Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Charlotte Vandervalk
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires DHSS to distribute fact sheet on nut allergies and conduct public information campaign about food allergies; appropriates $250,000. ***
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires lenders to provide debtors with amount necessary to cure debt and attach copy of 14 day notice to application for final judgment in certain foreclosure actions.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Out of committee5
Requires licensing of genetic counselors.
Authorizes special license plates for county and municipal emergency management volunteers. *
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Prohibits interest in revaluation firms operating within county by municipal assessors and county tax board personnel; prohibits related business entities from representing taxpayers appealing revaluations completed by revaluation firm.
Provides that label of bottled water contain date on which water was bottled.
In committee47
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Limits operation of personal watercraft in coastal wetlands.
Repeals limit on increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $14 million.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Appropriates $5 million to the Judiciary for substance abuse programs for persons on probation.
Eliminates certain budget language which affects Bergen Regional Medical Center.
Requires pharmacists to report prescription drug-related deaths and substantial bodily injuries to Board of Pharmacy.
Appropriates $500,000 to DEP from "Drought Management Fund" for water supply interconnection study.
Requires voter approval prior to the establishment of a charter school within certain school districts.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Raises monetary threshold for at-fault automobile accidents to $1,000.
Requires written consent of person before any personal information reported to cancer registry can be disclosed by DHSS to certain agencies.
Requires municipal binding referenda to approve qualified common interest community assessment reductions.
Permits continued NJ FamilyCare eligibility for parent whose child turns 19 under certain circumstances.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Establishes certain requirements regarding replacement of life insurance policies and annuity contracts.
Excuses students with conflicts of conscience from certain class requirements of public insitutions of higher education.
Requires carriers to use chiropractor to make utilization management decisions concerning chiropractic services.
Prohibits use of equipment and facilities to produce obscene materials in public school districts and public institutions of higher education.
Prohibits institutions of higher education from using or displaying students' social security numbers.
Requires owners of water supply reservoirs prone to downstream flooding to implement flood protection programs.
Allows transfer from ABP to PERS.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Establishes tuition aid grant pilot program for part-time county college students.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for research in Ataxia Telangiectasia.
Requires all direct patient care staff in general hospitals to wear identification badges.
Requires light duty for pregnant police officers.
Revises definitions in State's child abuse and neglect statutes.
Provides for conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Directs school nurse to develop individual health care plans to ensure safety of students with diabetes.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology, marriage and family therapy, chiropractic or State-certified psychoanalysis without the appropriate license or certification.
Requires DOE to establish working group to develop a plan for the regional provision of special education services.
Increases membership of the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry.
Sets State's mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Authorizes Commissioner of DHSS to permit out-of-State emergency health care providers to practice in State during public health emergency.
Requires full and complete disclosure to the BPU by foreign corporations that own or control certain public utilities; prohibits majority ownership or control by foreign corporations of certain public utilities.
Requires certain public utilities to notify municipal health officer of service shutoffs to residential customers under certain circumstances.
Exempts municipal clerk from penalties for Open Public Records Act violations under certain circumstances.
Provides for a binding referendum on construction of a new Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands sports and entertainment complex; appropriates $5,000.
Repeals "Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act."
Places temporary moratorium of 48 months of certain uses of eminent domain; creates Eminent Domain Study Commission to examine its use Statewide.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Provides that label of bottled water contain date on which water was bottled.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Prohibits display of students' social security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Permits physician assistants to prescribe controlled dangerous substances.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Appropriates $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Establishes Health Care Professional Regulation Study Commission and requires certain State professional licensing boards to take certain actions. *
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 15
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. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options; appropriates $75,000. *
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
"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 pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
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 $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.
In committee · 51
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Provides standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions against physicians.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps Policy Commission.
Exempts qualified investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Prohibits taking of horseshoe crabs.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Establishes a public school choice pilot program for pupils residing in certain school districts.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Imposes surtax on certain New Jersey wages and income of residents of a state that imposes taxes on New Jersey residents that it does not impose on its own residents.
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Establishes a hospital accounting management system and appropriates $2 million to DHSS.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Allows school psychologists to treat certain individuals in the private sector; provides for health benefits coverage therefor.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Oradell Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
"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.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in or with Zimbabwe.
Allows school psychologists to treat certain individuals in the private sector; provides for health benefits coverage therefor.
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.