Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Kevin J. O'Toole
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires candidates indorsed by county committee of political party to be placed in first column or row on primary ballot.
Out of committee3
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
Requires motorists to reduce speed when approaching or passing equestrians.
Limits coverage under SHBP traditional health indemnity plan for State law enforcement officers; limits SHBP coverage options for State law enforcement officer retirees and nonaligned Division of State Police retirees. *
In committee67
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Clarifies that defendant who claims self-defense in prosecution for homicide or assault shall be entitled to introduce evidence of past child abuse or domestic violence committed by the victim.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.
Upgrades crime of unauthorized practice of medicine and law.
Provides that State employees shall have their principal residence in this State.
Replaces preference based upon race, ethnicity, national origin or gender in affirmative action programs with preference for persons who are economically disadvantaged.
Allows qualified urban enterprise zone vendors to sell motor vehicles at reduced sales tax rate.
Requires printing of prescription drug's expiration date on drug container label.
Provides that run-off elections under "Uniform Nonpartisan Election Law" are held the next Tuesday after the first Monday in June.
Authorizes green warning lights for trauma surgeons.
Permits volunteer firefighters and emergency services personnel to participate in health benefits program in municipality in which they volunteer.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Requires certain background checks for assisted living administrators and applicants for certificate of need.
Requires current registry of certified homemaker-home health aides maintained by State Board of Nursing include specific documented findings of patient abuse by persons listed in the registry.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to be New Jersey resident.
Prohibits Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from instituting needle exchange program.
Requires voter approval when State funds are appropriated to finance construction of certain professional sports facilities.
Increases civil penalties for certain violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Requires that all New Jersey Supreme Court sessions be televised.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment on persons convicted of certain sex crimes against minors.
Permits municipalities to enact an ordinance requiring drivers arrested for DUI to be held in custody.
Requires life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child who do not receive the death penalty.
Provides that persons who participated in Nazi persecution shall be ineligible to receive State benefits.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Permits certain emergency management volunteers to display blue emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires the Director of the Division of Fire Safety to notify appropriate firefighting representatives from counties, municipalities, and fire districts of available fire service funds.
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Authorizes public-private partnerships for design, construction and operation of cogeneration facilities.
Requires Attorney General approval prior to release of inmate on parole.
Provides emergency management personnel with legal counsel and special compensation under certain circumstances.
Clarifies criminal law concerning tampering with DYFS child abuse reports and investigation; provides criminal penalties for knowingly failing to provide for an abused or neglected child.
Requires Acupuncture Examining Board to provide Chinese version of examination.
Increases civil penalties for the illegal killing, taking, possession, sale, or purchase of certain wildlife and parts thereof; creates criminal penalty for possession of certain wildlife, or parts thereof.
Limits political contributions by certain government contractors; revises disclosure standards applicable to State officials; expands disclosure for lobbyists; prohibits certain types of dual office holding.
Expands the authority of fire fighting, police, emergency medical, and emergency management departments, forces, squads, or other units to provide assistance outside their normal territorial jurisdictions.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for spouses in psychiatric facilities.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
Excludes sale of household appliances costing over $1200 from retail sales tax exemption in urban enterprise zones.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Mandates training of school bus drivers.
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Increases membership of certain municipal recreation commissions.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees; prohibits use of intermediaries to make campaign contributions.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Provides local governments may limit political contributions by business entities performing or seeking to perform public contracts; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Prohibits campaign contributions between county party committees; makes such contributions a third degree crime; increases to third degree crimes certain other campaign finance offenses.
Establishes maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking water.
Requires vehicles involved in minor accidents to be moved off roadway.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to provide property tax relief and reform.
Modifies penalty for operating an aircraft while impaired, establishes blood alcohol content offense level, and requires report of violation to FAA.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Prohibits public entities from engaging certain governmental affairs agents.
Creates Chief Financial Officer position in the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission.
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Establishes certain ethical standards and financial control requirements for State authorities.
Imposes penalties on certain State officers and employees for failure to file financial disclosure statements required executive order or by code of ethics.
Allows consumer to purchase no more than 100 gallons of motor fuel at posted price in effect at time of purchase of pre-paid card.
Prohibits motor fuel distributor or wholesaler from increasing price more than once in 24-hour period.
Provides exception to requirement that posted price of motor fuel must remain unchanged for 24-hour period.
Imposes standards and safeguards on UMDNJ financial and business practices.
Abolishes the UMDNJ board of trustees and establishes a university board of governors with five public members and requires president to appoint chief procurement officer to assume contracting and procurement authority for university.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
Requires motorists to reduce speed when approaching or passing equestrians.
Limits coverage under SHBP traditional health indemnity plan for State law enforcement officers; limits SHBP coverage options for State law enforcement officer retirees and nonaligned Division of State Police retirees. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Increases monetary penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limit and reporting requirements and remuneration restrictions.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates moneys annually to ELEC. *
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Allocates certain previously appropriated, unexpended funds for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom to the support of brownfields development and to establish an underground storage tank inspection program. *
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Appropriates $22,468,700 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes "New Jersey Disease Management Study Commission."
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.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. **
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Awards work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center. *
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to DYFS when conducting background investigations on certain individuals.
Clarifies that advertisements by licensed professionals are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Provides reimbursement of group life insurance premiums to members of National Guard, appropriates $1,500,000.
Out of committee · 14
Requires the licensing of bail recovery agents as private detectives.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement.
Makes right turn on red optional rather than mandatory.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Requires certain ATM operators to register and undergo criminal history record background checks.
Permits certain emergency management volunteers to display blue emergency warning lights on vehicles. *
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to finance the costs of State flood control projects.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Appropriates $25,389,500 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 northern NJ.
Validates school bond authorization proceedings of the Verona Township School District.
In committee · 39
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at State juvenile facility employee or probation officer aggravated assault.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from acting on certain bills in which they have personal interest; redefines personal interest.
Designates prison telephone revenues for VCCB claims.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Establish the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Authorizes municipalities to prohibit retail sale of firearms within 1,000 feet of public or private school.
Holds retailers harmless for pre-packaged slack-filled goods.
Prohibits State Board of Education from authorizing use of special review assessment as an alternative for meeting graduation requirements.
Requires reckless driving summons to note whether minor was in vehicle and makes minor's presence an aggravating factor.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Requires testing and licensing of drivers of vehicles towing commercial trailers.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Requires drivers to move over or slow down for emergency road service vehicles.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
"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 that "45-day" rule applies to county corrections officers and sheriff's officers.
Prohibits former elected official from receiving for five years compensation from charitable or non-profit organization when official's candidate committee donated campaign contributions to organization.
Repeals "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
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.