Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Guy R. Gregg
Sponsored
In committee49
Permits school boards to contract with certain organizations for education management services.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
"Property Tax Reduction Work Act"; permits local units to recruit residents to perform services in return for property tax vouchers.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.4 million from the General Fund to the DEP for Spruce Run Creek projects in Hunterdon county.
Prohibits basing fees for certification of radon testers upon number of measurement devices used.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Authorizes the Director of the Division of Taxation to implement a federally-reimbursed State sales and use tax holiday.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Establishes special license plates to fund promotion of NJ's skiing industry.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Provides explicit statutory authority for a trust to own an account under the NJBEST Program.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Sunrise House Foundation, Inc.
Clarifies the deductibility of certain state taxes from entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Revises definition of manufactured or mobile home under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Exempts boat and marine product sales from certain retail sales tax exemptions.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Provides funding mechanism for Fiscal Year 2004 business employment incentive program grants using certain unanticipated Fiscal Year 2003 State corporation business tax revenues.
Prohibits Governor from appearing in certain State-funded advertisements.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Excludes certain dependent care assistance to Armed Forces members from gross income tax.
Removes restrictions on purchase of apparel by State agencies; voids Executive Order No. 20 of 2002.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Requires manufacturers or suppliers to be substituted as party-defendants when pre-packaged goods have been slack filled.
Specifies courses of study that a student may take in a county college located out of the county of residence.
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 private passenger automobile insurers to provide a letter of experience upon request.
Provides categorical State aid for public school district special education expenditures.
The "New Jersey Spam Deterrence Act."
Prohibits recording a deed later than 30 days after the deed is transferred upon settlement of the property.
Establishes sexual use of, or contact with, including sodomy of, animals as a crime and a civil offense under State animal cruelty laws.
Establishes a pothole repair and research program in the Department of Transportation and provides funding from new motor vehicle tire fee revenue.
Provides graduated sales and use tax exemption for new motor vehicles based on fuel economy.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $22,468,700 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
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 $39.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $2.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues. *
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
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. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses. *
Out of committee · 15
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Revises pilotage laws.
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.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Limits liability of food producers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, sellers, marketers and advertisers for claims arising out of weight gain or obesity.
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.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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
Appropriates $25,389,500 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 $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 64
Allows a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and the recipient's dependent child and spouse to receive tuition-free postgraduate education at any public institution of higher education.
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates if vacancy occurs within 51 days prior to day of general election.
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.
Establishes child protective services investigation pilot program in Morris county; appropriates $90,000.
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.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center.
Requires DOC to notify prosecutor and victim whenever an inmate is transferred to an out-of-state correctional facility.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Exempts certain municipalities from payment for certain State Police services.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Establishes Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Establishes loan program to rehabilitate military monuments; appropriates $600,000.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
"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 an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Excludes certain dependent care assistance to Armed Forces members from gross income tax.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for sale of principal residence.
Clarifies that defendant who claims self-defense in prosecution for homicide or assault shall be entitled to introduce evidence of past child abuse or domestic violence committed by the victim.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Implements the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003."
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Bans intentional feeding of deer.
Requires the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to reduce toll rates for commercial trucks.
Prohibits the use of public sector union dues for political activities and requires specific written authorization for such use in the private sector.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
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."
Exempts Picatinny Arsenal conversion plan from the provisions of the "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Prohibits certain campaign contributions by State contractors.
Provides that the State collects 75 percent of punitive damages awarded in any civil action to be deposited in the General Fund.
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.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
"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.
Concerns the operation of drawbridges owned by DOT.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to seriously impact life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Assemblyman.