Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Michael Patrick Carroll
Sponsored
In committee30
Dedesignates portions of Route 24.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
"Women's Right to Know Act."
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.
Amends definition of "freshwater wetland" to exclude man-made swales, canals, ruts and drainage ditches.
Provides for a presumption of joint physical custody in a child custody determination; addresses relocation.
Repeals grandparents visitation statute.
Provides immunity against "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" suits.
Prohibits Medicaid funding for abortifacients.
Prohibits public and certain private affirmative action programs based upon race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for sale of principal residence.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who allow their employees to telecommute.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for an unborn child under certain circumstances.
Prohibits the use of public sector union dues for political activities and requires specific written authorization for such use in the private sector.
Regulates use of human embryos fertilized in vitro.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Concerns municipal rent control ordinances.
Prohibits alternate members of planning boards from voting on applications for variance relief in lieu of disqualified Class I or Class III members.
Establishes special license plates to fund certain programs for pregnant women.
Requires identification card at polling place; makes appropriation.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Requires administrative law judge to make final decision in certain contested cases.
Prohibits the enforcement of "palimony" agreements unless such agreements are in writing.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets and capital gains under the gross income tax.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Limits compensation and contracts of State and local government officers and employees.
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and corrections officers to possess and use stun guns while on duty.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $15,375,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Out of committee · 3
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
In committee · 14
Establishes "New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act."
Exempts sales of energy and utility service to manufacturing facilities from the sales and use tax and the transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharge.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Eliminates general purpose supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
Repeals Highlands planning and environmental permitting provisions of "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," and amends various statutes to reflect repeal thereof.
Revises Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Prohibits public and independent institutions of higher education from admitting any student who is not a United States citizen or who does not hold lawful immigration status.
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.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention; appropriates $15 million.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Repeals statute setting forth public policy of State on stem cell research.
Prohibits use of public funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.