Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Upendra J. Chivukula
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Authorizes NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish a Foundation for Technology Advancement. *
Changes the educational degree requirements for executive directors of housing authorities and redevelopment agencies. *
Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000. *
Passed the General Assembly7
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Requires posting and distribution of rights of residents in congregate housing facilities.
Requires Industrial Pretreatment Program charges imposed by sewerage authorities to be based solely on the quantity of wastewater discharge. **
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses. *
Out of committee11
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur, and personal wireless service facilities to be erected, on preserved farmland under certain circumstances. *
Designates bridge over Raritan River carrying southbound U.S. Highway Route No. 1 between Edison Township and New Brunswick City as "Donald Goodkind Bridge," appropriates $2,500.
Extends State Board of Medical Examiners' authority to waive certain examinations for certain persons applying to practice medicine and surgery in this State.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
Increases the presumed marked-up rate for a retailer selling cigarettes.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
Requires council approval of appointments to fill public library and board of education trustee vacancies.
Establishes notification requirements in connection with public and private development proximite to certain military facilities.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
Allows off-site vehicle sales.
In committee38
Expands duties of State Auditor to include conduct of performance audit at request of Legislator.
Establishes regional lead treatment centers in the State.
Specifies that newspaperman's privilege applies to certain information disseminated on internet web sites.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be depicted on "Welcome to New Jersey" signs.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Requires businesses to disclose any breach of security of computer systems to customers and to destroy certain personal information no longer retained.
Provides State matching funds to school districts in the amount of savings realized from the provision of educational or administrative services through an educational services commission.
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Requires State purchase only certain certified vehicles for State fleet; creates process for establishing requirement State purchase only zero emissions vehicles and five-year phase-in of the requirement.
Requires certain notification be provided to recruits of an international matchmaking organization.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish a committee authorized to apply for federal grants on behalf of the State research universities.
Exempts commercial requests for geographic information systems maps from OPRA access.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
Requires Turnpike Authority to remove toll collections at congested toll plazas on Garden State Parkway.
Allows parents of dependent home-school children gross income tax credits for tuition expenses for certain gifted and talented distance learning classes.
Clarifies law on incorportion of religious societies by eliminating reference to specific religious societies; lowers age of voting members thereof.
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of international labor matching or matchmaking organization and permits background checks for registrants.
Requires information concerning domestic violence be provided to registrants of international matchmaking organizations.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to acquire real property, and to resell or lease it with agricultural deed restrictions attached, for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires property owners with drinking water wells located within one mile of underground storage tanks or dry cleaning establishments to test for contaminants at least once every three years.
Reduces gross receipts tax assessment on certain ambulatory care facilities.
Excludes certain payments from methodology used by managed care carriers to determine usual, customary and reasonable fees.
Establishes a process for resolution of health and dental claim disputes.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
Provides that EDA and school districts must use school prototypes in the construction of school facilities projects.
Requires health insurers to cover diagnostic testing and long-term antibiotic treatment of chronic Lyme disease and co-infections of Lyme disease.
Establishes privilege for certain communications between legislator and constituent.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Creates matching grant program for purchase of emergency escape rope systems.
Establishes pilot program in DLPS requiring electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
The "Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act."
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
The "Second Unit Housing Authorization Act."
Requires development and distribution of pamphlet and poster informing students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 19.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to public schools.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur, and personal wireless service facilities to be erected, on preserved farmland under certain circumstances. *
Designates bridge over Raritan River carrying southbound U.S. Highway Route No. 1 between Edison Township and New Brunswick City as "Donald Goodkind Bridge," appropriates $2,500.
Establishes notification requirements in connection with public and private development proximate to certain military facilities.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers. *
Allows off-site vehicle sales.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 106
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. *
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.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commercially available; provides for State funding for paper record. *
Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason; requires increased identification when requesting and returning absentee ballots; authorizes automatic transmission of absentee ballot application for general election. **
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Authorizes an additional urban enterprise zone in New Brunswick.
Requires DHSS to distribute fact sheet on nut allergies and conduct public information campaign about food allergies; appropriates $250,000. ***
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
Provides for fast track permitting of biotechnology related industries.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to issue certain decisions in writing. *
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits delivery of unsolicited credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use of unsolicited credit cards or checks.*
Expands the definition of access device to include ATM bank cards.
