Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Louis M. Manzo
Sponsored
Became law2
Sets time period for filing application for recount at 15 days following election.
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Passed the General Assembly1
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.
Out of committee8
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey take action concerning brownfield sites and other underutilized sites in New Jersey for warehousing and other facilities in port district. *
Requires physicians to inform patients diagnosed with breast cancer of treatment options.
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Permits municipality hosting two or more transfer stations to approve or prohibit the siting of an additional transfer station within its municipal boundaries.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Establishes annual enterprise zone employee tax credit for employee health care benefits.
Permits adopted person and certain others access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $1,000,000. *
Authorizes redevelopment agreements for reimbursement of remediation costs for projects that have already begun. *
In committee76
Establishes homestead rebates to offset 90% of public school property taxes and a gross income tax surcharge to fund the rebates; establishes the NJ SMART Homestead Rebate Act.
Requires the consolidation of administrative services of certain school districts.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act."
Provides State will pay 20% of PFRS employer contributions for first class cities.
Imposes tax on certain political contributions to provide funding for certain programs for senior citizens and disabled persons.
Establishes mechanism for resolving contested mayoral appointments in first class cities.
Requires DHSS to designate New Jersey Safety Net Hospitals.
Permits every qualified and registered voter to receive absentee ballot for each election.
Requires DEP to prepare and adopt a plan to tax dormant cargo containers that remain empty or unused for 90 days or more.
Makes New Jersey residents who are eligible for federal earned income tax credit also eligible for New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Authorizes assessment maintenance and abatement program for vacant property in certain municipalities.
Directs DEP to develop and implement plan for 20 percent reduction of emissions from diesel-powered vehicles over the next seven years; directs appropriate departments and MVC adopt regulations necessary for implementation of DEP plan.
Establishes "New Jersey Pharmaceutical Assistance Study Commission."
Equalizes payments received by relatives who provide care for children placed in their homes by DYFS.
Directs MVC to reopen Bayonne motor vehicle agency.
Requires DEP to establish a certification program for environmental consultants.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for positron emission tomography to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Requires relatives seeking custody or guardianship of child under DYFS' care or custody to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Prohibits HMO from imposing certain restrictions regarding provision of health care services to enrollees.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Requires DYFS district offices to adjust office hours and establish staggered work weeks for caseworkers.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Prohibits sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation.
Establishes specialized child abuse and neglect investigation units in DYFS district offices.
Designates Jersey City Medical Center as the State's specialty acute care children's hospital for Hudson County.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Provides for the management of propane tanks designed for use in alternative fuel vehicles.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
Establishes public education campaign on dangers of designer drugs; appropriates $50,000.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Excludes certain winnings from consideration for PAAD eligibility.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
The "Scrap Tire Management Act."
Requires criminal history record background checks for DYFS caseworkers.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply in the 21st Century Study Task Force.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
Requires warehouses to report under Worker and Community Right to Know Act; establishes placarding requirement.
Upgrades penalties for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Permits counties to require certain minimum standards for employees of contract and subcontract bidders.
Concerns requests for changes in certain environmental standards.
Provides low interest loans to persons who need to acquire a new home because they have been forced to vacate their homes due to the presence of hazardous substances.
Prohibits landlord charging tenant refurbishment fee.
Assesses insurers and health maintenance organizations $8.1 million to defray cost of prescription drug benefits for certain Medicaid recipients.
Increases the minimum wage to $6.75.
Concerns powers of political subdivisions with respect to labor regulations.
Establishes that "45-day rule" applies to county correction officers.
Requires background checks for taxi drivers.
Reduces maximum tax exemption duration; requires municipal and State oversight.
Limits local campaign contributions by urban renewal entities.
Prohibits local campaign contributions by certain urban renewal entities.
Establishes health insurance coverage registry in DHSS.
Requires Office of Counter Terrorism to train inspectors on identifying terrorist activity; creates grant program for inspectors to obtain radiation detection devices; appropriates $300,000.
Authorizes fees and tax abatements for vacant property in certain municipalities.
Requires State reimbursements to county be computed from first day State inmate is housed in its correctional facility.
Authorizes sheriff's officers and local law enforcement officers to enforce truck weigh limits in certain cases.
Allows the deduction of the costs of providing employee health benefits in calculating the corporation business tax alternative minimum assessment.
Provides a manufacturing retention investment tax credit under the corporation business tax, for investment in manufacturing equipment and manufacturing facility renovation, modernization and expansion.
Provides for forfeiture of vehicle or building where weapon was unlawfully possessed.
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.
Establishes "Regional Network Health Benefits Plan Pilot Program."
Limits period for reimbursement for overpayment on health and dental claims to 180 days, establishes claims appeal process, requires examination of claims processing and payment records, and imposes penalties for violations.
Allows counties and local contracting units to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for other health care coverage.
