Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Peter J. Biondi
Sponsored
Became law2
Revises references pertaining to podiatrists in statutes.
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Out of committee4
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
Prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from possessing body vest. *
Requires issuance of permit to replace shower valves.
Repeals provisions of previous law inadvertently not repealed under "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003" and makes necessary conforming amendments.
In committee23
Requires that notice of hearing on certain zoning changes be by certified mail only.
Provides for automatic submittal of local government unit application for acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes to Garden State Preservation Trust under certain circumstances.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million.
Creates video camera grant program in DLPS for municipalities; makes an appropriation.
State Government Municipal Reimbursement Act.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Eliminates requirement that school bus drivers be fingerprinted for license renewal.
Prohibits awarding of municipal professional services contracts to certain elected officials.
Increases period of license suspension for certain drunk driving offenses.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Provides for "grandfathering" of certain persons as licensed professional counselors.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Revises public school district budget cap adjustment for special education and establishes adjustments for utility costs, health benefits costs, legal fees, and membership dues for New Jersey School Boards Association.
Upgrade penalties for unlawful transportation of passengers for hire in certain cases.
Raises penalties for operating snowmobiles or all-terrain vehicles while under the influence.
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
Allows retail dealer of motor fuel to sell motor fuel at price below net cost to retail dealer during period of unpredictable price fluctuation.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Repeals provisions of previous law inadvertently not repealed under "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003" and makes necessary conforming amendments.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises experience requirements for eligibility to be licensed as a marriage and family therapist.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Approves $6,435,602 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in central New Jersey.
Revises number of semester hours of education required by applicants seeking examination for licensure as certified public accountants.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Provides for the registration of daily money managers.
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. *
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Out of committee · 22
Directs NJT to study and design bus rapid transit demonstration projects.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Revises "grandfathering" provisions for eligibility to be a licensed home inspector.
Directs DEP to acquire certain obsolete vessels to use as artificial reefs; appropriates up to $250,000. *
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an early warning, traffic congestion avoidance pilot program.
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." *
Exempts solar energy systems from real property taxation.
Authorizes transfer of State property and removes use restrictions.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to enforce federal motor carrier registration and financial responsibility requirements.
Revises certain statutes governing operation of commercial motor vehicles; clarifies existing penalties and establishes new offenses.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Revises various provisions of the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003."
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
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.
Appropriates $65,822,075 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Appropriates $5.015 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006." *
In committee · 85
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Recouples the New Jersey estate tax to the federal credit for state death taxes paid; provides statute of limitation for lien of tax.
Eliminates supplemental realty transfer fee, and clarifies the law with respect to realty transfer fees generally.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Prohibits Governor from appearing in certain State-funded advertisements.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Establishes special license plates to fund juvenile diabetes research and education.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Permits wine tastings and samplings by certain Class C alcoholic beverage licensees.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Creates New Jersey Regulatory Improvement Advisory Council; requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis for certain State regulatory actions.
Reorganizes New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Grants county planning board power to review site plans for land development affecting county roads.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes "Volunteer Emergency Services Highway Reimbursement Fund."
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Adds new causes of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences.
Establishes Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
Establishes certification of property managers of common interest communities.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Establishes municipal court jurisdiction over certain juvenile delinquency cases.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Provides alternatives concerning patterns of repeated unauthorized absences from school by a child between the ages of six and 16 years.
Authorizes UEZA to designate an additional zone.
Authorizes DCA to establish bidding and conflict of interest guidelines for homeowners' associations.
Enables authorized persons to obtain criminal background checks on juveniles to determine suitability for work with children, the elderly and the developmentally disabled.
Expands implied consent statute to include blood testing; permits use of reasonable force to obtain blood sample in certain cases.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Appropriates $120,000 for North Branch Flood Mitigation Project.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Repeals "Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from acting on certain bills in which they have personal interest; redefines personal interest.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Requires recipients of certain unusually hazardous substances to notify local fire officials of the anticipated storage time of such substances in their communities.
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Concerns basic skills training.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Creates "Comprehensive Anti-Nepotism Act of 2004."
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
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.
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."
Exempts Picatinny Arsenal conversion plan from the provisions of the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Requires reckless driving summons to note whether minor was in vehicle and makes minor's presence an aggravating factor.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
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.
Revises membership of the New Jersey Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange board.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Adds murder to the list of predicate crimes in the felony murder statute.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Provides for temporary voluntary deduction from compensation of State employees for donation to American Red Cross for disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
Permits criminal history record check for unpaid volunteers in schools and requires applicant to be reimbursed for costs of check; permits the reimbursement of paid school personnel for such costs.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
"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.
"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.
Requires demonstration of compliance with municipal zoning requirements as a condition for the issuance of certain construction and occupancy permits.
Establishes State-Administered Retirement Systems Study Commission.
Requires addition of bittering agent to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Requires imposition of 250 hours of community service for public servant convicted of certain crimes.
Allows consumer to purchase no more than 100 gallons of motor fuel at posted price in effect at time of purchase of pre-paid card.
Prohibits motor fuel distributor or wholesaler from increasing price more than once in 24-hour period.
Provides exception to requirement that posted price of motor fuel must remain unchanged for 24-hour period.