Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Francis L. Bodine
Sponsored
Became law5
Establishes an emergency deployment program for building inspection following disaster or emergency. *
Establishes penalties for pointing laser at operator of vehicle.
Directs State Police to establish standards for handling missing persons cases involving persons with Alzheimer's disease and juveniles.
Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to report on New Jersey Travel Independence Program and study feasibility of its expansion Statewide. *
Appropriates $15,375,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the General Assembly2
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Upgrades penalties for assaults committed against process servers and licensed private investigators and detectives.
Out of committee3
Requires sellers of Class IV lasers to check identification and maintain record of sale.
Creates "New Jersey Senior Labor Task Force."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credit for acquisition cost of equipment used in manufacture of ENERGY STAR products.
In committee55
Requires DOT to identify dangerous traffic locations and to use Transportation Trust Fund to address location deficiencies.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe locations along interstate highways and to annually request money from Transportation Trust Fund to correct safety deficiencies.
Requires successful bidder on State contract to certify that bidder does not support foreign terrorist organizations.
Directs NJT to study and design bus rapid transit demonstration projects.
Requires State to provide fire services in certain State facilities.
Upgrades offenses involving use of false government documents.
Requires DHSS to use PAAD application information to enroll ineligible beneficiaries into Senior Gold.
Provides civil immunity to fire departments, fire districts and fire companies with respect to donating certain equipment to other such departments, districts and companies.
Requires the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, to operate a website concerning domestic security preparedness and response efforts.
"Safe Places Safe Kids Act;" makes it a crime to commit certain offenses in school zones and near playgrounds.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Requires that State fee increases affecting counties, municipalities and local school boards shall not be applicable until next local budget year.
Establishes Task Force on Hospital Technology to recommend incentives to encourage hospitals to integrate technology to improve patient care and safety.
Creates the "At Home Downtown" program in HMFA.
Requires MVC to provide itemization of driver's license and registration fees.
Eliminates public school district budget reduction appeals to Commissioner of Education.
Extends reduced or discounted cable television rate provisions to persons eligible for "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program."
Requires Attorney General to revise guidelines regarding police pursuits.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an early warning, traffic congestion avoidance pilot program.
Establishes collaborative divorce.
Creates Retire The Debt Account for contributions to reduce State debt.
Prohibits sale of flu vaccine at excessive prices during shortage.
Increases the income limits for sewerage and municipal utilities authority service fee reductions and abatements for certain persons.
Directs State Auditor to prepare performance audit of State-funded programs of State agencies and instrumentalities to identify potential savings in FY2006; authorizes State Auditor to conduct future performance audits.
Establishes program to promote consolidation of municipalities, regionalization of school districts and shared services through enhanced homeowners' rebates.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Caps noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions arising from emergency care at $250,000.
Prohibits price gouging in fuel oil sales.
Establishes NJ Task Force on Gasoline, Diesel Fuel and Heating Oil Reserves.
Authorizes State Auditor to prepare performance audits of State-funded programs of State agencies and instrumentalities.
Requires NJ refiners and suppliers to establish gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil reserves.
"Transportation Trust Fund Fiscal Integrity Restoration and Enhancement Act."
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
"Statewide Bridge Bond Act of 2006," authorizes bonds for $750 million and appropriates $5,000.
Makes theft of human remains for unauthorized use crime of first degree.
Requires Division of Aeronautics in NJDOT to study Very Light Jets (VLJs).
Allows certain organizations to file complaints with the Council on Local Mandates.
Requires language on property assessment notification tying assessment to property tax bill.
Permits virtual parent-time orders to facilitate visitation of minor child with noncustodial and custodial parent where appropriate.
Requires State agencies to take steps to reduce government paperwork.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to list on department website examples of shared service agreements between local governments.
Criminalizes the sale of human tissue that has not been appropriately screened and tested.
Modifies procedures for satisfaction of child support judgments.
Allocates realty transfer fees to Main Street New Jersey municipalities for program costs.
Extends maximum term for shared services contracts to 60 months; authorizes local contracting units with certified purchasing agents to award five-year contracts for heating and motor fuels.
Requires refueling facilities dispensing certain alternative fuels on State's toll roads.
Requires reduction in electricity usage by 10 percent in all State-owned or leased buildings.
Provides exception to requirement that posted price of motor fuel must remain unchanged for 24-hour period.
Exempts from sales and use tax the sale of energy efficient materials for insulation and weatherization of residential property.
Establishes the "Conserve for America Loan Program;" allocates $5 million from societal benefits charge to fund program; appropriates $200,000.
Requires biofuel to be at least 20 percent of fuels used in State vehicles on and after January 1, 2010.
Establishes Abraham Lincoln Commemoration Commission.
Requires legislation authorizing sale of certain State assets to be approved by voters.
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use proceeds from sale of former World Trade Center site for security improvements at its marine terminals.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Permits boards of education to establish prepaid lunch programs.
