Bills in the 2006–2007 Session, General Assembly.
Alfred E. Steele Rev.
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes that "45-day" rule applies to corrections officers, sheriff's officers, New Jersey Transit police officers and paid firefighters. ***
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.
Passed the General Assembly1
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.
Out of committee2
Revises qualifications and specifies appointment titles of county corrections officers.
Requires training for constables.
In committee17
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 person registering to vote to declare political affiliation on voter registration form.
Provides for a seven year time period for expungement of certain records.
Directs DMV to reopen Paterson motor vehicle agency.
Requires laws for police service benefits and fire service benefits to be the same.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Allows certain members of PFRS to serve until age 70 upon approval by municipal governing body.
Clarifies police powers of certain sheriff's officers to enforce motor vehilce and traffic laws.
Concerns certain leaves of absence for persons in career service of political subdivision.
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
Permits certain Sheriff's officers to enforce truck weight and size restrictions.
Supplemental appropriation of $7.7 million to DHSS for a grant to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center for facility improvements.
Establishes privilege for certain communications between public safety employees and their peer counselors and union representatives.
Establishes the "Equal Benefits Act of 2007."
Requires Police Training Commission to develop accelerated training course for certain corrections officers.
Revises procedures for suspension or revocation of licenses for overdue child support.
Requires Commissioner of Education to remit State aid penalty for school districts that close school year with less than 180 school days completed if closure is result of unfavorable building conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Directs State Police to establish standards for handling missing persons cases involving persons with Alzheimer's disease and juveniles.
Establishes Joint Committee on Housing Affordability.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Permits certain for-profit entities to manage or operate cemeteries.
Authorizes trained and qualified county corrections to carry a firearm at all times in New Jersey.
Requires DHSS to maintain registry of reported autism diagnoses; appropriates $500,000. *
Revises statutes governing compensation for victims of crime.
Provides that certain industrial use chemicals are not controlled dangerous substances.
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. *
The "Global Warming Response Act."
Makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees because of religious practices.
Mandates alternate testing dates because of days of religious observance for certain applicants seeking licensure.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed heath care facilities.
Exempts from payment for seven years certain taxes and energy charges for certain manufacturing facilities.
Concerns Early Intervention Program services for children with autism.
Extends funding for autism medical research and treatment.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Appropriates $11 million from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
The "Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007"; authorizes issuance of $200 million in bonds; appropriates $5,000.
Vetoed · 1
Repeals cosmetic medical procedure gross receipts tax.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Creates limited licenses for general barbering and for barbering and hairstyling within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Requires that any United States or State of New Jersey flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.
Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance.
Provides that a nursing home resident has a right to receive food that meets the resident's religious dietary requirements.
Out of committee · 18
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.
Provides for DCA to set maximum loan amounts to volunteer emergency service organizations to purchase vehicles and equipment.
Authorizes grants to New Jersey Transit Police Department to purchase body vests.
"Bloodborne Disease Harm Reduction Act"; establishes demonstration program to permit operation of sterile syringe access programs; appropriates $10 million. *
Requires appointing authority to perform criminal history record background check on applicant or employee for employment, appointment, retention or promotion in a position designated with a domestic security classification.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
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.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Criminalizes possession or use of electronic communications devices in certain correctional facilities. *
Establishes the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program.
Provides that if an annual appropriation act is not enacted at the beginning of a State fiscal year casino gambling operations shall continue and all State employees shall be deemed essential. *
Requires Attorney General to defend certain local law enforcement officers.
"Patricia's Law;" model Missing Persons Legislation.
Allows authorized representative of deceased or incapacitated dentist to contract with another dentist to continue practice for one year.
Directs Legislative Services Commission to provide for a comprehensive Statewide costing-out study to determine per pupil costs required to provide a thorough and efficient education.
Requires hospitals to report certain information concerning infection rates to DHSS and requires DHSS to make information public.
Expands program eligibility and enhances benefit amount under the New Jersey earned income tax credit program.
In committee · 56
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.
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 Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Allows a gross income tax credit for textbook purchases by full-time undergraduate students at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; requires ethics training for State employees; increases penalties for ethics violations.
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.
Extends payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without eligibility for parole in certain circumstances.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing."
Permits certain sheriffs to enforce truck weight limits.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
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.
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.
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Establishes the offense of incest.
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.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
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.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Creates Weights and Measures Officers Part in PERS with certain enhanced benefits.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
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.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Makes possession or use of cellular telephone or accessories by person confined to State correctional facility second degree crime.
Permits certain qualified nonprofit organizations to participate in State purchasing contracts.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, provides adjustment for utility costs and an appeal on administrative cost limits, and authorizes 3%
Expands DNA database to include samples from disorderly persons and certain violent arrestees.
Provides that unused State real property will be offered for sale after three years.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Provides for religious accommodation regarding donations of anatomical gifts.
Exempts membership fees, initiation fees, or dues for access to health and fitness, athletic, or sporting clubs of certain charitable organizations from sales and use tax.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for recipients of Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income who are veterans or their spouses and provides for annual cost-of-living increase in allowance.
Removes limousine services from sales and use tax imposition.
Establishes a permanent Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires school districts to inform the parent or guardian of a student recommended to use certain medications of the possible side effects and potential negative consequences of those medications.
Authorizes probation officers to exercise police powers.
Permits retired law enforcement officers to join the New Jersey Detective Association.
Prohibits access to police vehicle global positioning system.
Prohibits members or affiliates of criminal street gangs from being appointed corrections officers.