Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law14
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides circumstances when housing nonprofits may join with local units in joint insurance funds. *
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
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. *
Repeals local parking and payroll tax sunset provisions and "Revaluation Relief Act of 1999."
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
Requires DHSS to establish special Medicaid admission criteria for long-term care facilities that serve HIV/AIDS patients.
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Provides for educational requirements for planning and zoning board members.
Requires DHS to apply for Home and Community-Based Services waiver for DDD and provide status reports to Legislature. *
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.
Appropriates $53,000,000 to the DEP from the "Water Supply Bond Act of 1981" for certain water supply projects and planning and feasibility studies.
Passed the Senate1
Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
Out of committee21
Requires charter school board of trustee members to undergo criminal background checks and mandatory training.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Allows a gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers for capital improvements made to a principal residence.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish NJ Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation.
"Employment and Training Opportunity Act"; requires housing projects receiving public funds to give hiring, training and purchasing preferences benefitting low-income and severely handicapped residents. *
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,664,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in certain municipalities.*
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor. *
Permits students and teams from non-member schools to participate in certain events sponsored by voluntary association.
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $250,000.
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
Revises certain procedures for real property tax appeals.
Directs DOE to include information about State adult disability services in booklet for parents of special education students and to require schools to designate staff member as parent liaison.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Requires certain authorities to provide credit for paid sewer and water connection fees for certain units damaged by catastrophic events.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
In committee79
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Prohibits charter schools from being located on the property of a mental hospital or psychiatric facility.
Requires charter schools to appoint a certified school business administrator.
Permits the sealing of certain criminal records.
The "Scrap Tire Management Act."
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to annually review certain records of fraternity and sorority incidents of violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Requires performance audit on Sports and Exposition Authority and creates "Sports and Exposition Authority Fair Employment Commission."
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Enacts the "Insurance Disclosure Act."
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Increases penalties for illegally posted signs; specifies that local units are entitled to certain fine moneys.
Permits reduction of motor vehicle penalty points even if driver has license suspension for certain offenses in last 12 months.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Increases sales and use tax from 6% to 7%; dedicates increased revenues to certain purposes.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Clarifies role of community providers in early childhood education in the Abbott districts and specifies certain goals and services for that education.
Establishes Juvenile Offender Community Conservation and Improvement Services Program.
Supplemental appropriation of $99,000 to DCA for a grant to Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey for funding Community Building Support Initiative.
The "New Jersey School Improvement Accountability Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Revises the definition of community provider and clarifies scope of community early childhood education facilities projects.
Reduces from five to three years aggregate period of regular employment as full-time law enforcement officer prior to disability retirement required for retired law enforcement officers to carry firearms.
Allows emergency medical technicians to transfer to and enroll in PFRS.
Concerns the reporting to law enforcement agencies of certain alleged firearm and weapons violations of public school pupils.
Establishes November 1 as the uniform age requirement for enrollment in a public school kindergarten program.
Designates the State agencies to be involved in the selection of school renaissance zones.
Prohibits an employee or official of hospitals affiliated with UMDNJ from serving on its board of trustees.
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Prohibits appointing authority from conducting credit check on job applicant unless approved by Merit System Board.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Requires posting and distribution of rights of residents in congregate housing facilities.
Supplemental appropriation of $10.6 million to DHS for the NJ FamilyCare.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.
Exempts members of New Jersey Legislature from jury duty.
Concerns project labor agreements in connection with public works projects for public housing.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Requires local business office of telecommunications company to be located in northern, central and southern region of State.
Requires retail clothing establishments to ensure privacy in fitting rooms and dressing rooms.
Requires additional fees for real estate licenses; dedicates fees to "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund."
Provides paid post-retirement medical benefits to certain retired veteran State employees.
Authorizes certain leave for parents and guardians of children attending a public school.
Supplemental appropriation to FY04 budget of $250,000 for publication of Truth in Renting booklet by DCA.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Increases the number of voting board members at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Clarifies that needle exchange programs are illegal.
Supplemental appropriation of $20.0 million to DHSS to provide financial support to teaching hospitals for graduate medical education.
Modifies powers of HMFA and New Jersey Redevelopment Authority (NJRA).
Prohibits plea bargaining and eliminates sentence reduction in weapons cases involving minors.
Limits number of automobile insurance rating territories to five.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Concerns venue for certain workers' compensation cases involving local government agencies.
Exempts sales of energy and utility service to manufacturing facilities from the sales and use tax and the transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharge.
Requires identification card at polling place; makes appropriation.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of Abbott district school facilities projects by $2 billion.
