Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph Pennacchio
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Establishes identification guidelines and record-keeping requirements for notaries public.
In committee28
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Creates matching grant program in DCA to assist counties in retrofitting county parks to enhance usage by handicapped children; approprates $525,000.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Appropriates $75,000 in tobacco settlement funds for grant to Screen for Life of Morris County.
Appropriates $1,055,000 to Rutgers-Camden College of Arts & Sciences Department of Nursing to expand facilities.
Provides for reimbursement for health care services performed under certain circumstances.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million to dredge Greenwood Lake in Passaic county.
Specifies policy governing provision by State registrar of certified copies and certifications of vital records to applicants.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be displayed at or near major highway entrances to the State.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Requires quarterly reports to the Legislature on Governor's use of State helicopter and prohibits the use thereof for personal and political events.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Requires DOE to make certain determinations concerning the provision of educational services to a child residing in a domestic violence shelter and modifies calculation of tuition under certain circumstances.
Requires managed care plans to allow any clinical laboratory to participate in provider network.
Removes income limit for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Discontinues use of phrase "usual, customary and reasonable" or other words of similar import, on health insurance policies, contracts or related forms.
Increases handicapped parking education and fines for unlawfully parking in handicapped space; requires DMV to issue stickers for handicapped placards and license plates when renewed every three years.
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Requires candidates to indicate approval of certain campaign communications.
Requires municipality pay county 20% of Port Authority in lieu of tax payment received.
Establishes special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal law violations concerning awarding of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions to elected officials.
Exempts construction, expansion or renovation of public institutions of higher education, public schools, and police and fire academies from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Withholds State aid to public and independent institutions of higher education which increase tuition and fees by more than CPI.
Excludes from gross income the contributions that certain federal employees classified as criminal investigators make to the federal Thrift Savings Fund.
Authorizes special town council member license plates.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Appropriates $22,468,700 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
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.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. **
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Requires inclusion of resident of continuing care retirement community as member of facility's local governing body and discussion of certain matters with resident representatives.
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 · 13
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
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.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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 · 65
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Releases certain purchasers of public property from reverter clause under certain circumstances.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school.
Exempts qualified investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Revises wills and estates.
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Prohibits alternate members of planning boards from voting on applications for variance relief in lieu of disqualified Class I or Class III members.
Eliminates entitlement to workers' compensation cash benefits during imprisonment.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
"New Jersey Abortion Statistical Data Law."
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Concerns basic skills training.
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Concerns Turnpike Authority's contracts for towing.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Revises fines for drivers unable to exhibit a driver's license, insurance card or registration certificate.
Prohibits human cloning.
Authorizes comparable sales as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Exempts construction, expansion or renovation of buildings or other structures for police departments, fire departments, and volunteer first aid, emergency, ambulance or rescue squads from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Exempts Picatinny Arsenal conversion plan from the provisions of the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
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.
Standardizes maximum fine for violation of municipal and county ordinances and resolutions at $1,250.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
"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.
Requires enforcing agency to remove excessive accumulation of combustible materials inside a rental dwelling unit in certain cases.