Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
John S. Wisniewski
Sponsored
Became law16
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.
Concerns omnibuses; creates "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund." *
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Requires bid proposal documents to include traffic safety requirements.
Permits certain contracting units to use schedules from additional federal procurement programs when purchasing goods and services.
Provides that certain industrial use chemicals are not controlled dangerous substances.
Changes various provisions of "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act."
Revises certain penalties relating to operation of autobuses.
Concerns withholding and diversion of wages by temporary help service firms. *
Permits certain motorcycle dealers to offer State-approved motorcycle safety education course.
Establishes partial payment schedules and amounts to be retained by New Jersey Turnpike Authority from roadway work payments to contractors.
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to clarify grounds for denial of license applications and revocation of licenses, and provides for postponement of certain hearings.
Establishes pilot program for traffic control signal monitoring system.
Revises organization and certain functions of Motor Vehicle Commission. *
Permits municipal calculation of reserve for uncollected taxes by alternate method when tax appeal judgments are at least 0.75% of tax levy.
Vetoed1
Requires certain public contract bid advertisements to contain certified cost estimates or estimate ranges of projected contract costs and specifies grounds for rejections of all bids. **
Passed the General Assembly8
Establishes a pilot program in DOE for the organization of a county administrative school district.
Permits the appointment of joint municipal court judges by agreement of affected municipalities.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Directs Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furnishings purchased by public and independent institutions of higher education.
Requires liability insurance for certain vessels.
Permits issuance of temporary work permit for teaching to applicants for admission to cosmetology and hairstyling teacher examination; specifies GED as form of eligibility for licensure.
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Requires driver distractions to be noted in traffic accidents.
Out of committee23
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Concerns coverage for childhood immunizations.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
Establishes arson investigation unit in Division of Fire Safety, Department of Community Affairs.
Requires State Treasurer to order any State agency with power to issue contract bonds to conduct an independent due diligence evaluation prior to issuance of those bonds.
Provides compulsory attendance for out-of-state witnesses at investigations conducted by the SCI.
Requires firefighters to obtain "firefighter 1" certification.
Exempts experienced firefighters from certification requirement.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for certain prepaid bank cards, such as mall gift cards.
Exempts sales of certain fuel efficient motor vehicles from sales and use taxes.
Transfers certain authority over limousine operators from DOT to MVC.
Exempts senior homeowners from municipal building permit fees.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Clarifies that penalties for unauthorized parking in handicapped parking space are effective even when not posted.
Makes residential fire extinguisher requirement optional at municipal level.
Concerns automobile insurance practices.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Revises driver's license suspension for operating a motor vehicle without certain insurance.
Creates PFRS non-accidental disability retirement option for disability incurred in performance of duty other than as result of traumatic event.
Updates enforcement provisions of various environmental laws in a uniform manner.
Provides for the expeditious roadway removal of certain disabled vehicles.
Provides for establishment and funding of "New Jersey Bridge Safety Program"; appropriates $500,000.
In committee56
Requires DEP to develop and maintain an integrated computer system.
Provides support for full-day kindergarten through the T&E budget.
Requires uninsured motorist coverage for intentional acts of operators of uninsured and hit and run motor vehicles.
Establishes eligibility of property owned by 100% disabled veteran with domestic partner for veterans' property tax exemption; broadens criteria for eligibility for property tax exemption for surviving spouses and domestic partners of certain veterans.
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Requires charge to nonresidents for E-ZPass transponders.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Requires school districts to take all steps to ensure adequate security for students when school is open as a polling place and provides that school district costs shall be deducted from the itemized list of expenses submitted by the county board of elec
Provides for accidental disability retirement for certain PFRS members who participate in off-duty firefighting activities in a municipality other than the one in which they are employed.
Requires health insurers to cover well baby visits during the first two years of life.
Makes volunteer firefighter appointed to paid position eligible for PFRS membership through age 40.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
"Transportation Trust Fund Renewal and Reform Act of 2005."
Establishes guidelines for police action at scene of railroad grade crossing accidents and requires reports to federal government; requires DOT Commissioner to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make safety improvements to grade crossings.
Provides that industrial use chemicals are not controlled dangerous substances; prohibits unauthorized use of certain substances.
Concerns the operation of drawbridges owned by DOT.
Establishes commission to study the sale and lease of State assets.
Provides additional State aid to certain public school districts.
