(TRENTON) – Governor Richard J. Codey signed the following bills into law today.
S-70/A-907 (Rice, Cunningham, Previte, Diegnan, Caraballo, Barnes) – Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
SCS for S-189/ACS for A-884 (Lesniak, Barnes, Wisniewski, Holzapfel) – Amends “Waterfront Commission Act” to expand the commission’s jurisdiction over certain licensing and registration procedures.
SCS for S-206/ACS for A-559 (B.Smith, Lance, R.Smith, Chivukula) – Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur, and personal wireless service facilities to be erected, on preserved farmland under certain circumstances.
S-240/A-2739 (Coniglio, Weinberg) – Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
S-273/A-2517 (Adler, Gormley, Mayer, Previte) – Upgrades the crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances; creates new offense.
S-434/ACS for A-2204/2892 (Littell, Buono, Conners, Stanley, McHose, Conaway) – Prohibits public institutions of higher education from imposing nonresident tuition fees on members of New Jersey National Guard and surviving children and spouses of Guard members killed in line of duty.
S-487/A-1991 (Sweeney, Buono, Weinberg, Voss, Van Drew, Gordon) – Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
SCS for S-570/ACS for A-2887 (Baer, Rice, Stack, McKeon) – Concerns eviction proceedings; establishes penalties for forcible entry or detainer of residential property and damage to rental premises.
SCS for S-650/A-2833 (Cunningham, O’Toole, Conners, Rice) – Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel leases of personal property without penalty.
S-709/A-2347 (Ciesla, Turner, Steele, Watson Coleman, Roberts, Johnson, Gusciora, Bateman) – Creates study commission on the death penalty and imposes moratorium on imposition of death penalty.
S-1044 (Turner, Bryant) – Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
S-1137/A-2248 (Martin, Littell, McHose) – Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
S-1142/A-3316 (Cardinale, Baer, Biondi, Impreveduto) – Repeals provisions of previous law inadvertently not repealed under “New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003” and makes necessary conforming amendments.
S-1311/A-2623 (Vitale, Karcher, Manzo, Vandervalk) – Provides that label of bottled water contain date on which water was bottled.
S-1315/A-2263 (Girgenti, Bucco, Johnson, Scalera, Wisniewski) – Makes volunteer firefighter appointed to paid position eligible for PFRS membership through age 40.
S-1508/A-2796 (Littell, McHose) – Directs Commissioner of DEP to name brook adjacent to Wildcat Rock Shelter.
S-1568/A-2898 (Codey, McKeon) – Changes membership of board of trustees for pension fund of school district employees in first class counties.
S-1886/A-764 (Sweeney, Conaway, Cohen) – Enhances rights and remedies of employees who disclose or refuse to participate in fraudulent employer practices.
S-2027 (McNamara, L.Connors) – Increases penalties for damaging property and for certain other violations committed on DEP or Palisades Interstate Park Commission lands.
S-2083/A-3429 (Adler, Gill, Cohen, Gusciora, Weinberg) – Provides that surviving domestic partner would have the same intestacy rights as a surviving spouse and would have authority to make funeral arrangements.
S-2125/A-4168 (Rice, Gill, Fisher, Baroni, Barnes) – Directs AG to include gang information in Uniform Crime Report, requires gang information to be included on fingerprint card; appropriates $70,000.
S-2161/A-3919 (Madden, Karcher, Mayer, Watson Coleman) – Provides that violation of domestic violence order issued in another jurisdiction would constitute contempt of a domestic violence order in New Jersey.
S-2167 (Adler, Gill) – Permits local public entities to provide health benefits to domestic partners of non-SHBP participating employees.
S-2180/A-3657 (Kavanaugh, Bateman, Biondi) – Authorizes transfer of State property and removes use restrictions.
S-2194 w/GR/A-3821 (Scutari, Karcher, Littlel, Wisniewski) – Makes various changes to State contracting process; imposes certain disclosure on State officers and employees involved in contracting.
S-2326/A-3845 (Coniglio, Burzichelli, Egan) – Concerns temporary disability benefit offsets.
S-2383/A-4117 (Martin, Greenstein) – Removes provision in “The New Jersey Alternative Procedure for Dispute Resolution Act” that appeals as of right shall be heard in Chancery Division of Superior Court.
S-2417/A-3904 (Adler, Turner, Stanley, Vas) – Establishes the Special Education Review Commission.
S-2450/A-4472 (Karcher, Palaia, Fisher, R.Smith) – Changes striped bass catch and possession limits.
S-2471/A-4048 (Kenny, Lance, O’Toole) – Limits coverage under SHBP traditional health indemnity plan for State law enforcement officers; limits SHBP coverage options for State law enforcement officer retirees and nonaligned Division of State Police retirees.
S-2481/A-774 (Baer, Vitale, Gusciora, Weinberg) – Permits certain minors to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
S-2517/A-878 (Bucco, Kenny, Barnes, Previte, Johnson) – Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver’s license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
SCS for S-2521/2711/A-4077 (Asselta, Adler, Chivukula, Johnson) – Provides civil service protection for State Parole Board hearing officers.
S-2533/A-4508 (Doria, Adler, Sires) – Provides a credit under the corporation business tax and gross income tax for film production expenses incurred in New Jersey and provides for the transfer of those tax credits to other taxpayers.
S-2567/ACS for A-1561 (Madden, Vitale, Conaway, R.Smith) – Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
S-2595/A-4066 (Girgenti, Inverso, Azzolina, Barnes) – Requires pamphlet for students about pedophile crimes.
S-2612/A-2262 (McNamara, B.Smith, Gusciora) – Provides protection from contribution suits to parties who settle under the Spill Act or who receive a no further action letter.
