Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Patrick J. Diegnan Jr.
Sponsored
Became law15
Requires county boards of elections to prepare reports concerning use of emergency and provisional ballots. *
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Permits municipalities to construct speed humps on certain roads. *
Authorizes school districts that operate nonmandated preschool programs to collect tuition from parents or guardians of children enrolled in the program.
Redirects $100 million in unemployment taxes to Health Care Subsidy Fund, changes thresholds for employer unemployment taxes, and modifies UI benefits. *
Establishes annual assessment on gross receipts of certain licensed ambulatory care facilities and requires licensure of certain health care services.
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission. *
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Clarifies current law with regard to certain municipal providers of light, heat or power.
Increases maximum permitted fee differential in optometric continuing education programs charged by professional association to non-members.
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Concerns redirection of unemployment taxes and extension of unemployment benefits.
Passed the General Assembly6
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents. *
Permits minors to assist in conduct of bingo games and raffles. *
Establishes Inmate Vocational Training Study Commission.
Requires the placement of organ donation information and materials at public institutions of higher education.
Establishes Early Launch to Learning Initiative (ELLI) Program providing grants to school districts to increase access to preschool programs and authorizes certain districts to collect tuition for children enrolled in preschool programs.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
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Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers to notify consumers of relevant adjustment programs.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for establishment of liens on proceeds of life insurance policies for payment of child support judgments.
Requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review and transmit to judge prior to sentencing motor vehicle abstracts of certain offenders.
Increases host community benefit for municipalities wherein solid waste transfer stations are located from fifty cents to one dollar per ton of solid waste processed at such facilities.
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit under certain conditions.
Requires gated community guards to allow sheriffs and constables to serve process.
Provides procedure to discharge contruction lien by affidavit under certain circumstances.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request. **
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Designates Jersey tomato as State Vegetable.
Authorizes early termination of residential lease by senior citizen tenant accepted into assisted living facility, continuing care retirement community, or low or moderate income housing.
Requires taxicab operators to have at least $50 to make change or to accept payment by credit or debit card.
Redirects $350 million in unemployment taxes to Health Care Subsidy Fund and modifies UI benefits. **
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006." *
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Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Allows inactive licensees to complete required continuing education at any time prior to reactivating license.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of Education to award a reasonable attorney's fee to school district or parent or guardian under certain circumstances in domicile proceedings.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Permits only licensed chiropractors to perform spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities and boards of education, and against employees of municipalities and boards of education acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Permits DOC to award inmates special credits for certain achievements.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
The "Uniform Biennial Election Law."
Reduces the waiting period for a marriage license.
Increases motor fuels tax by three cents per gallon; earmarks increase for abolishment of Garden State Parkway tolls.
Requires all new passenger automobiles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices after 2009.
Provides for permanent loss of driver's license for fourth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Extends definition of sick leave to include birth or placement for adoption of child.
Prohibits State purchase of creosote or creosote-treated wood.
Requires that all work under State Lottery contract for design or manufacture of instant game tickets be performed in U.S.
Redesigns special prisoner of war license plates.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to emergency medical technicians for certain training courses.
Establishes pilot program to provide incentive grants to public school districts which develop instruction programs in languages of critical need; appropriates $2,000,000.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Directs an annual appropriation of $12 million for the support of professional development for teaching staff members.
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general election.
Requires permanent license suspension for third DWI unless offender participates in alcohol treatment program.
Requires written prescriptions to be legibly printed or typed.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.
Increases penalties for fraudulently obtaining, possessing or displaying certain motor vehicle inspection stickers.
Revises the calculation of school district budget caps, eliminates the restrictions on the submission of separate proposal for additional spending, and requires a performance audit upon the submission of such proposals.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal primary and general elections.
Permits early voting starting eight days before general election; makes appropriation.
Requires public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Requires that each school district budget receive a minimum percentage of 50% State support.
Permits establishment of employee assistance programs for public employees.
Imposes limits on fees charged for discovery in municipal court matters.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Limits increase in annual license fees for radon businesses.
Requires appraisal or certification to be delivered by owner upon appeal of certain commercial and industrial property taxes.
Clairifies intent of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law" to prohibit only outside employment or service of a substantial or material conflict of interest.
Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in DHSS; requires pharmacies to compile drug retail price lists.
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.
Requires "Made in NJ" label on all beef products sold in State.
"County College Nursing Student Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $2 million.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Adds two student representatives to board of governors of Rutgers University.
