PRIORITY ISSUES
Security Guard Act

Plastic Bag Bills

Liquor Licensing Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEGISLATIVE ISSUES – Spring 2009

The following is a list of legislation currently pending before the 212th State Legislature. If passed, these bills will have a significant impact on the food distribution industry. This list was compiled after a thorough review of the NJFC bill tracking system and discussions with several legislators. While it is impossible to definitively determine what pieces of legislation the New Jersey Legislature will review and take action on, it is likely that a number of these bills will be heard and or voted on during this session.

Liquor Licensing

Liquor Licensing
A-732 (Greenwald/Giblin)
Position: SUPPORT
Impact: Remove two license limit on retail distribution license holders.<<TOP

Consumer Affairs

Radio Frequency Identification Systems
A-1760(Watson Coleman)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires businesses to notify customers concerning use of radio frequency identification systems that collect information about customer.<<TOP

Abandoned Gift Cards
A-2603 (Fisher/Cryan)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires abandoned gift card balances to escheat to the State<<TOP

Manufacturer's Rebate
A-1494 Aca (1R)(Burzichelli/Biondi/Moriarty/Cohen/Prieto/Wisniewski)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.<<TOP

Bisphenol A Packaging Ban
A-2112 (Lampitt/Greenstein/Wolfe/Huttle)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Prohibits sale of food and beverage packaging and containers made with bisphenol A<<TOP

Price Quoting Over the Telephone
A-2306 (Huttle/Cruz-Perez)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires prices to be quoted over the telephone<<TOP

Sales Tax Fee Ban
A-2261 (Wiesniewski)
Position: SUPPORT
Impact: Prohibits financial institutions from charging any fee on sales and use tax portion of retail sales transaction<<TOP

Labor

Healthy Workplace Act
A-1551 (Greenstein/Oliver)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes the "Healthy Workplace Act"<<TOP

Immigration Bill
S-1312 (Sweeney, Adler)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Prohibits the employment of unauthorized aliens<<TOP

Minimum Wage
S-784 (Sweeney)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Increases Minimum Wage to $8.50, then makes annual adjustments based on increases in the statewide average weekly wage<<TOP

Loss Prevention

Sale of Stolen Goods on Website
A-1097 (Cryan)
Position: SUPPORT
Impact: Prohibits the sale of stolen goods on websites governed by Internet based resale companies.<<TOP

Security Industry Regulation Act
A-3206 (Johnson))
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Regulates in-house security guards under "Security Industry Regulation Act".<<TOP

 

 

Environment

Plastic Bag Recycling Programs
A-1326 (Stender/Greenstein/Lampitt)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires retail store operators to establish in-store recycling programs that provide opportunities for customers to return clean plastic carryout bags.<<TOP

Plastic Bag Recycling Act
A-1395(Conaway/Conners/Lampitt)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes "Plastic Bag Recycling Act."<<TOP

Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act
A-1622 (McKeon)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes Plastic Container Recycling Enhancement Act<<TOP

Plastic Bag Ban
A-1641 (McKeon/Schaer)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Provides for decrease and eventual ban on use of non-compostable plastic grocery bags.<<TOP

DEP Studies
A-2730 (Stender)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires DEP to conduct study concerning single-use paper bags and plastic bags.<<TOP

Plastic Bag Reduction Act
A-2921(Cruz-Perez)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes Plastic Bag Reduction Act.<<TOP

Reduce Plastic and Paper Bag Usage Act
S-994 (Smith)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes Reduce Plastic and Paper Bag Act<<TOP

Plastic Carryout Bag and Film Plastic Recycling Act
S-1079 (Bateman)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes Plastic Carryout Bag and Film Plastic Recycling Act.<<TOP

The Toxic-Free Children's Products Act
S-1428 (Weinberg/Ruiz)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes the "Toxic-Free Children's Products Act"<<TOP

The "Smart Container" Act
A-121 (Huttle)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes the "Smart container Act"<<TOP

Reuse Of Plastic Containers
A-2110 (Lampitt)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Prohibits reuse of disposable plastic beverage containers<<TOP

Recycling Food and Beverage Containers
A-2111 (Lampitt)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires certain businesses to recycle recyclable food and beverage containers<<TOP

Formula Rates Legislation
S-2428(Lesniak)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Authorizes electric or gas public utilities to implement formula based rates<<TOP

Prevailing Wage
S-2340(Sweeney, Buono)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.<<TOP

Food Issues

Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008
A-1252 (Moriarty and Lampitt)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Establishes the "Truth in Beef Packaging Act of 2008.".<<TOP

Labeling of Origin of Raw Produce
A-1327 (Stender)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires retailers to provide consumers with information on origin of raw produce.<<TOP

Loyalty Card Program
S-1572 (Turner)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Requires retailers to provide food product recall notices through loyalty card programs.<<TOP

Sale of Product Containing DXM
S-2251 (Buono and Kean)
Position: OPPOSE
Impact: Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.<<TOP

 

 

