Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Annette Quijano
Sponsored
Became law3
Concerns court actions against uninsured employers for non-payment of workers' compensation.
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of family child care providers.
Permits municipal or county Hispanic advisory commission to have more than five members.
Out of committee4
Regulates the rental or leasing of telephones. *
Requires telecommunications companies to provide certain information to law enforcement officials in emergency situations. *
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of community care residential providers.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
In committee5
Upgrades offense of knowingly engaging in unauthorized practice of law.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Requires State entities to purchase biofuels in place of fossil fuels when it is reasonable, prudent and cost effective to do so.
Authorizes legal permanent resident aliens to sit for examination for certification as municipal clerk, chief financial officer, tax collector, or public works manager.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires telecommunications companies to provide certain information to law enforcement officials in emergency situations. *
Authorizes negotiations with a bargaining representative of community care residential providers.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Adds contact via electronic device to prohibited contact enumerated in permanent restraining orders for convicted stalkers. **
The Vote By Mail Law. *
Broadens small qualified business exception under UEZ sales tax rebate program. *
Permits counties to create County Homelessness Trust Funds. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Concerns on-site generation facilities.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Commission on Higher Education to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Eliminates cancellation of charges against employer UI accounts for benefits exceeding 50% of total base year, base week wages.
Concerns stop-work orders and certain violations of workers' compensation requirements.
Requires DHS to develop procedures to enable hospitals to promptly transfer emergency department patients with mental illness to appropriate treatment setting. *
Requires DHS and DCF to establish standardized admission protocols and medical clearance criteria for admission to behavioral health care facilities. *
Requires DHS and DCF to identify available mental health services and perform needs assessment. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to certain maintenance-related projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 6
Requires DCF to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants. *
Concerns continuing education for dentists. *
Requires vehicle registration to contain issue date.
Encourages purchase of NJ solar panels and wind turbines for State projects and State-funded projects.
Makes Housing Assistance and Recovery Program effective immediately.
Prohibits the use of simulated government documents in advertising.
Out of committee · 15
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Provides for allocation of $25 million from available balances from societal benefits charge revenues for utility assistance grants for qualified households. **
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.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
The "New Jersey Homeownership Preservation Act."
Establishes "Court Security Enhancement Fund" and increases court fees.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose and securitize a motor vehicle rental tax funding certain redevelopment activities, and to impose parking and ticket surcharges at certain facilities to fund senior and youth health and recreation purposes. **
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain homeland security expenses as eligible for funding from enterprise zone assistance fund.
Prohibits use of wireless telephones or electronic communication devices by operators of public transit vehicles while vehicles are moving. *
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs. *
Establishes "New Jersey Lung Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Requires test agencies to offer post-examination products and services in a uniform manner to all test subjects.
Extends service prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and to local units and State authorities.
Prohibits SDA from restricting the ability of certain firms or persons from competing for contracts in more than one Division of Property Management and Construction classification or prequalification category.
Permits certain managers and deputy attorneys general of the State to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act"; changes definition of managerial executive and removes confidential status of deputy attorney generals an
In committee · 24
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Permits certain funds to be spent on temporary emergency housing; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Requires health insurers to provide benefits for computed tomography scans for persons at high risk of developing lung cancer.
Eliminates Lincoln's birthday as State holiday; adds day after Thanksgiving as State holiday; changes Washington's birthday holiday to Presidents Washington and Lincoln Day.
Provides that practice of chiropractic includes diagnosis and adjustment of articulations of spinal column and other joints.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Permits electric public utilities, electric power suppliers and basic generation service providers to enter into certain agreements with building owners for use of solar energy systems for such buildings.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Makes certain changes concerning the appointment, duties, and tenure of the Director of Division on Civil Rights.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Requires Secretary of State to prepare standard absentee ballot design.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Revises standards used by charitable organizations in determining permissible expenditures of endowment funds.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the "American Red Cross-NJ Fund".
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans service office.
Requires school districts to annually disseminate information to students and parents or guardians on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
Establishes pilot program in DOC for detection and location of cerain wireless communications devices.
Requires Commissioner of Corrections to establish program to implement technology to block cellular telephone equipment transmissions that originate from, or terminate within, State correctional facilities.
Imposes certain bail restrictions on persons charged with violating domestic violence restraining orders.