Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Wilfredo Caraballo
Sponsored
Became law15
Increases civil penalties for safety violations with respect to certain natural gas or hazardous liquid facilities. *
Authorizes access to abandoned properties by electric and gas public utilities to disconnect utility service.
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service. *
Permits certain municipalities to use existing voting machines for annual school and municipal nonpartisan elections to be held during 2006. *
"Access to Medical Research Act;" authorizes certain persons to give informed consent for medical research if subject of research is unable to give consent.
Creates position of First Assistant Child Advocate and provides that either Child Advocate or First Assistant be an attorney.
Increases voting members on UMDNJ board of trustees from 11 to 19; provides for additional board powers; and establishes board of directors for University Hospital. *
Requires New York Harbor Waterfront Commission to accept applications to add new employees to longshoremen's register.
Revises "Athletic Training Licensure Act."
Revises the marriage laws; establishes civil unions; establishes the "New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission."
Debars certain employers from public work and establishes criminal penalties for misclassification of construction workers as independent contractors.
Provides for licensure of massage and bodywork therapists and registration of the employers.
Concerns sales tax exemptions for goods and materials purchased by qualified businesses in and operations of urban enterprise zones. *
Alters phase-out schedule of transitional energy facility assessment unit rate surcharges.
Imposes gross receipts tax on retail sales of fur clothing in this State and use tax on use of certain fur clothing in this State for which tax has not been paid.
Passed the General Assembly4
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Revises "Notaries Public Act of 1979."
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Provides that practice of chiropractic includes diagnosis and adjustment of articulations of spinal column and other joints.
Out of committee14
Increases amount annually available for eligible households under certain energy assistance and energy conservation programs; provides for funding from increased revenue collected on rising natural gas prices; and makes appropriations. *
"Distressed Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Permits revised methods of treatment for chiropractors and establishes continuing education requirements.
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Establishes responsibilities for owner/operators working for licensed public movers.
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Requires continuing education course for newly licensed accountants.
Revises law concerning sales representatives to permit treble damages when a principal fails to pay earned commissions within 30 days of termination.
Establishes Distressed Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Fund.
Revises laws concerning hate crimes and bullying; establishes Commission on Bullying in Schools.
Provides continuing education credits to dentists who render dental services to certain persons free of charge.
Authorizes municipalities to impose a 5% surcharge on admission charges for admissions to certain major places of amusement. *
Authorizes imposition of special event parking tax surcharge in certain municipalities; authorizes imposition of parking tax by certain municipalities on any parking facility located therein.
Requires payment of interest by employer on delinquent payroll taxes imposed under "Local Tax Authorization Act."
In committee47
Requires registration for sex offense convictions in certain foreign countries.
Provides for reestablishment of local school board six months after creation of State-operated school district.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Repeals New Jersey's no-fault automobile insurance law and related acts.
Provides that certain young persons are not liable for certain debts.
Creates strict liability and criminal sanctions for owners of certain trucks involved in certain fatal crashes.
Requires semi-annual safety inspections of certain trucks.
Abolishes the death penalty in New Jersey.
"Sports and Entertainment District Financing Act."
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Increases cable television franchise fees.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Clarifies that advertisements by persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery are subject to the Consumer Fraud Act.
Establishes three-year demonstration "Senior Citizen Housing and Health Screening Center Program" in DHSS.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for enrollment at a New Jersey college or university.
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Modifies elements of the crime of stalking.
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Concerns overpayments to public utilities.
Prohibits use of credit information by property-casualty insurers in formulating underwriting rules.
Establishes civil commitment procedure for violent predators.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Requires readings at two separate meetings before final passage of a policy by a board of education.
Expands eligibility for special automobile insurance policies.
Establishes $2 surcharge upon building permits for payments to Community Health Law Project.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances.
Eliminates certain penalties for drug offenses in school zones and public areas.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Requires individual to be at least 21 years of age to enter into contract for the use of a credit card under certain circumstances.
Prohibits retail mercantile establishments from selling or leasing paging devices and celluar telephones to individuals under 21 years of age under certain circumstances.
Directs the preparation of fiscal note for legislation which changes criminal penalties.
Extends victim counselor's privilege to include statements made during certain interviews of victim.
Requires boards of education to permit public participation at board meetings.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for hospice and palliative care programs.
