Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Sponsored
Became law13
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates moneys annually to ELEC. *
Permits voter registration up to 21 days before election; permits use of provisional ballot for voter registration; modifies information available on voter registration list. *
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Allows residential subscribers to designate third parties to receive CATV service termination notices.
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
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. *
Appropriates $1,289,407 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Mercer County College.
Limits the corporation business tax application of net operating losses to 50% of taxable income for tax years 2004 and 2005.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Increases options for investment of Garden State Preservation Trust Funds.
Passed the General Assembly5
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Concerns contributions to special funds made through the gross income tax return.
Provides reimbursement of group life insurance premiums to members of National Guard, appropriates $1,500,000.
Requires disclosure of terms, conditions, and limitations on prepaid telephone calling cards. *
Out of committee11
Reorganzies the State's workforce development system and redesignates the Department of Labor as the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. *
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Permits Division of Taxation to prepare report containing certain tax information for the Governor's Study Commission on Discrimination in State Employment and Contracting. **
Provides for alternate disciplinary action review and appeal procedures through collective bargaining between State and its employees.
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year.
Authorizes DEP to assess penalties for violations of the "Safe Dam Act" and to charge owners for repairs to dams.
Establishes Trenton Capital City Aid program.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus land in Township of Ewing, Mercer County, to winning auction bidder.
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates $5.015 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $400 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund for homestead rebates to homeowners and tenants.
In committee40
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Increases amount of realty transfer fees annually credited to the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund by $5 million.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Requires payment to municipality for use of municipal services by for-profit lessee of property owned by county or county improvement authority.
Reduces sales tax rate on certain sales and admission charges at places of amusement in urban enterprise zone areas and provides that sales tax revenue be for municipal purposes.
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Provides financial assistance for higher education expenses of former Work First New Jersey recipients after leaving program.
Provides for receipt for voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election; provides State reimbursement.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Provides official State recognition of Powhatan Renape Nation, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Inc., and Ramapough Mountain Indians as American Indian Tribes for certain purposes.
Requires school district to establish preschool recruitment program under certain conditions.
Directs State to purchase certain properties leased by Thomas Edison State College; makes appropriation therefor.
Revises receivership statutes.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Requires that 10% of State portion of Work First New Jersey emergency assistance funding be used to pay for development of low-income rental housing.
Permits certain funds to be spent on temporary emergency housing; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties.
Increases number of members of COAH; makes other changes to "Fair Housing Act."
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Imposes penalty for corporate fraud; provides for restitution to the victims.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligiblity limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Changes definition of "qualified business" under "New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act."
Requires installation of protective fencing along certain overpasses.
Revises funding allocation formulas under the Garden State Preservation Trust Act.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
Establishes Prevention Services Programs for Children and Families Network.
Permits all municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from seasonal rental landlords in certain circumstances.
Permits security freezes upon consumer credit reports.
Requires residential rental property subject to municipal registration to meet building security standards for multiple dwellings.
Adds mayor to boards of trustees of the State colleges.
Requires tax-exempt entities to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt housing and are enrolled in the district.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products subject to regulation under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Authorizes denying development applications of developers who defaulted on performance and maintenance bonds and establishes system for sharing notice of performance and maintenance bond defaults.
Establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
"Medicaid Managed Care Quality Improvement Assessment Act."
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Route 31 Purple Heart Memorial Highway," appropriates $2,500.
Establishes Task Force on Education Reform.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Authorizes special Alpha Kappa Alpha license plate.
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Reorganizes the State's workforce development system and redesignates the Department of Labor as the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Permits Secretary of State to request and requires Division of Taxation to prepare report containing certain tax information for the Governor's Study Commission on Discrimination in State Employment and Contracting. *
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year. *
Provides for alternate disciplinary action, review and appeal procedures through collective bargaining between State and its employees.
Authorizes DEP to assess penalties for violations of the "Safe Dam Act" and to charge owners for repairs to dams.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus land in Township of Ewing, Mercer County, to winning auction bidder.
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates $5.015 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $400 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund for homestead rebates to homeowners and tenants.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 48
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Increases monetary penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limit and reporting requirements and remuneration restrictions.
