Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Anthony Chiappone
Sponsored
Out of committee4
Prohibits requirement of any additional security deposit for disabled person's service or guide dog.
Requires cell phones cameras to emit distinctive sound or light when pictures are produced.
Requires posting of notices regarding installation of child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit. *
In committee131
Requires financial institution to notify account holder when information relative to an electronic fund transfer is shared with third party.
Requires certain sex offenders to be photographed every 90 days; requires employment information to be published on sex offender Internet registry.
Prohibits DEP from granting any exemptions from the requirement of registration for any proposed solid waste collection activity, solid waste facility or solid waste disposal operation.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts by the 2005-2006 school year and establishes a Statewide uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Requires Commissioner of Education to designate a day in April on which 12th grade students will be provided a class on the importance of voter participation.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Authorizes transfer of title at any point during the term of a local unit lease purchase agreement or contract.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Imposes 6% tax on certain political contributions.
Allow voters considered members of one political party to change affiliation to another political party at primary election.
Prohibits landlords of senior citizen housing projects from charging extra compensation or additional security deposit for keeping pets by tenants.
Concerns certain communication towers adjacent to highways.
Requires disclosure of total costs to cellular telephone consumers.
Permits Director of ABC to grant plenary winery license under certain circumstances.
Requires bicycle helmets, reflectors and lights for certain individuals.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Authorizes governing body to appoint two additional commissioners to parking authority; requires authorized governing body approval for any service rate or charge.
Provides court with discretion for imposing drug enforcement and demand reduction (DEDR) penalties on indigent persons.
Clarifies requirements of reserve handicapped parking for residents of multiple dwellings.
Requires employers to provide rest and meal breaks.
Prohibits employers from requiring manufacturing employees to accept overtime work.
Eliminates maximum age requirement for appointment as police officer or paid firefighter.
Requires drug manufacturers to offer their drugs to purchasers on terms and conditions offered to most favored purchaser.
Requires commercial mobile radio service providers to notify subscribers of contract changes.
Prohibits business entities or institutions of higher education from using or displaying certain social security numbers under certain circumstances.
Revises period of driver's license suspension for operating motor vehicle in possession of CDS.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Provides tenure to municipal court judges under certain circumstances.
Establishes the Municipal Court Study Commission.
Authorizes free State park and forest admission for veterans.
Mandates 30-day imprisonment for unlicensed driver involved in accident while driving unregistered and uninsured car.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years and until study is issued by Fish and Game Council; appropriates $95,000.
Requires public utility to provide notice to individual customers and hold public hearings prior to BPU consideration of utility's request for rate increase.
Requires prosecution of domestic violence-related cases in Superior Court; removes jurisdiction from municipal court.
Requires collection of a fee by elected officials who perform marriages at nonwork locations; assesses $10 additional surcharge for such marriages.
Prohibits the permitting of materials recovery facilities.
Authorizes "Proud to Be an American" license plate with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management organizations.
Prohibits black bear hunting, creates black bear study commission, authorizes issuance and sale of NJ Black Bear Stamp, establishes NJ Black Bear Stamp Account.
Establishes Veterans' Speaker Program in DMVA and appropriates $200,000.
Requires individual or committee conducting poll to identify candidate or committee financing poll at end thereof.
Requires adopted person or birth parent to notify approved agency when hereditary disease is diagnosed after adoption is finalized.
Extends payment of accidental death benefit to survivors of police officer or firefighter who dies of myocardial infarction resulting from strenuous exercise or activity while performing duties.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to revise State Housing Code to require signs on properties where invisible pet containment systems have been installed.
"School Property Tax Reduction and Stabilization Act," permits local income tax.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Requires business entities receiving State funds for housing construction to grant preference to local business entities and local building contractors in purchases for goods, services, supplies or equipment.
Authorizes local contractor preference program.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraceptives subject to certain conditions.
Increases from two to four alternate membership of separate planning boards.
