Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Became law6
Provides for asset disregard for Medicaid recipients under long-term care insurance partnership. *
Increases membership of Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of NJ from 14 to 15 members.
Prohibits hospitals from charging certain uninsured persons more than 15% greater than applicable Medicare rate.
Permits physicians to issue multiple prescriptions for total of up to 90-day supply of Schedule II drugs.
Reduces common council membership from nine to five members in city of Beverly charter and increases terms of office of mayor and council members to four years.
Permits prescriber to use electronic health record program to print New Jersey Prescription Blanks for transmission to pharmacist.
Passed the General Assembly4
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider. *
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Out of committee21
Prohibits organized delivery systems from denying participation in network to imaging centers willing to meet terms of contract.
Requires single operating-room facilities to register with DHSS, permits practitioners to refer patients to ambulatory surgery facilities in which practitioners have financial interest under certain circumstances. **
Requires anatomical research recovery organizations to register with DHSS.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Connector Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Insurance Connector; provides gross income tax exclusion for cafeteria plan benefits. *
Revises criteria for determining health claim to be "clean claim" for purposes of promptly remitting payment.
"Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act."
Authorizes enhanced DHSS monitoring of hospital financial performance and intervention in management of identified distressed hospitals.
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
Requires DHS to verify income of applicants for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare with Department of the Treasury records.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers. *
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Provides for expedited injunction for violations of law requiring prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs.
Concerns access to certain job training courses for employees affected by plant closings, mass layoffs or transfer of operations.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to physician and patient, and physician's prior approval. *
Makes reforms to "Health Care Quality Act;" requires audits of provider networks.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Requires uniform billing and reporting of infection rates by ambulatory surgical centers and requires DHSS to make reported information public. *
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Revises New Jersey False Claims Act to comply with federal Deficit Reduction Act for purposes of entitling State to enhanced recovery in Medicaid fraud cases; establishes an annual reporting requirement for the Attorney General. *
Concerns use of health information technology products.
"New Jersey Broadband and Electronic Health Information Network Authority Act." *
In committee81
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.
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.
Requires second class counties with superintendent of elections to establish office of deputy superintendent; authorizes chair and vice-chair of county committee and county's two State committee members to select superintendent and deputy nominees; appro
Defers expiration date of law permitting physicians and dentists to engage in joint negotiations with insurance carriers.
Requires SHBP to cover prostate cancer screening.
Extends charity care payments to physicians providing hospital-based charity care.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
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.
Establishes notice requirements for utility shut-off and provides for appointment of receiver in place of tenant organization for utility payments in senior living facilities.
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.
Deems utilization management decisions on behalf of certain insurers to be practice of health care profession.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to fund CeaseFire pilot program in Camden, Jersey City, Newark, and Trenton.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt uniform informed consent form for clinical demonstration projects approved by DHSS.
"Prescription Drug Right-to-Know Act"; establishes clinical trials registry in DHSS; requires pharmaceutical companies to publicly disclose clinical trial data.
Establishes "New Jersey Medicaid False Claims Act."
Establishes notification system for operation of petting zoos and certain animal or agricultural exhibitions; establishes sanitation requirement for human contact with animals.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Requires discount for certain E-ZPass frequent users of NJ Turnpike Exit 6.
Exempts drugs for treatment of certain conditions from restrictive mechanisms under Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare, AIDS Drug Distribution Program, and PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Establishes procedures for operation of air ambulance services.
"Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Institute Act"; appropriates $6 million.
Expands scope of claims subject to "Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act"; modifies procedures applicable to health claims reviews.
Provides for a gross income tax deduction for COBRA premium expenses.
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Revises "Health Care Quality Act;" requires certain provisions in managed care plan contracts; clarifies certain responsibilities for ordering tests and procedures.
Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.
"Plastic Bag Recycling Act."
Enhances rights and remedies of employees who disclose or refuse to participate in fraudulent employer practices.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction for repeat offender.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county bridge commissions.
Prohibits sale of mercury batteries and consumer products that use mercury batteries; prohibits disposal of used mercury batteries as solid waste.
Expands eligibility for subsidy payments from CATV Universal Access Fund to include certain Medicaid recipients.
Requires insurers, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to reimburse for childhood immunizations at levels specified by regulation.
Directs DHS to declare surplus certain unused real property and provides for direct sale thereof.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Excludes certain Medicare premiums in determining eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
"State Medicare Part D Assistance and Information Act."
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt certain infection control strategies.
"Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act."
Prohibits municipalities from requiring permits for certain voter registration drives.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Requires Division of Taxation to provide certain information to applicants deemed ineligible.
Permits municipalities to defer 100% of payment of property taxes owed by senior citizen homeowners enrolled in PAAD.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Prohibits persons under 19 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Allows exclusion for calculation of adjusted tax levy for expenditures made by municipalities for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Relieves municipalities along certain light rail lines of civil liability in Quiet Zones under certain circumstances.
Revises requirement for school district participation in Alliance for Competitive Telecommunications program and requires consultation with New Jersey Association of School Business Officials on certain training.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Requires managed care plans to cover treatment of overweight and obesity in adults on fee-for-service basis.
Immunizes policyholders from liability within policy limits when coverage exceeds New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association statutory limit of $300,000.
Permits "opt out" of compulsory automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; eliminates territorial rate caps.
Requires health insurers SHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for ancillary medical services in connection with outpatient diagnostic screening and surgical intervention services.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Provides for tattoo pigment labeling requirements.
Requires carriers offering managed care plans to report certain utilization management decisions to DOBI.
Prohibits State officer or employee involved in awarding contract from holding employment with party awarded contract for two years after leaving State service.
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
Provides for complaint forms to register perceived violations of local zoning ordinances and "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Requires applicants for public assistance undergo retinal scan to detect multiple case fraud.
Requires health care facilities to continuously monitor status of health care practitioner credentials.
Requires all assisted living facilities set aside at least 10% of beds for Medicaid-eligible persons and accept at least 5% Medicaid direct admission.
Requires State Comptroller to establish schedule for each county to undergo performance review by State Comptroller's staff every five years.
Requires DEP to notify municipality of environmental violations by a local entity.
Requires health insurers that cover speech therapy and SHBP to provide coverage for certain services.
Authorizes set-asides, and fees in-lieu thereof, for open space and recreation purposes as conditions to approvals under the MLUL.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals and physicians from charging patient for certain medical errors.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Requires anatomical research recovery organizations to register with DHSS.
"Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act."
Requires single operating-room facilities to register with DHSS, permits practitioners to refer patients to ambulatory surgery facilities in which practitioners have financial interest under certain circumstances. **
Requires DHS to verify income of applicants for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare with Department of the Treasury records.
Authorizes enhanced DHSS monitoring of hospital financial performance and intervention in management of identified distressed hospitals.
Requires uniform billing and reporting of infection rates by ambulatory surgical centers and requires DHSS to make reported information public. **
Revises New Jersey False Claims Act to comply with federal Deficit Reduction Act for purposes of entitling State to enhanced recovery in Medicaid fraud cases; establishes an annual reporting requirement for the Attorney General. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 34
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general elections. **
Provides "Patriots Corner" tribute in State House to New Jersey residents serving in US Armed Forces, reserve components and New Jersey National Guard.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Permits implementation of encrypted counterfeit-resistant revenue stamps for cigarettes sold in the State. *
Delays expiration date of certain professional and occupational licenses and registrations for individuals with certain types of military services. *
Affords employment protection to certain volunteer emergency responders.
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Authorizes municipal planning boards to adopt green buildings and environmental sustainability municipal master plan element.
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation.
Permits use of overseas absentee ballots for all elections; authorizes transmission of ballots by electronic means. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund and to Cat and Dog Spay/Neuter Fund. *
Requires each general hospital and State psychiatric hospital to annually conduct public meeting for community it serves. *
Provides veterans' organizations right to receive unclaimed veterans' cremains after one year. *
Exempts Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans' Memorial Cemetery from law requiring reforestation plans.
Provides period of extension for repayment of introductory rate mortgages on residential property under certain circumstances.
Establishes a "Silver Alert System." *
Permits victim of domestic abuse to terminate residential lease under certain circumstances; provides procedure for tenant to recover security deposit.
Increases civil penalties for medical waste violations and intentional ocean pollution. *
Establishes the InvestNJ Business Grant Program in NJEDA to stimulate certain capital investment and job creation in New Jersey during a limited period, makes appropriations. *
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Concerns on-site generation facilities.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Establishes the "Main Street Business Assistance Program;" appropriates $50 million.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Permits adding e-mail address to voter registration applications.
Appropriates $12,500,000 from Long Term Obligation and Capital Expenditure Fund and $51,471,000 in federal funds for housing related purposes.
Permits person to donate blood at 16 years of age with parental consent.
