Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Alison Littell McHose
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. *
Authorizes people with mobility-related disabilities to operate scooters on public property.
Provides free admission for veterans to State parks and forests during events held by veterans' organizations and free use of park and forest facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
In committee51
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to finance the cost of new septic systems.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
Directs Commissioner of DEP to name brook adjacent to Wildcat Rock Shelter.
Holds retailers harmless for pre-packaged slack-filled goods.
Regulates the level of State debt service payments on bonds issued by the State or State entities and prohibits the use of bond proceeds to pay interest on bonds.
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."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Upgrades arson and criminal mischief under certain circumstances if certain historic property is target.
Ensures that school districts in Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties continue to provide out-of-State transportation to certain nonpublic school pupils, despite population changes in the county.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
The "Dam, Lake, and Stream Restoration Bond Act of 2005," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Allows certain taxpayers a one-time refundable gross income tax credit for gross income tax paid at highest rate of tax upon the gain from sale of small businesses.
Eliminates the earned income cap for eligibility for the senior's non-pension income exclusion under the gross income tax.
Requires certain investments by the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Allows school psychologists to treat certain individuals in the private sector; provides for health benefits coverage therefor.
Requires that the members of a housing authority must reside in the municipality in which the housing authority was created.
Amends annual appropriations act to reduce State spending on non-essential or wasteful items and dedicates deappropriated funds for reduction of the State's structural deficit.
Permits possession of certain types of ammunition.
Permits parent of twins or higher order multiples enrolled in public school to select shared or separate classroom placement of their children.
Revises difinition of religious employer in statute concerning insurance coverage of prescription female contraceptives.
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
Adds "significant bodily injury" to assault by auto or vessel statute; upgrades penalties for inflicting serious bodily injury.
Limits the salaries of school business administrators, superintendents of schools, and assistant superintendents of schools to the salary of the Commissioner of Education.
Clarifies provisions of law concerning commissions for sale of local government real estate.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
David's Law; establishes crime of negligent vehicular homicide.
Prohibits unauthorized use of name and images of members of Armed Forces of United States.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates nominated at primaries after 48th and before 14th day before general election, except due to death; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before elections.
Prohibits foreign ownership of certain transportation infrastructure.
Prohibits the Delaware River Port Authority from selling or leasing certain transportation infrastructure projects to foreign corporations or governments.
Prohibits the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from selling or leasing certain transportation infrastructure projects to foreign corporations or governments.
Prohibits the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission from selling or leasing certain transportation infrastructure projects to foreign corporations or governments.
Prohibits the Delaware River and Bay Authority from selling or leasing certain transportation infrastructure projects to foreign corporations or governments.
"Ovarian Health Protection Act"; prohibits procurement or use of human eggs for research or experimentation.
Removes charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues from sales and use tax.
Establishes Lane Splitting Task Force.
Provides that school districts may pay certain percentage price preference for "Jersey Fresh" and other NJ agricultural products.
Requires voter registration forms be made available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
Appropriates $200,000 for Garden State Agricultural Re-Engineering Program to assist dairy farmers.
Creates Community Farmers' Market Study Commission and program promoting marketing opportunities for farmers.
Prohibits DOT from putting tolls on I-78 and I-80 and from transferring jurisdiction to independent authority or entity.
Exempts certain lake association membership fees and dues from sales and use tax.
Provides that public official may refuse to solemnize civil unions if solemnization conflicts with public official's conscience or sincerely held moral or religious beliefs.
Clarifies certain standards for regulation of recreational vehicles as housing.
Provides that NJ STARS students can enroll in county college outside county of residence under certain circumstances.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from considering or requiring compliance by Highlands planning area municipalities with Highlands regional master plan in certain circumstances.
Establishes reporting requirements and permissive inference for violations by motor vehicle operators approaching or passing certain horses, ponies and mules.
Prohibits certain candidates from receiving public financing for campaigns.
