Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Francis J. Blee
Sponsored
Became law1
Provides that information about residence of persons licensed by certain professional boards shall not be disclosed to the public.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students. *
Out of committee2
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. *
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
In committee36
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes the New Jersey Higher Education Internship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Establishes Violence Free School Zones for public elementary and secondary schools.
Designates Atlantic City and Pleasantville, Atlantic County, as areas eligible for redemption of pinelands development credits.
Creates special education license plate.
Exempts drugs prescribed for mental illness and HIV/AIDS from restrictive mechanisms under Medicaid, NJ Family Care, PAAD and Senior Gold programs.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Establishes designated driver license plates.
Increases amount of State payment for post-retirement health care benefits for certain retired police officers and firefighters.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Establishes Safe Haven Awareness Promotion Task Force.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Establishes "Task Force on New Jersey's Public Health Workforce" in DHSS.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Requires appropriations in the nature of grants-in-aid to include certain criteria in the act in which they are enacted.
Permits certain State employees to participate in donated leave program.
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.
Requires sex offender who evacuates during emergency to report to law enforcement.
Allows emergency service providers to place telephone numbers on the State no telemarketing call list.
Creates Division of Probation in DOC; transfers all probation functions and employees to DOC.
Permits public school districts to include instruction on the problems of obesity as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Increases the types of matters eligible to be voted upon by a sending district representative on a receiving district board of education.
Establishes "New Jersey Clean Elections Pilot Project of 2007"; appropriates $3.5 million.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Changes age, permit term and firing range qualification for retired police officers authorized to carry firearms.
Eliminates certain authorized messengers of absentee ballots; provides for appointed, bipartisan, two-person teams to assist voters; makes appropriation.
Establishes for qualified urban enterprise zone vendors an annual tax review and certification.
Requires funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Revises certain procedures for the use of eminent domain in municipal redevelopment programs.
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
Prohibits possession of ammunition capable of penetrating body armor.
Exempts initiation fees, membership fees, and dues of certain municipal, county, and nonprofit clubs and organizations from sales and use tax.
Clarifies that all documents pertaining to the issuance of bonds for public recreation purposes are public records.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
Enhances penalties for possessing, receiving, and transferring community guns.
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.
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
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Appropriates $45.15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Directs Attorney General to establish a criminal firearms recovery clearing house.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Provides for funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Out of committee · 18
Authorizes special license plates for county and municipal emergency management volunteers.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Establishes Veterans' Oral History Foundation. *
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; establishes demonstration program to permit operation of sterile syringe access programs; appropriates $10 million. *
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
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.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for lake dredging and restoration projects, or stream cleaning and desnagging 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.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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. *
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
In committee · 90
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.
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Exempts boat and marine product sales from certain retail sales tax exemptions.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
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.
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.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Requires DHSS to use PAAD application information to enroll ineligible beneficiaries into Senior Gold.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Requires school districts annually to measure the body mass index of public school pupils.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in a public school complex.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Authorizes DMV to offer a red heart-shaped identifying symbol on personalized license plates.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime.
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.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers.
Expands eligibility criteria for disabled veteran's property tax exemption.
Requires State Treasurer to post information about State contracts for $17,500 or more on special website.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Regulates the level of State debt service payments on bonds issued by the State or State entities and prohibits the use of bond proceeds to pay interest on bonds.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Requires insurers to inform insureds whether certain coverages extend to rental automobiles.
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.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Upgrades crime of unauthorized practice of medicine and law.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2002.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election.
Prohibits member of Legislature from holding more than one elective office, any appointed public office or employment or any public contract.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from acting on certain bills in which they have personal interest; redefines personal interest.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Provides options for municipalities wishing to dispose of inexpensive police held tangible property.
Extends textbook sharing program to include all school equipment.
Requires school bus drivers to wear and visibly display photo identification.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
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.
Eliminates cosmetic dentistry from the cosmetic medical procedures gross receipts tax and subjects tattooing procedures to the tax.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Makes theft of human remains for unauthorized use crime of first degree.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Clarifies penalties court may impose in sentencing certain adults and juveniles guilty of making false public alarms.
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
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.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.