Requires certain election committees and certain other persons to file report with ELEC within 48 hours of making certain expenditures in excess of $800 during certain periods.
Bars legislators, Governor and department heads from lobbying activities for one year after leaving office or employment.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Requires ELEC to conduct random audits of records kept by legislative agents.
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Appropriates $2 million to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC); imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000.
Increases homestead rebates for certain homestead owners, folds NJ SAVER rebates into the Homestead Rebate program and increases gross income tax rate for taxpayers with taxable income over $500,000 and temporarily adjusts withholding tax.
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
Prohibits telemarketers from using technology designed to misrepresent their identity. *
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish NJ Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Exempts certain county and municipally-owned water supply facilities from BPU rate regulation. *
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; permits allocation of funds under the Fair Housing Act to program as permitted purpose. *
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Revises criteria for new historic sites to obtain historic site property tax exemption. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
Deletes certain nursing home payment requirements under "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues. *
Conforms the sales and use tax to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to provide for entry therein.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing-intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and certain counties. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000. *
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
Establishes date of initial employment with board of education as effective date of provisional teaching certificate and provides that novice teacher will be a teaching staff member for all purposes.
Establishes Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey. *
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Concerns grievance arbitration clauses in public employment collective negotiation agreement.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million to Treasury for energy assistance programs. *
Passed the General Assembly · 26
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Requires lenders to provide debtors with amount necessary to cure debt and attach copy of 14 day notice to application for final judgment in certain foreclosure actions.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center. *
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
"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.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to prepare and distribute informational booklet about sickle cell anemia; appropriates $95,000. *
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
Establishes additional bases for disqualification of bidder under "Local Public Contracts Law" and clarifies existing law. *
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge, first African-American State Senator.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of signers of Declaration of Independence; appropriates $200,000.
Expands eligibility for special automobile insurance policies.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. ***
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3% surplus for 2006-2007
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Out of committee · 60
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Prohibits member of Legislature from acting on legislation in which member or family member of that member has personal interest.
Changes memberships of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards and Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.
Increases monetary penalties for violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Revises pilotage laws.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Creates study commission on the death penalty.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Establishes three-year demonstration "Senior Citizen Housing and Health Screening Center Program" in DHSS. *
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Requires local decision to revoke liquor license be accorded great weight in appeal proceeding.
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
Requires all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record.
Requires polling places be more accessible for individuals with disabilities and elderly; limits waivers to two consecutive years.
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
Modifies trigger to end additional UI benefits during training.
Appropriates $28,027,261,000 in State funds and $9,151,273 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2004-2005.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act. " *
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
Allows participation in SHBP for certain union elected officers and employees. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Prohibits use of public school corrective actions available under federal law unless actions are scientifically based and proven effective in bringing about desired organizational change.
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 central NJ.
Appropriates $27,919,888,000 in State funds and $9,795,662,570 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2005-2006.*
Reforms State's workforce investment system, establishes Center for Occupational Employment Information.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
In committee · 79
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Provides for assessment, at municipal option, of additional realty transfer fee of $0.75 for each $500 of consideration or fractional part thereof recited in the deed in excess of $150,000, and provides for proceeds therefrom to be used for municipal ope
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Creates annual inspection cycle for certain hotels and motels under "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law."
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point bold type.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Permits a person eligible to vote to register on certain election days.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
Provides for enrollment in PERS of certain employees of the City of Newark.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $700,000 to the College of New Jersey to renovate the WiIliam Green Farmhouse.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Allows holders of provisional licenses to carry three passengers when driving to or from school or after school extracurricular activity on school grounds.
Authorizes use of photo radar devices for enforcement purposes on certain local streets.
Requires State aid for operating expenses of higher education institutions as a percentage of the State budget to equal national average.
Provides additional PERS death benefit coverage.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $5,000.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
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 certain qualified UEZ businesses which relocate outside of a zone to reimburse the General Fund for zone incentives.
Requires removal of animal used for attack.
Permits concurrence with Pennsylvania of companion legislation regarding Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Revises the structure, functions and authority of the State Investment Council and the Director of the State Division of Investment.
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Assemblyman.