Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law12
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $250,000.
Criminalizes possession or use of electronic communication devices in certain correctional facilities. *
Enhances protections afforded under child protection window guard law.
Requires manager of State-sponsored rental housing to hold quarterly meetings to discuss tenant complaints. *
Directs Division of Developmental Disabilities to prepare plan to ensure community-based living for certain individuals with developmental disabilities.
Imposes civil penalty on owner or lessee who fails to return security deposit to tenant whose rent or income is State-subsidized; allows recovery by the State.
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.
Establishes "Blue Heart Law Enforcement Assistance Program" to provide counseling support for wounded law enforcement officers. *
Establishes Prescription Monitoring Program in Division of Consumer Affairs and provides division with authority over registration and control of controlled dangerous substances. *
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Authorizes imposition of special event parking tax surcharge in certain municipalities; authorizes imposition of parking tax by certain municipalities on any parking facility located therein. *
Authorizes municipalities to impose a 5% surcharge on admission charges for admissions to certain major places of amusement. *
Passed the Senate2
Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
Revises law relating to title recordation.
Out of committee23
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Establishes Juvenile Offender Community Conservation and Improvement Services Program.
Requires additional fees for real estate licenses; dedicates fees to "Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund."
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Permits certain municipalities to use existing voting machines for annual school and municipal nonpartisan elections to be held during 2006. *
Provides owners and certain professionals direct access to property record cards. *
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.
Regulates increases in rent in affordable housing due to increases in heating fuel costs.
Increases voting members on UMDNJ board of trustees from 11 to 19; provides for additional board powers; and establishes board of directors for University Hospital. ***
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Directs DCA to establish Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Enhances protections for new homebuyers.
Strengthens State construction code.
Lowers to 62 statutory qualifying age for low-income senior citizen State rental assistance grants.
Enhances protections afforded purchasers in planned real estate developments.
Permits short-term tax exemption or abatement for houses destroyed by fire when reconstruction or renovation is performed by charitable entity, or for-profit using volunteer labor. *
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) public school district monitoring system.
Permits the charging of fee for capital contribution for purpose of defraying common expenses; validates certain bylaws.
Appropriates $8,279,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.
In committee91
Permits the sealing of certain criminal records.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Clarifies that needle exchange programs are illegal.
Prohibits plea bargaining and eliminates sentence reduction in weapons cases involving minors.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of Abbott district school facilities projects by $2 billion.
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.
Increases EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Prohibits suspension of driver's license for failure to pay parking ticket.
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.
Modifies development application process under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Increases EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects and requires Schools Construction Corporation to report monthly to the Joint Committee on the Public Schools and Legislature on the disbursement of bond funds.
Deletes element from offense of criminal mischief.
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Essex and Mercer County.
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
Revises certain procedures for real property tax appeals.
"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 of $20 million to DHSS to provide financial support to teaching hospitals for graduate medical education.
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Authorizes housing authority to continue to administer a housing voucher when recipient resides outside its geographic jurisdiction.
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Requires charter schools to appoint a certified school business administrator.
The "New Jersey School Improvement Accountability Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Allows a gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers for capital improvements made to a principal residence.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Authorizes certain leave for parents and guardians of children attending a public school.
Requires local business office of telecommunications company to be located in northern, central and southern region of State.
Provides for statutory free speech rights by elected public officials in publicly financed housing.
Increases certain court filing fees to fund Legal Services of New Jersey, the Community Health Law Project and law school clinics.
Permits reduction of motor vehicle penalty points even if driver has license suspension for certain offenses in last 12 months.
Establishes Division of Immigrant Affairs in DLPS.
Prohibits adoption of soil remediation standards until completion of Soil Remediation Advisory Task Force Report; creates Soil Remediation Advisory Task Force.
Provides paid post-retirement medical benefits to certain retired veteran State employees.
Requires charter school board of trustee members to undergo criminal background checks and mandatory training.
Limits number of private passenger automobile insurance rating territories to five.
Provides reimbursement of expenses for board of trustees for pension funds of school district employees in first class counties.
Provides that separate contract must be awarded for pharmacy benefit management services in connection with SHBP drug prescription benefits.
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.
Increases sales and use tax from 6% to 7%; dedicates increased revenues to certain purposes.
Enacts the "Insurance Disclosure Act."
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Supplemental appropriation of $182,500 for additional Kinship Care services.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to ameliorate disparities among school districts with respect to educational technology.
Directs Motor Vehicle Commission to establish a regional service center in a city of the first class.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $30,000,000 to UMDNJ for expansion and renovation of clinical facilities at New Jersey Dental School.
Revises law concerning eminent domain and municipal redevelopment.
Allocates 20 percent of each homestead rebate to claimant's resident municipality.
Facilitates long-term municipal contracts for energy efficiency services and goods.
"New Jersey Senior Reverse Mortgage Property Tax Assistance Program."
Requires municipalities to create and maintain list of abandoned property.
Authorizes party to a final divorce judgment to request name change without notifying opposing party.
Extends expiration date of automobile insurance urban enterprise zone program to December 31, 2008.
