Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law11
Provides unemployment benefits for spouses of armed services members under certain circumstances. *
Requires certain disclosures of information on development subsidies.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools.
Requires any person responsible for conducting remediation to submit written notification and a remedial action workplan under certain conditions; requires DEP to adopt rules setting forth notice requirements. *
Authorizes suspension of motor vehicle registration.
Establishes a public awareness campaign concerning the importance of keeping a current address with MVC.
Clarifies that suspension for non-driving related offense is distinct from suspension for driving related offense.
Renames New Jersey Rating Plan and provides for changes in procedures for payment of outstanding surcharges.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Requires owner to report loss or theft of firearm to police within 36 hours. *
Passed the Senate2
Clarifies type of liability insurance coverage certain licensed auto body repair facilities must carry.
Revises driver's license suspension for operating a motor vehicle without certain insurance.
Out of committee30
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Provides for sales tax exemptions for advanced technology partial zero emission vehicles, imposes surcharge on certain automobiles. *
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from landlords in certain circumstances.
"Public Employees' Flexibility Act."
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Permits board of education to obtain credit card for use by board's purchasing agent.
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Establishes the "School District Fiscal Accountability Act;" provides for appointment of a State monitor in certain school districts and advance State aid payments to those districts; authorizes reappropriation of budgeted funds. **
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election. *
Upgrades simple assault against a private school teacher to aggravated assault; adds definition of "school" to criminal code. *
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Clarifies jurisdiction concerning matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident.
Enhances penalties for possessing, receiving, and transferring community guns.
Requires Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council to report to State Employment and Training Center and adds three members; and makes an appropriation of $50,000.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell former State Police Barracks in Edgewater Park, Burlington County, as surplus real property.
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
Requires New York Harbor Waterfront Commission to accept applications to add new employees to longshoremen's register.
Appropriates $6.515 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Concerns development subsidies and employment of undocumented aliens.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Creates "The 2007 New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project Act"; appropriates $7.675 million.
Regulates sale of ammunition.
Expands lead paint inspection requirement to dwelling units in single-family and two-family properties.
The "Foreclosure Consulting and Anti-Fraud Act."
Clarifies intent and effect of requirements of P.L.2004, c.183 with respect to historic site real property tax exemptions.
Concerns enhancement of tax compliance under the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law.
Imposes personal liability on certain persons required to collect certain taxes, fees, and assessments.
Establishes a tax clearance certificate program for awards of certain business assistance and incentives.
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Authorizes adoption of time-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Requires COAH to credit any rehabilitated housing with affordability controls against municipal fair share housing obligation.
Concerns automobile insurance rate filings; establishes Office of Automobile Insurance Ratepayer Advocate.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate tuition for four continuous academic years following student's initial enrollment.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Requires all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Makes New Jersey residents who are eligible for federal earned income tax credit also eligible for New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Child Support Reform.
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.
Gives priority for State-funded rental assistance and project-based rental housing to kinship legal guardians and certain kinship caregivers.
Makes 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.
Authorizes municipal court judges to hold hearings on complaints involving unsafe buildings and authorizes housing inspectors to issue summonses.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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.
Enhances penalties upon certain violators of housing codes.
Concerns collective bargaining between educational employers and employee organizations.
Requires certain State officials to reside in New Jersey.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligibility limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Requires that public school buildings be tested for radon and that the State pay the cost of the testing.
Permits certain persons convicted of welfare fraud to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
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.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Clarifies that statute making "good behavior" credits at Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center contingent upon participation in treatment program applies to all inmates.
Establishes special license plates to fund women's heart disease research and education.
Regulates sale and use of paint ball guns by persons under 18 years of age.
Requires representative of New Jersey Communications Officers Association to serve on 9-1-1 Commission.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Increases penalties for drunk driving with minor as passenger.
Requires keg registration; makes the unlawful possession of an unregistered keg a petty disorderly persons offense.
Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines with certain exceptions.
Allows certain retirees to reenroll in SHBP.
Requires cost analysis in certain cases when State department contracts out work.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Establishes the New Jersey Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (NJHOPE) Scholarship Program.
Requires transfer of $7.5 million in special legislative grant appropriations to extend Part-time Tuition Aid Grant Program to all colleges.
Prohibits heavy trucks or truck-trailer combinations on certain county roads.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires property tax bills to contain eligibility information on State tax relief programs.
Permits disqualification of bidder under "Local Public Contracts Law" with whom any contracting unit has had prior negative experience.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Prohibits investment of certain public employee pension funds in tobacco manufacturers and distributors; provides for divestiture of existing holdings in such businesses.
Provides for primary and general elections to be conducted by mail.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for sexual assault upon a minor.
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.
Exempts certain purchases by school food service providers from the sales and use tax.
Requires installation of protective fencing along certain overpasses.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Appropriates $25 million for State Rental Assistance Program in DCA.
Upgrades falsely incriminating another and fictitious reporting of an offense under certain circumstances.
Clarifies that child support judgments shall not be docketed until arrearage equals or exceeds amount payable for one month.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Conforms administration of certain State-administered retirement systems and pension funds to Internal Revenue Code requirements; ensures members' rights to pension benefits.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Prohibits electronic printing of certain debit card information on certain sales receipts.
