Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Robert W. Singer
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires resident of continuing care retirement community be member of facility's governing body and discussion of certain subjects with resident representatives. *
Requires DHSS to make certain information about long-term care and adult day health services facilities available on its website. **
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop.
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender. *
Passed the Senate5
Outlines criteria municipalities or counties are to consider when establishing speed limits for local streets.
Modifies reference from "substance awareness coordinator" to "student assistance coordinator" in substance abuse programs in public schools.
Establishes notification system for operation of petting zoos and certain animal or agricultural exhibitions; establishes sanitation requirement for human contact with animals. *
Requires school buses to display owner's business telephone number for reporting of violations, problems, or unusual circumstances.
Requires nursing homes and assisted living residences to provide informational sheet concerning Medicaid eligibility to certain residents.
Out of committee6
Mandates training for school bus drivers.
Prohibits certain deceptive practices concerning certain shopping center leases. *
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. **
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
Clarifies law on incorporation of religious societies or congregations by eliminating outdated references to specific religious groups; lowers age requirement for those electing trustees for purpose of incorporation.
In committee65
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Requires each board of education to employ a certain number of substance awareness coordinators.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Revises eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes counties, municipalities and school districts to grant cost-of-living increases to certain retired veterans.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to veterans who served in combat operations.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Increases State supplementary payment for residential health care facilities.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Concerns rating systems for individual and small employer health benefits plans.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Provides that certain school districts will be accorded the same treatment and subject to the same requirements as Abbott districts.
Allows former mayors to perform marriages.
Requires HIV tests for certain convicted sex offenders.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for establishment of UMDNJ Center for Research and Treatment of Ocular Inflammatory Disease.
Permits voter in resident attendance at school, college, or university to receive absentee ballot for each election without continual request.
Expands eligibility criteria for disabled veteran's property tax exemption.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Provides employment credit for military service for board of education employees.
Clarifies tenure protections for exempt firemen in public employment.
Authorizes common interest community associations and homeowners to utilize State Office of Consumer Protection for dispute resolution.
Permits certain vehicles operated by emergency response workers to use red lights and sirens.
Codifies relevant factors for hearings following custody determinations when one parent wants to move out-of-State with the children.
Requires scooter riders under 17 years old to wear helmets.
Permits certain TPAF veteran retirees to receive paid health benefits under State Health Benefits Program.
Upgrades qualifications for county corrections officers; clarifies administration and management policies for county corrections departments.
Clarifies statewide arrest powers of county corrections officers and sheriff's officers.
Reallocates $2.5 million in funds to award a grant to the Monmouth County Child Advocacy Center.
Provides for the licensure of tree experts and tree care operators, and the registration of their employers.
Prohibits passenger automobile manufacturer from delivering passenger automobile to retail dealer without spare tire.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Requires Pinelands Commission to update master plan every seven years; requires critical habitat study prior to construction.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006."
Concerns stewardship of forests; appropriates $650,000.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Designates Jersey tomato as State Vegetable.
Extends NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship eligibility to disabled students not able to enroll in college on full-time basis.
Renames "Cigarette Sales Act" as "Tobacco Products Sales Act"; facilitates collection of taxes on non-face-to-face retail sales of tobacco products.
Provides for promotion and sale of "Jersey Fresh" and other NJ agricultural or horticultural products at service areas along certain toll roads.
Requires licenses to conduct business in tobacco products under the New Jersey Tobacco Products Wholesale Sales and Use Tax Act.
Allows gross income tax credit for purchase of health club memberships by taxpayers 55 and older.
Establishes parental liability for minor's conduct on snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Creates New Jersey Public School Education License Plate.
Exempts handicapped spots from meters or fees.
Requires additional notices to governmental agencies upon termination of utility services to residential customers.
Requires licenses for distributors, wholesalers and retailers to conduct business in tobacco products under the New Jersey Tobacco Products Wholesale Sales and Use Tax Act.
Requires public body to post agendas and minutes on Internet site; requires any public body to devote part of each public meeting to public comment.
Increases penalties for underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Establishes pilot program to allow the installation of video cameras on school buses used to transport classified students in the Jackson Township School District.
Requires candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers to receive instruction in autism awareness and methods of teaching students with autism.
Enhances penalties for provisional driver's license holders.
Maintains property tax exemption of non-profit organizations like Boys Scouts if organization manifests intent to reconstruct its demolished, damaged, or destroyed building.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Establishes Task Force on the Availability of Temporary Emergency Shelters and Transitional Housing.
Requires COAH to conduct a public hearing if mediation to resolve objection to municipality's petition for substantive certification is unsuccessful.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Provides for the licensure of tree experts and tree care operators, and the registration of their employers.
Establishes Community Living Independently Program; appropriates $1.8 million.
Excludes veterans' benefits from calculation of financial obligation for care at psychiatric facility.
Directs Secretary of Agriculture to determine annually areas for gypsy moth control measures and implement control measures; specifies State pay full implementation cost; appropriates $5,500,000.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis that individual was a victim of identity theft.
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs .**
Passed the Senate · 3
Expands consumer protections under New Jersey's motor vehicle "lemon law." *
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.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Out of committee · 5
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. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
In committee · 62
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
The "Dam, Lake, and Stream Restoration Bond Act of 2005," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute; requires lifetime parole supervision for certain sex offenders.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 for Camp Marcella.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides for State income tax deduction to private well owners for water testing costs.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2005."
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Provides that PFRS definitions of widow, widower and spouse will include domestic partners of all PFRS members.
Allows PFRS members to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit for named beneficiary.
"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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
Limits liability of physicians to their medical malpractice insurance coverage.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Exempts veterans from fees for certain special military license plates.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes continuing education requirement for licensed public adjusters.
Revises the definition of nonpublic school to include preschools under chapter 192 and chapter 193 State aid programs for nonpublic students.
Authorizes municipal planning boards to adopt green buildings and environmental sustainability municipal master plan element.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Requires licensed home inspector to report an energy rating for each home inspected for buyer in contemplation of purchase.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Establishes pilot program to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson and Lakewood or fund innovative public school programs.
Establishes procedure for determining eligibility for assistance when more than one child in family has catastrophic illness.
Requires that each school district receive a minimum of 35% State support of its net budget and that a minimum of 35% of the net budget be supported through local tax levy.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for assault upon senior citizens.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Phases out sales and use tax on certain initiation fees, membership fees and dues.
Concerns access to physical therapy services, and insurance claims handling following access to such services.
Requires radon testing of certain educational facilities every five years, residential properties at the time of sale, and residential lease properties within 18 months and every five years thereafter.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Creates Coastal Area Homeowners Insurance Organization.
Limits number of ballots available to absentee ballot messenger.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.