Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph R. Malone III
Sponsored
Became law1
Modifies reference from "substance awareness coordinator" to "student assistance coordinator" in substance abuse programs in public schools.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes Task Force to study the benefits of student recess and make recommendations on advisability of mandatory recess in school districts.
In committee28
Permits evidence of prior convictions or juvenile adjudications in certain criminal cases.
Permits the refurbishment of school buses to extend the life of the bus by eight years.
Designates "John Bull" as NJ State steam locomotive.
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.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
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.
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.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
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.
Revises eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents.
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.
Authorizes the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations concerning the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Prohibits the construction of school facilities on a contaminated or remediated site.
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.
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Appropriates $5 million for Sire Stakes, horse breeding and development.
Appropriates $10 million for Sire Stakes, horse breeding and development.
Exempts employees and school board members of federal impact aid districts from certain out-of-state travel restrictions.
Authorizes Council on Affordable Housing to enter into memoranda of understanding with certain planning entities; establishes presumption of compliance with council's regulations; establishes moratorium on builder's remedy.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Eliminates role of State Board of Education in the appeal of Commissioner of Education decisions in disputes arising under the State school laws.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Permits municipalities to set strict absentee policies for service on authorities, boards, and commissions.
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
"Tree Experts and Tree Care Operators Licensing Act."
Makes revisions to personal assistance services program in DHS.
The "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," authorizes bonds for $400 million; appropriates $5,000. **
Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Vetoed · 1
Lengthens service life of certain school buses to 15 years. **
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires certain school districts to reduce per pupil administrative expenditures by 10% over three-year period, certain reporting by executive county superintendents of schools, and schedule for appointment of such superintendents.
Establishes State Capital Coordinating Council on Emergency Evacuation Routes and Procedures.
Includes limitations on amount of retirement compensation which may be provided by a school board in the employment contracts of superintendents of schools, assistant superintendents of schools, and school business administrators.
Requires that school districts use a model contract developed by the Commissioner of Education when employing a superintendent of schools.
Out of committee · 17
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges.
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified technology education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Appropriates $1,068,921 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $54,917,725 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Increases carryover period of net operating loss deduction under corporation business tax. *
Permits conversion of age-restricted housing units to non-age-restricted housing units and modifies laws concerning affordable housing. *
Establishes a pilot program in DOE to address the State's shortage of mathematics and science teachers.
Appropriates $27.75 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $49.65 million from "2007" Farmland Preservation Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6.45 million from "2007 Farmland Preservation Fund" and "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $19,919,700 from various Green Acres funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $15,557,201 from various historic preservation funds to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects, and appropriates $574,805 from certain historic preservation bond funds for associated administrative expenses.
Requires school districts to provide for the safe operation of electrically operated partitions in classrooms or other school facilities.
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.
In committee · 47
Revises the definition of nonpublic school to include preschools under chapter 192 and chapter 193 State aid programs for nonpublic students.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
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.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to The College of New Jersey to expand technology education teacher preparation program.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits pharmacies subject to Medicaid new-provider moratorium to post surety bond or other security in order to participate in Medicaid program.
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.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Elizabeth, Lakewood, Newark, Orange, Paterson and Trenton.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Provides for motor fuels tax exemption to school bus contractors.
Permits publication of legal notices by governments and individuals on official government website instead of newspaper.
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
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.
Requires private vocational schools to provide adequate written notification when planning to close facilities.
Requires that high school students receive instruction in credit and personal money management as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards.
Establishes New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center and authorizes establishment of Foundation for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Requires appropriations in the nature of grants-in-aid to include certain criteria in the act in which they are enacted.
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.
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."
Permits municipalities to set strict absentee policies for service on authorities, boards and commissions and requires certain appointees to receive ethics training.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
"Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act"; establishes pilot program in Department of the Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children in certain urban enterprise zone municipalities.
Permits contiguous municipalities in different vicinages to share court facilities.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Provides that certain permits and approvals for critical infrastructure projects must be acted upon within 45 days.
Provides sales tax exemption for sales of prepared foods.
Provides procedures for crediting certain dwellings used by agricultural laborers in determination of municipality's fair share housing obligation.
Establishes certain ethics protocols for procurement of fire engines.
Provides for disbursement of certain funds made available for benefit of the horse racing industry.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Imposes a two-year moratorium on increases in public utility rates.
Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.
Requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.