Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
John J. Burzichelli
Sponsored
Became law5
Grants Abbott district status to Salem City School District.
Upgrades criminal trespass under certain circumstances. *
Establishes program for removal of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. *
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Passed the General Assembly5
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification. *
Requires mayoral approval of certain borough council resolutions.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Authorizes municipality to request DEP to require additional remediation of certain landfill sites.
Out of committee12
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal or the use of any direct or indirect means to inflict the cruelty. *
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Encourages State purchase of "Jersey Fresh," "Jersey Grown," and other NJ agricultural products and commodities. *
Clarifies definition of "personal identifying information."
Clarifies determination of assessed value of certain petroleum refinery property subject to local taxation, appropriates funds necessary to reimburse municipalities for certain property tax refunds.
Modifies trigger to end additional UI benefits during training.
Requires persons transacting business in this State and making payments to unregistered unincorporated construction contractors to withhold gross income taxes from those payments. *
Prohibits the sale of gasoline containing MTBE.
Requires that athletic facilities of public school districts and public institutions of higher education be made available for certain high school playoff games and meets. *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee45
Prohibits assessment on certain municipalities for State Police patrol services.
The "Home Ownership Assistance Act of 2002."
Requires drug testing of foster parents and DYFS caseworkers.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Requires certain insurers and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescribed drugs without requiring covered persons to first take an over-the-counter medication.
Prohibits certain family members of legislators from working in district offices.
Prohibits insurer offering managed care plan from denying participation in its network to a provider willing to meet terms of its contract.
Increases UI benefits.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Permits sales of non-personalized handguns to federally licensed collectors and certain competitive shooters.
Makes various technical and procedural amendments to the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Prohibits public entity from compensating officer or employee who is member of Legislature for time off to attend legislative meetings.
Requires vendors of legal services to fully itemize bills to public entities and prescribes penalties.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires firefighter 1 certification for participation in certain firefighting activities.
Extends certain hazardous material inspection and enforcement powers to police officers of the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
Allows the receiving district in a sending-receiving relationship to restrict the number of students from its sending districts that are permitted to enroll in the interdistrict public school choice program.
Authorizes creation of 32nd urban enterprise zone in Salem City.
Requires school districts in all third class counties to provide out-of-State transportation to nonpublic school pupils if the school is within a certain mileage limit.
Provides county and municipal budget cap exception for pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations, including salaries and wages, that exceed lower cap limits.
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires one half of natural resource damage payments to State to be remitted to municipality where damage occurred.
Permits the consolidation of a county vocational school district and county special services school district into a single school district.
Requires use of luminescent materials in exit pathways of high-rise structures.
Requires creditors, sellers, insurers or lessors to provide consumer with signed duplicate of contract at time of signing.
Allows public school districts to charge cable television companies to broadcast high school regular-season sports games.
Establishes additional penalties for motor vehicle right-of-way violations.
Provides a temporary budget cap adjustment for salary increments or salary adjustments for school district employees that exceed 2.5% or the CPI, whichever is greater.
Requires executors to post bond and provide periodic accountings to the court where beneficiary is developmentally disabled.
Expands tax credit provisions for air toxics surcharge.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not reverse its Coastal Zone Act ruling that impacts a proposed New Jersey facility.
Authorizes U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs police officers to make certain State arrests.
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.
Clarifies tenure protections for exempt firemen in public employment.
Expands covered claims under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to include liquor law liability insurance claims.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Authorizes establishment of dedicated local tax to finance redevelopment.
Requires motor vehicles manufactured after July 1, 2008 to have trunk safety equipment.
Prohibits certain voluntary associations from denying eligibility for State playoff competitions to teams and athletes from certain school districts and nonpublic schools.
Requires State, counties and municipalities to create emergency plan for certain animals.
Makes various changes to law governing uses of monies in the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Remediation, Upgrade, and Closure Fund.
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Provides for the appointment of prosecutor's agents.
Requires wholesalers to provide payment plans to retail dealers of motor fuels.
Requires certain commercial motor vehicle drivers to be compensated hourly.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal or the use of any direct or indirect means to inflict the cruelty. *
Encourages State purchase of "Jersey Fresh," "Jersey Grown," and other NJ agricultural products and commodities. *
Prohibits the sale of gasoline containing MTBE.
