Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Stephen M. Sweeney
Sponsored
Became law16
Permits the consolidation of the boards of education of a county vocational school district and a county special services school district into one board. *
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Requires persons transacting business in this State and making payments to unregistered unincorporated construction contractors to withhold gross income taxes from those payments.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
Establishes sex offender monitoring program. *
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from water use registration renewal fees.
Eliminates restriction for licensing use of outline of the State on packaging of fresh or salt water food products.
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes certain local units to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure used for providing broadband telecommunications service via wirelesss community networks. *
Increases fees and penalties under the "Explosives Act."
Requires new State residents to register their vehicles in New Jersey.
Requires Business Employment Incentive Program and other program grant recipients to pay the prevailing wage on certain public work projects.
Revises law concerning sales representatives to permit treble damages when a principal fails to pay earned commissions within 30 days of termination.
Reduces annual assessment on intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded from 5.8% to 5.3% for limited period.
Passed the Senate1
Allows certain chiropractors licensed in other states to be licensed in New Jersey.
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Requires prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs. *
The "Responsible Employer Act." *
Concerns certain workers' compensation supplemental benefits.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Requires employers to provide rest and meal breaks.
Requires all cats and dogs released from shelters and pounds be sterilized with certain exceptions, and establishes penalty for noncompliance. *
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support New Jersey Veterans Haven program.
Adds four members to South Jersey Port Corporation. *
Requires coordination of emergency operations plans and creation of emergency plan for certain animals. *
Concerns rights of DRPA employees.
Appropriates $300,000 for soil and water conservation grants.
Prohibits sale, use, and burning of creosote or creosote-treated products. *
Prohibits school districts from hiring certain governmental affairs agents. *
Allows certain nonprofits to directly apply to Division of Highway Traffic Safety for federal grants.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Excludes certain commercial lines insurance risks from provisions of standard fire policy.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Provides triggers for reductions of employer unemployment insurance taxes.
Increases certain fees and penalties of the Mine Safety Act.
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Places the burden of proof and burden of production on school districts in due process hearings conducted to resolve special education issues.
Provides exclusive jurisdiction for PERC certain unfair labor practice claims.
Appropriates $45.15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises statutory law concerning shellfisheries.
Increases license fee for owning or operating rooming or boarding house.
Reorganizes and renames NJ Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission as NJ Commerce Commission; transfers Division of Travel and Tourism to Department of State.
Permits labor peace agreements in projects in which public entities have proprietary interests.
Authorizes auction of greenhouse gas allowances; establishes "Global Warming Solutions Fund."
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
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Requires criminal history record background checks for DYFS caseworkers.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires vendors of legal services to fully itemize bills to public entities and prescribes penalties.
Concerns certain workers' compensation survivor benefits and certain supplemental benefits.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Limits documentary service fees charged by automotive dealers.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Creates State Board of Examiners for Fire Sprinkler Fitters and establishes new qualifications for persons installing fire sprinkler systems.
The "Public Dam Rehabilitation Project Bond Act," authorizes bonds for $90,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires executors to post bond and provide periodic accountings to the court where beneficiary is developmentally disabled.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Requires county boards of chosen freeholders to establish county special services school districts.
Allows New Jersey S corporations to elect to transfer corporation business tax credits to shareholders to apply against the shareholders' gross income tax liability.
Revises scope of P.L.2004, c.89, expediting certain State permits in smart growth areas.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Concerns grievance arbitration clauses in public employment collective negotiation agreement.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Establishes additional penalties for motor vehicle right-of-way violations.
Clarifies determination of assessed value of certain petroleum refinery property subject to local taxation, appropriates funds necessary to reimburse municipalities for certain property tax refunds.
Provides terrorism damages exclusion for commercial risks under standard fire insurance policy.
Requires municipality to remit to county and school district at least 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of annual service charge received under long term tax exemption agreement.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Authorizes creation of 32nd urban enterprise zone in Salem City.
Provides energy and utility service sales tax relief benefit to certain manufacturers located near state with minimal or no sales tax.
Establishes $2 surcharge upon building permits for payments to Community Health Law Project.
Revises business permit exemptions for certain persons performing electrical work and requires registration of qualified journeyman electricians.
Requires DHS to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators.
Exempts certain physician's offices operating magnetic resonance imaging or computerized axial tomography services from requirement to obtain license to operate those services.
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency.
Requires drug testing of resource family parents and DYFS caseworkers.
