Bills in the 2010–2011 Session, Senate.
Loretta Weinberg
Sponsored
Became law11
Provides alternative annual reorganization meeting date for county political committees if regular date coincides with period of religious observance.*
Permits physicians and veterinarians to earn continuing education credits by providing certain free medical or veterinary services.
Authorizes central municipal court to hear cases brought by county office of consumer affairs.
Reduces number of reports and publications printed by State; provides for most to be available primarily on Internet; requires notice of availability of reports and publications. *
Requires State-administered pension systems to train employers on enrollment requirements; requires employers to certify validity of employee enrollment with acknowledgement of penalty for providing false information. *
Concerns gender equity in the workplace. *
Requires Board of Medical Examiners to take certain actions to investigate licensees. *
Requires health insurers to cover oral anticancer medications on no less favorable basis than intravenous anticancer medications.*
Establishes New Jersey Aphasia Study Commission.
Requires inmates be provided with comprehensive medical discharge summary before release.
Repeals obsolete statutes concerning the status of women.
Vetoed4
Permits small, women or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center.
Makes FY 2011 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 for Women's Health and Family Planning Services, reduces FY 2011 appropriation for State Employees' Prescription Drug Program by $7,453,000, and requires filing of application for expansion of Medica
Establishes NJ Center for Oral Health at UMDNJ Dental School.
Permits attending advanced practice nurse to determine cause of death and execute death certification when physician is not available.
Passed the Senate12
Requires managed care plans, SHBP, and SEHBP to provide for reasonable accommodation in accessing providers for persons with physical disabilities. **
Requires additional public participation and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer; dissolves the Health Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission. **
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Requires governmental affairs agents retained by government entities to file certain reports with ELEC; requires certain government entities retaining governmental affairs agents to file annual reports with ELEC.
Revises statutes concerning permissible length of time between certain public questions in certain municipalities.
Requires for-profit hospitals to report certain information to DHSS.
Prohibits minors under 18 years of age from using indoor tanning facilities.*
Establishes NJ Health Care Reform Implementation Council.
Authorizes county to establish county hospital authority; amends title of "Municipal Hospital Authority Law."
Revises membership of Public Health Council and fully restores functions, powers, and duties of council.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $7,453,000 for family planning services, and requires filing of State Plan Amendment to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to persons with incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level.
Permits small, women owned, or minority owned businesses located in designated regional centers or planning areas to qualify for loans from EDA as if located in designated urban center. *
Out of committee25
Establishes Governor's authority over approval of minutes of certain regional commissions.
Requires each hospital board of trustees to adopt a written policy governing conflicts of interest.
Establishes "Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fund."
Specifies public members on Board of Medical Examiners and requires board to take certain actions to investigate licensees.
Decreases certain public document copy fees; amount of fee dependent upon whether letter size page or legal size page. *
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies to provide greater public access to meetings and to information about meetings.
Makes certain changes to open public records act; formally names open public records act "Martin O'Shea Open Public Records Act."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Prohibits display of signs on any public property or highway.*
Concerns furloughing of direct care nurses employed by certain State institutions. *
Establishes online portal for acceptance of donations to certain funds to which contributions may be made on gross income tax returns.*
Concerns certain limitations on claims for victim compensation.
Jaden's Law; requires DHSS to prepare online brochure about the option to donate bone marrow.
Concerns compensation and benefits of officers, employees, and members of State and local authorities.
Requires DHS to conduct follow-up study of former residents of North Princeton Developmental Center.
Requires assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home that surrenders its license and promised not to discharge Medicaid residents to escrow funds to pay for care in alternate facility. *
Requires public schools to include instruction on oral health as part of core curriculum content standards.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Coordination Among Nonprofit Social Service Organizations.
Amends Fiscal Year 2011 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services.
Requires BPU orders to be issued in writing and posted on Internet.
