Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Eric Munoz
Sponsored
Out of committee5
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation. *
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Clarifies that in nonpublic schools the school nurse would be required to recruit and train volunteer designees to administer epinephrine to students when nurse is not physically present.
In committee62
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
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.
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking, as condition of variance approval.
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.
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
"New Jersey Medical Care Availability and Patient Protection Act of 2004."
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
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.
Requires posting sign on property subject of development application.
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.
Changes the qualifications for appointment to the Local Finance Board.
Creates "Political Communications Reporting Act of 2004."
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Provides for mandatory forfeiture of retirement benefits of elected official convicted of crime involving office held.
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.
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.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Requires instruction on the Founding Fathers of the United States as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
Establishes chief of forensic dentistry in office of State Medical Examiner.
Requires contract for sale of real property to include requirement for inspection of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors located on property.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Requires OLS to make audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions available to public in electronic form.
Increases and indexes the maximum homestead property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
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.
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $73,000 for a grant to Union County College for Holocaust and Ethnic Studies Project.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of goods donated to certain governmental, charitable and public safety organizations.
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Requires sellers of used motor vehicles to complete and submit form.
Clarifies that permitting sexual abusers to reside with a child constitutes endangering welfare of a child.
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Allocates nondedicated portion of State realty transfer fee collections to municipal property tax relief.
Permits municipal board of library commissioners to reduce library tax rate when municipality acquires new ratables.
Requires DOT to create map showing refueling facilities where alternative fuel is dispensed.
Exempts municipal parking from sales and use tax.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Child Protection Zone Act."
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission," appropriates $95,000.
Requires persons under age 17 to wear helmets when operating non-motorized scooters.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces and the New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Clarifies that in nonpublic schools the school nurse would be required to recruit and train volunteer designees to administer epinephrine to students when nurse is not physically present.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Establishes Asperger's Syndrome Pilot Initiative.
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
"Access to Medical Research Act;" authorizes certain persons to give informed consent for medical research if subject of research is unable to give consent.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Prohibits minors under 14 from using tanning facilities and requires written parental consent for minors 14 to 18.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Provides certain employment protections for employees on military leave in time of war or emergency.
Requires hospital trustees to undergo training approved by DHSS.
Appropriates $9,066,000 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 northern NJ.
Appropriates $39,430,430 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
"New Jersey Health Information Technology Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission and Office for e-HIT, and provides for Statewide health information technology plan. *
Provides for instruction in autism and other developmental disabilities awareness and methods of teaching students with autism and other developmental disabilities for candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers and paraprofessionals. **
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain New Jersey members of the military and their families in need of assistance.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
"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. *
Requires hospitals to report certain injuries to local and State police.
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 25
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Appropriates $1,263,166 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Establishes sex offender monitoring program. *
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop. *
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release.
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.
Deletes references to Drug Utilization Review Council and provides for use of federal Orange Book.
Requires ambulatory care facilities to provide uncompensated outpatient renal dialysis services for uninsured low-income persons.
Requires development and distribution of pamphlet informing parents of student athletes about sudden cardiac death.
Requires MVC to share organ donor information with federally designated organ procurement organizations.
Permits person covered by managed care plan to receive covered services from in-network provider without obtaining referral from primary care physician.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Requires NJ Disease Management Study Commission to assess how disease management programs can impact Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
Revises child pornography law. *
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Permits, rather than requires, participants in death registration process to use New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Authorizes DYFS to review prospective resource family parents' child abuse record information from other states, and provides these parents with right to be heard at certain hearings.
In committee · 66
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 the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Permits board of education to accept donations for purpose of providing property tax relief.
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.
Permits municipal police officers to make arrests for any disorderly persons or petty disorderly persons offense outside the territorial limits of their municipality.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
"Community Health Service Pilot Initiative Act."
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.
Increases handicapped parking education and fines for unlawfully parking in handicapped space; requires DMV to issue stickers for handicapped placards and license plates when renewed every three years.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Provides standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions against physicians.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Requires wheelchair-only handicapped parking spaces in certain parking lots.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
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.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
"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 "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Allows school districts to qualify for assistance under the New Jersey Shade Tree and Community Forestry Assistance Act.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
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.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
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.
Designated the Homestead Rebate Payment Protection Act; requires the payment of homestead rebates on or before July 31 annually.
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
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.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Authorizes MVC to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt uniform informed consent form for clinical demonstration projects approved by DHSS.
Imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of pension and retirement benefits for public officers or employees convicted of certain crimes involving or touching their office or employment.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Exempts initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of certain municipal, county, and nonprofit clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Permits hospital service cooperatives to operate mobile intensive care units that may transport patients to hospitals under certain conditions.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Provides exemption from UI taxes for certain retirees.