Federal Issues

Card Check

Position: Oppose
Impact: NJFC strongly opposes this bill which will create federal law recognizing unionization of a workplace by Card Check method. The bill would take away a worker’s right to a federally supervised private ballot election when deciding whether or not to join a union. Under this system, a worker’s vote is made public to the employer, the union organizer and co-workers. <<TOP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Retail Members:
• 55-05 Meat Corp./Extra Supermarket • A&P/Pathmark Stores Inc; • ACK Food Market• Acme Markets, Inc. • AJS Supermarkets, LLC • ALDI,Inc. • Antonio James, LLC • Aurora Food Corporation • Best Mark Supermarkets, Inc. • Billy’s Mount Prospect Grocery Group • Bottino’sSupermarkets of Bridgeton • Brookdale ShopRite, Inc. • Brown’s Superstores, Inc. • Clare’s Food Market, Inc. • Cuellar Family Shoprites • Cumberland Farms • D & M Food Corporation • E. Dickerson & Sons, Inc. • ECAN Supermarket, Inc. • Eickhoff Supermarkets • FA&Fairway Market• Farmingdale Shop-N-Bag • Food Circus Super Markets, Inc. • Foodking, Inc. • Four Brothers Supermarket,Inc. • Franelen, Inc.–Charlann, Inc. • Genuardi’s Markets • Glass Gardens, Inc. • HAJ Supermarkets, Inc. • Hann Supermarket, Inc.• Hernan and Hanna Food•Inserra Supermarkets • Kearny Shoprite, Inc. • Khodi Mata, Inc. • Kilroy’s Wonder Markets • King’s Super Markets, Inc. • L.J.V. Incorporated • Lenrich,LLC • Liberty Food Store, Inc. • Little Falls Shoprite • M & R Grocery Corporation • MA Shakti, Inc. • Mahavir, Inc. • Main Street Supermarket Corporation • Mattson’s Market, Inc. • McCaffrey’s Markets • MI Store Food Corporation• Montgomery Food Mart • Murphy’s Markets of South Jersey • Nace Corporation• Nevers, Inc. • Nicholas Markets,Inc. Norkus Enterprises, Inc. • Nutley Park ShopRite, Inc. • Oliva Supermarkets, Inc. • Pathmark Stores, Inc. • Pennington Quality Market • Perlmart,Inc. • Phillipsburg Market, Inc. • PRASAD, Inc. • Quick Chek Corporation • RAI-PAR Supermarket, Inc.•Ronetco Super Markets,Inc• Saker ShopRite • Seiden Foods, Inc. • Shakoor Supermarkets, Inc. • ShopRite of Carteret • ShopRite of Hunterdon County, Inc. • ShopRite of Lincoln Park, Inc. • ShopRiteof Oakand, Inc. • ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc. • Stop and Shop Supermarket Company• Sunkin,LLC • Sunoco • Sunrise ShopRite • Supermarkets of Cherry Hill • Theodoris Incorporated • Tilton Market • Triple JJJ Corporation • Two Friends Business Center, Inc. • VHN Supermarkets, LLC • Village Supermarkets, Inc. • WAWA, Inc. • Wegman’s Food Markets, Inc. • Whole Foods Market • Zallie Supermarkets, Inc.

Associate Members:
• 4C Foods Corp. • Acosta Sales and Marketing• Advantage Sales and Marketing • Aflac • Agilence, Inc• Al Rossy Investigations, Inc. • Altria Corporate Services, Inc• Ameritag • Amored Money Services, Inc. • Amper, Politzner, and Mattia, P.C.• Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management• Atlantic Coupon Redemption Center• B&G Foods, Inc• Bank of America. •Big Apple Dairy Desserts• Bimbo Bakeries USA • Bozzuto's Inc• C&S Wholesale Groceries, Inc • Camden Bag and Paper, LLC• Campbell Soup Company. • Canada Dry Bottling Company of New York • Casey Communications•Catalina Marketing Corporation • CBI Industries• Checkpoint Systems, Inc• Choicepoint Workplace Solutions• Cliffstar • Coca-Cola Bottling Company of NY• Colavita USA • Cold Technology• Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Foreman, and Leonard, PA • Command Security Corporation • Consolidated Dairies. • Cooper Financial Shred Services • CorVel Corporation • Crossmark • DAK Inc., t/a RM Termite and Pest Control• D'Orazio Foods, Inc.• Dora's Naturals Inc• Duncan, Minton, and Reading Associates, Inc• Edy's Grand Ice Cream• Elias B. Cohen and Associates• Environmental Liability Management, Inc. •ESM Metro New York• Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc• Food Scene, Inc. • Frank M. Vaccaro and Associates, Inc• Frito Lay, Inc • Frontline Security Agency, Inc • Garda Global, LLC • Garden State Laboratories, Inc• General Mills Inc • Gleason Insurance • Goya Foods, Inc.• Gutterplans Frozen Dough, Inc• Herr Foods, Inc• Hillside Snack Foods, Inc • Isbre Holding Corporation • J.F Murray Co, Inc• Kettle Foods• Kraft Foods Global• Krasdale Foods, Inc• Liberty Sales and Marketing• LiDestri• LSS Technologies, LLC• M. Bross, Inc• Marcal Paper Mills, Inc •McLane Company, Inc • Mission Foods • National Resource Management Inc• New Brunswick Saw Service, Inc. • Paktech Inc• Paramount Bakeries, Inc. •Penn Jersey Paper Co• Pepperidge Farm• Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group. •Perdue Farms, Inc• PLM & Associates, LLC• Premier Energy Group, LLC• Premio Foods• Prescient Applied Intelligence• Readington Farms, Inc• Reliant Energy Solutions• RLB Food Distributors• Road Con Systems, Inc. • Snyder's of Hanover• Sobel and Company, CPA's LLC• Spectrum Services/Diamond Chemical Company• Stella D'Oro Company• Stroehman Bakeries• Super Marc Inventory Service, Inc •Supervalu Eastern Region• Tasty Baking Company• The Dannon Company• Truco Enterprises, LP• TSS Faculty Services, Inc• Turkey Hill Dairy• Tuscan Dairy/Garelick Farms• Unilever• United Trucking, Inc• Wachter Network Services, Inc•White Rose Food • Williams, Alexander, and Associates, Inc• Windsor Marketing Group, Inc• Wiss and Company, LLP. • Wissahickon Spring Water, Inc• Wolfbock Brach Eichler • Community Foodbank of NJ