Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Jerry Green
Sponsored
Became law1
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Passed the General Assembly2
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Out of committee6
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle. *
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Authorizes designation of joint urban enterprise zone by Urban Enterprize Zone Authority.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $100,000. *
In committee12
Adds the fact that the crime was committed against a child under the age of 16 as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
Prohibits smoking by minors in facilities receiving State funds.
Requires institutions of higher education to develop campus security plans.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Permits master deed of condominium to reflect proportional common and limited common elements interests of each owner as fractions.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Permits price adjustments in local public contracts for asphalt cement and fuel.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Appropriates $2 million to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC); imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade.
Permits voter registration up to 21 days before election; permits use of provisional ballot for voter registration; modifies information available on voter registration list. *
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Increases homestead rebates for certain homestead owners, folds NJ SAVER rebates into the Homestead Rebate program and increases gross income tax rate for taxpayers with taxable income over $500,000 and temporarily adjusts withholding tax.
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Requires regional municipal and county utilities and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to provide reduced sewer and water connection fees for certain affordable housing projects. *
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. **
Requires value engineering clause in specifications for certain construction contracts under Local Public Contracts Law.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes issuance of bonds for refurbishment of certain public safety vehicles.
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Exempts dentists from requirement that needles and sharp devices used in health care facilities have integrated safety features.
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Provides that preliminary eligible costs will equal estimated actual costs for certain school facilities projects necessary to address a health hazard. *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Requires mayoral approval of certain borough council resolutions.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." *
Out of committee · 35
Changes memberships of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards and Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.
Requires candidates seeking office of Governor or member of Legislature to disclose prior conviction for criminal offense.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Permits Division of Taxation to prepare report containing certain tax information for the Governor's Study Commission on Discrimination in State Employment and Contracting. **
Requires issuance of permit to replace shower valves.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Requires gated community guards to allow sheriffs and constables to serve process.
Establishes eligibility of property owned by 100% disabled veteran with domestic partner for veterans' property tax exemption.
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
Provides that the chairmanship of the State Athletic Control Board would be a part-time position.
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
Appropriates $1.3 million in federal funds for the Asian Longhorn Beetle Program.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
In committee · 51
Provides family leave insurance.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Amends the "Fair Housing Act" to change details of regional contribution agreements.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes UEZA to designate an additional zone.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Upgrades crime of leaving the scene of a fatal accident to a crime of the second degree.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to career service of civil service.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Extends definition of sick leave to include birth or placement for adoption of child.
Provides that repayment of liquid assets by certain former constituent districts of dissolved limited purpose regional district be made over ten-year period.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Modifies powers of HMFA and New Jersey Redevelopment Authority (NJRA).
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits to TPAF retirees who retired with at least 20 years of service prior to May 1, 1988.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
"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.
"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.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.