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards. *
Establishes NJ Elderly Person Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DHSS.
Exempts veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs. *
Requires systematic maintenance check program for intermodal chassis and establishes party to be cited for chassis equipment defects. **
Requires county colleges to award college-credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Permits expanded use of farm vehicles.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend license of physician whose license has been revoked by another state, agency or authority.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Requires DLPS to establish policy for State Police and local law enforcement in working with Safe Return Program to recover lost individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders. *
Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible. *
May require child support to continue past emancipation if the child has a severe mental or physical incapacity which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent. *
Amends and clarifies the rights of handicapped, blind or deaf persons when accompanied by service or guide dogs.
Establishes optional will registry.
Permits physician assistants to prescribe controlled dangerous substances.
Revises references pertaining to podiatrists in statutes.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Upgrades criminal trespass under certain circumstances. *
Adds two members to Water Supply Advisory Council.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Permits NJ Transit to establish wholly-owned insurance subsidiary or "captive." *
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. *
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
Authorizes county clerk to act as local registrar and authorizes registration district to designate county clerk as local registrar. *
Amends "New Jersey Anti-Piracy Act" to include camcorder piracy of motion pictures.
Requires boat safety course to operate boat on State waters; revises other recreational boating laws.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
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. *
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. **
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Changes liability of underground facility operators with respect to certain provisions of the "Underground Facility Protection Act."
Authorizes issuance of bonds for refurbishment of certain public safety vehicles.
Prohibits radio transmissions without license from FCC and radio transmissions that interfere with licensed public or commercial radio stations.
Permits recall of retired administrative law judges and retired judges of compensation. *
Authorizes increased fines for certain trucks violating truck route ordinances on steep grades.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
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
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Establishes "New Jersey Disease Management Study Commission."
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers. *
Revises 1% fee on transfer of residential property for more than $1 million, exempts certain transfers, and provides for refunds of certain fees paid. **
Raises age under which bicycle, roller skate, and skateboard helmets must be worn from under 14 to under 17 years.
Requires reporting of all cases of severe hyperbilirubinemia to DHSS. *
Requires markings be removed from ambulances before certain sales.
Revises fiscal year 2005 budget language concerning rates of reimbursement for medical day care services. *
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
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. *
Bans sale of certain mercury thermometers.
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Permits construction of traffic calming measures on certain roads near schools. *
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Creates World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Expands State tuition aid grant eligibility to include dependent child whose parent or guardian has been transferred to a military installation in this State. *
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Clarifies current law with regard to certain municipal providers of light, heat or power.
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.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey. *
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Concerns grievance arbitration clauses in public employment collective negotiation agreement.
Passed the General Assembly · 68
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Permits school bus operator to display "Stop When Red Lights Are Flashing" on rear of bus.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Requires certain notices when public agencies take possession of abandoned vehicle.
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. **
Permits Municipal Court to waive marriage license waiting period in emergency.
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. *
Provides that records of convictions for carjacking, promoting prostitution of a child and certain child endangerment crimes shall not be expunged. *
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons. *
Awards work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program. *
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Requires private and public employers to provide unpaid leaves of absence or reassignment of hours for National Guard members and Reservists engaged in training.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Establishes Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires MVC to accept death certificate as proof of name change. *
Increases maximum LOSAP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements. *
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
Establishes "Technology Procurement Study Commission."
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.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Establishes Health Care Professional Regulation Study Commission and requires certain State professional licensing boards to take certain actions. *
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to DYFS when conducting background investigations on certain individuals.
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Clarifies that advertisements by licensed professionals are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
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.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
Establishes the transport of firearms into State for purposes of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
Authorizes local board of health to declare as a nuisance premises in which there have been multiple arrests for illegal sale or possession of drugs.
Requires poll workers to have certain training in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990".
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to volunteer fire companies.
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Skinner's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.**
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline. *
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
Provides NJ STARS scholarship to certain students who had been enrolled in a dual enrollment program established by the students's high school and a county college.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Requires bid proposal documents to include traffic safety requirements.
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
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.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Exempts certain physician's offices operating magnetic resonance imaging or computerized axial tomography services from requirement to obtain license to operate those services.
Lowers cap on finder's fee for property escheated to State.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Out of committee · 59
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
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."
Requires candidates seeking office of Governor or member of Legislature to disclose prior conviction for criminal offense.
