Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Brian P. Stack
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires certain authorities to provide credit for paid sewer and water connection fees for certain units damaged by catastrophic events. *
Out of committee3
Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises. *
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Permits municipal governing body to waive building restrictions on sale of certain lands.
In committee3
Establishes a 1,000 foot drug free zone around playgrounds and other public parks, buildings and housing facilities.
Authorizes the conferral of certain academic degrees by religious corporations.
Provides for issuance of a uniform identification card for all law enforcement officers.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises. *
Permits municipal governing body to waive building restrictions on sale of certain lands.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 63
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
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.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Bars legislators, Governor and department heads from lobbying activities for one year after leaving office or employment.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Requires ELEC to conduct random audits of records kept by legislative agents.
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates moneys annually to ELEC. *
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Regulates assignment of slot machine annuity jackpot periodic payments; provides for offset of annuity jackpots for child support arrearages. **
Regulates certain devices which interfere with traffic control signals. *
Requires ownership label or notice on ATMs.
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Establishes NJ Elderly Person Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DHSS.
Requires systematic maintenance check program for intermodal chassis and establishes party to be cited for chassis equipment defects. **
Requires county colleges to award college-credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Requires regional municipal and county utilities and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to provide reduced sewer and water connection fees for certain affordable housing projects. *
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Concerns procedures with respect to placement, replacement or removal of public utility poles and underground facilities under certain circumstances. *
"Cigarette Sales Act; " facilitates collection of taxes on retail sales of cigarettes shipped from outside this State.
Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible. *
May require child support to continue past emancipation if the child has a severe mental or physical incapacity which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent. *
Amends and clarifies the rights of handicapped, blind or deaf persons when accompanied by service or guide dogs.
Revises references pertaining to podiatrists in statutes.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Increases penalties for failing to yield at crosswalks by $50; dedicates extra money to DLPS pedestrian safety program.
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Requires Police Training Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to develop training course for safe schools resource officers and school liasions to law enforcement. *
Establishes domestic violence public awareness campaign.
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Expands identity theft statutes to include selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting false birth certificates.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Deletes certain nursing home payment requirements under "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
Requires photo ID verification of pilots renting aircraft.
Revises outdoor advertising law and local tax treatment of certain outdoor advertising signs.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Appropriates $120,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Delays implementation of "Contractors' Registration Act."
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
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.
Permits construction of traffic calming measures on certain roads near schools. *
Exempts dentists from requirement that needles and sharp devices used in health care facilities have integrated safety features.
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Creates World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million to Treasury for energy assistance programs. *
Increases motor vehicle registration fees to cover capital and operational costs of State's emergency medical helicopter program and fund new State Police trooper class. *
Passed the General Assembly · 40
Requires DHS to make application for food stamp program available on website in version that can be completed online. *
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Permits school bus operator to display "Stop When Red Lights Are Flashing" on rear of bus.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons. *
Requires private and public employers to provide unpaid leaves of absence or reassignment of hours for National Guard members and Reservists engaged in training.
Concerns fire emergency procedures.
Requires conspicuous labeling of certain alcoholic beverages made with gelatin.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to DYFS when conducting background investigations on certain individuals.
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Requires a dealer to disclose missing or defective emission control equipment in a used motor vehicle under certain circumstances, and exempts certain motor vehicles from regulation.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
Prohibits operating vehicle in unsafe manner likely to impede traffic or endanger person or property.
Authorizes local board of health to declare as a nuisance premises in which there have been multiple arrests for illegal sale or possession of drugs.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of signers of Declaration of Independence; appropriates $200,000.
Requires poll workers to have certain training in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990".
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline. *
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification. *
Requires the Bureau of Securities to maintain a toll-free telephone hotline and website.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. ***
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists.
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.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Requires disclosure of terms, conditions, and limitations on prepaid telephone calling cards. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses. *
Requires Internet-based telephone companies to connect 9-1-1 calls to appropriate emergency personnel; changes identification requirements concerning "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Assessment." *
Requires air conditioners in certain HMFA sponsored housing units be utilized in hot weather; provides penalties for noncompliance.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding for burial of indigent veterans.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Out of committee · 86
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Prohibits member of Legislature from acting on legislation in which member or family member of that member has personal interest.
Changes memberships of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards and Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.
Increases monetary penalties for violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Requires candidates seeking office of Governor or member of Legislature to disclose prior conviction for criminal offense.
Expands definition of lobbyist and legislative agent to include those who influence governmental processes; defines governmental processes.
