Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Charles T. Epps Jr.
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
In committee8
Requires State college boards of trustees to maintain minutes; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Concerns lost or stolen E-ZPass transponders.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.
Requires parent-teacher organization to share bank statement with board of education.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Permits transfer of service credit among State-administered retirement systems; permits use of ABP credit for TPAF and PERS benefits.
Establishes health care quality improvement fund grant program funded from tax rate increase on small cigars.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 48
Requires distribution of pamphlets, posters and other educational materials informing certain public school students of "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act." *
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to advise women of option to donate or store umbilical cord blood and placental tissue. **
Authorizes a competitive system-wide franchise for certain providers of cable television service. *
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Lowers the minimum full-time jobs requirement for business relocation and retention tax credits.
"Recycling Enhancement Act"
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Regulates dental decisions by insurers and third party administrators and provides for limited dentist registration certificates. *
Permits certain municipalities to use existing voting machines for annual school and municipal nonpartisan elections to be held during 2006. *
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Prohibits bids for local public contracts and public school contracts from falling on certain days.
Regulates sale of ammunition.
Prohibits sale, use, and burning of creosote or creosote-treated products. *
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. *
"Violence Prevention in Health Care Facilities Act," requires certain health care entities to establish violence prevention programs to protect health care workers.
Prohibits investment by State of pension and annuity funds in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
Allows all cities of the first class to collect property tax and hotel tax. *
Expands lead paint inspection requirement to dwelling units in single-family and two-family properties.
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. *
Permits oaths, affirmations and affidavits to be taken by certified court reporters.
"Electronic Waste Recycling Act."
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
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) public school district monitoring system.
Provides for the transfer of certain college credits.
Creates new alcoholic beverage license for facilities that teach winemaking.
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.
Places the burden of proof and burden of production on school districts in due process hearings conducted to resolve special education issues.
Requires purchasing agents to complete a course in green product purchasing; requires Department of the Treasury to compile and maintain a list of green product purchasing sources.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Requires health care providers to test pregnant women for HIV as part of routine prenatal care unless woman refuses testing, and requires testing of certain newborns for HIV. *
Permits certain child care centers to receive $1,500 grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. **
Concerns certain riparian lands in Jersey City.
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Imposes a 1% fee, or 1% tax, on certain purchasers of certain commercial property for over $1 million. *
Raises cigarette tax rate 17 1/2 cents per pack, changes tobacco products wholesale sales tax on moist snuff to weight-based tax and increases revenue dedication for Health Care Subsidy Fund.*
Increases rental motor vehicle surcharge from $2 per day to $5 per day. *
Imposes personal liability on certain persons required to collect certain taxes, fees, and assessments.
Changes PERS, TPAF and DCRP contribution rates and new employees' compensation base and retirement age; implements changes to SHBP and transfer of education employees to School Employees' Health Benefits Program; modifies State Investment Council. *
Passed the General Assembly · 24
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students. *
Creates a credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons. **
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to certain volunteer fire and emergency service organizations. *
Abigail's Law; requires that newly-manufactured school buses be equipped with sensors. *
Clarifies that gang related incident offense report is to be forwarded to Superintendent of State Police for inclusion in Uniform Crime Report. *
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Requires liability insurance for certain vessels.
Authorizes release of sex offender registration information to DHS and county welfare agencies.
Provides for forfeiture of vehicle where weapon was unlawfully possessed.
Makes unlawful possession of assault firearm a second degree crime.
Authorizes the court to issue restraining orders to defendants charged with a crime as a condition of release on bail.
Bars the disclosure of personal identifying information of grand jury witnesses except for name; creates a fourth degree offense for attorney disclosure.
Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
Prohibits individuals from purchasing more than one handgun in a calendar month.
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. *
Authorizes educational service providers to provide in-district special education instructional programs.
Adds two additional public members to NJ Transit board.
Revises law permitting law enforcement agencies to charge additional fees for certain copies of motor vehicle accident reports; replaces exemption for in-person request with exemption for legally affected parties. *
Prohibits hospitals from executing certain contracts for electronic health records systems.
Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for emergency medical technicians, police officers, and firefighters. *
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Requires DHSS to make reported information about certain adverse events publicly available.
Amends stalking law to broaden protections for victims.
Out of committee · 48
Establishes identification guidelines and record-keeping requirements for notaries public.
Establishes N.J. Historical Commission program for roadside markers to designate historic sites; appropriates $90,000. *
Establishes certain nutritional restrictions on food and beverages served, sold or given away to pupils in public and certain nonpublic schools.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examination.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
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.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
"Long-Term Care Partnership Program Act"; establishes Long-Term Care Partnership Program in DHS. *
Authorizes use of automated motor vehicle identification systems to enforce motor vehicle laws on certain local streets. *
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for assisted living programs.
