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216 Stelton Road Suite E-5 Piscataway NJ 08854 Phone: 732-752-0770 Fax:732-752-1590 Email: senbsmith@njleg.org  ©2002-2007, Virtual Campaigning. All rights reserved. |
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PUBLIC SERVICE RECORD, QUALIFICATIONS & LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS
PUBLIC SERVICE
Member, Senate Judiciary Committee (2002-present) Chairman, Senate Environment Committee (Chairman 2004-present, Member 2002-present ) Co-Chairman, Joint Committee on Government Consolidation and Shared Services (2006) Alternate Member, State House Commission (2002-present) Assemblyman, District 17 - 1986 - 2001 Member, Assembly Environment, Science and Technology (1996-Present) Deputy Minority Leader (1994-1995) Member, Assembly Policy and Rules Committee (1994-1995) Member, Assembly Energy and Hazardous Waste Committee (1992-1993) Member, Assembly Solid Waste Committee (1992-1993) Chairman, Assembly Energy and Environment Committee (1990-1991) Member, Appropriations Committee (1986-1991) Member, Environmental Quality Committee (1986-87) Member, Assembly Select Committee on Ocean and Beach Pollution (1987-1988) Parliamentarian, Assembly Democratic Caucus (1988-89) Chairman, New Jersey Assembly Democratic Task Force on the Environment (1987) Counsel to the 1987 and 1989 New Jersey State Democratic Platform Committee Mayor of Piscataway Township (1981-86) Chairman, Middlesex County Democratic Organization (April,1991-April,1992) Chairman, Piscataway Democratic Organization (1981-1990) Director, Board of Directors, New Jersey Conference of Mayors (1984-86) Councilman-At-Large - Piscataway Township (1977-80) Council President (1979) Council Vice President (1978) Member - Middlesex County Transportation Coordinating Committee (1981-86) Chairman - Piscataway Environmental Commission (1971-75) Secretary (1975) Chairman (1976) Member (1975-76; 1981-86) - Piscataway Planning Board Member of Technical Advisory Committee to the Middlesex County - Planning Board on Air Pollution (1973-74) Member of the Greenbrook Basin Committee of the Area 208 Management Planning - Program (1975-76) Member of the N.J.D.E.P. Commissioner's Advisory Committee - on Water and Wastewater - Training (1973-77) EDUCATION
M.S. Environmental Science, Rutgers University (1973) M.S. Chemistry, University of Scranton (1970) B.A. History, University of Scranton (1969). Presidential Scholar, graduated cum laude. OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar and to the United States District Court 6/18/81. Admitted to Practice before the U.S. Supreme Court - 5/31/94 Prosecutor East Brunswick Township 1997-Present Prosecutor South Brunswick Township 1998-Present Middlesex County College, 9/70 - 12/85 Professor of Chemistry & Environmental Science, 9/79 - 12/85 Associate Professor of Chemistry & Environmental Science - 9/76 - 6/79 Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Environmental Science - 7/74 - 8/76 Administrative Assistant to Dean of Science, 6/74 - 2/77 Environmental Health Science Curriculum Coordinator, 9/72 - 6/73 Instructor of Chemistry & Environmental Science - 9/70 - 6/74 PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
AWARDS
State Policy Award - 2007 - U.S. Green Buildings Council NJ Chapter Legislator's Award for Bi-Partisan Leadership - 2007- NJ Conference of Mayors Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor Award - 2006 - Middlesex County AFL-CIO Labor Council Recognition for Improved Shared Services - 2006 - Somerset County Business Partnership Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Saunders Sr. Leadership Award - 2005 - North Stelton Economic Development Committee Frank J. Oliver Award - 2005 - New Jersey Environmental Lobby Board of Trustees State Public Official of the Year - 2005 - Libraries of Middlesex Legislator of the Year - 2005 - New Jersey Recreation and Park Association Citizen of the Year - 2004 - Italian-American Club of Piscataway American-Hungarian Foundation Distinguished Service Award - 2004 Award of Appreciation - 2003 - Institute of Transportation Engineers, NY/NJ Metropolitan Section Anthony M. Yelencsics Memorial Outstanding Citizen Award - 2002 - Middlesex County American-Hungarian Democratic Club Citizen of the Year - 1999 - Somerset County Central Labor Council Outstanding State Legislator Award - 1998 - New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars Thomas Barton Post Preservation Award - 1993 - Fellowship for Metlar House Outstanding Service Award - 1992- New Jersey Transit Police Environmental Legislator of the Year - 1991- New Jersey Environmental Federation Recognition for Work on behalf of Adults & Children with Autism - 1990 - Eden Institute Legislator of the Year -1990 - NJ Association of Schools & Agencies for the Handicapped Who's Who in the East - 1983 Distinguished Citizen Award -1982- Piscataway Jewish Congregation B'nai Shalom Outstanding Young Men of America - 1981 MAJOR LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES
