Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Joseph V. Doria Jr.
Sponsored
Became law3
Provides uniform period for certain contracting entities to issue changes or addenda to bid advertisements.
Allows off-site vehicle sales.
Authorizes redevelopment agreements for reimbursement of remediation costs for projects that have already begun.
Passed the Senate1
Changes calculation of average weekly wage for TDI benefits.
Out of committee10
Changes liability of underground facility operators with respect to certain provisions of the "Underground Facility Protection Act."
The "Motor Vehicle Surcharges Securitization Act of 2004."
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Authorizes certain county pension funds to provide pension enhancement to future retirees.
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian american Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000. *
Allows disabled veteran's surviving spouse to claim property tax exemption when veteran's disability declaration is granted after death.
Establishes health care quality improvement fund grant program funded from tax rate increase on small cigars. *
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
In committee65
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DCA to fund grant to Jersey City.
Authorizes local board of health to declare as a nuisance premises in which there have been multiple arrests for illegal sale or possession of drugs.
Requires parent-teacher organization to share bank statement with board of education.
Requires adopted person or birth parent to notify approved agency when hereditary disease is diagnosed after adoption is finalized.
Provides that an individual's genetic information is the property of the individual.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts by the 2005-2006 school year and establishes a Statewide uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Provides pension enhancement to certain future retirees of county pension fund.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.
Imposes 6% tax on certain political contributions.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available.
Prohibits DEP from granting any exemptions from the requirement of registration for any proposed solid waste collection activity, solid waste facility or solid waste disposal operation.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Authorizes property tax deferment for deployed military personnel.
Authorizes transfer of any title at any point during the term of a local unit lease purchase agreement or contract.
Requires MVC to open inspection station in Bayonne or Jersey City.
Allows counties and local contracting units to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for other health care coverage.
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Establishes the Higher Education Master Plan Commission in the Legislative Branch of State government.
Permits Director of ABC to grant plenary winery license under certain circumstances.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Establishes "New Jersey Pharmaceutical Assistance Study Commission."
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Requires certain employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Requires DEP to prepare and adopt a plan to tax dormant cargo containers that remain empty or unused for 90 days or more.
Concerns certain tests for firefighters and police officers in active duty.
Requires item cost indicators on cash registers to be visible to customers.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Establishes the Municipal Court Study Commission.
Provides credit against gross income tax for first time home buyers with household incomes less than $100,000.
Requires issuance of permit to replace shower valves.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Permits transfer of service credit among State-administered retirement systems; permits use of ABP credit for TPAF and PERS benefits.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Allows certain DOC administrators to become members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Establishes the Garden State New Millennium Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
"New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Permits promotion without promotional examination of municipal police officer with three awards.
Restores fiscal integrity and enhances funding to Transportation Trust Fund.
Provides that industrial use chemicals are not controlled dangerous substances; prohibits unauthorized use of certain substances.
Repeals certain requirements for certain prescription drug plans.
Establishes NJ SMART homestead rebates to offset 50% of public school property taxes of homestead owners and tenants and a gross income tax surcharge to fund NJ SMART homestead rebates.
Requires drug manufacturers to offer their drugs to purchasers on terms and conditions offered to most favored purchaser.
Allows members of PFRS hired during certain periods to serve until attainment of age 68 or 25 years of creditable service, whichever comes first.
Waives motor vehicle registration fee for vehicles owned by municipal and county utilities authority.
Establishes the "Workplace Violence Safety Act."
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals.
Requires State college boards of trustees to maintain minutes; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Requires new affordable housing units constructed be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons.
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.
Establishes certain consumer protections for wireless telephone subscribers.
Establishes public school district budget cap adjustment for utility and energy costs.
Authorizes Greenwood Lake Commission to charge certain fees for docks, wharfs, moorings and boats.
Authorizes grants to independent colleges for remediation of contaminated property not owned by college in same or adjacent municipality; authorizes property lien for grant amount.
Authorizes a system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service.
Authorizes NJ Transit to establish NJ Transit Development Corporation as subsidiary corporation.
Filed1
Authorizes counties to increase the number of appointed board members on county vocational school district boards of education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options; appropriates $75,000. *
Allows NJ Commission on Science and Technology to receive percentage of royalties from certain intellectual property awarded to those science and technology companies assisted by the commission.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Upgrades unlawful possession and distribution of prescription legend drugs.*
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Revises regulation of security guards.
Revises the "New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund Act."
Appropriates $50,000 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Felician College.
Permits special improvement districts to enter into certain financing arrangements with private lenders.
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. **
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHSS for grant to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Authorizes State Board of Examiners to issue credentials to serve as substitute teachers and substitute school nurses and to collect fees for the issuance of the credentials.
Permits municipal governing body to waive building restrictions on sale of certain lands.
Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for film production expenses incurred in New Jersey and provides for the transfer of those tax credits to other taxpayers. *
Provides additional State school aid to school districts which are bordered by at least three Abbott districts.
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Authorizes DEP to replace person responsible for remediation on condemned property with condemnor under certain circumstances.
Expands certain powers of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to establish and develop professional football league training facilities.
Passed the Senate · 4
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Allows Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to open administrative supervision proceedings to guaranty associations under certain circumstances.
Allows certain public entities to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of certain energy services for their facilities. *
Out of committee · 27
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Requires regional municipal and county utilities and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to provide reduced sewer and water connection fees for certain affordable housing projects. *
Makes certain changes to procedures governing the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
Decouples corporation business tax and gross income tax from changes in federal depreciation and certain expensing; provides incentives for business relocation and retention. *
Requires photo ID verifiction of pilots renting aircraft.
Concerns procedures with respect to placement, replacement or removal of public utility poles and underground facilities under certain circumstances.
Lowers the threshold for requiring that State taxpayers make State tax payments by electronic funds transfer.
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000. *
Appropriates $120,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish a Foundation for Technology Advancement. *
Requires prenotification of certain plant closings.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Repeals air toxics surcharge. *
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Establishes New Jersey Gifted Disabled Community Needs Study Commission.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Establishes the "School Construction Review Commission."
Appropriates $18,000,000 to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects; approves $4,979,092 thereof for certain historic preservation projects in northern NJ.
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
Increases motor vehicle registration fees to cover capital and operational costs of State's emergency medical helicopter program and fund new State Police trooper classes.
In committee · 14
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides $100,000 military death benefit to State citizens killed on federal active duty; establishes "Fallen Patriots Memorial Fund."
Provides annual State facilities aid payments to charter schools.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Authorizes limited outside employment of assistant prosecutors.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Authorizes new powers and contractual agreements to be entered into by New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Establishes "The Essex County Prosecutorial Unification Pilot Program Act of 2004."
"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.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Authorizes special "Born to Run" license plate with proceeds to benefit Community FoodBank of New Jersey.