Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
James W. Holzapfel
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days. *
Includes screening for toxoplasmosis in newborn screening program.
In committee26
Designates prison telephone revenues for VCCB claims.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Permits qualified retired law enforcement officers who were employed by law enforcement agencies outside the State to carry firearms.
Requires State park and forest restroom facilities to include an exclusive family restroom.
Allows drug dealing offenses to be graded by "units," rather than weight, of controlled dangerous substances.
Requires State Medical Examiner to perform toxicological testing for county medical examiners.
Reduces blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction to 0.08% and changes penalty for a first offense.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Establishes new offenses concerning the unlawful possession and use of credit card scanners.
Provides for reimbursement of training costs of certain law enforcement officers.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term of two years for leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Upgrades crime of identity theft under certain circumstances.
Establishes that traffic fine overpayments of $5 or less do not have to be refunded.
Upgrades penalties for certain fireworks violations.
Allows Attorney General and county prosecutors to obtain toll collection monitoring system information under certain circumstances.
Prohibits additional jughandles on roads or highways in the State.
Increases penalties for certain campaign advertising violations.
Abolishes the Victims of Crime Compensation Board and creates in its stead an Office of Victims' Services in, but not of, the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of door to door sales enterprises.
Changes earliest date of construction or rehabilitation of housing granted credits without controls.
Provides immunity for certain volunteer health care professionals and nonprofit clinics.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations concerning the billing practices and fees charged for basic and advanced life support services.
Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses.
Establishes offense of soliciting image of minor with unlawful purpose.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Revises "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Prohibits fireworks or pyrotechnics in certain buildings. *
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Requires photo ID verification of pilots renting aircraft.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
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. *
Out of committee · 13
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand commission's jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures. *
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
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.
Provides for extension of health benefits coverage for certain part-time students.
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.
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 central NJ.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
In committee · 77
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
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.
Requires public hearing and security report before establishing, relocating, or expanding juvenile boot camps.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Permits school pupils to self-administer medication for certain medical conditions.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Permits use of preliminary breath testing devices to detect drunk driving.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Upgrades lewdness to a crime of the fourth degree under certain circumstances.
Requires certain law enforcement officers to undergo psychological testing.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
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.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Creates new $100 assessment for convictions of certain sexual offenses to fund counseling for victims and their families; establishes Sexual Offender Victim Counseling Fund.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Increases income eligibility limit for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement Program beginning in tax year 2002.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Provides payment to local public employers for post-retirement health care benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to the Department of State for a grant to Algonquin Arts.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes the New Jersey Aquaculture Assistance Program.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Implements, upon voter approval, constitutional amendment establishing the office of Lieutenant Governor.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Eliminates the public vote on a school district budget which is within cap.
Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS death benefits; provides retirement allowance to certain survivors of PFRS members.
Increases amount of State payment for post-retirement health care benefits for certain retired police officers and firefighters.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Provides for automatic exemption from jury service for member of a paid or volunteer fire department or fire patrol, paid or volunteer first aid or rescue squad or a State, county or municipal police officer.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes criminal history record background checks of employees and volunteers of nonprofit domestic violence victim serving organizations.