Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Barbara Buono
Sponsored
Became law7
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million. *
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires employer notifications to workers regarding temporary disability benefits.
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain health care providers with fee schedules. *
Requires municipal prosecutors to review and transmit to judge prior to sentencing motor vehicle abstracts of certain offenders.
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
Establishes Internet gambling public awareness campaign.
Passed the Senate7
Establishes registry of stroke cases in State.
Provides paid and unpaid leaves of absence for service with public employee unions and allows full cost purchase of PERS credit for period of leave.
Increases minimum period of imprisonment from 10 to 30 days for driving while license revoked for DWI.
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
Converts special interim assessment on net written premiums of HMOs to annual assessment to support charity care.
Revises regulation of horse racing in regard to future wagers, minimum wagers, unclaimed vouchers, lost tickets, certain simulcast races, and nonresident account wagering. *
Establishes Heritage Tourism Task Force.
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Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for certain costs of operating sick child care centers.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Provides for protection of certain publicly owned archaeological sites and findings by various State and local government entities. *
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Regulates assignment of slot machine annuity jackpot periodic payments; provides for offset of annuity jackpots for child support arrearages.
Authorizes two-year property tax exemptions for facade and frontage improvements in certain older municipalities.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Authorizes school districts that operate nonmandated preschool programs to collect tuition from parents or guardians of children enrolled in the program.
Establishes an assessment funding mechanism for the support of Division of Banking and imposes certain additional fees and reports.
Establishes special interim assessment on health maintenance organizations; requires comparative study of the equity of the various taxes imposed thereon.
Revises eligibility criteria for two CRDA-administered programs: Atlantic City Expansion Fund and Urban Revitalization Act.
Directs Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission to authorize use of certain electronic devices in conducting bingo; increases bingo prize amounts and authorizes commission to change prize amounts.
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Establishes domestic violence public awareness campaign.
Increases maximum permitted fee differential in optometric continuing education programs charged by professional association to non-members.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
The "New Jersey Tourism Restructuring Act."
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Requires carbon monoxide detectors in all school buildings.
Modifies the insurance premiums tax treatment of health service corporations.
In committee63
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Allows municipalities to double fines for moving motor vehicle violations in school zones.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Prohibits use of involvement in non-at-fault accidents and selection of collision and comprehensive coverages as tier rating factors.
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for physicians and facilities concerning women with bleeding disorders.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Limits criteria to be considered in evaluating forfeiture of pension benefits involving elected official.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Act."
Revises statutes regulating bingo, raffles and amusement games.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Extends definition of sick leave to include birth or placement for adoption of child.
Provides penalties for leaving individual with disability unattended in a motor vehicle.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to prepare an annual report on campus sexual assaults.
"New Jersey Online Privacy Protection Act."
Authorizes actions for damages for computer impersonation and electronic forgery.
Requires that each school district budget receive a minimum percentage of 50% State support.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
Authorizes a board of education to reject the lowest bid for a school transportation contract based on the school bus safety inspection record of the bidder.
Directs NJ Turnpike Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to American former prisoners of war.
Revises present statutes concerning procedures in civil actions relating to judgments and collection of judgments.
Redesigns special prisoner of war license plates.
Increases Intoxicated Driver Resource Center requirements for first-time DWI offenders.
Establishes "CARE Unit" in Division of Criminal Justice to fight crime against the elderly; makes an appropriation.
Requires State aid for operating expenses of higher education institutions as a percentage of the State budget to equal national average.
Requires school bus safety instruction in all school districts which provide pupil transportation.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to DHSS for grant for Hemophilia Services.
Permits consumers to opt-out of sharing nonpublic personal information in certain cases.
Requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and subscription services to make disclosures about recording devices; regulates release of recording device data.
Permits registered nurses to make determination and pronouncement of death in any setting where death occurs.
Clarifies neuro-imaging criteria for primary stroke centers.
Designates November 3 in each year as "Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day."
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
Appropriates $99,000 to DCA for grant to Women Helping Women.
Requires certain disclosures from carriers; establishes new health care claims payment and appeals process; limits use of utilization management under certain circumstances.
