Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Mims Hackett Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Provides for local voluntary registries of persons with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders.
In committee22
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Directs BPU to require telephone companies to submit new dialing plans for certain intra-State calls.
Requires public institutions of higher education to assess each student a fee to be used to offset the cost of services provided by the municipality in which the institution is located.
Permits purchase of PERS credit for unpaid service as elected official.
Appropriates $500,000 to South Orange for firehouse renovation.
Requires written notice, transportation services, and payment for municipal services for out-of-district students enrolled in a district alternative education program.
Permits the sale of fuel in approved containers to the public on public highways maintained by the State's three toll road authorities.
Permits towing operators to provide emergency towing and storage services on NJ Turnpike under certain conditions.
Updates payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property owned by the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Requires testing of radon levels for sale or lease of residential properties.
Establishes in-house counseling services for DYFS employees.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Allows local employers in SHBP to negotiate premium payments with unions.
Requires school districts to establish plans for responding to emergencies and crises.
Requires public and independent institutions of higher education to assess each student a fee to be used to offset the cost of services provided by the municipality in which the institution is located.
Allows municipality in certain situations to ask CATV provider to offer reduction or discount in rates for CATV service for eligible senior and disabled citizens.
Requires Attorney General oversight of nonprofit hospital closures.
Prohibits use of public school district facilities and equipment to produce obscene materials.
Prohibits use of public school district facilities and equipment to produce obscene materials.
Establishes regional substance abuse treatment facilities; appropriates $100 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Bars legislators, Governor and department heads from lobbying activities for one year after leaving office or employment.
Provides for separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February. *
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Includes advanced practice nurses among medical professionals authorized to examine or treat certain individuals under labor laws.
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on certain streets under municipal jurisdiction. *
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards. *
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs. *
Adds four legislative members to Amistad Commission.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish NJ Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Permits municipalities to construct speed humps on certain roads. *
Provides that public school pupils may choose not to participate in certain experiments involving animals and requires schools to provide alternative education projects.
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Allocates certain previously appropriated, unexpended funds for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom to the support of brownfields development and to establish an underground storage tank inspection program. *
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; permits allocation of funds under the Fair Housing Act to program as permitted purpose. *
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Permits certain lights on vehicles of members of volunteer emergency services. **
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
Revises experience requirements for eligibility to be licensed as a marriage and family therapist.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Increase maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
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Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons. *
Establishes 14-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service. *
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Establishes "Technology Procurement Study Commission."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge, first African-American State Senator.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Allows certain DOC administrators to become members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. ***
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3% surplus for 2006-2007
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." *
Out of committee · 51
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor. *
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Increases veterans benefits for members and retirees of Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Directs Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furnishings purchased by public and independent institutions of higher education.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
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.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system.
Permits municipality to create drug free zone around project-based housing. *
Allows pregnant women and new mothers to obtain temporary handicapped placards.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.*
Authorizes municipal governing body to create and maintain list of municipal residents in need of special assistance in case of emergency for public safety purposes.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
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 Highlands Region and the pinelands area. **
Establishes "The Prosecutorial Cost Relief Pilot Program Act of 2005." **
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises. *
Requires health care facilities to adopt policies for notifying family members of patient deaths.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Upgrades penalties for certain assaults committed against employees of public utilities, cable television or telecommunication services. *
Permits certain emergency management volunteers to display blue emergency warning lights on vehicles. *
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
"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. *
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
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Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Eliminates mandatory license suspension for nonpayment of insurance surcharge; authorizes payment options.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file reports with ELEC.
Prohibits solicitation of political contributions on State property.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State in 2006.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Provides SHBP coverage for certain services by marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Requires mandatory incarceration for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Increases certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Requires DCA to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furniture and furnishings purchased for use in residential premises and public buildings.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Revises the definition of Abbott district to include certain county vocational school districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes 11-member "Internet Voting Study Commission."
Permits registered voter to request and receive absentee ballot for any reason.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Restores funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes certain consumer protection measures for cellular telephone customers.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Permits rehired public employees to purchase PERS credit for three years of layoff period.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Requires court appearance for certain motor vehicle offenses that occur in school zone.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Establishes Office of Inmate Advocacy in the Office of the Public Defender.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral or religious reasons.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Establishes Office of Minority Teacher Recruitment in Department of Education.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Bars high-risk and moderate-risk sex offenders from residing within 2,500 feet of a school, child care center or playground.
Prohibits certain unsolicited checks.
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.
Establishes pilot program in DLPS requiring electronic recording of certain police interrogations.
Requires development and distribution of pamphlet and poster informing students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Establishes New Jersey State Building Green Building Technology Task Force.