Prohibits requirement by landlord of payment by tenant of any advanced fee other than security deposit.
Increases maximum homestead rebate amounts for residential tenants.
Prevents tenants' property tax rebate reductions due to effects of revaluation, reassessment, or tax appeal.
Creates certified animal cruelty investigator position; gives position powers, authorities, exemptions.
Requires "just compensation" for condemnation of single-family residence to be based on cost of comparable relocation properties.
Permits purchase of goods and services by the State and local government units through electronic means.
Prohibits municipal officers and employees serving on redevelopment or housing agencies from voting to condemn property.
Establishes certain requirements for monitoring community-based nutrition programs for the elderly.
Appropriates $12 million from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for development of inactive or former municipal reservoirs into public parks.
Authorizes municipalities to prohibit transfer of tax exemptions with sale of property without prior municipal approval in accordance with standards adopted by ordinance.
Requires applicant to submit proof that former railroad property has been properly abandoned.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system. *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Authorizes redevelopment agreements for reimbursement of remediation costs for projects that have already begun.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 51
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Bars legislators, Governor and department heads from lobbying activities for one year after leaving office or employment.
Requires ELEC to conduct random audits of records kept by legislative agents.
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commercially available; provides for State funding for paper record. *
Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason; requires increased identification when requesting and returning absentee ballots; authorizes automatic transmission of absentee ballot application for general election. **
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Requires N.J. Firemen's Association to pay death benefits to members employed as law enforcement officers who die in terrorist attack.
Concerns hours of service of commercial motor vehicles operating in intrastate commerce. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. *
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status. *
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits delivery of unsolicited credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use of unsolicited credit cards or checks.*
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards. *
Prohibits display of students' social security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Provides for State and county coordination of emergency response programs. *
Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000. *
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
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. *
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Requires DLPS to establish policy for State Police and local law enforcement in working with Safe Return Program to recover lost individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders. *
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible. *
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Access Study Commission."
Establishes post-polio sequelae public awareness campaign.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Allocates certain previously appropriated, unexpended funds for remediating underground storage tanks and discharges therefrom to the support of brownfields development and to establish an underground storage tank inspection program. *
Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the "State College Contracts Law" and makes other changes to that law.
Expands identity theft statutes to include selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting false birth certificates.
Provides Standard for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000. **
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Requires photo ID verification of pilots renting aircraft.
Decouples corporation business tax and gross income tax from changes in federal depreciation and certain expensing; provides incentives for business relocation and retention. *
Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing costs associated therewith; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on sch
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues. *
Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing-intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and certain counties. *
Exempts dentists from requirement that needles and sharp devices used in health care facilities have integrated safety features.
Makes various technical corrections and modifications to the "Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act," P.L.2003, c.210.
Permits NJ Transit authority to acquire and operate passenger ferries and ferry operations and to construct ferry capital facilities.
Expands State tuition aid grant eligibility to include dependent child whose parent or guardian has been transferred to a military installation in this State. *
Increases term of office of mayor and council in towns to four years.
Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday. *
Authorizes counties to increase the number of appointed board members on county vocational school district boards of education.
Extends statute of limitations for State civil actions for natural resource damage compensation.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million to Treasury for energy assistance programs. *
Passed the General Assembly · 31
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstance.
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
"Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Error Prevention Act." *
Requires certain notices when public agencies take possession of abandoned vehicle.
Provides immunity from civil liability for school personnel and school bus contractor employees who use reasonable force or restraint to stop fights on school property or to defend themselves against a student assault. **
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition to students who are parents, spouses or children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Awards work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program. *
Incorporates federal standards governing sale and transfer of firearms to aliens and non-residents. *
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action (a "SLAPP" suit) arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech. *
Requires private and public employers to provide unpaid leaves of absence or reassignment of hours for National Guard members and Reservists engaged in training.
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires insurers to cover treatment for sickle cell anemia; requires DHSS to prepare and distribute informational booklet about sickle cell anemia; appropriates $95,000. *
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
Establishes Inmate Vocational Training Study Commission.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Concerns penalties for passing a school bus.
Expands eligibility for special automobile insurance policies.
Makes temporary insurance and temporary domestic security local cap exceptions permanent; exempts pre-July 7, 2004 contract obligations from current, lower cap. ***
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to DHSS for grant for Hemophilia Services.
Requires interactive computer service to remove images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act from computer server or other storage device controlled or owned by the interactive computer service.
