Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Neil M. Cohen
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Requires hospitals and health care professionals to advise women of option to donate or store umbilical cord blood and placental tissue. **
Regulates dental decisions by insurers and third party administrators and provides for limited dentist registration certificates. *
Increases judicial salaries and prosecutors' salaries. *
Revises trustee's power to adjust principal and income under "Uniform Principal and Income Act of 2001."
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
Increases investment options for domestic property and casualty insurance companies' capital, surplus and other funds.
Excludes certain commercial lines insurance risks from provisions of standard fire policy.
Regulates dormancy fees for money orders.
Eliminates requirements for private passenger automobile insurers and agents to provide certain information on premium options.
Authorizes local units to invest in federally insured certificates of deposit under certain circumstances.
Passed the General Assembly6
"Judy and Nikki's Law"; provides for life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder of a child 16 years of age or younger. *
Concerns homeowners insurance coverage with respect to dogs. *
Prohibits unfair discrimination in the issuance, renewal or rating of life insurance policies based on future foreign travel.*
Provides exemption from 3-day cancellation provision of home improvement contract in case of bona fide emergency.
Concerns access to physical therapy services, and insurance claims handling following access to such services. *
Prohibits organized delivery systems from denying participation in network to imaging centers willing to meet terms of contract.
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Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain activities and services as projects eligible for UEZ funding.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Requires installment payments for maternity services.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies; makes an appropriation. *
Limits motor bus owner responsibility for no-fault medical expense benefits coverage for certain injured passengers.
Increases workers' compensation for loss of hand or foot.
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
Prohibits certain provisions in employment contracts.
Prohibits the use of a dog or other animal in a drug distribution scheme.
Makes use of an animal to carry illegal drugs or facilitate drug-related crimes an animal cruelty offense; provides for non-merger of criminal animal cruelty offenses. *
Allows joint insurance funds to include treasurers, tax collectors and municipal court judges and administrators under blanket bond coverage. *
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
Requires certain ambulatory care facilities to provide services to patients without regard to ability to pay or source of payment.
Establishes the transport of firearms into State for purposes of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
The "New Jersey Real Estate Timeshare Act."
Clarifies treatment of two tier annuity products under the "Indexed Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities."
Authorizes the issuance of bonds by the NJEDA to fund State capital construction projects of $270 million for facilities for stem cell research, biomedical research, blood collection and cancer research. **
Provides for registration and regulation of athlete agents.
Prohibits use of "step-down" provisions to limit uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage in certain circumstances.
Requires ATM operators to disclose balance inquiry fees.
Provides uniform procedure for sheriffs to provide certain surplus notices in mortgage foreclosure actions. *
"New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes the sale of State general obligation bonds in the amount of $450 million and appropriates $5,000. *
Requires verification of presence of carbon monoxide detectors whenever code inspection occurs upon installation of fossil fuel-fired furnaces or water heaters in one or two-unit dwellings. *
Requires NJ Disease Management Study Commission to assess how disease management programs can impact Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Extends expiration date of automobile insurance urban enterprise zone program to April 1, 2009.
Requires ATM independent sales organizations to provide certain withdrawal options. *
Clarifies that the definition of "racketeering activity" in the RICO statute includes securities fraud offenses.
Provides statute of limitations for residential mortgage foreclosures.
Permits member of New Jersey State Board of Accountancy to serve more than two successive terms.
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis that individual was a victim of identity theft.
Reforms the review, processing, and payment of certain private passenger automobile insurance personal injury protection claims.
Revises certain provisions of "Insurance Premium Finance Company Act."
Requires registration of certain additional securities investment advisers.
Allows State banks to provide for staggered terms of directors in certificate of incorporation.
Requires carrier offering managed care plan to make certain contract disclosures to participating health care providers; provides procedures for contract amendment and renewal.
Regulates certain service contracts to perform maintenance, repair, replacement, or service of property used for personal, family, or household purposes.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice to subject an employee to a hostile work environment.
Includes hedge fund fraud as consumer fraud act violation.
Authorizes civil action for certain damages when a pet animal becomes ill, is injured, or dies from consuming or coming into contact with adulterated pet food.
