Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Louis D. Greenwald
Sponsored
Out of committee4
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign about meningitis and higher education institutions to notify prospective students about meningitis vaccination; appropriates $50,000.**
Provides refundable gross income tax credit for private well owner's costs of radium contamination testing of drinking water supply.
Allows public movers and warehousemen to use electronic warehouse receipts under certain circumstances. *
Permits automotive collecting activities on residential property outside of ordinary public view.
In committee48
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Enacts the "Senior Citizens Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Prohibits smoking in shopping malls with certain exceptions.
Provides that, when candidacy for party nomination to public office or for political party office is uncontested, no primary election vote upon such nomination or party office shall be held.
Makes use of emergency ballots optional in each county.
Clarifies that State law prohibiting use of telephone lines to deliver recorded messages applies to any service for which the called party is charged for the call.
Establishes training and staffing requirements for armored car guards.
Concerns Workforce Development Partnership Program and employer tax credits for customized training.
Establishes crime of possessing a weapon on shopping center property.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Establishes confidential data base to assist State Police in issuance of firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits.
Requires 24-hour a day staffing at community residences for the mentally ill.
Concerns certain practices of insurers; imposes civil penalties for violations.
Adds passenger automobile insurance information to DMV database.
Requires parental notification concerning school bus safety equipment.
Makes failing to report insurance fraud a crime of third degree.
Requires meningitis vaccinations for full-time students at institutions of higher education.
Establishes guidelines for use of juveniles in certain undercover assignments.
Establishes State curriculum on Internet dangers, physical threats to school children.
Creates State Police high technology crime unit; appropriates $1,000,000.
Establishes Statewide allogeneic cord blood bank, requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for cord blood banking and appropriates $5 million to DHSS.
Supplemental appropriation of $180,000 to DHS for grant to the Organization for the Advancement of Retarded Citizens, Inc. in Berlin, Camden County.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Makes changes to certain powers, functions, duties and proceedings of BPU.
Requires continuing professional development for building-level administrators.
Permits certain war-time veterans and military surviving spouses to receive enhanced homestead rebate amounts similar to the homestead rebate amounts allowed for senior and disabled residents.
Requires electric utility rate reductions to be passed through by landlord to residential tenants.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Grants 90-day grace period for payment of property taxes by seniors and longer period for participants in senior freeze act.
Upgrades simple assault under certain circumstances.
Requires provision of certain homelessness prevention information to residents subject to eviction following recording of judgment in tax lien foreclosure case.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Requires shopping mall with 20 or more stores to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator in each store.
Holds parents civilly responsible for damages from false fire alarms and bomb threats by their children.
Prohibits sale of handguns to persons under 21 years of age.
Requires certain soil testing to be conducted on land considered for participation in farmland preservation program.
Requires certain landlords to pass through electric utility rate reductions to tenants.
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Requires electric utility rate reductions to be passed through by landlord to residential tenants.
Directs BPU to limit increases for basic local telephone service to 10 percent.
Allows for employer paid post-retirement medical benefits for certain police officers and firefighters with 20 or more years of service.
Includes custom fabrication work under the prevailing wage act.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Grant to Collingswood, in Camden County, to match FEMA relief funding.
Requires DHSS meningitis public awareness campaign to target pediatricians.
Establishes Study Commission on Domestic Terrorism Preparedness; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
Provides for presumption of death for persons exposed to catastrophic events.
Concerns certain public benefits available to persons affected by September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on US.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Requires proof of valid motor vehicle insurance before release of impounded motor vehicle in certain cases.
Permits a State employees' salary reduction program for qualified transportation benefits and increases the Travel Demand Management Program gross income tax exclusions for commuter transportation benefits.*
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.*
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
"Athletic Training Licensure Act."
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
The "Private Well Testing Act"; appropriates $1million from safe Drinking Water Fund. *
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Allows certain disabled voters to receive absentee ballots automatically in certain circumstances.
Revises administrative rule-making process.
Clarifies criminal statutes dealing with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest; upgrades penalties for resisting arrest.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Requires Ombudsman for Institutionalized Elderly to disclose results of investigation of abuse or exploitation of elderly person to family member or guardian of elderly person.
