Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph R. Malone III
Sponsored
Became law1
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission.
Out of committee1
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
In committee37
Enacts the "Senior Citizens Protection Act;" authorizes municipalities to create senior citizen zones; imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Permits evidence of prior convictions or juvenile adjudications in certain criminal cases.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Permits the refurbishment of school buses to extend the life of the bus by eight years.
Authorizes county vocational schools and technical institutes to employ non-certificated persons in post-secondary and adult continuing education programs.
Designates "John Bull" as NJ State steam locomotive.
Makes clear that use of county voter registration lists by public school of any type or public institution of higher education for certain purposes does not constitute commercial solicitation of voters.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Provides sales tax exemption for purchase of automobile to replace stolen vehicle to extent of insuror's indemnification for theft.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Appropriates $1,400,000 to DHSS for grants to certain geriatric assessment centers.
Requires joint municipal planning board review of long-range facilities plans developed by regional school districts.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Extends employment security to certified fire officials and inspectors under certain conditions.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Requires public institutions of higher education to ensure that teaching assistants have effective teaching skills.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
Authorizes the establishment of a central New Jersey consortium for driver safety; appropriates $90,000.
Revises criteria for awarding certain State contracts to multiple bidders.
Establishes single personal financial disclosure form for local government officers, candidates for Governor and member of Legislature, members of Legislature and school officials; revises criminal law on gifts to public servants.
Requires State responsibility for the educational costs of children in foster homes.
"County Corrections Officers Act."
Provides that certain school districts will be accorded the same treatment and subject to the same requirements as Abbott districts.
Requires each board of education to employ a certain number of substance awareness coordinators.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Revises eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
Amends guardianship law.
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in a public school complex.
Limits the payment of transportation costs for homeless students.
Allows New Jersey S corporations to elect to transfer corporation business tax credits to shareholders to apply against the shareholders' gross income tax liability.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Amends the State's guardianship law. *
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Establishes an assessment funding mechanism for the support of Division of Banking and imposes certain additional fees and reports.
Appropriates $17,623,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
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.
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Designates ten collective negotiations unit categories for State Executive Branch employees.
Increases maximum permitted fee differential in optometric continuing education programs charged by professional association to non-members.
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Establishes date of initial employment with board of education as effective date of provisional teaching certificate and provides that novice teacher will be a teaching staff member for all purposes.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Decouples corporation business tax and gross income tax from federal deduction of certain qualified production activities income.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
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. *
Out of committee · 18
Applies prevailing wage requirement to certain custom fabrication.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Grants tenure or permanent status to certified fire officials and inspectors under certain conditions.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Establishes fine of $100 for use of hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle. *
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Allows participation in SHBP for certain union elected officers and employees. *
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $13,845,980 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 southern NJ.
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 $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 65
Establishes penalties for drunk and drugged supervising passengers under graduated driver license program.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
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.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes a county college board of trustees to grant voting rights to the graduating class representative on the board and requires the board chairman to cast deciding vote in the event of a tie under certain circumstances.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Repeals "Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Provides New Jersey certification as a school administrator or principal to any applicant with similar certification in another State.
Revises certain endorsements to the instructional certificate, requires certified teachers in licensed child care centers located in Early Childhood Program Aid districts, and establishes a loan program to assist in the attainment of certification.
Establishes a fund through which a receiving district would be reimbursed if it has to refund tuition moneys to a sending district because of an overpayment; appropriates $3 million.
Prohibits superintendent of schools from also serving as the school business administrator for a district.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Establishes the level of State aid for the 2002-2003 school year.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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 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.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
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.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained; appropriates $125,000.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Provides minimum retirement benefit to TPAF and PERS members with 20 or more years of service.
Establishes the County School District Feasibility Study Commission.
Provides State matching funds to school districts in the amount of savings realized from the provision of educational or administrative services through an educational services commission.
Increases term of office for notaries public; increases fee collected by Secretary of State for notaries' appointment or renewal.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Increases the amount of bonds issued by EDA for county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Regulates the level of State debt service payments on bonds issued by the State or State entities and prohibits the use of bond proceeds to pay interest on bonds.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Concerns penalty for use of wireless phone while driving.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires private vocational schools to provide adequate written notification when planning to close facilities.
Directs an annual appropriation of $12 million for the support of professional development for teaching staff members.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for establishment of UMDNJ Center for Research and Treatment of Ocular Inflammatory Disease.
Provides additional mandatory fines and restitution for theft of flags or flag-holders from grave sites.
Requires appropriations in the nature of grants-in-aid to include certain criteria in the act in which they are enacted.
Permits certain State employees to participate in donated leave program.
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.