GOVERNOR CORZINE SIGNS LEGISLATION

TRENTON- Governor Jon S. Corzine signed the following bills into law today:

S-984/A-3254 (Bark/Stanley, Wisniewski, Scalera) - Ensures fire drills are conducted in schools while open for summer instructional programs.

S-2537/A-4022 (Karcher, Palaia/Greenwald, Panter, Fisher) - Establishes New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.

S-2937/A-4551 (Adler/Lampitt) - Cancels, reappropriates and appropriates certain moneys in the Clean Waters Fund.

A-253/S-208 (Cruz-Perez, Mayer, Conners/Allen, Bucco) - Requires portion of state rental assistance grants be reserved for graduates of state veterans' transitional housing program.

ACS for S-597/ACS for A-2969 w/GR (Kyrillos, Scutari/Moriarty, Bramnick, Mayer, Cruz-Perez) - Regulates donation clothing bins.

A-909/S-1956 (Gusciora, Watson Coleman, Van Drew/Vitale, Weinberg) - Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; provides for injunctive relief for violations.

A-1016/S-2393 w/GR (Prieto, Cohen, Stack, Moriarty/Coniglio) - Establishes the State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors.

A-1044/S-472 w/GR (Van Drew, Johnson, Egan, Greenstein, Albano/Sweeney, Doria) - Requires prenotification of certain plant closings, transfer and mass layoffs.

A-2070/S-2746 (Bodine, Chivukula, Johnson/Asselta, Scutari) - Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to report on New Jersey Travel Independence Program and study feasibility of its expansion statewide.

A-3253/S-2956 (Conners, Sires, Diegnan, Chatzidakis/Adler, Turner) - Provides a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II programs.

A-3513/S-2377 (Schaer, Gordon, Watson Coleman, Fisher/Weinberg) - Mandates alternate testing dates because of days of religious observance for certain applicants seeking licensure.

A-3517/S-2489 (Schaer, Watson Coleman, Fisher/Weinberg, Sarlo) - Provides for religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed health care facilities.

A-4295/SCS for S-2702/2727/3007 w/GR (Roberts, Quigley/Buono, Karcher, Vitale, Weinberg) - "Charity Care Fraud Prevention and Detection Act."

AJR-101/SJR-73 (Cryan, Stender, Munoz, Vas/Karcher, T. Kean) - Designates September of each year as "Volunteer Blood Donor Awareness Month" in New Jersey.

AJR-102/SJR-69 (Bramnick, Cruz-Perez, Munoz, Conners, Karrow, Van Drew/Madden, Vitale) - Designates November of each year as "Veterans' Month" in New Jersey.

AJR-135/SJR-68 (Vainieri Huttle, Giblin, Manzo, Van Drew/Weinberg, Karcher) - Urges Congress to enact "Employee Free Choice Act".

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Photos and audio and video clips from Governor Corzine's public events are available in the Governor's Newsroom section on the State of New Jersey web page, http://www.nj.gov/governor/news/