Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Paul A. Sarlo
Sponsored
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Authorizes appointment of unpaid deputy sheriffs in certain counties.
Upgrades penalties for certain assaults committed against employees of public utilities, cable television or telecommunication services. *
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options; appropriates $75,000. *
Concerns leasing of NJ Sports and Exposition Authority's racetracks; allows authority to assign off-track and account wagering licenses; revises minimum thoroughbred race date requirements; provides for additional board members appointed by presiding off
Clarifies certain exception from publication on sex offender Internet registry.
Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district.
Upgrades unlawful possession and distribution of prescription legend drugs.*
Revises "grandfathering" provisions for eligibility to be a licensed home inspector.
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. **
Authorizes New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish the New Jersey Hall of Fame within the Meadowlands complex. *
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
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
Expands certain powers of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish and develop professional football league training facilities.
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Requires certain election committees and certain other persons to file report with ELEC within 48 hours of making certain expenditures in excess of $800 during certain periods.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Concerns hours of service of commercial motor vehicles operating in intrastate commerce.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members to municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
Makes it a crime to lure or entice another for the purpose of committing a crime via electronic or any other means including the Internet. *
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview. *
Expands bonding power authorized under P.L.2001, c.310 and extends scope of power to include projects undertaken under auspices of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Permits certain lights on vehicles of members of volunteer emergency services. *
Delays implementation of "Contractors' Registration Act."
Regulates certain devices which interfere with traffic control signals. *
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. *
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Changes licensing requirements for home inspectors.
Requires DOC commissioner to implement telecommunications voice mail system for staff in correctional facilities.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
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Provides for funding of rail line and station to Meadowlands Sports Complex and public-private operation of rail service.
Makes all fireworks subject to Explosives Act.
Provides that charter schools may be established only in certain school districts and requires State to pay all tuition and transportation costs.
Directs the State Lottery Commission to establish video lottery at not more than three horse racetracks; provides for NJ Casino Control Commission and NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement oversight.
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
Creates crime of criminal negligent homicide, negligent assault with a firearm and reckless endangerment.
Appropriates $40,000 in FY2003 to East Rutherford Boro School District for a study skills program for at-risk pupils.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
Requires school bus driver to inspect bus, activate safety device at end of transportation route to ensure that no pupil has been left on board.
Permits qualified licensed veterinarians to employ foreign veterinary school graduates as assistants under certain circumstances.
Allows operators of school buses to obtain refunds of motor fuels tax.
Requires written agreements between manufacturers and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages.
Concerns fire emergency procedures.
Expands jurisdiction of municipal arson investigators.
Allows supermarkets and malls corporation business tax credit for motorized cart's acquisition cost.
Creates PFRS deferred retirement option program (DROP).
Requires insurers to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances and requires physicians to provide certain treatment information to patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
Enhances benefits for active members when PFRS funded at 101%, for retirees when PFRS funded at 104%.
Authorizes Government Records Council to employ or contract with attorneys.
Revises filing requirements for minor subdivisions.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline; authorizes an annual appropriation.
Exempts commercial requests for Geographic Information System maps from Open Public Records Act access.
Authorizes new powers and contractual agreements to be entered into by New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Establishes the Homeland Security Technology Systems Center at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; appropriates $300,000.
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products subject to regulation under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Revises law governing private investigators.
Provides enhanced retirement benefits for county law enforcement officers in PERS ineligible for PFRS membership.
Provides retirement benefit under Judicial Retirement System of 75 percent of final salary to certain judges with at least 10 years of judicial service.
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Exempts certain businesses from licensing requirements for those engaged in burglar alarm, fire alarm and electronic security system installations.
Permits certain intergovernmental transfer employees the option to waive accumulated sick leave.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and creates permissive inference for possession of certain amounts.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Permits aeronautic law enforcement officer to carry firearm.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Permits certain PFRS members to purchase service credit for time served as special law enforcement officer.
Concerns bail bonds and the issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Permits law enforcement officers, including county sheriff and corrections officers, to participate in intergovernmental transfer program; permits waive of accumulated sick leave and seniority privileges by such officers.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
"Rail Special Transportation District Act."
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 for Camp Marcella.
Abolishes Home Inspection Advisory Committee; transfers duties to State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Clarifies certain restrictions on sending unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents.
Co-sponsored
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Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Requires DOT to ban right turn on red at unsafe intersections, erect signs at crosswalks and considers pedestrian safety when distributing discretionary aid.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Revises counterfeit goods and forfeiture laws to deter criminal street gang activities.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Streamlines certain permitting in smart growth areas. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review and transmit to judge prior to sentencing motor vehicle abstracts of certain offenders.
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year. *
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes licensing requirements and standards for pharmaceutical wholesale distribution.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Authorizes early termination of residential lease by senior citizen tenant accepted into assisted living facility, nursing home, continuing care retirement community, or low or moderate income housing. *
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
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Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires vendors collecting New Jersey sales tax for locations in New Jersey to record and report on their returns the amount of sales tax collected within each municipality in New Jersey.
Increases minimum period of imprisonment from 10 to 30 days for driving while license revoked for DWI.
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
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Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Requires value engineering clause in specifications for certain construction contracts under Local Public Contracts Law.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act." *
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Prohibits radio transmissions without license from FCC and radio transmissions that interfere with licensed public or commercial radio stations.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Certifies court reporters.
Concerns availability of basic and "Dollar-A-Day" automobile insurance policies. *
Changes liability of underground facility operators with respect to certain provisions of the "Underground Facility Protection Act."
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
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 $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Conforms the sales and use tax to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to provide for entry therein.
Authorizes NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish a Foundation for Technology Advancement. *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Prohibits telemarketers from using technology designed to misrepresent their identity.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
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.
Modifies penalty for operating an aircraft while impaired, establishes blood alcohol content offense level and requires report of violation to FAA. *
Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing- intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Makes the unlawful use or possession of a scanning device or reencoder a crime.
Expands authority of emergency management departments in requesting assistance outside normal territorial jurisdictions. *
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Limits deductible to not more than $250 and copayment to 20% for automobile insurance medical expense and emergency care benefits.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
Creates the "Emergency Management Act of 2004."
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Passaic City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Wallington Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Garfield City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Permits certain county pension commissions to increase portion of funds invested in equities.
Increases Intoxicated Driver Resource Center requirements for first-time DWI offenders.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
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.
Gives Statewide police powers to certain county juvenile detention officers.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Appropriates $10,000 to restore veterans' monument in Roxbury Township.
Revises the calculation of school district budget caps, eliminates the restrictions on the submission of separate proposal for additional spending, and requires a performance audit upon the submission of such proposals.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3%
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges.
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
Creates Meadowlands Economic Development Trust; provides for sharing of tax revenues generated by developments of regional economic significance to improve local quality of life.
Supplemental appropriation to DOT of $14,800,000 as State contribution toward improvements of certain portions of Route 17.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.