Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Bill Baroni
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
In committee53
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Allows surviving spouses between 55 and 64 years of age to carry forward homestead property tax reimbursement of qualified deceased program participant.
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
Expands definition of "safe corridor".
Requires Turnpike Authority to prohibit cars on portion of NJ Turnpike dedicated to trucks and buses during certain times and under certain circumstances.
Requires the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to reduce toll rates for commercial trucks.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain individuals, businesses or other organizations performing public contracts.
Prohibits awarding of municipal professional services contracts to members of Legislature.
Prohibits certain relatives of legislators from being employed or assigned in certain positions.
Prohibits elected officials from holding more than one elective office.
Requires all elected officials and candidates and certain other public officials to file financial disclosure statement.
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Directs ELEC to collect fees from certain firms that employ legislative agents; increases certain penalties imposed by ELEC and Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; dedicates funds to those commissions.
Clarifies that certain ethical standards apply to Governor and Governor's staff.
Establishes new standard and procedure for forfeiture of elective public office for accepting illegal contributions; removes illegal contribution threshold for such forfeiture.
Eliminates criteria qualified voter must meet to receive military or civilian absentee ballot; requires distribution and collection of civilian absentee ballots and applications at train stations.
Provides that certain absentee ballots will be counted if received within ten days of election.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Allows gross income tax deduction for taxpayers who provide support for elderly or disabled relative living in their home.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for preservation and marking of graves of signers of Declaration of Independence; appropriates $200,000.
Appropriates $50,000 for feasibility study on construction of American Revolution Museum.
Regulates receipt of things of value by members and employees of Legislature and officers and employees of Executive Branch.
Implements, upon voter approval, constitutional amendment establishing the office of Lieutenant Governor.
Increases senior citizen stabilization aid to $500, reduces senior citizen concentration rate required for receipt of the aid, and makes certain regional districts eligible for the aid.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Allows credit against corporation business tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of new computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic school.
Provides for State constitutional convention to reduce government spending and to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Enacts certain provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Provides that graduates of regional or consolidated high schools with constituent municipalities located in different counties are eligible for resident tuition rates at certain county colleges.
Establishes new crimes of forced labor or services, sexual servitude, and human trafficking.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits, employer unemployment tax rebates, sales tax exemption, property tax freeze and employee skill training program as incentives for business revitalization in distressed shopping centers.
Provides for interest and enforcement mechanism for qualified private community to collect annual reimbursement payments from municipality.
Authorizes the issuance of $2,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance the construction and renovation of higher education facilities; appropriates $5,000.
Requires greater disclosure for campaign advertisements broadcast within certain time periods prior to an election.
Permits public school students involved in general election activities to be absent from school on election day.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Establishes mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Requires municipalities accepting long-term tax exemption PILOTs to distribute portion of payments to county and other taxing districts; limits PILOT agreements to 15-20 years.
Removes exception to campaign contribution prohibition on business entities seeking or holding State contracts that applies when prohibition would violate federal law.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Requires each State agency to promulgate an official policy regarding travel for work-related purposes by officers and employees; establishes minimum travel policy requirements.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for markers to designate historic sites; appropriates $90,000.
Increases criminal penalties for certain acts of voter intimidation.
Requires DEP inspection at Industrial Site Recover Act site at which soil sampling is required.
Permits direct shipping of alcoholic beverages by State wineries and out-of-State licensees to New Jersey consumers.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities and colleges or research hospitals.
Requires public school districts to provide CPR training and certification as part of curriculum; requires DOE to provide CPR instructor training; requires certain teachers to obtain training in CPR instruction.
Authorizes marriages by proxy for certain persons serving overseas in the Armed Forces or National Guard.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason; requires increased identification when requesting and returning absentee ballots; authorizes automatic transmission of absentee ballot application for general election. **
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Permits municipalities to construct speed humps on certain roads. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $16,181,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes "Task Force on Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Requires posting and distribution of rights of residents in congregate housing facilities.
Requires poll workers to have certain training in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990".
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals. *
Out of committee · 17
Applies prevailing wage requirement to certain custom fabrication.
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. *
Establishes criminal and civil penalties for transmission of certain commercial electronic mail messages. *
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Requires health care facilities to adopt policies for notifying family members of patient deaths.
Establishes owners responsibility to provide information relating to certain motor vehicle accidents.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $16,575,000 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.
In committee · 43
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Increases payment upon retirement for unused sick leave from a maximum of $15,000 to a maximum of $20,000.
Modifies various laws in regard to medical malpractice liability.
Includes transportation costs in the calculation of extraordinary special education costs incurred by public school districts.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Revises fines for drivers unable to exhibit a driver's license, insurance card or registration certificate.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $35,000 to DCA for a grant to the Hispanic Affairs and Resource Center of Monmouth County, Inc.
Requires federal transition funds received by State under Medicare prescription drug program to be used for purposes specified in federal law.
Prohibits public issuers in this State from contracting with brokers, dealers and municipal securities dealers that pay consultants finders' fees to obtain or retain municipal securities business with those issuers.
Adds certain forensic scientists to Prosecutors Part in PERS.
Prohibits loans as political contributions by certain persons; prohibits certain inducements for political contributions; reduces permitted amount of outstanding loans in certain cases.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees.
Prohibits requiring school and county college employees to search for or handle explosive devices.
Establishes limits on contributions county and municipal committees of a political party can give per election or per year to candidates and certain political committees; prohibits use of intermediaries to make campaign contributions.
Expands school breakfast program to all schools with 5% or more of the students eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Extends eligibility for veteran's property tax benefits to veterans who served outside combat zone during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Provides local governments may limit political contributions by business entities performing or seeking to perform public contracts; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal law violations concerning awarding of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions to elected officials.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Provides categorical State aid for public school district special education expenditures.
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.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Prohibits campaign contributions between county party committees; makes such contributions a third degree crime; increases to third degree crimes certain other campaign finance offenses.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Increases penalties for harboring or concealing a sex offender.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.