Establishes consumer protections regarding product recalls.
Revises vicious and potentially dangerous dog law; designated Congo's Law.
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Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
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 for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Enhances rights and remedies of employees who disclose or refuse to participate in fraudulent employer practices.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from estate recovery under Medicaid.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who give good faith report of terroristic activity or threats.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Codifies New Jersey Supreme Court ruling concerning divorced parents' obligation to pay for children's post high-school education expenses under certain circumstances.
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and subscription services to make disclosures about recording devices; regulates release of recording device data.
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain health care providers with fee schedules.
Requires each public school to observe a period of silence on September 11 of each school year.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Concerns third party payment for maternity services.
Concerns third party payment for neurosurgery services.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for NJ FamilyCare.
Appropriates $10 million for New Jersey September 11, 2001 Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits charging of unauthorized fees by bail agents or agencies.
Requires certain persons seeking license to operate facility to provide magnetic resonance imaging services to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Concerns risk based capital requirements for health maintenance organizations.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to DMVA for World War II Memorial.
Prohibits cellular telephone service providers from disclosing individual proprietary information without customer written consent.
Certifies court reporters.
Prohibits participating providers under managed care plans from charging certain fees; establishes penalties therefor.
Establishes "New Jersey Homeland Security and State Preparedness Fund" with moneys from a $10 surcharge on motor vehicle fines.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses paying a salary differential to National Guard members or reservists on active duty.
Grants $250,000 military death benefit to survivors of New Jersey National Guard members killed on active duty; makes appropriation.
Authorizes State Treasurer to provide group life insurance coverage for members of New Jersey National Guard.
Requires reporting and review of insurance carriers' health care claims processing and payment histories.
Requires managed care companies to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits and disclosed fee schedules; requires coverage under certain conditions; authorizes civil actions against violators.
Requires certain disclosures from carriers; establishes new health care claims payment and appeals process; limits use of utilization management under certain circumstances.
Requires bittering agent to be added to certain engine coolants and antifreeze to render it unpalatable.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishment from selling prepaid cellular telephones unless establishment first makes and retains photocopy of purchaser's driver's license or non-driver identification card.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Authorizes proportional property tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans having a service-connected permanent disability.
Regulates captive insurers.
Provides for residency requirement for name change applications.
Authorizes two-year property tax exemptions for facade and frontage improvements in certain older municipalities.
Authorizes payment of added and omitted assessments by property taxpayers over 12-month period.
Requires DHSS to make certain information about long-term care facilities available on department website.
Provides for Workers Compensation Judges Part membership in PERS for certain workers compensation judges.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to prepare and distribute informational booklet about sickle cell anemia; appropriates $95,000.
Excludes from income for gross income tax and PAAD eligibility purposes victims' remuneration for involuntary internment received under judgments or settlement agreements.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Establishes Breast Cancer Screening Access Program in DHSS; appropriates $10 million.
Provides for a tax exemption on certain improvements to dwelling houses to facilitate their use by disabled persons.
"Potential Life Protection Act."
Makes failure to report an offense against a child a crime under certain circumstances.
Requires genetic testing to determine paternity in non-dissolution cases.
Provides for a mandatory term of imprisonment for arson under certain circumstances.
Upgrades penalties for corporate fraud; provides for civil action for treble damages under certain circumstances.
"Expanding Access to Health Care Act"; requires certain large employers to either provide specified level of health benefits to employees or pay assessment to State.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Provides that child support obligation terminates with death of the obligor.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Act."
Provides for assignment of certain homeowners insurance policies under certain circumstances.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Establishes a five year after-school pilot program in the Department of Education to discourage delinquency; appropriates $5,000,000.
"Prescription Drug Cost Containment Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHSS for breast cancer screening.
Makes theft of an emergency service vehicle a crime of the second degree under certain circumstances.
Increases the railroad franchise tax to support State homeland security, domestic preparedness and counter-terrorism programs.
Increases salaries of workers' compensation judges.
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Permits certain minors to consent to forensic care or treatment.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in certain public and nonpublic school buildings.
Clarifies that purchase price of passenger automobile for calculation of sales tax due is amount on bill of sale.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
The "New Jersey Pharmacist Business Assistance Act."
