NJLM - October 2006 Legislative Bulletin

Legislative Bulletin
October 2006

Assembly Bills

Senate Bills

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SENATE BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	S-2042 Robert E. Littell Joseph M. Kyrillos	Implements certain changes affecting the administration and performance of the urban enterprise zone program.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	A
	S-2053 Joseph V. Doria	Permits county and municipal sewerage and utilities authorities to provide broadband telecommunications service.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	A
	S-2093 Ronald L. Rice	Allocates 20 percent of each homestead rebate to claimant's resident municipality. Commendable intent, however timing and approach would dilute the overall concept of property tax reform.	Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee	O
	S-2149 Nicholas P. Scutari	Requires purchasing agents to complete a course in green product purchasing; requires Department of the Treasury to compile and maintain a list of green product purchasing sources. We disagree State Treasury is appropriate party to develop source lists for purchasing "green" products.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	O
	S-2150 Ellen Karcher Robert W. Singer	Authorizes municipal planning boards to adopt green buildings and environmental sustainability municipal master plan element.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	A
	S-2153 Ronald L. Rice Martha W. Bark	Facilitates long-term municipal contracts for energy efficiency services and goods. Elimination of standards is problematic. The BPU sets pricing guidelines.	Senate Economic Growth Committee	O
	S-2163 Ronald J. Lesniak	Permits local employers in SHBP to negotiate benefits and cost sharing with employees; permits local employers to offer incentives to employees for waivers of SHBP coverage; requires annual independent review of SHBP.	Senate State Government Committee	A
	S-2170 Stephen M. Sweeney	Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours. Same as A-3495 This is a mandate. Contractual obligations should prevail.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2171 Stephen M. Sweeney Joseph M. Kyrillos	Limits administrative leave to three days and reduces number of paid holidays from 13 to 10 for State and local government employees. Poses difficulties for local government in finding a formula to reduce pay while maintaining contractual obligations.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2172 Stephen M. Sweeney Joseph M. Kyrillos	Permits unused vacation and sick leave by public employee to be carried forward for one year only; requires unused administrative leave to be cancelled. Same as A-3497 Employee leave issues should be left to discretion of the municipality.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2173 Stephen M. Sweeney	Changes payment obligation of State and other public employers for SHBP coverage for employees and dependents to no more than 90 percent of SHBP cost. Same as A-3499 Conflicts with contractual and salary negotiations.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2174 Stephen M. Sweeney	Provides State and local governments will pay 90 percent of cost of post-retirement SHBP benefits for future retirees. Same A-3504 A mandate that would create problems with contract negotiations.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2175 Stephen M. Sweeney	Requires that public employees who are married or with domestic partners receive health care benefits from only one public employer.	Senate State Government Committee	A
	S-2176 Stephen M. Sweeney	Changes prospectively definition of compensation used to calculate benefits in PERS and TPAF to average of five highest-paid years and in PFRS, SPRS, and JRS to average of three highest-paid years. There should be parity among all pension systems.	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2178 Stephen M. Sweeney	Eliminates membership in various State-administered retirement systems for part-time public employees and elected officials commencing service after enactment; clarifies that part-time public employees and officials are ineligible for employer-paid health care. *Devastates concept of shared services at local level. Removes municipal ability to analyze what is in the best interest of property taxpayers.*	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-2187 Ronald L. Rice	Requires municipalities to create and maintain list of abandoned property. State mandate; unnecessary in many municipalities.	Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee	O

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ASSEMBLY BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	A-1897 John F. McKeon Joseph J. Roberts	Extends application deadline for financing for closure and associated remediation of regulated underground storage tanks; requires notification to municipalities by DEP of underground storage tank fund. Same as S-1879	Senate Environment Committee	A
	A-2879 Reed Gusciora	Directs AG to develop mandatory guidelines for municipal prosecutors. Limits local discretion. Allows AG to dictate local spending.	Assembly Judiciary Committee	O
	A-3262 Ronald S. Dancer	Permits certain oaths, affirmations, and affidavits to be taken before township and village mayors.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	A
	A-3271 Sean T. Kean	Requires AG to defend challenges to certain municipal ordinances that establish residency requirements for convicted sex offenders.	Assembly Judiciary Committee	A
	A-3411 Gordon M. Johnson	Extends eligibility for total property tax exemption to 100% disabled Cold War veterans; requires State to reimburse municipality for local tax revenue loss. Shrinks tax base and adds to Pension costs.	Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee	O
	A-3421 Larry Chatzidakis	Requires municipalities with fewer than 500 persons to consolidate with larger municipalities. An arbitrary mandate that would violate the rights of local voters.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	A-3434 Ronald S. Dancer	Permits property tax bills to contain listing of amount of reserve for uncollected taxes required to be maintained by municipality. Unnecessary. This is presently a permissive existing practice.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	O
	AJR-116 John S. Wisniewski	Creates study commission on certain drainage pipes, suspends use. No evidence that use of so-called "combustable materials" is *dangerous, when properly installed.*	Assembly Transportation and Public Works Committee	O

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