Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Steve Corodemus
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Provides relief from certain statutes of limitation concerning the protest and appeal of certain tax assessments.
Out of committee2
Requires mortgage lenders to use certified mail to notify borrowers of mortgage transfers.
Expands number of safe havens for leaving newborn infants.
In committee33
Eliminates statute of limitations on prosecution of certain sexual offenses.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Prohibits fee waiver for inmate name change.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Amends "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Requires notification of school board ballot position drawing.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Extends penalties for driving under the influence to include any substance that impairs driving ability; deems driver's consent to non-invasive drug tests.
Requires PERS designate position providing least compensation, for member holding concurrent positions, as compensation base for contributions and pension calculations.
Establishes Eminent Domain Study Commission, provides judicial oversight for redevelopment process, enhances fair market value of property under certain circumstances.
Eliminates the imposition of sales and use tax on certain services and goods effective October 1, 2006.
Requires payment of portion of Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid to school district when municipality obtains more revenue from long term tax exemption service charge than it would otherwise receive in property taxes.
Requires removal of campaign signs from public property within 10 days after election; establishes $25 per sign per day penalty for failure to do so.
Permits municipalities that share court facilities to appoint separate judges and administrators.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
Appropriates $8,100,000 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 $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
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Requires that notice of hearing on certain zoning changes be by certified mail only.
Requires New Jersey institutions of higher education to disseminate fire safety information about their facilities to students, parents or guardians, and employees.
Out of committee · 12
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Authorizes local board of health to declare as a nuisance premises in which there have been multiple arrests for illegal sale or possession of drugs.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
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.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 13 members.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
In committee · 47
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.
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.
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.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
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.
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.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
"Hospital Infection Reporting Act."
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
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.
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.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
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.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
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.
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.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
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.
Creates the "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project of 2007"; appropriates $3.5 million
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.
Clarifies penalties court may impose in sentencing certain adults and juveniles guilty of making false public alarms.
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.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Provides that chair and vice-chair of Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards will be selected from among committee's public members on bipartisan basis.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.