Requires local boards of education to join SHBP; requires State to pay SHBP costs for board employees; requires property tax relief in amount of savings by boards on health care benefit costs.
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Abolishes office of Secretary State and Department of State and makes transfers to New Jersey Commerce, Economic Development and Tourism Commission, Department of Education and Attorney General.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
Requires permanent handicapped person identification cards and parking placards to be renewed biennial.
Requires DCA approval for designation of areas in need of redevelopment and requires referendum before condemning land for private economic development.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Appropriates $99,000 to DCA for grant to Women Helping Women.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in all school buildings.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review and transmit to judge prior to sentencing motor vehicle abstracts of certain offenders.
Authorizes early termination of residential lease by senior citizen tenant accepted into assisted living facility, nursing home, continuing care retirement community, or low or moderate income housing. *
Redirects $350 million in unemployment taxes to Health Care Subsidy Fund and modifies UI benefits. **
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006." *
Co-sponsored
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Requires public school districts to apply all attendance and courses studied at county juvenile detention centers toward district requirements for graduation.
Authorizes an additional urban enterprise zone in New Brunswick.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to issue certain decisions in writing. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Empowers United States Department of Defense police officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Provide for Interstate Compact for Juveniles.
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on certain streets under municipal jurisdiction. *
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards. *
Requires county colleges to award college-credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Amends the State's guardianship law. *
Provides for protection of certain publicly owned archeological sites and findings by various State and local government entities. *
Amends and clarifies the rights of handicapped, blind or deaf persons when accompanied by service or guide dogs.
Establishes optional will registry.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Extends eligibility for thoroughbred breeder awards, in certain circumstances, to owners and breeders of New Jersey horses that win purse money in out-of-State races.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Permits certain pupils to participate in interscholastic athletic programs.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Authorizes $3 assessment on municipal court costs to upgrade Automated Traffic System.
Amends "New Jersey Anti-Piracy Act" to include camcorder piracy of motion pictures.
Requires boat safety course to operate boat on State waters; revises other recreational boating laws.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. **
Expands identity theft statutes to include selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting false birth certificates.
Makes the unlawful use or possession of a scanning device or reencoder a crime. *
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Extends workers' compensation coverage under NJ Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board to thoroughbred exercise riders in certain circumstances.
Increases terms of various casino industry licenses and revises procedure for testing and approval of slot machines.
Delays implementation of "Contractors' Registration Act."
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
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Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act." *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
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.
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
Clarifies jurisdiction concerning matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident. *
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Skinner's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.**
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3% surplus for 2006-2007
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
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Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Provides that information about residence of persons licensed by certain professional boards shall not be disclosed to the public.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Enacts the "Uniform Mediation Act."
Clarifies certain provisions in the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Requires that chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, allopathic physicians, and osteopathic physicians be reimbursed at same rate as other health care providers under various health and accident plans. *
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Requires NJ Division of Travel and Tourism to report to Governor and Legislature every six months on status of tourism industry.
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Revises wills and estates.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Permits municipality to create drug free zone around project-based housing. *
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults. *
Authorizes the State, with prior approval by the State House Commission, to use eminent domain power to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes provided lands are protective of drinking water sources.
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to dogs harbored on the insured property. *
Prohibits possession of handcuff keys for unlawful purpose.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Prohibits imposition of the corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations that only carry passengers into and out of the State in a motor vehicle or motorbus.
Modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Prohibits hold or block on debit card accounts unless disclosed to and authorized by consumer. *
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
Provides for testing for all known types of hepatitis for certain criminal defendants. *
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
The "Armed Services Unemployment Benefits Act."
Provides limits for late charge and returned check fee payments for certain loans.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities. *
Deters State unemployment tax avoidance by penalizing knowing avoidance of unemployment tax payment. *
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Requires DHSS to review standard of care at health care facilities in which 40% or more of direct patient care nursing staff are temporary hires.
Permits municipalities to purchase and issue certain surplus retail alcoholic beverage licenses.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program subsidy.
Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.
"Hospital Infection Reporting Act."
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit. *
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
"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. *
Increases VCCB assessments.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Requires certification to render massage, bodywork or somatic therapy services.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
Establishes Cultural and Heritage Tourism Task Force. *
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Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Eliminates mandatory license suspension for nonpayment of insurance surcharge; authorizes payment options.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Directs New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police and the Police Academy Directors Association to establish pre-entry physical and psychological fitness standards for applicants for police training academies.
