Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Peter A. Inverso
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires partners and other owners of pass-through entities to credit payments made on their behalf against estimated taxes to end "double withholding." *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
Passed the Senate3
Establishes owners responsibility to provide information relating to certain motor vehicle accidents.
Prohibits deceptive use of depository institution's trade name or trademark.
Requires greater disclosure for campaign advertisements broadcast within certain time periods prior to an election.
Out of committee9
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain qualified employees.
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Permits municipalities to construct speed humps on certain roads.
Prohibits radio transmissions without license from FCC and radio transmissions that interfere with licensed public or commercial radio stations.
Appropriates $1,289,407 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Mercer County College.
Requires MVC to accept certain motorcycle safety courses.
Modifies penalty for operating an aircraft while impaired, establishes blood alcohol content offense level and requires report of violation to FAA. *
In committee74
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Limits contributions to legislative leadership committees, State political party committees, political committees and continuing political committees.
Creates consumer complaint office in DCA regarding new home construction; requires publication of booklet explaining rights and warranties.
Implements recommendations made by the State Commission of Investigation regarding ethical standards applicable to certain State officials and employees; appropriates $300,000.
Reduces certain contribution limits for candidates and committees; establishes separate contribution limits for county and municipal candidates; requires disclosure by certain candidate-associated organizations.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Creates Vehicles for the Future Study Commission.
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.
Revises definitions in State's child abuse and neglect statutes.
Prohibits counties and municipalities from accepting and paying for employee's work outside the course of employment.
Provides that PERS member holding more than one position covered by PERS has to designate one position as the basis for enrollment.
Changes calculation of PERS retirement allowances for certain members who receive significant compensation enhancement within five years of retirement.
Limits payment for certain supplemental compensation and accumulated vacation leave upon retirement for certain local government employees.
Requires criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks for residential child care facility staff; appropriates $800,000.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Prohibits legislators from employing or supervising certain relatives in certain positions.
Creates a civil "rape shield" law.
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Establishes Fuel Cell Research Center at Rutgers; appropriates $500,000.
Allows emergent hiring of school employees pending criminal records check for one month with one month extension.
Requires physicians to inform patients diagnosed with breast cancer of treatment options.
Provides State purchasing preference to fuel cell-powered equipment.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to disclose to consumers their credit score under certain circumstances.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of certain fuel cell-powered motor vehicles.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Extends registration requirement to all ticket brokers reselling tickets to places of entertainment in the State; requires certain consumer disclosures.
Provides for financial management program for certain students.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans' property tax exemption to certain veterans who served in South Korea after the Korean conflict.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Appropriates $50,000 for feasibility study on construction of American Revolution Museum.
Requires health insurance coverage for scalp hair prostheses.
Establishes Truck Safety Advisory Council; increases certain fees related to the operation of commercial motor vehicles to fund truck safety operations in the State Police; doubles motor vehicle points assessed when operators of heavy vehicles violate
Regulates telephone billing practices.
Provides a senior and disabled citizens property tax deduction of $25 for installation of a home water conservation system to be reimbursed by State.
Requires traffic impact studies for certain developments and financial contributions for State highway improvements.
Establishes new standard and procedure for forfeiture of elective public office for accepting illegal contributions; removes illegal contribution threshold for such forfeiture.
Directs ELEC to collect fees from certain firms that employ legislative agents; increases certain penalties imposed by ELEC and Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; dedicates funds to those commissions.
Prohibits awarding of municipal professional services contracts to members of Legislature.
Requires legislators with simultaneous PERS-covered elected office or employment to choose one position for receipt of PERS credit.
Clarifies that certain ethical standards apply to Governor and Governor's staff.
Authorizes timed-growth ordinances under "Municipal Land Use Law."
Prohibits loans as political contributions by certain persons; prohibits certain inducements for political contributions; reduces permitted amount of outstanding loans in certain cases.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt regulations limiting political contributions by contractors.
Provides that no more than four of the seven public members appointed to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council may be of the same political party.
Requires photo ID verification of pilots renting aircraft.
Provides for development of public employee identification number; limits use of Social Security number.
Requires MVC to accept certain motorcycle safety courses.
Provides local governments may limit political contributions by business entities performing or seeking to perform public contracts; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Waives light transmittance standards for supplemental windshield sun-screen materials to meet needs of certain persons with acute photosensitivity.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
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.
Requires SHBP to obtain two physician examinations of patient to uphold on appeal decision to discontinue patient's skilled nursing care.
Specifies additional pre-layoff actions to avoid civil service layoffs.
Establishes new crimes of forced labor or services, sexual servitude, and human trafficking.
