NJLM - February 2007 Legislative Bulletin

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SENATE BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	S-2374 Bob Smith	Permits the appointment of joint municipal court judges by agreement of affected municipalities. Same as A-11	2nd Reading	A
	S-2409 Bob Smith Stephen M. Sweeney	Provides tax exemption for portion of property value attributable to energy cost savings measures that reduce consumption of water or energy. *Bad fiscal policy.*	Senate Economic Growth Committee	O
	S-2418 Bob Smith Paul A. Sarlo	Provides matching grant program for local governments to facilitate energy efficiency and conservation of resources in public buildings; appropriates $50 million. This is improper in today's fiscal environment. Indirect tax *subsidy that is simply unaffordable.*	Senate Economic Growth Committee	O
	S-2429 Joseph F. Vitale Ellen Karcher	Permits, rather than requires, participants in death registration process to use New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.	Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee	A
	S-2433 Leonard T. Connors	Exempts municipal parking from sales and use tax. Same as A-3823	Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee	A
	S-2441 Ronald L. Rice Shirley K. Turner	Reestablishes and revises public contract set-aside program. Same as A 3597 Confusing provisions dealing with local contracts need to be *clarified. Needs of smaller municipalities need to be considered.*	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2463 Ronald L. Rice	Requires retail businesses to be licensed by the municipality; requires Director of Division of Public Interest Advocacy to create and maintain a public website that catalogues those Do not understand why this should be under Public Interest *Advocacy. Redundant and unnecessary.*	Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee	O
	S-2468 Robert E. Littell	Prohibits the imposition of any fees under the "Fair Housing Act" under certain circumstances. No reason to constrain flexibility of municipalities.	Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee	O
	S-2472 Ronald L. Rice	Allows municipalities to provide broadband telecommunications infrastructure and service in partnership with private entities.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	A

ASSEMBLY BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	A-3336 Louis M. Manzo Charles T. Epps Brian P Stack Robert M Gordon	Requires DEP to hold local public hearing for certain major developments located in a State park of forest.	2nd Reading, Assembly	A
	A-3415 Vincent Prieto	Imposes a four percent gross revenues tax on providers of direct-to-home satellite services.	Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee	A
	A-3563 Alex DeCroce Christopher Bateman Alison Little McHose	Requires Attorney General to defend certain local law enforcement officers. Same as S-2501	Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee	A
	A-3609 Neil M. Cohen	Modifies required content of annual notice of property tax.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	A
	A-3692 Pamela R. Lampitt Louis D. Greenwald John F. McKeon	Authorizes municipalities to regulate and impose fees on sexually oriented businesses and requires municipalities to station security personnel at certain locations in proximity to such businesses when children are present. *Costly and potentially unconstitutional provisions force us tooppose this well-intended bill.***	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3695 Marcia A. Karrow	Provides for exclusion of certain farm dwellings from the determination of a municipality's fair share of low and moderate income housing obligation	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	A
	A-3717 Jeff Van Drew Nelson T. Albano	Places 2-1/2 percent limit on annual increases on municipal service fees imposed on manufactured homes in mobile home. A cap on annual service charge hinders the provision of *municipal services.*	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3742 Joseph R. Malone	Requires certain municipalities to regionalize a percentage of municipal services by 2008. Rather than a new law, we prefer existing barriers to shared services be removed.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3755 Steve Corodemus	Requires removal of campaign signs from public property within 10 days after election; establishes $25 per sign per day penalty for failure to do so. Creates enforcement issues; this is better addressed by local *ordinance.*	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-3825 Marcia A. Karrow	Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey - Local Open Space and	Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	A
	A-3828 Reed Gusciora	Requires DEP to develop a plan to eliminate municipal park management and establish a county-based park management Unnecessary and impractical; DEP should not have jurisdiction *over local parks.*	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3830 Reed Gusciora	Provides that benefits under State Health Benefits Program will not be reduced below current level. Impractical; health benefit costs will not remain the same over *time.*	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-3831 John S. Wisniewski	Creates PFRS non-accidental disability retirement option for disability incurred in performance of duty other than as result of This benefit should apply to all systems.	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-3843 Peter J. Biondi	Exempts certain State authorities and local government contracting units from bidding requirements when goods and services are procured below prices available under State contract. Unnecessary. Options are available in current law.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3844 Peter J. Biondi	Increases maximum municipal contribution to fire districts and volunteer fire companies; indexes amount biennially for inflation. Municipal budgets are strained. There are other options *available to help fire districts.*	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3860 Jerry Green Nilsa Cruz-Perez	Modifies intent, purpose and standard of construction of "Municipal Land Use Law." Invites additional variance applications; unnecessary.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3864 Linda R. Greenstein	Authorizes municipalities to establish receiving zones for transfer of development rights from Highlands Region or pinelands area; provides for impact fees and other incentives.	Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee	A
	A-3888 Neil M. Cohen	Authorizes local units to invest in federally insured certificates of deposit under certain circumstances. Same as S-2417	Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee	A
	A-3899 Amy H. Handlin Uprenda J. Chivukula	Clarifies time by which public bodies are required to make minutes of meetings available to the public. Inflexible mandates. Does not consider unique problems, *especially in smaller municipalities. Needs to be amended.*	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3907 Peter J. Barnes Joseph V. Egan	Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees. Unnecessary. Present representation sufficient.	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-3918 Patrick J. Diegnan Wilfredo Carabello Brian P. Stack	Requires written notice to be provided to county health departments and certified local health agencies concerning	Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee	A

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