P.L. 2007, c. 63 - Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act to encourage the financial accountability of local units of government through empowering citizens, reducing waste and duplicative services, clearing legal hurdles to shared services and consolidation, and supplementing, amending, and repealing sections of statutory law. P.L. 2007, c. 56 - Establishes Division of Risk Management in the Department of the Treasury; reorganizes Office of Information Technology; requires consolidation of enhanced 9-1-1 public safety answering points. P.L. 2007, c. 54 - Establishes the "Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization, and Consolidation Commission," performance measures for municipalities, and the Municipal Efficiency Promotion Aid Program P.L. 2007, c. 39 - Eliminates inactive commissions, committees, councils and boards P.L. 2007, c. 18 - Authorizes individual boards of education to self insure for certain insurance; removes current prohibitions P.L. 2007, c. 17 - Clarifies the authority of the Department of Transportation to enter into certain agreements with local governments and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes. P.L. 2006, c. 94 - Extends date for certain submittals required pursuant to diesel emissions law; authorizes DEP to disapprove cost estimates for retrofit technology under certain conditions; and modifies requirement to sell, distribute, and use ultra low sulfur diesel fuel. P.L. 2006, c. 65 - Requires person responsible for conducting remediation to submit written notification; requires DEP to adopt rules setting forth notice requirements. P.L. 2006, c 88 - Granting access to housing, public facilities and transportation for certain working dogs and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes P.L. 2006, c. 27 - Clarifies that applicants on eligible list of effective date of P.L. 2005, c 290 are entitled to preference granted children of fallen firefighters P.L.2006, c. 72 - Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region. P.L.2006, c.11 - Urges Turkey to respect rights and religious freedoms of Ecumenical Patriarchate P.L.2005, c.219 - Establishes requirements for reducing fine particle diesel emissions from certain vehicles and equipment; creates fund for financing vehicle emissions filters; increases penalties for idling and authorizes DEP to establish additional restrictions on school bus idling. P.L.2005, c.161 - Concerns "card check" method of union recognition. Requires the NJ Board of Mediation to recognize representatives for employees of private employers who are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act and allows these employees to choose representatives either by signing cards to demonstrate a majority preference to have a representative, known as the "card-check" method, or by holding a traditional election in conformity with the procedures outlined in the NLRA. P.L.2005, c.283 - Revises Charitable Registration and Investigation Act - Provides enhanced disclosure requirements and prohibitions against misleading prospective donors, enhances the Attorney General's enforcement authority and eases statutory compliance for smaller volunteer organizations. P.L.2005, c.314 - Allows commercial non-agricultural use of preserved farmland under certain circumstances P.L.2005, c.43 - Provides exemption from cleanup liability at Superfund sites to certain persons P.L.2005, c.138 - Permits voting by absentee ballot for any reason. Allows any voter who wishes to vote only by absentee ballot in a general election to receive an application for such a ballot automatically, without further request and until the voter requests that he or she no longer wishes to vote exclusively by absentee. P.L.2005, c.6 - Permits recall of retired administrative law judges and retired judges of compensation P.L.2005, c.367- Provides preference in State contracts for wood and paper products derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems whenever possible. P.L.2005, c.25 - Appropriates $6 million for the Cancer Institute of New Jersey P.L.2005, c.211 - Requires State to provide matching funds for certain federal grants to benefit wildlife and wildlife habitat P.L.2005, c.290 - Establishes certain hiring preference for children of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. P.L.2005, c.79 - Changes the educational degree requirements for executive directors of housing authorities and redevelopment agencies P.L.2005, c.365 - Requires inventory of brownfields in the State and annual progress reports by the Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force P.L.2005, c.174 - Authorizes issuance of bonds for refurbishment of certain public safety vehicles P.L.2005, c.134 - Requires continuing education of licensed well drillers and pump installers P.L.2005, c.202 - Makes certain changes to the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program P.L.2005, c.348 - Provides protection from contribution suits to parties who settle under the Spill Act or who receive a no further