Changes composition of board of directors of health service corporations.
Reduces interest rate charged to senior citizen delinquent property taxpayers to 5%.
Increases the number of voting members on UMDNJ board of trustees from 11 to 19, adds two additional nonvoting members, authorizes trustee establishment of hospital board of directors, and requires establishment of certain trustee committees.
Prohibits use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting.
Increases New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association payment cap to $500,000; immunizes policyholders protected by association from certain liability.
Provides for an extended term of imprisonment, supervision for life and sex offender registration for the crime of human trafficking under certain circumstances.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Provides certain information obtained by a legislator be considered confidential and not subject to disclosure.
Upgrades the crime of employing a juvenile in a drug distribution scheme; imposes a mandatory minimum term of 10 years.
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity.
Amends and supplements the "New Jersey Parentage Act;" requires blood and genetic testing under certain circumstances.
Upgrades theft of certain firearms; establishes transporting of firearms under certain circumstances as a crime of the second degree.
Provides immunity to law guardians, guardians and guardians-ad-litem.
Provides for civil action and treble damages for a violation of the "New Jersey Trademark Counterfeit Act."
Provides for suspicious transactions reporting for banks, money transmitters; provides for investigative interrogatories in forfeiture proceedings.
Prohibits false or secret compartments in motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Provides for residency requirement for name change applications.
Includes business broker in definition of real estate broker and salesperson.
Abolishes Home Inspection Advisory Committee; transfers duties to State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Concerns attorney's fees in workers' compensation cases.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Modifies application of certain homeowners insurance deductibles in certain urban areas.
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising concerning merchandise with a manufacturer's rebate.
The "State Flood Control Project Bond Act of 2006," authorizes bonds for $100,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Provides limits for late charge and returned check fee payments for certain loans.
Establishes the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact."
Requires insurers to provide coverage for medications and dose-intensive chemotherapy/bone marrow transplants and umbilical cord blood transplants for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Provides for certain ex-spouses to receive a widow's pension.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacist for dispensing fraudulent prescription approved by Medicaid, PAAD or Senior Gold.
Permits court to merge offenses of drunk driving and refusal to submit to breath test.
"Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2006."
Imposes liability insurance requirement on alcoholic beverage licensees and provides penalties for occupancy and fire code violations.
Concerning the "Contractors' Registration Act."
Limits point assessment for unsafe driving.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Permits certain retired justices and judges to retain special license plates.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Requires cigarettes to meet certain safety standards.
Establishes a toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.
Establishes the crime of negligent homicide.
Prohibits electronic mail service providers from implementing an electronic mail postage system.
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Prohibits State agencies from including advertisements in mailings to public.
Concerns child performers and creates a child performer trust account.
Appropriates from Cigarette Tax Securitization Proceeds Fund $70 million to DEP for capital construction projects in State parks, forests, and wildlife management areas, and $5 million to DMVA for veteran's memorials.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service; allows ATM operators to charge certain fees.
Restricts sale or lease of ultrasound equipment.
Appropriates $200,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Creates "New Jersey Catastrophic Health Care Claims Reinsurance Program."
Prohibits making a false statement for the purposes of obtaining emergency assistance benefits; prohibits misuse of emergency assistance benefits.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties.
Prohibits certain breeding and sales practices; requires persons selling cats or dogs to provide certain information; and provides penalties.
Changes membership of Home Inspection Advisory Committee.
Requires NJT, certain private providers of diesel commercial bus service, and State owned or operated diesel vehicles to use biodiesel fuel or biodiesel blend fuel.
Provides certain requirements for donation container solicitations by charities.
The "New Jersey Consumers Terrorism Protection Insurance Coverage Act;" establishes minimum terrorism insurance policy provisions.
Concerns burden of proof standards for certain securities violations.
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Establishes maximum premium rate for certain dependent health benefits coverage at 45% of single coverage.
Requires certain nongovernmental employers to provide health care premium conversion plans for employees; excludes certain employee health care premium conversions from taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires certain employers to pay $500 to defray State costs of providing health coverage for uninsured employees.
