Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Sponsored
Became law6
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit and performance reviews of State and local government units.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Requires Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council to report to State Employment and Training Center and adds three members; and makes an appropriation of $50,000. *
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
Establishes certificate of rehabilitation for certain persons with criminal records.
Creates offenses of gang criminality and promoting organized street crime.
Passed the General Assembly4
Concerns contributions to special funds made through the gross income tax return.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Establishes compelling circumstances exception to mandatory driver's license suspension under conditional discharge statute; allows court to revoke remainder of suspension for compelling circumstances. *
Revises regulation of landscape architects.
Out of committee12
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Requires disclosure of terms, conditions, and limitations on prepaid telephone calling cards.
Establishes Task Force on Education Reform.
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Increases amount of State tax credits under "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires MVC to provide minor's motor vehicle record to parent or guardian. *
Adopts Article 15 of Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact.
Regulates prepaid telephone calling cards and services. *
Grants the court discretion regarding imposition of penalties for certain drug offenses and to allow "reformative service" to satisfy a portion of such penalties when certain conditions are met.
Permits limited exchange of certain juvenile information to facilitate delivery of services to at risk children and their families.
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
In committee67
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.
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.
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.
Increases number of members of COAH; makes other changes to "Fair Housing Act."
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 Prevention Services Programs for Children and Families Network.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from landlords in certain circumstances.
Requires residential rental property subject to municipal registration to meet building security standards for multiple dwellings.
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 Trenton Capital City Aid program.
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.
Provides reimbursement of group life insurance premiums to members of National Guard, appropriates $1,500,000.
"Medicaid Managed Care Quality Improvement Assessment Act."
Designates State Highway Route 31 as the "Route 31 Purple Heart Memorial Highway," appropriates $2,500.
Authorizes special Alpha Kappa Alpha license plate.
Requires DEP to conduct testing of school grounds for hazardous substances under certain circumstances.
Restricts large trucks to certain highway networks.
Regulates increases in rent in affordable housing due to increases in heating fuel costs.
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Essex and Mercer County.
Increases regional contribution agreement amounts and income eligibility for affordable housing units located in certain areas; reserves percentage of affordable housing for very low income households.
Prohibits use of fill materials on residential and school sites that exceed residential soil cleanup standards for contaminated sites.
Requires certain hospitals that close or relocate to refund charity care payments to DHSS.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires businesses to notify customers concerning use of radio frequency identification systems that collect information about customers.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from requiring subscribers to pay a charge for calling emergency 9-1-1 service.
Requires radio frequency identifying devices in handguns sold by licensed retail dealers.
Permits HMFA to establish separate income requirements for units not intended for low and moderate income families in HMFA funded housing projects.
Requires health insurers to provide benefits for computed tomography scans for persons at high risk of developing lung cancer.
The "Teaser Rate Protection Act"; prohibits certain residential mortgage lending practices.
Prohibits certain interactions and arrangements between student lending institutions and institutions of higher education.
Establishes New Jersey Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force.
Requires insurance and SHBP coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Authorizes Commissioner of DHSS to take certain actions to control fraud and abuse in charity care program.
Increases moderate income housing threshold to 110% of regional median household income.
Requires DOE to conduct domestic violence training for teachers and school administrators.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for business purchases by state chartered credit unions.
Requires AG to develop mandatory guidelines for municipal prosecutors and to develop a computer system for use by municipal prosecutors.
Establishes school chemical management program; appropriates $90,000.
Allows additional offenders to receive special probation under certain circumstances and increases the provision of outpatient treatment as a component of special probation.
Amends special probation statute to increase participation in drug court program; permits court to reduce certain fees.
Revises eligibility for expungement of criminal and juvenile delinquency records.
Upgrades the offenses of tampering with witnesses and informants and hindering apprehension under certain circumstances.
Reduces drug free school and public property zones to 200 feet.
Establishes "Prisoners' Reentry Bill of Rights."
Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.
Establishes Prisoner Reentry Commission in the Department of Corrections.
Requires county sheriff to establish procedure to assist pre-release inmates applying for certain assistance.
Creates Internet based program to assist certain pre-release inmates; appropriates $1 million.
Authorizes 8 hours of leave for parents and guardians from work for school-related events of children.
Requires that motor fuel pumps operated by retail dealers be equipped to measure in temperature-adjusted gallons.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Permits labor peace agreements in projects in which public entities have proprietary interests.