Temporarily renames NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury as NJ Advisory Council on Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury; establishes Acquired Brain Injury Fund.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunizations for students.
Imposes certain bail restrictions on persons charged with violating domestic violence restraining orders.
Extends "whistleblower" protections to employee disclosure of governmental mismanagement, waste and abuse.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the Girl Scouts councils in New Jersey.
In committee110
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Requires managed care plans to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Establishes Task Force on Hospital Technology to recommend incentives to encourage hospitals to integrate technology to improve patient care and safety.
Requires in-network hospitals to notify patients of out-of-network health care professionals who provide services in hospital.
Revises procedures for municipal redevelopment programs; prohibits certain campaign contributions by redevelopers.
Curbs contributions by certain public contractors and certain developers; curbs contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Eliminates 15% fee charged by cemetery company on transfer of graves, crypts and niches.
Permits NJ courts to not enforce defamation judgments from foreign countries under certain circumstances.
Enhances crime victims' rights under the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Increases and revises membership of New Jersey Cemetery Board.
Requires certain appointed public officials to work 35 hours or more per week to be eligible for PERS and SHBP; requires termination of PERS and SHBP participation of certain appointed officials whose term of appointment expires.
Provides support for obstetric services by certain health care facilities.
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of certain jewelry.
Requires NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to notify and receive input from Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission and Hackensack Meadowlands District municipalities concerning certain Meadowlands complex projects.
Increases railroad franchise and property taxes to support improvements to railroad capital facilities.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Establishes NJ Native American Burial Ground Preservation Task Force.
Requires cemetery companies to file annual financial report.
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider.
Establishes criteria for State recognition of Native American tribe.
Concerns environmental permits in low-income, minority communities.
Requires DOC to transfer certain payments of restitution to VCCA.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Limits amount of contribution to legal defense fund of holder of elective public office and requires reporting thereof to ELEC.
Requires disclosure of campaign contributions received or expenditures made by individual seeking election as political party committee officer.
Adds two members to NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Re-establishes State Board of Education as the rule-making authority under several school district accountability statutes and reinstates its role in considering appeals from any Commissioner of Education determination.
Requires staff of shelters for victims of domestic violence and emergency shelters for homeless to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires boards of education to provide certain nutritional information for food and beverage items offered for sale in school cafeterias.
Eliminates DCF from licensure as approved adoption agency.
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Prohibits cemetery company from charging additional fee for rendering certain services on Sunday.
Directs the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to waive 365-day period of ineligibility for interscholastic sports upon an affirmative demonstration that the transfer is for non-athletic reasons.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Requires health insurers and SHBP and SEHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Provides for establishment of county offices for disability services; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Requires retailers to post warnings of lead poisoning from improper paint removal.
Requires Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare and SHBP and SEHBP to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Increases health benefits continuation coverage from 18 months to 36 months for certain persons covered under certain small employer health benefits plans.
Clarifies goal of domestic violence public awareness campaign pertaining to risk factors; requires public awareness notices include language used by substantial segments of local populations.
Makes various revisions to laws regulating certain health benefits plans.
Requires certain cemeteries to accept Work First New Jersey and SSI allowance for burial expenses.
Requires officers and employees of political subdivisions to contribute a portion of their base salary towards the cost of their health care coverage.
Establishes Electronic Health Information Technology Fund.
Requires Attorney General to provide certain information regarding certain charitable organizations to public on Internet.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Revises criminal history record check process undergone by public and nonpublic school employees and school bus drivers.
Allows adoptees access to nonidentifying family medical history information.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Authorizes Parole Board and sheriff's offices to hire alternate route trained police officers; exempts alternate route trainees from certain civil service requirements.
Permits removal of State board, commission or independent authority member for failure to attend three consecutive meetings thereof without good cause.
Requires health insurers SHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for ancillary medical services in connection with outpatient diagnostic screening and surgical intervention services.
Increases health benefits continuation coverage to 36 months for certain persons covered under certain employer health benefits plans.
