Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Mary T. Previte
Sponsored
Became law3
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Requires public school districts to apply all attendance and courses studied at county juvenile detention centers toward district requirements for graduation.
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Passed the General Assembly6
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to DYFS when conducting background investigations on certain individuals.
Creates "Task Force to Improve the Treatment of Offenders with Mental Illness."
Permits county improvement authorities to undertake economic development activities.
Requires certain physicians to complete course in recognizing reporting child abuse and neglect.*
Upgrades offense of simple assault to aggravated assault when victim is employee of DHS and clearly engaged in duties conducting investigation.
Out of committee13
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Reestablishes "Parents' Education Program" as "Children First Education Program;" requires parties involved in custody and parenting time proceedings to attend program.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Upgrades the crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances; creates new offense.
Establishes "New Jersey Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000. *
Creates rehabilitative equine program in DOC.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Reduces certain drug free zones from within 1,000 to 200 feet of school or public property.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Creates permanent "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
In committee36
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain charitable contributions.
Provides gross income tax credit for services volunteered to certain charitable and governmental organizations.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Makes changes to the "Comprehensive Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act."
Eliminates statute of limitations on prosecution of certain sexual offenses.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
Requires State to reimburse counties for housing juvenile offenders at rate equal to their actual cost.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at State juvenile facility employee or probation officer aggravated assault.
"Cigarette Fire Safety Act."
Eliminates certain fees charged to adoptive parents in particular cases.
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to adoption agencies conducting home studies of prospective adoptive parents.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Establishes time limits on voluntary applications for out-of-home placement of children under DYFS' care or custody.
Changes in-service training requirement for licensed foster parents.
Increases period of deferral for work activity requirements under the Work First New Jersey program for parent of newborn child from 12 to 24 weeks.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Eliminates mandatory license suspension for nonpayment of insurance surcharge; authorizes payment options.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires training for staff working with persons with developmental disabilities; appropriates $2,104,740.
Concerns basic training requirements and probationary period for juvenile detention officers.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
Directs a study of sentencing reform for nonviolent drug and other low level offenders by UMDNJ.
Increases child care payments for child care centers providing care for children of parents receiving Work First New Jersey assistance.
Establishes New Jersey Parenting Education Network Program; appropriates $80,000.
Limits school district per pupil administrative spending to 130% of the median per pupil administrative spending for districts of the same operating type, enrollment range, and district factor group.
Requires information on school district administrative spending be included in the budget referendum submitted to the voters, posted at budget public hearing, and printed on the sample ballot.
Requires adoptive parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for annual medical examination of adopted child.
Establishes the NJ STARS Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $10 million.
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.
Allows county ordinance or resolution prohibiting appointment of relative as reason to remove certain certified individuals from eligible list.
Allows release of sex offender information to DYFS.
Establishes the authority of the court to order electronic monitoring of certain convicted domestic violence offenders.
Filed1
Requires parole board to consider significant efforts at achieving GED in decreasing parole eligibility date.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Upgrades the crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances; creates new offense.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Prohibits dry cutting and grinding of masonry in certain cases.
Establishes "NJ Express Enrollment for Children's Health Care Coverage" pilot program; appropriates $90,000.
Updates provisions in Titles 9 and 30 of the Revised Statutes to conform with DYFS child welfare reform plan.
Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Establishes "New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project."
Changes minimum amount of campaign contribution which triggers obligation to report that contribution to ELEC to $300; requires reporting of all cash contributions. *
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file quarterly reports with ELEC.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls featuring recorded messages made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site and recommend improvements in format and content.
Prohibits employment or assignment in certain positions of relatives of certain officers of the Executive Branch, of independent authorities or of interstate agencies.
Directs ELEC to collect $100 annual fee from legislative agents; dedicates moneys annually to ELEC. *
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. **
Establishes Property Tax Convention Task Force; appropriates $250,000.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Changes laws governing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates institutional liens for persons treated at State and county psychiatric facilities. **
Provide for Interstate Compact for Juveniles.
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.*
Prohibits display of students' social security numbers by institutions of higher education.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing information to the public. *
May require child support to continue past emancipation if the child has a severe mental or physical incapacity which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent. *
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Revises Medicaid reimbursement of pediatric rehabilitation hospitals.
Concerns County Corrections Information System funding.
Requires insurers and SHBP to cover mammograms for women under 40 under certain circumstances. *
Revises charity care distribution formula.
Creates Health Enterprise Zones in certain municipalities to encourage establishment of certain primary care practices in medically underserved areas.
Establishes domestic violence public awareness campaign.
Revises criteria for new historic sites to obtain historic site property tax exemption. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects, and appropriating $5 million. *
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
Appropriates $8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
Revises 1% fee on transfer of residential property for more than $1 million, exempts certain transfers, and provides for refunds of certain fees paid. **
Revises experience requirements for eligibility to be licensed as a marriage and family therapist.
"The Domestic Violence and Workforce Development Initiative."
Adds representatives of county correctional facilities and county juvenile detention centers to Police Training Commission. *
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Changes title of State park ranger to State park police officer.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
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
Prohibits dispensing contact lenses without proper licensure.