Authorizes NJ Transit to establish NJ Transit Development Corporation as subsidiary corporation.
Concerns distracted driving.
Amends Tort Claims Act concerning liability for discretionary acts.
Increases penalty amount for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel to not less than $500 nor more than $1,000.
Authorizes DEP to replace person responsible for remediation on condemned property with condemnor under certain circumstances.
Concerns One-Call Damage Prevention System and railroads.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Judiciary for a grant to Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey, Inc. (CASA)
"Private Fire Protection Services Act."
Provides gross income tax credit for certain campaign contributions.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point bold type.
Requires DOT to study movable barrier systems; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes fine of $100 for use of hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle.
Directs State Police to establish standards for handling missing persons cases involving juveniles.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Creates intermodal container safety program.
Shortens time periods for adverse possession, clarifies statutes, and repeals N.J.S.2A:14-30 and N.J.S.2A:14-31.
Prohibits the idling or queuing of heavy-duty diesel trucks at marine terminals for more than 30 minutes.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
Increases New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $500,000, and immunizes policyholders protected by association from liability within policyholders' policy limits.
Increases penalty for equipment violations in omnibuses.
Raises fine for certain onmibus drivers who fail to produce required documents.
Concerns fair business practices at intermodal marine terminals.
Grants right of way privileges to paratransit and special paratransit vehicles.
Eliminates the petroleum products gross receipts tax exemption for petroleum products sold for exportation from this State for sale or use outside this State; appropriates increased revenues to transportation trust fund.
Requires payment of entire amount of homestead property tax reimbursement to eligible claimant co-owner who pays entire property tax bill when other co-owners do not reside in real property for which reimbursement is claimed.
Requires flu vaccine distributors to give purchasing preference to governmental entities in the State.
"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Reform Act."
Exempts certain low-voltage installations from electrical contractor licensing requirements.
Establishes Pedestrian Safety Study Commission.
Creates rebuttable presumption of driver negligence in certain collisions with pedestrian.
Increases fine for drivers failing to secure the seat belts of passengers between ages of 8 and 18.
Requires legislators to serve full-time; establishes annual compensation.
Allows municipal candidate petition to name committee on vacancy.
Prohibits manufacture or sale of reflective glass beads with high arsenic content; prohibits DOT and two State toll road authorities from using paint mixed with reflective glass beads for roadway markings.
Revises allocation of fees for certain NJPDES permits.
Requires that no combustible materials be present near designated outdoor smoking areas.
Permits municipality to change its fiscal year from State fiscal year to calendar year fiscal year.
Filed4
Authorizes individual boards of education to self insure for certain insurance; removes current prohibitions.
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.
"Property Assessment Reform Act"; appropriates $4,000,000.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
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.
Clarifies that penalties for unauthorized parking in handicapped parking space are effective even when not posted.
Transfers certain authority over limousine operators from DOT to MVC.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Updates enforcement provisions of various environmental laws in a uniform manner.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 32
Implements CORE proposals, including "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act"; user -friendly budgets; revision of county superintendent of schools title and duties.*
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to advise women of option to donate or store umbilical cord blood and placental tissue. **
Establishes Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission.
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service. *
Clarifies law on incorporation of religious societies or congregations by eliminating outdated references to specific religious groups; lowers age requirement for those electing trustees for purpose of incorporation. **
Skinner's and Michelle's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.
Concerns fire emergency procedures.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Extends application deadline for financing for closure and associated remediation of regulated underground storage tanks; requires notification to municipalities by DEP of underground storage tank fund.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in Division of Consumer Affairs. **
"The Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection Act." **
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Establishes commuter transportation services public awareness campaign in DOT. *
Concerns transportation services used in connection with temporary help service firms. *
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Designates New Jersey Route No. 23 as "Robert A. Roe Highway"; appropriates $2,500.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Provides certain employment protections for employees on military leave in time of war or emergency.
Eliminates requirements for private passenger automobile insurers and agents to provide certain information on premium options.
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Revises Work First New Jersey earned income disregards and sanction policy for noncompliance with work activity requirements.
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.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Passed the General Assembly · 14
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations. *
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Concerns transfer of PANYNJ contracts related to marine terminals.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Requires weekly reporting of construction and building permit approvals to municipal tax assessor.
Concerns access to physical therapy services, and insurance claims handling following access to such services. *
Adds two additional public members to NJ Transit board.