Establishes "New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
Transfers $3 million from "New Jersey Brain Injury Research Fund" to "Traumatic Brain Injury Fund."
Provides rental and lease protections for domestic violence victims.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers.
Codifies federal law notice, consent, and other requirements concerning certain employer-owned group life insurance contracts.
Prohibits certain elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
Modifies powers of Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission.
The "Jobs, Trade and Democracy Act."
Requires dentist to notify patient before providing dental prosthesis manufactured outside the United States.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Establishes Commission on State-owned Historic Sites in Department of State, transfers administration of State-owned historic sites to commission, and transfers historic preservation programs from DEP to Department of State.
Requires physician supervision of nurse anesthetists.
Establishes priority of preferences for community settings for persons with developmental disabilities transitioning from developmental centers.
Establishes "Monica's Law" concerning domestic violence risk assessment pilot program.
Extends hiring preference for certain civilian federal firefighters.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
Includes adult with onset physical disabilities as eligible criteria for assistance through Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Prohibits person from serving as officer of more than two political campaign committees.
Redirects vehicle surcharge revenues for Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental delays and disabilities enrolled in the Early Childhood Intervention Program.
Transfers $5,000,000 of unexpended balance from Purchase of Service for Inmates Incarcerated in County Penal Facilities account in Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Appropriations Act and appropriates that amount for Women's Health and Family Planning Services.
Establishes procedures and standards regarding public services privatization contracts.
Establishes moratorium on conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer.
Provides procedure for suspension of county board of elections member charged with certain crimes.
Requires suspension of payments for unused sick or vacation leave payable to person indicted for criminal offense; requires forfeiture of such payment upon service deemed dishonorable or conviction for crime.
Prohibits employees of certain organizations from enrolling in State-administered retirement system or health care plan of public employer.
Provides that modification of collective bargaining agreement concerning State holiday of Lincoln's Birthday in February 2011 and day after Thanksgiving in November 2010 is to be given effect.
Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.
Establishes civilian review board to review complaints against Palisades Interstate Park Commission patrolmen.
Prohibits talking on cell phone or text messaging when operating a boat.
Revises newspaper advertising rates.
Requires review of arbitration agreements for unconscionability.
Repeals temporary suspension of the application of tax credits for film and digital media content production expenses.
Modifies current law regarding regulation and restrictions on business entities who are public contractors and make campaign contributions to certain office holders, candidates and political organizations.
Creates self-defense justification for victims of domestic violence.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Requires monitoring of prescriptions for human growth hormones.
Requires local law enforcement officer or firefighter prescribed anabolic steroids or human growth hormone to report to designated physician for evaluation of fitness for duty.
Establishes a civil cause of action for gender-motivated violence.
Permits certain victims of domestic violence or stalking, and members of immediate family, to register to vote without disclosing street address and cast provisional ballot at any election under certain circumstances.
Expands "New Jersey Parentage Act" to include donation of egg or sperm; repeals artificial insemination provision.
Requires hearing and approval of premium changes for individual and small employer health benefits plans; requires certain information be posted on DOBI's website.
Authorizes certified celebrants to solemnize marriages.
Revises the period of time required for a State or county college faculty member to receive tenure.
Establishes new standard for court to grant grandparent or sibling visitation rights under certain circumstances.
Supplements FY2012 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services and appropriates $1 million.
Requires written notice of pending gubernatorial succession to both designated successor and Legislature whenever responsibilities of office of Governor will devolve upon temporary successor.
Concerns wage protection and certain penalties for violating laws regarding wages, compensation or benefits.
Establishes preservation requirements for certain biological evidence.
Establishes New Jersey Task Force to Address the Nurse Faculty Shortage.
Requires medical examination and submission of student work portfolios for home-schooled children; provides that children under supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Oversight Act."
Requires insurers to cover comprehensive ultrasound breast screening if a mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue and requires mammogram reports to contain information on breast density.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in State service, and PERS and TPAF disability retirement.