Establishes date of initial employment with board of education as effective date of provisional teaching certificate and provides that novice teacher will be a teaching staff member for all purposes.
The "Identity Theft Prevention Act" *
Passed the General Assembly · 28
Permits elections in municipalities with fewer than 500 residents to be conducted by mail.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Revises New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act.
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. *
Creates crime of fiscal victimization against senior citizens or disabled persons. *
Awards work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program. *
Requires photographic identification cards for certain health care professionals. *
Creates the "Emergency Management Act of 2004."
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Prohibits sale to minors of anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by World Anti-Doping Agency. *
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Requires small employer health insurance carriers to offer coverage for treatment of infertility.
Establishes Inmate Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Allows certain DOC administrators to become members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Requires State to offer surplus State police vehicles to volunteer fire companies.
Establishes Early Launch to Learning Initiative (ELLI) Program providing grants to school districts to increase access to preschool programs and authorizes certain districts to collect tuition for children enrolled in preschool programs.
Provides NJ STARS scholarship to certain students who had been enrolled in a dual enrollment program established by the students's high school and a county college.
Revises school district budget cap adjustment for 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% surplus for 2006-2007
Revises statutes regarding acupuncturists.
Concerns tax preparation services for certain clients.
Creates New Jersey Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2005.
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Authorizes State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation; makes appropriation.
Out of committee · 57
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing State, county and local contracts; prohibits certain contributions by county committee of political party.
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements to lobbying conducted through advertisements and direct mail to general public.
Prohibits solicitation and making of political contributions on State property by certain persons.
Requires certain campaign and organizational treasurers to be trained by ELEC. *
Prohibits member of Legislature from acting on legislation in which member or family member of that member has personal interest.
Requires insurers that provide outpatient prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of prescription female contraceptives. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the parent, spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes NJ STARS Program to provide scholarships for county college students. *
Provides that information about residence of persons licensed by certain professional boards shall not be disclosed to the public.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS. *
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.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Clarifies certain provisions in the "Crime Victim's Bill of Rights."
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to develop a public health emergency response plan. *
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for students who are called to active duty for certain military operations. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorcycles. *
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.*
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for public awareness campaign concerning "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Revises regulation of security guards.
Requires Medicaid program to pay recipients' Medicare prescription drug copayments.
Provides that non-participating hospitals receive fee-for-service payment from Medicaid for emergency services provided to Medicaid and NJ Family Care recipients.
Provides circumstances when housing nonprofits may join with local units in joint insurance funds.
"Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Provides civil immunity to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists who perform fitness-for-duty evaluations.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $3 million.
Makes changes to "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Assistance Act."
Creates credit card do-not-solicit list for certain persons.
Promotes improved polling place accessibility for individuals with disabilities and the elderly.
"Emergency Health Powers Act."
Prohibits smoking in college and university dormitories.
"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. " *
Creates the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act" to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Changes criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.
Establishes the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund in the NJHMFA to finance special needs housing projects through bond proceeds issued by the NJEDA; designated the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund Act.
Makes various changes to the "Law Against Discrimination"; repeals section 4 of P.L.1985, c.73.
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death.
Appropriates $46.225 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 101
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
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.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes the New Jersey Higher Education Internship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders; appropriates $1.8 million.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Increases motor vehicle property damage reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Authorizes the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish New Jersey Corporate Overseas Network Program.
Establishes an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."
Permits person ineligible for Work First New Jersey benefits because of a drug distribution conviction to receive prescription drug benefits for life-saving or life-sustaining medications.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Allows excuse from jury service on grounds of obligation to care for a minor child under certain circumstances.
Establishes confidential data base to assist State Police in issuance of firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits.
Makes failing to report insurance fraud a crime of third degree.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Supplemental appropriation for $5 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Allows credit against corporation business tax for computer equipment donated to public or nonpublic schools in Abbott and certain other low-income districts.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Removes limitation on amount counties may appropriate in support of performing arts centers.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes 11-member "Internet Voting Study Commission."
Permits registered voter to request and receive absentee ballot for any reason.
Establishes "Children's Protection Services Study Commission."
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates.
Increases pensions for certain PFRS retirees when special retirement benefit for active PFRS members increases to 70%.
Provides for review of State agency regulations by State Planning Commission for their consistency with State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Requires review of certain privatization contracts.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act" as part of core curriculum content standards.
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for instruction by public school districts on child abduction prevention.
Redesigns special prisoner of war license plates.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Provides that impairing another person's means of communication may constitute an act of domestic violence.
Revises school district budget cap adjustments for special education and courtesy busing, makes permanent adjustment for insurance and domestic security, and provides adjustment for utility costs.
Requires executors to post bond and provide periodic accountings to the court where beneficiary is developmentally disabled.
Allows access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs, provides penalties for violation.
Revises the eligibility criteria under the State earned income tax credit to equal the eligibility criteria of the federal earned income tax credit.
Establishes "New Jersey Council on Child Poverty."
Requires all municipal court administrators to be certified and provides for interim municipal court administrator appointments under certain circumstances.
Establishes advocacy pilot program for mentally ill offenders.