Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, in the General Assembly and then the Senate.
Loretta Weinberg
General Assembly
Sponsored
Became law17
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Requires N.J. Firemen's Association to pay death benefits to members employed as law enforcement officers who die in terrorist attack.
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members to municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
"Cigarette Sales Act; " facilitates collection of taxes on retail sales of cigarettes shipped from outside this State.
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
Amends the State's guardianship law. *
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. *
Permits physician assistants to prescribe controlled dangerous substances.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Access Study Commission."
Establishes post-polio sequelae public awareness campaign.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Makes certain changes to procedures governing the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Increases the cigarette tax by 35 cents per pack. *
Requires reporting of all cases of severe hyperbilirubinemia to DHSS. *
Establishes "Task Force on Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting."
Establishes Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey. *
Passed the General Assembly12
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstance.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
Requires NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to notify and receive input from Hackensack Meadowlands District municipalities concerning certain Meadowlands complex projects.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Establishes Health Care Professional Regulation Study Commission and requires certain State professional licensing boards to take certain actions. *
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Codifies New Jersey Supreme Court ruling concerning divorced parents' obligation to pay for children's post high-school education expenses under certain circumstances.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
Revises and updates statutes governing compensation for victims of crime.
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Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Permits certain licensed individuals, when advertising, to use their legal names, maiden names or nicknames under certain circumstances.
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
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. *
Requires DHSS licensure of surgical practices. *
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires North Jersey District Water Supply Commission maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes and Governor authority to remove commissioner for cause.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system.
The "Raincheck Policy Disclosure Act."
Allows supermarkets and malls corporation business tax credit for motorized cart's acquisition cost.
Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Restricts third-party use of federal Drug Enforcement Administration registration numbers.
Provides that surviving domestic partner would have the same intestacy rights as a surviving spouse and would have authority to make funeral arrangements. *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
"Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting Enhancement Act."
Establishes Alternative to Discipline Program for impaired nurses through NJ Board of Nursing.
Requires State to contract with pharmaceutical companies to purchase influenza vaccine for high-risk persons and their care providers.
Establishes eligibility of property owned by 100% disabled veteran with domestic partner for veterans' property tax exemption.
Establishes Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Requires DHSS to establish special Medicaid admission criteria for long-term care facilities that serve HIV/AIDS patients.
Provides for educational requirements for planning and zoning board members.
Expands public membership on Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
Changes reimbursement structure for various transportation services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Authorizes State Medical Examiner to participate in research concerning sudden death in infancy and early childhood.
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Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Requires firearms identification cards display color photo; mandates firearms safety training for first-time applicants.
Permits municipality to retroactively refund veteran's property taxes paid inadvertently.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Designates the Department of Education Building as the "Matthew Feldman Building."
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Provides procedures for payment to out-of-network dentists when covered person receives payment directly from dental insurer.
Appropriates $350,000 for New Bridge Landing Historic Site.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Requires public bidding of projects in Hackensack Meadowlands.
Establishes binding arbitration procedure for port authority police officers.
Requires licensees in business of firearms repair to obtain ballistics identifiers before returning a rifle or handgun to its owner.
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission."
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file reports with ELEC.
Prohibits certain legislative offices and staff members from mailing or distributing mass political communications during legislative election years.
Requires disclosure of certain financial and other information by issue advocacy organizations using certain candidate information in advertisement.
Requires local public, educational, and governmental access channels and New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority to provide free airtime for legislative candidates.
Doubles penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limits and renumeration restrictions.
Prohibits solicitation of political contributions on State property.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site for format and content; imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade; makes an appropriation.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing certain State or county contracts.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
Requires certain testing and medical examinations of home-schooled children.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Amends Tort Claims Act to provide liability for damage caused by municipal sewer or water system under certain circumstances.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Requires repayment of terminal leave sick and longevity compensation upon reemployment with State or local government.
Concerns sex discrimination in wage payment.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Requires issuing agency to notify noncustodial parent's employer through National Medical Support Notice that child is required to be enrolled in parent's health benefits plan.
Prohibits awarding of certain municipal professional services contracts to members of the Legislature.
Requires DHS to place persons as monitors in facilities for developmentally disabled under certain circumstances.
Allows personal exemption of $1,000, and tax credit, up to $500, under New Jersey gross income tax for medical expenses for family member 65 years of age or older.
Establishes the "Sexual Harassment Awareness and Respect for Everyone Fund" to support grants for sexual harassment training.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced NJ SAVER rebates and homestead rebates.
Establishes separate Superior Court adoption fee for subsidized adoptions.
Requires certificate of approval for home infusion therapy providers.
Requires adoptive parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for annual medical examination of adopted child.
Establishes "Children's Protection Services Study Commission."
Increases civil penalties for certain violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires presumptive eligibility process for NJ FamilyCare Program.
