Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Diane B. Allen
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Out of committee10
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
May require child support to continue past emancipation if the child has a severe mental or physical incapacity which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent. *
Prohibits delivery of unsolicited credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use of unsolicited credit cards or checks.*
Clarifies that "entering" a public place for a drug deal is conduct included in C.2C:33-2.1.
Establishes Safe Haven Awareness Promotion Task Force.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to Social Services for the Homeless program. *
Requires DHS to compile list of State properties suitable for residential treatment facilities for children in need of mental health services and housing for persons with mental illness or developmental disabilities. *
Revises qualifications to carry firearms for certain retired police officers. *
In committee110
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Provides for DNA testing on certain evidence in murder cases and requires DNA testing if death sentence imposed if identity was at issue.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for public awareness campaign concerning "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Exempts New Jersey teachers' purchase of qualified teaching materials from sales and use tax.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Allows senior and disabled homeowners to collect both the NJSAVER rebate and the homestead rebate.
Requires that NJ FamilyCare Program cover pediatric medical day care services for all children covered by program.
Requires refunds of unearned property/casualty insurance premiums within certain time limits.
Increases Lifeline annual benefits to $300.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Establishes law enforcement officers bias crime training program; appropriates $75,000.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacist for dispensing fraudulent prescription approved by Medicaid, PAAD or Senior Gold.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Designated the Homestead Rebate Payment Protection Act; requires the payment of homestead rebates on or before July 31 annually.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $25,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Willingboro Township for veterans' memorial.
Establishes Institute of Law and Mental Health.
Requires Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group to conduct mock exercise pertaining to agricultural bioterrorism; and appropriates $150,000 therefor from New Jersey Domestic Security Account.
Establishes placement trusts for persons with developmental disabilities.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of Operation "Noble Eagle".
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Prohibits defendants serving mandatory minimum terms from serving any portion of those terms in halfway houses or related facilities.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.
Permits in any homicide prosecution the display of a photograph of the victim during trial.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Requires testing of school grounds for hazardous substances under certain circumstances.
Establishes grant program to rehabilitate veterans' organizations posts; appropriates $300,000.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Prevents abrogation of the reciprocal personal income tax agreement with Pennsylvania.
Exempts retail sale of personal computers during last week of July 2004 from sales tax; exempts all retail sales of tangible personal property on last day of that week from sales tax.
Provides tax credits to certain employers that establish loan funds for eligible employees to acquire housing in this State.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in foster homes.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Requires school facilities projects to maintain the character of historic school facilities.
Requires the State to pay the cost of providing a thorough and efficient education for pupils in certain State facilities.
Requires public institutions of higher education to ensure that teaching assistants have effective teaching skills.
Requires school boards to offer instruction to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Authorizes creation of 31st UEZ in Beverly City, Burlington County.
Allows certain persons in active military service to receive stay of enforcement from certain obligations.
Supplemental appropriation of $5,950 from General Fund to DMVA for grant to help construct Purple Heart Memorial in Willingboro Township.
Requires private contractors to suspend from duties involving contact with pupils school bus drivers charged with certain crimes or offenses.
Establishes "The Project Exile and Operation Ceasefire Enforcement Act of 2000" to strengthen prosecution of firearms crimes; appropriates $5 million.
Authorizes air ambulance services to operate in New Jersey and directs DHSS to establish guidelines.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Provides for admissibility of results of single breathalyzer test if motor vehicle operator refuses to submit to subsequent test.
Requires Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group to include a representative of New Jersey State First Aid Council.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DLPS for DNA testing of convicted criminals.
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Establishes hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Requires destruction of firearms replaced by police; appropriates $300,000.
Broadens possible conditions of parole and probation to include certain Internet usage.
Prohibits sale, distribution or installation of nonoperational air bags.
Bars suits for damages by persons injured in a stolen motor vehicle.
Requires automobile insurance premium reductions for completion of certain driving courses.
Modifies escheat law for bank accounts and eliminates certified mail requirement for notice concerning potential escheat.
Provides explicit statutory authority for a trust to own an account under the NJBEST Program.
Establishes the NJ Teacher-Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Increases fine for sale to minor of products containing ephedrine alkaloids.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
Provides that employees no longer must pay full cost of purchase of PERS, PFRS or TPAF credit for military service.
Includes transportation costs in the calculation of extraordinary special education costs incurred by public school districts.
Prohibits use of downer cow byproduct in commercial feed.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Creates Office of Homeland Security Grant Information; appropriates $150,000 to DL&PS.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Establishes War Against Terrorism Veterans' Memorial.
Requires municipal court to hear certain violations of animal cruelty statutes within 14 days of the summons date.
Authorizes marriages by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment programs.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Requires participation in drug rehabilitation as condition of parole for certain parolees.
Establishes county based substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $10 million.
Makes certain surviving spouses eligible for PFRS mortgage loan program.
Provides payment to local public employers for post-retirement health care benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Permits purchase of PFRS credit for certain pre-enrollment temporary service.
