Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Eric Munoz
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend license of physician whose license has been revoked by another state, agency or authority.
Establishes "New Jersey Disease Management Study Commission."
Out of committee2
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
In committee69
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of goods donated to certain governmental, charitable and public safety organizations.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Adds State-paid health insurance for surviving spouses and children to PERS accidental death benefits.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $73,000 for a grant to Union County College for Holocaust and Ethnic Studies Project.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to the DMVA for the Veterans' Oral History program to record veterans' account of war experiences.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Appropriates such additional sums as may be necessary to New Jersey FamilyCare Health Coverage Program.
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking, as condition of variance approval.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Requires instruction on the Founding Fathers of the United States as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies.
Establishes Joint Commission on Governmental Performance Review and Evaluation in the legislative branch of government.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Expanding Health Care Coverage."
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund historic preservation.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Reappropriates in fiscal year 2003 the unexpended balance of a supplemental appropriation to the DEP for a grant to Cranford Township for construction of the Cranford Northeast Quadrant Flood Control Project.
Provides annual State facilities aid payments to charter schools.
Requires DOT to sell portions of certain railroad right-of-ways to Union County for recreation and conservation purposes and to interested municipalities for senior citizen housing; and provides nonmatching grant from "Garden State Green Acres Preservati
Increases and indexes the maximum homestead property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
"New Jersey Medical Care Availability and Patient Protection Act of 2004."
Revises laws concerning medical malpractice claims, procedures and liability insurance.
Establishes the Graduate Student Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $500,000.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for distributions from deferred compensation plans of New Jersey State and local governments, their authorities, school boards, and public institutions of higher education, and the federal government.
"Geologist Licensing Act."
Requires enrollment in PFRS regardless of age of certain firefighters appointed between July 1998 and July 1999.
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to VCCB.
Removes license suspension penalty for persons with only one outstanding parking fine; permits Motor Vehicle Commission to refuse registration to persons with outstanding parking fine.
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.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Requires posting sign on property subject of development application.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Changes the copayment for PAAD when more than two prescription drugs are purchased during any given month and increases the income eligibility limits for the PAAD program.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Designates "New Jersey and You - Perfect Together" as State Slogan.
Requires sellers of used motor vehicles to complete and submit form.
Changes the qualifications for appointment to the Local Finance Board.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Requires contract for sale of real property to include requirement for inspection of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors located on property.
Creates "Political Communications Reporting Act of 2004."
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
Requires amount by which actual State General Fund revenue exceeds anticipated State General Fund revenue for a fiscal year to be appropriated as State school aid.
Establishes chief of forensic dentistry in office of State Medical Examiner.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
Requires OLS to make audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions available to public in electronic form.
Limits use of Drumthwacket, official residence of the Governor.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
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.
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
"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.
"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.
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.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Revises penalty provisions for violation of certain laws regulating the retail sale of motor fuels.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers. *
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline. *
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
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 · 27
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
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. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Removes license suspension penalty for persons with only one outstanding parking fine; permits Motor Vehicle Commission to refuse registration to persons with only one outstanding parking fine. *
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.*
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
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.
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.
"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.
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
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 $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 central NJ.
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.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
In committee · 64
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Appropriates $90,000 to Division of Fish and Wildlife for Hunters Helping the Hungry program.
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
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.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
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.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Provides standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions against physicians.
Requires 90 days' prior written notice to health care providers of changes in carrier's fee schedule or reimbursement rate.
Establishes deadline and notice requirements for processing of teacher certification applications.
Requires arbitration if timely payment of health insurance claim is not made.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Permits certain qualified nonprofit organizations to participate in State purchasing contracts.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Designated the Homestead Rebate Payment Protection Act; requires the payment of homestead rebates on or before July 31 annually.
Prescribes duties of drivers approaching police vehicle stopped along roadway and displaying flashing red light.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include performance audits at request of legislator; establishes Performance Audit Committee, consisting of eight public members, to help conduct performance audits.
Requires traffic to stop for senior citizen transportation vehicles with certain equipment.
Requires public schools to weight courses in visual and performing arts equally with other courses worth same number of credits in calculating grade point average.
Requires hospitals to report information about patient infections to DHSS.
Establishes New Jersey Borough Enterprise Zone Program to encourage business development in small, highly developed municipalities.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Prohibits State purchase of creosote or creosote-treated wood.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
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.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Authorizes Commissioner of DHSS to permit out-of-State emergency health care providers to practice in State during public health emergency.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
"Access to Medical Research Act;" authorizes certain persons to give informed consent for medical research if subject of research is unable to give consent.