Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Creates study commission on the death penalty and imposes moratorium on imposition of death penalty. *
Requires notification of certain persons of availability of federal earned income tax credit and New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act." *
Provides for alternate disciplinary action, review and appeal procedures through collective bargaining between State and its employees.
Requires hospital and satellite emergency departments to provide care to sexual assault victims and information about emergency contraception and the contraceptives upon request. *
Authorizes State Board of Examiners to issue credentials to serve as substitute teachers and substitute school nurses and to collect fees for the issuance of the credentials.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus land in Township of Ewing, Mercer County, to winning auction bidder.
Appropriates $5.015 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the Senate5
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from landlords in certain circumstances.
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires certain disclosures of information on development subsidies. *
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Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Increases monetary penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limit and reporting requirements and remuneration restrictions.
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates funds to public financing of elections for members of Legislature.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
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. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act." *
Requires payment to municipality for use of municipal services by for-profit lessee of property owned by county or county improvement authority.
Requires licensing and registration of energy use allocation systems according to procedures adopted by State Superintendent of Division of Weights and Measures.
Permits board of education to obtain credit card for use by board's purchasing agent.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Requires representative of New Jersey Communications Officers Association to serve on 9-1-1 Commission.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. *
"Public Employees' Flexibility Act."
Provides for the annual selection of six school facilities demonstration projects under the State's school construction law.*
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Includes advanced practice nurses among medical professionals authorized to examine or treat certain individuals under labor laws.
Allows residential subscribers to designate third parties to receive CATV service termination notices.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Revises criteria for new historic sites to obtain historic site property tax exemption. *
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Prohibits display of students' social security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Increases number of assistant commissioners in Department of Education.
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools. **
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes guidelines for police action at scene of railroad grade crossing accidents and requires reports to federal government; requires DOT Commissioner to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make safety improvements to grade crossings.
Requires that public school buildings be tested for radon and that the State pay the cost of the testing.
Prohibits telemarketers from using technology designed to misrepresent their identity.
Enhances penalties upon certain violators of housing codes. *
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Authorizes municipal court judges to hold hearings on complaints involving unsafe buildings and authorizes housing inspectors to issue summonses.
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
Establishes date of initial employment with board of education as effective date of provisional teaching certificate and provides that novice teacher will be a teaching staff member for all purposes.
The "Bounty Hunter Licensing Act."
In committee186
Authorizes adoption of time-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places.
Creates tax credit program for businesses to assist in converting abandoned urban properties into affordable housing.
Requires COAH to credit any rehabilitated housing with affordability controls against municipal fair share housing obligation.
Requires certain counties to establish County Airport Expansion Citizen Review Boards.
Regulates use of Social Security numbers.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Protects privacy of an individual's financial information by prohibiting disclosure without the prior informed, affirmative consent of the consumer.
Makes changes to the "Comprehensive Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act."
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Requires child to DYFS caseworker ratio of no greater than 25 to 1.
Requires DYFS district offices to adjust office hours and establish staggered work weeks for caseworkers.
Concerns automobile insurance rate filings; establishes Office of Automobile Insurance Ratepayer Advocate.
Establishes specialized child abuse and neglect investigation units in DYFS district offices.
Requires DYFS to inform county boards of social services when children receiving assistance under Work First New Jersey are placed in foster care.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires installation of protective fencing along certain overpasses.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition for four continuous academic years following student's initial enrollment.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Upgrades falsely incriminating another and fictitious reporting of an offense under certain circumstances.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines with certain exceptions.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Neighborhood Community Centers.
Requires increased allocation of balanced housing funds and amounts which may be spent from Housing Demonstration Fund for shelters; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Prohibits heavy trucks or truck-trailer combinations on certain county roads.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Law and Public Safety using infrared sensors to facilitate roadside truck safety inspections.
Authorizes State Lottery Commission to participate in joint lotteries with net proceeds to fund NJHOPE Scholarship program.
Authorizes conveyance of certain NJ National Guard property in Mercer county to Princeton township for public recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable television customers.
Requires certain State officials to reside in New Jersey.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
Prohibits investment of certain public employee pension funds in tobacco manufacturers and distributors; provides for divestiture of existing holdings in such businesses.
Requires SHBP coverage for certain new employees.
