Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Mims Hackett Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Out of committee1
Requires owner to immediately report loss or theft of firearm to police. *
In committee21
Increases fine for failure to use child passenger restraint in motor vehicle.
Allows person to deduct alimony payments to determine eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold prescription programs.
Requires DYFS to take certain actions to ensure caseworker safety.
Directs BPU to require telephone companies to submit new dialing plans for certain intra-State calls.
Permits purchase of PERS credit for unpaid service as elected official.
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.
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.
Requires use of luminescent materials in exit pathways of high-rise structures.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
"Recycling Enhancement Act"
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Permits certain municipalities to use existing voting machines for annual school and municipal nonpartisan elections to be held during 2006. *
Requires suicide and mental health screening of juveniles in county detention centers.
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. *
Requires Disadvantaged Youth Employment Opportunities Council to report to State Employment and Training Center and adds three members; and makes an appropriation of $50,000. *
Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II Programs.
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Revises the marriage laws; establishes civil unions; establishes the "New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission."
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Enacts the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote."
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
Abigail's Law; requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors. *
Expands eligibility for veterans' civil service preference; creates additional preference benefits.
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.
Directs Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furnishings purchased by public and independent institutions of higher education.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Out of committee · 29
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain activities and services as projects eligible for UEZ funding.
"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.
Regulates pharmacy benefits management companies; makes an appropriation. *
Adds new causes of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences.
"Historic Property Reinvestment Act"; provides credits against certain taxes for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties. *
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Clarifies the law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis. *
Establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist. *
Establishes guidelines for dissemination of vital records.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to Rutgers, The State University and $50,000 to Seton Hall University to fund clinical legal program for homeless veterans.
Expands wrongful death act to allow recovery for mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of society and loss of companionship. *
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions to the "Homelessness Prevention Program" through real estate sales.
Provides reimbursement of expenses for board of trustees for pension funds of school district employees in first class counties.
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority Act." *
Authorizes the issuance of bonds by the NJEDA to fund State capital construction projects of $270 million for facilities for stem cell research, biomedical research, blood collection and cancer research. **
Transfers Division of Elections from Department of Law and Public Safety to Department of State; designates Secretary of State as chief election official.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act," authorizes the sale of State general obligation bonds in the amount of $450 million and appropriates $5,000. *
Requires Office of Legislative Services to make complete voting records of legislators available to the public in electronic form.
Establishes Department of Children and Families.
Requires distributing information about human papillomavirus to parents and guardians of seventh to twelfth graders and to pediatricians, and establishes public awareness campaign. *
Changes date of presidential primary from last Tuesday in February to first Tuesday after first Monday in February.
Directs Legislative Services Commission to provide for a comprehensive Statewide costing-out study to determine per pupil costs required to provide a thorough and efficient education.
Exempts sales and use tax on initiation fees, membership fees and dues and certain parking services.
Makes it a primary offense for motorists to talk on or text message with hand-held wireless telephone or electronic communication device while driving. *
In committee · 70
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
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.
Increases the maximum amount of bonds issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority for the Public Library Project Fund from $45 million to $95 million to provide library construction and technology grants.
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
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.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
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.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
Establishes "The Prosecutorial Cost Relief Pilot Program Act of 2005."
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.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Permits rehired public employees to purchase PERS credit for three years of layoff period.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Allows certain DOC administrators to become members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Requires retail food establishments to provide certain nutritional information for food or beverage items sold to its customers.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Directs public school officials regarding the administration and implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001."
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons.
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor.
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.
Establishes 14-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service.
Allows pregnant women and new mothers to obtain temporary handicapped placards.
Requires court appearance for certain motor vehicle offenses that occur in school zone.
Redefines role and qualifications of purchasing agent in "Local Public Contracts Law."
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Changes from two to four number of consecutive general elections where more than 750 votes or less than 250 votes may be cast before election district is redrawn.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Enacts the "Civil Marriage and Religious Protection Act."
Authorizes special license plates for members of the United States Coast Guard.
Allows application for PERS accidental disability benefit for injury sustained while employed at State psychiatric institution or correctional facility immediately prior to PERS membership.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Extends TDI to provide family leave benefits for workers caring for sick family members, newborn and newly adopted children.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Requires New Jersey DMVA to issue Cold War certificates to Cold War veterans.