Creates bistate commission to coordinate management and flood prevention of waterways flowing between Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY.
Establishes NJ Alzheimer's Disease Study Commission.
Concerns dispensation by an optometrist or ophthalmologist to a patient of drugs delivered to the eye through a contact lens.
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without a prescription.
Clarifies that sexual assault victims are not responsible for any costs of forensic sexual assault examinations or related services.
Establishes "New Jersey Property Assessment Clean Energy (NJ PACE) Municipal Financing Program."
Requires Division of Taxation to regularly provide certain information to municipalities concerning hotel occupancy taxes.
"Emma's Law"; provides for screening newborn infants for lysosomal storage disorders.
"Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act"; provides for use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms and requires physicians and advanced practice nurses to pursue continuing education in end-of life care. *
Establishes NJ Advisory Council on End-of-Life Care in DHSS.
Removes certain required parole board reviews of parole eligibility dates; repeals early release law. *
Prohibits drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Requires services be provided for sexually exploited juveniles charged with certain offenses; creates an affirmative defense regarding prostitution.*
Vetoed · 2
Permits adoptees and certain others access to adoptee's original birth certificate and other related information. *
Concerns the sale of portable electronics insurance and licensing of limited lines insurance producers for that purpose.
Passed the Senate · 8
Prohibits health care institutions from discharging medications into sewer or septic systems.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires each general hospital that accepts public funds to hold quarterly board meetings that include time for public participation. *
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Directs NJTA to reduce tolls no longer required for payment of Access to the Region's Core Tunnel project.
Requires private entity primarily engaged in business of providing transportation for passengers in wheelchairs to secure passengers in wheelchairs using four-point securement system and to secure unoccupied wheelchairs. *
"New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act;" provides credits against corporation business and gross income taxes for investing in New Jersey emerging technology businesses.
"Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act"; expands existing film and digital media production tax credit programs.
Out of committee · 24
Establishes requirements for non face-to-face sales of cigarettes and tobacco products.
Concerns regulation of court reporting firms.
Authorizes the court to include provisions for animals in domestic violence restraining orders.*
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Directs Medicaid to establish medical home demonstration project.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Prohibits local officer or employee from lobbying or advocating before any body of the municipality where officer or employee serves. *
Revises Newborn Screening program in DHSS.
Provides that 20% of fee charged for initial certified copy of birth certificate shall be used to support certain activities of NJ Cord Blood Bank. *
Requires DHSS to coordinate physician workforce data.
Provides loan redemption for certain physicians who work in State 10 years.*
Imposes two-year moratorium on certain new outpatient radiation oncology services and establishes Outpatient Radiation Oncology Services Task Force in DHSS.
Authorizes sale and lease of unneeded public property to certain nonprofits for gardening and urban farming and exempts such urban farms and gardens from property taxation.
Prohibits certain private transfer fees and imposes disclosure requirements.
Directs the Department of Education to develop a school district dating violence policy and requires school districts to provide dating violence education in the health curriculum.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to register with ELEC and disclose contribution and independent expenditure information.
The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act."
Establishes the Workforce Shortage Loan Redemption Program.
Creates "Earn Your Way Out of Prison Into Supervision, Treatment, and Recovery Program."
Prohibits burial of Petty's Run archaeological excavation site.
Requires State, regional, and local authorities, boards, and commissions to establish an Internet website and post information related to each entity's mission, finances, meetings, and employees. *
Requires certain qualifications for employment as a surgical technologist.
"Caylee's Law;" upgrades penalties for failing to report a death; criminalizes failure to report disappearance of child within 24 hours.
In committee · 70
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies.
Revises provisions of the "Open Public Meetings Act" to ensure greater compliance.
Strengthens public disclosure and monitoring requirements of "Open Public Meetings Act".
Prohibits members of the Legislature from holding other elective public offices.
