Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Jerry Green
Sponsored
Became law3
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Lowers to 62 statutory qualifying age for low-income senior citizen State rental assistance grants.
Increases license fee for owning or operating rooming or boarding house.
Passed the General Assembly1
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Out of committee4
Adds the fact that the crime was committed against a child under the age of 16 as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $100,000.
Enhances protections afforded under child-protection window guard law.
Modifies intent, purpose and standard of construction of "Municipal Land Use Law."
In committee17
Prohibits smoking by minors in facilities receiving State funds.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
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.
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 professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
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 price adjustments in local public contracts for asphalt cement and fuel.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Modifies rule governing decisions under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Prohibits BPU from exercising authority over utility service extensions in manner which creates cost differentials that distinguish among persons or localities based on location of such extensions.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires free dissemination and Internet posting by DCA of Truth in Renting booklet; appropriates $250,000.
Enhances protections afforded under child protection window guard law.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Implements CORE proposals, including "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act"; user -friendly budgets; revision of county superintendent of schools title and duties.*
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Regulates sale of ammunition.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Requires Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council to report to State Employment and Training Center and adds three members; and makes an appropriation of $50,000. *
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
Enhances penalties for possessing, receiving, and transferring community guns.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Passed the General Assembly · 14
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
Requires mayoral approval of certain borough council resolutions in certain municipalities.
Requires school board member and local elective office candidates to file financial disclosure statements; requires criminal background disclosure for school officials and school board member candidates. *
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Concerns access to physical therapy services, and insurance claims handling following access to such services. *
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.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 19
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
"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.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
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. *
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
"Long-Term Care Partnership Program Act"; establishes Long-Term Care Partnership Program in DHS. *
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
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.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
Authorizes certain cities to establish a municipal hospital authority.
"Medicaid Program Integrity and Protection Act"; establishes Office of Medicaid Inspector General; appropriates $3 million.
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential. *
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Decreases membership of county boards of taxation to 2004 level.
In committee · 58
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.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
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.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Requires appointed board of education members and candidates for an elected board to reveal criminal convictions prior to assuming or running for office.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits to TPAF retirees who retired with at least 20 years of service prior to May 1, 1988.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
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.
Provides that preliminary eligible costs will equal estimated actual costs for certain school facilities projects necessary to address a health hazard.
Provides that repayment of liquid assets by certain former constituent districts of dissolved limited purpose regional district be made over ten-year period.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Extends definition of sick leave to include birth or placement for adoption of child.
Requires issuance of permit to replace shower valves.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Provides family leave insurance.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001."
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
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.
Authorizes court to provide alternatives for persons who default in payment of fines.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities and boards of education, and against employees of municipalities and boards of education acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Permits candidates for school employment to demonstrate rehabilitation to the Commissioner of Education to avoid disqualification due to a criminal conviction revealed in a criminal history record check.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Establishes Applied Behavior Analysis for Children with Autism Pilot Program in DHS; appropriates $10 million.
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.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Eliminates regional contribution agreements; creates housing rehabilitation and assistance program for grants to municipalities.
Requires reimbursement of physical damage deductible paid by insured under private passenger automobile insurance policy within 180 days under certain circumstances.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires county superintendent of schools to determine routes and bid and award contracts for all nonpublic school busing in the county.
Requires retailers to pay sales and use tax on goods purchases and to remit tax collections as "value-added tax."
Requires telephone and cable companies to schedule installation and service calls within four-hour period and reschedule missed calls promptly; establishes penalties for failure to keep appointments in certain cases.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.