Bills in the 2004–2005 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph Azzolina
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to dogs harbored on the insured property. *
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
In committee46
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Establishes the New Jersey Aquaculture Assistance Program.
Permits certain nonprofit organizations to conduct an unlimited number of certain raffles without payment of fees.
Authorizes the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish New Jersey Corporate Overseas Network Program.
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.
Entitles representatives of WACS, WAVES, Women Marines and Vietnam Veterans of America to leave of absence with pay to attend conventions.
Prohibits discrimination in the sale of malt alcoholic beverages by certain breweries to licensed wholesalers in the State.
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."
The "State Multiple Dwelling Inspector Licensing Act."
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
The "Mobile Telephone Act."
Authorizes Casino Control Commission to permit Atlantic City casinos to accept wagers from remote locations on live games conducted in their casinos.
Provides immunity for certain nonprofit health care clinics that provide free services and creates volunteer physican license.
Permits use of hands-free wireless phones in moving vehicles.
Authorizes taxicab regulation in certain municipalites.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain State, county and municipal elective offices and appointive positions.
Requires Attorney General to provide certain information to public on the internet regarding charitable contributions.
Requires consumer reporting agencies to disclose to consumers their credit score under certain circumstances.
Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines pertaining to dogs harbored on property insured under homeowners policies.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Excludes certain dependent care assistance to Armed Forces members from gross income tax.
Requires night or weekend public hearings on proposed administrative rules in addition to hearings held during workday; prohibits public hearings during week of certain holidays.
Requires federal transition funds received by State under Medicare prescription drug program to be used for purposes specified in federal law.
Requires public bidding or competitive contracting for award of professional service contracts and requires certain vendors to fully itemize bills to school districts and local units and prescribes sanctions.
Provides public access to certain information received or possessed by legislators.
Establishes the Division of Government Integrity in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Prohibits certain public officials from employing or advocating for employment of relatives in certain positions.
Prohibits use of downer cow byproduct in commercial feed.
Upgrades crime of kidnapping minor less than 16 years of age and increases applicable term of imprisonment.
Permits appointment of municipal emergency management coordinator from contiguous or adjoining municipality.
Eliminates restrictions on the submission of separate school budget proposals for additional funds and maintains school district surplus at 3% in the 2005-2006 school year and thereafter.
Changes definition of "cemetery company" in the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003."
Revises the calculation of courtesy busing school budget cap adjustment for courtesy busing performed along a hazardous route.
Exempts from local budget cap law expenditures for electronic recording of police interrogations.
Imposes mandatory minimum term of 10 years on defendant convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 13.
Prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Requires Parole Board to establish electronic monitoring system for high risk sex offenders whose victims were children.
Prohibits certain campaign contributions by business entities performing or seeking to perform local board of education contracts.
Authorizes special Stop Domestic Violence license plate with proceeds to the Department of Human Services.
Prohibits certain elected officials and appointed officers from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
Directs State owned or operated marinas to provide a 50% discount on boat launching fees for senior citizens on weekdays.
Makes loitering in brown zones by certain sex offenders a crime of the fourth degree.
Permits corporation with one or two employees who are the only shareholders to opt out of workers' compensation.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Provides for separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February. *
Requires posting of a voter information notice called the voter's bill of rights.
Requires that voting machines produce voter-verified paper record; provides that results of audit become official tally; provides for waiver if paper record not commercially available; provides for State funding for paper record. *
Sets time period for filing application for recount at 15 days following election.
Requires Attorney General and county boards of elections to produce certain elections training materials, and produce and display certain information pertinent to voters.
Requires county boards of elections to prepare reports concerning use of emergency and provisional ballots. *
Permits voter to declare party affiliation on voter registration form. *
Increases voting and voter penalties.
Permits voter registration up to 21 days before election; permits use of provisional ballot for voter registration; modifies information available on voter registration list. *
Requires DHSS to distribute fact sheet on nut allergies and conduct public information campaign about food allergies; appropriates $250,000. ***
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Appropriates $25 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities and counties for farmland preservation purposes.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in foreign companies doing business in Sudan. *
Approves $6,585,306 in grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Expands information which provider of electronic communication or remote computing services must disclose to authorized law enforcement agency.
Concerns availability, deductibles, and certain treatment under high deductible health plans paid through federally qualified health savings accounts.
Passed the General Assembly · 7
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. **
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. *
Exempts members of fraternal benefit societies from insurance producer licensing requirements in certain circumstances.
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
Requires Attorney General to prepare pamphlet for parents on keeping children safe from predators. *
Out of committee · 38
Establishes Election Advisory Commission.
Provides for excused absences for public school students involved in election activities on day of general election under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Polling Place Accessibility Fund"; promotes polling place accessibility for elderly and individuals with disabilities.
