Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Upendra J. Chivukula
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." *
Clarifies law on incorporation of religious societies or congregations by eliminating outdated references to specific religious groups; lowers age requirement for those electing trustees for purpose of incorporation. **
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Changes criteria for eligibility to receive limited teaching certificates in dental schools.
Prohibits regulation of certain aspects of Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol-enabled services.
Authorizes auction of greenhouse gas allowances; establishes "Global Warming Solutions Fund." *
Passed the General Assembly6
Requires owners and employees of international labor matching or matchmaking organizations to undergo background check and recruits of these organizations to be given basic domestic violence information. *
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
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.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Out of committee11
The "Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act."
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to acquire real property, and to resell or lease it with agricultural deed restrictions attached, for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Increase Review Panel in Department of Banking and Insurance.
Authorizes provision of interest-free loans from new home warranty security fund for homeowners to replace polybutylene water piping.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Authorizes mechanism for independent determination of legal sufficiency of initiated ordinances and referendum petitions.
Permits local government units to grant Length of Service Award Program points to certain activated military members.
Requires DEP to conduct public hearing and provide opportunity for public comment at conclusion of feasibility study for shore protection projects.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain digital media content expenses and concerning the film production expenses credit, amending P.L.2005, c.345.
Amends fiscal year 2008 annual appropriations act to allocate $250,000 from Governor's Literacy Initiative to Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey, Inc.
In committee44
Requires pedestrians to yield right of way to authorized emergency vehicles and drivers to move over or slow down for parked authorized emergency vehicles.
Requires businesses to disclose any breach of security of computer systems to customers and to destroy certain personal information no longer retained.
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.
Allows deduction against gross income for unreimbursed expenses incurred by organ donor.
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
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.
Provides that EDA and school districts must use school prototypes in the construction of school facilities projects.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
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.
Allows off-site vehicle sales.
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 "Second Unit Housing Authorization Act."
Raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 19.
Authorizes special license plate with proceeds to public schools.
Revises the insurance premiums tax treatment of health service corporations.
Requires information concerning domestic violence be provided to registrants of international matchmaking organizations.
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.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Increases the presumed marked-up rate for a retailer selling cigarettes.
Extends State Board of Medical Examiners' authority to waive certain examinations for certain persons applying to practice medicine and surgery in this State.
Concerns State regulation of certain telecommunications services.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies and access to government records; makes appropriation.
Provides bill of rights for persons receiving services under Congregate Housing Services Program.
Renames the Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program and makes various other changes to the program.
Extends scope of licensure and increases certain license fees under cigarette excise tax; revises "Unfair Cigarette Sales Act of 1952"; dedicates 25% of license fee revenue for enforcement of unfair sales act.
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service.
Distributes appropriation for New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services Telephone Hotline to University Behavioral HealthCare at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Prohibits BPU from requiring or authorizing basic generation service suppliers after May 31, 2006 to impose charge on customers for not choosing to switch to an alternative electric power supplier.
Authorizes "Fallen Firefighter" license plates; establishes scholarship program for children of fallen firefighters.
Establishes "In Case of Emergency Contact Program."
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Establishes New Jersey K-20 International Education Resource Center at Rutgers, The State University.
Provides for equal opportunity for businesses to apply for certain energy-related incentives and funding.
Allows certain local public entities to enter into contracts of up to 15 years for provision of renewable energy production at buildings owned by such entities.
Decreases corporation business tax minimum tax rates for new businesses and exempts certain small new businesses from payment of minimum tax.
Provides for development of uniform fee schedule for registration and certification of businesses seeking to perform State contracts; provides for collaboration to streamline procurement application process.
Provides for development of universal public procurement application for use by public entities at all levels of government; provides for collaboration to streamline procurement application process.
Extends, by three years, the collection of annual surcharges for the Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund.
Directs the BPU to establish certain energy-conservation programs.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
The "Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act."
Requires DEP to conduct public hearing and provide opportunity for public comment at conclusion of feasibility study for shore protection projects.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for certain digital media content expenses and concerning the film production expenses credit, amending P.L.2005, c.345.
Amends fiscal year 2008 annual appropriations act to allocate $250,000 from Governor's Literacy Initiative to Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey, Inc.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 83
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit and performance reviews of State and local government units.
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Creates "The 2007 New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project Act"; appropriates $7.675 million.
