Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Louis D. Greenwald
Sponsored
Became law15
Exempts veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Requires disclosure by contractor of cost of construction permits required for construction or reconstruction of residential premises.
Exempts certain county and municipally-owned water supply facilities from BPU rate regulation. *
Permits certain pupils to participate in interscholastic athletic programs.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Imposes annual air toxics surcharge based on emissions at certain facilities.
Appropriates $8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
Revises 1% fee on transfer of residential property for more than $1 million, exempts certain transfers, and provides for refunds of certain fees paid. **
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Conforms the sales and use tax to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to provide for entry therein.
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. *
Clarifies that the minimum payment of estimated gross income tax on sales of real property in this State by nonresidents is 2% of the consideration.
Permits the Director of the Division of Taxation to extend filing and payment deadlines under the New Jersey gross income tax to conform with similar federal personal income tax actions of the Internal Revenue Service.
Passed the General Assembly7
Permits elections in municipalities with fewer than 500 residents to be conducted by mail.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Permits sending district board of education to have representative on receiving district board of education under certain conditions.
Affords DRPA police officers authority to inspect hazardous materials carriers and cargoes.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
Clarifies certain claims for homestead property tax reimbursements and allows for recovery of and penalties and interest on certain erroneous or fraudulent reimbursement claims.
Exempts certain physician's offices operating magnetic resonance imaging or computerized axial tomography services from requirement to obtain license to operate those services.
Out of committee11
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Provides that non-participating hospitals receive fee-for-service payment from Medicaid for emergency services provided to Medicaid and NJ Family Care recipients.
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
Appropriates $28,027,261,000 in State funds and $9,151,273 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2004-2005.
Makes a fiscal year 2004 supplemental appropriation of $252,358,707 from the General Fund and the Property Tax Relief Fund and authorizes certain additional appropriations.
Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.
Appropriates $27,919,888,000 in State funds and $9,795,662,570 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2005-2006.*
Makes fiscal year 2005 supplemental appropriations of $215,044,000 from the General Fund for various purposes and reduces certain existing fiscal year 2005 appropriations by $215,044,000.
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding."
In committee54
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Creates crime of committing offense in senior citizen zone.
Provides that, when candidacy for party nomination to public office or for political party office is uncontested, no primary election vote upon such nomination or party office shall be held.
Makes use of emergency ballots optional in each county.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Establishes Statewide allogeneic cord blood bank, requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for cord blood banking and appropriates $5 million to DHSS.
Permits certain war-time veterans and military surviving spouses to receive enhanced homestead rebate amounts similar to the homestead rebate amounts allowed for senior and disabled residents.
Permits automotive collecting activities on residential property outside of ordinary public view.
Grants 90-day grace period for payment of property taxes by seniors and longer period for participants in senior freeze act.
Requires DHSS meningitis public awareness campaign to target pediatricians.
Increases period of dual membership allowed in service credit transfer between PERS and TPAF.
Requires contributions toward cost of certain public safety improvements of streets and highways.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Provides that the Commissioner of Education may not subsequently increase tentative per pupil tuition rate charged for disabled students enrolled in private schools for the disabled.
Requires certain State departments to maintain toll-free telephone number for services and general information.
Permits voting by mail for all elections in certain municipalities under certain conditions.
Increases penalties for intoxicated drivers under age 21.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Supplemental appropriation for $5 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Excludes certain payments to affiliates from "points and fees" definition.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrator.
Concerns Workforce Development Partnership Program and employer tax credits for customized training.
Includes custom fabrication work under the prevailing wage act.
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Prohibits toll-free passage for South Jersey Transportation Authority employees, officers, and members except while commuting or carrying out official duties.
Requires State aid for operating expenses of higher education institutions as a percentage of the State budget to equal national average.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Revises time frame for construction permit applications.
Authorizes county surrogates to establish or expand programs to provide information to law enforcement officers, firefighters and first aid squad members concerning the preparation of wills, living wills and powers of attorney.
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.
