Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Peter J. Barnes Jr.
Sponsored
Became law8
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on certain streets under municipal jurisdiction. *
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Establishes a Merit Rating Plan Surcharge for unsafe driving. *
Requires identification and record keeping for sales of certain fertilizers. *
Changes title of State park ranger to State park police officer.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
The "Bounty Hunter Licensing Act."
Passed the General Assembly6
Awards work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program. *
Permits instruction on backpack safety to be included in the curriculum of elementary, middle, and high school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
Imposes civil penalty on persons who provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates. *
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Revises law governing private investigators. *
Allows certain DOC administrators to become members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Out of committee21
Establishes Election Advisory Commission.
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Requires the licensing of bail recovery agents as private detectives.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand commission's jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures. *
Prohibits possession of handcuff keys for unlawful purpose.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Revises regulation of security guards.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Authorizes limited outside employment of assistant prosecutors.
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
Increases minimum period of imprisonment from 10 to 30 days for driving while license revoked for DWI.
Eliminates direct shipping for New Jersey wineries.
Prohibits deceptive use of depository institution's trade name or trademark.
Provides civil immunity to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists who perform fitness-for-duty evaluations.
Changes membership of State Police Retirement System Board of Trustees.
Requires certain DOC investigators to attend Police Training Commission course.
Requires certification to render massage, bodywork or somatic therapy services.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
In committee42
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
Provides that persons incarcerated for crimes against law enforcement officers are ineligible for good time and work credits.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Directs Secretary of State to establish toll-free telephone service to facilitate contacting of Executive Branch State agencies.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Permits use of preliminary breath testing devices to detect drunk driving.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Permits paid and unpaid leave of absence for certain public employees and purchase of PERS credit for such absences.
Requires destruction of firearms replaced by police.
Upgrades lewdness to a crime of the fourth degree under certain circumstances.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to career service of civil service.
Requires certain law enforcement officers to undergo psychological testing.
Bars expungement for possession of CDS with intent to distribute.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Makes certain DLPS employees members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
Provides options for municipalities wishing to dispose of inexpensive police held tangible property.
Enacts "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2002."
Adds certain forensic scientists to Prosecutors Part in PERS.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,793,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Increases Intoxicated Driver Resource Center requirements for first-time DWI offenders.
"Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Act."
Permits police departments to temporarily hold juvenile offenders 18 years of age or older in jail or lock-up.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
Authorizes suspension and waiver of Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund penalties if incarcerated person successfully completes approved substance abuse program and probation.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Provides for DCA to set maximum loan amounts to volunteer emergency service organizations to purchase vehicles and equipment.
Adds representative of county government to Police Training Commission.
Establishes application fee to defray State Police costs of processing expungement petitions.
Criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes crime of leader of organized retail theft enterprise.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Establishes unlawful use of a hand-held wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle as a primary offense.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand the commission's jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures. *
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Requires certain DOC investigators to attend Police Training Commission course.
Eliminates direct shipping for New Jersey wineries.
Revises regulation of security guards.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Proposes series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Amends the State's guardianship law. *
Establishes optional will registry.
Authorizes school districts that operate nonmandated preschool programs to collect tuition from parents or guardians of children enrolled in the program.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Requires markings be removed from ambulances before certain sales.
Extends validity of commercial motor vehicle registrations to 12 months.
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission. *
Increases liability limitation for owners or operators of vessels that discharge a hazardous substance.
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Clarifies current law with regard to certain municipal providers of light, heat or power.
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents. *
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Requires conspicuous labeling of certain alcoholic beverages made with gelatin.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Establishes Inmate Vocational Training Study Commission.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; permits establishment of sterile syringe paccess programs, appropriates $10,000,000. *
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Out of committee · 58
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes special license plates for county and municipal emergency management volunteers. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Clarifies certain provisions in the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Requires motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers to notify consumers of relevant adjustment programs.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
"New Jersey Identity Theft Prevention Act".
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Revises pilotage laws.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors.
Directs Attorney General to include information on criminal street gang activities in annual "Uniform Crime Report."
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 annual compensation PERS retiree may earn in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment.
Deters State unemployment tax avoidance by penalizing knowing avoidance of unemployment tax payment. *
Requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs.