Mandates health insurance coverage for Lyme disease vaccination.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain New Jersey members of the military and their families in need of assistance.
"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.
Prohibits Medicaid, General Assistance and NJ FamilyCare programs from covering drugs for erectile dysfunction for recipients who are convicted sex offenders.
Establishes dissection of living animal as animal cruelty offense.
Requires gated community guards to allow sheriffs and constables to serve process.
Requires portion of State rental assistance grants be reserved for graduates of State veterans' transitional housing program.
Provides additional mandatory fines and restitution for theft of flags or flag-holders from grave sites.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Upgrades penalties for gouging by retail motor fuel dealers to $5,000.
Places temporary moratorium on use of eminent domain; creates Eminent Domain Study Commission to examine its use Statewide.
Appropriates $8,000,000 in FY 2006 to DOE for aid to the Willingboro School District to offset school district budget deficit.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
Co-sponsored
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Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Allows obtaining information from toll collection monitoring systems and photo-monitoring systems under certain circumstances. *
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
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. *
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Increases membership of Main Street New Jersey Advisory Board from 19 to 23 members. **
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.
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan; appropriates $2.5 million from "Water Supply Fund" therefor. *
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million. *
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system. *
Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises. *
Enacts the "Uniform Mediation Act."
Creates study commission on the death penalty and imposes moratorium on imposition of death penalty. *
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act." *
Provides for continued health benefits coverage for certain persons covered under small employer health benefits plans in certain circumstances.
Authorizes NJN to broadcast emergency information to law enforcement agencies and other emergency personnel.
Makes certain volunteer firefighters who were appointed to paid positions and currently in PERS eligible for transfer to PFRS. *
Promotes improved polling place accessibility for individuals with disabilities and the elderly. *
Requires health care facilities to adopt policies for notifying family members of patient deaths.
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
Requires DHSS to establish special Medicaid admission criteria for long-term care facilities that serve HIV/AIDS patients.
Provides for educational requirements for planning and zoning board members.
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
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.
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
Allows participation in SHBP for certain union elected officers and employees.
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Changes striped bass catch and possession limits. *
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
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.
Appropriates $13,845,980 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.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
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Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Permits boards of education to establish prepaid lunch programs.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Requires BPU to establish voluntary program for certification of renewable energy installers. *
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district or municipality maintaining volunteer fire department.
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for MTBE in drinking water; directs DEP to adopt certain standard for arsenic in drinking water; appropriates $100,000. *
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons reporting information concerning crimes related to terrorism.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services. *
Establishes Heritage Tourism Task Force.
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects. *
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Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. *
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Establishes hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Requires DLPS to establish policy for State Police and local law enforcement in working with Safe Return Program to recover lost individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders.
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
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 veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues.
Exempts dentists from requirement that needles and sharp devices used in health care facilities have integrated safety features.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend license of physician whose license has been revoked by another state, agency or authority.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Establishes extended sentences for certain crimes involving eluding a police officer and clarifies elements of eluding aggravated manslaughter.
Prohibits counties and municipalities from accepting and paying for employee's work outside the course of employment.
Provides that PERS member holding more than one position covered by PERS has to designate one position as the basis for enrollment.
Changes calculation of PERS retirement allowances for certain members who receive significant compensation enhancement within five years of retirement.
Limits payment for certain supplemental compensation and accumulated vacation leave upon retirement for certain local government employees.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Directs DOE to provide to every public school a sign stating the national motto, "In God We Trust," and permits principals and teachers to display additional copies.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Prohibits persons convicted of violent crimes from possessing body armor.
Specifies bona fide negotiations in eminent domain proceedings and clarifies establishment of compensation for business owners.
Requires health insurers to establish guidelines for bone density tests and provide coverage in accordance with the guidelines.
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute; requires lifetime parole supervision for certain sex offenders.
Establishes Clean Car Division to administer Clean Car Program in DOT; appropriates $250,000.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires managed care plans to deem valid referral for a covered health care service as satisfying requirements for prior notification.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Restores the phase-out of corporation business taxes on the regular income of subchapter S corporations.
"Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2002."
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of incarceration on juveniles who use guns to commit acts which, if committed by adults, would constitute serious crimes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Grandfathers pre-1997 interlocal services agreements into Regional Efficiency Aid Program.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates nominated at primaries after 48th and before 14th day before general election, except due to death; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before elections.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of the global war on terror.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Appropriates $50 million to the DEP for dam repair and reconstruction.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Restricts sale of yellow ribbons; dedicates proceeds to veterans.
Allows certain taxpayers a one-time refundable gross income tax credit for gross income tax paid at highest rate of tax upon the gain from sale of small businesses.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Requires DHSS to apply for federal Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid waiver for certain early intervention services.
Designates November 3 in each year as "Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day."
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Directs Division of Developmental Disabilities to prepare plan to ensure persons with developmental disabilities recommended for community placement move from institutions to community within five years.
Concerns sex discrimination in wage payment.
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Establishes the Pinelands Institute for Natural and Environmental Studies.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
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Creates World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.