Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law7
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires certain districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
"Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act"; creates Mortgage Stabilization Program and Housing Assistance and Recovery Program; imposes additional requirements on lender foreclosing mortgage; appropriates $40 million from the "Long Term Obligation and Capi
Clarifies that certain sports and entertainment projects are an essential public and governmental use and purpose and exempt from property taxation.
Requires public bodies to provide funds for outreach and training programs for minority group members and women in connection with certain construction contracts.
Exempts certain HUD certified counseling agencies from licensing and regulation as debt adjusters; revises criminal practice of acting as debt adjuster.
Permits wage withholding for costs associated with certain employee identification.
Passed the Senate7
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Requires charter school board of trustee members to undergo criminal background checks and mandatory training.
Concerns certificates of occupancy for public housing projects.
Prohibits certain advertising on real property and related structures without prior permission of owner.
Prohibits contracts of executive directors of housing authorities from including incentive bonuses for certain achievements.
Requires municipalities eligible for Special Municipal Aid to submit budgets for special improvement districts and municipal public benefit corporation for DCA review, requires State Comptroller conduct audits of municipalities reveiving aid. *
Requires local unit or authority to provide director of the Division of Local Government Services with report concerning law suits to which it is a party before budget is approved.
Out of committee36
Appropriates $12,500,000 from Long Term Obligation and Capital Expenditure Fund and $51,471,000 in federal funds for housing related purposes.
Modifies development application process under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
"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.
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.
Establishes Statewide database of beds in shelters for the homeless. *
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.
Revises laws concerning local redevelopment, relocation assistance and eminent domain. *
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires affirmative vote of majority of full membership of municipal council in mayor-council form of government to approve contracts.
The "New Homebuyers' Bill of Rights Act."
Enhances protections for new homebuyers.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Provides for county welfare agency monitoring of welfare emergency assistance motel placements, annual inspection of hotels used for emergency assistance recipients and notice of mobile health van services.
Requires DCF and DHS to enhance websites providing information to kinship caregivers.
Establishes New Jersey Task Force on Coordinating and Funding Programs for the Homeless.
Exempts hospitalized or ill persons from abandoned motor vehicle penalties.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Strengthens State construction code.
Enhances protections afforded purchasers in planned real estate developments.
Increases EDA bonding limit for State share of school facilities projects; specifies debt service for these bonds will first be payable from revenues received from gross income tax; establishes priority categories for non-SDA district projects. *
Requires the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to biannually compile information on school facilities project contracts awarded to minority and female contractors.
Provides that deed restrictions on affordable housing units are not extinguished by foreclosure proceedings.
Prohibits municipalities from setting minimum fees for employment of its off-duty police officers.
Requires three-day attorney review period for residential leases.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS and $6 million to DCF to increase salary of direct care employees of community mental health agencies. *
Requires the adoption of nepotism policies by school districts and charter schools. *
Requires schools to provide eligible high school students with voter registration material.
Regulates mortgage foreclosure forbearance period and repeals section 18 of the "Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act" to authorize lenders and creditors to exchange information concerning delinquent borrowers. *
"New Jersey Foreclosure Fairness Act"; imposes additional foreclosure notice requirements; amends "Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act."
Codifies recommendations of Governor's Advisory Committee on Police Standards. *
Establishes Disparity in Treatment of Persons with Disabilities in Underrepresented Communities Commission in DCA.
Permits prescriber to use electronic health record program to print New Jersey Prescription Blanks for transmission to pharmacist.
Revises eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Establishes standards and requirements set forth in Executive Order No. 151 (2009) for use of funds from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
In committee81
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Prohibits plea bargaining and eliminates sentence reduction in weapons cases involving minors.
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report.
Provides mandatory minimum terms and fines for persons who travel to another municipality and sell or purchase controlled dangerous substances there.
Maintains affordability controls on low and moderate income housing in perpetuity.
Makes residential mortgage fraud a separate crime.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Revises certain procedures for real property tax appeals.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Requires charter schools to appoint a certified school business administrator.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Establishes Division of Immigrant Affairs in DLPS.
"New Jersey Senior Reverse Mortgage Property Tax Assistance Program."
Prohibits businesses from posting advertisements on vacant properties, and imposes penalties therefor.
Revises procedures for the use of eminent domain in municipal redevelopment programs.
Revises eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Establishes division of Department of Treasury to oversee and enforce equal employment opportunity requirements with regard to public works contracts.
Requires mandatory audit of new voter registration records before an election and of absentee and provisional ballots after an election in randomly selected districts.
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.
Revises law relating to title recordation.
Permits the sealing of certain criminal records.
Requires excuse for voting by absentee ballot.
Exempts from payment certain taxes and energy charges for manufacturing facilities.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Directs Motor Vehicle Commission to establish a regional service center in a city of the first class.
Requires licensed health care professionals and facilities to bill Medicare beneficiaries within six months of providing health care service.
Requires school districts to notify DOE of sicknesses resulting from confirmed or suspected air pollution or other contamination.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $30,000,000 to UMDNJ for expansion and renovation of clinical facilities at New Jersey Dental School.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Prohibits DHS from closing or changing purpose of State developmental center without passage of approving resolution by Legislature.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes education, prevention, and research.
Authorizes court to waive license revocation process for certain child support obligors.
Permits reduction of motor vehicle penalty points even if driver has license suspension for certain offenses in last 12 months.
Establishes Juvenile Offender Community Conservation and Improvement Services Program.
Directs DHSS to investigate mercury use in dental fillings and study health and occupational effects.
