Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Louis D. Greenwald
Sponsored
Became law3
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Amends language in annual appropriations act to eliminate moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement to new pharmacies and medical supplies sold in pharmacies. *
Establishes one-time supplemental titling fee on new luxury and fuel inefficient passenger automobiles. *
Passed the General Assembly4
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Adds two additional public members to NJ Transit board.
Revises civil service status of certain county welfare agency management positions and requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Exempts comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilitites from ambulatory care assessment.
Out of committee10
Requires DHSS and DOE to provide information on meningococcal meningitis to parents or guardians of certain school-aged children.
Clarifies licensing requirements of certain physicians' offices providing imaging or scanning services and exempts comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities from ambulatory care assessment.
Makes technical change concerning the annual fiscal year timing of various statutory deposits of dedicated cigarette tax revenue.
Adds budget language specifying Medicaid reimbursement for various ambulance services provided to certain recipients.
Abolishes Landscape Architect Examination and Evaluation Committee; transfers powers to New Jersey State Board of Architects.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry. *
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Reduces annual assessment on intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded from 5.8% to 5.3% for limited period.
Appropriates $30.9B State funds and $10.3B federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2006-2007.
Appropriates $33,480,957,000 in State funds and $10,197,242,726 in federal funds for the State budget for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
In committee44
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Requires disclosure by contractor of cost of construction permits required for construction or reconstruction of residential premises.
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.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrator.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Includes custom fabrication work under the prevailing wage act.
Prohibits toll-free passage for SJTA 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.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
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.
Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.
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.
Requires DHS to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants.
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.
Clarifies certain claims for homestead property tax reimbursements and allows for recovery of and penalties and interest on certain erroneous or fraudulent reimbursement claims.
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.
Exempts certain physician's offices operating magnetic resonance imaging or computerized axial tomography services from requirement to obtain license to operate those services.
Permits school districts to be reimbursed for certain unfunded State mandates.
Authorizes the issuance of $2,705,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance the construction and renovation of higher education facilities; appropriates $5,000.
Revises the structure, functions and authority of the State Investment Council and the Director of the State Division of Investment.
Removes two license limit on plenary retail distribution license holders.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Transfers powers of Landscape Architect Examination and Evaluation Committee to New Jersey State Board of Architects.
Changes tobacco products wholesale sales tax on moist snuff to a weight-based tax.
Requires report and public hearing prior to DEP recommendation of site for inclusion on Superfund list.
Requires radon testing of certain educational facilities every five years, residential properties at the time of sale, and residential lease properties within 18 months and every five years thereafter.
Requires certain service extensions undertaken in municipally-designated areas in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation to receive same benefits as if located in smart growth area.
Requires DEP to submit annual financial report on status of certain fund balances.
Establishes State Council on Children's Museums and Children's Museum Assistance Grant Program in Department of State and creates amusement park charge as the funding source.
Appropriates State funds and federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2006-2007.
Increases State disability benefits fund employee contributions to be transferred into the Health Care Subsidy Fund and the General Fund.
Appropriates State funds and federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2006-2007.
Filed1
Appropriates State funds and federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2006-2007.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Requires DHSS and DOE to provide information on meningococcal meningitis to parents or guardians of certain school-aged children.
Appropriates $30.9B State funds and $10.3B federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2006-2007.
Makes technical change concerning the annual fiscal year timing of various statutory deposits of dedicated cigarette tax revenue.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Reduces annual assessment on intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded from 5.8% to 5.3% for limited period.
Appropriates $33,470,914,000 in State Funds and $10,197,242,726 in federal funds for the State budget for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit and performance reviews of State and local government units.
Implements CORE proposals, including "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act"; user -friendly budgets; revision of county superintendent of schools title and duties.*
Provides for various school district accountability measures.
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Creates "The 2007 New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project Act"; appropriates $7.675 million.
The "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Makes unauthorized use of military uniforms, medals or insignias a crime of the fourth degree.
Extends transmittal date of FY2006-07 gubernatorial budget message to the Legislature to March 23, 2006. *
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support New Jersey Veterans Haven program.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Provides mandatory fines and community service for theft of headstones, headstone markers, flags or flag holders from grave sites. *
Extends eligibility for New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Program to dependents and spouses of persons who died as a result of illness caused by exposure to attack sites.
Mandates alternate testing dates because of days of religious observance for certain applicants seeking licensure.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed heath care facilities.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Appropriates $8,552,405 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.
Establishes pilot program to conduct comprehensive eye examinations for second grade students.
Eliminates requirements for private passenger automobile insurers and agents to provide certain information on premium options.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan. *
Regulates certain tows and requires licensure of towing companies.