Authorizes the Jersey Assistance for Community Caregivers program to provide health care services in excess of $600 per month in certain circumstances.
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.
Criminalizes possession or use of electronic communications devices in certain correctional facilities. *
Recodifies Title 4 criminal animal cruelty offenses in State criminal code; increases level of certain offenses and crimes; establishes new offenses; revises civil penalties; repeals various sections of law; designated as Angel's Law. **
"Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority Act." *
Requires 90 days' notice to affected municipalities of discontinuance of certain bus and train service.
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Increases mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for certain repeat sex offenders.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
"Safe Patient Handling Act"; requires health care facilities to establish safe patient handling programs. *
Requires MVC to share organ donor information with federally designated organ procurement organizations.
Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.
Authorizes certain cities to establish a municipal hospital authority.
Requires DEP to hold local public hearing for certain major developments located in a State park of forest. *
Establishes Department of Children and Families.
Permits certain persons 70 and older to prove identity by affidavit for purpose of renewing driver's license.
Provides surviving spouses of certain fire and police personnel who die in line of duty with workers' compensation for entire period of survivorship. *
"Billy's Law"; requires DCF and DHS to establish regulations for out-of-State placements in residential schools and programs. **
Requires installation of operational automatic rain sensor on lawn sprinklers as condition of sale and on lawn sprinklers on commercial, retail or industrial property and in common interest communities within specified timeframes. **
Requires affordable housing be built to green building standards; requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to issue standards.
Requires DCA to adopt energy inspection code, and requires licensed home inspector to report energy analysis for each home inspected for buyer in contemplation of purchase. *
Creates local police officer and paid firefighter emergency registry.
Establishes procedures for operation of air ambulance services.
Requires written notice to be provided to county health departments and local health agencies concerning contaminated sites. *
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
Requires distributing information about human papillomavirus to parents and guardians of seventh to twelfth graders and to pediatricians, and establishes public awareness campaign. *
Requires the State Police to establish a recently relocated offenders section within the Megan's Law sex offender Internet registry. *
Requires resident of continuing care retirement community be member of facility's governing body and discussion of certain subjects with resident representatives.
Makes changes concerning Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.
Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies. *
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.
Requires DHSS to make list of drugs with "black box" warnings accessible through its website.
Revises "Health Care Quality Act;" requires certain provisions in managed care plan contracts; clarifies certain responsibilities for ordering tests and procedures.
Requires hospitals to implement infection prevention programs.
Provides combined State and local enforcement authority over recycling centers.
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
Changes riparian land grant and lease process and amends various parts of statutory law.
In committee · 40
Expands membership and revises authority of Fish and Game Council.
Provides for automatic expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Provides certain benefits to New Jersey Transit police officers.
Allows public school districts to charge cable television companies to broadcast high school regular-season sports games.
Prohibits black bear hunting until completion of report submitted by Rutgers; appropriates $95,000.
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.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
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.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes incinerator authority to change name to environmental authority.
Makes chief of police contractual municipal employee and establishes in DLPS "Chiefs of Police Performance Evaluation Commission."
Permits a local realty transfer fee on property located in cities of the first class.
Increases annual property tax deduction for senior citizens and disabled persons from $250 to $500.
Provides $250 homestead property tax credit to senior citizens in first class cities.
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.
Provides that unused State real property will be offered for sale after three years.
Requires reduction in number of State employees to FY2000 level; establishes procedure to control creation of new State positions and filling of vacancies.
Permits water and sewerage service sub-metering in multi-family dwellings to promote water conservation.
Exempts charges for residential storage space and dues for residential health and fitness facilities from the sales and use tax.
Establishes New Jersey Sickle Cell Disease Task Force.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to establish the "Senior Citizen Home Repair and Modification Program;" appropriates $10 million.
Permits voter registration up to 29 days before an election; reduces polling place hours by one hour in the morning.
Prohibits commercial mobile service providers from requiring subscribers to pay a charge for calling emergency 9-1-1 service.
Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.
Expands homestead property tax rebate program for certain non-senior and non-disabled tenants based on revised income qualifications.
"Higher Education Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes the issuance of $3,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance the construction and renovation of higher education facilities and to establish a student loan program and appropriates $5,000.
The "New Jersey Board of Health Care Management Act"; appropriates $10,000,000.
Requires certain municipalities to receive permission from State security and emergency officials prior to dissolving, disbanding, or terminating paid fire department.
Prohibits members or affiliates of criminal street gangs from being appointed corrections officers.
Eliminates statute of limitations in wrongful death actions arising out of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter where a conviction was not obtained.
Adds additional members to Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission and requires study on effects of mandates enacted by law since 2000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000,000 for emergency grant to avert hospital closure.