Authorizes State and local governments to enter into group purchasing agreement for alternative fueled vehicles.
Provides for criminal penalties for providing false information pursuant to certain environmental laws.
"Long-Term Care Partnership Program Act"; establishes Long-Term Care Partnership Program in DHSS.
Directs Commissioner of DHS to prepare annual Access to Employer-Based Health Insurance for NJ FamilyCare Enrollees report.
Increases minimum loss ratio for individual and small employer-health benefits plans from 75% to 80%.
Permits deferred payment for six months of financial obligation incurred by member of National Guard killed on active duty.
Adds two members to Board of Pharmacy and specifies type of employer of three of the members.
Requires health insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for screening for cervical cancer, including testing for HPV.
Authorizes attorneys at law of this State in good standing to perform marriage ceremonies.
Restricts use of certain pesticides at certain schools, child care centers and family day care homes.
Requires police department to mail or fax accident reports upon request.
Limits rulemaking authority and administrative discretion of Casino Control Commission.
Filed1
Converts special interim assessment on net written premiums of HMOs to annual assessment to support charity care.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
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.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes licensing requirements and standards for pharmaceutical wholesale distribution.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
"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. *
Permits unemployment benefits for workers "locked-out" by their employers. *
Appropriates $1.3 million in federal funds for the Asian Longhorn Beetle Program.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act."
Passed the Senate · 4
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Authorizes NJEDA to issue cigarette tax revenue bonds to fund stem cell research facilities, biomedical research facilities, and State park, forest, and wildlife management area capital projects; designated the Capital Facilities Financing Act of 2005."
"Stem Cell Research Bond Act of 2006," authorizes sale of bonds for $350 million and appropriates $5,000.
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Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling in public schools. *
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
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.
"Cigarette Sales Act;" facilitates collection of taxes on retail sales of cigarettes shipped from outside this State. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Establishes program for removal of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. *
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible.
Concerns regulation of certain agreements between casino and casino service industry licensees.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Conforms the sales and use tax to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to provide for entry therein.
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. *
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Prohibits Governor, Legislators and various State officers and employees from holding any financial interest in casino licensees or applicants, or their holding or intermediary companies. *
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.
Permits the Director of the Division of Taxation to extend filing and payment deadlines under the New Jersey gross income tax to conform with similar federal personal income tax actions of the Internal Revenue Service.
Allows deduction from estates taxable under New Jersey estate tax for value of property passing to decedent's disabled child.
"Polysomnography Practice Act."
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
Establishes Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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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 health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Permits use of hands-free wireless phones in moving vehicles.
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program allowance to $500 per year.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to adoption agencies conducting home studies of prospective adoptive parents.
Increases membership of Drug Utilization Review Board to include two advanced practice nurses.
Provides for third party payment of registered nurse first assistant when insurer covers payment for surgical first assistant services.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal primary and general elections.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; appropriates $420,000.
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is less than 18 years old.
Increases minimum wage.
Authorizes counties, with voter approval, to impose special levy to fund water resources preservation and restoration projects.
Requires Department of Labor to adopt air quality standards for public school buildings and appropriates $250,000 to Department of Labor to enforce those standards.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 18 and younger.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires insurers to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances and requires physicians to provide certain treatment information to patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
Reduces the maximum annual partnership information return filing fee to $150,000 for publicly traded partnerships.
Permits counties and municipalities to impose limits on politicals contributions made by business entities that receive contracts; requires disclosure of political contributions by certain business entities.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Establishes the Higher Education Master Plan Commission in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Establishes credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for puchase of certain qualified hybrid vehicles.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
Deletes State registration requirement to dispense controlled dangerous substances.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Requires NJ Energy Star Homes Program incentives be available Statewide.
"Prompt Health Care Claims Processing and Reimbursement Act."
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Establishes Prescription Monitoring Program in Division of Consumer Affairs.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Increases the presumed marked-up rate for a retailer selling cigarettes.
Provides for establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments or awards.
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.
Prohibits sale of flavored tobacco products.
Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
"Stem Cell Research Bond Act of 2005," authorizes sale of bonds for $230 million and appropriates $5,000.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Permits certain State employees to participate in donated leave program.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.