Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Steve Corodemus
Sponsored
In committee25
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Prohibits fee waiver for inmate name change.
Modifies licensure requirements for optometrists.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain home improvement materials purchases.
Requires health insurers to disclose how they establish usual, customary and reasonable fees for health care providers.
Requires HMOs and small employer health benefits plans that cover routine foot care to permit podiatric physicians to provide such services.
Creates low interest loan program for elevating single family homes in special flood hazard areas.
Defines routine foot care services under an insurance policy.
Limits minors' access to certain Internet materials in public schools and libraries.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Appropriates $1 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan.
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHS for grant to CHANT Food Pantry.
Restores authority of certain Inspector General special agents to make arrests for certain violations of State law.
Appropriates $70,000 in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to reimburse school districts for the costs of establishing programs for the prevention of harassment and bullying.
Requires local governing body to prepare capital budget benefit cost analysis.
Authorizes New Jersey certification of certain residents who completed EMT training in other jurisdictions.
"Swimming Pool Installation Contractors Registration Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000 to DHS for grant to CHANT Food Pantry.
Requires use of double hull vessels when transporting petroleum products in State waters.
Amends "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Requires mortgage lenders to use certified mail to notify borrowers of mortgage transfers.
Requires notification of school board ballot position drawing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Prohibits delivery of unsolicited credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use of unsolicited credit cards or checks.*
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Allocates certain previously appropriated, unexpended funds for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom to the support of brownfields development and to establish an underground storage tank inspection program. *
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.
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 7
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 15
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Hospital Infection Reporting Act."
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 central NJ.
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
In committee · 59
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.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Eliminates statute of limitations on prosecution of certain sexual offenses.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
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.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to fifteen through addition of eight public members.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Revises provisions of the consumer fraud act.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
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.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Establishes the Division of Government Integrity in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires State Treasurer to post information about State contracts for $17,500 or more on special website.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Authorizes special license plates for undersheriffs and sheriff's officers.
Establishes special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal law violations concerning awarding of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions to elected officials.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Provides for volunteer VCCB.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Requires campaign contribution to be accompanied by certification that contributor has not been convicted of crime.
Prohibits person convicted of crime from making campaign contribution.
Prohibits use of campaign contributions by candidate committee or legislative leadership committee when candidate or legislative leader is charged with commission of crime.
Provides that campaign contributions received from certain persons convicted of crimes will be forfeited and paid to ELEC for enforcement purposes.
Prohibits use of campaign funds by candidate or legislative leader convicted of crime; requires that such funds be paid to ELEC for enforcement purposes.