Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Nicholas Asselta
Sponsored
Passed the Senate2
Establishes "New Jersey Veterans' Hospital Task Force."
Permits municipality to reimburse amount of filing fee to successful tax assessment appellant. *
Out of committee10
Establishes aid program for certain municipalities with State correctional facilities.
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising or concert performance practices with respect to live musical performances or productions. *
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district and imposition of additional taxes therein to finance development of sports and entertainment facilities. *
Establishes program in HMFA to facilitate mortgages for eligible volunteer fire and rescue squad members. *
Skinner's and Michelle's Law; increases penalties for leaving scene of motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Designates New Jersey Route 55 as "Veterans Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Authorizes paid leaves of absence for certain delegates of employee organizations representing corrections officers attending conventions.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Permits parent of twins or higher order multiples enrolled in public school to select shared or separate classroom placement of their children.
Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to report on New Jersey Travel Independence Program and study feasibility of its expansion Statewide. *
In committee106
Creates "Task Force on the Extension of Route 55."
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate Transportation Trust Fund monies for concept development and design of Route 55 extension.
Provides that shore protection funds may be used for maintenance dredging of State navigational waterways.
Reduces sales tax rate on certain sales and admission charges at places of amusement in urban enterprise zone areas and provides that sales tax revenue be for municipal purposes.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Grants Abbott district status to the school districts of Buena Regional and Woodbine.
Reduces State hotel and motel occupancy fee from five to two percent starting FY2005; preserves dedication.
Establishes commission to study and promote desalination.
Limits certain State and nonprofit open space acquisitions in municipalities.
Exempts veterans' discharge certificate from State's open public records law.
Expands membership of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and ensures appointment of at least one member from each of the four counties where authority currently hosts facilities.
Authorizes urban enterprise zones in Lower Township and in Woodbine Borough, Cape May County.
Revises calculation of school district budget caps, increases allowable surplus for public school districts, and revises adjustment for special education costs.
Creates "Small Retail Business Assistance Fund" to make low-interest loans to certain small retail businesses; appropriates $750,000.
Requires approval from appropriation committees of the Legislature for employee bonuses proposed by certain public institutions of higher education.
The "South Jersey Regional Veterans' Health Care Facility Grant Fund Act."
Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
Requires Turnpike Authority to collect tolls only in southbound direction at certain toll plazas.
Requires DEP to compensate certain property owners for certain costs incurred in property dispute resolution; makes appropriation therefor.
Returns portion of realty transfer fee to beach municipalities for certain shore protection projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand Respite Care for the Elderly Program.
Extends burial of indigent veterans to those who did not serve in time of war; clarifies role of DMVA in identifying deceased veterans; provides additional funding for burial of indigent veterans.
Appropriates $3,600,000 from the General Fund to rehabilitate Cape May Seashore Lines.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Prohibits court from considering inadmissible prior bad conduct of deceased victim when deciding whether to downgrade offender's sentence to lesser degree.
Requires implementation of new private passenger automobile insurance territorial rating plans to occur no later than January 1, 2008.
Authorizes annual appropriation of moneys received from riparian land leases for maintenance dredging.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Allows certain persons in military service to receive suspension of interest on mortgage loan.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Requires Public Guardian for Elderly Adults to serve as guardian for elderly person adjudicated incompetent in cases where the person's spouse, domestic partner or heirs do not assume the guardianship.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 50 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren Counties.
Requires DMVA to evaluate Disabled American Veterans resources.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support improvement of State parks, forests and tourism welcome centers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support the School Counts! program and the NJ STARS program.
Provides for monies from penalties assessed for construction delays to be awarded to affected businesses.
Makes employment matters not exempted by statute mandatory subjects of public employment collective bargaining.
Provides for the reduction of the per pupil expenditure of certain constituent municipalities of regional school districts.
Provides that expiration of all CAFRA coastal centers shall be extended.
Establishes the New Jersey School Counts County College Scholarship Program; appropriates $2,000,000.
Establishes grant program in Department of Education to help single-building public school districts commission regionalization studies; appropriates $4,000,000.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Clarifies that activities conducted and uses of land by farm wineries are agricultural.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Requires drivers to move over or slow down for emergency road service vehicles.