Establishes early voting procedure; makes appropriation.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle. *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Enhances rights and remedies of employees who disclose or refuse to participate in fraudulent employer practices.
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS. *
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Concerns location of certain highway entry or exit ramps and schools.
Creates limited licenses for general barbering and for barbering and hairstyling within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Prohibits veterinarians from restricting pet owners choice of specialist veterinarian.
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties. *
Provides for registration and regulation of athlete agents.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires NJT to install mile markers and develop emergency response access plan for railroad lines.
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options; appropriates $75,000. *
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and subscription services to make disclosures about recording devices; regulates release of recording device data.
Provides for establishment of liens on proceeds of life insurance policies for payment of child support judgments.
Directs Attorney General to include information on criminal street gang activities in annual "Uniform Crime Report."
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Makes certain volunteer firefighters who were appointed to paid positions and currently in PERS eligible for transfer to PFRS. *
Requires certain ATM operators to register and undergo criminal history record background checks.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations prohibiting overcowding of animals in kennels, pet shops and other retail establishments; establishes penalties.
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Provides that label of bottled water contain date on which water was bottled.
Requires all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record.
Requires polling places be more accessible for individuals with disabilities and elderly; limits waivers to two consecutive years.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Permits left turn on red at intersection of two one-way roadways.
Revises filing requirements for minor subdivisions.
Extends responsibilities of tow truck operators responding to calls for assistance from motorists.
"Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
Upgrades penalties for certain assaults committed against employees of public utilities, cable television or telecommunication services. *
Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Revises commercial general liability insurance coverage filing requirements for home improvement contractors.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an early warning, traffic congestion avoidance pilot program.
Adds requirement under "Uniform Fire Safety Act" for one and two-family residences to be equipped with a portable fire extinguisher to be enforced upon change of occupancy. *
Requires an individual under 21 years of age to obtain parental consent before opening a credit card account.
Allows certain persons in military service to receive suspension of interest on mortgage loan. *
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Authorizes New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish the New Jersey Hall of Fame within the Meadowlands Complex. *
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
The "New Jersey Homeowners Equity Protection Act." *
Establishes additional requirements for licensed debt adjusters; increases penalties for licensing law violations.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Appropriates $150,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $13,845,980 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 southern NJ.
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 $26,743,525 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation 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 $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes redevelopment agreements for reimbursement of remediation costs for projects that have already begun. *
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for film production expenses incurred in New Jersey and provides for the transfer of those tax credits to other taxpayers. *
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
Provides title of person who serves as Acting Governor for continuous period of at least 180 days will be "Governor of the State of New Jersey" for official and historical purposes.
In committee · 55
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.
Establishes homestead rebates to offset 90% of public school property taxes and a gross income tax surcharge to fund the rebates; establishes the NJ SMART Homestead Rebate Act.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows excuse from jury service on grounds of obligation to care for a minor child under certain circumstances.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Requires laws for police service benefits and fire service benefits to be the same.
Imposes liability insurance requirement on alcoholic beverage licenses and provides penalties for occupancy and fire code violations.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Requires New Jersey Transit Access Link drivers to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Requires "rounding" of dollar amounts in returns and other forms in determining liability for certain taxes.
Provides for cost of living adjustments in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain retirants from certain county pension funds.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Reallocates $675,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding within Division of Developmental Disabilities to provide grant to Arc of Essex county and Arc of Bergen-Passaic counties.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Eliminates punitive damages and assessments of attorneys' fees against public entities, and against public officers, employees and servants acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Requires that driver education curriculum include information on automobile insurance.
Increases continuing education training requirements for dental hygienists.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Clarifies obligation of cemeteries to hold consumer prepayments for cemetery services in trust accounts.
Increases salaries of workers' compensation judges.
Increases the term of a municipal prosecutor.
Assesses insurers and health maintenance organizations $8.1 million to defray cost of prescription drug benefits for certain Medicaid recipients.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Revises certain provisions concerning highway construction contracts.
Broadens eligibility for various veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specific dates or specific locations.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Provides for temporary voluntary deduction from compensation of State employees for donation to American Red Cross for disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Requires tenant rebates by landlords of multifamily dwellings for cost of municipal solid waste collection by municipalities.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Provides for registration of mold inspectors and remediators.
Establishes the State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Contractors.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
"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.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Requires on-time performance data in NJ Transit annual report.
"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.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Prohibits charging of municipal, county or State beach fees; establishes fund for beach maintenance; requires annual appropriation of $20,000,000 from realty transfer fees into fund; restricts other appropriations contingent on such funding.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Authorizes sheriff's employees pension fund to provide pension enhancement for future retirees.