Implements provisions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002"; creates Statewide voter registration system.
Requires written security plan when school is polling place and open to students; provides that schools may be used as polling places only under certain circumstances; makes appropriation.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
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. *
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
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.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Encourages State purchase of "Jersey Fresh," "Jersey Grown," and other NJ agricultural products and commodities. *
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. *
Prohibits certain elected officials from receiving dual health benefit coverage.
Establishes "Alan M. Augustine Colorectal Cancer Research Fund"; appropriates $100,000. *
Permits law enforcement personnel to examine account records of E-ZPass customers when theft of a transponder has been reported.
Revises pilotage laws.
Requires services under State contracts to be performed in the United States. *
Allows for a deduction from gross income for certain expenses of providing parental housing in the taxpayer's home.
Directs DEP to acquire certain obsolete vessels to use as artificial reefs; appropriates up to $250,000. *
Increases prosecutors' salary for current year and thereafter.
Requires municipalities appointing certain Class Two special officers to reimburse their former municipal employers for training costs.
Revises statutes governing New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Credits coverage under Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare towards employer's minimum participation rate under NJ Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
Requires an individual under 21 years of age to obtain parental consent before opening a credit card account.
"Christopher's Law;" makes it a crime for unlicensed driver to be involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury. *
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.
"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. *
Makes various changes to State contracting process; imposes certain disclosure on State officers and employees involved in contracting.
Revises membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards; renames commission; makes various other changes concerning ethics. *
Establishes pilot program for satellite-based monitoring of certain sex offenders and authorizes certain sex offenders to submit to annual polygraph; appropriates $3 million. *
Appropriates $16,575,000 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 central 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
Appropriates $31,415,464 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 102
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.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
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.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Permits municipality to retroactively refund veteran's property taxes paid inadvertently.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for applications filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Expands eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal and commemorative Vietnam service medal and ribbon to certain former State residents.
Establishes special motorcycle license plates for veterans.
Appropriates $2,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Establishes loan program to rehabilitate military monuments; appropriates $600,000.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Exempts veterans' discharge certificate from State's open public records law.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain home improvement materials purchases.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Eliminates entitlement to workers' compensation cash benefits during imprisonment.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to the DMVA for the Veterans' Oral History program to record veterans' account of war experiences.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Includes auxiliary police officers in Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Establishes that passenger vehicles other than police vehicles have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program" and appropriates $3,000,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4.4 million to DLPS for purchase and distribution of thermal imaging cameras for local police services.
Concerns basic skills training.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
Exempts sales of returnable plastic containers and pallets from sales and use tax.
Excludes gratuities from calculation of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance premiums for limousine or livery services.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Revises criteria for urban enterprise zone sales tax exemption and disallows exemption for sales of lumber and millwork.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Requires cellular telephone companies to itemize and explain certain charges on customer bills and prohibits them from identifying such charges as taxes.
Establishes special license plates for World War II veterans.
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal or the use of any direct or indirect means to inflict the cruelty.
Prohibits certain relatives of legislators from being employed or assigned in certain positions.
Clarifies that responsibility for investment of assets under management of Division of Investment vests in State Investment Council.
Requires State Treasurer to post information about State contracts for $17,500 or more on special website.
Limits to $5,000 per election amount contributed to and by county committee of a political party.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,800,000 to Judiciary to expand the drug court program Statewide.
Requires health benefits coverage for orthotic and prosthetic appliances and provides reimbursement therefor.
Elevates certain animal cruelty crimes to crime of third degree; increases civil penalties for animal cruelty; establishes registry of violators of animal cruelty laws.
Eliminates the public vote on a school district budget which is within cap.
Authorizes special license plates for undersheriffs and sheriff's officers.
Clarifies powers of public safety directors.
Requires criminal history background check for owners and employees of door to door sales enterprises.
Revises calculation of budget caps and increases allowable surplus for public school districts.
Prohibits investment of certain public funds in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
Appropriates $70,000 in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to reimburse school districts for the costs of establishing programs for the prevention of harassment and bullying.
Limits contributions to certain candidates and elected officials by certain public contractors; limits contributions by certain political party committees; repeals certain campaign contribution prohibitions.
Eliminates certain components of realty transfer fee.
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.
Extends property tax benefit to veterans who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Repeals law expediting certain State permits.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" concerning gender identity or expression discrimination.
Extends veteran's tax deduction to certain persons undergoing training for deployment in Operation "Iraqi Freedom."
Supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to DHSS for public awareness campaign to promote donation of umbilical cord blood.
Changes catch and possession limits for taking of striped bass.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance.
"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.
Prohibits former elected official from receiving for five years compensation from charitable or non-profit organization when official's candidate committee donated campaign contributions to organization.
Prevents use of condemnation to acquire residential property under redevelopment laws.