Modifies time of decision rule and periods of protection for certain development applications.
Makes possession or use of cellular telephone or accessories by person confined to State correctional facility second degree crime.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Provides mandatory minimum terms and fines for persons who travel to another municipality and sell or purchase controlled dangerous substances there.
Adds executive director of Joint Committee on the Public Schools to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to ameliorate disparities among school districts with respect to educational technology.
Increases EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Authorizes housing authority to continue to administer a housing voucher when recipient resides outside its geographic jurisdiction.
Permits minors to assist in conduct of bingo games and raffles.
Provides that separate contract must be awarded for pharmacy benefit management services in connection with SHBP drug prescription benefits.
Establishes Prescription Monitoring Program in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Provides reimbursement of expenses for board of trustees for pension funds of school district employees in first class counties.
Prohibits suspension of driver's license for failure to pay parking ticket.
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.
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 adoption of soil remediation standards until completion of Soil Remediation Advisory Task Force Report; creates Soil Remediation Advisory Task Force.
Enhances protections afforded under child-protection window guard law.
Establishes a one-year Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Maintains affordability controls on low and moderate income housing in perpetuity.
Requires audible alert mechanism on electronic voting machines.
Makes residential mortgage fraud a separate crime.
Increases certain court filing fees to fund Legal Services of New Jersey, the Community Health Law Project and law school clinics.
Provides that title to certain school district property will be conveyed by the district to the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Filed1
Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises. *
Applies prevailing wage to custom fabrication of woodwork and plumbing, heating, cooling and ventilation or exhaust duct systems.
Revises counterfeit goods and forfeiture laws to deter criminal street gang activities.
Authorizes early termination of residential lease by senior citizen tenant accepted into assisted living facility, nursing home, continuing care retirement community, or low or moderate income housing. *
"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. *
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Passed the Senate · 3
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Amends and supplements the "New Jersey Parentage Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services. *
Out of committee · 23
Provides State aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; permits allocation of funds under the Fair Housing Act to program as permitted purpose. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act." *
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Provides that advertisements by persons licensed, registered, appointed or certified to practice profession or occupation are subject to consumer fraud act. *
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Authorizes two-year property tax exemptions for facade and frontage improvements in certain older municipalities.
Authorizes assessment maintenance and abatement program for vacant property in certain municipalities.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Changes membership of State Police Retirement System Board of Trustees.
Establishes hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. *
Provides for municipal regulation of liverycar service; establishes livery and taxicab license plates.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Amends and clarifies the rights of handicapped, blind or deaf persons when accompanied by service or guide dogs.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
In committee · 46
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
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.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for a grant to ASPIRA.
Increases membership of Drug Utilization Review Board to include two advanced practice nurses.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Applies prevailing wage requirement to certain custom fabrication.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
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."
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Provides exemption from municipal rent control for up to 30 years for abandoned properties rehabilitated into multiple dwellings.
Requires conclusion of eviction proceedings for nonpayment of rent not later than 30th day following service of complaint on tenant.
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property used by religious corporations during reconstruction or relocation of worship facility under certain circumstances and thereafter.
Appropriates $100,000 to DHSS for grant to New Hope, Inc. of Bergen County to assist single first-time mothers and their babies.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Creates a Land Use Court.
Holds retailers harmless for pre-packaged slack-filled goods.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Supplemental appropriation of $40 million to DHSS for HIV/AIDS programs and services.
Exempts veterans from $15 fee for open and competitive civil service examination.
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 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.
Reestablishes "Parents' Education Program" as "Children First Education Program;" requires parties involved in custody and parenting time proceedings to attend program.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new N.C.I.C. terminals.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
"Common Interest Community and Homeowners' Association Act."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $13,000,000 from the General Fund for renovations at UMDNJ's University Hospital, Newark, for Labor, Delivery, Recovery suite renovations and neonatal and intermediate care nursery equipment.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
Designates September 11 each year "September 11 Remembrance Day" in New Jersey.
Creates new homeownership opportunities program jointly in DCA and HMFA for recipients of State rental assistance; limits State rental assistance participance to five years.
Creates a State development fee for new construction to be allocated to State rental assistance and homeownership programs.
Requires DHSS to apply for federal Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waiver for certain early intervention services.
Designates November 3 in each year as "Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day."
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Appropriates $99,000 to DCA for grant to Women Helping Women.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4 million from General Fund to Department of Environmental Protection for Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District, LLC for redevelopment project in Newark.
Provides a credit to certain life insurance companies against the insurance premiums tax for retaliatory costs paid to other states.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.