Requires certain Internet operators to remove defamatory materials and to disclose account information to defamed individuals.
Requires public school districts to post policy manuals on internet; requires Department of Education to make internet server available to districts for posting of policy manuals.
Permits public school districts to publish on internet certain notices which they are currently required to publish in newspaper.
Permits tenants in rentals premises to keep certain pet animals.
Establishes task force to investigate the Farmland Assessment Act.
Makes right turn on red optional rather than mandatory.
Clarifies obligation of cemeteries to hold consumer prepayments for cemetery services in trust accounts.
Revises qualifications for licensure for land surveyors and for certificates of registration for surveyors-in-training.
Authorizes and requires HMFA to offer refinance loan program for borrowers of high-cost home loans.
Allows certified public accountants licensed in other states to practice public accountancy and attest services in this State under certain circumstances.
Carried from the Senate
Became law9
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Establishes responsibilities for owner/operators working for licensed public movers.
Concerns the prompt payment of construction contracts.
Requires certain continuing education for newly licensed accountants.
Revises law concerning sales representatives to permit treble damages when a principal fails to pay earned commissions within 30 days of termination.
Requires payment of interest by employer on delinquent payroll taxes imposed under "Local Tax Authorization Act."
Authorizes imposition of special event parking tax surcharge in certain municipalities; authorizes imposition of parking tax by certain municipalities on any parking facility located therein. *
Authorizes municipalities to impose a 5% surcharge on admission charges for admissions to certain major places of amusement. *
Revises laws concerning hate crimes and bullying; establishes Commission on Bullying in Schools.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Requires coordination of emergency operations plans and creation of emergency plan for certain animals. *
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Upgrades simple assault against a private school teacher to aggravated assault; adds definition of "school" to criminal code. *
Allows all cities of the first class to collect property tax and hotel tax. *
Provides for instruction in autism and other developmental disabilities awareness and methods of teaching students with autism and other developmental disabilities for candidates for teaching certificates and current teachers and paraprofessionals. **
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Establishes New Jersey Adults with Autism Task Force.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
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.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Permits limited pharmacy sales of syringes and needles without prescription.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Out of committee · 14
"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.
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; establishes demonstration program to permit operation of sterile syringe access programs; appropriates $10 million. *
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.
Provides uniform procedure for sheriffs to provide certain surplus notices in mortgage foreclosure actions. *
Bars sales of aerosol dusters to persons under the age of 18. *
"Steven's Law;" prohibits use of non-wood bats in certain organized games. *
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential. *
Extends deadline for authorization to make grants from the "Wastewater Treatment Fund" for certain projects listed in P.L.2005, c.301.
Reforms the review, processing, and payment of certain private passenger automobile insurance personal injury protection claims.
Requires written notice to be provided to county health departments and local health agencies concerning contaminated sites. *
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
In committee · 44
The "New Jersey Spam Deterrence Act."
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.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Establishes pilot program in DOE to provide laptop computers and support services to pupils and teachers in public school districts.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Increases Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled Program subsidy.
Expands offense of computer criminal activity to include accessing computer data for an unlawful purpose by means of a knowing misrepresentation as to identity of person requesting information.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
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.
Establishes "The Prosecutorial Cost Relief Pilot Program Act of 2005."
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Requires NJT to install mile markers and develop emergency response access plan for railroad lines.
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents.
Allows judge to admit evidence of prior sexual offenses in current sexual offense actions.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Provides for receipt for voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election; provides State reimbursement.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
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.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
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.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Requires drug and alcohol testing of adult inmates within 72 hours prior to furlough, work release or similar programs under certain conditions.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
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.
Clarifies deadline to request absentee ballot application.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and 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%
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Reduces property taxes for owner-occupied primary residences.
Provides uniform procedure for sheriffs to provide debtors with certain surplus notices in mortgage foreclosure actions.
Permits a local realty transfer fee on property located in cities of the first class.
Prohibits school districts from hiring governmental affairs agents.
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.
Permits any voter to receive absentee ballots for all future elections upon request.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Increases State disability benefits fund employee contributions to be transferred into the Health Care Subsidy Fund and the General Fund.
Filed · 1
Implements certain recommendations of Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform concerning benefits and certain terms and conditions of public office and employment.