Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, Senate.
Robert J. Martin
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires Office of Legislative Services to make complete voting records of legislators available to the public in electronic form.
Passed the Senate3
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes and designates it as natural area and wildlife sanctuary. *
Authorizes local unit to appoint insurance fund commissioners, its chief financial officer or its municipal clerk to oversee insurance fund.
Upgrades criminal offense of assault in certain circumstances.
Out of committee3
Allows a candidate for a teacher certificate an exemption to the grade point average requirement under certain circumstances.
Requires certain notices when public agencies take possession of abandoned vehicle.
Permits student whose high school special education program requires instruction beyond four years to participate with his class in graduation ceremony and to receive certificate of attendance.
In committee25
"Practice of Medicine Across State Lines Act."
Protects certain helping dogs from discrimination.
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.
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.
Standardizes maximum fine for violation of municipal and county ordinances and resolutions at $1,250.
Establishes regional purchasing units for school districts.
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.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies and access to government records.
Defines "inherently beneficial use" under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Imposes financial liability on parents for certain vandalism and other deliberate property damage caused by their minor children.
Revises law concerning meetings of public bodies and access to government records; makes appropriation.
Provides towers remedy for nonpayment of certain charges.
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.
Concerns skateboard park operators and persons who utilize skateboard parks.
Exempts certain monastery lands from property taxation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Makes various changes to the laws governing underground storage tanks. *
Out of committee · 7
Allows emergency service providers to place telephone numbers on the State no telemarketing call list.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
"Recycling Enhancement Act."
"New Jersey Clean Water, Drought Mitigation and Water Resource Security Trust Fund Act."
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
In committee · 29
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
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.
Abolishes death penalty in New Jersey; provides for resentencing for persons sentenced to death.
Changes date of election of school board members and special school elections and eliminates school budget elections.
Supplemental appropriation of $235,000 to DHS for a grant to Homeless Outreach Program in Morris County.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
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.
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."
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends school board members' Code of Ethics to direct board members to protect the health, welfare, and good moral character of children.
Establishes $2 surcharge upon building permits for payments to Community Health Law Project.
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.
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Increases the types of matters eligible to be voted upon by a sending district representative on a receiving district board of education.
Increases certain court filing fees to fund Legal Services of New Jersey, the Community Health Law Project and law school clinics.
Requires certain employers to plan and implement traffic reduction programs for employees.
Establishes pilot program to provide tax credits for contributions to entities which provide tuition scholarships to children residing in Camden, Newark, Orange, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson and Lakewood or fund innovative public school programs.
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.
Requires Governor's annual budget message to provide for full funding of certain statutory school aid provisions.
Provides for the transfer of special education State aid from a student's former district of residence to present district of residence.
Clarifies that "airsoft" guns are firearms.
Establishes crime of removing federally required orange tip from toy gun; establishes crime of disguising a firearm by adding an orange muzzle tip.
Authorizes Greenwood Lake Commission to charge certain fees for docks, wharfs, moorings and boats.