Makes escapees responsible for apprehension costs.
Increases host community benefit for municipalities wherein solid waste transfer stations are located from fifty cents to one dollar per ton of solid waste processed at such facilities.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
"Hospital Infection Reporting Act."
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
Requires creditor to provide mortgage payoff balance to borrower within five business days after request. **
Requires mandatory sexual violence training for law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
Authorizes early termination of residential lease by senior citizen tenant accepted into assisted living facility, continuing care retirement community, or low or moderate income housing.
Provides for establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments or awards.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on finger print card, appropriates $70,000.
Reduces certain drug free zones from within 1,000 to 200 feet of school or public property.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
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Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Directs a study of sentencing reform for nonviolent drug and other low level offenders by UMDNJ.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Limits operation of personal watercraft in coastal wetlands.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Prohibits taking of horseshoe crabs.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State in 2006.
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of Education to award a reasonable attorney's fee to school district or parent or guardian under certain circumstances in domicile proceedings.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Permits only licensed chiropractors to perform spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Increases income limits for Home Care Expansion Program; appropriates $8 million.
Eliminates compulsory liability and no-fault automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; applies doctrine of contributory negligence in motor vehicle accidents; permits file and use of rates.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Upgrades crime of identity theft under certain circumstances.
Upgrades penalties for certain fireworks violations.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Abolishes the death penalty in New Jersey.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Establishes New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center and authorizes establishment of Foundation for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees.
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.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Requires DOT to reimburse municipalities for clean up or removal of litter or debris from a road under certain circumstances.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Extends certain benefits to members of U.S. Reserves and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Permits DOC to award inmates special credits for certain achievements.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.
Authorizes use of photo radar devices for enforcement purposes on certain local streets.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Prohibits State purchase of creosote or creosote-treated wood.
Requires that all work under State Lottery contract for design or manufacture of instant game tickets be performed in U.S.
Redesigns special prisoner of war license plates.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Increases amount of State payment for post-retirement health care benefits for certain retired police officers and firefighters.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to emergency medical technicians for certain training courses.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of door to door sales enterprises.
Establishes pilot program to provide incentive grants to public school districts which develop instruction programs in languages of critical need; appropriates $2,000,000.
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Sets mileage reimbursement rate for State at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Permits nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on same day as general election.
Requires permanent license suspension for third DWI unless offender participates in alcohol treatment program.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
Provides for regional economic impact report and review by affected municipalities for certain proposed large scale retail developments.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Requires written prescriptions to be legibly printed or typed.
Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Increases penalties for fraudulently obtaining, possessing or displaying certain motor vehicle inspection stickers.
Permits voter registration at polling place on days of municipal primary and general elections.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Permits early voting starting eight days before general election; makes appropriation.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Empowers federal air marshals to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Requires public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Requires that each school district budget receive a minimum percentage of 50% State support.
Permits establishment of employee assistance programs for public employees.
Imposes limits on fees charged for discovery in municipal court matters.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Makes possession or use of cellular telephone or accessories by person confined to State correctional facility second degree crime.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Limits increase in annual license fees for radon businesses.
Requires appraisal or certification to be delivered by owner upon appeal of certain commercial and industrial property taxes.
Exempts certain businesses from licensing requirements for those engaged in burglar alarm, fire alarm and electronic security system installations.
Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Establishes the Higher Education Study Commission.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Establishes New Jersey Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry in DHSS; requires pharmacies to compile drug retail price lists.
Prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires Parole Board to establish electronic monitoring system for high risk sex offenders whose victims were children.
Reduces years of law enforcement experience required for certain law enforcement officers to establish right to carry a firearm.
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Authorizes grants to New Jersey Transit Police Department to purchase body vests.
Abolishes office of Secretary State and Department of State and makes transfers to New Jersey Commerce, Economic Development and Tourism Commission, Department of Education and Attorney General.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Requires municipality to post sign on property subject of development application.
Requires permanent handicapped person identification cards and parking placards to be renewed biennial.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
Permits members of State Police to receive travel and subsistence reimbursement exceeding $500 limit from certain sources other than State for out of State travel for educational purposes.
Establishes crime of participation in criminal street gang initiation ritual.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Filed · 1
Requires parole board to consider significant efforts at achieving GED in decreasing parole eligibility date.