Directs DHSS to review evacuation readiness of institutional health care facilities; appropriates $30,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $900,000 to DCA to complete the Cape May County Public Safety Training Center.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to complete the Cape May County Public Training Academy.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Requires review of certain privatization contracts.
Extends mandatory retirement age for certain PFRS members.
Appropriates $25 million to remove and replace 500 bed Phase I facility at Southern State.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to Maurice River Township for the siting of a State correctional facility.
Requires county and municipal emergency operations plans to be updated annually; appropriates $100,000.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for portion of federal civil service pension representing foregone military pension benefit.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain activities and services as projects eligible for UEZ funding.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act."
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Authorizes appointment by counties of special law enforcement officers to supplement staff of sheriff's officers.
Establishes a permanent Public School Education Funding Review Commission.
Makes residential underground storage tanks eligible for grants and loans for closure and replacement; and increases eligibility criteria for certain grants from Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Remediation, Upgrade, and Closure Fund.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" and "New Jersey, U.S.A." as State songs.
Designates five State songs.
Retitles State correction officer as State correctional police officer; clarifies law enforcement powers.
Provides sales tax exemption for materials and labor used to convert traditional motor vehicles into plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Provides that reports and publications produced by State be primarily available on Internet, provides for notice of availability of reports and publications.
"State Corrections Officers Bill of Rights."
Clarifies and enhances penalties for trespassers who damage farmland and crops with all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.
Provides for career tenure of school superintendents and administrative principals and limits salaries of superintendents and assistant superintendents of schools.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
Permits municipality to establish public financing program for campaigns for elective public office in the municipality.
"State Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."
Outlines procedures for conducting drug tests involving State law enforcement officers.
Clarifies rights of State law enforcement officers to participate in political activities.
Revises statutes concerning abandoned vessels to include sunken vessels; authorizes municipalities to remove abandoned vessels from municipal waterways.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Eliminates charges for initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of health and fitness, athletic, and sporting clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Phases out sales and use tax on certain initiation fees, membership fees and dues.
Revises law governing compulsory arbitration for public fire and police departments.
Requires 40 hours annual in-service training for State corrections officers.
Requires civilian employees of DOC to be trained in gang awareness.
Requires DOC to institute shift overlap program in State correctional facilities.
Requires corrections officers be notified when disturbance occurs in correctional facility.
Requires DOC employees who recruit, interview, and hire corrections officers to have gang awareness training.
Prohibits segregated inmates from receiving compensation.
Requires corrections officers on duty be equipped with two-way radios.
Repeals State and local hotel and motel occupancy taxes and voids existing municipal implementing ordinances.
Requires BPU to conduct pilot program to allow free parking for alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Establishes the "Conserve for America Loan Program;" allocates $5 million from societal benefits charge to fund program; appropriates $200,000.
Requires use of drought tolerant, xerophytic landscaping design and materials and "no mow" lawn grasses in State projects.
Prohibits mislabeling and misbranding of farm products; directs Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and enforce violations; increases penalties for certain violations.
Creates Coastal Area Homeowners Insurance Organization.
Establishes procedures for selecting hearing officers in certain police disciplinary hearings.
Authorizes State and county corrections officers to waive employer hearings and appeal directly to an administrative law judge.
Requires disciplinary actions against State and county corrections officers be based exclusively on rules and regulations adopted by the appropriate authority.
Provides immunity for police officers who are subjects of certain disciplinary and administrative hearings.
Clarifies chief of police is responsible for disciplining subordinates.
Requires disciplinary actions against police officers be based exclusively on rules and regulations adopted by the appropriate authority.
Authorizes police officers to waive local disciplinary hearings and appeal to administrative law judge in civil service and Superior Court judge in non-civil service municipalities.
Filed1
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district and imposition of additional taxes therein to finance development of sports and entertainment facilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Prohibits political contributions by all State and local public agencies.
Requires persons transacting business in this State and making payments to unregistered unincorporated construction contractors to withhold gross income taxes from those payments.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Excludes membership fees and dues of certain governmental and charitable clubs and organizations and certain parking services from sales and use tax. ****
Requires governmental affairs agent to report particular items in annual appropriation legislation or appropriation legislation supplemental thereto on which agent acted.
Prohibits candidates from contributing campaign funds to charity in which candidate or candidate's immediate family is an officer or employee or receives compensation for goods or services provided to the charity.
