Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Wayne R. Bryant Esq.
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Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Reorganizes the State's workforce development system and redesignates the Department of Labor as the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Provides that non-participating hospitals receive fee-for-service payment from Medicaid for emergency services provided to Medicaid and NJ Family Care recipients.
Revises calculation of budget caps and reduces allowable surplus for public school districts.
Authorizes DEP to assess penalties for violations of the "Safe Dam Act" and to charge owners for repairs to dams.
Makes a fiscal year 2004 supplemental appropriation of $252,358,707 from the General Fund and the Property Tax Relief Fund and authorizes certain additional appropriations.
Appropriates $28,027,261,000 in State funds and $9,151,607,273 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2004-2005.
Allocates monies from assessment on hospital operating revenues to support federally qualified health centers.
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
Permits elections in municipalities with fewer than 500 residents to be conducted by mail.
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $400 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund for homestead rebates to homeowners and tenants.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
Creates the "New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006." *
Makes fiscal year 2006 supplemental appropriation of $22,000,000 to Department of Corrections for grants to counties housing State inmates and amends certain language provisions of the fiscal year 2006 appropriations act concerning certain grants.
Appropriates $27,919,888,000 in State funds and $9,795,662,570 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2005-2006.*
Makes fiscal year 2005 supplemental appropriations of $215,044,000 from the General Fund for various purposes and reduces certain existing fiscal year 2005 appropriations by $215,044,000.
Enhances debt collection by the State.
Authorizes a multistate personal income tax refund set-off program.
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Concerns filing methods for tax documents and filing standards when electronic filing methods are utilized; requires certain tax preparers to electronically file gross income tax returns. *
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Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Implements amendments to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Decouples corporation business tax and gross income tax from changes in federal depreciation and certain expensing; provides incentives for business relocation and retention. *
Establishes four-year registration period for new passenger automobiles.
Establishes annual assessment on gross receipts of certain licensed ambulatory care facilities and requires licensure of certain health care services. *
Establishes a Merit Rating Plan Surcharge for unsafe driving. *
Imposes a fee on mobile telecommunications and telephone exchange customers for funding certain costs of the 9-1-1 system and emergency response. *
Requires the payment of estimated gross income tax on sales of real property in this State by nonresidents.
Establishes a State tax clearance process for certain businesses operators that use State licenses to conduct business and for other holders of licenses from State agencies.
Expands State contractor business registration program to local government contracts, replaces noncompliance penalty, requires contractors and their affiliates to collect State use tax.
Imposes 6% gross receipts tax on certain cosmetic medical procedures.
Lowers the threshold for requiring that State taxpayers make State tax payments by electronic funds transfer.
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Conforms the sales and use tax to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to provide for entry therein.
Clarifies that the minimum payment of estimated gross income tax on sales of real property in this State by nonresidents is 2% of the consideration.
Broadens definition of "toxic chemical" in the drug statutes to include nitrous oxide and other substances.
Permits the Director of the Division of Taxation to extend filing and payment deadlines under the New Jersey gross income tax to conform with similar federal personal income tax actions of the Internal Revenue Service.
Clarifies certain claims for homestead property tax reimbursements and allows for recovery of and penalties and interest on certain erroneous or fraudulent reimbursement claims.
Permits certain persons on probation or parole for certain fourth degree crimes enacted after January 1, 2006 to vote. *
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Permits voter registration up to 21 days before election; permits use of provisional ballot for voter registration; modifies information available on voter registration list. *
Increases voting and voter penalties.
Permits voter to declare party affiliation on voter registration form. *
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
Sets time period for filing application for recount at 15 days following election.
Etablishes a direct taxpayer property tax relief subaccount to ensure that revenue from the "millionaire's" tax increase is dedicated for real property tax relief directly for taxpayers.
Eliminates for certain high income taxpayers the New Jersey gross income tax exclusion for pension and other retirement income. *
Decouples corporation business tax and gross income tax from federal deduction of certain qualified production activities income. *
Requiring the exemption to the retail sales tax for certain business purchases by qualified UEZ businesses to be claimed by refund or by credit. *
Imposes a tax upon the gross receipts of television reception service providers and requires that providers maintain a customer service office in this State.
Temporarily eliminates the suspension of builder contributions to the new home warranty security fund if moneys in the fund are used for non-fund purposes during fiscal year 2006.
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Grants post-retirement death benefit in alternate benefit program if retiree had 25 or more years of NJ service credit regardless of age.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Prohibits imposition of death penalty on mentally retarded defendants.
Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Establishes the New Jersey State Endowment for Student Excellence Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $25 million.
Requires withholding of child support payments to be prorated when more than one withholding order exists.
Requires non-custodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour after leaving program.
Provides procedure for school board to raise compulsory school attendance from age 16 to 18.