Requires government records to be made available on the Internet.
Requires MVC to notify Medicaid if driver's license of medical transportation services provider is suspended or revoked.
Authorizes special Gold Star Family license plates.
"Uniform Trust Code."
Requires installation of low-flow toilets and low-flow showerheads in multiple dwellings having 3 or more units.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Concerns regulation of paratransit vehicles and drivers transporting persons in wheelchairs.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act"; increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Establishes crimes of dog fighting and leader of a dog fighting network; amends RICO to add leader of a dog fighting network.
Directs ELEC to collect fees from certain firms that employ legislative agents; increases certain penalties imposed by ELEC and Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; dedicates funds to those commissions.
Prohibits persons who violated certain laws from registering as governmental affairs agents and from acting as representative before local government units.
Creates Meadowlands Economic Development Trust; provides for sharing of tax revenues generated by developments of regional economic significance to improve local quality of life.
Requires certain persons to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Requires van accessible handicapped parking spaces be used exclusively by handicapped equipped vans.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
Requires certain health care facilities to adopt certain infection control strategies.
Prohibits smoking at public parks and beaches.
Limits payment to certain public employees for accumulated sick leave upon retirement; requires fine and reprimand or termination for violation of sick leave by public employee.
Provides for mandatory imprisonment and forfeiture of retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes.
Provides full forfeiture of pension of elected or appointed official convicted of any crime touching office.
Concerns liability, standards of care, and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
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.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties within 20 mile radius.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election.
Regulates physician profiling programs used by managed care networks.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Requires specific reduction of sulfur content in heating oil, and scheduled increase of blending biofuels therein after July 1, 2011, unless requirements are waived by Governor pursuant to Executive Order.
Prohibits insurers offering managed care plans from denying participation in network to health care providers willing to meet terms of contract.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Makes various technical and procedural amendments to the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Subjects county and municipal sewerage authority service rate increases to approval by Board of Public Utilities.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Comissioners.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging, and requires companies offering text messaging services to allow their customers to block all incoming and outgoing text messages.
Requires certain issue advocacy organizations to disclose contributions and expenditure information.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Defines homeowners' association membership and fair standards for elections and recall of trustees in homeowners' associations of planned real estate developments.
Expands the domestic violence statutes to encompass minors aged 16 and older.
Requires audits of managed care plan provider networks.
Amends Fiscal Year 2011 annual appropriations act to require filing of application for expansion of Medicaid coverage for family planning services.
Requires drug test specimens from drug abuse treatment clinics be analyzed by independent clinical laboratory.
Excludes appropriations to reserve for uncollected taxes in excess of two percent from calculations of municipal adjusted tax levy.
Amends law concerning conversion of age-restricted communities to define substantial detriment and makes other clarifications.
Provides affirmative defense to prostitution charge for persons under 16.
Establishes standards for commercial insurers and Medicaid program implementing electronic prescribing systems.
Establishes the "Private Investment in Public Education Fund."
Concerns liability and insurance coverage for medical malpractice actions.
Allows certain sole proprietors to join a small employer health benefits purchasing alliance.
Prohibits first responders from disseminating photographs of accident victims and patients to public without consent of victim or patient.
Modifies various aspects of charter school program including student enrollment procedures, revocation of charter, monitoring of charter schools, and collaboration between school districts and charter schools.
"Telecommunications-Cable Television Deregulation Ensuring Consumer Protection Act"; revises State regulation of competitive services provided by telecommunications and cable television companies.
Requires health benefits coverage for mammograms for women under 40 who lack access to family medical history due to their or their parent's adoption.
Prohibits the restraint of prisoners during and immediately after childbirth.
Extends limited protection from certain penalties if medical assistance is sought for drug overdose victim in certain cases.
Filed · 1
Establishes standards for certain fertilizer applications, requires certification of professional fertilizer applicators and regulates labeling and sale of certain fertilizers.