Extends the life of certain school buses from 12 to 15 years.
Establishes Office of Minority Teacher Recruitment in Department of Education.
Provides for municipal regulation of liverycar service.
Prohibits imposition of the corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations that only store personal property in this State incident to its importation.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not reverse its Coastal Zone Act ruling that impacts a proposed New Jersey facility.
Imposes the New Jersey sales and use tax on prewritten computer software delivered by electronic means and delivered by the load and leave method.
Requires one half of natural resource damage payments to State to be remitted to municipality where damage occurred.
Authorizes municipality to request DEP to require additional remediation of certain landfill sites.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Prohibits certain elected officials from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
Concerns unemployment benefits for certain employees who participate in an early retirement incentive program.
Expands covered claims under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to include liquor law liability insurance claims.
Authorizes establishment of dedicated local tax to finance redevelopment.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Provides for the appointment of prosecutor's agents.
Permits police chiefs to issue handgun purchase permits to officers who are regularly employed, full-time members of their departments.
Prohibits member of incorporated fish and game protective association or society from enforcing fish and game laws.
Requires compensation for part-time instructional staff at public institutions of higher education to be pro-rated to full-time compensation.
Increases annual income limitation for senior and disabled citizens' eligibility for $250 property tax deduction and bases future annual income limitations on annual CPI changes.
Dedicates certain motor vehicle offense fine increases to Transportation Trust Fund Account.
Repeals the fee on the sale of new motor vehicle tires.
Removes from requirements of local budget cap law municipalities that do not levy municipal purposes tax.
Concerns responsibilities and liabilities of individuals involved in equine animals activities.
Concerns insertion and retention of microchips in individuals.
Criminalizes the manufacture, distribution and possession of Salvia divinorum.
Increases maximum LOSP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Reduces compensation of members of Legislature by 15%.
Permits elected officials and legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose only one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Revises procedures for the use of eminent domain in municipal redevelopment programs.
The "New Jersey Consumers Terrorism Protection Insurance Coverage Act;" establishes minimum terrorism insurance policy provisions.
Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
Limits administrative leave to three days and reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 10 for State and local government employees.
Permits unused vacation and sick leave by public employee to be carried forward for one year only; requires unused administrative leave to be cancelled.
Changes payment obligation of State and other public employers for SHBP coverage for employees and dependents to no more than 90 percent of SHBP cost.
Provides State and local governments will pay 90 percent of cost of post-retirement SHBP benefits for future retirees.
Requires that public employees who are married or with domestic partners receive health care benefits from only one public employer.
Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years and in PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to average of three highest-paid years.
Prohibits payments of public employee bonuses not directly contingent upon achieving certain performance goals.
Eliminates membership in various State-administered retirement systems for part-time public employees and elected officials commencing service after enactment; clarifies that part-time public employees and officials are ineligible for employer-paid healt
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Requires helmet to operate or ride jet ski.
Requires hospitals and physicians to have examination tables accessible to handicapped patients.
Establishes criminal penalties and debars certain employers from public work for misclassifying construction workers as independent contractors.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Prohibits boards of education from charging students a fee to participate in extracurricular activities.
Permits wineries to produce and sell certain distilled alcoholic beverages.
Expands number of salesrooms winery may operate from six to seven; permits sampling of wine at salesrooms, and permits wineries to sell wine at certain farm markets.
Authorizes counties to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure used for providing broadband telecommunications service via wireless community networks.
Authorizes special license plates for former freeholders.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Amends Tort Claims Act concerning liability for discretionary acts.
Authorizes director of board of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed actions of county authorities.
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.
"Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Institute Act"; appropriates $6 million.
Requires public hearing by county in affected municipality prior to closure and redevelopment of municipal solid waste landfill.
Permits revised methods of treatment for chiropractors and establishes continuing education requirements.
Increases county portion of payment in lieu of tax; requires portion of payment to be paid to school district and notice of public hearing on financial agreement to board of freeholders and school board.
Prohibits display of gift card account numbers.
Sets standards regarding New Jersey Transit Corporation contracts privatizing public transit services.
Recognizes co-fired biomass energy as method to meet renewable energy portfolio standards.
Allows confidential communication between majority representative and union member under certain circumstances.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Permits municipalities to agree to share municipal court services while each appointing their own municipal court judge.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Adds supplementary budget language authorizing deposit and utilization of monies recovered from MTBE contamination.