Out of committee · 47
"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.
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Establishes the Dana Christmas Scholarship for Heroism Program.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of significant individuals of the American Revolutionary period; appropriates $200,000. *
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation. *
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Provides procedure to cancel mortgage of record by affidavit under certain conditions.
Provides procedure to discharge construction lien by affidavit under certain circumstances.
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. *
Provides a manufacturing retention investment tax credit under the corporation business tax, for investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2006.
Prohibits insurers offering managed care plans from denying participation in network to health care providers willing to meet terms of contract. *
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop. *
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Concerns sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products.
Recodifies Title 4 criminal animal cruelty offenses in State criminal code; increases level of certain offenses and crimes; establishes new offenses; revises civil penalties; repeals various sections of law; designated as Angel's Law. **
Requires 90 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from water use registration renewal fees.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Authorizes provision of interest-free loans from new home warranty security fund for homeowners to replace polybutylene water piping.
Regulates donation clothing bins.
Directs DOBI to conduct study on development of Statewide insurance pool for vehicles engaged in transportation of passengers for hire.
Permits revised methods of treatment for chiropractors and establishes continuing education requirements.
Changes when proof of veteran status is required for civil service examinations for certain veterans. *
Exempts from sales tax all hybrid and certain highly fuel efficient vehicles.
Establishes a public awareness campaign concerning the importance of keeping a current address with MVC.
Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Clarifies that suspension for non-driving related offense is distinct from suspension for driving related offense.
Authorizes suspension of motor vehicle registration.
Renames New Jersey Merit Rating Plan and provides for changes in procedures for payment of outstanding surcharges. *
Authorizes periodic motor vehicle surcharge amnesty period.
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
Requires distributing information about human papillomavirus to parents and guardians of seventh to twelfth graders and to pediatricians, and establishes public awareness campaign. *
Allows certain public entities to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of certain energy services for their facilities.
Authorizes Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to establish additional air terminals.
Changes date of presidential primary from last Tuesday in February to first Tuesday after first Monday in February.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Regulates operation of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes, and certain other vehicles and off-road vehicles. *
Revises laws concerning pedestrian safety and traffic control; requires drivers to stop and remain stopped for pedestrians under certain conditions. *
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Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Directs NJT to study and design bus rapid transit demonstration projects.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Permits transcript or videotape of testimony before local issuing authority to be admissible in ABC appeal.
Allows a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases by full-time undergraduate students at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Requires registration for sex offense convictions in certain foreign countries.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Raises vehicle registration fees for heavy vehicles and dedicates portion to Transportation Trust Fund Account.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Adds representatives from the Department of Community Affairs to the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Provides immunity from liability for persons who install or inspect child restraint systems.
Directs the BPU to require cable television companies to clearly disclose terms and conditions of "introductory rates" offered to new and existing customers.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Increases penalties for fraudulently obtaining, possessing or displaying certain motor vehicle inspection stickers.
Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Requires laws for police service benefits and fire service benefits to be the same.
Provides four-year phase-in of boat safety course requirement for operating power vessels and personal watercraft; restates age requirements for power vessel operation and exceptions to course requirement; appropriates $2 million for enforcement.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand commission's jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
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 HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Allows pregnant women and new mothers to obtain temporary handicapped placards.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Establishes lawn watering restrictions; authorizes DEP to adopt water conservation regulations and to reduce water supply application backlog; and requires installation of automatic rain sensor devices under certain circumstances.
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.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Directs school nurse to develop individual health care plan for students with diabetes and allows certain diabetic students to test blood and administer insulin in the classroom.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Clarifies functioning high-mounted rear stop lamp is required under State law.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Increases New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $500,000; immunizes policyholders protected by association from certain liability.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising concerning merchandise with a manufacturer's rebate.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Allows for municipal designation of "Petroleum Manufacturing Retention and Expansion Zones", requires DEP to expedite permitting in these zones.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Establishes Applied Behavior Analysis for Children with Autism Pilot Program in DHS; appropriates $10 million.
Requires medical examiner to contact next-of-kin in case of certain deaths.
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Exempts the parking of certain container-loaded intermodal chassis from the sales and use tax.
Prescribes duties of driver overtaking or approaching a stopped tow truck displaying flashing lights.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Requires reimbursement of physical damage deductible paid by insured under private passenger automobile insurance policy within 180 days under certain circumstances.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.