Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
James W. Holzapfel
Sponsored
Became law1
Upgrades simple assault against a private school teacher to aggravated assault; adds definition of "school" to criminal code. *
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of traveling sales crews. *
Requires water purveyors and licensed operators to notify the municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues. *
In committee34
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.
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.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
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.
Changes earliest date of construction or rehabilitation of housing granted credits without controls.
Includes screening for toxoplasmosis in newborn screening program.
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.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Removes requirement of physical interference from crime of obstructing administration of law.
Prohibits certain vehicles from obstructing an intersection.
Prescribes duties of driver approaching a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck displaying flashing lights.
Provides uniform procedure for sheriffs to provide debtors with certain surplus notices in mortgage foreclosure actions.
Ensures operation of certain motor fuel storage, distribution and dispensing facilities during disasters and emergencies.
Provides grants and tax credits for school districts and private contractors for installing cameras on school buses.
Exempts initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of certain golf clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Upgrades penalties for drag racing.
Grants right to carry handgun to certain retired campus police officrs.
Revises distribution of monies from Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to municipalities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days.
The "Global Warming Response 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.
Appropriates $8,100,000 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 $39,430,430 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
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.
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Provides for licensure of massage and bodywork therapists and registration of the employers.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Out of committee · 17
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets. *
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights. *
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for lake dredging and restoration projects, or stream cleaning and desnagging projects.
Provides uniform procedure for sheriffs to provide certain surplus notices in mortgage foreclosure actions. *
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
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.
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
In committee · 67
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.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines.
Requires public hearing and security report before establishing, relocating, or expanding juvenile boot camps.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
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.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Increases amount of State payment for post-retirement health care benefits for certain retired police officers and firefighters.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
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.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
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.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
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 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.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand commission's jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures.
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.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Allows PFRS members to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit for named beneficiary.
Provides that PFRS definitions of widow, widower and spouse will include domestic partners of all PFRS members.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits municipality to determine permissible parking distance from intersection, crosswalk or "stop" sign.
Permits municipalities to enact an ordinance requiring drivers arrested for DUI to be held in custody.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHS to develop community residences for Division of Developmental Disabilities clients on the waiting list.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Reduces certain stop sign no parking zones from 50 feet to 30 feet.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facitities will be located.
Eliminates charges for initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of health and fitness, athletic, and sporting clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Appropriates $960,000 in FY 2007 to the Department of Education to pay the State share of new school facilities construction in the Toms River Regional School District.
Authorizes municipalities that share courtroom facilities to appoint additional judges to municipal court.
Requires dockbuilders and workers who come into contact with creosote-treated marine piling, and their employers, to comply with certain established safety and health protection procedures.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Increases penalties for violations committed by provisional driver's license holder.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Authorizes court to require persons convicted of refusing breathalyzer for second or subsequent time to install ignition interlock.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.