Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Robert J. Martin
Sponsored
Became law4
Enacts the "Uniform Mediation Act."
Provides exemption from cleanup liability at Superfund sites to certain persons.
Expands law providing penalty against teacher who leaves job prior to expiration of contract to include teachers at approved private schools for the disabled.
Removes provision in "The New Jersey Alternative Procedure for Dispute Resolution Act" that appeals as of right shall be heard in Chancery Division of Superior Court.
Passed the Senate3
Allows a candidate for a teacher certificate an exemption to the grade point average requirement under certain circumstances. *
Extends deadline for Privacy Study Commission report until December 31, 2004.
Authorizes local unit to appoint insurance fund commissioners, its chief financial officer or its municipal clerk to oversee insurance fund.
Out of committee3
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained; appropriates $125,000.
Appropriates $537,965 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Kean University.
In committee24
Permits change to previously selected retirement options in TPAF and PERS.
"Practice of Medicine Across State Lines Act."
Concerns Turnpike Authority's contracts for towing.
Protects certain helping dogs from discrimination.
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes.
Criminalizes interference with parole decisions.
Establishes the Excellence in Teaching Scholarship Program and appropriates $500,000.
The "Teacher Continuing Education Requirement Act."
Establishes the National Board Certification Scholarship Program; appropriates $500,000.
Provides annual State facilities aid payments to charter schools.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides towers remedy for nonpayment of certain charges.
Creates matching grant program in DCA to assist counties in retrofitting county parks to enhance usage by handicapped children; appropriates $525,000.
Authorizes comparable sales as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
Imposes financial liability on parents for certain vandalism and other deliberate property damage caused by their minor children.
Requires certain notices when public agencies take possession of abandoned vehicle.
Standardizes maximum fine for violation of municipal and county ordinances and resolutions at $1,250.
Establishes regional purchasing units for school districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million to dredge Greenwood Lake in Passaic county.
Creates "Servicemembers' Life Insurance Reimbursement Fund."
Grants $250,000 military death benefit to survivors of New Jersey National Guard members killed on active duty; makes appropriation.
Implements the economic indicator recommendations of the Commissioner of Education on Abbott district designation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
The "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act"; creates Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council; and dedicates a portion of realty transfer fee revenue annually for certain State aid purposes in the Highlands Region and the pinelands area. *
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Creates study commission on the death penalty and imposes moratorium on imposition of death penalty. *
Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
Revises pilotage laws.
"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. *
Passed the Senate · 1
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 · 10
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS to provide additional funding to Community Hope, Inc.
Authorizes bars and restaurants to offer special discounts based on sex under certain circumstances. *
Permits recall of retired administrative law judges and retired judges of compensation. *
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Concerns dispersal of information on advance directives by issuer of marriage certificates and certificates of domestic partnership.
Requires judges in divorce and in termination of domestic partnership actions to inquire whether parties want to change or revoke advance directive.
Establishes date of initial employment with board of education as effective date of provisional teaching certificate and provides that novice teacher will be a teaching staff member for all purposes.
In committee · 40
Clarifies role of community providers in early childhood education in the Abbott districts and specifies certain goals and services for that education.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Changes date of election of school board members and special school elections and eliminates school budget elections.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions.
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Provides civil service preference to veterans of Operation "Noble Eagle".
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Sunrise House Foundation, Inc.
Supplemental appropriation of $235,000 to DHS for a grant to Homeless Outreach Program in Morris County.
Amends school board members' Code of Ethics to direct board members to protect the health, welfare, and good moral character of children.
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Testimony or other evidence adduced at a private hearing by or on behalf of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards shall be deemed public.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
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.
Includes transportation costs in the calculation of extraordinary special education costs incurred by public school districts.
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.
Requires the award of Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program scholarships to home-schooled students and prohibits the denial of a scholarship due to a student's lack of class rank.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Increases the minimum wage in four steps to $7.25 on August 1, 2008.
Establishes $2 surcharge upon building permits for payments to Community Health Law Project.
Requires ELEC to provide ethics training for governmental affairs agents.
Requires all elected or appointed local government officers to receive ethics training.
Requires completion of legislative ethics training program for legislators and State officers or employees and special State officers or employees in Legislative Branch.
Creates an Official Corruption Unit in the Division of State Police.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
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.
Disqualifies parent who abandoned child from share of deceased child's estate.
Clarifies law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis, increases number of delegates trained to administer epinephrine, and requires plan to reduce student exposure to allergens.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Highlands Council for operating support.
Allows emergency service providers to place telephone numbers on the State no telemarketing call list.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
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.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.