Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Gerald Cardinale
Sponsored
Became law1
Repeals provisions of previous law inadvertently not repealed under "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003" and makes necessary conforming amendments.
Passed the Senate1
Clarifies obligation of cemeteries to hold consumer prepayments for cemetery services in trust accounts.
Out of committee4
Requires completion of workers compensation cases 120 days from end of hearing in certain cases.
Prohibits interest in revaluation firms operating within county by municipal assessors and county tax board personnel; prohibits related business entities from representing taxpayers appealing revaluations completed by revaluation firm.
Permits the incorporation of ophthalmic dispensers and technicians.
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
In committee111
Disqualifies workers from UI benefits for illegal workplace drug use.
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Prohibits persons convicted of violent crimes from possessing body armor.
Eliminates redundant fingerprinting for certain gun permit applicants.
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of each school day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Permits direct shipping of alcoholic beverages from out of State to New Jersey consumers under certain conditions.
Permits certain private health care institutions to determine circumstances under which it will decline to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining measures.
Requires Highway Authority to eliminate toll collections on alternative toll plazas on Garden State Parkway.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Specifies bona fide negotiations in eminent domain proceedings and clarifies establishment of compensation for business owners.
Exempts physicians who exceed speed limit while responding to emergency calls from penalties.
Limits payment to public employee for accumulated sick leave upon retirement; requires fine and reprimand or termination for violation of sick leave by public employee.
Provides for prompt notification to health care licensing boards when health care practitioner suspected of injuring a patient or suspected of other wrongdoing.
Permits corporation with one or two employees who are the only shareholders to opt out of workers' compensation.
Requires members of the Judiciary and members of the Legislature to file annual financial disclosure statements.
Permits parents and legal guardians to obtain information on sex offenders residing within one-half mile.
Establishes an 11-member Regulatory Review Commission.
Revises conditions of eligibility to be "grandfathered" as a licensed home inspector.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Establishes Justice Network (JNET) Project.
Requires writ of execution to contain unique identification number of defendant in order to avoid cases of mistaken levy or attachment against innocent party.
Requires State to reimburse counties for costs of defending and indemnifying county prosecutor under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $350,000 for New Bridge Landing Historical Site.
Requires DEP to study and assess downstream river or stream capacity of water supply reservoirs, set minimum and maximum levels for each reservoir, and require that specific levels be maintained at Woodcliff Lake Reservoir.
Provides for annual deposit of 10% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in "County Forfeiture Defense Fund."
Clarifies how street money may be used on or close to election day.
Requires Executive Director of NJ Turnpike Authority to waive tolls on NJ Turnpike or Garden State Parkway under certain conditions.
Amends Tort Claims Act to provide that public entities are liable for certain personal injuries.
Requires members of the Judiciary and members of the Legislature to file annual financial disclosure statements.
Bars State Police from charging retail firearms dealers to access National Instant Criminal Background Check system.
Clarifies rights of federally licensed collectors of curios and relics under New Jersey firearms statutes.
Provides for awarding of certain costs to defendants who prevail in DEP enforcement actions.
Clarifies use of background check information in issuing permits to carry a handgun.
Exempts direct sellers from the workers' compensation law.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Requires insurance exchanges to be members of the New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Provides for DMV credits of certain motor vehicle registration fees to lessees.
Excludes certain contributions to small employer SEP and SIMPLE retirement savings plans for employees from gross income under the gross income tax.
"Fairness in Public Facility Financing Act."
Authorizes mayor in certain municipalities to appoint members of local boards, authorities or commissions for term corresponding with that of appointing mayor.
Requires municipal binding referenda to approve qualified common interest community assessment reductions.
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.
Redefines meaning of campaign contribution to be net after deduction for fund-raising event expense.
Revises State funding formula for public education and provides funding for nonpublic school pupils and pupils being home schooled.
Modifies the tort liability of product sellers.
Permits only licensed chiropractors to perform spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations.
The "Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act."
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
Provides for two-year post-employment restriction on certain employees of the Department of Banking and Insurance.
Allows counties and municipalities to comply with certain publication requirements by means of Internet.
"Nutritionist and Dietitian Certification Act."
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis that individual was a victim of identity theft.
Requires certain insurers to make available ordinance or law coverage.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Requires parental notification of abortion performed on minor.
Revises procedure for issuing permits to carry a handgun.
Establishes statutory standards to guide authorities in evaluating applications for permits to carry handguns.
Streamlines requirements for retired police officer to carry handgun.
Authorizes certain out-of-state police officers to carry handguns in this State.
Specifies criteria for funding domestic violence shelters.
Permits "Family Support Act" to reimburse for documented, unreimbursed costs, appropriates $100,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for research in Ataxia Telangiectasia.