Permits municipal utilities authorities to promote production and use of alternative electrical energy.
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
Limits homeowners' association regulation of solar collectors on certain roofs.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Establishes commuter transportation services public awareness campaign in DOT. *
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
Appropriates $40 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Prohibits regulation of certain aspects of Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol-enabled services.
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 · 9
Clarifies that municipal utilities authorities may join with municipality within the authority's service area to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Invalidates consumer contracts which require a waiver of right to file a consumer complaint.
Requires annual review of all released sex offenders to determine if they were registered and tiered.
Revises school district of attendance for certain pupils who reside on federal property.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 26
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Requires State to purchase "Energy Star" products in public contracts.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Establishes sex offender monitoring program. *
Exempts solar energy systems from real property taxation.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. **
Requires certain State buildings to be designed and managed to meet high performance green building standards. *
Concerns the location of hazardous substances in flood plains.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
Criminalizes possession or use of electronic communications devices in certain correctional facilities. *
Establishes Forest Health Advisory Council in DEP.
Establishes the Renewable Energy Infrastructure and Advanced Technology Vehicle Task Force.
Appropriates $750,000 in federal funds for the Gypsy Moth Program.
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.
Imposes criminal penalties for certain actions concerning disposition of decedent's body parts.
Requires commercial pesticide applicators and operators to contact agricultural agencies prior to exterminating honey bee colonies; establishes penalties for destruction of man-made hives.
Clarifies licensing requirements of certain physicians' offices providing imaging or scanning services and exempts comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities from ambulatory care assessment.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $21,588,646 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes, and $600,000 for county farmland preservation program strategic plans.
Requires use of drought tolerant, xerophytic landscaping design and materials and "no mow" lawn grasses in State projects.
Permits wineries to produce and sell certain distilled alcoholic beverages.
Expands number of salesrooms winery may operate from six to seven; permits sampling of wine at salesrooms, and permits wineries to sell wine at certain farm markets.
Provides unemployment benefits for spouses of armed services members under certain conditions. *
Authorizes suspension of motor vehicle registration.
Restricts receipt of things of value by members of the Legislature and legislative staff from lobbyists and governmental affairs agents; increases certain penalty provisions. *
In committee · 63
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Prohibits use of car phone while driving.
Requires Governor's appointees to the Pinelands Commission to reside in the pinelands area.
Requires the State to consider life-cycle costs when procuring certain supplies.
Allows a gross income tax credit for the incremental cost of an alternative fuel vehicle.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Establishes $5000 direct State subsidy for the purchase or lease of a solely electric vehicle; appropriates such sums as are necessary.
Exempts residential electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Provides for an exemption to 50% of the tax imposed under the "Sales and Use Tax," for retail sales of electric vehicles.
Allows qualifying counties to become "agriculture enterprise counties" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture.
Grandfathers pre-1997 interlocal services agreements into Regional Efficiency Aid Program.
Requires Abbott districts to fully fund text books, school supplies, teachers and libraries before spending on other district needs.
Requires dam owners to prepare emergency action plan, and install alarm for certain dams.
Authorizes boards of education to extend school day by one hour to make up for canceled days.
Establishes Vacancy Review Board in the Department of Personnel to review continued need for positions in Executive Branch that become vacant.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to certain National Guard or reservists.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under the gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Establishes an annual solar photovoltaic manufacturing incentive grant program.
Establishes wind easements in NJ.
Provides standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions against physicians.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to seriously impact life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Repeals assessment on gross receipts of certain ambulatory care facilities.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Expands powers of certain county bridge commissions to undertake additional projects.
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.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Appropriates $1 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
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 issuance of permit to replace shower valves.
Prohibits Turnpike Authority from discontinuing peak-period discounts for E-Z Pass users.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
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.
Authorizes awards to State and local government employees for suggestions to save taxpayers money through sharing and consolidation.
Appropriates $8 million in Taxpayer Rate Reduction.
Appropriates $11 million to restore Regional Efficiency Aid Program aid to FY 2002 level.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Permits inclusion on property tax bill of statement of savings attributable to shared service agreements.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement leak detection programs.
Exempts veterans from fees for certain special military license plates.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Permits any two or more municipalities upon adoption of parallel ordinances to contract to become single taxing district for tax base sharing purposes.
Establishes "Walk to Work" pilot program in DCA; transfers $750,000 from NJHMFA to DCA.
Codifies the "At Home Downtown Program"; requires "Main Street New Jersey" Program and "At Home Downtown Program" to be administered by HMFA.
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.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Creates one-stop permit center in New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission to provide centralized service for businesses to secure necessary State permits.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Renames the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law" as the "Temporary Disability and Pregnancy Benefits Law."
Allows certain owners of preserved farmland to reacquire development rights for land underlying and next to farm buildings or structures.
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.