Expands definition of lobbyist and legislative agent to include those who influence governmental processes; defines governmental processes.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle. *
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Provides liability protection to organizations which lend child passenger restraint systems.
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. *
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires pedestrians to yield right of way to authorized emergency vehicles and drivers to move over or slow down for parked authorized emergency vehicles.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Requires DEP to classify certain reservoirs and reservoir feeder streams as category one waters. *
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. *
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group.
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options; appropriates $75,000. *
Prohibits certain deceptive written advertising concerning merchandise offered with a guarantee.
Concerns leasing of NJ Sports and Exposition Authority's racetracks; allows authority to assign off-track and account wagering licenses; revises minimum thoroughbred race date requirements; provides for additional board members appointed by presiding of
Requires certain ATM operators to register and undergo criminal history record background checks.
Prohibits possession of handcuff keys for unlawful purpose.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Establishes three-year demonstration "Senior Citizen Housing and Health Screening Center Program" in DHSS. *
Provides that non-participating hospitals receive fee-for-service payment from Medicaid for emergency services provided to Medicaid and NJ Family Care recipients.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Outlines criteria municipalities are to consider when establishing speed limits for local streets.
Provides circumstances when housing nonprofits may join with local units in joint insurance funds.
Upgrades unlawful possession and distribution of prescription legend drugs. *
Deters State unemployment tax avoidance by penalizing knowing avoidance of unemployment tax payment. *
Provides Government Records Council will be independent agency; clarifies that council may employ outside legal counsel; directs council to perform annual assessment of its performance and file annual report with Governor and Legislature.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Allows certain persons in military service to receive suspension of interest on mortgage loan. *
Requires that athletic facilities of public school districts and public institutions of higher education be made available for certain high school playoff games and meets. *
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request. **
"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.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit. *
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
"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. *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Allows participation in SHBP for certain union elected officers and employees. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan; appropriates $2.5 million from "Water Supply Fund" therefor.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006." *
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Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Permits master deed of condominium to reflect proportional common and limited common elements interests of each owner as fractions.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
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.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Enhances coverage of laborers and materialmen under payment bonds.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission."
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.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits directed suretyship in connection with public works contracts.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Provides State purchasing preference to fuel cell-powered equipment.
Prohibits sale of certain printers or printer devices with disabling computer mechanisms.
Enacts the "New Jersey Parentage Act of 2003."
Permits certain self-employed individuals to purchase small employer health benefits plans.
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to career service of civil service.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Prohibits State purchase of arsenic-treated wood or arsenic-treated wood products.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose.
Provides for replacement of members of Legislature when one-half or more than one-half are killed by enemy attack.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for hospice and palliative care programs.
Prohibits insurer offering managed care plan from denying participation to any provider willing to meet terms of contract.
Prohibits possession of tobacco in a public place and its purchase by persons under 18.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
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.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Reduces the waiting period for a marriage license.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Increases motor fuels tax by three cents per gallon; earmarks increase for abolishment of Garden State Parkway tolls.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Requires the "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing" to examine activities which victimize persons, particularly women and children, and are not codified in the Code of Criminal Justice and recommend appropriate legislation for establishing such crime
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Defines surgery that may be performed by licensed physicians.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for instruction by public school districts on child abduction prevention.
Requires legislators to designate one covered position of elected office or employment for PERS credit.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to emergency medical technicians for certain training courses.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Establishes pilot program to provide incentive grants to public school districts which develop instruction programs in languages of critical need; appropriates $2,000,000.
Exempts construction, expansion or renovation of buildings or other structures for police departments, fire departments, and volunteer first aid, emergency, ambulance or rescue squads from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Permits public employers to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of PFRS members.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires reckless driving summons to note whether minor was in vehicle and makes minor's presence an aggravating factor.
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 notices concerning employees under age 18 to be posted in English and Spanish.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Makes law enforcement agencies that hire new police officers away from their initial employers within three years liable for certain training costs.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to Treasury for a grant to tsunami relief effort in Southeast Asia.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Establishes health insurance coverage registry in DHSS.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Limits increase in annual license fees for radon businesses.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Requires public schools to include instruction on humane treatment of animals as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
"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.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to $0.10 per letter size page and $0.15 per legal size page.
"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 "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.
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.
Authorizes special high school hockey team license plates.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.