Provides for annual support from General Fund and appropriates $150,000 for current fiscal year for oyster resource enhancement program.
Permits qualified retired law enforcement officers who were employed by law enforcement agencies outside the State to carry firearms.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Specifies that gun purchase applications from State residents shall be deemed approved and issued if licensing authority fails to act on them within 30 days.
Amends school board members' Code of Ethics to direct board members to protect the health, welfare, and good moral character of children.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Lodi Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Passaic City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Paramus Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Wallington Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Oradell Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Garfield City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to South Hackensack Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Saddle Brook Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Provides exemption from municipal rent control for up to 30 years for abandoned properties rehabilitated into multiple dwellings.
Requires conclusion of eviction proceedings for nonpayment of rent not later than 30th day following service of complaint on tenant.
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property used by religious corporations during reconstruction or relocation of worship facility under certain circumstances and thereafter.
Appropriates $100,000 to DHSS for grant to New Hope, Inc. of Bergen County to assist single first-time mothers and their babies.
Extends application period for retired police officers to carry firearms.
Prohibits assessment on certain municipalities for State Police patrol services.
Testimony or other evidence adduced at a private hearing by or on behalf of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards shall be deemed public.
Increases penalties for motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Authorizes special license plates for offices of emergency management volunteers.
Mandates eye test every eight years for drivers.
Authorizes local governmental units to use proceeds from certain forfeited property to defray related investigation and prosecution costs.
Proposes a series of amendments to the statutes governing forfeiture.
Requires testimony by health care providers to be given by persons licensed in this State and to conform to currently accepted medical standards.
Provides exception to definition of managing general agent.
Limits liability of physicians to their medical malpractice insurance coverage.
Exempts health care supplies and equipment, purchased for use in providing health care services, from sales tax.
Establishes rehabilitation as condition for parole of certain inmates.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reduce government spending and to reform system of property taxation.
Repeals law relating to transportation development districts and provides for establishment of transportation enhancement districts.
Provides for an automobile insurance system of scheduled first party coverage for both economic and noneconomic losses; eliminates adversarial proceedings; reduces rates 33%.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Prohibits recording a deed later than 30 days after the deed is transferred upon settlement of the property.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced homestead rebates and homestead property tax reimbursements.
Limits annual license fees for radon businesses to $1,000.
Prohibits certain communications tower facilities from being erected within 750 feet of the property line of a public or private school or child care center under certain circumstances.
Facilitates vaccine production by New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Applies certain conflicts of interest restrictions on legislators to county, municipal and local authority condemnation proceedings and project contracts funded directly or indirectly by State monies.
Requires change in membership of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards due to take effect in 2006 to take effect immediately.
Requires Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards to maintain information on Internet.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to have serious and permanent impact on life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Requires examinations of joint insurance funds and certain reporting by those funds.
Establishes Statewide moratorium on revaluation or reassessment of real property.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district.
Revises "grandfathering" provisions for eligibility to be a licensed home inspector.
Increases certain investment limits for domestic insurers.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Strengthens enforcement powers of Department of Banking and Insurance with respect to certain regulated financial institutions.
Changes striped bass catch and possession limits. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Appropriates $25,389,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Passed the Senate · 1
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district or municipality maintaining volunteer fire department.
Out of committee · 10
Affords tax exemption for portions of certain tax-exempt buildings used for exempt purposes by exempt entities; subjects portions of certain tax-exempt buildings to property taxation if leased to profit-making entity or used for nonexempt purposes.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Changes licensing requirements for home inspectors.
In committee · 37
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Requires municipal budgets to include fund for certain separation benefits.
Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute; requires lifetime parole supervision for certain sex offenders.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Creates crime of criminal negligent homicide, negligent assault with a firearm and reckless endangerment.
"Nurse Retention Stipend Program Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
Requires removal of certain sites from contaminated site list within 90 days after completion of cleanup.
Provides for fingerprinting of certain applicants or employees and exchange of criminal history records.
Requires health insurers, Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for comprehensive program of pediatric feeding and swallowing services.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Increases certain fees in Special Civil Part of the Superior Court.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Prescribes DEP regulation of medical diagnostic x-ray equipment in facilities performing 750 or fewer x-rays per year.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to promulgate regional fee schedules for recovery, towing and storage of motor vehicles.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates nominated at primaries after 48th and before 14th day before general election, except due to death; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before elections.
Creates "Children's Equal Rights Act."
Establishes the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."
Extends reduced or discounted cable television rate provisions to persons eligible for "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program."
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment to treatment for persons in need of involuntary commitment.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Creates procedure for destruction of all records pertaining to juveniles who are arrested but subsequently not charged with delinquency.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 for Camp Marcella.