Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez
Sponsored
Out of committee7
Provides liability protection to organizations which lend child passenger restraint systems.
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Extends registration requirement to all ticket brokers reselling tickets to places of entertainment in the State; requires certain consumer disclosures.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
Requires portion of State rental assistance grants be reserved for graduates of State veterans' transitional housing program.
In committee41
Requires racial and ethnic categories used in most recent federal decennial census be included on certain State forms.
Provides that student of limited English-speaking ability shall not be required to take certain tests.
Upgrades assault committed against commercial vendors and merchants.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Provides reimbursement to municipalities for taxes lost due to totally disabled veterans' tax exemption.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
Requires DHS to provide functional services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
"Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Grant Program Act," appropriates $15 million.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Expands membership of the State Board of Agriculture.
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Authorizes NJEDA to issue $8 million in bonds for financial assistance to child care centers.
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to fifteen through addition of eight public members.
Establishes review board to oversee implementation of the reform plan for DYFS.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Provides for State aid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; approriates $50 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain literacy advocacy programs.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Authorizes municipalities to require a special additional dog license for unsterilized dogs and establishes maximum fee that may be charged therefor.
Amends the "Fair Housing Act" to change details of regional contribution agreements.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Prohibits unauthorized disclosure of personal health care information by health insurer to another financial institution with which it merges or which acquires it.
Requires criminal history record background checks for notaries public.
Authorizes mayors, county executives and freeholder directors membership upon any authority created by their local unit.
Requires sellers of used motor vehicles to disclose if vehicle was involved in an accident requiring repairs of $1,000 or more.
Requires notices concerning employees under age 18 to be posted in English and Spanish.
"Toy Safety Act."
Authorizes mayor's membership on authorities created by municipality.
Requires that certain relocation notices be bilingual in municipalities where at least one-third of the population are likely to speak a common non-English native language.
Prohibits certain insurance carriers from requiring pharmacies to accept reimbursement below pharmacy cost and eliminates Board of Pharmacy approval of certain pharmacy charges.
Authorizes DEP and New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to provide loans to residential homeowners for water supply connections.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Increases monetary penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limit and reporting requirements and remuneration restrictions.
Requires certain election committees and certain other persons to file report with ELEC within 48 hours of making certain expenditures in excess of $800 during certain periods.
Bars legislators, Governor and department heads from lobbying activities for one year after leaving office or employment.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Requires ELEC to conduct random audits of records kept by legislative agents.
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates moneys annually to ELEC. *
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Requires county boards of elections to prepare reports concerning use of emergency and provisional ballots. *
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Provides paid and unpaid leaves of absence for service with public employee unions and allows full cost purchase of PERS credit for period of leave.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Authorizes $3 assessment on municipal court costs to upgrade Automated Traffic System.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; permits allocation of funds under the Fair Housing Act to program as permitted purpose. *
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000. *
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 18
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act." *
Creates the "Emergency Management Act of 2004."
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Clarifies that advertisements by licensed professionals are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
Skinner's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.**
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; permits establishment of sterile syringe paccess programs, appropriates $10,000,000. *
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without prescription.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
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." *
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding for burial of indigent veterans.
Out of committee · 52
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Prohibits member of Legislature from acting on legislation in which member or family member of that member has personal interest.
Changes memberships of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards and Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.
Increases monetary penalties for violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Requires candidates seeking office of Governor or member of Legislature to disclose prior conviction for criminal offense.
Expands definition of lobbyist and legislative agent to include those who influence governmental processes; defines governmental processes.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
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. *
Provides consumer remedy for failure to deliver merchandise or service at time promised.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
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. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to dogs harbored on the insured property. *
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
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.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Allows certain persons in military service to receive suspension of interest on mortgage loan. *
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
"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. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
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.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $5.015 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
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Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
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.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren Counties.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Exempts drugs prescribed for mental illness and HIV/AIDS from restrictive mechanisms under Medicaid, NJ Family Care, PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Prohibits sale of certain printers or printer devices with disabling computer mechanisms.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines pertaining to dogs harbored on property insured under homeowners policies.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Raises to $150,000 in gross contributions the threshold requiring charitable organizations to file audited financial statements under the "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Establishes special child care license plates to fund child care services.
Establishes "Survivors of the Shield" license plate for family members of law enforcement officers killed in line of duty.
Provides that DRPA is not a State agency for purposes of R.S.39:5-41.b.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires DEP confirm transfers of water allocation credits and approve transfers of permits under certain circumstances.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for a grant to ASPIRA.
Establishes mechanism for resolving contested mayoral appointments in first class cities.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Extends civil service working test period for political subdivision employees to four months.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for NJ FamilyCare.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Requires additional consumer protections in health club services contracts.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Clarifies that municipalities may establish sterile syringe access programs.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Requires all cats and dogs released from pounds and shelters be sterilized with certain exceptions; establishes special fund for sterilizations; increases certain dog-related fees and dedicates increases to the fund.
Requires certain professional boxing and wrestling promoters to pay fee to fund grants to NJ amateur boxing and wrestling organizations.
Permits certain managers in the public sector to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."
Provides certain protections to persons who purchase or lease motorized recreational conveyances.
Requires creditors, sellers, insurers or lessors to provide consumer with signed duplicate of contract at time of signing.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Establishes outreach procedures for NJ FamilyCare and Medicaid through school lunch application forms in public schools.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Establishes a State aid program for charter school facilities.
Requires responsible business practices by large employers regarding wages and benefits.
Requires health insurers to cover diagnostic testing and long-term antibiotic treatment of chronic Lyme disease and co-infections of Lyme disease.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for assisted living programs.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Requires motor vehicles manufactured after July 1, 2008 to have trunk safety equipment.
Requires used passenger automobiles sold on and after July 1, 2006 to be retrofitted with certain trunk safety equipment.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
The "Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act."
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to public schools.