Establishes innovation zone program to stimulate technology industry clusters around New Jersey's research universities, colleges or research hospitals. *
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehilce and traffic laws. *
Provides liability protection to municipalities under Spill Compensation and Control Act under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 84
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Requires DHSS to use PAAD application information to enroll ineligible beneficiaries into Senior Gold. *
Requires nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Establishes special environmental prosecutor. *
Raises minimum age for sale and purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 19. *
Requires DEP to classify certain reservoirs and reservoir feeder streams as category one waters. *
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Establishes eligibility of property owned by 100% disabled veteran with domestic partner for veterans' property tax exemption; broadens criteria for eligibility for property tax exemption for surviving spouses and domestic partners of certain veterans. *
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of members of active and reserve components of U.S. Armed Forces, and of National Guard members on State active duty, from taxable gross income. *
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Authorizes designation of joint urban enterprise zone by Urban Enterprize Zone Authority.
Creates offense of animal incapacitation and increases and revises certain animal cruelty penalties. *
Requires dogs licensed out of state that are brought into NJ to be licensed in NJ within 60 days, and raises penalties for violations of law requiring licensing of dogs and of kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain health care providers with fee schedules. *
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Directs Attorney General to include information on criminal street gang activities in annual "Uniform Crime Report."
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations prohibiting overcowding of animals in kennels, pet shops and other retail establishments; establishes penalties.
Authorizes the State, with prior approval by the State House Commission, to use eminent domain power to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes provided lands are protective of drinking water sources.
Increases membership of county boards of taxation.*
"New Jersey Clean Water, Drought Mitigation and Water Resource Trust Fund Act." *
Revises "New Jersey Money Transmitters Act"; provides consumer protections; increases reporting and record keeping requirements.
Adds two members to Public Health Council.
Provides that label of bottled water contain date on which water was bottled.
The "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act"; creates Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council; and dedicates a portion of realty transfer fee revenue annually for certain State aid purposes in Highlands Region and the pinelands area. **
Prohibits students in interscholastic athletics from using certain substances; permits boards of education to offer instruction on the dangers of performance-enhancing substances.
Requires posting of notices regarding installation of child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Concerns risk based capital requirements for health maintenance organizations.
Deters State unemployment tax avoidance by penalizing knowing avoidance of unemployment tax payment. *
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Increases host community benefit for municipalities wherein solid waste transfer stations are located from fifty cents to one dollar per ton of solid waste processed at such facilities.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Requires State to provide matching funds for certain federal grants to benefit wildlife and wildlife habitat, and appropriates $381,715 therefor for current year.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
"Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act." *
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Requires State to contract with pharmaceutical companies to purchase influenza vaccine for high-risk persons and their care providers.
Permits federally qualified health centers to be reimbursed for off-site services. *
"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.
Provides for extension of health benefits coverage for certain part-time students.
Establishes Office of the Inspector General. *
Concerns rental assistance grants and employment and training services and makes an appropriation. *
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
"Family Health Care Coverage Act"; reestablishes NJ FamilyCare Program, expands eligibility for Medicaid program for parents and adults without dependent children and provides for pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates for GA program. *
"New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act"; prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces.
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act. " *
Permits municipal governing body to waive building restrictions on sale of certain lands.
Requires and permits preference in awarding certain contracts in order to satisfy certain urban revitalization goals.
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
"New Jersey Advance Directives for Mental Health Care Act."
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Regulates certain rental-purchase agreements.
Includes screening for toxoplasmosis in newborn screening program.
Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons. **
Changes reimbursement structure for various transportation services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
Authorizes State Medical Examiner to participate in research concerning sudden death in infancy and early childhood.
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and criminalizes possession of anhydrous ammonia under certain circumstances. *
The "New Jersey Homeowners Equity Protection Act." *
Establishes additional requirements for licensed debt adjusters; increases penalties for licensing law violations.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts which are bordered by at least three Abbott districts.
Appropriates $150,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $26,743,525 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $65,822,075 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
Appropriates $25,389,500 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.
Reforms State's workforce investment system, establishes Center for Occupational Employment Information.
Establishes Internet gambling public awareness campaign.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Allocates certain previously appropriated funds for support of diesel air pollution control program and for administrative costs of underground storage tank program.
Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistant Authority. *
In committee · 116
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires school principals report student offenses to law enforcement agencies.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Reduces sales tax rate on certain sales and admission charges at places of amusement in urban enterprise zone areas and provides that sales tax revenue be for municipal purposes.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Prohibits certain provisions in employment contracts.
Prohibits penalizing pharmacist for dispensing fraudulent prescription approved by Medicaid, PAAD or Senior Gold.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Includes transportation costs in the calculation of extraordinary special education costs incurred by public school districts.
Protects privacy of an individual's financial information by prohibiting disclosure without the prior informed, affirmative consent of the consumer.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Authorizes taxicab regulation in certain municipalites.
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Requires mandatory incarceration for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Permits police vehicles to use Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway without payment of tolls.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Requires certain small municipalities to share services of certain licensed municipal professionals.
Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires drug testing of foster parents and DYFS caseworkers.