Requires hospitals to implement infection prevention programs and to report number of certain infections to DHSS. *
Passed the Senate · 7
Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000. *
Permits local government units to grant Length of Service Award Program points to certain activated military members.
Removes limitation on amount counties may appropriate in support of performing arts centers.
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.
Establishes criminal and civil penalties for transmission of certain commercial electronic mail messages.
Restricts receipt of things of value by members of the Legislature and legislative staff from lobbyists and governmental affairs agents; increases certain penalty provisions. *
Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Out of committee · 22
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Establishes the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in the DEP and appropriates $200,000.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice and Division of Gaming Enforcement. *
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires prenotification of certain plant closings, transfers and mass layoffs. *
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Concerns bail bonds and the issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter, Public School Teacher and Sanitation Worker Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Provides for establishment of county offices for disability services; appropriates $425,000. *
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Requires propane gas supplier or marketer to distribute to customers certain disclosures; establishes panalties for violations. *
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Appropriates $8,552,405 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 southern NJ.
Reinforces prohibition of any debarred contractor using new business entity to circumvent the debarment; provides for suspension of contractor's registration pending hearing. *
Broadens the exception for small businesses under the UEZ sales tax rebate program. **
Establishes the position of Ethics Counsel and mandates certain ethics consultation and training in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
Appropriates $40 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
In committee · 62
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
Requires funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS to assist local police departments in paying for new N.C.I.C. terminals.
Repeals State and local hotel and motel occupancy taxes and voids existing municipal implementing ordinances.
Requires prosecutors to determine risk of re-offense under Megan's Law prior to offender's release from incarceration.
Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for utility and energy costs.
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.
Provides for the inclusion of home-schooled students in the NJ STARS Program.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Changes reimbursement structure for various transportation services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Provides for State income tax deduction to private well owners for water testing costs.
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Establishes the National Board Certification Scholarship Program; appropriates $500,000.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Allows New Jersey S corporations to elect to transfer corporation business tax credits to shareholders to apply against the shareholders' gross income tax liability.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
"Long-Term Care Partnership Program Act"; establishes Long-Term Care Partnership Program in DHSS.
Adds two members to Board of Pharmacy and specifies type of employer of three of the members.
Prohibits the DEP from requiring certain municipalities to adopt an ordinance that prohibits placing non-containerized yard wastes in the street or to develop a yard waste collection and disposal program.
Exempts from realty transfer fees, sales of homes of certain New Jersey members of the military.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Creates New Jersey Clinical Trials Registry in DHSS.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squad and fire company.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
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.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and State park admission for persons with certain types of military service.
Expands covered claims under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to include liquor law liability insurance claims.
Eliminates maximum age requirement for appointment as police officer or paid firefighter.
Regulates certain activities of pharmacy benefits management companies.
Provides for the appointment of prosecutor's agents.
Permits certain managers in the public sector to negotiate collectively under the "New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."
Provides for annual support from General Fund and appropriates $150,000 for current fiscal year for oyster resource enhancement program.
Clarifies offenders are not eligible for parole under "Michael's Law".
Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals.
Disqualifies member of board of education for conviction of certain crimes and requires member to undergo criminal history background investigation.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Exempts certain physician-owned or operated ambulatory health care facilities from ambulatory care gross receipts assessment if facility is Medicaid or NJ Family Care provider.
Requires refueling facilities dispensing certain alternative fuels on State's toll roads.
Creates "Green E-ZPass" discounts for certain fuel-efficient vehicles.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Eliminates imposition of sales and use tax on charges for initiation fees, membership fees, or dues for access to health and fitness clubs or organizations.
Excludes military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to provide for full funding of certain statutory school aid provisions.
Provides that a homestead owner who is 65 years of age or older or disabled shall not receive a homestead rebate of less than $1,440.
Provides for funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential.
Permits revised methods of treatment for chiropractors and establishes continuing education requirements.
Appropriates $400,000 to the Department of Agriculture for honeybee resources support.
Provides investment tax credit for businesses for certain purchased wave energy power devices.
Requires BPU to provide funding for wave power park project from societal benefits charge.
Provides credit under corporation business tax and gross income tax for marinas and boatyards that follow certain environmentally sound management practices.