Increases alternate membership of county planning boards.
Prohibits smoking in automobiles when minor under 16 years of age is a passenger.
Requires that pharmacists provide certain prescription drug information to consumers.
Provides immunity for certain nonprofit health care diagnostic and treatment center professionals that provide free services.
Permits victim of any crime to present testimony or submit written statements prior to an inmate's release on parole.
Permits in any homicide prosecution the display of a photograph of the victim during trial.
Requires permanent driver's license revocation upon conviction of two or more sexual assaults against a victim who is a minor.
Permits licensed or certified medical workers to indicate profession or occupation on driver's license.
Concerns certain tests for firefighters and police officers in active duty.
Requires all towing services to clean-up roadway debris.
Creates $9 rebate on driver's license renewals for organ donors.
Waives motor vehicle registration fee for vehicles owned by municipal and county utilities authority.
Allows gross income tax credit for physicians volunteering health care services to medically uninsured.
Provides credit against gross income tax for first time home buyers with household incomes less than $100,000.
Increases penalties for assaults which are committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal street gang.
Makes it a second degree crime to commit two or more acts of insurance fraud or health care claims fraud, rather than five.
Requires driver of motor vehicle to confirm possession of valid registration certificate and insurance identification card before operating.
Authorizes certain leave for parents and guardians of children attending public or private school.
Establishes temporary Assembly Revenue Laws Study Committee.
Increases revenue base for cable television franchise fees.
Permits municipalities to contract with animal and humane societies which engage in animal foster care.
Permits municipalities to install traffic-lights on self-contained municipal streets without approval of the Commissioner of Transportation.
Establishes a 10-day trial period for cellular telephone service customers.
Requires notices specifying when parking meters are operational.
Reduces certain stop sign no parking zones from 50 feet to 5 feet.
Provides certain motor vehicle-related benefits to certain military personnel.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Requires committee, group or individual paying for campaign communication to provide documentation of any negative statement about candidate.
Changes composition and revises authority of Fish and Game Council; creates nonlethal alternative committee within council.
Allows reenrollment in the SHBP by certain retirees.
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Requires MVC to open inspection station in Bayonne or Jersey City.
Provides statutory tenants' right to repair and deduct.
Establishes additional requirements for licensed debt adjusters; increases penalties for licensing law violations.
Prohibits sale of certain high-calorie beverages in public schools.
Requires additional consumer protections in health club services contracts.
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include unsupervised door-to-door sales by students.
Reduces fire hydrant no parking zones from 10 to 5 feet.
Requires licensed towing company to notify local police, owner and lienholders after towing unattended vehicle.
Requires consumer to affirmatively indicate willingness to receive product, membership or service, for fee, prior to conclusion of free trial offer.
Requires item cost indicators on cash registers to be visible to customers.
Revises refund policy requirements for retail mercantile establishments.
Gives municipalities option to request that first notification of 9-1-1 calls for assistance be provided to municipal fire department.
Requires one half of one percent of professional boxing contest purse be allocated to and divided among NJ amateur boxing organization.
Requires gift certificates to be valid and redeemable for two years.
Prohibits use of Social Security numbers for identification purposes except for internal verification.
Requires Secretary of State maintain website listing State agency public hearings and meetings.
Prohibits certain trucks from being driven in left-hand lane of highways with two lanes for travel in one direction.
Provides that auto repair facility must provide written warranty to consumers for repairs.
Directs BPU to require commercial mobile radio service providers to report on fraudulent activities.
Prohibits weightlifting equipment in State prisons.
Revises law concerning expedited permit reviews in smart growth areas.
Requires certain professional boxing and wrestling promoters to pay fee to fund grants to NJ amateur boxing and wrestling organizations.
Regulates manufacturer's rebate offer for certain merchandise.
Excludes the value of certain coupons and rebates from the amount taxable under the sales and use tax.
Enacts the "Insurance Disclosure Act."
