Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Jon M. Bramnick
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Out of committee3
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
In committee20
Directs the DOE to provide to every public school district George Washington's portrait to display; appropriates $135,000.
Establishes certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Requires attorneys engaged in the private practice of law to maintain malpractice insurance coverage.
Requires 90 days' prior written notice to health care providers of changes in carrier's fee schedule or reimbursement rate.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
Requires arbitration if timely payment of health insurance claim is not made.
Concerns employee expenses in suits against third parties in workers' compensation cases.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Requires traffic to stop for senior citizen transportation vehicles with certain equipment.
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.
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.
Provides that limitation on lawsuit option does not apply in accident caused by drunk driver.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full, not proportionally reduced, homestead rebates.
Requires valid telephone number for individual or business advertised on fliers and posters.
Requires restaurants to carry minimum amount of commercial general liability insurance.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to high school hockey programs and appropriates $75,000.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Prohibits use of hand-held wireless telephones by bicyclists while riding on public roads.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Increases penalties for failing to yield at crosswalks by $50; dedicates extra money to DLPS pedestrian safety program.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes "New Jersey Disease Management Study Commission."
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers. *
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Changes title of State park ranger to State park police officer.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents. *
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 18
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Requires criminal background checks for employees of water providers.
Permits State, counties, municipalities and boards of education to establish special pay plans under sections 401(a) and 403(b) of federal Internal Revenue Code.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Requires municipalities appointing certain Class Two special officers to reimburse their former municipal employers for training costs.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $16,575,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Appropriates $25,389,500 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 $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
In committee · 62
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Upgrades crime of leaving the scene of a fatal accident to a crime of the second degree.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to disclose to consumers their credit score under certain circumstances.
Requires DCA to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furniture and furnishings purchased for use in residential premises and public buildings.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of goods donated to certain governmental, charitable and public safety organizations.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $73,000 for a grant to Union County College for Holocaust and Ethnic Studies Project.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to the DMVA for the Veterans' Oral History program to record veterans' account of war experiences.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund historic preservation.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Reappropriates in fiscal year 2003 the unexpended balance of a supplemental appropriation to the DEP for a grant to Cranford Township for construction of the Cranford Northeast Quadrant Flood Control Project.
Requires DOT to sell portions of certain railroad right-of-ways to Union County for recreation and conservation purposes and to interested municipalities for senior citizen housing; and provides nonmatching grant from "Garden State Green Acres Preservati
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
Requires enrollment in PFRS regardless of age of certain firefighters appointed between July 1998 and July 1999.
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who give good faith report of terroristic activity or threats.
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to VCCB.
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Changes the copayment for PAAD when more than two prescription drugs are purchased during any given month and increases the income eligibility limits for the PAAD program.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Designates "New Jersey and You - Perfect Together" as State Slogan.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Prohibits State purchase of creosote or creosote-treated wood.
Creates "Political Communications Reporting Act of 2004."
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Limits use of Drumthwacket, official residence of the Governor.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Empowers federal air marshals to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Requires sellers of Class IV lasers to check identification and maintain record of sale.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
"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.
"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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Bans sale and rental of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Revises penalty provisions for violation of certain laws regulating the retail sale of motor fuels.