Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Became law4
Proposes series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Deletes certain nursing home payment requirements under "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Exempts dentists from requirement that needles and sharp devices used in health care facilities have integrated safety features.
Passed the General Assembly4
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Requires every second class county to establish office of deputy superintendent of elections; authorizes county committees to select nominees for superintendent in such counties; appropriates funds.
Out of committee6
Creates "Small Retail Business Assistance Fund" to make low-interest loans to certain small retail businesses; appropriates $750,000.
Requires employer notifications to workers regarding temporary disability benefits.
Establishes Prescription Monitoring Program in Division of Consumer Affairs. *
Requires DHSS to review standard of care at health care facilities in which 40% or more of direct patient care nursing staff are temporary hires.
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
Creates Community Farmers' Market Study Commission.
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Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Establishes patient health care information confidentiality requirements.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain first-time home buyers.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction for repeat offender.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Establishes certain guidelines for post-conviction proceedings.
Requires disclosure of certain political contributions by companies made in municipal elections.
Provides that Attorney General, rather than county prosecutor, would make decision whether or not to seek the death penalty in all murder cases.
Concerns medical malpractice liability and sets standards for expert witnesses; caps noneconomic damages; establishes prelitigation screening and mediation; modifies statute of limitations and joint liability; prohibits certain insurance rate increases.
Requires managed care plans to cover treatment of overweight and obesity in adults on fee-for-service basis.
Permits dispensing of nonprescription weight loss formulas and supplements by physicians.
Exempts individual retirement accounts from attachment.
Prevents managed care plan from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager initiated by employer or carrier.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of tobacco use cessation services.
Prohibits insurer offering managed care plan from denying participation to any provider willing to meet terms of contract.
Prevents managed care plan from denying coverage for certain health care services provided to covered person solely because covered person did not present referral to provider who performed services.
Permits "opt out" of compulsory automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; eliminates territorial rate caps.
Provides State-paid health care benefits to certain divorced spouses of certain retired State employees.
Authorizes insurance coverage in a divorce action to continue regardless of whether custody is at issue.
Provides that health care professionals are only liable for their share of any professional negligence.
Adds four additional judges in Burlington County.
Creates the New Jersey Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to three years; limits minor's filing to minor's 6th birthday.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
Establishes local option mortgage assistance program for police officers and firefighters.
Allows NJ SAVER rebate eligibility for homestead owners not qualifying on October 1 to be based on their periods of homestead ownership during the tax year and allows for prorated rebate amount.
Provides that doctors providing emergency care in hospitals are immune from civil liability under the Good Samaritan Act.
Provides mandatory 20-year term of imprisonment for use of a handgun during the commission of certain crimes.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for certain prescription drug expenses.
Establishes New Jersey 2-1-1 Telephone System Task Force.
The "Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 2001"; clarifies and strengthens ethical standards applicable to State officers and employees, special State officers and employees and members of the Legislature.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions.
Prohibits the sale of foods high in sugar and sodium content in public schools.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Establishes New Jersey Emergency Health Service Corps.
Defines surgery that may be performed by licensed physicians.
Permits voter registration up to 14 days before election and at polling place on days of elections.
Establishes an agricultural tourism program and appropriates $95,000.
Establishes Professional Review Panel in Board of Nursing.
Generally prohibits reuse of returned dispensed prescription drugs.
Increases State supplementary payment for residential health care facilities.
Permits municipalities to defer 100% of payment of property taxes owed by senior citizen homeowners enrolled in PAAD.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Prohibits municipalities from requiring permits for certain voter registration drives.
Provides motor fuels tax refunds for fuel used in recreational boats.
Defers expiration date of law permitting physicians and dentists to engage in joint negotiations with insurance carriers.
Provides free legal counsel to parent or guardian of child with disability involved in certain disputes regarding child's education rights.
Directs DHS to declare surplus certain unused real property and provides for direct sale thereof.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DHSS for grant to UMDNJ Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities.
Extends charity care payments to physicians providing hospital-based charity care.
Requires Division of Taxation to provide certain information to applicants deemed ineligible.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Immunizes policyholders from liability within policy limits when coverage exceeds New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association statutory limit of $300,000.
Deems utilization management decisions on behalf of certain insurers to be practice of health care profession.
Revises death record requirements.
Reduces the number of peremptory challenges in civil and criminal cases.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Revises standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions.
Require property condition disclosure statements for real estate sales.
Requires permit for operation of petting zoos and certain animal or agricultural exhibitions, shows, and fairs; establishes sanitation requirements.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $427 million from Property Tax Relief Fund to fully fund homestead rebates to homeowners and tenants.
Requires notification to tenants and affected municipality or DCA of certain impending public utility service shutoffs and to tenants of certain overdue public utility bills.
Establishes "New Jersey Fund for Enhancement of Medicare Part D Benefits" and specifies use of savings to State from Medicare Part D.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county bridge commissions.
Excludes certain Medicare premiums in determining eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires employer notifications to workers regarding temporary disability benefits.
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 61
Increases monetary penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limit and reporting requirements and remuneration restrictions.
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 posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commercially available; provides for State funding for paper record. *
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
Increases voting and voter penalties.
Permits voter registration up to 21 days before election; permits use of provisional ballot for voter registration; modifies information available on voter registration list. *
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
Provides for fast track permitting of biotechnology related industries.
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Prohibits telemarketers from using technology designed to misrepresent their identity. *
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards. *
Increases maximum public employees may contribute to Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust plans.
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs. *
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Permits expanded use of farm vehicles.
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Concerns "card check" method of union recognition.