Requires health insurers to provide certain reimbursement for hearing aids.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State in 2006.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Provides immunity to volunteer architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, professional engineers, construction managers and contractors during certain emergencies.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to career service of civil service.
Requires certain law enforcement officers to undergo psychological testing.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Provides four-year phase-in of boat safety course requirement for operating power vessels and personal watercraft; restates age requirements for power vessel operation and exceptions to course requirement; appropriates $2 million for enforcement.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose.
Exempts government-owned property from adverse possession and eliminates statute of limitation period for recovery.
Provides that DNA test results may be used in establishing parentage.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Permits children to obtain county-issued digital photo identification cards.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Allows credit against corporation business tax for computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic schools in Abbott and certain other low-income districts.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes obstructing access to fire hydrant as disorderly persons offense.
Repeals law enforcement powers of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and requires State to provide support to municipalities and counties in administering and enforcing animal control, animal welfare, and animal cruelty laws.
Establishes New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center and authorizes establishment of Foundation for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
"New Jersey Clean Water, Drought Mitigation and Water Resource Security Trust Fund Act."
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Provides for third party payment of registered nurse first assistant when insurer covers payment for surgical first assistant services.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
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.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Establishes incest as a crime of the third degree.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes disciplinary procedure for school board members when charged with certain crimes.
Requires certain Internet operators to remove defamatory materials and to disclose account information to defamed individuals.
Requires the establishment of a prequalification process for prospective bidders on public school district transportation contracts.
Authorizes a board of education to reject the lowest bid for a school transportation contract based on the school bus safety inspection record of the bidder.
Increases total marriage license fees from $28 to $50; allocates $25 to municipality.
Authorizes local option tax on seller of billboard advertising space.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Authorizes two-year property tax exemptions for facade and frontage improvements in certain older municipalities.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Permits purchase of TPAF credit for certain nonpublic school service.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires permanent handicapped person identification cards and parking placards to be renewed every five years.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the New Jersey Better Education Savings Trust (NJBEST) Program.
Requires State purchase only certain certified vehicles for State fleet; creates process for establishing requirement State purchase only zero emissions vehicles and five-year phase-in of the requirement.
Allows municipality in certain situations to ask CATV provider to offer reduction or discount in rates for CATV service for eligible senior and disabled citizens.
Adds certain forensic scientists to Prosecutors Part in PERS.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for NJ FamilyCare.
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Requires public schools to weight courses in visual and performing arts equally with other courses worth same number of credits in calculating grade point average.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Directs the Office of the Attorney General to develop fee schedule for discovery in municipal court; imposes limit on fees charged for discovery in certain cases.
Upgrades penalties for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for instruction by public school districts on child abduction prevention.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Prohibits State Board of Education from authorizing use of special review assessment as an alternative for meeting graduation requirements.
Provides procedures to permit State employees to take off up to 80 hours per year of compensatory time in lieu of monetary compensation for overtime worked.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
"Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Act."
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing subscribers' cellular telephone numbers without consent.
Permits police departments to temporarily hold juvenile offenders 18 years of age or older in jail or lock-up.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain New Jersey members of the military and their families in need of assistance.
Allows law enforcement officers in PERS to transfer to and enroll in PFRS; requires all law enforcement officers to be enrolled in PFRS.
Requires movie theaters to install captioning technology for use by hearing impaired patrons.
Exempts reimbursements from Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare and allows deduction for charity care in calculation of gross receipts for purposes of assessment on ambulatory care facilities.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for various veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specific dates or specific locations.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Makes certain changes to requirements related to gross receipts assessment on health care facilities.
Clarifies law concerning the administration of epinephrine to students with dual orders.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires disclosure to subscribers of certain cable television costs.
Grants $250,000 military death benefit to survivors of New Jersey National Guard members killed on active duty; makes appropriation.
Authorizes State Treasurer to provide group life insurance coverage for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Establishes the Higher Education Study Commission.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Authorizes trained and qualified county corrections to carry a firearm at all times in New Jersey.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Adds representative of county government to Police Training Commission.
Permits court to merge offenses of drunk driving and refusal to submit to breath test.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Makes unauthorized use of military medals or insignias a crime of the fourth degree.
Establishes pilot program in DLPS requiring electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Requires development and distribution of pamphlet and poster informing students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to public schools.