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Establishes Unemployment Compensation Direct Deposit Program.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Provides State extended UI benefits, and utilizes option for federal extended UI benefits.
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.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
Prohibits persons under 18 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Establishes "Parenting for All Parents Pilot Program" in DHSS.
Excludes certain unemployment compensation recipients from paying civil service application fees.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt housing and are enrolled in the district.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Provides that charter school must give enrollment priority to certain students.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates if vacancy occurs between 51st and 30th day prior to general election, except under certain circumstances; provides reimbursement of certain election-related expenses.
Establishes public financing program for nomination and election of candidates for office of member of the Legislature; limits spending in such campaigns.
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Limits certain campaign contributions to $1,800 per year or per election; abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Provides for deprivatization of motor vehicle inspection program when vendor contract concludes.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and available to public.
Requires motor vehicle seller to provide purchaser at time of delivery with all documentation needed for New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission registration.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Permits disqualification of bidder under "Local Public Contracts Law" with whom any contracting unit has had prior negative experience.
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Requires new police officers to receive First Responder-D training.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality.
Provides for Special Purple Heart license plates.
Directs Attorney General to investigate security at Mercer County Corrections Center; appropriates $5,000.
Clarifies that statute making "good behavior" credits at Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center contingent upon participation in treatment program applies to all inmates.
Authorizes Historic Trenton license plates.
Appropriates $2.1 million in unexpended federal funds to DHS for grant to Child Care Connection.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Excludes certain winnings from consideration for PAAD eligibility.
Prohibits HMO from imposing certain restrictions regarding provision of health care services to enrollees.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and permits certain school districts to determine budgets without referendum.
Requires wearing of gloves in food preparation in food establishments.
Requires nonpublic schools to establish procedures for the maintenance of, and access to, pupil records and authorizes parental review of tests.
Increases civil fines and penalties imposed by ELEC; remits moneys collected therefrom to General Fund for appropriation by the Legislature to commission.
Requires primary and general elections to be conducted by mail.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligibility limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Concerns collective bargaining between educational employers and employee organizations.
Provides for the registration and regulation of sellers of travel.
Concerns employee personnel files.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Allows credit unions to sell title insurance.
Establishes special license plates to fund women's heart disease research and education.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Conforms administration of certain State-administered retirement systems and pension funds to Internal Revenue Code requirements; ensures members' rights to pension benefits.
Increases income threshold for qualifying for farmland assessment.
Allows certain retirees to reenroll in SHBP.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Reduces vesting requirement under State-administered retirement systems to five years' service.
Extends exemption from TPAF retiree reenrollment requirement to learning disabilities teacher-consultants, school psychologists, speech therapists and social workers.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and tracks having pedestrian traffic, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Provides for mail notice of certain telephone rate and tariff changes.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Enacts the "New Jersey Parentage Act of 2003."
Provides for payment of standby water service under Condo Services Law.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Requires the State to pay all costs for operation of the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools.
Includes consideration of specific factor of pattern of domestic violence in determination of equitable distribution.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Clarifies that child support judgments shall not be docketed until arrearage equals or exceeds amount payable for one month.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for sexual assault upon a minor.
Makes owner of residential rental premises criminally liable for consequences of certain housing violations.
Requires the State to reimburse counties for costs incurred in connection with the operation of county prosecutors' offices.
Expands permitted use of vehicles licenses as "farmer" and permits trucks marked "farmer" to operate as commercial vehicles.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Broadens exemption of school textbooks from sales tax to include recommended as well as required textbooks.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Requires keg registration; makes the unlawful possession of an unregistered keg a petty disorderly persons offense.
Establishes the New Jersey Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (NJHOPE) Scholarship Program.
Establishes a five year after-school pilot program in the Department of Education to discourage delinquency; appropriates $5,000,000.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Regulates sale and use of paint ball guns by persons under 18 years of age.
Permits certain persons convicted of welfare fraud to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Concerns certain duties of Employment Security Council.
Adds option of receipt of employee's contributions plus portion of employer contributions when vested PERS member leaves PERS-covered service.
Prohibits electronic printing of certain debit card information on certain sales receipts.
Provides retirement allowance option to surviving spouses of deceased vested PERS and TPAF members.
Requires school district to establish preschool recruitment program under certain conditions.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Prohibits employers or institutions of higher education from using or displaying certain social security numbers under certain circumstances.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Restores funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; appropriates $10 million.
