Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
William D. Payne
Sponsored
Became law2
Expands lead paint inspection requirement to dwelling units in single-family and two-family properties.
Increases sales and use tax from 6% to 7% on July 15, 2006 and expands base of sales and use tax on October 1, 2006.
Passed the General Assembly1
Requires State Board of Education to authorize African-American studies endorsement to the instructional certificate.
Out of committee3
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. *
Allows release of sex offender information to DYFS.
Limits use of pesticides, other than low impact pesticides, in State parks and forests.
In committee48
Prohibits the sale, importation, possession and carrying of handguns except by certain authorized persons.
Allows an adopted person 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate and other related information.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between September 1, 1995 and January 1, 1996.
Upgrades falsely incriminating another and fictitious reporting of an offense under certain circumstance.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Prohibits possession of tobacco in a public place and its purchase by persons under 18.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Prohibits investment of certain public employee pension funds in tobacco manufacturers and distributors; provides for divestiture of existing holdings in such businesses.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Provides for the reduction of employee contribution rates when employer contribution rates are reduced in State-administered retirement systems.
Provides that no adjustment shall be made to State school aid for enrollment overcount in school years prior to 1997-98.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Provides for immediate restoration of school board when local control is reestablished in State-operated district.
Requires non-custodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $95,000 for FY 2004 to Kean University to fund the Wynona M. Lipman Ethnic Studies Center.
Revises the definition of Abbott district to include certain county vocational school districts.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
"Complimentary Services Excise Tax."
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."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $13,000,000 from the General Fund for renovations at UMDNJ's University Hospital, Newark, for Labor, Delivery, Recovery suite renovations and neonatal and intermediate care nursery equipment.
Requires social studies teachers to complete training in African-American studies.
Requires the Commissioner of Education to study and recommend a plan to implement a centralized Statewide instructional materials purchasing system.
Clarifies that information developed by Amistad Commission for curriculum of public school districts may not be supplanted by information developed by another entity.
Requires Juvenile Justice Commission to assist juveniles released from incarceration in obtaining certain documents.
"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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4 million from General Fund to Department of Environmental Protection for Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District, LLC for redevelopment project in Newark.
Extends right to vote to individuals on probation.
Provides for enrollment in PERS of certain employees of the City of Newark.
Authorizes license plates to support Children's Trust Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires training for staff working with persons with developmental disabilities; appropriates $2,104,740.
Clarifies that statute making "good behavior" credits at ADTC contingent upon participation in treatment program applies to all inmates.
Allocates Amistad Commission in the DOE, designates Commissioner of Education as chair, authorizes commission to hire staff, decreases public members from eight to four, and provides commission with additional powers.
Authorizes court to waive license revocation process for certain child support obligors.
Establishes the California fine particle standard as State standard.
Provides State contract award preference for bidders that comply with certain retrofit requirements for off-road diesel equipment and on-road diesel vehicles; establishes those requirements.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Allows release of sex offender information to DYFS.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit and performance reviews of State and local government units.
Concerns location of certain highway entry or exit ramps and schools.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Requires suicide and mental health screening of juveniles in county detention centers.
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Upgrades penalties for recruiting minors and confined persons to be in criminal street gang. *
Authorizes State Auditor to conduct performance review audits.
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. *
Requires court to conduct inquiry at prosecutor's request concerning source of bail funds where defendant is charged with crime with bail restrictions. *
Requires New York Harbor Waterfront Commission to accept applications to add new employees to longshoremen's register.
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees because of religious practices.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
Establishes certificate of rehabilitation for certain persons with criminal records.
Appropriates $9,066,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
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
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Regulates certain tows and requires licensure of towing companies.
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Passed the General Assembly · 12
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Concerns penalties for illegally passing a school bus. *
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Requires wheelchair securement devices and wheelchair occupant securement devices on certain vehicles and training in their use for certain employees.
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
Requires wheelchair securement and occupant securement devices for wheelchaired passengers.
Requires retail mercantile establishment to provide manufacturer's rebate at time of consumer purchase.
Authorizes enhancement of State Uniform Construction Code's energy subcode based on anticipated energy savings; provides down payment assistance to certain purchasers of homes meeting enhanced energy subcode requirements. *
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."
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 23
"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.
Makes it a crime of the third degree to practice psychology without a license and prohibits certain unlicensed employees of nonprofit community agencies from using title of psychologist.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; establishes demonstration program to permit operation of sterile syringe access programs; appropriates $10 million. *
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets. *
Provides for plaques in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge and Walter Gilbert Alexander, first African-American Senator and Assemblyman. *
Upgrades penalty for failure to register as sex offender; imposes penalty for failure to verify address and requires verification prior to release.
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.
"Group Home Fire Safety 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.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Upgrades assault on victims who are disabled.
Increases funding of Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program.
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
Eliminates the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances. *
Requires MVC to provide minor's motor vehicle record to parent or guardian. *
Revises the expungement statute and clarifies that expungement does not apply to any crime committed by a person holding any public office, position or employment, elective or appointive.
Appropriates $33,480,957,000 in State funds and $10,197,242,726 in federal funds for the State budget for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
In committee · 70
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
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.
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.
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.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from selling from ice cream trucks.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Eliminates certain penalties for drug offenses in school zones and public areas.
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
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."
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Excludes from PAAD income eligibility withdrawals from an IRA.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
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."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires one half of natural resource damage payments to State to be remitted to municipality where damage occurred.
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.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
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.
Eliminates enhanced penalties for certain crimes occurring on or in proximity to school property except when such crimes occur in the presence of a child.
Eliminates award of attorneys' fees, filing fees and costs of suit for technical violation of the consumer fraud act.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DLPS to support Juvenile Justice Commission Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Establishes a Gun Court Pilot Program in Essex and Mercer County.
The "New Jersey Consumer Catastrophe Preparedness and Protection Act"; creates "New Jersey Catastrophe Fund"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Requires medical examiner to contact next-of-kin in case of certain deaths.
Requires fire sprinkler systems in new buildings or structures used to house three or more equine animals.
Prohibits use of fill materials on residential and school sites that exceed residential soil cleanup standards for contaminated sites.
Establishes universal credit equivalency program to provide seamless transfer of college credits by institutions of higher education.
Requires insurers and State health care coverage programs to cover cost of HPV vaccine.
Enacts the "Civil Marriage and Religious Protection Act."
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.
Provides an exclusion for military compensation of military personnel serving outside of this State from gross income tax.
Establishes grant program in DCA to provide funding to youth mentoring programs.
Requires radon testing of certain educational facilities every five years, residential properties at the time of sale, and residential lease properties within 18 months and every five years thereafter.
Requires retailers to pay sales and use tax on goods purchases and to remit tax collections as "value-added tax."
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.
Requires affirmative vote of majority of full membership of municipal council in mayor-council form of government to approve contracts.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Filed · 1
Establishes an independent Office of State Comptroller and consolidates financial audit, investigation and performance reviews of State and local government units.