Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Ronald S. Dancer
Sponsored
Became law1
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires inclusion of resident of continuing care retirement community as member of facility's local governing body and discussion of certain matters with resident representatives.
Out of committee2
Outlines criteria municipalities are to consider when establishing speed limits for local streets.
Designates Downer Soil as New Jersey State Soil.
In committee36
Requires public bodies to allow public comment at every meeting.
Excludes from taxation income from certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Extends for five additional years use of special appraisal method when acquiring certain lands for open space or farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires clinicial laboratories to adopt certain requirements regarding continuing education and supervision of cytotechnologists.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Eliminates dual governmental pay to members of Legislature for legislative duties.
Concerns penalty for use of wireless phone while driving.
Requires use of luminescent materials in exit pathways of high-rise structures.
Allows former mayors to perform marriages.
Authorizes the imposition of a parking fee in certain municipalities to benefit schools.
Prohibits certain deceptive practices concerning shopping center leases.
Concerns stewardship of forests; appropriates $650,000.
Provides for the licensure of tree experts and the registration of their employers.
Upgrades qualifications for county corrections officers; clarifies administration and management policies for county corrections departments.
Creates rehabilitative equine program in DOC.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Extends eligibility for PAAD to persons disabled under certain federal programs.
Excludes from income that portion of annuity distribution that is return on initial investment for purposes of PAAD and Senior Gold income eligibility.
Requires DOT to prepare transportation plan for senior citizens; appropriates $3 million therefor; finances senior citizen safe driving health centers with $8 levy on motor vehicle violations; and reduces automobile insurance premium of seniors using cen
Requires use of luminescent materials in exit pathways of high-rise structures.
Establishes Community Living Independently Program; appropriates $1.8 million.
"Polysomnography Practice Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for establishment of UMDNJ Center for Research and Treatment of Ocular Inflammatory Disease.
Expands eligibility criteria for disabled veteran's property tax exemption.
Permits voter in resident attendance at school, college, or university to receive absentee ballot for each election without continual request.
Authorizes common interest community associations and homeowners to utilize State Office of Consumer Protection for dispute resolution.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Provides additional mandatory fines and restitution for theft of flags or flag-holders from grave sites.
Allows redevelopment agencies to directly apply for and receive funding under the "Maintenance of Viable Neighborhoods Act."
Revises distribution of Casino Simulcasting Special Fund.
Requires DEP employees who conduct inspections of certain chemical facilities to undergo background checks.
Prohibits slaughter of horses and sale of horseflesh for human consumption.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Extends eligibility for thoroughbred breeder awards, in certain circumstances, to owners and breeders of New Jersey horses that win purse money in out-of-State races.
"Polysomnography Practice Act." *
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Extends workers' compensation coverage under NJ Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board to thoroughbred exercise riders in certain circumstances.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $17,623,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Distinguishes campgrounds from private residential leasehold communities.
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 20
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur, and personal wireless service facilities to be erected, on preserved farmland under certain circumstances. *
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Concerns leasing of NJ Sports and Exposition Authority's racetracks; allows authority to assign off-track and account wagering licenses; revises minimum thoroughbred race date requirements; provides for additional board members appointed by presiding of
Prohibits imposition of the corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations that only carry passengers into and out of the State in a motor vehicle or motorbus.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes fine of $100 for use of hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle. *
Creates rehabilitative equine program in DOC.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Clarifies coverage for compensation insurance purchased by NJ Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board for certain standardbred horsemen.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $13,845,980 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $16,575,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises regulation of horse racing in regard to future wagers, minimum wagers, unclaimed vouchers, lost tickets, certain simulcast races, and nonresident account wagering.
In committee · 44
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.
Clarifies the deductibility of certain state taxes from entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Repeals "Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Limits the payment of transportation costs for homeless students.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Requires certain sex offenders to be photographed every 90 days; requires employment information to be published on sex offender Internet registry.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Establishes "Medicare Rx Savings Fund" and specifies use of savings to State from Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires reckless driving summons to note whether minor was in vehicle and makes minor's presence an aggravating factor.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for local open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
"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.
Requires Attorney General to establish global positioning system to track high risk sex offenders.
Requires DEP to approve water usage certification for water diverted on farmland enrolled in a State or local farmland preservation program.
"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.
Increases percentage of parimutuel pool for horse races at certain racetracks that is dedicated to support of N. J.'s thoroughbred breeding industry.