Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Robert E. Littell
Sponsored
Became law2
Authorizes people with mobility-related disabilities to operate scooters on public property.
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.
Passed the Senate3
Enhances penalties for trespassing on private or posted property while possessing a firearm.
Requires that the members of a housing authority must reside in the municipality in which the housing authority was created.
Clarifies provisions of law concerning commissions for sale of local government real estate.
In committee39
"Nurse Retention Stipend Program Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren Counties.
Extends the mileage limit for receipt of transportation services for students in certain counties attending out-of-State nonpublic schools.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
Holds retailers harmless for pre-packaged slack-filled goods.
Directs Commissioner of DEP to name brook adjacent to Wildcat Rock Shelter.
Ensures that school districts in Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties continue to provide out-of-State transportation to certain nonpublic school pupils, despite population changes in the county.
Clarifies that Fish and Game Council has sole authority to regulate freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Eliminates the earned income cap for eligibility for the senior's non-pension income exclusion under the gross income tax.
Establishes time frame for decision to remove tax assessor; authorizes municipality to suspend tax assessor with pay pending final decision.
Changes calculation of average weekly wage for TDI benefits.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for certain unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
"State Green Acres Park Development Bond Act"; authorizes bonds for $75 million and appropriates $5,000.
Bans intentional feeding of deer; establishes civil penalty and allows property damage claim.
Appropriates $30,000 to Lake Muscontecong regional planning board.
Bars sex offenders from jobs which primarily consist of contact with children.
Prohibits housing allowance in contract between State Board of Education and State district superintendent.
Authorizes inclusion of compulsive gambling education in public school curriculum; requires higher education institutions to provide compulsive gambling education programs and services.
David's Law; establishes crime of negligent homicide.
Requires MVC to immediately suspend driver's license of alleged drunk drivers who cause a death.
Adds "significant bodily injury" to assault by auto or vessel statute; upgrades penalties for inflicting serious bodily injury.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway"; appropriates $2,500.
Implements certain changes affecting the administration and performance of the urban enterprise zone program.
David's Law; establishes crime of negligent vehicular homicide.
Requires an institution of higher education to disclose to the victim of a violent offense the outcome of certain disciplinary proceedings taken against the student who allegedly perpetrated the offense.
Provides for reduced sales tax imposition on certain sales in certain Highlands Region Preservation Area municipalities.
Requires voter registration forms be made available when applying for hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
Prohibits DOT from putting tolls on I-78 and I-80 and from transferring jurisdiction to independent authority or entity.
Establishes farm pesticide collection program.
Creates Community Farmers' Market Study Commission and program promoting marketing opportunities for farmers.
Provides that school districts may pay certain percentage price preference for "Jersey Fresh" and other NJ agricultural products.
Appropriates $200,000 for Garden State Agricultural Re-Engineering Program to assist dairy farmers.
Prohibits the imposition of any fees under the "Fair Housing Act" under certain circumstances.
Requires in public schools instruction on the contributions of United States veterans and the observance of patriotic exercises on certain holidays.
Clarifies certain standards for regulation of recreational vehicles as housing.
Requires legislation authorizing sale of certain State assets to be approved by voters.
Prohibits State departments and agencies from considering or requiring compliance by Highlands planning area municipalities with Highlands regional master plan in certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Matthew Albrecht Act; requires mattresses and box springs for sale in State to meet federal cigarette-ignition and open-flame standards. **
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
Establishes sex offender monitoring program. *
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release. *
Establishes the crime of corruption of public resources.
Establishes the "Public Corruption Profiteering Penalty Act."
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.
Creates the "Internet Dating Safety Act," requiring Internet dating services to provide notice whether the service conducts criminal background screenings.
Provides for mandatory term of imprisonment for luring and enticing an adult; increases mandatory term for luring and enticing a child.
Restricts certain sex offenders' access to the Internet.
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
"Nicole's Law;" permits victim of sex offense to obtain restraining order against offender. *
Excludes membership fees and dues of certain governmental and charitable clubs and organizations and certain parking services from sales and use tax. ****
Passed the Senate · 1
Increases statute of limitations for certain crimes involving political corruption from five years to seven years.
Out of committee · 16
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Eliminates downgrading of DWI offenses that occur more than 10 years after previous conviction.
Extends transmittal date of FY2006-07 gubernatorial budget message to the Legislature to March 23, 2006. *
Upgrades penalties for recruiting minors and confined persons to be in criminal street gang. *
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Appropriates $80 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition or development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $6.515 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Concerns development subsidies and employment of undocumented aliens.
Requires use of uniform silver flags to mark certain pesticide applications.
Appropriates $9,066,000 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 northern NJ.
Appropriates $8,552,405 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 southern NJ.
Appropriates $8,279,750 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Allows certain owners of preserved farmland to reacquire development rights for land underlying and next to farm buildings or structures.
Appropriates $40 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 50
The "Dam, Lake, and Stream Restoration Bond Act of 2005," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Allows for certain variances, exemptions, and waivers under "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 for Camp Marcella.
Appropriates $150,000 to DOL to provide continued assistance to deaf community through State Centers for Independent Living.
Allows qualifying counties to become " agriculture enterprise counties" and provides certain associated resulting benefits therefrom to encourage, protect, and preserve agriculture.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Increases State supplementary payment for residential health care facilities.
The "Public Dam Rehabilitation Project Bond Act," authorizes bonds for $90,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Creates 14 additional judgeships; raises court fees.
Eliminates ambulatory care facility gross receipts assessment.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
Requires certain NJ Transit Corporation employees to undergo criminal history background checks and wear photo identification.
Restores fiscal integrity and enhances funding to Transportation Trust Fund.
Requires certain investments by the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
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."
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of each school day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
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.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program allowance to $500 per year.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 18 and younger.
Exempts construction, expansion or renovation of buildings or other structures for police departments, fire departments, and volunteer first aid, emergency, ambulance or rescue squads from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
"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.
Authorizes grants to independent colleges for remediation of contaminated property not owned by college in same or adjacent municipality; authorizes property lien for grant amount.
Requires certain TPAF and PERS benefits to be calculated using years of service divided by 60 rather than 55.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to disrupt a funeral by picketing or conducting other protest activities within 300 feet.
Exempts veterans from fees for certain special military license plates.
Specifies motor vehicle fines from tickets issued by State Police providing rural patrol be paid to municipality, not State.
Establishes the "Rural Police Services Relief Fund."
Creates housing purchase matching grant program for members of United States Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard who have served in certain military operations.
Prevents intoxicated employees from receiving workers' compensation.
Permits direct shipping of alcoholic beverages from out of State to New Jersey consumers under certain conditions.
Requires DOT to provide for removal of deer carcasses from county and municipal roads; appropriates $730,000.
Requires that each school district receive a minimum of 35% State support of its net budget and that a minimum of 35% of the net budget be supported through local tax levy.
Provides that public official may refuse to solemnize civil unions if solemnization conflicts with public official's conscience or sincerely held moral or religious beliefs.
Exempts certain lake association membership fees and dues from sales and use tax.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to provide for full funding of certain statutory school aid provisions.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for reinstatement of certain athletic teams.
Removes investigation and security services from sales and use tax.
Requires that national anthem be played before indoor interscholastic athletic events.