Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph V. Egan
Sponsored
Became law3
Authorizes an additional urban enterprise zone in New Brunswick.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Concerns "card check" method of union recognition.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Out of committee4
Applies prevailing wage requirement to certain custom fabrication.
Permits the use of project labor agreements in certain public works projects other than projects involving buildings.
Deters State unemployment tax avoidance by penalizing knowing avoidance of unemployment tax payment. *
Concerns temporary disability benefit offsets.
In committee6
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Authorizes issuance of $50,000,000 in general obligation bonds to help finance library construction and renovation and appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes the New Jersey State Board of Mediation to recognize representatives for certain employees by card-check and other methods.
Enhances coverage of laborers and materialmen under payment bonds.
Concerns communicable disease claims under workers compensation.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain New Jersey members of the military and their families in need of assistance.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Applies prevailing wage to custom fabrication of woodwork and plumbing, heating, cooling and ventilation or exhaust duct systems.
Deters unemployment tax avoidance. *
Concerns temporary disability benefit offsets.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on certain streets under municipal jurisdiction. *
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission. *
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Concerns grievance arbitration clauses in public employment collective negotiation agreement.
Passed the General Assembly · 7
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Skinner's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.**
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Out of committee · 36
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Establishes eligibility of property owned by 100% disabled veteran with domestic partner for veterans' property tax exemption; broadens criteria for eligibility for property tax exemption for surviving spouses and domestic partners of certain veterans. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Prohibits possession of handcuff keys for unlawful purpose.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Prohibits hold or block on debit card accounts unless disclosed to and authorized by consumer. *
Provides circumstances when housing nonprofits may join with local units in joint insurance funds.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit under certain conditions.
Requires prenotification of certain plant closings.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request. **
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
Designates Jersey tomato as State Vegetable.
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Authorizes New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish the New Jersey Hall of Fame within the Meadowlands Complex. *
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
In committee · 83
Requires institutions of higher education to develop campus security plans.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Provides family leave insurance.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Increases amount of realty transfer fees annually credited to the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund by $5 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain former State residents.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under small employer health benefits plans.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under individual health benefits plans.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to career service of civil service.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Permits only licensed chiropractors to perform spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
"The New Jersey Living Wage Act"; sets minimum wage and benefit standards for businesses contracting with or assisted by public bodies.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Provides support for full-day kindergarten through the T&E budget.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain first-time home buyers.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between September 1, 1995 and January 1, 1996.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF who are employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include conduct of performance audit at request of Legislator.
Specifies that newspaperman's privilege applies to certain information disseminated on internet web sites.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be depicted on "Welcome to New Jersey" signs.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities and boards of education, and against employees of municipalities and boards of education acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Provides State matching funds to school districts in the amount of savings realized from the provision of educational or administrative services through an educational services commission.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Requires all new passenger automobiles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices after 2009.
Provides for permanent loss of driver's license for fourth or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Requires review of certain privatization contracts.
Provides procedures to permit State employees to take off up to 80 hours per year of compensatory time in lieu of monetary compensation for overtime worked.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to emergency medical technicians for certain training courses.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Establishes pilot program to provide incentive grants to public school districts which develop instruction programs in languages of critical need; appropriates $2,000,000.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Requires permanent license suspension for third DWI unless offender participates in alcohol treatment program.
"The Development Subsidy Job Goals Accountability Act."
Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal primary and general elections.
Permits early voting starting eight days before general election; makes appropriation.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Requires public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Permits establishment of employee assistance programs for public employees.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires disclosure to subscribers of certain cable television costs.
Limits increase in annual license fees for radon businesses.
Requires appraisal or certification to be delivered by owner upon appeal of certain commercial and industrial property taxes.
Establishes the Higher Education Study Commission.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Requires breaks from work for certain employees.
"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.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
The "Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act."