Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Oadline D. Truitt
Sponsored
Became law1
Appropriates $39,430,430 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "ur
Passed the General Assembly1
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Out of committee1
Requires removal of snow and ice from handicapped parking spaces 24 hours after inclement weather and increases penalties for violations.
In committee8
Establishes Office of Minority Teacher Recruitment in Department of Education.
Provides free tuition at public institutions of higher education to dependent children of veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes Juvenile Offender Community Conservation and Improvement Services Program.
Establishes "gun-free" and "weapon free" zones around certain school and public properties.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Provides enhanced penalties for drunk drivers with blood alcohol concentration of 0.17% or greater.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program," in Mercer and Essex Counties.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires removal of snow and ice from handicapped parking spaces 24 hours after inclement weather and increases penalties for violations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." *
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
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. *
"Violence Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act," requires certain health care entities to establish violence prevention programs to protect health care workers.
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.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
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. *
Establishes certificate of rehabilitation for certain persons with criminal records.
Establishes pilot program to conduct comprehensive eye examinations for second grade students.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Regulates certain tows and requires licensure of towing companies.
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."
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns sales tax exemptions for goods and materials purchased by qualified businesses in and operations of urban enterprise zones. *
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students. *
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report. *
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Authorizes civil action for certain economic damages against owner or keeper of pet animal that injures or kills another person's pet animal.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Daniel Mackay's Law; requires certain information be given to next of kin of relatives killed or incapacitated in motor vehicle accident; caps certain abandoned vehicle storage fees.
The "Real Estate Installment Contract Act."
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Out of committee · 17
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Requires school bus drivers to inspect bus for pupils remaining at end of route.
Adds two employees to the boards of trustees of the State colleges and the county colleges. *
Requires informational posters about safe placement alternatives for newborn infants be posted in public restrooms used by females.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
"Safe Patient Handling Act"; requires health care facilities to establish safe patient handling programs. *
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.
Establishes Department of Children and Families.
Authorizes payment options for certain motor vehicle fines and fees.
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
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.
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 · 22
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Permits people convicted of certain offenses to be employed by school district or DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Authorizes court to provide alternatives for persons who default in payment of fines.
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."
Prohibits the use or possession of cellular picture phones to invade another person's privacy and prohibits camera or picture cell phones in schools.
Revises notification process for suspending license for failure to pay parking ticket.
Authorizes POW license plates for leased vehicles.
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.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Requires all personal audio players distributed in New Jersey to contain a warning about volume and hearing loss.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
"Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act"; appropriates $75,000.
Establishes prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse public awareness campaign; designated Jason's Law.
Repeals statute setting forth public policy of State on stem cell research.
Permits smoking in place or building owned and operated by social or fraternal organization.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Prohibits local government agency from employing person on paid leave from local government agency of another county or municipality.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.