Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Kirk W. Conover
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Adds member to Casino Revenue Fund Advisory Commission.
In committee13
Extends textbook sharing program to include all school equipment.
Allows gross income tax deduction for purchase of residential fire safety equipment.
Provides certain protections to persons who purchase or lease motorized recreational conveyances.
Directs State Athletic Control Board to provide for a medical insurance plan for certain professional boxers and to promote professional boxing.
Creates the offense of fetal homicide.
Requires school bus drivers to wear and visibly display photo identification.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for compulsive gambling treatment and education.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of Core Curriculum Content Standards; allows lottery funds to be expended for compulsive gambling education; appropriates $500,000.
Increases funding for compulsive gambling prevention, education, and treatment programs.
Requires DMVA to send Servicemembers' Advisory Notice to members of National Guard called to active duty.
Criminalizes purchase or possession of firearms ammunition by persons convicted of certain crimes.
Establishes fund to reimburse medical expenses of professional boxers; increases boxing ticket receipts tax.
"Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Authorizes State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsement and endorsement for industrial arts. *
Permits a school district to use certain funds to establish a scholarship foundation.
Supplemental appropriation of $3.6 million in State and federal funds to expand the Traumatic Brain Injury waiver.
Increases terms of various casino industry licenses and revises procedure for testing and approval of slot machines.
Transfers administration of certain casino taxes to Casino Control Commission; provides for phased elimination of casino complimentaries tax. *
Extends certain casino tax obligation to 50 years; gives CRDA general bonding authority; authorizes CRDA to bond for certain purposes; extends incentive program and adds five districts under CRDA Urban Revitalization Act; expands CRDA board. *
Appropriates $52,432,378 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Concerns regulation of certain agreements between casino and casino service industry licensees.
Revises eligibility criteria for two CRDA-administered programs: Atlantic City Expansion Fund and Urban Revitalization Act.
Distinguishes campgrounds from private residential leasehold communities.
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
The "Health Insurance Affordability and Accessibility Reform Act."
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts. *
Out of committee · 20
Establishes criminal and civil penalties for transmission of certain commercial electronic mail messages. *
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Requires DHSS to use PAAD application information to enroll ineligible beneficiaries into Senior Gold. *
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Revises pilotage laws.
Directs Attorney General to include information on criminal street gang activities in annual "Uniform Crime Report."
Prohibits imposition of the corporation business tax on certain foreign corporations that only carry passengers into and out of the State in a motor vehicle or motorbus.
Prohibits students in interscholastic athletics from using certain substances; permits boards of education to offer instruction on the dangers of performance-enhancing substances.
Requires municipalities appointing certain Class Two special officers to reimburse their former municipal employers for training costs.
Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Appropriates moneys from the "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003" for loans for dams restoration and repair projects and to finance the costs of State dam restoration and repair projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,998,581 to DHSS for AIDS Drug Distribution Program and other AIDS services.
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.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $13,845,980 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 southern NJ.
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
In committee · 53
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes Intercoastal Waterway and Back Bay Dredging Fund; dedicates $2,000,000 of motor fuels tax to the fund; and prohibits collection of realty transfer fees if that amount is not appropriated to the fund.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the New Jersey Higher Education Internship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Establishes Violence Free School Zones for public elementary and secondary schools.
Designates Atlantic City and Pleasantville, Atlantic County, as areas eligible for redemption of pinelands development credits.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Concerns pre-suit procedures and liability in medical malpractice actions.
Creates special education license plate.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders; appropriates $1.8 million.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Exempts veterans' discharge certificate from State's open public records law.
Revises provisions of the consumer fraud act.
"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.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against municipalities and boards of education, and against employees of municipalities and boards of education acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Establishes "Medicare Rx Savings Fund" and specifies use of savings to State from Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Requires State Treasurer to post information about State contracts for $17,500 or more on special website.
Makes position of treasurer of school moneys optional.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain infant formulas.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Establishes "Governor's Advisory Council on Home and Community-Based Care."
Provides for payments in lieu of property taxes for certain municipalities in the Pinelands area.
Requires funding of casino regulation during period when annual appropriations act is not in effect.
Establishes designated driver license plates.
Creates Division of Probation in DOC; transfers all probation functions and employees to DOC.
Appropriates $300 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to make the June 22, 2005 State aid payment.
Provides additional State school aid to certain school districts with significant enrollment growth.
Prohibits Pinelands Commission from imposing fees for commercial development applications.
Regulates the level of State debt service payments on bonds issued by the State or State entities and prohibits the use of bond proceeds to pay interest on bonds.
Clarifies requirement that new employers reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs applies to provisional appointments.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Requires dissemination of organ and tissue donation by State Treasurer, Personnel Commissioner, State contractors, and preparers of advanced health care directives; designates April of each year as Donate Life Month.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Authorizes Commissioner of DHSS to permit out-of-State emergency health care providers to practice in State during public health emergency.
Requires the award of Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program scholarships to home-schooled students and prohibits the denial of a scholarship due to a student's lack of class rank.
Clarifies and expands duties and powers of Office of the Child Advocate and makes child advocate member of certain State child welfare boards.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Broadens eligibility for various veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specific dates or specific locations.
Exempts manufacturers of marine equipment from air toxics surcharge.
Includes electronic communication in definition of public school "harassment, intimidation or bullying."
Expands eligibility criteria for disabled veteran's property tax exemption.
Upgrades crime of soliciting or recruiting for criminal street gang while on school property.
"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.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.
Requires appropriations in the nature of grants-in-aid to include certain criteria in the act in which they are enacted.
Establishes special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.