Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph R. Malone III
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission.
Passed the General Assembly1
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
In committee48
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.
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.
Modifies reference from "substance awareness coordinator" to "student assistance coordinator" in substance abuse programs in public schools.
Authorizes the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations concerning the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Clarifies statewide arrest powers of county corrections officers and sheriff's officers.
Prohibits the construction of school facilities on a contaminated or remediated site.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Abolishes Office of Information Technology unless Governor consolidates State's information technology functions in Office of Information Technology.
Requires certain municipalities to regionalize a percentage of municipal services by 2008.
Removes limitation on maximum homestead property tax deduction under gross income tax.
Authorizes ballot question to convene State constitutional convention for reforming public school funding and operation.
Establishes Public School Revenue Study Commission.
Abolishes Department of Personnel and New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission and makes certain transfers; abolishes various other statutory entities.
Enhances penalties for provisional driver's license holders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Establishes "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission"; establishes measures for local government efficiency; appropriates $95,000.
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.
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service. *
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Extends transmittal date of FY2006-07 gubernatorial budget message to the Legislature to March 23, 2006. *
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Requires Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council to report to State Employment and Training Center and adds three members; and makes an appropriation of $50,000. *
Appropriates $8,552,405 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 $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 $39,430,430 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
Establishes pilot program to conduct comprehensive eye examinations for second grade students.
Establishes the position of Ethics Counsel and mandates certain ethics consultation and training in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Regulates certain tows and requires licensure of towing companies.
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 $6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Amends language in annual appropriations act to eliminate moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement to new pharmacies and medical supplies sold in pharmacies. *
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Permits the appointment of joint municipal court judges by agreement of affected municipalities.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Establishes Task Force on College Savings Plans.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified technology education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Out of committee · 17
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Requires Commission on Higher Education to prepare report on certain public college and university personnel. *
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges. *
Provides a corporation business tax credit for contributions to support facilities construction, expansion, renovation and upgrade at New Jersey public and independent institutions of higher education.
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.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
Provides unemployment benefits for spouses of armed services members under certain conditions. *
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender.
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.
Requires local public contracts to contain provision for renegotiation upon key construction material's price change based on recognized industry price index.
In committee · 69
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."
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
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."
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
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.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for establishment of UMDNJ Center for Research and Treatment of Ocular Inflammatory Disease.
Directs an annual appropriation of $12 million for the support of professional development for teaching staff members.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
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.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
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 the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
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.
Establishes the County School District Feasibility Study Commission.
Requires private vocational schools to provide adequate written notification when planning to close facilities.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Authorizes common interest community associations and homeowners to utilize State Office of Consumer Protection for dispute resolution.
Reallocates $2.5 million in funds to award a grant to the Monmouth County Child Advocacy Center.
Requires Pinelands Commission to update master plan every seven years; requires critical habitat study prior to construction.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center and authorizes establishment of Foundation for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
Limits Abbott district per pupil State aid and allocates State aid savings to certain enrollment growth districts.
Allows a deduction against New Jersey gross income for bicycle commuters.
Requires that high school students receive instruction in credit and personal money management as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards.
Establishes uniform school bus life of 15 years for all new school buses.
Reorganizes the provisions in Title 18A regarding public and nonpublic school pupil transportation.
Permits school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school pupils when the per pupil amount of the route exceeds the maximum nonpublic school transportation costs per pupil by no more than 10%.
Establishes a regional transportation coordinator unit in each office of the county superintendent to improve the coordination of pupil transportation services within the county.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief 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.
Revises the definition of nonpublic school to include preschools under chapter 192 and chapter 193 State aid programs for nonpublic students.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Concerns receipt of certain things of value by members of the Legislature and legislative staff from lobbyists and governmental affairs agents.
Bars candidates from contributing campaign funds to charitable entity in which candidate or candidate's immediate family is an officer or employee or receives compensation for goods or services provided to the entity.
Requires governmental affairs agent to report particular items in any appropriation legislation on which agent acted.
Mandates certain ethics consultation and training and establishes the position of Ethics Counsel in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to The College of New Jersey to expand technology education teacher preparation program.
Requires that members of certain governing boards at public institutions of higher education be State residents.
Directs Secretary of Agriculture to determine annually areas for gypsy moth control measures and implement control measures; specifies State pay full implementation cost; appropriates $5,500,000.
Appropriates $10,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture for grants in support of horse breeding in New Jersey.
Filed · 2
Clarifies authority of DOT to enter certain agreements with local governments.
Establishes Division of Risk Management in the Department of the Treasury; reorganizes Office of Information Technology; requires consolidation of enhanced 9-1-1 public safety answering points.