Allows excuse from jury service on grounds of obligation to care for a minor child under certain circumstances.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Allows school boards to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
Requires SHBP coverage for certain new employees.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Increases income threshold for qualifying for farmland assessment.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable television customers.
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.
Provides for deprivatization of motor vehicle inspection program when vendor contract concludes.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
The "Owners' Rights in Common Interest Developments Act."
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
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.
Establishes "Parenting for All Parents Pilot Program" in DHSS.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Law and Public Safety using infrared sensors to facilitate roadside truck safety inspections.
Provides for mail notice of certain telephone rate and tariff changes.
Requires conditionally discharged drug dependent persons to undergo assessment and drug treatment.
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.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Prohibits persons under 19 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Prohibits HMO from imposing certain restrictions regarding provision of health care services to enrollees.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Requires the State to reimburse counties for costs incurred in connection with the operation of county prosecutors' offices.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Permits certain managers in the public sector to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."
Establishes gross income tax credit for full time tuition cost at certain New Jersey institutions of post-secondary education.
Provides for the registration and regulation of sellers of travel.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
Requires the State to pay all costs for operation of the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force; appropriates $15,000.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to fund CeaseFire pilot program in Newark, Trenton and Camden.
Establishes the School District Governance Study Commission.
Provides that a school district may finance energy savings improvements or renovations with a 15-year lease purchase agreement.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Requires certain continuing education for school administrators and board of education members, establishment of a citizen advisory committee and centralized mechanism to track leave, prohibits superintendent from serving as school business administrator
Requires presumption that any bail paid by defendant charged with certain weapons offenses will be in the form of full cash.
Requires disclosure of certain adverse actions based on consumer credit reports.
Exempts value of applicant's motor vehicle from Work First New Jersey eligibility determination.
Imposes mandatory interest payment on delinquent child support judgments.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Requires hospitals to report certain injuries to local and State police.
Requires DEP to designate one site in State park or forest where all-terrain vehicles may be used.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Increases casino gross revenue and multi-casino progressive slot machine taxes and extends certain casino tax provisions for additional two years.
Changes day of nonpartisan municipal election to day of primary election in June.
Changes date for election of fire commissioners from third Saturday in February to day of primary election.
"Inland Blue Acres Bond Act of 2007," authorizes issuance of $100 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Requires discount for certain E-ZPass frequent users of NJ Turnpike Exit 6.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Requires State IV-D agency to assess interest or late payment fees on unpaid child support.
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole.
Requires certain cities of the second class to establish a Second Chance Council to develop a plan to increase jobs for released criminals and high school dropouts.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program," in Mercer and Essex Counties.
Requires candidates for school board member and local elective office to file financial disclosure statement on or before 10th day following deadline for filing nominating petitions for that office.
Permits issuance of temporary work permit for teaching to applicants for admission to cosmetology and hairstyling teacher examination; specifies GED as form of eligibility for licensure.
Upgrades sexual assault to aggravated sexual assault when committed in conjunction with a carjacking.
Clarifies law concerning historic site property tax exemptions.
Repeals historic site property tax exemption.
Requires signs posted by retail motor fuel dealers to indicate motor fuel prices for cash and credit card customer.
Creates Juvenile Transfer Task Force.
Appropriates $5,000,000 to Department of Corrections for substance abuse and addiction treatment services.
Appropriates $5,000,000 to Department of Corrections for education, vocational and job training.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Requires correctional institutions to consider cost to users of inmates' telephone services.
Requires newly manufactured handguns be micro-stamped.
Establishes program in DOE to provide laptop computers and other educational technology equipment and training to public middle school teachers.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Department of State for Educational Opportunity Fund Program.
Requires DEP to designate smoke-free sections of State beaches, parks, and forests.
Authorizes local law enforcement officers to inspect trucks.
Creates presumption for full cash bail for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools and independent institutions of higher education to reimburse school districts for educational costs of students residing in tax-exempt housing and adjusts recipient districts' tax levy growth limit.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Requires suicide and mental health screening of juveniles in county detention centers.
Establishes "Prisoners' Reentry Bill of Rights."
Establishes Prisoner Reentry Commission in the Department of Corrections.
Upgrades the offenses of tampering with witnesses and informants and hindering apprehension under certain circumstances.
Amends special probation statute to increase participation in drug court program; permits court to reduce certain fees.
Creates Internet based program to assist certain pre-release inmates; appropriates $1 million.
Co-sponsored
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Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public. *
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Requires BPU to establish voluntary program for certification of renewable energy installers.
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $250,000.
Permits the consolidation of the boards of education of a county vocational school district and a county special services school district into one board. *
Directs Commissioners of DHS and DHSS to prepare annual report on Access to Employer-Based Health Insurance for certain employed recipients of State health assistance programs. *
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Imposes civil penalty on owner or lessee who fails to return security deposit to tenant whose rent or income is State-subsidized; allows recovery by the State.
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
Establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist. *
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.
Establishes the "Public Corruption Profiteering Penalty Act."
