 Designates September 1 of each year "Lily Dryden Day" in New Jersey.

NJ - S582 Authorizes South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association license plates with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management operations.

NJ - S569 Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.

NJ - S2901 Requires certain information regarding Down syndrome be provided to certain parents and families.

NJ - S2404 Eliminates 10% surcharge on employer UI taxes during fiscal year 2014.

NJ - S581 "New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.

NJ - S2893 Makes revisions to the "Contractors' Registration Act."

NJ - S570 Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.

NJ - S580 Prohibits persons violating animal cruelty law from owning, keeping, or harboring animals; requires DHSS establish and maintain website list of such persons.

NJ - S2629 Concerns employer contribution reports.

NJ - S574 Requires DEP to establish certification program for septic system inspectors.

NJ - S2496 Concerns payment of independent contractors.

NJ - S2739 Prohibits relieving certain charges of employer unemployment insurance accounts.

NJ - S562 Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.

NJ - S1911 "Children's Sudden Cardiac Events Reporting Act."

NJ - S2406 "Nikki's Law"; Requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs and use variable message signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving.

NJ - S2405 Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.

NJ - S2738 Concerns assessment of penalties for certain fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and requires recovered penalties deposited into unemployment compensation fund.

NJ - S568 Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.

NJ - S2547 Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.

NJ - S561 Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Uphold Democracy."

NJ - S576 Requires certain notifications, and provides for guaranteed NJ Spill Compensation Fund coverage, upon sale of property where private well is treated by point of entry water treatment system.

NJ - S2626 Requires transfer of certain records to DOLWD and DHS.

NJ - S2407 Revises criteria to establish base year for homestead property tax reimbursement after relocation.

NJ - SJR65 Designates October of each year as "National Dwarfism Awareness Month."

NJ - S2832 Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.

NJ - S572 Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.

NJ - S2022 Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.

NJ - S1912 "Scholastic Student-Athlete Safety Act;" establishes measures to ensure health of student-athletes.

NJ - SCR37 Requires disclosure by legislator of public employment or public contract held by legislator or legislator's relative; requires disclosure by legislator of certain compensation received by certain business entities.

NJ - S571 Permits tenant to be removed from leased housing due to criminal activity under certain circumstances.

NJ - S2461 Requires annual physical examination of child under 19 years of age include certain questions related to cardiac health.

NJ - S1616 "Kulesh, Kubert's, and Bolis' Law; " establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.

NJ - SR69 Expresses support for New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council's Helmets to Hardhats program.

NJ - A638 Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.

NJ - A2993 Provides unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.

NJ - A2614 Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

NJ - A2647 Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.

NJ - A3978 Requires hospitals and birthing facilities to provide new mothers with information about pertussis vaccines for adults.

NJ - A3608 Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.

NJ - A3592 Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.

NJ - A2876 Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.

NJ - A2882 Requires professional boards to provide credits toward requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.

NJ - A3810 Concerns employer contribution reports.

NJ - A1074 "Kulesh and Kubert's, and Bolis Law;" establishes violation of hands-free cell phone law as reckless under vehicular homicide and assault by auto statutes.

NJ - A1400 Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.

NJ - A3812 Requires transfer of certain records to DOLWD and DHS.

NJ - A4339 Establishes "Mom2Mom Peer Support Program" telephone helpline.

NJ - A732 Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice or represent oneself to others concerning certain licensed or certified health care related professions.

NJ - A3357 Changes pejorative terminology referring to mental capacity of individuals.

NJ - A945 Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on drivers license.

NJ - A2029 Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.

NJ - A4188 Concerns requirements to report newly hired employees.

NJ - A3788 Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law.

NJ - A2131 Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.

NJ - A2023 Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horse flesh for human consumption.

NJ - A2652 Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.

NJ - A2380 Alex DeCroce's Law; enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."

NJ - A1902 "Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.

NJ - A3405 Provides for temporary approval of WIC vendor applications if the applicant currently operates another approved program.

NJ - A691 Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.

NJ - A3352 The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."

NJ - A2555 Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.

