Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the Senate2
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
Out of committee3
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Concerns availability of basic and "Dollar-A-Day" automobile insurance policies. *
Changes criminal penalties for theft of fuel.
In committee39
Provides for study of State government operations; appropriates $250,000.
Allows certain business employment incentives (BEIP) to be taken as a credit under the corporation business tax.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Establishes County School Business Boards and Abbott Regional School Business Boards to assume certain school district business services and functions.
Establishes the New Jersey State Commission on Education Reform to develop academic outcome-based per pupil public school funding amounts.
Requires Governor to indicate State of New Jersey advertisements, in which he appears, were paid with public funds.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Permits State employees to take up to 30 days paid leave to respond to certain disasters.
Prevents any person from gaining access to confidential security materials and secure facilities or areas relating to the State's domestic security or national security until the successful completion of a background check.
Restores the former net operating loss deduction for corporation business tax years 2002-2005.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires ambulances to be equipped with global positioning system technology.
Creates the Task Force on Commercial Insurance and Terrorism.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on State Advertisements and Promotions; prohibits appearance of Governor in State advertisements or promotions unless appearance is essential to achieve public purpose.
Upgrades penalty for theft of an emergency vehicle.
Imposes moratorium on construction of wind turbines in State coastal waters.
Regulates payday loans made by licensed check cashers.
Provides voter registration assistance to persons completing parole, probation, and criminal sentences.
Increases the minimum wage in four steps to $7.25 on August 1, 2008.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Requires personal identification to vote on day of an election.
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to conduct voter education.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for enforcement of election laws.
Creates an Official Corruption Unit in the Division of State Police.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Establishes Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Includes payday lending as a violation of the consumer fraud act.
Requires DEP to post waterfront public access points on Internet.
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas.
Establishes limits for certain damages in medical malpractice actions.
Directs State owned or operated marinas to provide a 50% discount on boat launching fees for senior citizens on weekdays.
Authorizes debarment of bidders convicted of certain crimes and disqualification of certain public contract bidders for employees' crimes.
Requires certain disclosures for donation clothing bins placed by charities.
Abolishes legislative leadership committees; reduces contributions to State political party committees to $12,500 per year, to county committees to $10,000 per year and to municipal committees to $5,000 per year.
Permits county recording officer to record electronic image documents at time of receipt.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Increases membership of Main Street New Jersey Advisory Board from 19 to 23 members. **
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Concerns leasing of NJ Sports and Exposition Authority's racetracks; allows authority to assign off-track and account wagering licenses; revises minimum thoroughbred race date requirements; provides for additional board members appointed by presiding off
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires hospital and satellite emergency departments to provide care to sexual assault victims and information about emergency contraception and the contraceptives upon request. *
Regulates life insurance viatical settlement practices; repeals existing law regulating viatical settlements.
Authorizes New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish the New Jersey Hall of Fame within the Meadowlands complex. *
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
Passed the Senate · 2
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Establishes Office of Environmental Law Enforcement in the Division of Criminal Justice in Department of Law and Public Safety; establishes Environmental Prosecutor. *
Out of committee · 26
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $200; requires reporting of all cash contributions.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Allows qualifying counties to become " agriculture enterprise counties" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in Lifeline benefits. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributers, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity. *
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Modifies catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification. *
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers.
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Requires markings be removed from ambulances before certain sales.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues.
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000. *
Provides for creation of special permits to serve alcoholic beverages in certain smart growth development projects.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
In committee · 47
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Limits contributions to legislative leadership committees, State political party committees, political committees and continuing political committees.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Requires public bidding or competitive contracting for award of professional service contracts and requires certain vendors to fully itemize bills to school districts and local units and prescribes sanctions.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Prohibits members of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Requires individuals delivering voter registration forms to sign affidavit; requires Attorney General to submit reports on progress of Help America Vote Act.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
Requires testimony by health care providers to be given by persons licensed in this State and to conform to currently accepted medical standards.
Limits liability of physicians to their medical malpractice insurance coverage.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
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.
Clarifies test for determining when personal property is not a taxable fixture attached to real property.
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.
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.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Establishes new crimes of forced labor or services, sexual servitude, and human trafficking.
Authorizes marriages by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard.
Revises the calculation of courtesy busing school budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing performed along a hazardous route.
Requires radiation detectors to be mounted on cranes within Port of New York District.
Requires State purchase and distribution of influenza vaccine and makes appropriation.
Clarifies the school construction law concerning the State share of county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Exempts from local budget cap law expenditures for electronic recording of police interrogations.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
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.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Limits contributions by certain business entities doing business with units of local government; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Limits certain campaign contributions by certain business entities and by political party committees and legislative leadership committees.
Creates centralized voter registration list; enacts portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Provides for Voters Bill of Rights to be posted in certain places.
Increases criminal penalties for certain acts of voter intimidation.
Requires that all voting systems include paper-based voter verification of ballots cast.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and creates permissive inference for possession of certain amounts.
Prohibits BPU from requiring or authorizing basic generation service suppliers after May 31, 2006 to impose charge on customers for not choosing to switch to an alternative electric power supplier.
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.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.