Provides immunity for DHSS and local health departments that distribute or administer influenza vaccine.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Provides $250,000 to reimburse Civil Air Patrol (CAP) for development of plan to use Civil Air Patrol for security at general aviation airports and for other homeland security initiatives.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
Requires municipalities accepting long-term tax exemption PILOTs to distribute portion of payments to county and other taxing districts; limits PILOT agreements to 15-20 years.
Limits contributions by certain business entities doing business with units of local government; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Removes exception to campaign contribution prohibition on business entities seeking or holding State contracts that applies when prohibition would violate federal law.
Prohibits minors under 14 from using tanning facilities and requires written parental consent for minors 14 to 18.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to seriously impact life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Requires DEP inspection at Industrial Site Recover Act site at which soil sampling is required.
Prohibits former elected official from receiving for five years compensation from charitable or non-profit organization when official's candidate committee donated campaign contributions to organization.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from General Fund to Department of Transportation for various initiatives of Civil Air Patrol.
Authorizes special license plates with proceeds to D.A.R.E. program.
Requires background checks of employees and volunteers of youth serving organizations and automatic disqualification of persons with certain convictions; appropriates $2 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the NJ World War II Veterans' Memorial Fund.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal or the use of any direct or indirect means to inflict the cruelty. *
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain health care providers with fee schedules. *
Establishes Alternative to Discipline Program for impaired nurses through NJ Board of Nursing.
Requires hospital and satellite emergency departments to provide care to sexual assault victims and information about emergency contraception and the contraceptives upon request. *
"Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting Enhancement Act."
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Authorizes DHSS to reallocate flu vaccine to high-risk persons.
Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for film production expenses incurred in New Jersey and provides for the transfer of those tax credits to other taxpayers. *
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Passed the Senate · 3
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."
Establishes Office of Environmental Law Enforcement in the Division of Criminal Justice in Department of Law and Public Safety; establishes Environmental Prosecutor. *
Out of committee · 23
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Extends veteran's property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in State supplementary payments to SSI recipients.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. *
Prohibits interest in revaluation firms operating within county by municipal assessors and county tax board personnel; prohibits related business entities from representing taxpayers appealing revaluations completed by revaluation firm.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Requires photo ID verifiction of pilots renting aircraft.
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
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.
Appropriates $75 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes. *
Appropriates $22,906,600 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes crime of human trafficking; adds to racketeering; authorizes victim compensation and services; provides certain affirmative defenses. *
Establishes the Office of Counter-Terrorism in but not of the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Permits units of local government to limit award of public contracts to business entities that make political contributions; requires certain business entities to file annual disclosure statement. *
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.
Provides that gift certificates and cards are redeemable at full face value in perpetuity.
In committee · 52
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Requires municipal budgets to include fund for certain separation benefits.
Elevates certain animal cruelty crimes of third degree; increases civil penalties for animal cruelty; establishes registry of violators of animal cruelty laws.
Requires identity check for flight instruction.
Specifies bona fide negotiations in eminent domain proceedings and clarifies establishment of compensation for business owners.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to veterans who served in combat operations.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
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 for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places.
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.
Restores the phase-out of corporation business taxes on the regular income of subchapter S corporations.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000.
"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.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Permits school pupils to self-administer medication for certain medical conditions.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Permits qualified retired law enforcement officers who were employed by law enforcement agencies outside the State to carry firearms.
Increases penalties for motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Authorizes special license plates for offices of emergency management volunteers.
Mandates eye test every eight years for drivers.
Authorizes local governmental units to use proceeds from certain forfeited property to defray related investigation and prosecution costs.
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.
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
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.
Provides for the inclusion of home-schooled students in the NJ STARS Program.
Exempts certain services performed for unions from UI coverage.
Regulates possession of traffic control preemption device.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Appropriates $10,000 to restore veterans' monument in Roxbury Township.
Prohibits sale of flu vaccine at excessive prices during shortage.
Creates the Task Force on Commercial Insurance and Terrorism.
Restricts sale of yellow ribbons; dedicates proceeds to veterans.
Creates "Servicemembers' Life Insurance Reimbursement Fund."
Allows certain taxpayers a one-time refundable gross income tax credit for gross income tax paid at highest rate of tax upon the gain from sale of small businesses.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Establishes Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Requires new affordable housing units constructed be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons.
Requires line item disclosure of all State revenues and appropriations in the Governor's budget proposal, and in bills pending in the Legislature or enacted in this State; eliminates off-budget State spending.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Conforms voter identification procedures to requirements of Statewide voter registration system.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.