Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Sponsored
Became law1
Permits short-term tax exemption or abatement for houses improved to accommodate totally disabled persons when reconstruction or renovation is performed by charitable entity, or for-profit entity using volunteer labor.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes qualifications for zoning enforcement officers.
Out of committee8
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Increases maximum municipal dog license fee from $7 to $21. *
Concerns sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Imposes criminal penalties for certain actions concerning disposition of decedent's body parts.
Requires Office of Legislative Services to make complete voting records of legislators available to the public in electronic form.
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
Requires distributing information about human papillomavirus to parents and guardians of seventh to twelfth graders and to pediatricians, and establishes public awareness campaign. *
In committee30
Establishes Become A Nurse license plates and dedicates fees for nursing scholarships.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Includes adult with onset physical disabilities as eligible criteria for assistance through Special Needs Housing Trust Fund.
Revises certain procedures for municipal redevelopment programs; prohibits certain campaign contributions by redevelopers.
Revises the definition of nonpublic school to include preschools under chapter 192 and chapter 193 State aid programs for nonpublic students.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
"State Authorities Reform Act."
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Provides that payment of alimony shall become judgement by operation of law when due, and shall be enforceable as a civil judgement.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain a warning about volume and hearing loss.
Requires notice of development applications be given to residential tenants on that property.
Provides for gubernatorial appointment without requiring advice and consent of Senate for teenage members of Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy.
Requires DHSS licensure of surgical practices.
Imposes mandatory interest payment on delinquent child support judgments.
Permits physicians to earn continuing medical education credits by providing free medical care to low-income, uninsured patients.
Curbs contributions by certain public contractors and certain developers; curbs contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Oversight Act."
The "Smart Container Act."
Establishes "Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act."
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Requires Medicaid, NJ FamilyCare and SHBP to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
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.
Directs the Division on Women to conduct an audit of the coordination of community responses to domestic violence.
Establishes the "Firearm Automated Licensing System"; provides for an additional assessment fee for retail dealer licenses, handgun purchaser permits and firearm purchaser identification cards.
Supplemental appropriation of $4 million for Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism.
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Prohibits person from serving as officer of more than two political campaign committees.
Requires managed care plans to pay certain health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Concerns sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products. *
Increases maximum municipal dog license fee from $7 to $21. *
Requires Office of Legislative Services to make complete voting records of legislators available to the public in electronic form.
Imposes criminal penalties for certain actions concerning disposition of decedent's body parts.
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
Requires distributing information about human papillomavirus to parents and guardians of seventh to twelfth graders and to pediatricians, and establishes public awareness campaign. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Provides for various school district accountability measures.
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to advise women of option to donate or store umbilical cord blood and placental tissue. **
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
"The Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection Act." **
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Changes criteria for eligibility to receive limited teaching certificates in dental schools.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
"Violence Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act," requires certain health care entities to establish violence prevention programs to protect health care workers.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Permits oaths, affirmations and affidavits to be taken by certified court reporters.
Mandates alternate testing dates because of days of religious observance for certain applicants seeking licensure.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Revises the marriage laws; establishes civil unions; establishes the "New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission."
Requires prevailing wages to be paid for construction work on State-owned properties.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan. *
Provides for instruction in autism and other developmental disabilities awareness and methods of teaching students with autism and other developmental disabilities for candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers and paraprofessionals. **
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Places the burden of proof and burden of production on school districts in due process hearings conducted to resolve special education issues.
Enacts the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote."
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Creates offenses of gang criminality and promoting organized street crime.
Passed the General Assembly · 17
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students. *
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Directs AG and State Medical Examiner to study the creation of a secure autopsy facility.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Prohibits certain elected officials from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
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 that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements. *
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Prohibits organized delivery systems from denying participation in network to imaging centers willing to meet terms of contract.
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 53
"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.
Revises State purchase of recycled paper and recycled paper products mandates.
Designates first Monday in November each year as "Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day." *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist. *
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship. *
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; appropriates $425,000.
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 political contributions by all State and local public agencies.
Prohibits sale of certain flavored cigarettes. *
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Requires DHSS to make certain information about long-term care and adult day health services facilities available on its website. *
Requires certain State buildings to be designed and managed to meet high performance green building standards. *
Requires parole board to consider significant efforts at achieving GED in decreasing parole eligibility date.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding for burial of indigent veterans.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
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.
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Recodifies Title 4 criminal animal cruelty offenses in State criminal code; increases level of certain offenses and crimes; establishes new offenses; revises civil penalties; repeals various sections of law; designated as Angel's Law. **
Permits county board of taxation to extend municipality's filing deadline for assessment appeals for any year in which revaluation is implemented.
Concerns meat packing.
Authorizes the issuance of bonds by the NJEDA to fund State capital construction projects of $270 million for facilities for stem cell research, biomedical research, blood collection and cancer research. **
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Requires ambulatory care facilities to provide uncompensated outpatient renal dialysis services for uninsured low-income persons.
Transfers Division of Elections from Department of Law and Public Safety to Department of State; designates Secretary of State as chief election official.
"Safe Patient Handling Act"; requires health care facilities to establish safe patient handling programs. *
"New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes the sale of State general obligation bonds in the amount of $450 million and appropriates $5,000. *
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Renames "Open Public Meetings Act" in honor of Senator Byron M. Baer. *
Authorizes certain cities to establish a municipal hospital authority.