Allows counties, municipalities and school districts to join with the State under certain circumstances for provision of alternative electrical energy systems. *
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Requires certain notices when public agencies take possession of abandoned vehicle.
The "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Establishes Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission.
Increases civil penalties for safety violations with respect to certain natural gas or hazardous liquid facilities. *
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service. *
Clarifies jurisdiction concerning matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident.
Skinner's and Michelle's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Requires the placement of organ donation information and materials at public institutions of higher education.
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
Concerns fire emergency procedures.
Establishes that "45-day" rule applies to corrections officers, sheriff's officers, New Jersey Transit police officers and paid firefighters. ***
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
"Recycling Enhancement Act"
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Requires bid proposal documents to include traffic safety requirements.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Revises membership of the New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange board.
Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to report on New Jersey Travel Independence Program and study feasibility of its expansion Statewide. *
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Permits certain municipalities to use existing voting machines for annual school and municipal nonpartisan elections to be held during 2006. *
Establishes Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative.
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
"Access to Medical Research Act;" authorizes certain persons to give informed consent for medical research if subject of research is unable to give consent.
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in Division of Consumer Affairs. **
Extends eligibility for higher education tuition assistance to certain former members of New Jersey National Guard and increases number of tuition-free credits available to National Guard members and their dependents.
Clarifies certain restrictions on sending unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Creates New Jersey POW-MIA medal. *
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Creates position of First Assistant Child Advocate and provides that either Child Advocate or First Assistant be an attorney.
Prohibits sale, use, and burning of creosote or creosote-treated products. *
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Revises trustee's power to adjust principal and income under "Uniform Principal and Income Act of 2001."
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Revises certain penalties relating to operation of autobuses.
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. *
Extends eligibility for New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Program to dependents and spouses of persons who died as a result of illness caused by exposure to attack sites.
Prohibits payment of temporary disability benefits when disability is incurred as result of fourth degree crime or gross misconduct.
"Violence Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act," requires certain health care entities to establish violence prevention programs to protect health care workers.
Lowers to 62 statutory qualifying age for low-income senior citizen State rental assistance grants.
Clarifies that applicants on eligible list on effective date of P.L.2005, c.290 are entitled to preference granted children of fallen firefighters.
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
Increases investment options for domestic property and casualty insurance companies' capital, surplus and other funds.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Appropriates $80 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $6.515 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees because of religious practices.
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.
Removes limitation on amount of grant money that may be allocated from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Provides certain employment protections for employees on military leave in time of war or emergency.
Exempts from payment for seven years certain taxes and energy charges for certain manufacturing facilities.
Establishes pilot program to conduct comprehensive eye examinations for second grade students.
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Requires State to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs; requires BPU to educate public on benefits of compact fluorescent light bulbs.
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan. *
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.
Requires purchasing agents to complete a course in green product purchasing; requires Department of the Treasury to compile and maintain a list of green product purchasing sources.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Reorganizes and renames NJ Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission as NJ Commerce Commission; transfers Division of Travel and Tourism to Department of State.
Appropriates $30,660,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland acquisitions, and appropriates certain bond funds for soil and water conservation grants.
Appropriates $45.15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Prohibits newly elected public office holders from simultaneously holding more than one elective office.
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Amends language in annual appropriations act to eliminate moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement to new pharmacies and medical supplies sold in pharmacies. *
Creates offenses of gang criminality and promoting organized street crime.
Permits municipal calculation of reserve for uncollected taxes by alternate method when tax appeal judgments are at least 0.75% of tax levy.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 42
Requires police departments and parole board to adopt maternity policies. *
Requires certain public utilities to notify an appropriate law enforcement officer of service shutoffs to multi-family housing unit customers or any other residential customers under certain circumstances. *
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Establishes sexual penetration or sexual contact with an animal as a crime and a civil offense under the State animal cruelty laws. **
Requires DEP to maintain online recycled-content products marketplace.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service. *
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Increases penalties for failing to secure a child in a child passenger restraint system or booster seat while operating a motor vehicle.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations. *
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
Adds two members to Board of Pharmacy. *
Abigail's Law; requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors. *
Provides for the registration of daily money managers.
Requires that notice of hearing on certain zoning changes be by certified mail only.
Concerns contributions to special funds made through the gross income tax return.
Directs AG and State Medical Examiner to study the creation of a secure autopsy facility.
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Increases maximum LOSAP contributions and prospectively changes certain vesting requirements.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
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.
