Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
David C. Russo
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association Act." *
Conforms voter identification procedures to requirements of Statewide voter registration system; permits use of provisional ballots for voters who move to different counties; revises certain penalty provisions. *
In committee31
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from permitting direct solicitation of students for credit card accounts.
Establishes Institute of Law and Mental Health; appropriates $95,000.
Authorizes capitalization of income as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for Election Law Enforcement.
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Governor's School of New Jersey.
Appropriates $1 million to Department of State for Ramapo College of New Jersey to create Center for International Education and Entrepreneurship.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Amends "Landscape Irrigation Contractor Certification Act of 1991."
Clarifies applicability to primary elections of campaign contribution and expenditures reporting act.
Regulates use of student Social Security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Requires gift certificates to be valid and redeemable at full face value until redeemed.
Establishes a Special Medical Malpractice Part in the Superior Court.
Creates 12 additional Superior Court judgeships; establishes a Special Business Part in the Superior Court; provides for appropriations.
Establishes a Business Part in the Superior Court.
Clarifies language regarding unfunded mandates.
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Authorizes municipalities to prohibit retail sale of firearms within 1,000 feet of public or private school.
Prohibits candidate or elected public official from raising funds in own name for charitable or non-campaign purposes, unless such funds are first deposited in his campaign depository and reported to ELEC.
Revises present statutes concerning procedures in civil actions relating to judgments and collection of judgments.
Requires testing and licensing of drivers of vehicles towing commercial trailers.
Establishes trust fund accounts for child performers with minimum deposit of 25% of gross pay.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for service of process at gated community.
Requires Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards to maintain information on Internet.
Applies certain conflicts of interest restrictions on legislators to county, municipal and local authority condemnation proceedings and project contracts funded directly or indirectly by State monies.
Requires change in membership of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards due to take effect in 2006 to take effect immediately.
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding."
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association Act." *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
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 $8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
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.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
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. *
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Out of committee · 13
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Establishes Administrative Law Judges Part in PERS. *
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding."
Validates school bond authorization proceedings of the Verona Township School District.
In committee · 36
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.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Appropriates $5 million to the Judiciary for substance abuse programs for persons on probation.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
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.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires payment in lieu of taxes to municipality when State college or university purchases property for use as student residence.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
"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.
Provides emergency management personnel with legal counsel and special compensation under certain circumstances.
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.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for spouses in psychiatric facilities.
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.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Enacts certain provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Establishes maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking water.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Prohibits public entities from engaging certain governmental affairs agents.
"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 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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Repeals "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."