Establishes Department of Children and Families.
Requires DCF and DHS to compile lists of State properties suitable for certain residential uses. *
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
Extends deadline for authorization to make grants from the "Wastewater Treatment Fund" for certain projects listed in P.L.2005, c.301.
Establishes the "Office of the Gang Member Relocation Coordinator."
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Increases amount of State tax credits under "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
Authorizes Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to establish additional air terminals.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Revises the expungement statute and clarifies that expungement does not apply to any crime committed by a person holding any public office, position or employment, elective or appointive.
Makes it a primary offense for motorists to talk on or text message with hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication device while driving. *
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
Establishes NJ Coastal and Ocean Protection Council; appropriates $75,000.
Revises laws concerning hate crimes and bullying; establishes Commission on Bullying in Schools.
In committee · 116
Limits county committees and chairs thereof from controlling placement of party members on primary ballot and use of party designation.
Provides that student of limited English-speaking ability shall not be required to take certain tests.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Requires that certain relocation notices be bilingual in municipalities where at least one-third of the population are likely to speak a common non-English native language.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Requires institutions of higher education to develop campus security plans.
Requires legislators to designate one covered position of elected office or employment for PERS credit.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program subsidy.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Establishes "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act."
Concerns mold hazards in indoor environments.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Appropriates $350,000 for New Bridge Landing Historic Site.
Requires public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Creates the Small Business Tax and Regulation Study Commission.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Requires NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to notify and receive input from Hackensack Meadowlands District municipalities concerning certain Meadowlands complex projects.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Requires sellers of residential real estate, including owners, to disclose to purchaser knowledge of termite damage to property.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Creates requirement and grant program for power-assisted door openers on certain public buildings; appropriates $600,000.
Revises and updates statutes governing compensation for victims of crime.
"Rail Special Transportation District Act."
Requires criminal history background check for certain persons working at schools.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Allows supermarkets and malls corporation business tax credit for motorized cart's acquisition cost.
Requires Local Finance Board approval for proposed loan agreements between local authorities and for-profit entities.
Permits certain PFRS members to purchase service credit for time served as special law enforcement officer.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Creates crime of victimization of persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires criminal history record background checks for public employees handling vital records.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Establishes the Higher Education Master Plan Commission in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Requires retail food establishments to have staff person certified in DHSS-approved food safety training course.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Requires movie theaters to install captioning technology for use by hearing impaired patrons.
Establishes Breast Cancer Screening Access Program in DHSS; appropriates $10 million.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Supplemental appropriation to DOT of $14,800,000 as State contribution toward improvements of certain portions of Route 17.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes the Equity in Education Program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3%
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Establishes presumption of eligibility for accidental disability allowance for certain public employees who worked in certain locations following September 11, 2001 attack in New York City.
Establishes Applied Behavior Analysis for Children with Autism Pilot Program in DHS; appropriates $10 million.
Requires medical examiner to contact next-of-kin in case of certain deaths.
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Provides that unused State real property will be offered for sale after three years.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Permits alternate benefit program retirees with 25 or more years of service to enroll in SHBP.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires DHSS to study relationship between autism and ultrasounds and issue protocol for the use of ultrasounds.
Enacts the "Civil Marriage and Religious Protection Act."
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Creates presumption regarding disability pension and workers compensation eligibility for public employees and emergency personnel participating in World Trade Center operations; requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to develop health regis
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Requires flu vaccine distributors to give purchasing preference to governmental entities in the State.
Directs NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct feasibility study of Meadowlands convention center project.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine and establishes public awareness campaign about HPV.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from requiring subscribers to pay a charge for calling emergency 9-1-1 service.
Authorizes municipalities that receive certification pursuant to the Fair Housing Act to make affordable housing units available on a preferential basis to persons of low and moderate income employed in a municipality's housing region.
Changes effective date of section 2 of P.L.2007, c.1 concerning the issuance of construction permits for certain child care centers and schools.
Clarifies employment relationship between child care resource and referral agencies and approved home providers and registered family day care providers.
"Genetic Nondiscrimination in Employment Act;" prohibits employment discrimination based on genetic information.
The "Pet Food Safety Act."
Requires local government officer to file financial disclosure statement within 30 days of taking office.
Requires hang tag for holders of provisional driver's license and windshield sticker for holders of special learner's permit and examination permit.
Requires availability of athletic heart protectors at certain baseball events; appropriates $2,500.
Expands homestead property tax rebate program for certain non-senior and non-disabled tenants based on revised income qualifications.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Establishes NJ Native American Burial Ground Preservation Task Force.
Adds two members to NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs.
Regulates the disclosure and use of privately negotiated in-network fees and reimbursement rates for certain health care providers.
The "Najeeb Green-Lewis Law," requires motor vehicle rental companies to confirm driving status of driver as condition of renting certain vehicles.
Requires adoption and distribution of constitutions and bylaws by county political party committees; requires certain oaths of office by committee members; requires certified list of committee members to be filed with county clerk.
Filed · 1
Establishes the "New Jersey Tax and Fiscal Policy Study Commission" to study the State and local tax structure and related fiscal issues.