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report. *
Permits hiring of special law enforcement officers to supplement county park police departments during summer.
Directs Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furnishings purchased by public and independent institutions of higher education.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
The "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006."
Requires school board member and local elective office candidates to file financial disclosure statements; requires criminal background disclosure for school officials and school board member candidates. *
Concerns transfer of PANYNJ contracts related to marine terminals.
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs. *
Prohibits electronic printing of certain debit card information on certain sales receipts.
Requires hospitals to report certain injuries to local and State police.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging.
Imposes stricter regulation on issuance of absentee ballots; imposes penalty for failure to promptly count absentee ballots.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Provides that a nursing home resident has a right to receive food that meets the resident's religious dietary requirements.
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. *
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified technology education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
Out of committee · 75
Clarifies certain provisions in the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights." *
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Requires notices concerning employees under age 18 to be posted in English and Spanish.
"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.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies; makes an appropriation. *
Establishes identification guidelines and record-keeping requirements for notaries public.
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Adds the fact that the crime was committed against a child under the age of 16 as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
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. *
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examination.
Establishes additional bases for disqualification of bidder under "Local Public Contracts Law" and clarifies existing law.
Requires public school districts to prepare annual report on school district contracts.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Requires health benefits coverage by health insurers and SHBP for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor. *
Permits school bus operator to display "Stop When Red Lights Are Flashing" on rear of bus.
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request.
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.
Provides a manufacturing retention investment tax credit under the corporation business tax, for investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Allows tax credit to health care professionals for expenses to achieve accessibility for persons with mobility impairments.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2006.
Prohibits insurers offering managed care plans from denying participation in network to health care providers willing to meet terms of contract. *
Establishes Prescription Monitoring Program in Division of Consumer Affairs and provides division with authority over registration and control of controlled dangerous substances. *
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Requires all State firefighter training to be accredited.
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.
Decreases certain public document copy fees to up to $0.10 or less per letter size page and up to $0.15 or less per legal size page. *
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets. *
Allows release of sex offender information to DYFS.
Expands public membership on Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
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.
Requires school bus drivers to inspect bus for pupils remaining at end of route.
Changes funding limits for grants to local governments from hazardous discharge fund for site remediation.
Requires ambulatory care facilities to provide uncompensated outpatient renal dialysis services for uninsured low-income persons.
Regulates donation clothing bins.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for lake dredging and restoration projects, or stream cleaning and desnagging projects.
"New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes the sale of State general obligation bonds in the amount of $450 million and appropriates $5,000. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Clarifies neuro-imaging criteria for primary stroke centers.
Appropriates $21,588,646 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes, and $600,000 for county farmland preservation program strategic plans.
Provides unemployment benefits for spouses of armed services members under certain conditions. *
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor on lawn sprinklers as condition of sale and on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail or industrial property and in common interest communities within specified timeframes. **
Requires affordable housing be built to green building standards; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to issue standards.
Requires DCA to adopt energy inspection code, and requires licensed home inspector to report energy analysis for each home inspected for buyer in contemplation of purchase. *
Authorizes certain local units to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure used for providing broadband telecommunications service via wireless community networks. *
Requires certain cities of the second class to establish a Second Chance Council to develop a plan to increase jobs for released criminals and high school dropouts.
Increases amount of State tax credits under "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires continuing education course for newly licensed accountants.
Permits, rather than requires, participants in death registration process to use New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
Allocates $6 million annually in revenue from retail margin surcharge assessed on certain commercial customers to benefit only those customers.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor. *
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Authorizes Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission to charge project application review fees and issue general permits for certain projects.
Provides for mandatory term of imprisonment for luring and enticing an adult; increases mandatory term for luring and enticing a child.
Includes hedge fund fraud as consumer fraud act violation.
Establishes special fund for proceeds from sale of certain State-owned real property; restricts use for State debt reduction and capital projects.
Permits municipal board of library trustees to reduce library tax rate under certain conditions.
Revises law concerning electric power net metering, safety and power quality interconnection standards; requires BPU to adopt certain renewable energy credit rules. **
Changes deadline for voter-verified paper record of votes cast on voting machines to June 3, 2008. *
Revises laws concerning hate crimes and bullying; establishes Commission on Bullying in Schools.
Clarifies that certain political contribution disclosures that must be made annually to ELEC and prior to entering into certain public contracts apply only to for-profit business entities and not to nonprofit entities.
