Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph Pennacchio
Sponsored
Became law1
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Out of committee2
Establishes identification guidelines and record-keeping requirements for notaries public.
Requires managed care plans to allow any clinical laboratory to participate in provider network.
In committee35
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Extends the right to claim a homestead rebate to certain surviving spouses of senior citizens.
Upgrades criminal offense of assault in certain circumstances.
Revises method of determining reimbursement costs when a law enforcement entity hires a recently trained officer from another law enforcement entity.
Limits franchise fees paid by CATV companies to municipalities to two percent and prohibits certain payments by cable television companies to the State Treasurer.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
Requires DHSS to study relationship between autism and ultrasounds and issue protocol for the use of ultrasounds.
Permits student whose high school special education program requires instruction beyond four years to participate with his class in graduation ceremony and to receive certificate of attendance.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt infection control policies.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DCA for grant to Urban League of Morris County.
Provides that committing a sex act with a minor constitutes sexual assault against the minor under certain circumstances.
"Transparency in Government Act;" provides for establishment of State public finance website.
Directs AG to enter into memorandum of understanding with U.S. Attorney General empowering certain corrections officers to investigate immigration status of inmates.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
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
Prohibits regulation of certain aspects of Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol-enabled services.
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.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Out of committee · 11
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. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes and designates it as natural area and wildlife sanctuary. *
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Directs Division of Developmental Disabilities to prepare plan to ensure community-based living for certain individuals with developmental disabilities.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for lake dredging and restoration projects, or stream cleaning and desnagging 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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
In committee · 53
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.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Revises fines for drivers unable to exhibit a driver's license, insurance card or registration certificate.
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.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
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.
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.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
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.
Authorizes comparable sales as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
Standardizes maximum fine for violation of municipal and county ordinances and resolutions at $1,250.
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."
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
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.
Provides for the appointment of prosecutor's agents.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Adds aneutronic fusion to types of Class I renewable energies as defined for purposes of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act."
Repeals Highlands planning and environmental permitting provisions of "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," and amends various statutes to reflect repeal thereof.
Revises Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Establishes a "State Authorities Review Commission."
Establishes "Local Authorities Review Commission."
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.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Directs NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct feasibility study of Meadowlands convention center project.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Requires electric utility bills to separately list the amount of State sales and use tax, societal benefits charge and transitional energy facility assessment unit rate surcharge.
Requires county board of chosen freeholders to approve, by resolution, county tax board expenditures of revenues generated from fees charged for property tax appeals.
Prohibits certain political contributions by certain utilities and officials thereof.