Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
David W. Wolfe
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes Task Force on College Savings Plans.
In committee40
Requires that new teachers hired by licensed child care centers to provide preschool classes to Abbott district students be certified.
Creates new $100 assessment for convictions of certain sexual offenses to fund counseling for victims and their families; establishes Sexual Offender Victim Counseling Fund.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Provides New Jersey certification as a school administrator or principal to any applicant with similar certification in another State.
Allocates at least $100 million from the Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for coastal and inland Blue Acres land acquisition projects in flood-prone areas.
Revises certain endorsements to the instructional certificate, requires certified teachers in licensed child care centers located in Early Childhood Program Aid districts, and establishes a loan program to assist in the attainment of certification.
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2002.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors, 65 years and older.
Allows gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Provides four-year phase-in of boat safety course requirement for operating power vessels and personal watercraft; restates age requirements for power vessel operation and exceptions to course requirement; appropriates $2 million for enforcement.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office, any appointed public office or employment or any public contract.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from acting on certain bills in which they have personal interest; redefines personal interest.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained; appropriates $125,000.
Establishes the County School District Feasibility Study Commission.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Eliminates the public vote on a school district budget which is within cap.
Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS death benefits; provides retirement allowance to certain survivors of PFRS members.
Requires private vocational schools to provide adequate written notification when planning to close facilities.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes criminal history record background checks of employees and volunteers of nonprofit domestic violence victim serving organizations.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Allows PFRS members to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit for named beneficiary.
Provides that PFRS definitions of widow, widower and spouse will include domestic partners of all PFRS members.
Requires members of NJ Legislature to file statement of financial affairs.
Allows a deduction against New Jersey gross income for bicycle commuters.
Requires that high school students receive instruction in credit and personal money management as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHS to develop community residences for Division of Developmental Disabilities clients on the waiting list.
Provides an additional semester of eligibility under NJ STARS and an additional academic year of eligibility under NJ STARS II in the case of courses of study regularly requiring six semesters or five academic years.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Concerns collective bargaining between educational employers and employee organizations.
Appropriates $960,000 in FY 2007 to the Department of Education to pay the State share of new school facilities construction in the Toms River Regional School District.
Provides NJ STARS II Program eligibility to certain students who attained an associate's degree through a joint program offered by a school district and a county college.
Increases penalties for violations committed by provisional driver's license holder.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to the families of NJ troops overseas.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Upgrades simple assault against a private school teacher to aggravated assault; adds definition of "school" to criminal code. *
Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Appropriates $8,552,405 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 southern NJ.
Appropriates $8,100,000 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 central NJ.
Appropriates $39,430,430 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
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.
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Prohibits regulation of certain aspects of Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol-enabled services.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 6
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Requires water purveyors and licensed operators to notify the municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues. *
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Out of committee · 20
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Eliminates statute of limitations for certain environmental crimes and crimes causing widespread injury or damage. *
Requires any person responsible for conducting remediation to submit written notification and a remedial action workplan under certain conditions; requires DEP to adopt rules setting forth notice requirements. **
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges. *
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for lake dredging and restoration projects, or stream cleaning and desnagging projects.
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
In committee · 83
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Imposes mandatory minimum term of 10 years on defendant convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 13.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to seriously impact life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Authorizes county vocational schools and technical institutes to employ non-certificated persons in post-secondary and adult continuing education programs.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Appropriates $1,400,000 to DHSS for grants to certain geriatric assessment centers.
Requires joint municipal planning board review of long-range facilities plans developed by regional school districts.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Includes screening for toxoplasmosis in newborn screening program.
Provides immunity for certain volunteer health care professionals and nonprofit clinics.
Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses.
Establishes offense of soliciting image of minor with unlawful purpose.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective offices and appointive positions.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Permits municipality to determine permissible parking distance from intersection, crosswalk or "stop" sign.
Authorizes the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations concerning the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Establishes the crime of negligent homicide.
Prohibits certain vehicles from obstructing an intersection.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Establishes uniform school bus life of 15 years for all new school buses.
Reorganizes the provisions in Title 18A regarding public and nonpublic school pupil transportation.
Permits school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school pupils when the per pupil amount of the route exceeds the maximum nonpublic school transportation costs per pupil by no more than 10%.
Establishes a regional transportation coordinator unit in each office of the county superintendent to improve the coordination of pupil transportation services within the county.
Prohibits BPU from requiring or authorizing basic generation service suppliers after May 31, 2006 to impose charge on customers for not choosing to switch to an alternative electric power supplier.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Provides grants and tax credits for school districts and private contractors for installing cameras on school buses.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain informed consent from parents or guardians of minors for medications with "black box warnings."
Reduces certain stop sign no parking zones from 50 feet to 30 feet.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facitities will be located.
Eliminates charges for initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of health and fitness, athletic, and sporting clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Requires posting of motor fuel prices by retail dealers in units of cents.
Exempts initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of certain golf clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires dockbuilders and workers who come into contact with creosote-treated marine piling, and their employers, to comply with certain established safety and health protection procedures.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Requires that members of certain governing boards at public institutions of higher education be State residents.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Elizabeth, Lakewood, Newark, Orange, Paterson and Trenton.