Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Andrew R. Ciesla
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
Permits local government units to grant Length of Service Award Program points to certain activated military members.
Out of committee5
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Prohibits taking and processing of fish on certain vessels in marine waters.
Requires water purveyors and licensed operators to notify the municipalities they service regarding water supply and water quality issues. *
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000.
Upgrades penalties for drag racing.
In committee66
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits.
Permits public employees who are members of WAVES National or Sons of the American Legion to have paid leave to attend State or national conventions.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Adds certain forensic scientists to Prosecutors Part in PERS.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Terminates imposition of certain fees on transfers of real property.
Requires radiation detectors to be mounted on cranes within Port of New York District.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Requires chimney sweeps to be registered.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
Restores fiscal integrity and enhances funding to Transportation Trust Fund.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from working in ice cream trucks and amusement parks.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Establishes Autism Education Council.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2002.
Prohibits sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations prohibiting overcowding of animals in kennels, pet shops and other retail establishments; establishes penalties.
Prohibits harvest, landing, processing or sale of wild sargassum in NJ.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee.
Creates Coastal Area Dredge Disposal Alternatives Task Force; appropriates $95,000 therefor.
"Homestead School Property Tax Reimbursement Act"; provides State reimbursement for 50% of school property taxes paid by seniors; 65 years and older.
Establishes "Pharmaceutical Research to Combat Alcoholism Fund" and appropriates $1 million.
Provides that PFRS definitions of widow, widower and spouse will include domestic partners of all PFRS members.
Allows PFRS members to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit for named beneficiary.
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Authorizes special parking insignias for passenger automobiles used to transport the developmentally disabled.
Exempts senior citizens and blind or disabled persons from certain realty transfer fees.
Authorizes special "Adopt a Horse" license plates with proceeds to support Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Prohibits certain vehicles from obstructing an intersection.
Upgrades simple assault against private school teachers to aggravated assault.
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Eliminates certain domestic product requirements from public contracting laws.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHS to develop community residences for Division of Developmental Disabilities clients on the waiting list.
Increases applicable exclusion amount under the estate tax from $675,000 to $1,000,000.
Provides grants and tax credits for school districts and private contractors for installing cameras on school buses.
Permits veterans' organizations to use net proceeds from games of chance for organizations' support.
Prohibits Pinelands Commission from requiring pinelands development credits for the construction of development project that includes affordable housing.
Restores 21-day exemption from boat safety course to operate jet ski.
Requires dockbuilders and workers who come into contact with creosote-treated marine piling, and their employers, to comply with certain established safety and health protection procedures.
Requires boards of education to record all meetings.
Exempts initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of certain golf clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for assault upon senior citizens.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Increases penalties for violations committed by provisional driver's license holder.
Exempts retirement communities that own omnibuses from certain registration requirements.
Appropriates $960,000 in FY 2007 to the Department of Education to pay the State share of new school facilities construction in the Toms River Regional School District.
Removes certain employed family members from unemployment insurance exemption.
Omits State Police detectives from Open Public Records Act.
Stipulates that new home builders are exempted from "Contractors' Registration Act" regardless of work performed.
Authorizes special "Brain Tumor Awareness" license plates with proceeds to support certain New Jersey brain tumor support groups.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for marinas and boatyards that follow certain environmentally sound management practices.
Directs State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to encourage veterinarians to report suspected animal cruelty, and adopt regulations to comply; provides civil immunity to reporting veterinarians.
Permits municipality to determine permissible parking distance from intersection, crosswalk or "stop" sign.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Authorizes court to require persons convicted of refusing breathalyzer for second or subsequent time to install ignition interlock.
Reduces certain stop sign no parking zones from 50 feet to 30 feet.
Allows TPAF retiree to be employed as certificated superintendent or administrator for limited time frame due to critical need without TPAF reenrollment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public. *
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Concerns the location of hazardous substances in flood plains.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Extends date for certain submittals required pursuant to diesel emissions law; authorizes DEP to disapprove cost estimates for retrofit technology under certain conditions; and modifies requirement to sell, distribute, and use ultra low sulfur diesel fue
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender. *
Requires DEP to conduct public hearing and provide opportunity for public comment at conclusion of feasibility study for shore protection projects.
Excludes membership fees and dues of certain governmental and charitable clubs and organizations and certain parking services from sales and use tax. ****
Passed the Senate · 7
Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Prohibits purchaser of used motor vehicle from waiving dealer's obligation regarding emissions control equipment. *
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Permits dealer issued license plate frames which do not obsure numbers and letters on vehicle license plates. *
Revises requirements for voter disqualification of persons lacking capacity to understand the act of voting.
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Out of committee · 22
Revises organization and certain functions of Motor Vehicle Commission.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Establishes the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in the DEP and appropriates $200,000.
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain long-term and former State residents. *
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. **
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Creates exception to age requirement for power boat operation conducted during authorized race.
Permits student whose high school special education program requires instruction beyond four years to participate with his class in graduation ceremony and to receive certificate of attendance.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
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. *
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
In committee · 60
Establishes "Volunteer Emergency Services Highway Reimbursement Fund."
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Establishes State security officer program to augment security at State's nuclear power plants; levies $1 surcharge on traffic fines for funding.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Repeals State and local hotel and motel occupancy taxes and voids existing municipal implementing ordinances.
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides for State income tax deduction to private well owners for water testing costs.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires vendors of legal services to fully itemize bills to public entities and prescribes penalties.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for MTBE in drinking water; directs DEP to adopt certain standard for arsenic in drinking water; appropriates $100,000.
Requires voter approval when State funds are appropriated to finance construction of certain professional sports facilities.
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan; appropriates $2.5 million from "Water Supply Fund" therefor.
Promotes the performance of environmental audits.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Clarifies and strengthens disclosure requirements for certain complimentary tickets received by candidates, officeholders, political party officials, political committees and continuing political committees.
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Provides employment credit for military service for board of education employees.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires drug testing of resource family parents and DYFS caseworkers.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Provides for the licensure of tree experts and tree care operators, and the registration of their employers.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facilities will be located.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Increases prison time for certain persons convicted of a motor vehicle offense when license suspended for DUI.
Eliminates charges for initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of health and fitness, athletic, and sporting clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Eliminates certificate of need requirement for home health care services provided by a hospital.
Requires that each school district receive a minimum of 35% State support of its net budget and that a minimum of 35% of the net budget be supported through local tax levy.
Establishes a formula for the distribution of State aid to school districts.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring maintenance and repair of certain wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Permits revised methods of treatment for chiropractors and establishes continuing education requirements.
Requires radon testing of certain educational facilities every five years, residential properties at the time of sale, and residential lease properties within 18 months and every five years thereafter.
Creates Coastal Area Homeowners Insurance Organization.
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.