Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, Senate.
Joseph Coniglio
Sponsored
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Increases monetary penalties for violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
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. *
Requires DOT to ban right turn on red at unsafe intersections, erect signs at crosswalks and considers pedestrian safety when distributing discretionary aid.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
Adds requirement under "Uniform Fire Safety Act" for one and two family residences to be equipped with a portable fire extinguisher to be enforced upon a change of occupancy.*
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
Appropriates $50,000 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for Felician College.
Establishes additional requirements for licensed debt adjusters; increases penalties for licensing law violations.
Deters unemployment tax avoidance. *
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" to finance the costs of State flood control projects.
Concerns temporary disability benefit offsets.
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.
Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
Passed the Senate3
Establishes criminal and civil penalties for transmission of certain commercial electronic mail messages. *
Requires vendors collecting New Jersey sales tax for locations in New Jersey to record and report on their returns the amount of sales tax collected within each municipality in New Jersey.
Requires certain health care professionals to establish and notify patients of procedure to obtain records when ceasing practice.
Out of committee11
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Appropriates $2 million to the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC); imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Makes various changes to the Garden State Preservation Trust Act.
Requires restaurants to post sign stating whether they use nut products in preparation of food and establishes public information campaign in DHSS about food alergies; appropriates $90,000. *
Expands the definition of access device to include ATM bank cards.
Establishes New Jersey Health Care Worker Pension Policy Commission.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
Requires carriers that cover behavioral health care services to disclose certain information to their insureds.
Increases penalties for failing to yield at crosswalks by $50; dedicates extra money to DLPS pedestrian safety program.
Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
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Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Requires DEP to increase number of radiation protection inspectors and enter agreements with the federal government to regulate sources of radiation statewide.
Requires facilities that generate, store, or handle certain explosives to comply with the provisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act.
Provides benefits for family temporary disability leave.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
Requires warehouses to report under Worker and Community Right to Know Act; establishes placarding requirement.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 18 years of age and younger.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Establishes the Teaching Fellows Program and appropriates $155,000.
Excludes from taxation income from certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Provides for issuance of a uniform identification card for all law enforcement officers.
Upgrades aggravated arson to first degree crime and arson to second degree crime.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
"Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2002."
Appropriates certain additional federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Extends State veterans' benefits eligibility to those New Jerseyans who served on active duty missions related to the war on terror since September 11, 2001.
Includes certain payments by cigarette manufacturers in the price received for cigarettes by wholesalers and retailers.
Requires State contractors to provide employment information.
Requires prior approval of subcontracts awarded under State or State authority contracts.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Requires financial services firms to adopt certain practices to protect against the occurrence of conflict of interest in work they perform for Division of Investment or State Investment Council.
Requires proof of the designation of registered agents and registered offices for service of process as part of the business registrations of State government contractors and subcontractors.
Establishes mandatory Voting Accessibility Advisory Committees.
Provides immunity to counties and municipalities for community service performed by certain juveniles; provides immunity to certain non-profit organizations for community service performed by adults and certain juveniles.
Prohibits sending unsolicited advertising by text messaging.
Increases salaries of workers' compensation judges.
Establishes 30-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service.
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Establishes Toxic Mold Commission; requires mold inspection as condition of sale of residential property.
Revises the calculation of school district budget caps, eliminates the restrictions on the submission of separate proposal for additional spending, and requires a performance audit upon the submission of such proposals.
Requires notices of pending commercial driver's license suspensions be given by certified mail.
Equalizes campaign contribution cycle for Senate and General Assembly candidates.
Requires notary commission applicants to take course and pass written examination.
Requires provision in workers' compensation awards compelling school boards to pay additional salary and restore sick leave for certain injured employees.
Requires reexamination of county master plan at least every 10 years.
Regulates expiration dates and dormancy fees for gift certificates and cards.
Requires certain information regarding special education students to be reported annually to the Legislature.
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%
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Creates Meadowlands Economic Development Trust; provides for sharing of tax revenues generated by developments of regional economic significance to improve local quality of life.
Permits students in grades nine through 12 to self-administer medication for life-threatening allergic reations.
Supplemental appropriation to DOT of $14,800,000 as State contribution toward improvements of certain portions of Route 17.
Eliminates the petroleum products gross receipts tax exemption for petroleum products sold for exportation from this State for sale or use outside this State; appropriates increased revenues to transportation trust fund.
Requires retail food establishments to have staff person certified in DHSS-approved food safety training course.
Co-sponsored
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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 the Highlands Region and the pinelands area. *
Ends automatic adjustment of campaign contribution limits for committees; adjusts limits for candidate committees.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Requires all services under State contracts or subcontracts be performed within US. *
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operations Northern and Southern Watch.
