Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Linda Stender
Sponsored
Became law9
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to issue certain decisions in writing. *
Concerns hours of service of commercial motor vehicles operating in intrastate commerce. *
Regulates certain devices which interfere with traffic control signals. *
Increases penalties for failing to yield at crosswalks by $50; dedicates extra money to DLPS pedestrian safety program.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. **
Requires value engineering clause in specifications for certain construction contracts under Local Public Contracts Law.
Extends workers' compensation coverage under NJ Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board to thoroughbred exercise riders in certain circumstances.
Authorizes increased fines for certain trucks violating truck route ordinances on steep grades.
Passed the General Assembly3
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Provides that preliminary eligible costs will equal estimated actual costs for certain school facilities projects necessary to address a health hazard. *
Concerns magazine subscriptions.
Out of committee5
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support improvement of State parks and forests.*
Provides immunity from liability for persons who install or inspect child restraint systems.
Provides that the chairmanship of the State Athletic Control Board would be a part-time position.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
In committee37
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Prohibits directed suretyship in connection with public works contracts.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature audiences to minors.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Adds representatives from the Department of Community Affairs to the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes special license plate supporting after-school programs.
Requires health insurers to provide health benefits coverage for treatment of pathological gambling.
Concerns mold hazards in indoor environments.
Provides for assessment, at municipal option, of additional realty transfer fee of $0.75 for each $500 of consideration or fractional part thereof recited in the deed in excess of $150,000, and provides for proceeds therefrom to be used for municipal ope
Allows patrons of State-owned concert and sports facilities to bring bottled water into those facilities.
Requires Commissioner of Education to grant an equivalency or waiver under certain conditions.
Directs the State Lottery Commission to establish video lottery at not more than three horse racetracks; provides for NJ Casino Control Commission and NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement oversight.
Revises statutes regulating bingo, raffles and amusement games.
Revises "Off-track and Account Wagering Act".
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Requires school bus driver to inspect bus, activate safety device at end of transportation route to ensure that no pupil has been left on board.
Concerns contents of zoning ordinances.
Prohibits sale on school property of certain foods during school breakfast and lunch periods.
Requires each municipality to establish a Reverse 9-1-1 system.
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
Provides that repayment of liquid assets by certain former constituent districts of dissolved limited purpose regional district be made over ten-year period.
Prohibits municipalities from adopting zoning ordinances that prohibit construction or use of antenna structures by federally licensed amateur radio operators.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Directs the BPU to require cable television companies to clearly disclose terms and conditions of "introductory rates" offered to new and existing customers.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Permits State Lottery Commission to authorize 5,000 video lottery terminals at Meadowlands horse racetrack; preserves Casino Revenue Fund at FY2005 level; provides for benefits to horse racing industry.
Authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish textbook rental programs.
Requires on-time performance data in NJ Transit annual report.
Prohibits Medicaid, General Assistance and NJ FamilyCare programs from covering drugs for erectile dysfunction for recipients who are convicted sex offenders.
Requires school bus drivers to inspect bus for pupils remaining at end of route.
Requires DOT to provide safe pedestrian access and movement upon installation of traffic signal that employs best available technology to reduce traffic congestion.
Bans sale and rental of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors.
Establishes Department of Tourism and the Arts as principal department in Executive Branch of State government.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Provides that the chairmanship of the State Athletic Control Board would be a part-time position.
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Requires county colleges to award college-credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Permits municipalities to construct speed humps on certain roads. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
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
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues. *
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Passed the General Assembly · 15
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
Permits minors to assist in conduct of bingo games and raffles. *
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Requires charge to nonresidents for E-ZPass transponders. *
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.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools. *
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Requires bid proposal documents to include traffic safety requirements.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Out of committee · 27
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
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.
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur, and personal wireless service facilities to be erected, on preserved farmland under certain circumstances. *
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.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders. *
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
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.
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Permits municipality to create drug free zone around project-based housing. *
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Transportation Trust Fund Renewal and Reform Act of 2005." *
Prohibits Governor, Legislators and members of CRDA from holding any financial interest in casino licensees or applicants, or their holding or intermediary companies. *
"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. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Authorizes NJ Transit to establish NJ Transit Development Corporation as subsidiary corporation.
Revises regulation of horse racing in regard to future wagers, minimum wagers, unclaimed vouchers, lost tickets, certain simulcast races, and nonresident account wagering.
In committee · 49
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission for tourism promotion and grants to regional tourism councils.
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Creates the "September 11, 2001 Victims Compensation Act."
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Creates Vehicles for the Future Study Commission.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Requires enrollment in PFRS regardless of age of certain firefighters appointed between July 1998 and July 1999.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Appropriates $10 million for New Jersey September 11, 2001 Memorial at Liberty State Park.
"Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Act."
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Establishes process for municipal review of certain airport license applications for certain airport activities.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
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."
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Creates more specific gambling offenses connected with fights between animals under the animal cruelty laws; establishes minimum jail time for first offenders.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Requires commercial mobile service companies to allow customers to retain unused minutes of service for use in any subsequent billing period.
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.
Revises distribution of Casino Simulcasting Special Fund.
Prohibits use of hand-held wireless telephones by bicyclists while riding on public roads.
Provides additional State aid to certain public school districts.