Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Nicholas J. Sacco
Sponsored
Became law6
Authorizes school boards to adopt policy for drug testing certain students. *
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to enforce federal motor carrier registration and financial responsibility requirements.
Revises certain statutes governing operation of commercial motor vehicles; clarifies existing penalties and establishes new offenses.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts which are bordered by at least three Abbott districts.
Passed the Senate1
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders. *
Out of committee10
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund. *
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Permits NJ Transit to establish wholly-owned insurance subsidiary or "captive." *
Expands purposes for which New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission bond proceeds may be used.
Requires photo ID verifiction of pilots renting aircraft.
Entitles certain family members to receive confirmation of MVC notices concerning medical review or retesting of a family member.
Requires systematic maintenance check program for intermodal chassis and establishes party to be cited for chassis equipment defects. *
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
In committee20
Makes prisoners responsible for their own support and maintenance and provides the State with a lien for the cost thereof.
Requires NJT to purchase alternative fuel vehicles.
Eliminates motor vehicle registration fees for certain entities.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Establishes housing requirements for certain sexually violent predators.
Authorizes certain municipalities to establish safety requirements for certain bars and taverns.
Provides Commissioner of Education access to State tax records of the relevant parties in the expedited proceedings contesting a board of education's removal of an ineligible student from the school district.
"Local Bridge Bond Act of 2001"; authorizes bonds for $250 million; appropriates $5,000.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Provides for safety zones adjacent to railroad rights-of-way and restrictions on construction of crossings at-grade.
Provides that instruction in world languages shall not be required in public schools during the 2002-2003 school year and specifies how instruction shall be provided in the following years.
Requires that signs be posted on certain roads and highways memorializing victims of alcohol-impaired drivers.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Creates the "Emergency Management Act of 2004."
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Prescribes maximum overall length and width of recreational vehicles.
Requires a dealer to disclose missing or defective emission control equipment in a used motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
Extends responsibilities of tow truck operators responding to calls for assistance from motorists.
Prohibits motor fuel wholesaler from increasing price more than once in 24-hour period.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Authorizes appointment of unpaid deputy sheriffs in certain counties.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Revises counterfeit goods and forfeiture laws to deter criminal street gang activities.
Revises pilotage laws.
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. **
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
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. *
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
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 $150,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Out of committee · 20
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview. *
Revises outdoor advertising law and local tax treatment of certain outdoor advertising signs.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Changes liability of underground facility operators with respect to certain provisions of the "Underground Facility Protection Act."
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $22,468,700 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
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.
Appropriates $120,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Increases term of office of mayor and council in towns to four years.
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Requires adult corrections officers in State facilities to complete continuing education training program.
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Revises outdoor advertising law and local tax treatment of certain outdoor advertising signs.
In committee · 21
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
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.
Requires inclusion of certain drugs in instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
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.
Clarifies definition of "personal identifying information."
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
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.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Provides pension enhancement to certain future retirees of county pension fund.
Authorizes new powers and contractual agreements to be entered into by New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Expands certain powers of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to acquire and develop a soccer and multipurpose stadium project.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.