Permits civil actions for sexual abuse by adult victims.
Permits municipalities to retain inspection fees for life hazard use inspections.
Requires cable television companies to notify residential subscribers of availability of purchasing per channel or per program services with basic service tier.
Prohibits use, possession, sale, distribution, and manufacture of alcohol without liquid machines.
Reduces fee for basic driver's license for persons 65 or over.
Provides for priority by municipality over State on lien filed on contaminated property under certain circumstances.
Establishes commission to study feasibility of moving Battleship New Jersey to Liberty State Park, Jersey City.
Requires depository institutions to cash government checks for certain senior citizens.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Neighborhood Community Centers.
Increases funding for rental assistance grants from the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund; appropriates $25 million from the General Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DCA to fund grant to Jersey City.
Permits local governing body to alter or remove and replace plaques or public markers in certain circumstances.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.
Creates statewide first responder building mapping information system; appropriates $5 million to the Department of Treasury.
"Stephen R. Gregg Plaque Act"; permits local governing body to alter or remove and replace plaques or public markers in certain circumstances.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force; appropriates $15,000.
Establishes New Jersey Wildlife Rehabilitation Licensing Study Commission, and temporarily expands scope of "cooperator permit" to include rehabilitation of other kinds of wildlife besides game animals.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Exempts New Jersey teachers' purchase of qualified teaching materials from sales and use tax.
Prohibits convicted former elected or appointed public official from registering as governmental affairs agent.
Requires wearing of gloves in food preparation in food establishments.
Directs NJ Transit to designate Richard Street Station on Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System as Glenn D. Cunningham Station.
Requires installation of filtration system to minimize the noxious odors emanating from slaughterhouses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Requires certain election committees and certain other persons to file report with ELEC within 48 hours of making certain expenditures in excess of $800 during certain periods.
Requires ELEC to conduct random audits of records kept by legislative agents.
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members to municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs. *
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Requires regional municipal and county utilities and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to provide reduced sewer and water connection fees for certain affordable housing projects. *
Establishes optional will registry.
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; permits allocation of funds under the Fair Housing Act to program as permitted purpose. *
Authorizes county clerk to act as local registrar and authorizes registration district to designate county clerk as local registrar. *
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Passed the General Assembly · 14
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstance.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Requires MVC to accept death certificate as proof of name change. *
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Authorizes local board of health to declare as a nuisance premises in which there have been multiple arrests for illegal sale or possession of drugs.
Revises law governing private investigators. *
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools. *
Out of committee · 40
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Increases monetary penalties for violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Requires notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of automobile insurance policies to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
"New Jersey Identity Theft Prevention Act".
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor. *
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal or the use of any direct or indirect means to inflict the cruelty. *
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey take action concerning brownfield sites and other underutilized sites in New Jersey for warehousing and other facilities in port district. *
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Permits special improvement districts to enter into certain financing arrangements with private lenders.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
Prohibits telecommunications, utility or cable television companies from charging certain customers prior to actual billing due date.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
Permits municipal governing body to waive building restrictions on sale of certain lands.
In committee · 126
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Makes the cloning of a human being a crime of the first degree and provides that an individual's genetic information is the property of the individual.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Regulates telephone customer service practices.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $12 million from the General Fund to the Department of Education for Teacher Quality Mentoring.
Requires school principals report student offenses to law enforcement agencies.
Regulates rates for certain pay telephone calls.
Requires public bodies to allow public comment at every meeting.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Permits certain funds to be spent on temporary emergency housing; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Directs NJ Transit to designate a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System station in Jersey City the Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Authorizes counties, municipalities, municipal utilities authorities and sewerage authorities to impose intensity of use fee concerning sewer and water connectors.
Allows patrons of State-owned concert and sports facilities to bring bottled water into those facilities.
Allows person to deduct alimony payments to determine eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold prescription programs.