Authorizes the use of $100,000 to recruit and train respite care providers to serve persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires DYFS caseworker to notify Division of Family Development and Medicaid if child or child's parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative cannot be located during child abuse investigation.
Permits a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
Establishes pilot program for CDL training.
Prohibits writing of online prescriptions for persons who have not been examined by prescriber.
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places.
Establishes NJ-COBRA and provides for continuation of coverage in small employer and larger group health plans for unlimited period of time to qualified persons.
Requires binding arbitration in contract disputes between hospitals and health insurance carriers.
Clarifies that municipalities may establish sterile syringe access programs.
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Limits the amount of surety bonds for cigarette tax stamp purchases by distributors by credit and makes principals of distributors personally liable for payment of the remainder of the purchases by credit.
Extends scope of licensure and increases certain license fees under cigarette excise tax; revises "Unfair Cigarette Sales Act of 1952"; dedicates 25% of license fee revenue for enforcement of unfair sales act.
Supplemental appropriation of $390,000 to UMDNJ for women's reproductive health care.
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Deletes State registration requirement to dispense controlled dangerous substances.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Provides DEP commissioner with veto authority over all hunts.
Requires Local Finance Board approval for proposed loan agreements between local authorities and for-profit entities.
Limits period for reimbursement from providers for overpayment on health care claims to 18 months.
Prohibits legislator and Governor from accepting money or things of value for any purpose from casino licensees and certain casino employees.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Extends victim counselor's privilege to include statements made during certain interviews of victim.
Permits certain PFRS members to purchase service credit for time served as special law enforcement officer.
Prohibits political contributions by all State and local public agencies.
Permits each municipality to set amount of dog license fee.
Filed1
Authorizes DHSS to reallocate flu vaccine to high-risk persons.
Co-sponsored
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Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason; requires increased identification when requesting and returning absentee ballots; authorizes automatic transmission of absentee ballot application for general election. **
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Requires DHSS to distribute fact sheet on nut allergies and conduct public information campaign about food allergies; appropriates $250,000. ***
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Clarifies sentencing provisions for certain drunk driving offenses.
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Establishes program for removal of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. *
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
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 issuance of bonds for refurbishment of certain public safety vehicles.
Deletes certain nursing home payment requirements under "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
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
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
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.
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
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Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents. *
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action (a "SLAPP" suit) arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech. *
Requires photographic identification cards for certain health care professionals. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center. *
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; permits establishment of sterile syringe paccess programs, appropriates $10,000,000. *
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without prescription.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Requires certain physicians to complete course in recognizing reporting child abuse and neglect.*
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
"Rail Special Transportation District Act."
Out of committee · 64
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Provides tax credit for certain taxpayers that provide health care benefits to employees. *
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Removes license suspension penalty for persons with only one outstanding parking fine; permits Motor Vehicle Commission to refuse registration to persons with only one outstanding parking fine. *
Establishes registry of stroke cases in State.
Requires DEP to classify certain reservoirs and reservoir feeder streams as category one waters. *
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Revises pilotage laws.
Provides for continued health benefits coverage for certain persons covered under small employer health benefits plans in certain circumstances.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires drug facilitated sexual assault warning notices be posted in bars.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Authorizes the State, with prior approval by the State House Commission, to use eminent domain power to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes provided lands are protective of drinking water sources.
"New Jersey Clean Water, Drought Mitigation and Water Resource Trust Fund Act." *
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. *
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Establishes "New Jersey Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000. *
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
Increases the presumed marked-up rate for a retailer selling cigarettes.
Requires DHSS to review standard of care at health care facilities in which 40% or more of direct patient care nursing staff are temporary hires.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program subsidy.
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act." *
Allows certain persons in military service to receive suspension of interest on mortgage loan. *
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
Allows police chief member of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
Permits unemployment benefits for workers "locked-out" by their employers.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Provides for registration of swimming pool applicators.
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Permits law enforcement officers, including county sheriff and corrections officers, to participate in intergovernmental transfer program; permits waive of accumulated sick leave and seniority privileges by such officers.
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.
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Provides family leave insurance.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Establishes time limits on voluntary applications for out-of-home placement of children under DYFS' care or custody.
Increases period of deferral for work activity requirements under the Work First New Jersey program for parent of newborn child from 12 to 24 weeks.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires training for staff working with persons with developmental disabilities; appropriates $2,104,740.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Repeals limit on increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $14 million.
Requires pharmacists to report prescription drug-related deaths and substantial bodily injuries to Board of Pharmacy.
Requires written consent of person before any personal information reported to cancer registry can be disclosed by DHSS to certain agencies.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Requires carriers to use chiropractor to make utilization management decisions concerning chiropractic services.