Allows certain public entities to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of certain energy services for their facilities.
"Safe Patient Handling Act"; requires health care facilities to establish safe patient handling programs.
"Medicaid Program Integrity and Protection Act"; establishes Office of Medicaid Inspector General; appropriates $3 million.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Creates the "Internet Dating Safety Act," requiring Internet dating services to provide notice whether the service conducts criminal background screenings.
Provides for mandatory term of imprisonment for luring and enticing an adult; increases mandatory term for luring and enticing a child.
Restricts certain sex offenders' access to the Internet.
Authorizes certain local units to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure used for providing broadband telecommunications service via wirelesss community networks. *
Requires new State residents to register their vehicles in New Jersey.
Increases amount of State tax credits under "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Provides free admission for veterans to State parks and forests during events held by veterans' organizations and free use of park and forest facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender. *
Excludes membership fees and dues of certain governmental and charitable clubs and organizations and certain parking services from sales and use tax. ****
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs .**
Requires governmental affairs agent to report particular items in annual appropriation legislation or appropriation legislation supplemental thereto on which agent acted.
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.
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Authorizes DYFS to review prospective resource family parents' child abuse record information from other states, and provides these parents with right to be heard at certain hearings.
Clarifies that in nonpublic schools the school nurse would be required to recruit and train volunteer designees to administer epinephrine to students when nurse is not physically present.
Establishes the transport of firearms into State for purposes of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
"Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act;" allows tax credits to certain businesses for certain capital investments in urban transit hubs.
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Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties.
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. *
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Route 31 Purple Heart Memorial Highway," appropriates $2,500.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
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 certain interactions and arrangements between student lending institutions and institutions of higher education.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Out of committee · 55
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Revises statutes governing compensation for victims of crime. *
Allows a candidate for a teacher certificate an exemption to the grade point average requirement under certain circumstances.
Mandates training for school bus drivers.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days.
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.
Regulates increases in rent in affordable housing due to increases in heating fuel costs.
Increases voting members on UMDNJ board of trustees from 11 to 19; provides for additional board powers; and establishes board of directors for University Hospital. ***
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in Division of Consumer Affairs. *
Expands mission, authority and eligible membership of organized militia in DMVA. *
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Upgrades penalties for recruiting minors and confined persons to be in criminal street gang. *
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Requires boards of education to provide greater public access to information on employment compensation of certain school administrators and requires annual audit to include test measures for State and federal income tax compliance. *
Lowers to 62 statutory qualifying age for low-income senior citizen State rental assistance grants.
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements. *
Provides certain employment protections for employees on military leave in time of war or emergency.
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
Appropriates $9,066,000 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 northern 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 $8,279,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes certificate of rehabilitation for certain persons with criminal records.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Establishes pilot program to conduct comprehensive eye examinations for second grade students.
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Establishes the position of Ethics Counsel and mandates certain ethics consultation and training in the Legislative Branch of State government.
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. *
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 23 as "Robert A. Roe Highway"; appropriates $2,500.
Requires State to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs; requires BPU to educate public on benefits of compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Enacts the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote."
Designates portion of U.S. Route 1 in South Brunswick Township as "Pleasant T. Macon Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires health care providers to test pregnant women for HIV as part of routine prenatal care unless woman refuses testing, and requires testing of certain newborns for HIV. *
Revises Work First New Jersey earned income disregards and sanction policy for noncompliance with work activity requirements.
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000.
Permits certain child care centers to receive $1,500 grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Appropriates $40 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $30,660,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland acquisitions, and appropriates certain bond funds for soil and water conservation grants.
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Amends language in annual appropriations act to eliminate moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement to new pharmacies and medical supplies sold in pharmacies. *
Creates offenses of gang criminality and promoting organized street crime.
Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
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Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for utility and energy costs.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to Social Services for the Homeless program.
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.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces, except casino floors and simulcasting facilities.
Prohibits trapping of cats and dogs; limits trapping to animal control officers, members of SPCA and volunteers of Trap-Neuter-Return program.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of Abbott district school facilities projects by $2 billion.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
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.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
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.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
"Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2004."
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Essex and Mercer County.
Establishes "New Jersey Partnership for Secure Schools Pilot Program" in Department of Education; appropriates $3 million.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Caps supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for school administrators at $15,000.
Appropriates certain additional federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Establishes standards for employment contracts with certain school district administrators, and requires DOE to approve the contracts and to provide public access to the contracts.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to $0.10 per letter size page and $0.15 per legal size page.
Prohibits businesses from posting advertisements on vacant properties, and imposes penalties therefor.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Authorizes counties to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure used for providing broadband telecommunications service via wireless community networks.
Establishes the "Equal Benefits Act of 2007."
Reestablishes and revises public contract set-aside program.
Creates Community Farmers' Market Study Commission and program promoting marketing opportunities for farmers.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to elementary school students.
Establishes "Parent Partnership Recognition Day" in school districts during the fourth week of October.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires all board of education employees to undergo the electronic fingerprinting process.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,500,000 to the Commission on Higher Education to support the Governor's Schools.
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Prohibits newly elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.