Under the Dome: 6/15 Senate and Assembly Committees

by: Jason Springer

Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 06:39:23 AM EDT

The big talk will be over the budget.  The official Senate and Assembly bills became available on Saturday afternoon.  They are scheduled for consideration in both the Senate and Assembly Budget committees today. The Assembly committee will take public testimony on the FY2010 appropriations bill at 9am and the committee will consider it. The Senate Committee will follow with a meeting at 2pm. They have all of the individual appropriations bills on the agenda for consideration along with the budget bill.

The Senate Labor Committee will discuss a bill that would address the suspension and revocation of employer licensees for repeated violations of wage, benefit and tax laws. They will also have a bill up for discussion only that would extend prevailing wage requirements to food service contracts and state authorities.

Among the bills up for consideration in the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee are two that would memorialize Congress and the President to enact legislation to provide universal health insurance coverage.

The Law and Public safety committee has a few bills up including one that would require all wireless cell phones issued by public entities to receive Amber Alerts and another that would another that would require telecommunications companies to provide caller location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

The full list of bills up for consideration in the committees is listed below the fold. As always, you can follow along with live streaming feeds through the Legislature's website.

A2238 [Roberts, Joseph J./Prieto, Vincent+15], Autism, devel. disab.-concerns coverage
S1651 [Vitale, Joseph F./Weinberg, Loretta+5], Autism, devel. disab.-concerns coverage
S2012 [Codey, Richard J.], Cigarette tax rate-raises per pack
S2013 [Weinberg, Loretta], Liquor, wines-incr. tax rates
S2014 [Sweeney, Stephen M.], Corp. bus tax-concerns
S2015 [Buono, Barbara], Taxpayers w/cert. income-incr. tax rate
S2016 [Sweeney, Stephen M.], Health insur.-concerns taxation
S2017 [Sweeney, Stephen M.], Econ. Devel. Auth.-transfer fds.
S2018 [Sweeney, Stephen M.], St. rental asst prog-NJHMFA transfer fds
S2019 [Codey, Richard J.], Marine Science Consortium statute-repeal
S2020 [Codey, Richard J.], Bond volume limits-prov. for allocation
S2887 [Beach, James/Scutari, Nicholas P.+4], Env. infrastructure proj.-concerns loans
S2888 [Whelan, Jim/Vitale, Joseph F.+4], Env. infrastructure proj.-approp. fds.
S2889 [Gordon, Robert M./Smith, Bob+1], Env. infrastructure proj.-concerns

Pending Introduction and or Referral:

S2010 [Buono, Barbara], State Budget for SY 2009-2010
S2011 [Buono, Barbara], FY 2009 Supplemental Appropriation

Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Meeting 9:30 AM

A1767 [Watson Coleman, Bonnie/Evans, Elease], Chronic Kidney DiseaseTask Force-estab.
S1342 [Madden, Fred H.], Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force-estab.
S1864 [Weinberg, Loretta], Bleeding Disorders Treatment Fd.
S2071 [Vitale, Joseph F./Stack, Brian P.+1], Epilepsy drugs-concerns substitution
S2683 [Weinberg, Loretta], Med. Examiners Bd.-concerns memb.
S2781 [Singer, Robert W./Ciesla, Andrew R.], Intravenous therapies, office-based-reg.
SJR77 [Kean, Thomas H.], Mesothelioma Awareness Day-desig Sept 26
SR47 [Weinberg, Loretta/Vitale, Joseph F.+1], Universal health insur coverage-enact
SR100 [Rice, Ronald L.+1], Universal health insur.-enact leg.

For Discussion Only:

S1767 [Sarlo, Paul A.], Prescription drug blank forms-concerns

Senate Labor Meeting 10:00 AM

S2773 [Sweeney, Stephen M./Madden, Fred H.], Wage, benf., tax law viol-lic suspension
S2895 [Karrow, Marcia A.], Unemp insur.-concerns

For Discussion Only:

S2850 [Madden, Fred H.], Prevailing wage req., cert.-concerns

Senate Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs Meeting 10:00 AM

AJR101 [Vainieri Huttle, Valerie/Vandervalk, Charlotte+9], Denim Day for rape awareness-April 28
S1212 [Bucco, Anthony R.], Helmets, recreational safety-exemp tax
S2516 [Sweeney, Stephen M.], Developmental disab-estab offender regis
S2651 [Scutari, Nicholas P./Girgenti, John A.], Amber Alerts-receive on
wireless phones
S2824 [Girgenti, John A.], Police training-concerns
S2841 [Lesniak, Raymond J.], Telecommunication info.-concerns access
S2885 [Girgenti, John A./Sweeney, Stephen M.+7], EMTs-concerns certification
SJR67 [Weinberg, Loretta], Denim Day for rape awareness-April 28

Assembly Budget Meeting 9:00 AM

The Committee will take public testimony on the FY 2010 appropriations bill.

The Assembly Budget Committee will consider the FY 2010 appropriations bill and other related bills.