Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr.
Sponsored
Became law2
Regulates donation clothing bins. *
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus real property and improvements in the Township of Holmdel, Monmouth County.
Out of committee3
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
Changes criminal penalties for theft of fuel.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2006.
In committee47
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.
Concerns availability of basic and "Dollar-A-Day" automobile insurance policies.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Restores the former net operating loss deduction for corporation business tax years 2002-2005.
Requires ambulances to be equipped with global positioning system technology.
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.
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.
Creates an Official Corruption Unit in the Division of State Police.
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.
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.
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.
Allows certain business employment incentives (BEIP) to be taken as a credit under the corporation business tax.
Prohibits sale and possession of disguised knives.
Includes payday lending as a violation of the consumer fraud act.
Limits Abbott district per pupil State aid and allocates State aid savings to certain enrollment growth districts.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing; extends for 3 years adjustment for insurance and domestic security costs; provides adjustment for utility and energy costs; and authorizes 4% surplus.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Creates limited licenses for general barbering and for barbering and hairstyling within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Requires installation of automatic rain sensors on lawn sprinklers.
Establishes a "State Authorities Review Commission."
Increases enrollment threshold in PERS and TPAF to $10,000.
Reduces the sales and use tax from 7% to 6%.
Exempts parking services from sales and use tax.
Removes charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues from sales and use tax.
Requires electronic bulletin board on DCA website for local units to advertise shared services opportunities; requires development of computerized survey to match local units together to implement shared services.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Provides that trespassing in nuclear power plant is third degree crime.
Requires retail gasoline stations to maintain alternative power generation devices and allows a credit against the corporation business tax and New Jersey gross income tax for purchase of devices.
Provides that person who impersonates law enforcement officer and commits crime is guilty of third degree crime.
Requires electronic bulletin board on DCA website for State independent authorities to advertise shared services opportunities, and development of computerized survey to match State independent authorities with each other and with local units for shared
Special legislation to permit appointment of John O'Connor to the Keansburg Police Department and enrollment in PFRS.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,500,000 to the Commission on Higher Education to support the Governor's Schools.
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 35 as "Chosin Few Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires the establishment of a prequalification process for prospective bidders on public school district transportation contracts.
Provides enhancements to certain State economic development programs.
Requires that certain information on school bus contractors be filed with executive county superintendent of schools; permits executive county superintendent or board of education to report suspected collusion to prosecuting authorities.
Establishes Task Force on School Transportation to examine the implementation of the recommendations of the 1997 SCI report on school transportation.
Filed1
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Clarifies authority of DOT to enter certain agreements with local governments.
Establishes Division of Risk Management in the Department of the Treasury; reorganizes Office of Information Technology; requires consolidation of enhanced 9-1-1 public safety answering points.
Authorizes individual boards of education to self insure for certain insurance; removes current prohibitions.
Provides for creation of special permits to serve alcoholic beverages in certain qualifying development projects.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority Act." *
Directs DOE to include information about State adult disability services in booklet for parents of special education students and to require schools to designate staff member as parent liaison.
Allows certain public entities to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of certain energy services for their facilities.
Authorizes lease of farmed land acquired by a county or municipality to farmer who was prior lessee of that land.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain digital media content expenses and concerning the film production expenses credit, amending P.L.2005, c.345.
Clarifies that certain political contribution disclosures that must be made annually to ELEC and prior to entering into certain public contracts apply only to for-profit business entities and not to nonprofit entities.
Passed the Senate · 1
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Out of committee · 16
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. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Authorizes access to abandoned properties by electric and gas public utilities to disconnect utility service.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and eliminates vote on school budgets except for separate proposals to spend above cap which will also occur at general election. *
Extends eligibility for higher education tuition assistance to certain former members of New Jersey National Guard and increases number of tuition-free credits available to National Guard members and their dependents.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. **
Requires New York Harbor Waterfront Commission to accept applications to add new employees to longshoremen's register.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Authorizes local units to invest in federally insured certificates of deposit under certain circumstances.
Establishes the position of Ethics Counsel and mandates certain ethics consultation and training in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Increases civil penalties for safety violations with respect to certain natural gas or hazardous liquid facilities.
In committee · 49
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
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.
Exempts from local budget cap law expenditures for electronic recording of police interrogations.
Authorizes creation of urban enterprise zones in Garfield, Harrison and Keansburg as well as a joint urban enterprise zone in Cliffside Park and Fairview.
Clarifies the school construction law concerning the State share of county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Increases membership of Main Street New Jersey Advisory Board from 19 to 23 members.
Allows qualifying counties to become " agriculture enterprise counties" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
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.
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.
Requires radiation detectors to be mounted on cranes within Port of New York District.
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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Limits certain campaign contributions by certain business entities and by political party committees and legislative leadership committees.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
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.
"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.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority Act."
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Requires PERS designate position providing least compensation, for member holding concurrent positions, as compensation base for contributions and pension calculations.
Reduces compensation of members of Legislature by 15%.
Changes age of eligibility for TPAF and PERS early retirement option without benefit reduction from 55 to 60 for new enrollees.
Implements certain changes affecting the administration and performance of the urban enterprise zone program.
Permits elected officials and legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose only one position for receipt of PERS credit.
"Property Tax Relief Act."
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
Limits administrative leave to three days and reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 10 for State and local government employees.
Permits unused vacation and sick leave by public employee to be carried forward for one year only; requires unused administrative leave to be cancelled.
Requires that public employees who are married or with domestic partners receive health care benefits from only one public employer.
Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years and in PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to average of three highest-paid years.
Prohibits payments of public employee bonuses not directly contingent upon achieving certain performance goals.
Eliminates membership in various State-administered retirement systems for part-time public employees and elected officials commencing service after enactment; clarifies that part-time public employees and officials are ineligible for employer-paid healt
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Establishes pilot program to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson and Lakewood or fund innovative public school programs.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Requires county superintendent of schools to determine routes and bid and award contracts for all nonpublic school busing in the county.
Filed · 3
Implements CORE proposals, including "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act"; user -friendly budgets; November fire and school district elections; revision of county superintendent of schools title and duties.
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Establishes a pilot program in DOE for the organization of a county administrative school district.