In committee · 137
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Establishes Health Care Professional Regulation Study Commission and requires certain State professional licensing boards to take certain actions.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Provides liability protection to organizations which lend child passenger restraint systems.
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.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Allows a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases by full-time undergraduate students at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Permits master deed of condominium to reflect proportional common and limited common elements interests of each owner as fractions.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Permits victim to petition the court to require defendant to be present during certain phases of criminal proceeding.
Prohibits black bear hunting, creates black bear study commission, authorizes issuance and sale of NJ Black Bear Stamp, establishes NJ Black Bear Stamp Account.
Requires legislators to designate one covered position of elected office or employment for PERS credit.
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.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Establishes a Business Part in the Superior Court.
Creates a Business Court.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Clarifies that advertisements by persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
Establishes three-year demonstration "Senior Citizen Housing and Health Screening Center Program" in DHSS.
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.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
"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 toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
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.
Requires sharing of revenues derived from major developments situated near municipal borders under certain circumstances.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
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
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Outlines criteria municipalities are to consider when establishing speed limits for local streets.
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.
Increases motor fuels tax by three cents per gallon; earmarks increase for abolishment of Garden State Parkway tolls.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.
Requires health insurance carriers to use standard explanation of benefits form.
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."
Establishes health insurance coverage registry in DHSS.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Provides for replacement of members of Legislature when one-half or more than one-half are killed by enemy attack.
Requires markings be removed from ambulances before certain sales.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Requires MVC to accept death certificate as proof of name change.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
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.
Exempts certain physician's offices operating magnetic resonance imaging or computerized axial tomography services from requirement to obtain license to operate those services.
Establishes "William's Law," pertaining to pool safety.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Prohibits radio transmissions without license from FCC and radio transmissions that interfere with licensed public or commercial radio stations.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
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.
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 and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
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.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Adds four members to Water Supply Advisory Council.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Prohibits local governments from acquiring by condemnation any airport that has had its development rights purchased.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Authorizes court to provide alternatives for persons who default in payment of fines.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Directs school nurse to develop individual health care plan for students with diabetes and allows certain diabetic students to test blood and administer insulin in the classroom.
Places temporary moratorium of 48 months on certain uses of eminent domain; creates Eminent Domain Study Commission to examine its use Statewide.
"Electronic Waste Management Act."
Permits MVC to issue driving privilege cards to persons who cannot prove ID or lawful presence in the country; appropriates $90,000.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires written prescriptions to be legibly printed or typed.
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in DHSS; requires pharmacies to compile drug retail price lists.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and 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%
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Makes permanent school district budget cap adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility and energy costs, and authorizes 3% surplus for the 2006-2007 and subsequent school years.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to Cold War veterans.
Eliminates inheritance rights and the right of recovery in certain civil actions for a surviving parent who abandoned a decedent child.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding donations of anatomical gifts.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Requires installation of automatic rain sensors on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail and industrial property.
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Designated Kevin Apuzzio's Law; allows municipalities to provide increased survivor pensions for certain volunteer emergency workers and requires municipalities to provide health and life insurance coverage to volunteer firefighters.
Establishes uniform lower contribution limits and requires greater disclosure of all campaign contributions received by candidates; repeals laws regulating campaign contributions by entities performing certain public contracts.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, certain membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Provides for supervision of certain convicted sex offender's e-mail.
Clarifies time by which public bodies are required to make minutes of meetings available to the public.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Provides for allocation of societal benefits charge among residential, small commercial and large commercial and industrial utility customers, establishes a credit against societal benefits charge and provides for certain energy assistance grants.
Provides matching grant program for local governments to facilitate energy efficiency and conservation of resources in public buildings; appropriates $50 million.
Requires BPU financial incentives for photovoltaic equipment for residences that are Energy Star compliant receive preferred treatment.
The "Flood Disaster Relief Act of 2007"; appropriates $20 million.
Appropriates $1 million to Bound Brook and $1 million to Manville for flood damage assistance.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain flood victims.
Confers civil service status on police officers employed by UMDNJ and Rutgers University.
Provides "Patriots Corner" tribute in State House to New Jersey residents serving in US Armed Forces, reserve components and New Jersey National Guard.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.
Requires NJ Commission on Science and Technology to establish a science and technology business assistance service.
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Implements certain recommendations of Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform concerning benefits and certain terms and conditions of public office and employment.