Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Richard J. Codey
Sponsored
Became law9
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Increases veterans benefits for members and retirees of Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County.
Revises pilotage laws.
Changes membership of board of trustees for pension fund of school district employees in first class counties.
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year. *
Authorizes State Medical Examiner to participate in research concerning sudden death in infancy and early childhood.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
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.
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Passed the Senate5
Establishes Office of Environmental Law Enforcement in the Division of Criminal Justice in Department of Law and Public Safety; establishes Environmental Prosecutor. *
Permits motor bus owners to "opt out" of no-fault medical expense benefits coverage for injured passengers.
Authorizes NJEDA to issue cigarette tax revenue bonds to fund stem cell research facilities, biomedical research facilities, and State park, forest, and wildlife management area capital projects; designated the Capital Facilities Financing Act of 2005."
Makes unlawful use of a hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle a primary offense. *
"Stem Cell Research Bond Act of 2006," authorizes sale of bonds for $350 million and appropriates $5,000.
Out of committee9
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Allocates certain unexpended funds, previously appropriated for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom, to support of brownfields development and operation of an underground storage tank inspection program. *
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Concerns regulation of certain agreements between casino and casino service industry licensees; transfers administration of certain casino taxes to casino control commission; provides for phased elimination of casino complementaries tax. *
Provides that non-bank may use "bank" in its name under certain circumstances.
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
In committee25
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Makes various changes to local cap law; brings fire districts under spending limitations.
Clarifies possession of machine guns and assault firearms by certain law enforcement officers.
Authorizes BPU to impose increased financial penalties to stimulate competition in local exchange telecommunications markets.
Increases minimum wage.
Eliminates requirement for 90-day notice of claim in medical malpractice actions against public entities.
Provides additional core curriculum standards aid for county vocational school district students who reside in Abbott districts.
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Requires ten years of legal experience to be eligible to be appointed county prosecutor.
Requires homeowners with private wells to test for contaminants at least once every five years.
Abolishes Health Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission.
Phases in official advertising rate increases; provides for biennial rate adjustments thereafter upon CPI changes.
Clarifies definition of illegal gambling to address Internet gambling; voids credit card debt incurred through illegal gambling; authorizes State to recover illegal gambling losses.
Establishes and revises certain minimum Green Acres funding requirements in urban aid municipalities and densely populated counties under Garden State Preservation Trust Act.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Modifies certain provisions concerning automobile insurance.
Requires Attorney General oversight of nonprofit hospital closures.
Extends casino investment alternative tax obligation to 50 years; authorizes CRDA to bond for certain purposes; extends incentive program and adds five districts under CRDA Urban Revitalization Act.
Provides for continuous, satellite-based monitoring and polygraph testing of high risk sex offenders; appropriates $2 million.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
"Stem Cell Research Bond Act of 2005," authorizes sale of bonds for $230 million and appropriates $5,000.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment to treatment for persons in need of involuntary commitment.
Authorizes the Legislative Counsel in the Office of Legislative Services to accept proper and sufficient service of process on behalf of the State Legislature when either or both Houses are named defendants in any legal proceeding.
Filed1
Substitutes public member for member of Meadowlands Commission on membership of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
The "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act"; creates Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council; and dedicates a portion of realty transfer fee revenue annually for certain State aid purposes in the Highlands Region and the pinelands area. *
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million. *
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Streamlines certain permitting in smart growth areas. *
Permits Secretary of State to request and requires Division of Taxation to prepare report containing certain tax information for the Governor's Study Commission on Discrimination in State Employment and Contracting. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission. *
Validates school bond authorization proceedings of the Verona Township School District.
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. *
Expands certain powers of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish and develop professional football league training facilities.
Out of committee · 8
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Makes various changes to the Garden State Preservation Trust Act.
Proposes series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Provides for separate presidential primary election on last Tuesday in February. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. *
In committee · 11
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Establishes the New Jersey State Endowment for Student Excellence Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $25 million.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
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.
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Provides for separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February. *
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.