Establishes regional lead treatment centers in the State.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Provides penalties for leaving individual with disability unattended in a motor vehicle.
Prohibits awarding of certain municipal professional services contracts to members of the Legislature.
Authorizes local option tax on seller of billboard advertising space.
Establishes new Department of Veterans' Affairs.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Act."
Upgrades penalties for eluding police officer if stolen vehicle involved.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Requires insurance coverage for magnetic resonance imaging for women at high risk for breast cancer.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Limits county committees and chairs thereof from controlling placement of party members on primary ballot and use of party designation.
Requires health insurers to cover well baby visits during the first two years of life.
Requires Commissioner of Education to designate a day in April on which 12th grade students will be provided a class on the importance of voter participation.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Authorizes transfer of title at any point during the term of a local unit lease purchase agreement or contract.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Allow voters considered members of one political party to change affiliation to another political party at primary election.
Concerns contents of zoning ordinances.
Requires bicycle helmets, reflectors and lights for certain individuals.
Directs NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct environmental impact study and traffic management and impact study on any proposal to redevelop meadowlands arena site.
Authorizes governing body to appoint two additional commissioners to parking authority; requires authorized governing body approval for any service rate or charge.
Requires public hearing by Commissioner of Transportation regarding certain highway construction projects.
Prohibits writing of online prescriptions for persons who have not been examined by prescriber.
Permits motor bus owners to "opt out" of no-fault medical expense benefits coverage for injured passengers.
Revises period of driver's license suspension for operating motor vehicle in possession of CDS.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Authorizes special "We Support the Arts" license plates with proceeds to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Provides tenure to municipal court judges under certain circumstances.
Establishes NJ-COBRA and provides for continuation of coverage in small employer and larger group health plans for unlimited period of time to qualified persons.
Authorizes free State park and forest admission for veterans.
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include unsupervised door-to-door sales by students.
Reduces fire hydrant no parking zones from 10 to 5 feet.
Requires licensed towing company to notify local police, owner and lienholders after towing unattended vehicle.
Prohibits use of Social Security numbers for identification purposes except for internal verification.
Requires Secretary of State maintain website listing State agency public hearings and meetings.
Prohibits certain trucks from being driven in left-hand lane of highways with two lanes for travel in one direction.
Requires Public Guardian for Elderly Adults to serve as guardian for elderly person adjudicated incompetent in cases where the person's spouse or heirs do not assume the guardianship.
Provides that auto repair facility must provide written warranty to consumers for repairs.
Directs BPU to require commercial mobile radio service providers to report on fraudulent activities.
Requires Attorney General to revise guidelines regarding police pursuits.
Establishes "Industrial Facilities Security and Preparedness Study Commission"; appropriates $25,000.
Permits public employers to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of PFRS members.
Allows law enforcement officers in PERS to transfer to and enroll in PFRS; requires all law enforcement officers to be enrolled in PFRS.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer recognizing income, gain or loss pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation to deduct its net operating loss carryovers notwithstanding the limitations on such deductions during the 2002-2005 tax years.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Adds option of receipt of employee's contributions plus portion of employer contributions when vested PERS member leaves PERS-covered service.
"Light Rail Transportation Enterprise Zone Act," encourages light rail construction through certain municipalities.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Provides for temporary voluntary deduction from compensation of State employees for donation to American Red Cross for disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
Prohibits price gouging during a declared state of emergency.
Requires after-market mufflers to be certified to operate at certain noise level; DEP to establish standards.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.
"Social Services Student Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
Requires the State to provide State aid for public school adult high school programs.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
"Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act."
Requires disclosure to subscribers of certain cable television costs.
Reduces gross receipts tax assessment on certain ambulatory care facilities.
"Independence, Dignity and Choice in Long-Term Care Act"; reallocates State long-term care expenditures.
Provides for issuance of a uniform identification card for all law enforcement officers.
Requires the expungement of certain moving violations after three years.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Reduces years of law enforcement experience required for certain law enforcement officers to establish right to carry a firearm.
"Jessica Lunsford Act;" concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them; requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones.
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Permits each municipality to set amount of dog license fee.
Creates "New Jersey Catastrophic Health Care Claims Reinsurance Program."
Requires managed care companies to pay health care claims based on assignment of benefits and disclosed fee schedules; requires coverage under certain conditions; authorizes civil actions against violators.
Prohibits the sale and distribution of marijuana-flavored candy to persons under 18 years of age.
Applies serious life impact test to limitation on lawsuit threshold retroactively.
Makes residential underground storage tanks eligible for grants and loans for closure and replacement.
Allows gross income tax credit for unreimbursed hearing aid expenses.
Establishes health care quality improvement fund grant program for hospitals funded from tax rate increase on small cigars and appropriates $1 million.
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.
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Authorizes DHSS to reallocate flu vaccine to high-risk persons.