Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Nia H. Gill Esq.
Sponsored
Became law4
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Revises the "New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund Act."
Concerns risk based capital requirements for health maintenance organizations.
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. *
Vetoed1
The "New Jersey Homeowners' Equity Protection Act." *
Passed the Senate1
Allows Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to open administrative supervision proceedings to guaranty associations under certain circumstances.
Out of committee9
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Amends "New Jersey Anti-Piracy Act" to include camcorder piracy of motion pictures.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
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.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
In committee30
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Creates new Title 19A, Elections; establishes elections offenses in Title 2C.
Establishes the Administrative Law Judges Retirement System.
Establishes pilot program in the Dept. of Law & Public Safety requiring the electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Kean University to fund Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
Requires health insurers to offer benefits for dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Requires insurers which provide prescription drug benefits to cover costs of medications for treating sickle cell anemia.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to promulgate regional fee schedules for recovery, towing and storage of motor vehicles.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association Act."
Applies building code of New York City to World Trade Center, requires fire safety inspections.
Clarifies that municipalities may establish sterile syringe access programs.
Establishes the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."
Requires certain persons seeking license to operate facility to provide magnetic resonance imaging services to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires lenders to provide debtors with amount necessary to cure debt and attach copy of 14 day notice to application for final judgment in certain foreclosure actions.
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; permits establishment of sterile syringe access programs.
Consolidates nonpartisan municipal election procedures in Title 19 of Revised Statutes.
Establishes a loan redemption program for teachers under which they are permitted to redeem loan amounts recieved under the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students Loan Program through employment in public schools in New Jersey.
Permits certain persons 70 and older to prove identity by affidavit for purpose of renewing driver's license.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to Treasury for a grant to tsunami relief effort in Southeast Asia.
Requires an individual under 21 years of age to obtain parental consent before opening a credit card account.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Prohibits department heads in Executive Branch from taking unpaid leave to assist any candidate for election to public office.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Gives membership in PERS Prosecutors Part to DLPS employees with title of assistant director, deputy director, assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general.
Increases judicial salaries.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association Act." *
Requires notification of certain persons of availability of federal earned income tax credit and New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act." *
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Requires hospital and satellite emergency departments to provide care to sexual assault victims and information about emergency contraception and the contraceptives upon request. *
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission. *
Provides that surviving domestic partner would have the same intestacy rights as a surviving spouse and would have authority to make funeral arrangements. *
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 that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Permits local public entities to provide health benefits to domestic partners of non-SHBP participating employees.
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to finance the costs of State flood control projects.
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
Provides additional State school aid to school districts which are bordered by at least three Abbott districts.
Passed the Senate · 5
Prohibits deceptive use of depository institution's trade name or trademark.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services. *
Requires use of luminescent materials in exit pathways of high-rise structures.
Concerns unemployment benefits for certain employees who participate in an early retirement incentive program.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Out of committee · 28
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
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. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
May require child support to continue past emancipation if the child has a severe mental or physical incapacity which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent. *
Establishes the Equity in Education program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health.
Requires clinicial laboratories to adopt certain requirements regarding continuing education and supervision of cytotechnologies.
Requires that chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, allopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians, dentists, and other health care providers be reimbursed at same rate for the same service. *
Certifies court reporters.
Concerns availability of basic and "Dollar-A-Day" automobile insurance policies. *
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Provides that gift certificates and cards are redeemable at full face value in perpetuity.
Exempts veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists.
Establishes domestic violence public awareness campaign.
Makes the unlawful use or possession of a scanning device or reencoder a crime.
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
In committee · 42
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Allows reduced sales tax rate for sales of motor vehicles in certain urban enterprise zones and UEZ-impacted business districts.
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.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Excludes certain unemployment compensation recipients from paying civil service application fees.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Provides for "grandfathering" of certain persons as licensed professional counselors.
Appropriates $100,000 to DHSS for grant to New Hope, Inc. of Bergen County to assist single first-time mothers and their babies.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record.
Supplemental appropriation of $40 million to DHSS for HIV/AIDS programs and services.
Clarifies test for determining when personal property is not a taxable fixture attached to real property.
Increases salaries of workers' compensation judges.
Establishes 30-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment programs.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
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.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $5,000.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
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.
Requires gated community guards to allow sheriffs and constables to serve process.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Concerns sex discrimination in wage payment.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.