Provides premium assistance to certain small employers who purchase health benefits plans; appropriates $10 million.
Lowers minimum participation rate of small employer health benefits plans to 50% for groups with two to 10 persons.
Prohibits hospital and physician from charging patient for costs associated with donating umbilical cord blood to publicly accessible certified cord blood bank.
Supplemental appropriation of $200 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Excludes certain financial assistance from patient income in determining eligibility for charity care.
Consolidates individual and small employer health benefits programs under one board.
Establishes Administrative Law Judges Part in PERS; funds payment of unfunded accrued liability thereof with certain new OAL filing fees.
Renames Continental Airlines Arena the Continental Airlines - Brendan Byrne Arena.
Requires contractors engaged in home improvements to register with Division of Consumer Affairs biennially, rather than annually.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Authorizes special American Legion license plates for motorcycles.
Provides for identity theft verification passports under certain circumstances.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases.
Modifies required content of annual notice of property tax assessment.
Designated Kevin Apuzzio's Law; allows municipalities to provide increased survivor pensions for certain volunteer emergency workers and requires municipalities to provide health and life insurance coverage to volunteer firefighters.
Lowers maximum interest rate that municipalities can charge on first $1500 of unpaid municipal taxes, assessments, liens or other charges.
Lowers maximum interest rate that municipalities can charge on unpaid municipal taxes, assessments, liens or other charges over $1500.
Reduces to five years length of continuous residency requirement to qualify for homestead property tax reimbursement.
Eliminates notice and reporting requirements imposed on municipal tax assessors during property reassessment.
Provides that property owner who negligently contaminates or neglects property shall be assessed property taxes at value of property without consideration of effects of contamination or neglect.
Allows municipal tax assessor to increase assessment of illegally converted real property.
"The Muhammad Ali/Rocky Marciano Boxing Reform Act"; enhances regulation of boxing.
Clarifies that additions and improvements omitted from the property assessment list may be assessed as omitted assessments.
Authorizes tax assessor at his or her own discretion to file cross-petition of appeal with county tax board or counterclaim with Tax Court.
Establishes the "Premium Support Program" for NJ FamilyCare and Medicaid.
Expands scope of claims subject to "Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act," and modifies certain claims procedures.
Requires health care providers to obtain informed consent from patients for use of certain reprocessed medical devices.
Establishes fee schedule requirements for certain network-based health or dental benefits coverage regarding reimbursement for out-of-network, non-hospital provider claims.
Authorizes reimbursement for EMT training from EMT Training Fund for certain volunteer firefighters.
Exempts certain professionals from liability for advice rendered in relation to classification of construction employees.
Requires members of State Investment Council and Director and Assistant Directors of Division of Investment to file financial disclosure and certain other statements.
Requires general hospitals to submit certain financial data to DHSS concerning third party payments for services rendered.
Revises and expands New Jersey Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Act.
Revises basis for calculating charity care reimbursement; increases HMO premium assessment and group health insurance premium tax to support charity care.
Provides for upper parental income limits in child support cases.
Requires health insurers to provide benefits for magnetic resonance imaging for certain women at high risk for breast cancer.
Prohibits purchase and resale of certain animals for experimentation.
Concerns jurisdiction over claims for reimbursement of certain payments or services related to workers' compensation injuries and illnesses.
Prohibits retail sales establishment from storing certain magnetic-stripe data; requires reimbursement for costs incurred by financial institution due to breach of security.
Provides that the State pay health care coverage for certain survivors of members of PFRS and SPRS.
Requires licensing of mortgage originators; revises "New Jersey Licensed Lenders Act."
Establishes the "Celebrity Image Protection Act."
Appropriates $10,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture for grants in support of horse breeding in New Jersey.
Establishes the Criminal Code Review Commission.
Creates tax exemption for public parks and recreational facilities owned, maintained, or operated by joint municipal recreation commission.
Adds fraud via telecommunication or electronic means to list of prohibited activities for certain security transactions; increases penalties.
Creates six additional Tax Court judgeships.
Establishes "Victim-Witness Scholarship Fund;" establishes "Witness Protection Fund;" and concerns State forfeiture funds.