Requires DHS to provide functional services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes demonstration needle and syringe exchange program in DHSS.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State in 2006.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Establishes the Excellence in Nursing Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Requires State contractors to provide employment information.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Establishes the Equity in Education Program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Requires that DMV suspension and revocation notices be given by certified mail.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Establishes Rail Transit Vital Site Preservation and Reservation Fund; appropriates $30,000,000.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for physicians and facilities concerning women with bleeding disorders.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Requires health insurers and State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder under same conditions as other sickness.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Provides criteria to be used by DEP when determining if certain wetlands are part of surface water tributary system.
Establishes premium assistance fund and task force concerning medical malpractice liability insurance.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Concerns medical malpractice liability and sets standards for expert witnesses; caps noneconomic damages; establishes prelitigation screening and mediation; modifies statute of limitations and joint liability; prohibits certain insurance rate increases.
Allows an adopted person 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate and other related information.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to Division of Fire Safety in DCA to fund local firefighters' training and programs and division salaries.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Establishes training academy in DYFS.
Establishes Prevention Services Programs for Children and Families Network.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.
Authorizes use of photo radar devices for enforcement purposes on certain local streets.
Expands membership and revises authority of Fish and Game Council.
Directs school nurse to develop individual health care plans to ensure safety of students with diabetes.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply in the 21st Century Study Task Force.
Prohibits black bear hunting, creates black bear study commission, authorizes issuance and sale of NJ Black Bear Stamp, establishes NJ Black Bear Stamp Account.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
Requires prequalification by State officials of prospective bidders for local public works contracts in same manner as prequalification of prospective bidders for State contracts.
Creates requirement and grant program for power-assisted door openers on certain public buildings; appropriates $600,000.
Assesses insurers and health maintenance organizations $8.1 million to defray cost of prescription drug benefits for certain Medicaid recipients.
"Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Act."
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Prohibits political contributions by county and municipal political party committees to other committees; increases certain penalties.
Requires all cats and dogs released from pounds and shelters be sterilized with certain exceptions; establishes special fund for sterilizations; increases certain dog-related fees and dedicates increases to the fund.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Raises hourly minimum wage to $7.00.
Concerns civil actions for recovery of unpaid minimum wages and overtime compensation.
"Light Rail Transportation Enterprise Zone Act," encourages light rail construction through certain municipalities.
Requires SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for prostate cancer.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Increases minimum hourly wage to $7.50, indexed to CPI; affirms local authority to set higher labor standards if not expressly prohibited.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Requires public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions.
Authorizes NJ Transit to construct Northern Branch Extension to Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line using EDA bond proceeds to finance such construction.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits to TPAF retirees who retired with at least 20 years of service prior to May 1, 1988.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Clarifies law concerning the administration of epinephrine to students with dual orders.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires property owners with drinking water wells located within one mile of underground storage tanks or dry cleaning establishments to test for contaminants at least once every three years.
Permits students with cystic fibrosis to self-administer medication.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Requires public schools to include instruction on humane treatment of animals as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
Provides that EDA and school districts must use school prototypes in the construction of school facilities projects.
Permits certain senior citizens or disabled persons to qualify as " eligible claimant" for homestead property tax reimbursement even if fourth quarter property taxes are delinquent.
Requires Division of Taxation to provide certain information to applicants deemed ineligible.
Requires health insurers to cover diagnostic testing and long-term antibiotic treatment of chronic Lyme disease and co-infections of Lyme disease.
Requires approval from appropriation committees of the Legislature for employee bonuses proposed by certain public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits outside employment by presidents of State colleges.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Prohibits smoking while driving.
Requires reporting and review of insurance carriers' health care claims processing and payment histories.
Requires managed care companies to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits and disclosed fee schedules; requires coverage under certain conditions; authorizes civil actions against violators.
Requires certain disclosures from carriers; establishes new health care claims payment and appeals process; limits use of utilization management under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Creates Meadowlands Economic Development Trust; provides for sharing of tax revenues generated by developments of regional economic significance to improve local quality of life.
Senate
Sponsored
In committee3
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action (a "SLAPP" suit) arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 35
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million. *
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system. *
Creates study commission on the death penalty and imposes moratorium on imposition of death penalty. *
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.
Provides for continued health benefits coverage for certain persons covered under small employer health benefits plans in certain circumstances.
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Revises pilotage laws.
Establishes Alternative to Discipline Program for impaired nurses through NJ Board of Nursing.
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Authorizes State Medical Examiner to participate in research concerning sudden death in infancy and early childhood.
"Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting Enhancement Act."
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. **
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Authorizes DHSS to reallocate flu vaccine to high-risk persons.
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. *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Requires DHSS to establish special Medicaid admission criteria for long-term care facilities that serve HIV/AIDS patients.
Provides for educational requirements for planning and zoning board members.
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
Permits unemployment benefits for workers "locked-out" by their employers. *
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
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.
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act."
Passed the Senate · 1
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Out of committee · 4
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
In committee · 10
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits to TPAF retirees who retired with at least 20 years of service prior to May 1, 1988.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Increases minimum loss ratio for individual and small employer-health benefits plans from 75% to 80%.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.