S-2693/A-4390 (Rice, McKeon) – Appropriates $53,000,000 to the DEP from the “Water Supply Bond Act of 1981” for certain water supply projects and planning and feasibility studies.
SCS for S-2696/2725/ACS ACS for A-3892 (Rice, Madden, Inverso, Doria, Watson Coleman, McKeon, Green, Scalera) – Requires newly constructed affordable housing units to be adaptable for use by elderly and disabled persons.
S-2710/A-4196 (Doria, Chivukula) – Allows off-site vehicle sales.
S-2824/ACS for A-3496/3743 (Buono, Vitale, Weinberg, Cohen) – “Health Claims Authorization, Processing and Payment Act.”
S-2825/A-4476 (Codey, McNamara, O’Toole, Russo, McKeon) – Validates school bond authorization proceedings of the Verona Township School District.
S-2826/A-4435 (Vitale, Oliver, Watson Coleman, Van Drew, Manzo) – Reforms State’s workforce investment system, establishes center for Occupational Employment Information.
S-2851/A-4588 (Doria, B.Smith, McKeon, Wisniewski) – Authorizes DEP to replace person responsible for remediation on condemned property with condemnor under certain circumstances.
S-2864/A-4517 (Asselta, Coniglio, Steele) – Changes amounts retained by DOT from highway work payments to contractors.
S-2878/A-4464 (Buono, Vitale, Van Drew) – Establishes Internet gambling public awareness campaign.
S-2900/A-4470 (Lance, B.Smith, Manzo, McKeon) – Allocates certain previously appropriated funds for support of diesel air pollution control program and for administrative costs of underground storage tank program.
S-2905/A-4512 (Bryant, Codey, Caraballo, Sires, Stanley, Watson Coleman) – Establishes NJ STARS II Program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education; appropriates $1,000,000 to Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
S-2907/A-4383 (Doria, Manzo, Sires) – Authorizes redevelopment agreements for reimbursement of remediation costs for projects that have already begun.
S-2927/A-4466 (Vitale, Girgenti, Johnson, Previte, Barnes) – Revises criteria for placing juveniles in detention.
S-2930/A-4479 (Bryant, Singer, Diegnan) – Creates the “New Jersey Baseball Spectator Safety Act of 2006.”
S-2946/A-4559 (Bryant, Greenwald, Sires) – Makes fiscal year 2006 supplemental appropriation of $22,000,000 to Department of Corrections for grants to counties housing State inmates and amends certain language provisions of the fiscal year 2006 appropriations act concerning certain grants.
SJR-66/AJR-136 (Kean, Vitale, Scalera, Quigley) – Provides for independent study of emergency medical services system in New Jersey.
A-899/S-1634 (Manzo, Barnes, Diegnan, Turner) – Establishes a civil penalty for persons who contribute to a high school student-athlete’s loss of amateur-athlete status.
A-1633/S-2116 (Manzo, Chivukula, Egan, B.Smith) – Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force; appropriates $285,000.
A-1810/S-1725 (Roberts, Cruz-Perez, Wisniewski, Singer, Adler) – Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.
A-1860/S-1860 (Chivukula, Cohen, Gordon, Voss, Buono, B.Smith) – Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible.
A-2095/S-1336 (Conaway, Greenstein, Buono, Sweeney) – Provides paid and unpaid leaves of absence for service with public employee unions and allows full cost purchase of PERS credit for period of leave.
A-2641/S-1543 (Greenwald, Manzo, Kenny, Bryant) – Raises the statutory threshold for the public advertisement of bids under the “State College Contracts Law” and makes other changes to the law.
ACS for A-2869/3093/SCS SS for S-221 (Van Drew, Chiappone, Eagler, Asselta, Singer) – Provides standards for registered professional guardians; appropriates $95,000.
A-2890/S-2342 (O’Toole, Greenstein, Chivukula, Doria, Buono) – Authorizes Secretary of State to establish Asian American Study Foundation; appropriates $10,000.
A-3186/S-2636 (R.Smith, Conaway, McKeon, Lesniak) – Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
A-3305/S-1974 (Wisniewski, DiGaetano, Cohen, Chivukula, Singer, Doria) – Authorizes NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish a Foundation for Technology Advancement.
A-3484/S-2358 (Watson Coleman, Vas, Greenwald, Fisher, Burzichelli, Sweeney, Asselta) – Extends eligibility for sales and use tax exemption of energy and utility service purchases by certain manufacturing-intensive businesses in Urban Enterprise Zones and certain counties with reduced sales tax.
A-3759/SCS for S-2283 (Weinberg, Johnson, Diegnan, Cohen, Gill, Vitale) – Requires health insurers and SHBP providing dependent coverage to provide for election of coverage by certain dependents until their 30th birthday.
A-3828/S-2829 (Barnes, Johnson, Gusciora, Madden, Turner) – The “Bounty Hunter Licensing Act.”
A-3898/S-2703 (Vas, Roberts, Chivukula, Sweeney, Sarlo) – Ratifies the SMART Research and Development Compact in New Jersey; appropriates $25,000.
A-4055/S-2680 (Van Drew, Buono, Asselta) – The “New Jersey Tourism Restructuring Act.”
A-4161/S-2702 (Vas, Sires, Gusciora, Roberts, Coniglio, Doria) – Establishes prevailing wage standards for State building service contracts.
A-4162/S-2618 (Watson Coleman, Egan, Scalera, Van Drew, Sweeney) – Concerns grievance arbitration clauses in public employment collective negotiation agreement.
A-4164 (Panter, Quigley) – Allows members of PFRS hired during certain periods to serve until attainment of age 68 or 25 years of creditable service, whichever comes first.
