Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Michael Patrick Carroll
Sponsored
In committee42
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets and capital gains under the gross income tax.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who allow their employees to telecommute.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Prohibits Medicaid funding for abortifacients.
Changes date of school board members election, special school elections and election of fire district commissioners to general election; establishes separate presidential primary in February; eliminates school budget elections.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Dedesignates portions of Route 24.
Provides for a presumption of joint physical custody in a child custody determination; addresses relocation.
Repeals grandparents visitation statute.
Makes certain bilingual education programs optional for a board of education.
Prohibits public and certain private affirmative action programs based upon race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin.
Concerns municipal rent control ordinances.
Clarifies definition of "a place of public accommodation" under the Law Against Discrimination.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Prohibits alternate members of planning boards from voting on applications for variance relief in lieu of disqualified Class I or Class III members.
Eliminates entitlement to workers' compensation cash benefits during imprisonment.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for sale of principal residence.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention; appropriates $15 million.
Provides immunity against "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" suits.
Restores the phase-out of corporation business taxes on the regular income of subchapter S corporations.
Prohibits human cloning.
Establishes enforcement and notice provisions for certain restrictions on distribution of election literature by school personnel.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
Regulates use of human embryos fertilized in vitro.
Amends definition of "freshwater wetland" to exclude man-made swales, canals, ruts and drainage ditches.
Prohibits the enforcement of "palimony" agreements unless such agreements are in writing.
Prohibits the use of public sector union dues for political activities and requires specific written authorization for such use in the private sector.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for an unborn child under certain circumstances.
Establishes special license plates to fund certain programs for pregnant women.
Requires administrative law judge to make final decision in certain contested cases.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Establishes irrebuttable presumption against change in charitable mission of nonprofit, nonsectarian hospitals in certain cases.
Provides a tax credit for businesses contracting with occupational centers to employ certain individuals with mental disabilities.
Exempts Picatinny Arsenal conversion plan from the provisions of the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Requires greater voter identification at polling place; restricts access to absentee ballots; makes appropriation.
Requires ballot question on approval of State bond issue to disclose total amount of debt of State or other entity, debt service on which is funded through annual State appropriation.
Requires identification card at polling place; makes appropriation.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Assemblyman.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
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.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 16
Requires the licensing of bail recovery agents as private detectives.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Provides for testing for all known types of hepatitis for certain criminal defendants. *
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Increases fees for attorneys representing crime victims.
Provides for establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments or awards.
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Reduces certain drug free zones from within 1,000 to 200 feet of school or public property.
In committee · 31
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Directs Secretary of State to establish toll-free telephone service to facilitate contacting of Executive Branch State agencies.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Establishes that traffic fine overpayments of $5 or less do not have to be refunded.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Repeals certain restrictions on future retail sales of handguns.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Exempts construction, expansion or renovation of buildings or other structures for police departments, fire departments, and volunteer first aid, emergency, ambulance or rescue squads from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Eliminates the "millionaire's" gross income tax rate increase and repeals the obsolete dedication of the tax increase for direct property tax relief.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
The "New Jersey Self-Defense Law."
"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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Establishes "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act."