Permits court, upon request of prosecutor, to examine reliability of the obligor or person posting cash bail, relationship to defendant, value and sufficiency of security offered and whether funds used to post bail or secure bond were acquired lawfully.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to clean up graffiti on buildings.
Modifies number of signatures needed for petitions of nomination in certain municipal primary elections.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Authorizes creation of UEZ in Gloucester City, Camden County.
Requires certain inmates to participate in educational program.
Reduces polling place hours; establishes minimum and maximum poll worker pay with actual pay determined by counties.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking certain municipal police and fire promotional examinations.
Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
Revises requirements concerning the withholding of tickets for advanced sales to places of entertainment.
Appropriates $1 million from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund for economic development grant to Gloucester City for waterfront infrastructure improvements; cancels previous appropriation of same amount.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain public employees having combination of State and local government employment.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Focus on Literacy - New Jersey.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full-time or part-time enrollment at New Jersey county colleges.
Requires New Jersey Consumer Checking Accounts to provide for two free ATM withdrawals per periodic cycle.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
The "Working Families Property Tax Refund Act."
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technology initiative State aid for nonpublic school students.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Gloucester County for historic church cemetery clean-up.
Requires that 10% of State portion of Work First New Jersey emergency assistance funding be used to pay for development of low-income rental housing.
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Requires members of State Police to undergo annual performance evaluations.
Requires certain investments by the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Prohibits automobile insurers from denying agency to insurance producer solely because he writes in automobile insurance UEZs.
Appropriates $3.5 million from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund for a parking facility project in Camden City in an economic development site; cancels previous appropriation of same amount.
Imposes a waste-end surcharge on commercial hazardous waste facilities.
Changes polling place hours for certain elections.
Increases the amount of bonds issued to provide grants to institutions of higher education under the Higher Education Facilities Trust Fund Act.
Revises procedures for suspension or revocation of licenses for overdue child support.
Renames Work First New Jersey program as Family Development Program and makes other revisions to program.
Establishes allocation formula for distributing drug treatment funds to counties and municipalities; appropriates $15 million.
Disallows "casual sale" exemption for sales of aircraft, restricts aircraft and boat export exemption and modifies aircraft and other business property import exemption under sales and use tax.
Prescribes procedures and protocols for investigating fires involving firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Establishes early voting procedure; makes appropriation.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Polling Place Accessibility Fund"; promotes polling place accessibility for elderly and individuals with disabilities.
Requires county boards of elections to prepare reports concerning use of emergency, provisional and advance ballots.
Permits registered voter to vote by absentee ballot for any reason.
Establishes Election Advisory Commission.
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Requires that all voting machines produce a voter-verified paper record.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Establishes the "Voting Rights Restoration Task Force."
Creates new homeownership opportunities program jointly in DCA and HMFA for recipients of State rental assistance; limits State rental assistance participance to five years.
Creates a State development fee for new construction to be allocated to State rental assistance and homeownership programs.
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Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.
Revises wills and estates.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Revises counterfeit goods and forfeiture laws to deter criminal street gang activities.
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Permits Secretary of State to request and requires Division of Taxation to prepare report containing certain tax information for the Governor's Study Commission on Discrimination in State Employment and Contracting. *
Establishes lower limits for yearly local budget appropriations increase.
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding." *
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission. *
Requires clinical laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rate when testing patient's creatinine level for diagnosis of kidney disease.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act." *
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
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
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Permits the consolidation of a county vocational school district and county special services school district into a single school district.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Abolishes battleship commission and foundation; transfers funds to special account.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Authorizes NJEDA to issue cigarette tax revenue bonds to fund stem cell research facilities, biomedical research facilities, and State park, forest, and wildlife management area capital projects; designated the Capital Facilities Financing Act of 2005."
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Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commerically available; provides for State funding for paper record. **
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Provides for separate presidential primary election on last Tuesday in February. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Allocates certain unexpended funds, previously appropriated for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom, to support of brownfields development and operation of an underground storage tank inspection program. *
Requires county boards of elections to prepare reports concerning use of emergency and provisional ballots.*
Increases maximum bond amount filed with Department of Agriculture by certain purchasers of milk or cream and agriculture commodities.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in Lifeline benefits. *
Authorizes school districts that operate nonmandated preschool programs to collect tuition from parents or guardians of children enrolled in the program.
Limits the corporation business tax application of net operating losses to 50% of taxable income for tax years 2004 and 2005.
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Concerns contributions to special funds made through the gross income tax return.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Requires State Police applicants to undergo psychological testing for racial bias.
Prohibits 4-year college requirement for appointment to State Police.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Supplemental appropriation to FY04 budget of $250,000 for publication of Truth in Renting booklet by DCA.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Requires Commissioner of Education to designate a day in April on which 12th grade students will be provided a class on the importance of voter participation.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
"Prompt Health Care Claims Processing and Reimbursement Act."
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.