Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Joseph A. Palaia
Sponsored
Became law1
Changes striped bass catch and possession limits. *
Passed the Senate2
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Eliminates maximum interest rate on bonds issued by school districts.
Out of committee3
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling in public schools. *
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Establishes optional will registry.
In committee24
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute; requires lifetime parole supervision for certain sex offenders.
Establishes special license plates to fund juvenile diabetes research and education.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Establishes exception to inference that driving while fatigued constitutes recklessness under vehicular homicide statute.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Provides public access to certain information received or possessed by legislators.
Establishes procedures for overpayment of child or spousal support by obligor.
Revises deadline for filing of property assessment appeal in first year following revaluation.
Prohibits municipalities from using State funds for installation, purchase, replacement or restoration of boardwalks using tropical wood.
Increases penalties for kidnapping of children under the age of 16 and clarifies requirements for sentencing for first degree crime where victim suffers harm.
Prohibits use of hand-held wireless telephones by bicyclists while riding on public roads.
Authorizes digitized student identification program; appropriates $252,000.
Requires that public school buildings be tested for radon and allows the school district to seek reimbursement for any costs of the testing from the DOE.
Makes unlawful use of a hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle a primary offense.
Regulates possession of traffic control preemption device.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits, employer unemployment tax rebates, sales tax exemption, property tax freeze and employee skill training program as incentives for business revitalization in distressed shopping centers.
Provides State aid to finance revaluation relief abatements in "urban aid" municipalities.
Creates "Post-Revaluation Fiscal Shock Property Tax Deferral Loan Program;" appropriates $2,000,000.
Permits municipal assessor to implement partial reassessment compliance plan without approval from county or State.
Permits municipalities to delay implementation of revaluation until after tax year 2004.
Exempts from local budget cap law expenditures for electronic recording of police interrogations.
Requires number of days of annual vacation leave to be based on aggregate years of service for State employee who is reemployed within 18 months of resignation.
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
The "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act"; creates Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council; and dedicates a portion of realty transfer fee revenue annually for certain State aid purposes in the Highlands Region and the pinelands area. *
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Authorizes school boards to adopt policy for drug testing certain students. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
Passed the Senate · 7
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district or municipality maintaining volunteer fire department.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from landlords in certain circumstances.
Makes unlawful use of a hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle a primary offense. *
Out of committee · 19
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Establishes the Equity in Education program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained; appropriates $125,000.
Designates Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center as State's specialty acute care children's hospitals for Monmouth and Ocean counties. *
Extends workers' compensation coverage under NJ Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board to thoroughbred exercise riders in certain circumstances.
Prohibits display of students' social security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Modifies catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Appropriates $16,181,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools. **
Requires that public school buildings be tested for radon and that the State pay the cost of the testing.
Regulates certain devices which interfere with traffic control signals. *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
In committee · 58
Authorizes hunting of deer with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Clarifies role of community providers in early childhood education in the Abbott districts and specifies certain goals and services for that education.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Establishes extended sentences for certain crimes involving eluding a police officer and clarifies elements of eluding aggravated manslaughter.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Specifies bona fide negotiations in eminent domain proceedings and clarifies establishment of compensation for business owners.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Requires certain public school and child care center employees to hold CPR certification.
Requires HIV testing for pregnant women and marriage license applicants.
Provides corporations business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who support community rehabilitation programs.
Requires managed care plans to deem valid referral for a covered health care service as satisfying requirements for prior notification.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
"Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2002."
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for public awareness campaign concerning "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Requires State responsibility for tuition costs for certain children whose parents reside in a State facility.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Authorizes DOC to contract with certain nonprofit corporations for sale of inmate manufactured goods.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 18 and younger.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Extends eligibility for PAAD to persons disabled under certain federal programs.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Revises definition of destructive device to include certain firearms of 50 caliber or greater.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates nominated at primaries after 48th and before 14th day before general election, except due to death; prohibits filling subsequent vacancies before elections.
Prohibits sale in public schools of foods that exceed federal guidelines for dietary fat intake.
Requires Abbott districts to fully fund text books, school supplies, teachers and libraries before spending on other district needs.
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.
Extends reduced or discounted cable television rate provisions to persons eligible for "Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program."
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.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Requires New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to allow homeschooled applicants to sit for certain examinations.
Restricts sale of yellow ribbons; dedicates proceeds to veterans.
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Increases eligible compensation level for enrollment in TPAF to $5,000.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.