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Clarifies certain exception from publication on sex offender Internet registry.
Streamlines certain permitting in smart growth areas. *
Revises pilotage laws.
Promotes improved polling place accessibility for individuals with disabilities and the elderly. *
Establishes New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC), a new State monitoring system for public school districts.
Establishes in the DOE a three-year community service pilot program for juniors in high school beginning in the 2005-2006 school year. *
Establishes transportation planning district for Meadowlands District and permits fees to be assessed for transportation purposes. **
Increases the minimum wage; creates New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission. *
Makes various changes to State contracting process; imposes certain disclosure on State officers and employees involved in contracting. *
Appropriates $1 million in Federal funds for the Garden State Ethanol Project.
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
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
Passed the Senate · 2
Implements the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003."
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Out of committee · 41
Prohibits legislative agents from accepting contingency fees to influence legislation or regulation.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Concerns "card-check" method of union recognition. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. *
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. **
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Extends prevailing wage requirements to projects of county improvement authorities, the CRDA, the Educational Facilities Financing Authority, and the Health Care Facilities Financing Authority. *
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Concerns certain workers' compensation survivor benefits and certain supplemental benefits.
Appropriates $300,000 to DHS for grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Establishes program for removal of mercury switches from end-of-life vehicles. *
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Eliminates various mandates imposed on public school districts.
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
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
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. *
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Authorizes imposition of additional fines for overcrowding.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to Division of State Police for additional police recruit class and communication system upgrades.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of donations received by the State for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial at Liberty State Park.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Provides that gift certificates and cards are redeemable at full face value in perpetuity.
Provides for appointment of a BPU Business Ombudsman to assist businesses with energy issues.
Concerns unemployment benefits for temporary help service firm employees.
Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing- intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones.
Authorizes deer hunting with bow and arrow on Sundays.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship Fund.
Concerns contributions to special funds made through the gross income tax return.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS for Office on Women's Health.
Makes the unlawful use or possession of a scanning device or reencoder a crime.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to the DEP from the "Wastewater Treatment Bond Act of 1985" for grants to or on behalf of local government units for wastewater treatment system projects.
Increases penalty amounts to $1,500 and $3,000 for violations of certain laws regulating retail sale of motor fuel.
Makes FY2006 supplemental General Fund appropriations of $4 million to DHS for home heating assistance and $9 million for energy assistance programs. *
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Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Allows municipalities to double fines for moving motor vehicle violations in school zones.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Makes permanent that UI benefit weeks equal base weeks up to 26 weeks.
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."
Requires motorists to stop for pedestrians in or waiting to enter crosswalks.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Provides that legislators will not receive PERS credit for other simultaneous PERS-covered employment.
Clarifies definition of "personal identifying information."
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Requires ATM facilities to be equipped with access to emergency telephone service.
Requires insurers to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances and requires physicians to provide certain treatment information to patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
Requires Attorney General oversight of nonprofit hospital closures.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons who are mentally ill or gravely disabled and provides for involuntary inpatient commitment for certain persons who are gravely disabled.
Creates State Board of Examiners for Fire Sprinkler Fitters and establishes new qualifications for persons installing fire sprinkler systems.
Reestablishes "Parents' Education Program" as "Children First Education Program;" requires parties involved in custody and parenting time proceedings to attend program.
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."
Authorizes new powers and contractual agreements to be entered into by New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Concerns civil actions for recovery of unpaid minimum wages and overtime compensation.
Requires DEP to prepare and adopt a plan to tax dormant cargo containers that remain empty or unused for 90 days or more.
Establishes Community Living Independently Program; appropriates $1.8 million.
Prohibits public school districts from joining under certain circumstances voluntary associations which oversee Statewide interscholastic sports programs.
Permits certain intergovernmental transfer employees the option to waive accumulated sick leave.
Provides immunity from liability for persons who install or inspect child restraint systems.
Requires State budget to include funds for annual cost-of-living adjustment to certain contracted providers of services.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Meadowlands Conservation Trust.
Requires responsible business practices by large employers regarding wages and benefits.
Provides additional mandatory fines and restitution for theft of flags or flag-holders from grave sites.
Creates Highlands Conservation Trust to preserve land in Highlands Region, and authorizes Highlands conservation license plate to raise revenue therefor.
"Rail Special Transportation District Act."
Clarifies law concerning the emergency administration of epinephrine to students for anaphylaxis, increases number of delegates trained to administer epinephrine, and requires plan to reduce student exposure to allergens.
Establishes the Commercial and Technology Part in the Superior Court.
Directs Commissioner of DHS to prepare annual Access to Employer-Based Health Insurance for NJ FamilyCare Enrollees report.