action letter P.L.2005, c.178 - Changes project listing requirements for certain farmland preservation programs; appropriates $44 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for State farmland acquisitions; and appropriates $1,009,225 in bond funds for soil and water conservation grants P.L.2005, c.179 - Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in Highlands Region P.L.2005, c.355 - Authorizes DEP to replace person responsible for remediation on condemned property with condemnor under certain circumstances P.L.2005, c.358 - Allocates certain previously appropriated funds for support of diesel air pollution control program and for administrative costs of underground storage tank program P.L.2004, c.120 Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act - Created rules for smart growth and land preservation in the Highlands region, which is the source of half of the state's drinking water. Also created the Highlands Council, a new agency to oversee land preservation and development. Requires the Highlands Council to create a Regional Master Plan. P.L.2004 c.75 - Creates an additional Urban Enterprise Zone in New Brunswick P.L.2004, c.50 - Makes certain changes to taxes and fees imposed for hazardous substance transfers and discharges. P.L.2004, c.51 - Imposes annual air toxics surcharge based on emissions at certain facilities. P.L.2004, c.111 - Makes certain changes to procedures governing the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust Financing Program. P.L.2003, c.74 - Appropriates $40 million from Hazardous Discharge Fund of 1986 to Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for cleanup of contaminated sites; cancels previous appropriation; replaces canceled appropriation with $40 million from 1996 Environmental Cleanup Fund. P.L.2003, c.295 - Revises receivership statutes P.L.2003, c.138 - Clarifies that a power of attorney does not generally give the attorney-in-fact the authority to make gifts of the principal's property P.L.2003, c.181 - Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits. P.L.2003, c.251 - Requires DEP to include identification of unused State water supply lands, including the Six Mile Run Reservoir Site and recommendations for their future use within the New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan. P.L.2002, c.76 - Establishes protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under open space acquisition program. P.L.2002, c.37 - Concerns indirect costs for the remediation of contaminated sites. P.L. 2002, c. 76 - An Act establishing protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under the open space acquisition program - Requires State government to develop a Master Plan for open space acquisition and establishes the acquisition of Water Resource Protection as guiding policy for said acquisition. P.L. 1999, c. 0366 - Authorizes municipalities to establish grant programs to provide relief to certain real property owners for damage due to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters. P.L. 1999, c.0262 - Emergency Disaster Relief Act of 1999 - This bill provides $80 million from the Surplus revenue Fund for the purposes of storm, flood and drought relief. P.L. 1995, c. 344 - Fair Housing Act - Requires municipalities to establish methods to ensure the availability of low and moderate income housing units. The act amends existing law to reserve two percent of municipal affordable housing units for community residences for the developmentally disabled. P.L. 1991, C. 285 - Permits municipal engineer to inspect and approve handicapped parking space signs P.L. 1991, c. 228 - An Act Concerning Economic Development and Amending P.L. 1985 - Broadens powers of the Urban Development Corporation to develop any property, issue stock in its projects, borrow money against its assets, and make short-term construction loans to developers. P.L. 1991 c. 25 - Worker and Community Right To Know Act - Exempts non-public schools from right to know fee. P.L. 1990 c. 78 - Oil Spill Prevention Reform Act - Substantially reforms the Oil Spill prevention program of the New Jersey DEP. P.L. 1990 C. 28 - Clean Water Enforcement Act - Provides for stricter enforcement of "Water Pollution Control Act." Imposes of mandatory penalties for water pollution. P.L. 1989 c. 244 - Allows municipalities to schedule garbage collection fees based on number of containers for collection; assists senior citizens, those who generate less trash, encourages recycling. P.L. 1989 c. 241 - Establishes a Green Acres Properties Subcommittee in the State House Commission to expedite review and approval of purchases of land by local government with Green Acres funds. P.L. 1989 c. 220 - Conscientious Employee Protection Act Amendment - Provides for protection of employees who report environmental violations by their employers or employers business associates. P.L. 1989 - Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Bond Act of 1989 - Authorizes bond issue placed on 1989 ballot to establish a $50 million revolving loan fund