Filed2
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit, investigation and performance reviews of State and local government units.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Increases amount of State tax credits under "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires MVC to provide minor's motor vehicle record to parent or guardian. *
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
Adopts Article 15 of Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact.
Regulates prepaid telephone calling cards and services. *
Grants the court discretion regarding imposition of penalties for certain drug offenses and to allow "reformative service" to satisfy a portion of such penalties when certain conditions are met.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Implements CORE proposals, including "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act"; user -friendly budgets; revision of county superintendent of schools title and duties.*
Provides for various school district accountability measures.
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.
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
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.
Requires coordination of emergency operations plans and creation of emergency plan for certain animals. *
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Enhances penalties for possessing, receiving, and transferring community guns.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Mandates alternate testing dates because of days of religious observance for certain applicants seeking licensure.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed heath care facilities.
Revises the marriage laws; establishes civil unions; establishes the "New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission."
Provides for instruction in autism and other developmental disabilities awareness and methods of teaching students with autism and other developmental disabilities for candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers and paraprofessionals. **
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.
Clarifies intent and effect of requirements of P.L.2004, c.183 with respect to historic site real property tax exemptions. *
Requires health care providers to test pregnant women for HIV as part of routine prenatal care unless woman refuses testing, and requires testing of certain newborns for HIV. *
Revises organization and certain functions of Motor Vehicle Commission. *
Authorizes auction of greenhouse gas allowances; establishes "Global Warming Solutions Fund." *
Imposes 4% surcharge on liability and increases minimum tax under corporation business tax. *
Increases annual assessment on net written premiums of HMOs to support charity care from 1% to 2%. *
Changes PERS, TPAF and DCRP contribution rates and new employees' compensation base and retirement age; implements changes to SHBP and transfer of education employees to School Employees' Health Benefits Program; modifies State Investment Council. *
Passed the General Assembly · 14
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.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
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.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Requires hospitals to report certain injuries to local and State police.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements. *
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Prohibits organized delivery systems from denying participation in network to imaging centers willing to meet terms of contract.
Provides that practice of chiropractic includes diagnosis and adjustment of articulations of spinal column and other joints.
Exempts comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilitites from ambulatory care assessment.
Out of committee · 24
Requires residential mortgage lender to provide debtor with contact information in certain notices, and include copies of notices to court in certain foreclosure actions. *
"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.
Establishes additional bases for disqualification of bidder under "Local Public Contracts Law" and clarifies existing law.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and promotion of graves of significant individuals of the American Revolutionary period; appropriates $200,000. *
Establishes "Naturally Occurring Retirement Community" pilot program; appropriates $250,000.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist. *
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2006.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets. *
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
Permits the consolidation of the boards of education of a county vocational school district and county special services school district into one board.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to fund CeaseFire pilot program in Camden, Jersey City, Newark, and Trenton. *
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential. *
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Changes date of presidential primary from last Tuesday in February to first Tuesday after first Monday in February.
Requires certain developers to offer solar energy systems in all homes built within a development of 100 or more units.
Appropriates $33,480,957,000 in State funds and $10,197,242,726 in federal funds for the State budget for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
In committee · 64
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
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 Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
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.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
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.
Establishes three-year demonstration "Senior Citizen Housing and Health Screening Center Program" in DHSS.
Expands eligibility for special automobile insurance policies.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
"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.
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $5,000.
Requires removal of animal used for attack.
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
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
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.
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.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Requires State aid for operating expenses of higher education institutions as a percentage of the State budget to equal national average.
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
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.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Revises the structure, functions and authority of the State Investment Council and the Director of the State Division of Investment.
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Authorizes POW license plates for leased vehicles.
Changes from two to four number of consecutive general elections where more than 750 votes or less than 250 votes may be cast before election district is redrawn.
Increases firearm permit and license fees.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Eliminates regional contribution agreements; creates housing rehabilitation and assistance program for grants to municipalities.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Provides that if wireless telephone service subscriber terminates service, any applicable subscriber termination fee is to be prorated.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from requiring subscribers to purchase new cellular telephone equipment in certain cases.
Wireless Telephone Consumer Protection Act; establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
Increases State disability benefits fund employee contributions to be transferred into the Health Care Subsidy Fund and the General Fund.
Filed · 4
Establishes the "New Jersey Tax and Fiscal Policy Study Commission" to study the State and local tax structure and related fiscal issues.
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.