Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Thomas H. Kean Jr.
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Passed the Senate3
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking.
Permits State, counties, municipalities and boards of education to establish special pay plans under sections 401(a) and 403(b) of federal Internal Revenue Code.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Out of committee11
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000. *
Provides that advertisements by persons licensed, registered, appointed or certified to practice profession or occupation are subject to consumer fraud act. *
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Establishes "New Jersey Disease Management Study Commission."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Access Study Commission."
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Allows deduction from estates taxable under New Jersey estate tax for value of property passing to decedent's disabled child.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend license of physician whose license has been revoked by another state, agency or authority.
In committee66
Requires municipal master plans under Municipal Land Use Law to be consistent with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Requires DOT to sell portions of certain railroad right-of-ways to Union County for recreation and conservation purposes and to interested municipalities for senior citizen housing; and provides nonmatching grant from "Garden State Green Acres Preservati
Requires issue advocacy organization using certain candidate information in advertisement to disclose certain financial and other information.
Prohibits members of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Requires enrollment in PFRS regardless of age of certain firefighters appointed between July 1998 and July 1999.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Requires traffic to stop for senior citizen transportation vehicles with certain equipment.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Requires individuals delivering voter registration forms to sign affidavit; requires Attorney General to submit reports on progress of Help America Vote Act.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
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.
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on certain streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Appropriates $90,000 to Division of Fish and Wildlife for Hunters Helping the Hungry program.
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
Designates "New Jersey and You - Perfect Together" as State Slogan.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Requires TB and hepatitis C testing for persons who commit sexual assault.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
"Counter Terrorism Act of 2004."
Creates "Political Communications Reporting Act of 2004."
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full, not proportionally reduced, homestead rebates.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Prohibits sale and distribution of alcohol without liquid machines.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
Establishes chief of forensic dentistry in office of State Medical Examiner.
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.
Requires public questions and candidates for office to appear on same ballot.
Enacts portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002;" establishes centralized voter registration list.
Prohibits holder of State or local government contract from making political contributions.
Restricts sale of yellow ribbons; dedicates proceeds to veterans.
Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3%
Provides for establishment of health savings accounts.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Creates centralized voter registration list; enacts portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Provides for Voters Bill of Rights to be posted in certain places.
Increases criminal penalties for certain acts of voter intimidation.
Requires that all voting systems include paper-based voter verification of ballots cast.
Transfers certain authority over limousine operators from DOT to MVC.
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.
Clarifies law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis, increases number of delegates trained to administer epinephrine, and requires plan to reduce student exposure to allergens.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Conforms voter identification procedures to requirements of Statewide voter registration system.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Exempts certain physician-owned or operated ambulatory health care facilities from ambulatory care gross receipts assessment if facility is Medicaid or NJ Family Care provider.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Permits certain State employees to participate in donated leave program.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Establishes a Medical Malpractice Court.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Revises regulation of security guards.
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
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.
"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. *
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; makes various other changes concerning ethics. *
Appropriates $26,743,525 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Passed the Senate · 5
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services. *
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects. *
Out of committee · 19
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Appropriates $2 million to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC); imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers.
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Permits federally qualified health centers to be reimbursed for off-site services.
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
In committee · 49
Provides voting rights for graduating class representative on county college boards of trustees.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Regulates involvement of candidates and officeholders with issue advocacy organizations.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates nominated at primaries after 48th and before 14th day before general election, except due to death; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before elections.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
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.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
Establishes new crimes of forced labor or services, sexual servitude, and human trafficking.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment programs.
Provides immunity for DHSS and local health departments that distribute or administer influenza vaccine.
Facilitates vaccine production by New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Adds executive director of Joint Committee on the Public Schools to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Allows certain taxpayers a one-time refundable gross income tax credit for gross income tax paid at highest rate of tax upon the gain from sale of small businesses.
Limits contributions by certain business entities doing business with units of local government; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires personal identification to vote on day of an election.
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to conduct voter education.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for enforcement of election laws.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Requires DHSS to apply for federal Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waiver for certain early intervention services.
Requires DHSS and DOE to provide information on meningococcal meningitis to parents or guardians of certain school-aged children.
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Directs Division of Developmental Disabilities to prepare plan to ensure persons with developmental disabilities recommended for community placement move from institutions to community within five years.
Prohibits local public entities from agreeing to finance employee's pension time buy-back.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
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.
Establishes sanitation requirements for human contact with animals at petting zoos and animal or agricultural fairs, shows, and exhibitions.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.