Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Nicholas P. Scutari
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires candidates seeking office of Governor or member of Legislature to disclose prior conviction for criminal offense.
Provides that the chairmanship of the State Athletic Control Board would be a part-time position.
Appropriates $1.3 million in federal funds for the Asian Longhorn Beetle Program.
Out of committee4
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Concerns powers of various State departments and officials during emergencies.
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission.
In committee19
Requires certain law enforcement officers to undergo psychological testing.
Provides for closed circuit television testimony under certain circumstances.
Provides that preliminary eligible costs will equal estimated actual costs for certain school facilities projects necessary to address a health hazard.
Requires criminal history record background check for person seeking to be a notary public.
Provides that repayment of liquid assets by certain former constituent districts of dissolved limited purpose regional district be made over ten-year period.
Provides that limitation on lawsuit option does not apply in accident caused by drunk driver.
Appropriates $500,000 for the development of a pilot program for a videoconferencing network in municipal courtrooms.
Clarifies that advertisements by licensed professionals are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
Establishes "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act."
Authorizes designation of joint urban enterprise zone by Urban Enterprize Zone Authority.
Requires State Treasurer to order any State agency with power to issue contract bonds to conduct an independent due diligence evaluation prior to issuance of those bonds.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for a grant to the YMCA of Eastern Union County.
Requires the placement of organ donation information and materials at public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits operating vehicle in unsafe manner likely to impede traffic or endanger person or property.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Establishes Commission on Out-of-State School Placements.
Provides additional State aid to certain public school districts.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to benefit revolutionary war sites maintained by State.
Provides for purchase of certain out-of-state service credit in TPAF.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Streamlines certain permitting in smart growth areas. *
Promotes improved polling place accessibility for individuals with disabilities and the elderly. *
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Makes various changes to State contracting process; imposes certain disclosure on State officers and employees involved in contracting. *
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act."
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
Passed the Senate · 1
Permits certain contracting units to use schedules from additional federal procurement programs when purchasing goods and services.
Out of committee · 9
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts.
Provides that advertisements by persons licensed, registered, appointed or certified to practice profession or occupation are subject to consumer fraud act. *
Appropriates $537,965 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Kean University.
Authorizes county to control greenhead fly population; appropriates $90,000. *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Establishes New Jersey Gifted Disabled Community Needs Study Commission.
Authorizes increased fines for certain trucks violating truck route ordinances on steep grades.
In committee · 13
Prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
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.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 for Camp Marcella.
Appropriates $2,250,000 to DOT for aid to the City of Linden and Roselle Borough for the St. Georges Avenue Streetscapes Infrastructure Project.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.