to provide capital to municipalities for renovation of combined sewer systems and stormwater management projects to alleviate ocean pollution. P.L. 1989, c. 52 - Nondriver Identification Card Act - Provides nondrivers with option of an official identification card issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles to facilitate cashing checks and access to senior citizen discounts and services. P.L. 1988, c. 131 - Middlesex County Judges Act - Authorized the creation of two additional judgeships in Middlesex County to alleviate backlog of cases. P.L. 1988, c. 69 - Child Sex History Shield Act - Excludes from evidence in prosecutions from certain child sexual or abuse-related crimes information about a child's past history of abuse, sexual experimentation, or sexual conduct. P.L. 1988, c. 62 - Clean Ocean Education Act - Requires the N.J. Department of Education to develop educational materials for schools regarding the dangers of plastics and other materials to marine life. P.L. 1988, c.61 - Ocean Pollution Bounty Act - Prohibits the discharge of litter into ocean waters and subjects violators to crime of third degree; provides bounty to citizens reporting violations. P.L. 1988, c. 56 - Sludge Management Act - Requires industry to pretreat its sewage to the extent that the resulting sludge can be land disposed to avoid ocean dumping, and requires public sewage treatment facilities to develop a plan to implement land-based sludge management methods. P.L. 1987, c. 223 - Retiree Retraining and Employment Demonstration Program - Established a State program for providing employment retraining and other services for senior citizens desiring to re-enter the workforce. P.L. 1987, c.12 - Nuclear Waste Transportation Commission Act - Established a New Jersey Nuclear Waste Transportation Commission to provide State planning and assistance in determining overland routes for spent nuclear fuels, and to provide guidance to local public safety officials with respect to their role in Nuclear Transport accidents. SPECIAL SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITIES IN THE DISTRICT
Worked with New Jersey Hospitals to establish parody for cancer research funding throughout the State and have worked closely on funding matters for CINJ, New Jersey's NCI-Designated Cancer Center, located in New Brunswick. Elijah's Promise Food Bank Worked to gain funding for the purchase of the building housing the food bank on Livingston Avenue in the City of New Brunswick Pedestrian Access Worked with the New Jersey Department of Transportation and Franklin Township Officials to obtain a Local Aid for Centers of Place grant for historic Kingston Village facilitating safe pedestrian and bicycle passage. Safe Streets to Schools and Local Bikeway funding for 17th District Towns Worked with municipalities to obtain NJDOT grants to provide a safer environment for school children and pedestrians as well as providing bike paths which compliment smart growth. Transportation Trust Fund Municipal Aid Funding for 17th District Towns Worked with the NJDOT for funding to preserve and maintain the existing transportation infrastructure Highland Park Environmental Education Center Worked with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Highland Park Officials to obtain funding, through the Statewide Livable Communities Program, to build the Highland Park Environmental Education Center. Highland Park has a longstanding history of environmental stewardship and meeting environmental challenges on a local level. Piscataway Township Community Policing Center Worked with Piscataway Township Officials and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to obtain funding to remove an abandoned gas station on West 4th Street and build a Community Policing Center for the area. Public Safety Funding for 17th District Towns Worked with New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety to secure adequate funding for local domestic preparedness equipment and training projects, directly supporting community police, fire, emergency medical, and emergency management personnel Route 18/I-287 Construction Funding Worked with the New Jersey Department of Transportation and Piscataway Township Officials to obtain funding to link Route 18 at River Road to I-287. Piscataway Senior Citizens Grant Application Worked with Piscataway Township officials to obtain a $1.2 million grant from the NJ Department of Community Affairs for the construction of Senior Citizens Housing in the Township. Revitalization Study of South Plainfield Downtown A special planning study was initiated by the Assemblyman in cooperation with Rutgers University and the Borough Revitalization Committee to determine methods of improving the downtown area of the Borough of South Plainfield. Clean-up of factory lane "Mystery Pipe" in Middlesex Borough Worked with NJDEP, Rhone-Poulenc, and Borough of Middlesex officials to proceed with interim clean-up with goal of final and permanent clean-up. |
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