Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
John H. Adler
Sponsored
Became law16
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Upgrades the crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances; creates new offense.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act" to certain employees. *
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Revises wills and estates.
Regulates operation of certain low-speed vehicles.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Provides that surviving domestic partner would have the same intestacy rights as a surviving spouse and would have authority to make funeral arrangements. *
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Makes certain corrections to statutory provisions governing wills and estates.
Permits local public entities to provide health benefits to domestic partners of non-SHBP participating employees.
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers. *
Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for film production expenses incurred in New Jersey and provides for the transfer of those tax credits to other taxpayers. *
Passed the Senate3
Increases penalties for large-scale promotion of gambling.
Creates crime of leader of a gambling promotion network.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Out of committee25
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
Increases options for investment of Garden State Preservation Trust Funds. *
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributers, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity. *
Prohibits certain persons from serving as executors or administrators.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Permits DOC to award inmates special credits for certain achievements.
Authorizes members of the State Police to assist the United States Coast Guard in the enforcement of certain safety and security zones established by the Coast Guard. *
Certifies court reporters.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000. *
Appropriates $17,623,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Requires notices concerning employees under age 18 to be posted in English and Spanish.
Permits county improvement authorities to undertake economic development activities.
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires markings be removed from ambulances before certain sales.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Creates Chief Financial Officer position in the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission.
Creates the "Commission on Undocumented Immigrants".
Exempts certain county and municipally-owned water supply facilities from BPU rate regulation. *
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.
Concerns dispersal of information on advance directives by issuer of marriage certificates and certificates of domestic partnership.
Requires judges in divorce and in termination of domestic partnership actions to inquire whether parties want to change or revoke advance directive.
Increases maximum public employees may contribute to Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust plans.
Extends statute of limitations for State civil actions for natural resource damage compensation.
In committee52
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Encourages consistency of municipal planning documents with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Provides for expedited review of application for certificate of need for transfer of perinatal services within hospital or hospital system.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Prohibits employment at certain marine terminals of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Limits school district per pupil administrative spending to 130% of the median per pupil administrative spending for districts of the same operating type, enrollment range, and district factor group.
Requires small school districts to share superintendents and school business administrators under certain circumstances.
Requires certain small municipalities to share services of certain licensed municipal professionals.
Establishes Clean Car Division to administer Clean Car Program in DOT; appropriates $250,000.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Directs ELEC to collect certain filing fees.
Authorizes assessment of educational facilities construction fees by boards of education under certain circumstances.
Revises current laws concerning ethics in State, county and municipal governments; requires greater disclosure by legislative agents and lobbyists; limits certain campaign contributions; prohibits nepotism; requires ethics training for legislators.
Establishes a public school class-size reduction program; appropriates $42,000,000.
Establishes eleven-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission."
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; appropriates $420,000.
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways if several conditions exist.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Establishes separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February.
Provides State matching funds to school districts in the amount of savings realized from the provision of educational or administrative services through an educational services commission.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain firearms of 50 caliber or greater.
Eliminates various inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards.
Revises "New Jersey Money Transmitters Act"; provides consumer protections; increases reporting and record keeping requirements.
Adds aggravated assault, criminal coercion, involuntary servitude, criminal violations of the "New Jersey Antitrust Act," and certain environmental crimes to the list of predicate offenses triggering application of New Jersey's anti-racketeering law.
Requires certain disclosures and receipts for international money transmissions.
Revises the calculation of courtesy busing school budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing performed along a hazardous route.
Exempts solar energy systems from real property taxation.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Provides tax credit for certain taxpayers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Specifies definition of child for purposes of NJ KidCare and NJ FamilyCare programs.
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Places additional requirements on candidates for public office who expend more than usually spent by candidates for that office.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
Exempts manufacturers of marine equipment from air toxics surcharge.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Provides for license suspension for violations of domestic violence restraining orders; permits use of restricted license.
Allows a deduction against New Jersey gross income for bicycle commuters.
Permits continuation of survivor's benefits in Judicial Retirement System upon survivor's remarriage or entry into domestic partnership.
Clarifies what constitutes "net proceeds" for collecting past-due child support by creating statutory liens on certain settlements, judgements and awards.
Includes domestic partners as family members under "New Jersey Family Leave Act."
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Allows blanket bond or joint insurance fund coverage for treasurers, tax collectors, and municipal court judges and clerks.
Affords DRPA police officers authority to inspect hazardous materials carriers and cargoes.
Allows additional offenders to receive special probation under certain circumstances and increases the provision of outpatient treatment as a component of special probation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million. *
Provides exemption from cleanup liability at Superfund sites to certain persons.
Increases membership of county boards of taxation. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
Authorizes New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish the New Jersey Hall of Fame within the Meadowlands complex. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; makes various other changes concerning ethics. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Passed the Senate · 2
Establishes Office of Environmental Law Enforcement in the Division of Criminal Justice in Department of Law and Public Safety; establishes Environmental Prosecutor. *
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Out of committee · 23
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Permits care and treatment of animals by certain persons and prohibits those persons from identifying themselves as veterinarians.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Provides for separate presidential primary election on last Tuesday in February. *
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Permits certain pupils to participate in interscholastic athletic programs.
Establishes program for removal of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. *
Makes it a crime to lure or entice another for the purpose of committing a crime via electronic or any other means including the Internet. *
Amends "New Jersey Anti-Piracy Act" to include camcorder piracy of motion pictures.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain qualified employees.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
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
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Access Study Commission."
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.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Exempts from commercial and industrial property taxation the value of new capital improvements for security enhancement purposes.
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
In committee · 49
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Directs State acquisition of Heritage Minerals tract in Ocean county for new State park.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Creates the position of Inspector General.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Authorizes adoption of time-growth ordinances by municipalities.
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.
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Makes prisoners responsible for their own support and maintenance and provides the State with a lien for the cost thereof.
Provides that instruction in world languages shall not be required in public schools during the 2002-2003 school year and specifies how instruction shall be provided in the following years.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Prohibits members of Legislature from engaging in certain lobbying activities for two years after leaving office.
Provides that legislators will not receive PERS credit for other simultaneous PERS-covered employment.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Requires funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Clarifies that municipalities may establish sterile syringe access programs.
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.
Prohibits recording a deed later than 30 days after the deed is transferred upon settlement of the property.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Requires the award of Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program scholarships to home-schooled students and prohibits the denial of a scholarship due to a student's lack of class rank.
Requires radiation detectors to be mounted on cranes within Port of New York District.
Requires ambulances to be equipped with global positioning system technology.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
Creates the Task Force on Commercial Insurance and Terrorism.
Requires HIV tests for certain convicted sex offenders.
Permits voter in resident attendance at school, college, or university to receive absentee ballot for each election without continual request.
Provides for separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February. *
"Prompt Health Care Claims Processing and Reimbursement Act."
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
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.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Allows emergency service providers to place telephone numbers on the State no telemarketing call list.
Establishes the "Public Corruption Profiteering Penalty Act."
Permits county recording officer to record electronic image documents at time of receipt.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.