Requires payment in lieu of taxes to municipality when State college or university purchases property for use as student residence.
Excludes from income for gross income tax and PAAD eligibility purposes victims' remuneration for involuntary internment received under judgments or settlement agreements.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Provides that persons incarcerated for crimes against law enforcement officers are ineligible for good time and work credits.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Provides immunity from civil liability for persons performing animal rescue and authorizes formation of emergency animal rescue response units.
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Prohibits tobacco and alcohol advertising within 500 feet of schools.
Establishes Fuel Cell Research Center at Rutgers; appropriates $500,000.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Requires small school districts to share superintendents and school business administrators under certain circumstances.
Establishes premium assistance fund and task force concerning medical malpractice liability insurance.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Grants 90-day grace period for payment of property taxes by seniors and longer period for participants in senior freeze act.
Requires DHSS meningitis public awareness campaign to target pediatricians.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Concerns medical malpractice liability and sets standards for expert witnesses; caps noneconomic damages; establishes prelitigation screening and mediation; modifies statute of limitations and joint liability; prohibits certain insurance rate increases.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Requires the consolidation of administrative services of certain school districts.
Prohibits terrorism exclusion in insurance policies.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Requires DCA to undertake study of residential rent levels in New Jersey; appropriates $50,000.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
Makes No Early Release Act applicable to persons convicted of child pornography crimes.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires DEP to prepare and adopt a plan to tax dormant cargo containers that remain empty or unused for 90 days or more.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Makes New Jersey residents who are eligible for federal earned income tax credit also eligible for New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Creates grant program for nonprofit animal welfare organizations; appropriates $100,000.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Authorizes assessment maintenance and abatement program for vacant property in certain municipalities.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Creates New Jersey Arts Donation Fund and provides for deduction from gross income of donations to fund.
Requires verification of certain credit card applications before processing them.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; appropriates $50 million.
Directs DEP to develop and implement plan for 20 percent reduction of emissions from diesel-powered vehicles over the next seven years; directs appropriate departments and MVC adopt regulations necessary for implementation of DEP plan.
Provides that health care professionals are only liable for their share of any professional negligence.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Allows emergency medical technicians to transfer to and enroll in PFRS.
Clarifies financial liability of certain cellular telephone service users upon notification of unauthorized use of cellular telephone.
Requires public hearing by Commissioner of Transportation regarding certain highway construction projects.
Prohibits use of credit information by property-casualty insurers in formulating underwriting rules.
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Allows municipality in certain situations to ask CATV provider to offer reduction or discount in rates for CATV service for eligible senior and disabled citizens.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program by $5,000.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Requires criminal history record background checks for DYFS caseworkers.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Concerns requests for changes in certain environmental standards.
Provides low interest loans to persons who need to acquire a new home because they have been forced to vacate their homes due to the presence of hazardous substances.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for instruction by public school districts on child abduction prevention.
Prohibits landlord charging tenant refurbishment fee.
Assesses insurers and health maintenance organizations $8.1 million to defray cost of prescription drug benefits for certain Medicaid recipients.
Regulates use of Social Security numbers.
Requires sellers of used motor vehicles to disclose if vehicle was involved in an accident requiring repairs of $1,000 or more.
Permits municipalities to defer 100% of payment of property taxes owed by senior citizen homeowners enrolled in PAAD.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Requires SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for prostate cancer.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Prohibits the use of Social Security numbers for certain purposes.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1 million to Treasury for a grant to tsunami relief effort in Southeast Asia.
Increases minimum wage to $7.00 in 2005, with annual adjustments thereafter.
Provides for temporary voluntary deduction from compensation of State employees for donation to American Red Cross for disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Requires disclosure to subscribers of certain cable television costs.
"Common Interest Community and Homeowners' Association Act."
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
"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.
Permits each municipality to set amount of dog license fee.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Prohibits the sale and distribution of marijuana-flavored candy to persons under 18 years of age.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.