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason; requires increased identification when requesting and returning absentee ballots; authorizes automatic transmission of absentee ballot application for general election. **
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Empowers United States Department of Defense police officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Exempts veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Permits expanded use of farm vehicles.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Requires removal of social security numbers from certain documents filed with county.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Increases maximum bond amount filed with Department of Agriculture by certain purchasers of milk or cream and agricultural commodities.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Authorizes members of the State Police to assist the United States Coast Guard in the enforcement of certain safety and security zones established by the Coast Guard. *
Modifies catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Redirects $100 million in unemployment taxes to Health Care Subsidy Fund, changes thresholds for employer unemployment taxes, and modifies UI benefits. *
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing-intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and certain counties. *
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Authorizes Dept. of Agriculture to establish surety fund and assess fees for benefit of perishable agricultural commodity growers, and modifies amount of surety required to be filed by licensed purchasers of such commodities.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Requires charge to nonresidents for E-ZPass transponders. *
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline. *
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. ***
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." *
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Out of committee · 41
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Authorizes school boards to adopt policy for drug testing certain students. *
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders. *
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Prohibits certain elected officials from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
Revises pilotage laws.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and subscription services to make disclosures about recording devices; regulates release of recording device data.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities. *
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Permits federally qualified health centers to be reimbursed for off-site services. *
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
The "Public Dam Rehabilitation Project Bond Act," authorizes bonds for $90,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Permits unemployment benefits for workers "locked-out" by their employers.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Concerns temporary disability benefit offsets.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to finance the costs of State flood control projects.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
Requires contamination be considered in property valuation in condemnation proceeding; requires remediation be performed by condemnor. *
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Provides energy and utility service sales tax relief benefit to certain manufacturers located near state with minimal or no sales tax.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 102
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain literacy advocacy programs.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren Counties.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances.
Protects privacy of an individual's financial information by prohibiting disclosure without the prior informed, affirmative consent of the consumer.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Provides civil immunity to public entities and public employees for acquisition, stockpiling, distribution and dispensing of certain drugs and vaccines to mitigate the effects of exposure to nuclear, chemical and biological agents.
Gives judge discretion to close court proceedings to the public in cases involving national or State security.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Establishes in-house counseling services for DYFS employees.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations.
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Provides for third party payment of registered nurse first assistant when insurer covers payment for surgical first assistant services.
Establishes certain Dept. of Agriculture programs to promote marketing opportunities for farmers.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Prohibits the receipt of certain honoraria by members of the Legislature.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires financial services firms to adopt certain practices to protect against the occurrence of conflict of interest in work they perform for Division of Investment or State Investment Council.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Implements the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003."
Restores funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for the cost of certified tourism investment projects.
Establishes the NJ STARS Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $10 million.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Requires that driver education curriculum include information on automobile insurance.
Permits exemptions from certain medical examination and testing, vaccination and medical treatment requirements during public health emergencies.
Exempts municipalites from payment of corporate filing fees.
Requires certain certification for participation in certain firefighting activities.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Appropriates $100,000 to the DEP for deer fencing.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Appropriates $468,700 to Agricultural Experiment Station for oyster revitalization.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Prohibits imposition of the corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations that only store personal property in this State incident to its importation.
Requires SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for prostate cancer.
Requires use of double hull vessels when transporting petroleum products in State waters.
Revises renewable energy portfolio standard.
Exempts homeopathic drugs and dietary supplements from physician dispensing limits.
Empowers federal air marshals to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Requires New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission's annual report to include information on expenditure of public funds for certain advertising.
Repeals air toxics surcharge.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Establishes "Task Force on New Jersey's Public Health Workforce" in DHSS.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Requires disclosure to subscribers of certain cable television costs.
The "Working Families Property Tax Refund Act."
Establishes Office of Minority Teacher Recruitment in Department of Education.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Requires responsible business practices by large employers regarding wages and benefits.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; appropriates $425,000.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Abolishes office of Secretary State and Department of State and makes transfers to New Jersey Commerce, Economic Development and Tourism Commission, Department of Education and Attorney General.
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
Requires DOC commissioner to implement telecommunications voice mail system for staff in correctional facilities.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Establishes commission to study the sale and lease of State assets.
Requires used passenger automobiles sold on and after July 1, 2006 to be retrofitted with certain trunk safety equipment.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.