Prohibits businesses from posting advertisements on vacant properties, and imposes penalties therefor.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Exempts hospitalized or ill persons from abandoned motor vehicle penalties.
Clarifies functions of land surveyor as distinguished from functions of licensed professional engineer.
Requires local school districts to assume administrative responsibility for charter school special education students referred for private school placements.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes education, prevention, and research.
Provides that taxes assessed on new property during period pending municipal-wide property revaluation shall not exceed 105 percent of taxes assessed on replaced property.
Exempts certain databases from public access under Open Public Records Act under certain circumstances.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Reestablishes and revises public contract set-aside program.
Requires retail businesses to be licensed by the municipality; requires Director of Division of Public Interest Advocacy to create and maintain a public website that catalogues those licensed businesses.
Allows municipalities to provide broadband telecommunications infrastructure and service in partnership with private entities.
Authorizes court to waive license revocation process for certain child support obligors.
Provides property tax relief for tenants equal to property tax relief for homeowners by establishing "Tenant Homestead Rebate Protection and Equality Act."
Increases income eligibility for the New Jersey earned income credit under the gross income tax.
Requires licensed health care professionals and facilities to bill Medicare beneficiaries within six months of providing health care service.
Establishes "Parent Partnership Recognition Day" in school districts during the fourth week of October.
Requires DCF and DHS to enhance websites providing information to kinship caregivers.
Authorizes and requires HMFA to offer refinance loan program for borrowers of high-cost home loans.
Requires State, school, local government officials to report certain criminal offenses committed by other public officials to Attorney General; imposes penalties for reporting false allegations; requires creation of reportable offenses list.
Requires affirmative vote of majority of full membership of municipal council in mayor-council form of government to approve contracts.
Provides certain State department heads cannot holdover in office for more than 120 days; requires Governor, upon expiration of term of county prosecutor and certain other county officials, to nominate successor within 120 days.
Modifies basis for calculating charity care reimbursements, and increases certain insurance premium assessments and taxes to fund reimbursements.
Requires school districts to notify DOE of sicknesses resulting from confirmed or suspected air pollution or other contamination.
Require property condition disclosure statements for real estate sales.
Prohibits municipalities from setting minimum fees for employment of its off-duty police officers.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Revises eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Requires excuse for voting by absentee ballot.
Requires chief operating officers of municipalities under "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act" to notify mayors of certain decisions and submit dates of meetings with mayors to certain State legislative committees.
Co-sponsored
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Directs Commissioners of DHS and DHSS to prepare annual report on Access to Employer-Based Health Insurance for certain employed recipients of State health assistance programs. *
Requires DHSS to make certain information about long-term care and adult day health services facilities available on its website. **
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
"Safe Patient Handling Act"; requires health care facilities to establish safe patient handling programs.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes Department of Children and Families.
Extends expiration date of automobile insurance urban enterprise zone program to April 1, 2009.
Authorizes suspension of motor vehicle registration.
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman.
Requires payment of interest by employer on delinquent payroll taxes imposed under "Local Tax Authorization Act."
"Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act;" allows tax credits to certain businesses for certain capital investments in urban transit hubs.
Passed the Senate · 2
Authorizes two-year property tax exemptions for facade and frontage improvements in certain older municipalities.
Authorizes municipality to require public enhanced notice of applications for development under MLUL by posting signs and expanding scope of individual notice to property owners within 300 feet of subject property. *
Out of committee · 21
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Establishes municipal authority to supervise, discipline and terminate employment of construction code officials.
Requires DHSS to apply for federal Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waiver for certain early intervention services.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice and Division of Gaming Enforcement. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
"Violence Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act," requires certain health care entities to establish violence prevention programs to protect health care workers.
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Requires prevailing wages to be paid for construction work on State-owned properties.
Reinforces prohibition of any debarred contractor using new business entity to circumvent the debarment; provides for suspension of contractor's registration pending hearing. *
Expands lead paint inspection requirement to dwelling units in single-family and two-family properties.
Clarifies independent status of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission and increases annual employee surcharge that funds program. *
The "Foreclosure Consulting and Anti-Fraud Act."
Revises Work First New Jersey earned income disregards and sanction policy for noncompliance with work activity requirements.
In committee · 35
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new N.C.I.C. terminals.
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.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
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.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Holds retailers harmless for pre-packaged slack-filled goods.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
Provides that advertisements by persons licensed, registered, appointed or certified to practice profession or occupation are subject to consumer fraud act.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons.
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.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
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.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
Designates September 11 each year "September 11 Remembrance Day" in New Jersey.
Provides for municipal regulation of liverycar service.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
The "Owners' Rights in Common Interest Developments Act."
Allows counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Exempts religious and charitable groups from COAH development fees.
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Establishes Task Force on the Availability of Temporary Emergency Shelters and Transitional Housing.
Requires COAH to conduct a public hearing if mediation to resolve objection to municipality's petition for substantive certification is unsuccessful.
Adds two members to NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Establishes NJ Native American Burial Ground Preservation Task Force.