Authorizes party to a final divorce judgment or judgment for the dissolution of a civil union to request name change without notifying opposing party.
Requires local school districts to assume administrative responsibility for charter school special education students referred for private school placements.
Regulates increases in rent in affordable housing due to increases in heating fuel costs.
Facilitates long-term municipal contracts for energy efficiency services and goods.
Requires audible alert mechanism on electronic voting machines.
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.
Reestablishes and revises public contract set-aside program.
Modifies basis for calculating charity care reimbursements, and increases certain insurance premium assessments and taxes to fund reimbursements.
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
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 certain servicing activities provided by mortgage servicing organizations for residential mortgage loans and obligations related to such loans.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Provides for the transfer of tenure for a charter school teacher who is subsequently employed in a non-charter public school located in the charter school district of residence.
Requires county prosecutor to determine and report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement whether persons held for certain violent crimes are lawful residents of the United States.
Requires DCA to provide Internet resources for homeowner assistance programs and makes an appropriation.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to ameliorate disparities among school districts with respect to educational technology.
Establishes program in Department of Law and Public Safety for Attorney General to audit, investigate and review superintendents of elections and county boards of elections.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
Makes supplemental appropriation not exceeding $2,800,000 for matching grant to Legal Services of New Jersey.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Permits the sealing of certain criminal records; revises eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Clarifies duties and responsibilities of police directors and chiefs of police.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose a tax on the storage of empty shipping containers to fund redevelopment plan activities.
Exempts work on affordable housing owned by public bodies from prevailing wage law.
Provides Commission on Higher Education with authority to make final administrative decisions on appeals of certain credit transfer disputes.
Enhances PFRS accidental death pension benefit for survivors of member serving in nonsupervisory rank.
Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
Exempts sales to homeowner assistance and recovery programs from realty transfer fees.
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Provides for registration and regulation of athlete agents.
Provides for information that may be requested for issuance of certain driver's licenses.
Directs DHSS to limit number of Maternal and Child Health Consortia Statewide to three.
Prohibits sale of certain products using advertisements alluding to controlled dangerous substances or analogs.
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
Permits sheriffs, local police, and county corrections facilities to hire certain laid off officers without utilizing Civil Service lists.
Establishes identification cards for persons without permanent residence.
Requires DOE to submit evaluation report to Legislature prior to fully implementing secondary education redesign proposal.
Requires Commissioner of Transportation to publish notice of certain transportation-related infrastructure projects and activities on single, searchable Internet website, and directs State Comptroller to monitor publication of those notifications.
Requires State entities to examine opportunity of minority and women-owned financial institutions to serve as senior managing underwriters, imposes reporting requirements, and enables establishment of aspirational levels of utilization and relative compe
Revises and expands duties and responsiblities of Inspector General and establishes position of Deputy Inspector General for certain State departments to oversee and monitor allocation and spending of State funds at local level.
Establishes Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission to study and review the criminal law and recommend revisions; repeals existing commissions.
The "New Jersey Rental-Purchase Consumer Protection Act;" regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Creates Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Stabilization Revolving Trust Fund; places temporary surcharge on mortgage foreclosure complaints.
Filed1
Establishes the "New Jersey Foreclosure Fairness Act"; imposes additional foreclosure notice requirements; amends "Mortgage Stabilization and Relief Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Expands NJ FamilyCare, establishes mandate for health care coverage of children, makes various reforms to individual and small employer insurance markets and certain dependent coverage; appropriates $1 million. **
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain homeland security expenses as eligible for funding from enterprise zone assistance fund.
Requires training for all trustees of general hospitals.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. **
Revises State share calculation for debt service aid for new school facilities projects of county vocational school districts. *
Passed the Senate · 1
Requires DHSS to provide written notice to certain federal, State and local elected officials upon the filing of application for certificate of need to close hospital.
Out of committee · 14
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Provides for parole eligibility and supervision, prison visitation, and training and education standards for incarcerated persons.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Allows certain local public entities to enter into contracts of up to 15 years for energy conservation or provision of renewable energy production at buildings owned by such entities. *
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Requires municipality to report all long and short-term financial and tax agreements to DCA; makes reporting a condition for receipt of special Municipal Aid.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies for the treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities. *
Revises requirements for distribution of State aid under "Special Municipal Aid Act."
Limits amount of time vacant teaching position can be filled by substitute teacher.
Exempts certain State authorities and local government contracting units from bidding requirements when goods and services are procured below prices available under State contract; modifies process for contracting through certain cooperative purchasing a
Permits counties to create County Homelessness Trust Funds.
Adds non-voting member to NJT board.
Establishes "Smart Housing Incentives Act."
Prohibits local officer or employee from lobbying or advocating before any body of the municipality where officer or employee serves; provides penalties for violation. *
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Adds two members to NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Establishes NJ Native American Burial Ground Preservation Task Force.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
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.
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."
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
"Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act"; concerns workers' compensation for public safety workers.
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.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice and Division of Gaming Enforcement.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Concerns environmental permits in low-income, minority communities.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for certain medications with "black box warning."
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
The "Owners' Rights and Obligations in Shared Ownership Communities Act."
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Directs Attorney General to develop guidelines for positive identification of suspects before release.
Prohibits denial of application for occupancy of affordable rental units based on deficiencies in credit resulting from market rate unit rental history.
Requires State Police patrols on Greenwood Lake.
Makes Housing Assistance and Recovery Program effective immediately.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Northern New Jersey and South Jersey chapters of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.