Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Joan M. Voss
Sponsored
Became law6
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Requires Police Training Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to develop training course for safe schools resource officers and school liasions to law enforcement. *
Establishes domestic violence public awareness campaign.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
Expands State tuition aid grant eligibility to include dependent child whose parent or guardian has been transferred to a military installation in this State. *
Passed the General Assembly1
Provides for the annual selection of six school facilities demonstration projects under the State's school construction law. *
Out of committee3
Appropriates $50,000 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Felician College.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
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.
In committee7
Provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances.
Authorizes surcharge on cable television companies for carrying certain programming that promotes gambling in this State.
Establishes a loan redemption program for certified vocational-technical education teachers employed in public schools in the State.
Removes monk parakeet from list of potentially dangerous species.
Requires notification to county college employee majority bargaining unit representatives of new title or position or change in job description or duties of an existing position.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Increases fees charged for marriage licenses and dedicates monies to Displaced Homemakers Trust Fund.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
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.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act." *
Appropriates $50,000 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Felician College.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend license of physician whose license has been revoked by another state, agency or authority.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Concerns "card check" method of union recognition.
"Cigarette Sales Act; " facilitates collection of taxes on retail sales of cigarettes shipped from outside this State.
Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible. *
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. *
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Authorizes issuance of bonds for refurbishment of certain public safety vehicles.
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Permits construction of traffic calming measures on certain roads near schools. *
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
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 Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment in New Jersey. *
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Provides for the registration of daily money managers.
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. **
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3% surplus for 2006-2007
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists.
Provides for local voluntary registries of persons with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." *
"Rail Special Transportation District Act."
Out of committee · 54
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Reestablishes "Parents' Education Program" as "Children First Education Program;" requires parties involved in custody and parenting time proceedings to attend program.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
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. *
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires North Jersey District Water Supply Commission maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes and Governor authority to remove commissioner for cause.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Revises pilotage laws.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires drug facilitated sexual assault warning notices be posted in bars.
Directs Attorney General to include information on criminal street gang activities in annual "Uniform Crime Report."
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
The "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act"; creates Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council; and dedicates a portion of realty transfer fee revenue annually for certain State aid purposes in Highlands Region and the pinelands area. **
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges. **
Upgrades unlawful possession and distribution of prescription legend drugs. *
Requires the reporting of criminal offenses occurring on school property to law enforcement authorities.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Establishes licensing requirements and standards for pharmaceutical wholesale distribution.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Requires persons transacting business in this State and making payments to unregistered unincorporated construction contractors to withhold gross income taxes from those payments. *
Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Transportation Trust Fund Renewal and Reform Act of 2005." *
"Hospital Infection Reporting Act."
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
"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. *
Establishes Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Authorizes State Medical Examiner to participate in research concerning sudden death in infancy and early childhood.
Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting.
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Permits law enforcement officers, including county sheriff and corrections officers, to participate in intergovernmental transfer program; permits waive of accumulated sick leave and seniority privileges by such officers.
Appropriates $25,389,500 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 northern NJ.
Establishes Task Force on Education partnerships.
Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for energy costs. *
In committee · 78
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.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Reduces vesting requirement under State-administered retirement systems to five years' service.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Concerns sex discrimination in wage payment.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes disciplinary procedure for school board members when charged with certain crimes.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Establishes special license plates for World War II veterans.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Prohibits black bear hunting until completion of report submitted by Rutgers; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes the NJ STARS Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $10 million.
Directs school nurse to develop individual health care plans to ensure safety of students with diabetes.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
Prohibits State Board of Education from authorizing use of special review assessment as an alternative for meeting graduation requirements.
Requires prequalification by State officials of prospective bidders for local public works contracts in same manner as prequalification of prospective bidders for State contracts.
Creates requirement and grant program for power-assisted door openers on certain public buildings; appropriates $600,000.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Supplemental appropriation of $390,000 to UMDNJ for women's reproductive health care.
Establishes pilot program to provide incentive grants to public school districts which develop instruction programs in languages of critical need; appropriates $2,000,000.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Requires school bus safety instruction in all school districts which provide pupil transportation.
Directs an annual appropriation of $12 million for the support of professional development for teaching staff members.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Establishes trust fund accounts for child performers with minimum deposit of 25% of gross pay.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
"Light Rail Transportation Enterprise Zone Act," encourages light rail construction through certain municipalities.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Requires SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for prostate cancer.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Requires Local Finance Board approval for proposed loan agreements between local authorities and for-profit entities.
Limits expenditure of State funds on State advertisements or promotions that feature the Governor.
Revises licensure and certification requirements for certain persons who engage in practice of social work.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Requires hospitals to notify pregnant women of option to donate umbilical cord blood.
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 the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Clarifies law concerning the administration of epinephrine to students with dual orders.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Permits students with cystic fibrosis to self-administer medication.
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.
Prohibits EDA or school district from entering into contract for payment of relocation costs of tenant or leaseholder until contract for purchase of site is executed.
"Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes sale of bonds for $500 million and appropriates $5,000.
Requires paramedics, emergency medical technicians and mobility assistants to undergo criminal history record background check.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
"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.
Exempts certain purchases by school food service providers from the sales and use tax.
Permits each municipality to set amount of dog license fee.
Authorizes access to abandoned properties by electric and gas public utilities to disconnect utility service.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.
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.
Requires DEP to provide written notice to municipality concerning possible contaminated sites.
Requires reporting and review of insurance carriers' health care claims processing and payment histories.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Requires certain disclosures from carriers; establishes new health care claims payment and appeals process; limits use of utilization management under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Clarifies law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis, increases number of delegates trained to administer epinephrine, and requires plan to reduce student exposure to allergens.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Requires retail pharmacies to stock and dispense emergency contraception.
Creates Meadowlands Economic Development Trust; provides for sharing of tax revenues generated by developments of regional economic significance to improve local quality of life.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment to treatment for persons in need of involuntary commitment to treatment.