Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Nancy F. Muñoz
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
In committee67
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
"New Jersey Medical Care Availability and Patient Protection Act of 2004."
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Removes license suspension penalty for persons with only one outstanding parking fine; permits Motor Vehicle Commission to refuse registration to persons with outstanding parking fine.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $73,000 for a grant to Union County College for Holocaust and Ethnic Studies Project.
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Requires sellers of used motor vehicles to complete and submit form.
Clarifies that permitting sexual abusers to reside with a child constitutes endangering welfare of a child.
Allocates nondedicated portion of State realty transfer fee collections to municipal property tax relief.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Child Protection Zone Act."
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger.
Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency.
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Agency.
Permits municipal board of library commissioners to reduce library tax rate when municipality acquires new ratables.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Requires DOT to create map showing refueling facilities where alternative fuel is dispensed.
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission," appropriates $95,000.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces and the New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
Increases and indexes maximum homestead property tax deduction under gross income tax.
Requires amount by which actual State General Fund revenue exceeds anticipated State General Fund revenue for a fiscal year to be appropriated as State school aid.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires persons under age 17 to wear helmets when operating non-motorized scooters.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund historic preservation.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Prohibits certain employment or supervision of relatives of certain members of the Legislature.
Requires OLS to make audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions available to public in electronic form.
Expands eligibility under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act by broadening certain municipal qualifier provisions.
Establishes right of way for funeral processions.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
"One Strike, You're Ours;" adds use of Internet as aggravating factor in child sex crimes and requires lifetime electronic monitoring of offender.
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for costs of electric power infrastructure for use by heavy duty vehicles to reduce idling times.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Prohibits display of political party affilliation on absentee ballot envelopes.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits unmuffled use of compression release engine brakes; creates fine.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Directs Attorney General to publicize information about human trafficking hotlines; mandates law enforcement training on responding to the needs of victims of the crime of human trafficking.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
"Ricci's Law;" revises ignition interlock device requirements for certain drunk driving offenders. *
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. **
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices in indoor public places and sale to minors. *
Establishes New Jersey Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force.
Out of committee · 17
Requires managed care plans to pay certain health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside. *
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires uniform billing and reporting of infection rates by ambulatory surgical centers and requires DHSS to make reported information public. *
Establishes a permanent Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Establishes "New Jersey Lung Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $120,123,420 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $19,919,700 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,557,201 from various historic preservation funds to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $574,805 from certain historic preservation bond funds for associated administrative expenses.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
In committee · 68
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Requires traffic to stop for senior citizen transportation vehicles with certain equipment.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Provides exemption from UI taxes for certain retirees.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
Requires suspension of local elected and appointed officers and employees indicted for certain offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office or position.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Authorizes temporary handicapped parking permits for certain relatives of nursing home residents.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from the sales and use tax.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Excludes charges for certain membership and initiation fees and dues from sales and use tax.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Authorizes "Proud to Be an American" license plate with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management organizations.
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
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.
Permits historic motor vehicles to be used for pleasure driving one day per week.
Recognizes co-fired biomass energy as method to meet renewable energy portfolio standards.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Requires Treasurer and Divisions of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by April 15 and December 15 each year.
Caps bond counsel legal fees and costs on public issuers' bond transactions and requires a competitive selection process for retaining bond counsel.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Requires that ordinary disability retirement in certain State-administered retirement systems be granted only if member has qualified for federal Social Security Disability benefits.
Allows pension calculation to be based on compensation increase in excess of actuarially assumed experience only if employer pays unfunded liability.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
Limits payment upon retirement to $10,000 to State and local public officers and employees for accumulated sick leave.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Permits direct shipping of wine to New Jersey consumers.
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits posting of certain personal information on the Internet or misrepresentation of identity on the Internet for the purpose of harassment of a minor child.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Provides that municipalities with minimum amounts of developable land may file certification with the Council on Affordabe Housing, even if no petition for substantive certification is filed.
"Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children in certain urban enterprise zone municipalities.
Provides for Statewide evacuation strategy for hospitals and other health care facilities.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.
Requires newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years of initial licensure.
Disqualifies member of board of education for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices in indoor public places and workplaces.
Appropriates $17.45 million in 1992 and 2003 bond act monies for loans to fund dam restoration projects.