NJ - A3873 "Nikki's Law"; requires DOT Commissioner to erect signs and use variable message signs to inform motorists of State law prohibiting texting while driving.

NJ - A2889 Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.

NJ - A1608 "Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.

NJ - AJR55 Designates January of each year as "Human Trafficking Prevention Month."

NJ - AJR17 Designates March of each year as "Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month."

NJ - AJR72 Designates October of each year as "National Dwarfism Awareness Month."

NJ - S2741 Modifies short-time unemployment benefit law.

NJ - S608 Permits licensed dealers to display and auction firearms at fund raising events sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations.

NJ - S69 Increases fine and imposes license suspension for talking or texting on hand-held device while driving.

NJ - S852 Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator.

NJ - S157 "Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.

NJ - S2568 Requires coverage of medication therapy management in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.

NJ - S178 Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.

NJ - S87 Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.

NJ - S2246 Appropriates $55 million from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and approves $2,400,800 from 1995 bond act for coastal blue acres projects.

NJ - S2606 Establishes pediatric respite care program licensure requirements.

NJ - S352 Permits municipalities to enact ordinances regulating where sex offenders may reside.

NJ - S359 Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

NJ - S274 Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.

NJ - S3063 Implements recommendations of the SCI report entitled "Scenes from an Epidemic" concerning prescription drug and heroin abuse.

NJ - S422 Requires State Comptroller to review, and make recommendations for improvement of, the procurement process of the State, public institutions of higher education, independent State authorities, units of local government, and boards of education.

NJ - S1461 Establishes and enhances certain insurance fraud prevention measures.

NJ - S1681 Permits chief administrator of MVC to waive CDL skills test for certain applicants with military experience operating commercial motor vehicles.

NJ - S390 Provides for increase in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.

NJ - S1026 Establishes "VETeach Pilot Program" in DOE to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.

NJ - S2241 Prohibits Medicaid managed care organizations from reducing certain provider reimbursement rates without approval from DHS.

NJ - S2473 Establishes small business loan guarantee program in EDA to support capital purchases and operating expenses and permits certain qualified businesses in regional centers to qualify for certain EDA loans.

NJ - S1981 Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.

NJ - S2224 Changes pejorative terminology referring to mental capacity of individuals.

NJ - S1879 Concerns adding names of certain veterans to certain civil service eligibility lists.

NJ - S2270 Establishes penalty for failure to include bittering agent in antifreeze.

NJ - S829 Permits affordable housing occupancy preferences for veterans through municipal agreements with developer.

NJ - S1404 Allows gross income tax deduction for first $200,000 earned by certain new physicians and dentists in first seven taxable years of practice in NJ.

NJ - S364 Authorizes hiring preference for veterans in non-civil service jurisdictions.

NJ - S1175 Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

NJ - S2007 Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as an official State flag.

NJ - S1906 Provides for temporary nurse licensure for qualified nonresident military spouses.

NJ - S2212 Concerns certain appeals of unemployment benefits determinations.

NJ - S2543 Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice or represent oneself to others concerning certain licensed or certified health care related professions.

NJ - S2809 Clarifies that crime victim has a right to make a victim impact statement directly to the defendant at sentencing.

NJ - S323 Permits county clerk or register of deeds and mortgages to create identification cards for certain veterans for certain purposes.

NJ - S2408 "New Jersey Disaster Victims' Bill of Rights"; authorizes $500 million emergency State bonds and appropriates money for municipal property tax relief program.

NJ - S120 Strengthens State construction code.

NJ - S2344 Affords immunity to private colleges and their police officers in certain cases.

NJ - S490 Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.

NJ - S2442 Requires certain public school students to be screened for dyslexia and other reading disabilities.

NJ - S374 Exempts from sales tax cosmetic makeup services provided in conjunction with reconstructive breast surgery; designated as "Jen's Law."

NJ - S2840 Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.

NJ - S1930 Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.

NJ - S702 Establishes special license plates supporting autism awareness.

NJ - S2081 Requires DCA to establish procedures for inspection and abatement of mold hazards in residential buildings and school facilities, certification programs for mold inspectors and mold hazard abatement workers.

