Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Jon M. Bramnick
Sponsored
Became law1
Concerns employee expenses in suits against third parties in workers' compensation cases.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Out of committee5
Regulates the placing or posting of certain commercial advertisements on public or private property. **
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Prohibits use of hand-held wireless telephones by bicyclists while riding on public roads.
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Requires notice prior to cancellation or nonrenewal of health benefits plans under certain circumstances.
In committee27
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
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.
Establishes campaign advertising ethics committee; imposes penalties for making false, deceptive, misleading or fraudulent statements about candidates for public office.
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.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to high school hockey programs and appropriates $75,000.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Requires restaurants to carry minimum amount of commercial general liability insurance.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Requires attorneys engaged in the private practice of law to maintain malpractice insurance coverage.
Allows person calling certain State or local government entities to have option of speaking or leaving a recorded message with a human telephone operator during normal business hours.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Eliminates membership in the legislative part of PERS for future members of the Legislature.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
Requires public and nonpublic schools to adopt a Code Adam program.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Provides budget cap adjustments and transfer authority for school districts which receive certain dissolution payments.
Exempts certain charges for postage in distribution of direct mail processing services from sales and use tax.
Provides exemption from UI taxes for certain retirees.
"Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Requires holding of binding Statewide referendum on whether the death penalty should be repealed and replaced with life imprisonment without parole.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
"The Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection Act." **
Upgrades penalties for recruiting minors and confined persons to be in criminal street gang. *
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Prohibits minors under 14 from using tanning facilities and requires written parental consent for minors 14 to 18.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
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 $39,430,430 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 $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Creates offenses of gang criminality and promoting organized street crime.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Establishes application fee to defray State Police costs of processing expungement petitions.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006."
Prohibits sale of certain bicycles with quick release wheels.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Prohibits electronic printing of certain debit card information on certain sales receipts.
Invalidates consumer contracts which require a waiver of right to file a consumer complaint.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging.
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. *
Out of committee · 30
Requires sellers of Class IV lasers to check identification and maintain record of sale.
Prohibits the sale of Yo-Yo Waterballs. *
Adds new causes of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship. *
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release.
Imposes conditions on drivers approaching stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks or highway maintenance vehicles displaying flashing lights. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Regulates operation of sweepstakes in New Jersey.
Regulates donation clothing bins.
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district or municipality maintaining volunteer fire department.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Requires foreign corporations providing electronic communication services or remote computing services to comply with New Jersey subpoenas, court orders and search warrants.
Revises child pornography law. *
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis that individual was a victim of identity theft.
Reforms the review, processing, and payment of certain private passenger automobile insurance personal injury protection claims.
Expands State law enforcement powers of United States Park Police.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions. *
In committee · 56
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who give good faith report of terroristic activity or threats.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Requires tanning facilities to provide certain notice concerning tanning booths.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Prohibits sale of flu vaccine at excessive prices during shortage.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
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.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund historic preservation.
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 health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to VCCB.
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.
Creates "Political Communications Reporting Act of 2004."
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Revises penalty provisions for violation of certain laws regulating the retail sale of motor fuels.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
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.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Permits workers' compensation judges to close workers' compensation courts in times of severe weather.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes emergent relief application standards for injured parties in PIP arbitrations.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Changes date of presidential primary from last Tuesday in February to first Tuesday after first Monday in February.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, certain membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Establishes fee schedule requirements for certain network-based health or dental benefits coverage regarding reimbursement for out-of-network, non-hospital provider claims.
Recognizes co-fired biomass energy as method to meet renewable energy portfolio standards.