Requires all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record.
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Provides parity between school boards and municipalities with respect to the prevailing wage threshold.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Allows school boards to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
Clarifies that a school district may finance energy savings improvements with a 15-year lease purchase agreement.
Requires transfer of $7.5 million in special legislative grant appropriations to extend Part-time Tuition Aid Grant Program to all colleges.
Provides that preserved farmland may be sold by the State or a local government unit only to established farmers and restricts size of farmer residence which may be built thereon.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with minor as passenger.
Prohibits sale of certain high-calorie beverages in public schools.
Exempts subscription fees for cable radio service, satellite television service and satellite radio service from the sales and use tax.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Establishes credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for puchase of certain qualified hybrid vehicles.
"Common Interest Community and Homeowners' Association Act."
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Allows excuse from jury service on grounds of obligation to care for a minor child under certain circumstances.
Establishes the School District Governance Study Commission.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force; appropriates $15,000.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
Makes New Jersey residents who are eligible for federal earned income tax credit also eligible for New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes standards for court-appointed child custody evaluators.
Requires conditionally discharged drug dependent persons to undergo assessment and drug treatment.
Requires businesses to disclose any breach of security of computer systems to customers and to destroy certain personal information no longer retained.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
Requires disclosure of certain adverse actions based on consumer credit reports.
Includes private school administrators and teachers in the criminal statute upgrading certain assaults.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of federal educational programs.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Upgrades penalty for unlawfully transferring a firearm to an underage person.
Provides State, county, municipal, and school district contracts for professional services will be publicly bid.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Requires public institutions of higher education to advertise for bids prior to awarding contracts for professional services.
Permits certain managers in the public sector to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."
Requires students to stay in school to acquire and retain driver's license.
Exempts certain purchases by school food service providers from the sales and use tax.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
Increase penalty amount to $2,000 and $5,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Gives priority for State-funded rental assistance and project-based rental housing to kinship legal guardians and certain kinship caregivers.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Supplemental appropriation to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program from certain penalties recovered from oil companies and gas station operators.
Enhances transparency in exercise of municipal redevelopment powers.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHS to provide supplemental energy assistance to low-income households.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system. *
Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission. *
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
"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. *
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
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.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
Passed the Senate · 2
Allows a candidate for a teacher certificate an exemption to the grade point average requirement under certain circumstances. *
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.
Out of committee · 35
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish NJ Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Mandates training for school bus drivers. *
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Appropriates $1,289,407 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Mercer County College.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $16,181,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. *
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to Social Services for the Homeless program. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Provides that gift certificates and cards are redeemable at full face value in perpetuity.
Permits certain persons on probation or parole for certain fourth degree crimes enacted after January 1, 2006 to vote. *
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Etablishes a direct taxpayer property tax relief subaccount to ensure that revenue from the "millionaire's" tax increase is dedicated for real property tax relief directly for taxpayers.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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Supplemental appropriation of $2 million from the General Fund for the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 10 years.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Increases pension benefits for certain retirees in certain municipal retirement systems.
Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Permits corporation with one or two employees who are the only shareholders to opt out of workers' compensation.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes Clean Car Division to administer Clean Car Program in DOT; appropriates $250,000.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
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.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Prohibits use of involvement in non-at-fault accidents and selection of collision and comprehensive coverages as tier rating factors.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Provides for safety zones adjacent to railroad rights-of-way and restrictions on construction of crossings at-grade.
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Requires members of State Police to undergo annual performance evaluations.
Allows supermarkets and malls corporation business tax credit for motorized cart's acquisition cost.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Supplemental appropriation to FY04 budget of $250,000 for publication of Truth in Renting booklet by DCA.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Provides that person may not obtain adult hunting license until age 18; imposes certain education requirements on persons who possess youth hunting license.
Permits counties and municipalities to impose limits on politicals contributions made by business entities that receive contracts; requires disclosure of political contributions by certain business entities.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of Abbott district school facilities projects by $2 billion.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Provides for license suspension for violations of domestic violence restraining orders; permits use of restricted license.
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Route 31 Purple Heart Memorial Highway," appropriates $2,500.
Clarifies law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis, increases number of delegates trained to administer epinephrine, and requires plan to reduce student exposure to allergens.
Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for utility and energy costs.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
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Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.