Establishes eleven-member "New Jersey Clean Elections Financing Study Commission."
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. **
Authorizes people with mobility-related disabilities to operate scooters on public property.
Provides free admission for veterans to State parks and forests during events held by veterans' organizations and free use of park and forest facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." *
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to advise women of option to donate or store umbilical cord blood and placental tissue. **
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Clarifies jurisdiction concerning matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident.
Revises qualifications to carry firearms for certain retired police officers.
Establishes Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative.
Upgrades simple assault against a private school teacher to aggravated assault; adds definition of "school" to criminal code. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support New Jersey Veterans Haven program.
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
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.
Appropriates $8,279,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $8,100,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $9,066,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Places the burden of proof and burden of production on school districts in due process hearings conducted to resolve special education issues.
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.
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.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service. *
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger. *
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Appropriates $33 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Out of committee · 23
Requires BPU to establish voluntary program for certification of renewable energy installers.
Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.
Removes time restrictions on sale of poppies.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Requires disclosure of terms, conditions, and limitations on prepaid telephone calling cards.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Establishes sex offender monitoring program. *
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Requires DEP to refund application fee to certain persons exempt from Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. *
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.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
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.
Appropriates $27,572,751 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for State farmland acquisitions; appropriates $341,278 in bond funds for soil and water conservation grants; and revises funding for administrative costs of State Transfer Deve
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Requires Attorney General to defend certain local law enforcement officers.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
In committee · 84
The "New Jersey Self-Defense Law."
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Increases handicapped parking education and fines for unlawfully parking in handicapped space; requires DMV to issue stickers for handicapped placards and license plates when renewed every three years.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under the gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Requires Division of Building and Construction to conduct analysis of State buildings to determine energy and cost savings through use of alternative electrical energy equipment or technology.
Establishes an annual solar photovoltaic manufacturing incentive grant program.
Establishes wind easements in NJ.
Establishes task force in Department of Agriculture to develop markets for place-based foods.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on State Advertisements and Promotions; prohibits appearance of Governor in State advertisements or promotions unless appearance is essential to achieve public purpose.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Prohibits elected officials from holding more than one elective office.
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Requires appropriations in the nature of grants-in-aid to include certain criteria in the act in which they are enacted.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Requires public bodies to allow public comment at every meeting.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain certain benefits.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
The "Public Dam Rehabilitation Project Bond Act," authorizes bonds for $90,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Eliminates redundant fingerprinting for certain gun permit applicants.
Repeals certain restrictions on future retail sales of handguns.
Authorizes school boards to establish a firearm safety program.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective offices; provides for transition period between offices.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires training program for and recognizes position of technical assistant to construction code official.
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Authorizes the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations concerning the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around occupied building.
Repeals Highlands planning and environmental permitting provisions of "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," and amends various statutes to reflect repeal thereof.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Revises Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Upgrades criminal offense of assault in certain circumstances.
Establishes a "State Authorities Review Commission."
Establishes "Local Authorities Review Commission."
Provides for direct property tax relief from Highlands Property Tax Stabilization Fund.
Prohibits housing allowance in contract between State Board of Education and State district superintendent.
Prohibits release of illegal immigrants from correctional facilities.
Provides free admission for veterans to High Point State Park and free use of the park's facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Changes age of eligibility for TPAF and PERS early retirement option without benefit reduction from 55 to 60 for new enrollees.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
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.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
Eliminates the imposition of sales and use tax on certain services and goods effective October 1, 2006.
Eliminates imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to health and fitness clubs or organizations.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Modifies rule governing decisions under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Repeals gross receipts and use taxes on retail sales of fur clothing.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Repeals statute setting forth public policy of State on stem cell research.
Prohibits use of public funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Requires legislation authorizing sale of certain State assets to be approved by voters.
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
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 adoption and distribution of constitutions and bylaws by county political party committees; requires certain oaths of office by committee members; requires certified list of committee members to be filed with county clerk.