Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Peter J. Biondi
Sponsored
Became law2
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
Requires assignment of same inspector or team of inspectors who found a construction code violation to reinspection thereof.
Passed the General Assembly2
Provides for the registration of daily money managers.
Requires that notice of hearing on certain zoning changes be by certified mail only.
Out of committee2
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
In committee33
Creates New Jersey Regulatory Improvement Advisory Council; requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis for certain State regulatory actions.
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."
Prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from possessing body vest.
Grants county planning board power to review site plans for land development affecting county roads.
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.
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Repeals provisions of previous law inadvertently not repealed under "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003" and makes necessary conforming amendments.
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.
Raises penalties for operating snowmobiles or all-terrain vehicles while under the influence.
Allows retail dealer of motor fuel to sell motor fuel at price below net cost to retail dealer during period of unpredictable price fluctuation.
Makes certain operators of interactive computer services and Internet service providers liable to persons injured by false or defamatory messages posted on public forum websites.
Provides for motor fuels tax exemption to school bus contractors.
Allows school boards and certain school board contractors to purchase gasoline and diesel fuel under State contract.
Provides that chair and vice-chair of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards will be selected from among committee's public members on bipartisan basis.
Authorizes licensed air ambulance services to be dispatched as air medical unit first responders in New Jersey and directs DHSS to establish certain dispatch guidelines.
Exempts certain State authorities and local government contracting units from bidding requirements when goods and services are procured below prices available under State contract.
Increases maximum municipal contribution to fire districts and volunteer fire companies; indexes amount biennially for inflation.
Upgrades possession of controlled dangerous substance in drug free school zone to second degree crime.
Increases income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Maintains affordability controls on low and moderate income housing in perpetuity.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires certain health care professionals to provide information and screening for postpartum depression.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
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.
Establishes the State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors. *
Concerns omnibuses; creates "Omnibus Safety Enforcement Fund." *
Permits the charging of fee for capital contribution for purpose of defraying common expenses; validates certain bylaws.
Revises certain penalties relating to operation of autobuses.
Concerns transportation services used in connection with temporary help service firms. *
Revises "Athletic Training Licensure Act."
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Appropriates $6.515 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation 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 $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $45.15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,375,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities 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.
Provides for licensure of massage and bodywork therapists and registration of the employers.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 17
Adds new causes of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences.
Directs DEP to acquire certain obsolete vessels to use as artificial reefs; appropriates up to $250,000.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Revises various provisions of the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003."
Exempts solar energy systems from real property taxation.
Requires certain State buildings to be designed and managed to meet high performance green building standards. *
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell as surplus land and improvements thereon known as North Princeton Developmental Center to Montgomery Township in Somerset County.
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.
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.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Establishes procedures for operation of air ambulance services.
Restricts receipt of things of value by members of the Legislature and legislative staff from lobbyists and governmental affairs agents; increases certain penalty provisions. *
Requires governmental affairs agent to report particular items in annual appropriation legislation or appropriation legislation supplemental thereto on which agent acted.
Prohibits candidates from contributing campaign funds to charity in which candidate or candidate's immediate family is an officer or employee or receives compensation for goods or services provided to the charity.
In committee · 73
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.
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
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.
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.
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.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Directs NJT to study and design bus rapid transit demonstration projects.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an early warning, traffic congestion avoidance pilot program.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Establishes Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
Establishes certification of property managers of common interest communities.
Authorizes DCA to establish bidding and conflict of interest guidelines for homeowners' associations.
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.
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.
Adds murder to the list of predicate crimes in the felony murder statute.
Authorizes transfer of State property and removes use restrictions.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Requires addition of bittering agent to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Establishes State-Administered Retirement Systems Study Commission.
Creates offense of financial exploitation of the elderly.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires demonstration of compliance with municipal zoning requirements as a condition for the issuance of certain construction and occupancy permits.
Requires recipients of certain unusually hazardous substances to notify local fire officials of the anticipated storage time of such substances in their communities.
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.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
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.
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."
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $500 income tax deduction.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
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.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from acting on certain bills in which they have personal interest; redefines personal interest.
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.
"Transportation Trust Fund Renewal and Reform Act of 2005."
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Requires State to reimburse counties and municipalities for salary and fringe benefit costs of employee on official leave of absence for military service in war on terror; makes an appropriation.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes distributors providing vehicles to armed forces members to issue temporary registrations.
Repeals Highlands planning and environmental permitting provisions of "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," and amends various statutes to reflect repeal thereof.
"Transportation Trust Fund Renewal and Enhancement Act."
Permits municipalities to enact an ordinance requiring drivers arrested for DUI to be held in custody.
Revises Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Establishes "Volunteer Emergency Services Highway Reimbursement Fund."
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.
Establishes State Capital Coordinating Council on Emergency Evacuation Routes and Procedures.
Requires payment of portion of Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid to school district when municipality obtains more revenue from long term tax exemption service charge than it would otherwise receive in property taxes.
Requires imposition of 250 hours of community service for public servant convicted of certain crimes.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Requires new State buildings to be designed and managed to meet Silver level certification under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Permits smoking in place or building owned and operated by social or fraternal organization.
Provides for philosophical exemption to mandatory immunizations.
The "Flood Disaster Relief Act of 2007"; appropriates $20 million.
Appropriates $1 million to Bound Brook and $1 million to Manville for flood damage assistance.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases made by certain flood victims.
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 holding of binding Statewide referendum on whether the death penalty should be repealed and replaced with life imprisonment without parole.