Authorizes interception of wire or electronic communications of suspected computer trespasser under certain circumstances.
The "New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act"; concerns certain licensed mortgage and consumer lending practices, supervision and enforcement.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Permits adult with an autism spectrum disorder to voluntarily register with the State registry of reported diagnoses in children.
Clarifies provisions of "Law Against Discrimination" concerning persons with an autism spectrum disorder.
Requires member of New Jersey National Guard to apply for tuition benefits under Post-911 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to qualify for tuition-free enrollment at public institutions of higher education. *
Vetoed · 1
The "Jobs, Trade and Democracy Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 27
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Creates offense of impairing communications, which would constitute domestic violence in certain circumstances. *
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that the application was made voluntarily. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Requires New Jersey DMVA to issue Cold War certificates to Cold War veterans.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2008." *
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow their customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages. *
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts. *
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor on lawn sprinklers as condition of sale and on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail or industrial property and in common interest communities within specified timeframes.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Prohibits persons under age 19 from smoking or carrying a lighted tobacco product in an outdoor public place.
Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.
Provides that reports and publications produced by State be primarily available on Internet, provides for notice of availability of reports and publications.
Creates New Jersey Honor Guard Ribbon.
Enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Permits State aid to fund start-up costs for local shared services projects.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Makes Housing Assistance and Recovery Program effective immediately.
Makes it a crime to communicate or transmit sexually suggestive communications to a minor under certain circumstances.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Provides that information technology professionals who find child pornography on computers must report the finding to law enforcement.
Allows DMVA to fundraise for handicap accessible vehicle purchase.
Out of committee · 29
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes program for directing motorists to agricultural tourism establishment locations. *
Consumer Electronics Warranty Lemon Law.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
"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.
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. *
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Upgrades penalties for tampering with witnesses and informants; upgrades hindering apprehension or prosecution under certain circumstances. *
Appropriates $33 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Regulates certain credentialing and trade practices of insurance producers, and provides private cause of action for insurance producer violations.
Requires training for all trustees of general hospitals.
Requires staff members of adoption agencies to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Creates eight additional judgeships; increases certain court fees to fund judgeships and to supplement funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Creates two additional Superior Court judgeships.
Allows persons affected by certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs to receive temporary suspension of payment of interest on mortgage loans.
Authorizes DHSS to recover monies from certain charity care claims through contracted entity.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from landlords in certain circumstances.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacy for dispensing forged or fraudulent prescription approved by certain State prescription drug benefit programs. *
Concerns urban enterprise zones.
Requires residential mortgage lenders to provide debtors with certain information about curing default prior to initiation of mortgage foreclosure action.
Requires test agencies to offer post-examination products and services in a uniform manner to all test subjects.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for family planning services.
Requires chain restaurants to provide calorie information for food or beverage items offered for sale.
In committee · 87
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstances.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
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.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires State Board of Education to authorize African-American studies endorsement to the instructional certificate.
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
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.
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.
Increases maximum LOSAP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain long-term and former State residents.
Grants Statewide law enforcement powers to certain Burlington County Bridge Comission police officers.
Authorizes creation of 32nd UEZ in Beverly City, Burlington County.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2006.
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.
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.
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Provides mandatory fines and community service for theft of headstones, headstone markers, flags or flag holders from grave sites.
Requires keg registration; makes the unlawful possession of an unregistered keg a petty disorderly persons offense.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Directs Attorney General to establish a criminal firearms recovery clearing house.
Extends, by three years, the collection of annual surcharges for the Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Requires forfeiture of public office upon conviction of fourth degree crime or higher; disqualifies person from future office upon conviction of fourth degree crime or higher or conviction of crime involving dishonesty.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
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.
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 Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
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."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
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.
Requires telephone number to report suspicious activities or behavior related to terrorism be printed on certificates of approval.
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
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.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Bars sales of aerosol dusters to persons under the age of 18.
Prohibits insurers offering managed care plans from denying participation in network to health care providers willing to meet terms of contract.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey Farmland Preservation Fund.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
Provides for licensing and regulation of private process serving businesses.
Requires at least 30% of snacks sold in State vending machines be appropriate for consumption by individuals with diabetes.
Excludes financial benefit received by volunteer emergency responder from gross income.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
Requires State to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue resulting from veterans' total property tax exemption.
Requires each county to establish and maintain veterans service office.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Disqualifies member of board of education for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation.