Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Guy R. Gregg
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly2
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Establishes sexual penetration or sexual contact with an animal as a crime and a civil offense under the State animal cruelty laws. **
Out of committee1
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
In committee57
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Prohibits Governor from appearing in certain State-funded advertisements.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
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 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.
Requires manufacturers or suppliers to be substituted as party-defendants when pre-packaged goods have been slack filled.
Prohibits basing fees for certification of radon testers upon number of measurement devices used.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Excludes certain dependent care assistance to Armed Forces members from gross income tax.
Revises definition of manufactured or mobile home under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
Provides explicit statutory authority for a trust to own an account under the NJBEST Program.
Specifies courses of study that a student may take in a county college located out of the county of residence.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.4 million from the General Fund to the DEP for Spruce Run Creek projects in Hunterdon county.
Authorizes red emergency lights for certain fire police officers.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Removes restrictions on purchase of apparel by State agencies; voids Executive Order No. 20 of 2002.
Allows for exclusion of certain properties from Highlands preservation area.
Eliminates urban enterprise zones.
Prohibits housing allowance in contract between State Board of Education and State district superintendent.
Provides free admission for veterans to High Point State Park and free use of the park's facilities for events held by veterans' organizations.
Provides that farm, farmstand, or other agricultural operation selling firewood obtained from property other than seller's shall not be considered a lumber yard.
Clarifies that BB guns are not firearms under New Jersey law.
Appropriates $500,000 to DEP for Waterloo Village.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Allows pet owners to keep pets overnight at campgrounds in State parks and forests.
"Kyleigh's Law"; revises laws concerning provisional driver's licenses.
Requires workers who come into contact with creosote-treated marine piling, and their employers, to comply with safety and health protection measures; repeals P.L.2007, c.113.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Eliminates fee imposed for certified copy of veteran's discharge papers.
Requires coordination of emergency operations plans and creation of emergency plan for certain animals. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support New Jersey Veterans Haven program.
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Makes it a disorderly persons offense to purposely disrupt funeral through certain conduct. *
Regulates vehicle protection products.
Provides mandatory fines and community service for theft of headstones, headstone markers, flags or flag holders from grave sites. *
Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Appropriates $6.515 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
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 $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 $45.15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and free admission to State parks and forests for individuals with certain types of military service. *
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines and lengthens time to provide proof of insurance.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain New Jersey members of the military and their families in need of assistance.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with economic impact of rules on small businesses.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1000.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Out of committee · 17
Establishes procedures for placement of individuals in Division of Developmental Disabilities Moderate Security Unit.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Authorizes lease of farmed land acquired by a county or municipality to farmer who was prior lessee of that land.
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. **
Authorizes people with mobility-related disabilities to operate scooters on public property.
Limits motor bus owner responsibility for no-fault medical expense benefits coverage for certain injured passengers.
Allows property taxpayers an additional 90 days to file tax appeal after revaluation.
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.
Provides for special licenses to serve alcoholic beverages in smart growth development projects; allows for sale of certain plenary retail consumption licenses for use in such projects. *
Appropriates $48.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $21,588,646 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes, and $600,000 for county farmland preservation program strategic plans.
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region.
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
In committee · 53
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 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.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Treasury to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange and Trenton or fund innovative public school programs.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
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 Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
Requires "permanent injury" under limitation on lawsuit threshold to seriously impact life of injured person to pierce threshold.
Requires the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to reduce toll rates for commercial trucks.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Extends certain federal income tax advantages of individual health savings accounts to individual taxpayers under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
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.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Concerns affordable housing in the Highlands Region.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Concerns the operation of drawbridges owned by DOT.
Designates New Jersey Route No. 15 as "Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Bans intentional feeding of deer; establishes civil penalty and allows property damage claim.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits certain political activity by governmental employees and by public employee unions.
Moves the date of 2006 school election from the third to the fourth Tuesday in April.
Prohibits the use of public sector union dues for political activities and requires specific written authorization for such use in the private sector.
Changes perimeter for bow and arrow hunting around occupied building.
Repeals Highlands planning and environmental permitting provisions of "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act," and amends various statutes to reflect repeal thereof.
Revises Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Revises method of determining reimbursement costs when a law enforcement entity hires a recently trained officer from another law enforcement entity.
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.
Exempts direct sellers from workers' compensation law.
Decreases sales and use tax rate from 7% to 6%.
Requires DOT to provide for removal of deer carcasses from county and municipal roads; appropriates $730,000.
Defines compensation for calculation of PERS contributions and benefits as amount taxed for Social Security purposes for new members.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Repeals statute setting forth public policy of State on stem cell research.
Prohibits use of public funds for embryonic stem cell research.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.
Delays expiration date of certain professional and occupational licenses for individuals with certain types of military services.