Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Peter J. Barnes III
Sponsored
Became law4
Authorizes establishment of Dismal Swamp Preservation Commission. *
Concerns prevailing wage in construction projects connected with Board of Public Utilities financial assistance.
Concerns hospital asset transformation program.
Creates "Computer Crime Prevention Fund"; imposes penalties on certain offenders.
Out of committee1
Allows credit against certain charges to CATV customers opting out of premium service within 30 days of CATV company notice of network or programming change.
In committee6
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees.
Designates Statewide specialized long-term care facility for treatment of Huntington's Disease.
Requires correctional facilities to provide inmates with prescription medication that was prescribed for chronic conditions existing prior to incarceration.
Provides for spend-down eligibility category for Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Requires certain DOC, county and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general elections. **
Requires facility where patient dies to provide medical examiner with contact information for next-of-kin so medical examiner may obtain additional information about death. *
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
"New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act"; requires each four-year public institution of higher education to provide on its website certain information regarding its costs, faculty, and graduation rates.
Establishes licensing program for site remediation professionals; changes laws concerning site remediation. *
Provides for adjustment and notice of date on which certain elections can occur if date coincides with period of religious observance.
Establishes the Troops to College Program in the Commission on Higher Education to assist veterans in making the transition into the college classroom.
Makes FY 2009 supplemental appropriations totaling $22,500,000 to provide food, energy and legal aid assistance to individuals and families under the "New Jersey Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan."
Establishes the "Main Street Business Assistance Program;" appropriates $50 million.
Concerns court actions against uninsured employers for non-payment of workers' compensation.
Requires confirmation of financial assistance for eligible homeowners voluntarily closing or replacing petroleum underground storage tanks, and expands eligibility for financial assistance. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Scenic and Historic Highways Program."
Passed the General Assembly · 6
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Establishes permissive inferences related to conduct that serves as predicate to sex offenses against minors.
Requires persons subject to Megan's Law registration to provide law enforcement with any Internet identifiers.
Out of committee · 12
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old. *
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and NJIT. *
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Prohibits employment and licensing background checks to go back further than seven years under certain circumstances.
Creates eight additional judgeships; increases certain court fees to fund judgeships and to supplement funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Strengthens enforcement against employers for failure to provide workers' compensation coverage.
Concerns emergent medical care under workers' compensation.
Revises membership of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau and clarifies its authority. *
Requires Insurance Fraud Prosecutor to establish liaison with DOLWD and authorizes its investigation of cases of failure to provide workers' compensation coverage. **
"Kyleigh's law;" requires holders of special learner's permits, examination permits, and provisional driver's licenses to display certain decals. *
In committee · 31
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Permits municipalities to install traffic-lights on self-contained municipal streets without approval of the Commissioner of Transportation.
Provides for registration of mold inspectors and remediators.
Increases fees and penalties under the "Explosives Act."
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Prohibits registration of identical or similar corporate alternate names.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
Authorizes "100 percent Disabled Veteran" license plates for qualified veterans; entitles holders to handicapped parking privileges.
Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number.
Allows PFRS members hired prior to October 1, 1993 to serve until age 68 or 20 years of service, whichever comes first.
Requires certain financial institutions to make certain disclosures on periodic account statements.
Requires certain conditions affecting development of buildings, structures, or land to be recorded with municipality.
Requires the incorporation of solar panels in design and construction of new public school facilities.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.
Prohibits hospital from charging patient or third party payer for costs associated with certain hospital-acquired conditions.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Changes signature requirement for recall petition and when recall may be initiated.
Increases penalties for violations of special learner's permits, examination permits, and probationary driver's licenses; changes "provisional" license to "probationary" license.
Establishes conditional intervention program in municipal court for certain first-time offenders.
Imposes temporary requirement on county treasurer to forward $300 from certain mortgage execution sales to provide funding for Legal Services of New Jersey.
Requires the State and local contracting units to purchase biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel manufactured in NJ.
Permits municipality, fire district or authority to approve transfer of certain firefighters from PERS to PFRS.
Establishes pilot program in DOC for detection and location of cerain wireless communications devices.