Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Alfred E. Steele Rev.
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly3
Permits promotion without promotional examination of municipal police officer with three awards.
Establishes "Technology Procurement Study Commission."
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehilce and traffic laws. *
Out of committee10
Provides for a seven year time period for expungement of certain records.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits; increases members' contribution rate.
Permits State, counties, municipalities and boards of education to establish special pay plans under sections 401(a) and 403(b) of federal Internal Revenue Code.
Creates Weights and Measures Officers Part in PERS with certain enhanced benefits.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Allows Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to open administrative supervision proceedings to guaranty associations under certain circumstances.
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Concerns certain leaves of absence for persons in career service of political subdivision.
Permits law enforcement officers, including county sheriff and corrections officers, to participate in intergovernmental transfer program; permits waive of accumulated sick leave and seniority privileges by such officers.
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
In committee18
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Appropriates $13.3 million from budgeted appropriations under State Partnership Agreement Program for grant to Passaic County Utilities Authority to pay costs of canceled solid waste facility project.
Permits certain senior citizens to receive absentee ballots under certain circumstances.
Permits certain qualified nonprofit organizations to participate in State purchasing contracts.
Permits person registering to vote to declare political affiliation on voter registration form.
The Election Petition Consistency Act.
Requires drug testing for State and county corrections and detention officers.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 19 members.
"New Jersey Abortion Statistical Data Law."
Increases fairness for bidding on certain public contracts requiring proprietary goods, services, materials, or supplies.
Directs DMV to reopen Paterson motor vehicle agency.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits.
Requires laws for police service benefits and fire service benefits to be the same.
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Permits certain sheriff's officers to enforce truck weight and size restrictions.
Establishes that "45-day" rule applies to county corrections officers and sheriff's officers.
Conforms voter identification procedures to requirements of Statewide voter registration system; permits use of provisional ballots for voters who move to different counties; revises certain penalty provisions.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Increases voting and voter penalties.
Prohibits surrender charges for individual deferred annuities under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Requires ownership label or notice on ATMs.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Authorizes certain county pension funds to provide pension enhancement for future retirees. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Appropriates $70,651,800 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members and to revise the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Educ
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
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. *
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Provides for plaque in State House to honor Hutchins F. Inge, first African-American State Senator.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; permits establishment of sterile syringe paccess programs, appropriates $10,000,000. *
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Requires State Treasurer to order any State agency with power to issue contract bonds to conduct an independent due diligence evaluation prior to issuance of those bonds.
Out of committee · 25
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Authorizes appointment of unpaid deputy sheriffs in all counties. *
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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. *
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that TPAF and PERS veterans' retirement with 35 years of service shall be based on highest benefit year rather than last year of service.*
Creates study commission on the death penalty.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Expands public membership on Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; makes various other changes concerning ethics. *
Conforms voter identification procedures to requirements of Statewide voter registration system; permits use of provisional ballots for voters who move to different counties; revises certain penalty provisions. *
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Provides title of person who serves as Acting Governor for continuous period of at least 180 days will be "Governor of the State of New Jersey" for official and historical purposes.
In committee · 57
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
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.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Provides that employees no longer must pay full cost of purchase of PERS, PFRS or TPAF credit for military service.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Eliminates exception allowing suppliers to discriminate in tank wagon price of branded motor fuel to meet competition.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Revises lifeguard pension benefits.
Permits certain sheriff officers to enforce weight limits on certain trucks.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Creates a Land Use Court.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Revises certain endorsements to the instructional certificate, requires certified teachers in licensed child care centers located in Early Childhood Program Aid districts, and establishes a loan program to assist in the attainment of certification.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Makes certain surviving spouses eligible for PFRS mortgage loan program.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Requires children riding tricycles to wear helmets.
Appropriates $3.25 million for Great Falls development.
Requires health insurers, Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for comprehensive program of pediatric feeding and swallowing services.
Requires school districts to fund certain child development assessments on resident children.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Creates Division of Probation in DOC; transfers all probation functions and employees to DOC.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Increases the EDA bonding limit for the State share of school facilities projects.
Provides for temporary voluntary deduction from compensation of State employees for donation to American Red Cross for disaster relief in Southeast Asia.
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.