Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Craig A. Stanley
Sponsored
Became law6
Concerns location of certain highway entry or exit ramps and schools.
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Permits short-term tax exemption or abatement for houses destroyed by fire when reconstruction or renovation is performed by charitable entity, or for-profit using volunteer labor. *
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) public school district monitoring system.
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Passed the General Assembly4
Creates limited licenses for general barbering and for barbering and hairstyling within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Establishes October 1 as uniform eligibility date for admission to kindergarten in public school districts.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Requires hospitals to report certain injuries to local and State police.
Out of committee11
Establishes the Dana Christmas Scholarship for Heroism Program.
Establishes a permanent Commission on the Funding of a Thorough and Efficient Public School Education to make recommendations and to monitor a public school funding formula. *
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools.
Establishes task force to recommend return-to-play guidelines following student-athlete brain injuries. *
Requires Abbott districts to develop a program of after school activities and provides for voter approval of additional local funding.
Establishes Task Force on Education partnerships.
Requires Commission on Higher Education to prepare report on certain public college and university personnel. *
Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.
Establishes the Preschool Through Grade 20 Council; appropriates $500,000.
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.
Requires certain school districts to develop and implement student-advisor programs for students in grades 7 through 12.
In committee50
"Preferred Provider Protection Act."
Requires managed care entities to offer option permitting enrollee to use health care provider of choice.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under small employer health benefits plans.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under individual health benefits plans.
Permits municipalities to phase in valuation changes following revaluation for up to five years.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Increases minimum wage.
Imposes mandatory prison terms for prostitution offenses within 1,000 feet of a school.
Directs NJ Highway Authority to remove toll booths at Irvington exit and entry ramps.
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Expands study of impact of 65 MPH law to include assessment of the safe operating skills exhibited by drivers on those highways.
Extends polling place hours for school elections.
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.
Creates the "Court Facilities Act of 2004."
Authorizes county prosecutor to assume control of law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances, and suspend or terminate officers for misconduct.
Requires Department of Education to establish an advanced placement incentive grant program; appropriates $300,000.
Provides unclaimed State Lottery prize money to fund a tuition aid grant pilot program for part-time students.
Establishes the New Jersey Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (NJHOPE) Scholarship Program.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Establishes the Teaching Fellows Program and appropriates $155,000.
Clarifies role of community providers in early childhood education in the Abbott districts and specifies certain goals and services for that education.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides that a school district may finance energy savings improvements or renovations with a 15-year lease purchase agreement.
Establishes a public school class-size reduction program; appropriates $42,000,000.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Establishes 29-member New Jersey African-American Reconciliation Study Commission.
Authorizes special high school hockey team license plates.
Makes possession or use of cellular telephone or accessories by person confined to State correctional facility second degree crime.
Adds executive director of Joint Committee on the Public Schools to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Requires compliance with testing provisions of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" only if those requirements are supported through federal funds.
Allows a candidate for a teacher certificate an exemption to the grade point average requirement under certain circumstances.
Increases the number of legislators on the Amistad Commission from four to eight.
Provides that title to certain school district property will be conveyed by the district to the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation.
Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
Increases EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects and requires Schools Construction Corporation to report monthly to the Joint Committee on the Public Schools and Legislature on the disbursement of bond funds.
Prohibits granting certificate of need for hospital closures in service areas with high incidence of morbidity unless DHSS has plan to manage public health emergency.
Requires the Commissioner of Education to study and recommend a plan to implement a centralized Statewide purchasing system providing instructional materials closely aligned with the core curriculum content standards.
Establishes 2-year "Gang Violence Prevention Pilot Program" in Department of Children and Families.
Establishes Nurse Home Visitation Pilot Program; appropriates $1.1 million.
Establishes Office of Hospitality in the Department of State.
Revises criminal history record checks process undergone by public and nonpublic school employees and school bus drivers.
Requires notice of minimum purchase requirement for credit and debit card purchases.
Provides enhanced penalties for certain crimes when victim is 65 years of age or older, or disabled.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide students with access to mental health care programs and services and to establish a hotline to provide information concerning the availability of those services.
Requires affirmative vote of majority of full membership of municipal council in mayor-council form of government to approve contracts.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." *
Permits boards of education to establish prepaid lunch programs.
Prohibits computer-assisted remote hunting.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Extends eligibility for higher education tuition assistance to certain former members of New Jersey National Guard and increases number of tuition-free credits available to National Guard members and their dependents.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support New Jersey Veterans Haven program.
Establishes Commission on Women Veterans.
Expands lead paint inspection requirement to dwelling units in single-family and two-family properties.
Requires DMVA to evaluate resources, costs and benefits of providing home health care aides for qualified veterans.
Provides certain employment protections for employees on military leave in time of war or emergency.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Places the burden of proof and burden of production on school districts in due process hearings conducted to resolve special education issues.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students. *
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
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.
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report. *
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Regulates impoundment of shopping carts.
Out of committee · 12
Provides for increase in relocation assistance amounts based on increase of CPI.
"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.
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. *
Requires public schools to include instruction on the obligations and responsibilities of parenting as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. *
Requires public school districts to prepare annual report on school district contracts.
Enacts the "Jessica Lunsford Act;" increases sentences for sex offenders and persons who harbor them. *
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Enhances protections afforded under child-protection window guard law.
Criminalizes possession or use of electronic communications devices in certain correctional facilities. *
Requires ambulatory care facilities to provide uncompensated outpatient renal dialysis services for uninsured low-income persons.
Transfers Division of Elections from Department of Law and Public Safety to Department of State; designates Secretary of State as chief election official.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
In committee · 43
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
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.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.
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.
Provides for reestablishment of local school board six months after creation of State-operated school district.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
Provides additional core curriculum standards aid for county vocational school district students who reside in Abbott districts.
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."
"Billy's Law;" directs Department of Education to establish a register of qualified educational facilities outside the State for special education students and establishes procedures for the placement of such facilities on the register.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
"County College Nursing Student Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $2 million.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Provides for the annual selection of six school facilities demonstration projects under the State's school construction law.
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.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses employing qualified ex-offenders.
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."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for energy costs.
Reduces senior citizen concentration rate required for receipt of senior citizen stabilization aid paid to public school districts.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
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.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in financial institutions located in Delaware if that state does not amend its permitting laws to conform to the Compact of 1905.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Requires certain information regarding special education students to be reported annually to the Legislature.
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 fixed dates for employment contracts of certain State college professors and other employees.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.