Bills in the 2008–2009 Session, General Assembly.
Eric Munoz
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation.
"Ricci's Law;" revises ignition interlock device requirements for certain drunk driving offenders. *
Passed the General Assembly1
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Out of committee3
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
Bars certain sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations. *
Permits eligible claimant who is proportionate owner paying entire property tax bill to collect entire homestead property tax reimbursement amount.
In committee2
Provides unemployment benefits for certain veterans.
Revises standards used by charitable organizations in determining permissible expenditures of endowment funds.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires drivers to make all reasonable efforts to remove ice or snow from vehicle; creates fine.
Bars certain sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Extends payment of accidental death benefit in PFRS, SPRS, PERS and TPAF to survivors of certain members of reserve component of Armed Forces and National Guard. *
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Permits municipal board of library trustees to transfer surplus funds to municipality for tax relief under certain conditions.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Increases membership of Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of NJ from 14 to 15 members.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for certain first responders. *
Requires pharmacists to include on prescription drug label name of brand name drug and generic drug when generic drug is dispensed. *
Provides that nursing home resident has right to receive food that meets resident's religious dietary requirements.
Requires that one member of the State Board of Medical Examiners be a practicing podiatric physician.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund and to Cat and Dog Spay/Neuter Fund. *
The "Permit Extension Act of 2008."
Makes revisions to personal assistance services program in DHS.
Permits person to donate blood at 16 years of age with parental consent.
Makes permanent certain Special Civil Part fees.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
Requires DCF to provide information on shaken baby syndrome to parents of newborn infants. *
Clarifies definition of "primary care" in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program to include practice of geriatrics.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Permits person covered by certain managed care plans to receive covered services from network provider without obtaining written referral from primary care provider. *
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Requires certain elected officials and appointed officers eligible for dual health benefits coverage to choose coverage by one public entity. *
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Creates alternate voting members on county agriculture development boards.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Provides additional enforcement provisions under "Health Care Quality Act"; allows certain private causes of action for violations; expands administrative remedies; establishes enforcement fund.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Colon Cancer Research Fund;" provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns. *
Out of committee · 22
Requires managed care plans to pay certain health care claims based on assignment of benefits.
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Establishes "New Jersey Fire and EMS Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals from charging for certain medical errors. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them.
Increases penalties for failing to yield to pedestrian when pedestrian is seriously injured.
"New Jersey Health Insurance Connector Act"; establishes New Jersey Health Insurance Connector; provides gross income tax exclusion for cafeteria plan benefits. *
Appropriates $54,917,725 from various Green Acres funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Permits smoking ban on grounds of State psychiatric hospitals and other Human Services facilities if smoking cessation program offered. *
Requires nursing homes and assisted living residences to provide informational sheet concerning Medicaid eligibility to certain residents.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires training for all trustees of general hospitals.
Requires DHS to verify income of applicants for Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare with Department of the Treasury records.
Requires staff members of adoption agencies to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Provides civil immunity for certain volunteer physicians, nonprofit clinics and federally qualified health centers. *
Requires DHSS to provide written notice to certain federal, State and local elected officials upon the filing of application for certificate of need to close hospital.
"Dietitian/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Requires staff of shelters for victims of domestic violence and emergency shelters for homeless to undergo criminal history record background checks.
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Establishes "New Jersey Lung Cancer Research Fund"; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns.
In committee · 153
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.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance, and rescue squads.
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.
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.
Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.
Provides exemption from UI taxes for certain retirees.
Designated "New Jersey Economic Development Promotion Act"; streamlines and reorganizes State economic development statutes in order to promote administrative efficiency.
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires prosecutor to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Ends the transitional energy facilities assessment, caps the State use portion of State energy tax revenues and ensures the balance of such State revenues are paid annually as municipal aid.
"Billy's Law"; establishes Council on Out-of-State Placement of Children and registry of qualified out-of-State residential schools and programs in DCF.
Requires suspension of local elected and appointed officers and employees indicted for certain offenses that, upon conviction, require forfeiture of office or position.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
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.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Authorizes special plate for holders of "Combat Action Ribbon."
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Eliminates COAH requirement that municipality obtain initial plan endorsement from the State Planning Commission to retain substantive certification.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Authorizes temporary handicapped parking permits for certain relatives of nursing home residents.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Restricts gifts from drug companies to health care professionals and prohibits health care professionals with financial ties to drug companies from serving on health care facility formulary committees.
Exempts storage facility space furnished to active duty military personnel from the sales and use tax.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Extends, by three years, the collection of annual surcharges for the Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund.
Excludes charges for certain membership and initiation fees and dues from sales and use tax.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
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 "Proud to Be an American" license plate with proceeds to veterans' and emergency management organizations.
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
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.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt uniform informed consent form for clinical demonstration projects approved by DHSS.