Provides for instruction in autism and other developmental disabilities awareness and methods of teaching students with autism and other developmental disabilities for candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers and paraprofessionals. **
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Prohibits newly elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
Vetoed · 2
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Requires certain public contract bid advertisements to contain certified cost estimates or estimate ranges of projected contract costs and specifies grounds for rejections of all bids. **
Passed the General Assembly · 21
Establishes a pilot program in DOE for the organization of a county administrative school district.
Permits the appointment of joint municipal court judges by agreement of affected municipalities.
Reconstitutes membership of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards to eight public members only; permits committee to require additional financial disclosure by legislators. *
Requires DEP to maintain online recycled-content products marketplace.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Increases maximum LOSAP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006."
Requires school board member and local elective office candidates to file financial disclosure statements; requires criminal background disclosure for school officials and school board member candidates. *
Provides that reports and publications produced by State be primarily available on Internet, provides for notice of availability of reports and publications.
Requires New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission to provide information clearinghouse on website for businesses interested in relocating to State.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging.
Provides for funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Provides that a nursing home resident has a right to receive food that meets the resident's religious dietary requirements.
Authorizes municipalities to regulate and impose fees on sexually oriented businesses and requires municipalities to station security personnel at certain locations in proximity to such businesses when children are present.
Requires sexually oriented businesses to notify property owners within 3,000 feet and obtain variance prior to operation.
Designates Rt. 9 in Cape May County as "Police Unity Tour Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 24
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
Permits in-person wagering at casinos on results of professional sports events, subject to voter approval.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Allows counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Directs DOE to include information about State adult disability services in booklet for parents of special education students and to require schools to designate staff member as parent liaison.
Imposes criminal penalties for certain actions concerning disposition of decedent's body parts.
Appropriates $27,572,751 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for State farmland acquisitions; appropriates $341,278 in bond funds for soil and water conservation grants; and revises funding for administrative costs of State Transfer Deve
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential. *
Requires DHSS standards for safe building interiors; submission of documentation of investigation and remediation as a condition to issuance of construction permit for certain sites; makes changes to the "Industrial Site Recovery Act."
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
Restricts receipt of things of value by members of the Legislature and legislative staff from lobbyists and governmental affairs agents; increases certain penalty provisions. *
Prohibits candidates from contributing campaign funds to charity in which candidate or candidate's immediate family is an officer or employee or receives compensation for goods or services provided to the charity.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Makes it a primary offense for motorists to talk on or text message with hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication device while driving. *
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain digital media content expenses and concerning the film production expenses credit, amending P.L.2005, c.345.
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
In committee · 68
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
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.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Authorizes special license emblems for Fraternal Order of Police members.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; requires ethics training for State employees; increases penalties for ethics violations.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
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.
Phases in official advertising rate increases; provides for biennial rate adjustments thereafter upon CPI changes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and 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%
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities and boards of education, and against employees of municipalities and boards of education acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Permits municipalities to enact an ordinance requiring drivers arrested for DUI to be held in custody.
Prohibits supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for public school and municipal employees with annual compensation of $100,000 or more.
Permits parent of twins or higher order multiples enrolled in public school to select shared or separate classroom placement of their children.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Establishes Applied Behavior Analysis for Children with Autism Pilot Program in DHS; appropriates $10 million.
Authorizes POW license plates for leased vehicles.
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Permits any voter to receive absentee ballots for all future elections upon request.
Dedicates CATV company franchise fee payments to property tax reduction, and to municipal utility and law enforcement costs.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement for claimants affected by eminent domain.
Increases firearm permit and license fees.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding donations of anatomical gifts.
Requires DEP to conduct testing of child care centers for hazardous substances.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Requires reimbursement of physical damage deductible paid by insured under private passenger automobile insurance policy within 180 days under certain circumstances.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires hang tag for holders of provisional driver's license and windshield sticker for holders of special learner's permit and examination permit.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Requires schools and youth baseball leagues to have defibrillators on site during baseball games and practices.
Amends language in annual appropriations act to eliminate moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement to new pharmacies and medical supplies sold in pharmacies.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Filed · 5
Establishes the "New Jersey Tax and Fiscal Policy Study Commission" to study the State and local tax structure and related fiscal issues.
Authorizes individual boards of education to self insure for certain insurance; removes current prohibitions.
Clarifies authority of DOT to enter certain agreements with local governments.
Establishes Division of Risk Management in the Department of the Treasury; reorganizes Office of Information Technology; requires consolidation of enhanced 9-1-1 public safety answering points.
"Property Assessment Reform Act"; appropriates $4,000,000.