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.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Increases maximum bond amount filed with Department of Agriculture by certain purchasers of milk or cream and agricultural commodities.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Provides paid and unpaid leaves of absence for service with public employee unions and allows full cost purchase of PERS credit for period of leave.
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
Makes the unlawful use or possession of a scanning device or reencoder a crime. *
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. **
Requires photo ID verification of pilots renting aircraft.
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
Appropriates $17,623,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers. *
Authorizes NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish a Foundation for Technology Advancement. *
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Creates World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Expands State tuition aid grant eligibility to include dependent child whose parent or guardian has been transferred to a military installation in this State. *
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
Authorizes Dept. of Agriculture to establish surety fund and assess fees for benefit of perishable agricultural commodity growers, and modifies amount of surety required to be filed by licensed purchasers of such commodities.
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
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million to Treasury for energy assistance programs. *
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Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstance.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act." *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. **
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. *
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Requires private and public employers to provide unpaid leaves of absence or reassignment of hours for National Guard members and Reservists engaged in training.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Creates the "Emergency Management Act of 2004."
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires MVC to accept death certificate as proof of name change. *
Requires examinations of joint insurance funds and certain reporting by those funds.
Requires charge to nonresidents for E-ZPass transponders. *
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
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.
Grants Statewide law enforcement powers to certain Burlington County Bridge Comission police officers.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools. *
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for 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% surplus for 2006-2007
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals. *
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Provides reimbursement of group life insurance premiums to members of National Guard, appropriates $1,500,000.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
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Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Prohibits member of Legislature from acting on legislation in which member or family member of that member has personal interest.
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
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. *
Requires nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund. *
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Requires the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to develop a public health emergency response plan. *
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans.
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.
Provides for continued health benefits coverage for certain persons covered under small employer health benefits plans in certain circumstances.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
"Patient Surgical Safety Act."
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.
Permits municipality to create drug free zone around project-based housing. *
Requires certain ATM operators to register and undergo criminal history record background checks.
Authorizes the State, with prior approval by the State House Commission, to use eminent domain power to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes provided lands are protective of drinking water sources.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Permits State, counties, municipalities and boards of education to establish special pay plans under sections 401(a) and 403(b) of federal Internal Revenue Code.
Establishes a demonstration program for veterans home health care; appropriates $2 million.
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Permits special improvement districts to enter into certain financing arrangements with private lenders.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act." *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Changes purpose and membership of Council on Armed Forces and Veterans' Affairs.
"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 Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act. " *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
Permits unemployment benefits for workers "locked-out" by their employers.
Allows participation in SHBP for certain union elected officers and employees. *
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Requires portion of State rental assistance grants be reserved for graduates of State veterans' transitional housing program.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting.
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Changes striped bass catch and possession limits.
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Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Regulates telephone customer service practices.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Provides official State recognition of Powhatan Renape Nation, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Inc., and Ramapough Mountain Indians as American Indian Tribes for certain purposes.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Prohibits certain provisions in employment contracts.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State in 2006.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Increases civil penalty payable to the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" by persons who commit domestic violence.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Permits paid and unpaid leave of absence for certain public employees and purchase of PERS credit for such absences.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides civil immunity to public entities and public employees for acquisition, stockpiling, distribution and dispensing of certain drugs and vaccines to mitigate the effects of exposure to nuclear, chemical and biological agents.
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Supplemental appropriation for $5 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Allows credit against corporation business tax for computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic schools in Abbott and certain other low-income districts.
Provides that the school district of residence for a child in a foster home shall be the present district of residence of the parent or guardian.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
Establishes obstructing access to fire hydrant as disorderly persons offense.
Prohibits certain practices by automobile insurers.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Establishes certain Dept. of Agriculture programs to promote marketing opportunities for farmers.
Establishes regional lead treatment centers in the State.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Permits candidate for office to include professional designation on petition of nomination, ballot of any kind, canvas of votes or for any other purpose.
Provides that DRPA is not a State agency for purposes of R.S.39:5-41.b.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
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.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Restores funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Requires health insurers to cover well baby visits during the first two years of life.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
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.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
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.
Authorizes creation of 32nd UEZ in Beverly City, Burlington County.
"Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Act."
Provides that certain disabled veterans may purchase special automobile insurance policies.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general election.
Exempts certain physician-owned or operated ambulatory health care facilities from ambulatory care gross receipts assessment if facility is Medicaid or NJ Family Care provider.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for various veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specific dates or specific locations.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Limits period for reimbursement from providers for overpayment on health care claims to 18 months.
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Repeals air toxics surcharge.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Establishes sexual use of, or contact with, including sodomy of, animals as a crime and a civil offense under State animal cruelty laws.
Requires individual to be at least 21 years of age to enter into contract for the use of a credit card under certain circumstances.
Requires SHBP to cover prostate cancer screening.
Requires responsible business practices by large employers regarding wages and benefits.
Permits certain senior citizens or disabled persons to qualify as " eligible claimant" for homestead property tax reimbursement even if fourth quarter property taxes are delinquent.
"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.
Exempts certain purchases by school food service providers from the sales and use tax.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Requires health insurers to cover medical transportation services under certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to Rutgers, The State University and $50,000 to Seton Hall University to fund clinical legal program for homeless veterans.
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 transportation of nerve agent VX on public highways.
Appropriates $8,000,000 in FY 2006 to DOE for aid to the Willingboro School District to offset school district budget deficit.
Establishes health care quality improvement fund grant program for hospitals funded from tax rate increase on small cigars and appropriates $1 million.
Makes unauthorized use of military medals or insignias a crime of the fourth degree.
"Access to Medical Research Act;" authorizes certain persons to give informed consent for medical research if subject of research is unable to give consent.