Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Sean T. Kean
Sponsored
Became law1
Regulates vehicle protection products.
Out of committee2
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
In committee71
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Dedicates funding from national tobacco settlement to tobacco use prevention and cessation services.
Requires public hearing and security report before establishing, relocating, or expanding juvenile boot camps.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Prohibits loans as political contributions by certain persons; prohibits certain inducements for political contributions; reduces permitted amount of outstanding loans in certain cases.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
Limits use of schools as polling places in elections.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on State Advertisements and Promotions; prohibits appearance of Governor in State advertisements or promotions unless appearance is essential to achieve public purpose.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Requires wheelchair-only handicapped parking spaces in certain parking lots.
Provides a 50 percent sales tax exemption for certain retail establishments serving food and drinks during "smoke free" periods of operation.
Requires campaign contribution to be accompanied by certification that contributor has not been convicted of crime.
Prohibits person convicted of crime from making campaign contribution.
Provides that campaign contributions received from certain persons convicted of crimes will be forfeited and paid to ELEC for enforcement purposes.
Prohibits use of campaign funds by candidate or legislative leader convicted of crime; requires that such funds be paid to ELEC for enforcement purposes.
Establishes minimum amounts for eminent domain relocation assistance and additional homeowner payments.
Excludes sales of items costing more than $10,000 from urban enterprise zone reduced sales tax benefit.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
Establishes hiring preference for children of certain volunteer firefighters seeking appointments to paid firefighter positions.
Provides temporary handicapped placard for certain permanently handicapped individuals.
Permits health care professionals to refuse to perform or assist in health care services that violate their religious, moral, or ethical convictions.
Requires increased notice to affected property owners for proposed redevelopment and rehabilitation areas.
Requires payment of extra $100,000 to owners whose property is condemned for private economic development purposes.
Requires municipal referendum prior to condemnation of private property when sale or transfer to private entity for economic development purposes is contemplated.
Prohibits school district from charging the parent or guardian of certain nonresident students for the cost of testing for special education classification.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Permits workers' compensation judges to close workers' compensation courts in times of severe weather.
Requires 12-hour behind-the-wheel course for special learner's permit.
Establishes procedures for overpayment of child or spousal support by obligor.
Permits all municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from seasonal rental landlords in certain circumstances and increases penalties for subsequent offenses.
Establishes emergent relief application standards for injured parties in PIP arbitrations.
Prohibits school district from charging the parent or guardian of certain nonresident students for the cost of testing for special education classification and requires State payment of such costs.
Appropriates $10,000 to Westside Community Center in Asbury Park.
Extends deadline for certain persons to successfully complete mandatory boat safety course to August 1, 2006.
Requires AG to defend challenges to certain municipal ordinances that establish residency requirements for convicted sex offenders.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Increases amount of divorce filing fees to be allocated to displaced homemaker services.
Requires that hospital charges to eligible person for reduced charge charity care take into account the person's other expenses.
Revises "grandfathering" provisions for eligibility to be licensed home inspector.
Allows members of PERS Prosecutors Part to purchase credit in Prosecutors Part for previous prosecutor service credited as regular PERS service.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Eliminates charges for initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of health and fitness, athletic, and sporting clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Creates special fallen firefighter plates with proceeds to children of fallen firefighters.
Permits hospital service cooperatives to operate mobile intensive care units that may transport patients to hospitals under certain conditions.
Prohibits unauthorized use of deceased service member's name, portrait, or picture for certain purposes.
Requires person applying for employment with community agency for persons with developmental disabilities to undergo drug testing prior to employment.
Requires school districts to provide courtesy busing to public and nonpublic school pupils who must walk to school in high crime areas.
Prohibits requiring school and county college employees to search for or handle explosive devices.
Appropriates $10 million from Health Care Subsidy Fund for mobile intensive care services.
Authorizes municipalities that share courtroom facilities to appoint additional judges to municipal court.
Requires public schools to include instruction on meningococcal meningitis as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Removes sales tax on charges for massage, bodywork and somatic services.
Criminalizes participation in a criminal street gang.
Appropriates $14 million in Green Acres funds to purchase Takanassee Beach Club.
Requires the installation of video cameras on school buses used to transport classified students.
Designates "Hail to New Jersey" as State song.
Exempts college teachers from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires certain electric service extensions to be installed only by electric public utility employees.
Authorizes court to require persons convicted of refusing breathalyzer for second or subsequent time to install ignition interlock.
Concerns repayment of workers' compensation by pension recipients.
Imposes prevailing wage for public work on certain properties and premises receiving tax abatements or exemptions.
Precludes consideration of nearby public beaches as factor in determining reasonableness of use under public trust doctrine.
Exempts certain motor vehicle violations from the open public records law.
Heightens the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" in death penalty cases to require that death penalty will be imposed only if the jury has no doubt.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Revises qualifications to carry firearms for certain retired police officers.
