Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Joseph A. Palaia
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Out of committee2
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Creates exception to age requirement for power boat operation conducted during authorized race.
In committee42
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling in public schools.
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.
Provides public access to certain information received or possessed by legislators.
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.
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.
Exempts from local budget cap law expenditures for electronic recording of police interrogations.
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
Establishes procedures for overpayment of child or spousal support by obligor.
Requires increased notice to affected property owners for proposed redevelopment and rehabilitation areas.
Requires payment of extra $100,000 to owners whose property is condemned for private economic development purposes.
Requires municipal referendum prior to condemnation of private property when sale or transfer to private entity for economic development purposes is contemplated.
Establishes minimum amounts for eminent domain relocation assistance and additional homeowner payments.
Establishes new home "lemon law."
Extends Consumer Fraud Act to include new residential construction.
Revises definition of "major construction defect" in "New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act."
Increases duration of warranties under "New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act."
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish when a defect has occurred under New Home Warranty Program for items of lot improvement.
Requires Bureau of Homeowner Protection to create a "New Home Buyer's Bill of Rights."
Authorizes certain actions by new homeowners without affecting status of new home warranty.
Requires builders of new homes to provide owners with building plans.
Requires builders registering under "New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to provide Social Security and employer identification numbers.
Requires DCA to keep list of certain builders.
Affords homeowners impartial inspections and assistance when repairs are made to new homes.
Provides that owner is not foreclosed from lawsuit regarding new home defects if warranty claim made.
Authorizes DCA to collect and disclose certain information.
Establishes a Code of Ethics for licensed municipal code officials.
Authorizes DCA Commissioner to suspend license of certain construction code officials under certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to implement certain complaint procedures with respect to housing construction.
Makes construction code officials guilty of official misconduct when failing to perform inspections or conducting inspections in reckless manner.
Provides for a hearing in the event of an alleged ethics violation by construction and subcode officials.
Requires local construction office to be adequately staffed; permits code officials to work part-time for more than one municipality.
Requires owner to retain construction superintendent as condition for issuance of construction permit.
Increases certain maximum fines under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Clarifies DCA's authority to ensure planned real estate development builders comply with disclosure requirements.
Requires developer under "The Planned Real Estate Full Disclosure Act" to post bond with DCA and provides for more accountability to owners in common interest community.
Limits use of construction code enforcing agency fee revenue to fund municipal construction code enforcement office.
Prohibits unauthorized use of name and images of members of Armed Forces of United States.
Requires SHBP to cover prostate cancer screening.
Requires all board of education employees to undergo the electronic fingerprinting process.
Provides relief from certain statutes of limitation concerning the protest and appeal of certain tax assessments.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district or municipality maintaining volunteer fire department.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release. *
Enacts Interstate Compact for Horse Racing Licensees.
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority Act." *
Revises regulation of horse racing in regard to future wagers, minimum wagers, unclaimed vouchers, lost tickets, and certain simulcast races. *
Makes it a primary offense for motorists to talk on or text message with hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication device while driving. *
Provides free admission for veterans to State parks and forests during events held by veterans' organizations and free use of park and forest facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
Out of committee · 2
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
In committee · 35
Authorizes hunting of deer with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.
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.
Revises per pupil administrative cost limit for public school districts and allows districts to maintain 3% surplus.
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 certain public school and child care center employees to hold CPR certification.
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces, except casino floors and simulcasting facilities.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000.
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.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
Permits transfer of service credit among State-administered retirement systems; permits use of ABP credit for TPAF and PERS benefits.
Prevents payment of temporary disability benefit under workers' compensation greater than pre-injury earnings.
Authorizes inclusion of compulsive gambling education in public school curriculum; requires higher education institutions to provide compulsive gambling education programs and services.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Enhances penalties for provisional driver's license holders.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to provide for full funding of certain statutory school aid provisions.
Revises criminal history record check process undergone by public and nonpublic school employees and school bus drivers.