Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
John A. Girgenti
Sponsored
Became law8
Authorizes police training commission to contract for private entity's recommendations for pre-entry standards for police training academies. *
Requires certain DOC investigators to attend Police Training Commission course.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Revises counterfeit goods and forfeiture laws to deter criminal street gang activities.
Makes certain volunteer firefighters who were appointed to paid positions and currently in PERS eligible for transfer to PFRS. *
Revises regulation of security guards.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Out of committee8
Directs MVS to reopen Paterson motor vehicle agency.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Concerns the authority of the Governor to suspend or modify certain statutes, or permit certain public officials to suspend enforcement of certain statutes, during an emergency declared by the Governor.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Requires DOC to study deficiencies in facilities whenever certain inmate disturbances occur and to include needed improvements in budget request.
Requires adult corrections officers in State facilities to complete continuing education training program.
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Expands authority of emergency management departments in requesting assistance outside normal territorial jurisdictions. *
In committee20
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Requires inclusion of certain drugs in instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Establishes public education campaign on dangers of designer drugs; appropriates $50,000.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Supplemental appropriation of $5.9 million to Judiciary and DHSS for probation personnel, drug testing and drug treatment.
Provides for fingerprinting of certain applicants or employees and exchange of criminal history records.
Permits parole board to prohibit certain parolees from harboring dangerous animals.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
"New Jersey Patient Safety Act;" makes self-critical analysis by health care facility privileged information.
Requires health insurers, Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for comprehensive program of pediatric feeding and swallowing services.
Requires school districts to fund certain child development assessments on resident children.
Requires DCA to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furniture and furnishings purchased for use in residential premises and public buildings.
Permits certain county pension commissions to increase portion of funds invested in equities.
Requires laws for police service benefits and fire service benefits to be the same.
Appropriates $4,245,551 to DOC for the renovation of food service facility at Northern State Prison.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days.
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehicle and traffic laws.
Requires bid proposal documents to include traffic safety requirements.
Provides for DCA to set maximum loan amounts to volunteer emergency service organizations to purchase vehicles and equipment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Authorizes appointment of unpaid deputy sheriffs in certain counties.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system. *
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Clarifies certain exception from publication on sex offender Internet registry.
Establishes Alternative to Discipline Program for impaired nurses through NJ Board of Nursing.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
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.
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
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 $26,743,525 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Passed the Senate · 3
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes Office of Environmental Law Enforcement in the Division of Criminal Justice in Department of Law and Public Safety; establishes Environmental Prosecutor. *
Establishes owners responsibility to provide information relating to certain motor vehicle accidents.
Out of committee · 23
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public.
Concerns County Corrections Information System funding.
Requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State meet 60-minute resistance to open-flame standard.
Requires photo ID verifiction of pilots renting aircraft.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Prohibits campaign contributions by business entities seeking or holding State contracts in certain circumstances.
Revises 1% fee on transfer of residential property for more than $1 million, exempts certain transfers, and provides for refunds of certain fees paid. *
Requires MVC to accept certain motorcycle safety courses.
Clarifies that using motor vehicle to publicly display obscene material is fourth degree crime.
Modifies penalty for operating an aircraft while impaired, establishes blood alcohol content offense level and requires report of violation to FAA. *
Revises qualifications to carry firearms for certain retired police officers. *
Requires DOC commissioner to implement telecommunications voice mail system for staff in correctional facilities.
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
In committee · 33
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Establishes extended sentences for certain crimes involving eluding a police officer and clarifies elements of eluding aggravated manslaughter.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of carbon monoxide detectors and any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Establishes law enforcement officers bias crime training program; appropriates $75,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Authorizes special license plates for offices of emergency management volunteers.
Supplemental appropriation of $85,000 to Division of Fire Safety in DCA to fund fire safety juvenile response education program.
Requires replacement of door and ignition locks on county and municipal vehicles prior to sale.
Supplemental appropriation to FY04 budget of $250,000 for publication of Truth in Renting booklet by DCA.
Provides that employees no longer must pay full cost of purchase of PERS, PFRS or TPAF credit for military service.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
"Counter Terrorism Act of 2004."
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Permits counties and municipalities to impose limits on politicals contributions made by business entities that receive contracts; requires disclosure of political contributions by certain business entities.
Permits county prosecutors to appoint "victim-witness advocates" and "team coordinators" to assist in the implementation of county victim-witness programs.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Requires municipalities that receive State aid to certify that all municipal buildings adhere to fire codes.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Appropriates $10,000 to restore veterans' monument in Roxbury Township.
Increases EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Prohibits suspension of driver's license for failure to pay parking ticket.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.