Removes confidential employee status of certain Casino Control Commission employees.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Requires school bus drivers to inspect bus for pupils remaining at end of route.
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release. *
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Directs Division of Developmental Disabilities to prepare plan to ensure community-based living for certain individuals with developmental disabilities.
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
Establishes the "Public Corruption Profiteering Penalty Act."
Creates the "Internet Dating Safety Act," requiring Internet dating services to provide notice whether the service conducts criminal background screenings.
Provides for mandatory term of imprisonment for luring and enticing an adult; increases mandatory term for luring and enticing a child.
Restricts certain sex offenders' access to the Internet.
Appropriates $27,572,751 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for State farmland acquisitions; appropriates $341,278 in bond funds for soil and water conservation grants; and revises funding for administrative costs of State Transfer Deve
Appropriates $21,588,646 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes, and $600,000 for county farmland preservation program strategic plans.
Provides for special licenses to serve alcoholic beverages in smart growth development projects; allows for sale of certain plenary retail consumption licenses for use in such projects. *
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender. *
Requires DHSS standards for safe building interiors; submission of documentation of investigation and remediation as a condition to issuance of construction permit for certain sites; makes changes to the "Industrial Site Recovery Act."
Excludes membership fees and dues of certain governmental and charitable clubs and organizations and certain parking services from sales and use tax. ****
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Passed the Senate · 5
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits to incarcerated individuals.
Exempts certain renewable energy systems from real property taxation. *
Bars certain sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations. *
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Out of committee · 28
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain long-term and former State residents. *
Requires certain ambulatory care facilities to provide services to patients without regard to ability to pay or source of payment.
Skinner's and Michelle's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
Prohibits taking and processing of fish on certain vessels in marine waters.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Provides for establishment of county offices for disability services; appropriates $425,000. *
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Requires water purveyors and licensed operators to notify the municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues. *
Upgrades penalties for recruiting minors and confined persons to be in criminal street gang. *
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Directs certain recoveries of federal funds for services to persons with developmental disabilities be used for grants to support community infrastructure purposes.
Lowers to 62 statutory qualifying age for low-income senior citizen State rental assistance grants.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Debars certain employers from public work and establishes criminal penalties for misclassification of construction workers as independent contractors.
Prohibits use of public funds by employers for certain employee influence activities.
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Concerns access to wage records in connection with projects subject to prevailing wage requirements.
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Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Requires vendors collecting New Jersey sales tax for locations in New Jersey to record and report on their returns the amount of sales tax collected within each municipality in New Jersey.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
The "Dam, Lake, and Stream Restoration Bond Act of 2005," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Prohibits public entities from engaging certain governmental affairs agents.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Provides corporations business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who support community rehabilitation programs.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires approval from appropriation committees of the Legislature for employee bonuses proposed by certain public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Creates crime of unauthorized surveillance.
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Promotes the performance of environmental audits.
Restores the former net operating loss deduction for corporation business tax years 2002-2005.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides that PERS member holding more than one position covered by PERS has to designate one position as the basis for enrollment.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
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.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled.
Includes death by auto or vessel and certain assaults to crimes with bail restrictions; adds non-United States citizenship status to conditions warranting presumption favoring posting full cash bail.
Requires governmental affairs agents retained by State government entities to file with ELEC notice of representation and separate quarterly and annual reports on activities and expenditures.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement a drought interconnection system.
Changes age of eligibility for TPAF and PERS early retirement option without benefit reduction from 55 to 60 for new enrollees.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Exempts direct sellers from workers' compensation law.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Requires DEP to conduct testing of child care centers for hazardous substances.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Provides tax exemption for portion of property value attributable to energy cost savings measures that reduce consumption of water or energy.
Adds budget language specifying Medicaid reimbursement for various ambulance services provided to certain recipients.
Requires voter registration forms be made available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
Appropriates $200,000 for Garden State Agricultural Re-Engineering Program to assist dairy farmers.
Designates Rt. 9 in Cape May County as "Police Unity Tour Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Establishes "Parent Partnership Recognition Day" in school districts during the fourth week of October.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires radon testing of certain educational facilities every five years, residential properties at the time of sale, and residential lease properties within 18 months and every five years thereafter.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
Prohibits text messaging while driving.
Expands list of Safe Haven sites, provides drop-off location information be made available by 2-1-1 call centers; appropriates $95,000.
Authorizes special Recreational Fishing Alliance license plate.
Filed · 2
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.