"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 single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Requires that public officers or public employees convicted of crimes involving their office or employment be sentenced to mandatory prison terms and forfeit pension benefits.
Permits historic motor vehicles to be used for pleasure driving one day per week.
Recognizes co-fired biomass energy as method to meet renewable energy portfolio standards.
Exempts military personnel receiving combat zone pay from the gross income tax.
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Revises child pornography law.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
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.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
"New Jersey Medical Care Availability and Patient Protection Act of 2004."
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
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.
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.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education for surviving spouses and dependent children of military personnel killed in performance of duties.
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.
Establishes statutory procedure for annexation of municipality by another county.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
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.
Allocates nondedicated portion of State realty transfer fee collections to municipal property tax relief.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Child Protection Zone Act."
Requires DYFS to take certain actions to ensure caseworker safety.
"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.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service.
Establishes the "Anti-Phishing Act."
Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency.
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Agency.
Permits municipal board of library commissioners to reduce library tax rate when municipality acquires new ratables.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Establishes 24-hour hotline for information concerning the crime of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
Requires DOT to create map showing refueling facilities where alternative fuel is dispensed.
Establishes "Government Functions and Services Study Commission," appropriates $95,000.
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.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.
Prohibits DOT from entering into certain contracts concerning short-line freight rail services.
Exempts senior citizens, disabled persons and veterans from E-ZPass account monthly service charge.
Increases and indexes maximum homestead property tax deduction under 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.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Requires health insurers SHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for ancillary medical services in connection with outpatient diagnostic screening and surgical intervention services.
Requires Treasurer and Divisions of Pensions and Benefits and Investment Directors to report on status of State-administered pension plans to Legislature by April 15 and December 15 each year.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires persons under age 17 to wear helmets when operating non-motorized scooters.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund historic preservation.
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.
Prohibits certain employment or supervision of relatives of certain members of the Legislature.
Caps bond counsel legal fees and costs on public issuers' bond transactions and requires a competitive selection process for retaining bond counsel.
The "Toxic-free Children's Products Act."
Allows charitable contribution tax deductions under New Jersey gross income tax.
Requires hearing loss sensitivity training for public school pupils and teaching staff members.
Requires OLS to make audiovisual recordings of legislative sessions available to public in electronic form.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Requires that ordinary disability retirement in certain State-administered retirement systems be granted only if member has qualified for federal Social Security Disability benefits.
Allows pension calculation to be based on compensation increase in excess of actuarially assumed experience only if employer pays unfunded liability.
Restricts use of accumulated sick leave by public employees in year prior to retirement.
Limits payment upon retirement to $10,000 to State and local public officers and employees for accumulated sick leave.
Expands eligibility under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act by broadening certain municipal qualifier provisions.
Establishes right of way for funeral processions.
Excludes certain federal employee Thrift Savings Fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Upgrades the disorderly persons offense of desecration of a venerated object to a crime of the third degree if the object desecrated is a military monument.
"One Strike, You're Ours;" adds use of Internet as aggravating factor in child sex crimes and requires lifetime electronic monitoring of offender.
Provides that public employee pension benefits are calculated on base salary exclusive of various forms of extra compensation.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's retirement allowance or pension contributions.
Prohibits sale of products containing dextromethorphan to minors under 18 years of age.
Establishes registry of community agency employees providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits posting of certain personal information on the Internet or misrepresentation of identity on the Internet for the purpose of harassment of a minor child.
"The New Jersey Healthcare Choice Act"; permits health insurers licensed in other states to provide coverage in New Jersey under certain circumstances.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for costs of electric power infrastructure for use by heavy duty vehicles to reduce idling times.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies.
Restores the death penalty for certain murders.
Upgrades lewdness to fourth degree crime if committed in public rest room.
Provides that municipalities with minimum amounts of developable land may file certification with the Council on Affordabe Housing, even if no petition for substantive certification is filed.
Extends payment of homestead property tax reimbursement to non-eligible surviving spouse for portion of tax year during which deceased spouse lived.
Provides for Statewide evacuation strategy for hospitals and other health care facilities.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
"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.
Bars direct solicitation letters from attorneys to accident victims and other persons.
Prohibits display of political party affilliation on absentee ballot envelopes.
Designated the Shop Here, Save Money, Secure Jobs Act of 2008; establishes sales and use tax rate reduction period from November 28, 2008 through January 4, 2009, sets reduction period tax rate at 3.5%.
Protects property owned by military personnel and first responders from condemnation.
Abolishes Council on Affordable Housing for failure to comply with legislative directives.
Requires DHSS to report certain patient safety indicators on a hospital by hospital basis and prohibits hospitals and physicians from charging patient for certain medical errors.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Expands domestic violence protection for adoptive parents.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits unmuffled use of compression release engine brakes; creates fine.
Requires sex offender's tier designation to be completed and reviewed by the court prior to release from incarceration.
Removes authority of MVC to increase certain fees; sets certain fees by statute.