Upgrades penalties for tampering with witnesses and informants.
Requires physician supervision of nurse anesthetists.
Creates New Jersey World War II medal; appropriates $5,000.
Creates new offenses and penalties reqarding animal fighting.
Reduces the minimum age for donating blood without parental consent from 17 to 16 years of age.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Myanmar.
Creates the "Criminal Street Gang Violence Prevention Act."
Establishes the "Healthy New Jersey Labor-Management" demonstration program.
Gives membership in PERS Prosecutors Part to DLPS employees with title of assistant director, deputy director, assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general.
Increases workers' compensation benefits for dependents.
Increases certain workers' compensation benefits.
Establishes Workers' Compensation Review Commission.
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Clarifies type of liability insurance coverage certain licensed auto body repair facilities must carry.
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Clarifies treatment of two tier annuity products under the "Indexed Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities."
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Allows joint insurance funds to include treasurers, tax collectors, and municipal court judges and administrators under blanket bond coverage. *
"New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes the sale of State general obligation bonds in the amount of $450 million and appropriates $5,000. **
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
The "New Jersey Real Estate Timeshare Act."
Authorizes the issuance of bonds by the NJEDA to fund State capital construction projects of $270 million for facilities for stem cell research, biomedical research, blood collection and cancer research. ****
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis that individual was a victim of identity theft.
Prohibits use of "step-down" provisions to limit uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage in certain circumstances.
Requires NJ Disease Management Study Commission to assess how disease management programs can impact Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Extends expiration date of automobile insurance urban enterprise zone program to April 1, 2009.
Allows State banks to provide for staggered terms of directors in certificate of incorporation.
Establishes the transport of firearms into State for purposes of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
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Requires health insurers to honor an assignment of benefits for ambulance service payments under certain circumstances. *
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
The "School Funding Reform Act of 2008."
Establishes the State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors. *
Skinner's and Michelle's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain long-term and former State residents. *
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Concerns employee expenses in suits against third parties in workers' compensation cases.
Creates New Jersey POW-MIA medal. *
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Increases voting members on UMDNJ board of trustees from 11 to 19; provides for additional board powers; and establishes board of directors for University Hospital. *
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising or concert performance practices with respect to live muscial performances or productions. *
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
Makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees because of religious practices.
Reinforces prohibition of any debarred contractor using new business entity to circumvent the debarment; provides for suspension of contractor's registration pending hearing. *
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Requires health care providers to test pregnant women for HIV as part of routine prenatal care unless woman refuses testing, and requires testing of certain newborns for HIV. *
Clarifies independent status of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission and increases annual employee surcharge that funds program.
Clarifies fees under "The Radiation Accident Response Act" are assessments against facilities, not operators; assesses nuclear facility operators for costs of State provided supplemental security. *
Vetoed · 1
Requires certain public contract bid advertisements to contain certified cost estimates or estimate ranges of projected contract costs and specifies grounds for rejections of all bids. **
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Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Requires liability insurance for certain vessels.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Concerns transfer of PANYNJ contracts related to marine terminals.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Provides that a nursing home resident has a right to receive food that meets the resident's religious dietary requirements.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
Amends Health Enterprise Zone law to allow municipalities more discretion in granting property tax exemptions to medical offices.
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Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Requires notices concerning employees under age 18 to be posted in English and Spanish.
Adds new causes of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences.
Establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist. *
Requires that chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, allopathic physicians, and osteopathic physicians be reimbursed at same rate as other health care providers under various health and accident plans.
Requires health benefits coverage by health insurers and SHBP for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor. *
Revises various provisions of the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003."
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. *
Allows identity theft victims to petition for judicial determination of factual innocence.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to Rutgers, The State University and $50,000 to Seton Hall University to fund clinical legal program for homeless veterans.
Defers expiration date of law permitting physicians and dentists to engage in joint negotiations with insurance carriers.
Deletes prior authorization requirements by certain insurers for accessing certain health care services.
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property.
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.
Requires employers and birthing facilities to notify insured pregnant women if their health insurance coverage is not subject to 48-hour maternity law. *
Revises "New Jersey Money Transmitters Act"; provides consumer protections; increases reporting and record keeping requirements.
