Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Nicholas J. Sacco
Sponsored
Became law3
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes tenure in office for certain county road supervisors.
Passed the Senate2
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Prohibits purchaser of used motor vehicle from waiving dealer's obligation regarding emissions control equipment. *
Out of committee8
Revises organization and certain functions of Motor Vehicle Commission.
Prescribes maximum overall length and width of recreational vehicles.
Revises certain penalties relating to operation of autobuses.
Establishes partial payment schedules and amounts to be retained by New Jersey Turnpike Authority from roadway work payments to contractors.
Permits certain motorcycle dealers to offer State-approved motorcycle safety education course.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 23 as "Robert A. Roe Highway"; appropriates $2,500.
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
Criminalizes certain actions in or on railroad property. *
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.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
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.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
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.
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.
Changes from two to four number of consecutive general elections where more than 750 votes or less than 250 votes may be cast before election district is redrawn.
Makes permanent the temporary local budget cap exceptions and school district budget cap adjustments for certain insurance and domestic security preparedness costs.
Requires MVC to notify individuals when their record is requested.
Limits salary increases and benefits awarded to school superintendents and other school district employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements to increases and benefits awarded to certain teaching staff members.
Exempts municipal off-street parking regulations from preemption by Statewide site improvement standards where municipal regulations require greater numbers of parking spaces.
Waives commercial driver's license requirements for certain Office of Emergency Management drivers.
Provides for the expeditious roadway removal of certain disabled vehicles.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. **
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Clarifies that suspension for non-driving related offense is distinct from suspension for driving related offense.
Renames New Jersey Rating Plan and provides for changes in procedures for payment of outstanding surcharges.
Grants the court discretion regarding imposition of penalties for certain drug offenses and to allow "reformative service" to satisfy a portion of such penalties when certain conditions are met.
Establishes the transport of firearms into State for purposes of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
Passed the Senate · 4
Requires inclusion of certain types of drugs in public school instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes. *
Bars certain sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Directs DOBI to conduct study on development of Statewide insurance pool for vehicles engaged in transportation of passengers for hire.
Out of committee · 16
Permits criminal history record check for unpaid volunteers in schools and requires applicant to be reimbursed for costs of check; permits the reimbursement of paid school personnel for such costs.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
The "Responsible Employer Act." *
Requires adult corrections officers in State facilities to complete inservice training program. *
Extends eligibility for higher education tuition assistance to certain former members of New Jersey National Guard and increases number of tuition-free credits available to National Guard members and their dependents.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Establishes commuter transportation services public awareness campaign in DOT.
Concerns transportation services used in connection with temporary help service firms.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"The Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection Act." *
Concerns omnibuses; creates "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund." *
Extends eligibility for New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Program to dependents and spouses of persons who died as a result of illness caused by exposure to attack sites.
Concerns withholding and diversion of wages by temporary help service firms.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Concerns certain riparian lands in Jersey City.
In committee · 25
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview.
Authorizes new powers and contractual agreements to be entered into by New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
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 the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Expands certain powers of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to acquire and develop a soccer and multipurpose stadium project.
Clarifies definition of "personal identifying information."
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
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."
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Concerns transfer of PANYNJ contracts related to marine terminals.
Raises fine for certain onmibus drivers who fail to produce required documents.
Establishes 2-year "Gang Violence Prevention Pilot Program" in Department of Children and Families.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Adds budget language specifying Medicaid reimbursement for various ambulance services provided to certain recipients.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Concerns access to physical therapy services, and insurance claims handling following access to such services.
Makes various changes to organization of Motor Vehicle Commission.
Provides for forfeiture of vehicle where weapon was unlawfully possessed.