Establishes commuter transportation services public awareness campaign in DOT. *
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Appropriates $8,100,000 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 central 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
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Out of committee · 13
Authorizes special license plates for county and municipal emergency management volunteers.
Requires public school districts to prepare annual report on school district contracts.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page. *
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority Act." *
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.
Directs DOE to include information about State adult disability services in booklet for parents of special education students and to require schools to designate staff member as parent liaison.
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.
Requires DEP to conduct public hearing and provide opportunity for public comment at conclusion of feasibility study for shore protection projects.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions. *
In committee · 114
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 limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Prohibits nepotism by public officials.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Requires part-time service by new PERS members to be credited at one half the length of that service for certain benefit calculation purposes.
Provides that PERS member holding more than one position covered by PERS has to designate one position as the basis for enrollment.
Establishes Defined Contribution Public Employees' Retirement Program.
Establishes Public Employees' Defined Contribution Plan Study Commission.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Upgrades offenses involving use of false government documents.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Establishes New Jersey Wildlife Rehabilitation Licensing Study Commission, and temporarily expands scope of "cooperator permit" to include rehabilitation of other kinds of wildlife besides game animals.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations performing public contracts.
Prohibits certain relatives of legislators from being employed or assigned in certain positions.
Prohibits elected officials from holding more than one elective office.
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Establishes new standard and procedure for forfeiture of elective public office for accepting illegal contributions; removes illegal contribution threshold for such forfeiture.
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.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Requires sharing of revenues derived from major developments situated near municipal borders under certain circumstances.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Prohibits former elected official from receiving for five years compensation from charitable or non-profit organization when official's candidate committee donated campaign contributions to organization.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Requires State Treasurer to post information about State contracts for $17,500 or more on special website.
Restores authority of certain Inspector General special agents to make arrests for certain violations of State law.
Amends "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligiblity limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
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.
Limits political contributions by certain government contractors; revises disclosure standards applicable to State officials; expands disclosure for lobbyists; prohibits certain types of dual office holding.
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; prohibits use of intermediaries to make campaign contributions.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Prohibits campaign contributions between county party committees; makes such contributions a third degree crime; increases to third degree crimes certain other campaign finance offenses.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Provides four-year phase-in of boat safety course requirement for operating power vessels and personal watercraft; restates age requirements for power vessel operation and exceptions to course requirement; appropriates $2 million for enforcement.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office, any appointed public office or employment or any public contract.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Immunizes policyholders from liability within policy limits when coverage exceeds New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association statutory limit of $300,000.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective offices and appointive positions.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Revises calculation of school district budget caps and increases allowable school district surplus.
Prohibits contributions between county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment to treatment for persons in need of involuntary commitment to treatment.
Allows PFRS members to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit for named beneficiary.
Creates "Comprehensive Anti-Nepotism Act."
Requires issue advocacy organization using certain candidate information in advertisements to register with ELEC as political committee or continuing political committee.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective offices; provides for transition period between offices.
Creates the "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project of 2007"; appropriates $3.5 million
Bans campaign contributions and certain political communication by corporations and labor organizations.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
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.
Increases various penalties for violations of the pension laws.
Limits Abbott district per pupil State aid and allocates State aid savings to certain enrollment growth districts.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations that purchase or acquire property involved in eminent domain proceedings.
Requires PERS designate position providing least compensation, for member holding concurrent positions, as compensation base for contributions and pension calculations.
"Part-time Public Employees and Elected Officials Pension Reform Act" ends retirement system enrollment for Legislators and part-time public employees and elected officials commencing service after enactment.
Requires offices of superintendent and deputy superintendent of elections in all counties.
Permits school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school pupils and charge parents when the per pupil amount of the route exceeds the maximum nonpublic school transportation cost per pupil.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
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.
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.
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.
Provides that chair and vice-chair of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards will be selected from among committee's public members on bipartisan basis.
Eliminates the imposition of sales and use tax on certain services and goods effective October 1, 2006.
Requires imposition of 250 hours of community service for public servant convicted of certain crimes.
Applies certain conflicts of interest restrictions on legislators to county, municipal and local authority condemnation proceedings and project contracts funded directly or indirectly by State monies.
Requires Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards to maintain information on Internet; requires certain assistance to be provided to individuals filing complaints with the committee.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for assault upon senior citizens.
Prohibits NJ Tpk. Authority from contracting with private entity for operating highway projects; directs surplus NJ Tpk. Authority revenues to Transportation Trust Fund.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires dockbuilders and workers who come into contact with creosote-treated marine piling, and their employers, to comply with certain established safety and health protection procedures.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Requires county superintendent of schools to determine routes and bid and award contracts for all nonpublic school busing in the county.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Establishes certain minimum standards for State contracts paid on hourly basis.
Grants right to carry handgun to certain retired campus police officrs.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.