Exempts reimbursements from Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare and allows deduction for charity care in calculation of gross receipts for purposes of assessment on ambulatory care facilities.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $7,500,000 to the Department of State to fund the Cultural Trust.
Establishes outreach procedures for NJ FamilyCare and Medicaid through school lunch application forms in public schools.
Requires DHS to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants.
Exempts manufacturers of marine equipment from air toxics surcharge.
Concerns filing methods for tax documents and filing standards when electronic filing methods are utilized; requires certain tax preparers to electronically file gross income tax returns.
Makes certain changes to requirements related to gross receipts assessment on health care facilities.
Requires certain employers to make charity care payments under certain circumstances.
Revises civil service status of certain county welfare board management positions.
Excludes charitable donations as a factor in determining resident taxpayer status for gross income tax purposes.
Requires DHSS and DOE to provide information on meningococcal meningitis to parents or guardians of certain school-aged children.
Provides terrorism damages exclusion for certain commercial risks under standard fire insurance policy on a permanent basis.
Requires counties and municipalities to redact personal information from public documents to qualify for public archives and records infrastructure support grants.
Supplemental appropriation of $15.8 million to provide $50 per household increase in benefits under Lifeline programs.
Provides a credit to certain life insurance companies against the insurance premiums tax for retaliatory costs paid to other states.
Revises the structure, functions and authority of the State Investment Council and the Director of the State Division of Investment.
The "Interest Rate Protection Act."
Carried from the Senate
Became law8
Requires certain campaign treasurers and all organizational treasurers to be trained and certified by ELEC.
Provides that non-participating hospitals receive fee-for-service payment from Medicaid for emergency services provided to Medicaid and NJ Family Care recipients.
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding." *
Makes a fiscal year 2004 supplemental appropriation of $252,358,707 from the General Fund and the Property Tax Relief Fund and authorizes certain additional appropriations.
Appropriates $28,027,261,000 in State funds and $9,151,607,273 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2004-2005.
Permits elections in municipalities with fewer than 500 residents to be conducted by mail.
Appropriates $27,919,888,000 in State funds and $9,795,662,570 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2005-2006.*
Makes fiscal year 2005 supplemental appropriations of $215,044,000 from the General Fund for various purposes and reduces certain existing fiscal year 2005 appropriations by $215,044,000.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
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.
Appropriates $2 million to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC); imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Appropriates $17,623,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Increases options for investment of Garden State Preservation Trust Funds.
Increases motor vehicle registration fees to cover capital and operational costs of State's emergency medical helicopter program and fund new State Police trooper class. *
Passed the General Assembly · 7
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3% surplus for 2006-2007
Authorizes special license emblems for Fraternal Order of Police members.
Out of committee · 37
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.
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.
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Requires nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Requires NJ Division of Travel and Tourism to report to Governor and Legislature every six months on status of tourism industry.
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; makes various other changes concerning ethics. *
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates $13,845,980 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Makes fiscal year 2006 supplemental appropriation of $22,000,000 to Department of Corrections for grants to counties housing State inmates and amends certain language provisions of the fiscal year 2006 appropriations act concerning certain grants.
In committee · 68
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain charitable contributions.
Provides gross income tax credit for services volunteered to certain charitable and governmental organizations.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
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.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides for State aid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; approriates $50 million.
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.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
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.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Allows inactive licensees to complete required continuing education at any time prior to reactivating license.
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DLPS for urban search and rescue teams.
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.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Permits purchase of service and salary credit in PERS for service with a bi-state agency created by interstate compact.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes lawn watering restrictions; authorizes DEP to adopt water conservation regulations and to reduce water supply application backlog; and requires installation of automatic rain sensor devices under certain circumstances.
Increases pensions for certain PFRS retirees when special retirement benefit for active PFRS members increases to 70%.
Requires binding arbitration in contract disputes between hospitals and health insurance carriers.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Repeals air toxics surcharge.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DHSS for grant to UMDNJ Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Makes unauthorized use of military medals or insignias a crime of the fourth degree.