NJ - S2995 Prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.

NJ - S600 Establishes task force to study various issues related to improving special education programs and services for public school students.

NJ - S123 The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."

NJ - S512 Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.

NJ - S1980 Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2013.

NJ - S1238 Appropriates $1,000,000 for outreach and enrollment activities in Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare programs.

NJ - S2034 Requires professional boards to provide waivers or exemptions from requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.

NJ - S724 Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.

NJ - S2247 Appropriates $8,930,975 from "2009 Green Acres Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.

NJ - S1928 Concerns the escheat of stored value cards.

NJ - S2515 Provides gross income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred for care and support of qualifying senior family member; designated as Caregiver's Assistance Act.

NJ - S2397 Appropriates $38.5 million from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants.

NJ - S2552 Codifies regulation exempting firearms records from State's open public records law.

NJ - S375 Establishes standards of practice for providers of clinical nursing services for medically fragile students.

NJ - S1598 Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certification of patient if nurse is patient's primary caregiver.

NJ - S2812 Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.

NJ - S1143 The "Safe Playing Fields Act"; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at child care centers and certain schools.

NJ - S721 "Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.

NJ - S1758 Requires certain parents and caretakers to be enrolled in NJ Family Care if they meet income eligibility criteria.

NJ - S2483 Establishes the "New Jersey Workforce Development and Education Commission."

NJ - S1237 Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.

NJ - S2227 Requires medical examiner training about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and requesting decedent's medical information and brain donation for research.

NJ - S134 Establishes the Office of Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in DOE, and the Student Dropout Prevention Task Force.

NJ - S1976 Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horse flesh for human consumption.

NJ - S2740 Concerns requirements to report newly hired employees.

NJ - S1253 Requires SHBP and SHEBP to cover treatment for alcoholism, other substance-use disorders, and non biologically-based mental illnesses under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.

NJ - S1926 Bans charging workers' compensation claimants for medical expenses, gives Division of Workers' Compensation sole jurisdiction over work-related medical claims.

NJ - S234 Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.

NJ - S294 Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits for surviving dependents of public safety workers who die in the line of duty.

NJ - S717 Provides for indication of veteran status on driver's licenses and identification cards issued by MVC.

NJ - S2573 Permits county correctional facilities to seek reimbursement from inmate welfare fund for certain medical services provided in county jails.

NJ - S1946 Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.

NJ - S817 Establishes temperature control guidelines and standards for school facilities.

NJ - S2045 Requires hospital to notify patient admitted for observation of possible increased prescription charges and allow patient to use patient's own medication.

NJ - S775 Alex DeCroce's Law, enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."

NJ - S3027 Provides for development and implementation of State trauma system.

NJ - S101 Excludes from State gross income tax certain payments made to the families of victims of school violence.

NJ - S2439 Directs State Board of Education to incorporate the International Dyslexia Association's definition of dyslexia into special education regulations.

NJ - S2644 Expands Medicaid eligibility pursuant to federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

NJ - S2354 "Consumer Access to Health Care Act"; eliminates requirement of joint protocol with physician for advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.

NJ - S2239 The "Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act."

NJ - S1816 Affords DRPA police officers authority to inspect hazardous materials carriers and cargoes; clarifies authority of State Police to conduct inspections.

NJ - SCR91 Proposes constitutional amendment authorizing statute transferring probation functions from Judiciary to State Parole Board.

NJ - SCR107 Proposes constitutional amendment to provide that release on bail may be denied to certain offenders.

NJ - SCR11 Proposes constitutional amendment to allow veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for support of organization.

NJ - SCR115 Approves FY 2013 Financial Plan of NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust.

NJ - SCR101 Urges Division of Rate Counsel to end settlement negotiations with New Jersey-American Water and pursue a $45.8 million rate decrease.

NJ - SJR44 Designates January of each year as "Human Trafficking Prevention Month."

NJ - SJR69 Designates January 21 of each year as "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Awareness Day."

NJ - SR59 Urges Division of Rate Counsel to end settlement negotiations with New Jersey-American Water and pursue a $45.8 million rate decrease.