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Provides compulsory attendance for out-of-state witnesses at investigations conducted by the SCI.
"State Medicare Part D Assistance and Information Act."
Concerns meat packing.
"Group Home Fire Safety Act."
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Requires notice prior to cancellation or nonrenewal of health benefits plans under certain circumstances.
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Clarifies neuro-imaging criteria for primary stroke centers.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Requires certain disclosures of information on development subsidies.
Provides unemployment benefits for spouses of armed services members under certain conditions. *
Clarifies that suspension for non-driving related offense is distinct from suspension for driving related offense.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship. *
Expands the means to obtain a protective order for a minor. *
Requires Business Employment Incentive Program and other program grant recipients to pay the prevailing wage on certain public work projects.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Revises "Health Care Quality Act;" requires certain provisions in managed care plan contracts; clarifies certain responsibilities for ordering tests and procedures.
Revises criteria for determining health claim to be "clean claim" for purposes of promptly remitting payment.
Expands purposes of hospital asset transformation program in Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
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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.
Raises monetary threshold for at-fault automobile accidents to $1,000.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Requires private passenger automobile insurers to provide a letter of experience upon request.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Establishes pilot program in DLPS requiring electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Access Study Commission."
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program subsidy.
Requires registration for sex offense convictions in certain foreign countries.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Allows patrons of State-owned concert and sports facilities to bring bottled water into those facilities.
Provides immunity from liability for persons who install or inspect child restraint systems.
Authorizes Casino Control Commission to permit Atlantic City casinos to offer Internet casino gambling.
Exempts certain motor vehicles from inspections.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Prohibits HMOs from denying provider participation to orthotists, prosthetists and pedorthists willing to meet terms of HMO contract.
Modifies certain provisions concerning automobile insurance.
Provides for registration of mold inspectors and remediators.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers to notify consumers of relevant adjustment programs.
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general election.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Provides for receipt for voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election; provides State reimbursement.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Gives judge discretion to close court proceedings to the public in cases involving national or State security.
Creates an integrated State medical examiner system by increasing the authority of the State Medical Examiner regarding forensic investigations, establishing regional medical examiner offices, and eliminating the county medical examiner system.
Changes calculation of average weekly wage for TDI benefits.
The "Armed Services Unemployment Benefits Act."
Caps supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for school administrators at $15,000.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Excludes certain Medicare premiums in determining eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires responsible business practices by large employers regarding wages and benefits.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Concerns bail bonds and bail enforcement agents.
Allocates certain excess surplus of health service corporations to hospitals for charity care subsidies.
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Establishes premium assistance fund and task force concerning medical malpractice liability insurance.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
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.
Provides additional State aid to certain public school districts.
Authorizes NJ Transit to establish NJ Transit Development Corporation as subsidiary corporation.
Repeals certain requirements for certain prescription drug plans.
Ensures that the sales and use tax will not be imposed upon Internet access service.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraceptives subject to certain conditions.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes task force to investigate the Farmland Assessment Act.
Permits candidates for school employment to demonstrate rehabilitation to the Commissioner of Education to avoid disqualification due to a criminal conviction revealed in a criminal history record check.
Establishes certain requirements regarding replacement of life insurance policies and annuity contracts.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Clarifies obligation of cemeteries to hold consumer prepayments for cemetery services in trust accounts.
Requires theaters to reserve certain seats for patrons with hearing loss.
Revises certain provisions of the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Requires DHSS to study relationship between autism and ultrasounds and issue protocol for the use of ultrasounds.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Allows members of PERS Prosecutors Part to establish purchased PERS credit in the Part at additional cost.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Expands scope of claims subject to "Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act"; modifies procedures applicable to health claims reviews.
Requires flu vaccine distributors to give purchasing preference to governmental entities in the State.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
The "Teaser Rate Protection Act"; prohibits certain residential mortgage lending practices.
The "Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Prevention Act."
Authorizes and requires HMFA to offer refinance loan program for borrowers of high-cost home loans.
Permits surcharge of up to 25% to offset private collection fees for certain delinquent debts owed to courts, counties, and municipalities.