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount. *
Appropriates $38,695,000 from the Developmental Disabilities' Waiting List Reduction and Human Services Facilities Construction Fund to DHS.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Clarifies provisions concerning luring or enticing a child.
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Literacy Volunteers of America - New Jersey.
Makes various revisions to NJ Commission on Native American Affairs.
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services for presumptively eligible persons under federal law.
Changes certain organizational dates for 2001 for State, county and municipal political party committees.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $75,000 from the General Fund to Rutgers, The State University for a grant to The National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public policy. *
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 38
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund; appropriates $1 million.
Appropriates $1,350,000 to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Requires development and implementation of mitigation plans for radon contamination in certain child care centers; and requires DOE to develop such plans for child care centers operating in public schools, request funding, and implement plans when funded. *
Appropriates $21,480,950,000 in State funds and $8,009,987,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2000-2001.
Appropriates $336,000 to DHSS for urban rodent control programs in the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark.
Provides for the establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments, inheritance or awards to pay for child support judgments.*
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes law enforcement officer memorial license plates for college scholarships for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; appropriates $200,000.
Authorizes loan, from funds appropriated from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund under P.L.1999, c.99, for project approved by Economic Development Site Task Force.*
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Increases age for permit to purchase a handgun from 18 to 21 years; changes related laws on temporary transfer and exemptions.
Amends shoplifting statute; establishes grading system similar to theft.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Exempts all pension income from gross income tax.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Creates the offense of endangering an injured victim.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Mandates universal screening of newborns for hearing loss.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DOH.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
"New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act;" appropriates up to $5,000,000 in unexpended federal TANF funds.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct one-half of their federal self-employment taxes from gross income under the gross income tax.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
In committee · 111
Concerns fees charged customers for certain consumer banking services.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Prohibits discrimination with respect to prices charged by sellers of services.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Requires carriers which offer managed care plans to permit covered person to continue treatment for limited time with a physician no longer employed by or under contract with the carrier for certain health conditions.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Makes supplemental appropriation from the General Fund for State aid to local government units and school districts to replace local tax loss attributable to certain change in taxable value of depreciable business personal property.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Exempts certain children's car seats from sales and use tax.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time students; appropriates $29 million.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
"Children's Environmental Health and Safety Rights Act."
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Establishes priority for the awarding of historic preservation project grants or funding of such grants to certain projects; changes lapsing requirements for historic preservation project grants.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Bars the State and other public entities from paying damages for sexual harassment suits against elected officials.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Provides paid post-retirement SHBP benefits to certain school police officers.
Provides for permanent debarment of school bus contractors for certain violations and makes various changes to school transportation contracting practices.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Provides mandatory minimum term of one year imprisonment for persons convicted of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Continues entitlement to senior property tax freeze although income ineligible for one year.
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY2026 for smoking prevention and education services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY 2026 for community-based health care services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations for hospitals and physicians that provide charity care, long-term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Permits enforcement of seat belt law as primary action.
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at a county correction officer, juvenile detention officer, any sheriff, undersheriff or sheriff's officer or any law enforcement officer an aggravated assault.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain charitable contributions.
Provides gross income tax credit for services volunteered to certain charitable and governmental organizations.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Prohibits the imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for new fire protection systems.
Requires registration of family day care providers.
Provides that committing a domestic violence-related crime in the presence of a child would constitute an "aggravating factor" to be considered by the court in sentencing.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns in three years; requires trigger locking device accompany sales of handguns not identified as child-proof.
Upgrades the crime of employing a juvenile in a drug distribution scheme; imposes a mandatory minimum term of ten years.
Excludes certain deferred compensation of public school and charity employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Establishes "gun free" playground zones.
Makes Division of Criminal Justice investigators and certain probation officers eligible for body armor grants.
Revises standards for the licensing and expansion of cosmetology and hairstyling schools.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $3 million for regional tourism councils and $500,000 for cultural tourism campaign.
Dedicates use of tobacco settlement monies for certain health-related purposes and appropriates $40 million in State funds and $40 million in federal funds to increase Medicaid inpatient reimbursement rates.
Requires employers to provide job counseling services to certain laid off employees.
Increases support for job training programs; provides tax credits to employers for training; appropriates $30 million.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Supplemental appropriation of $5,150,000 to DHS for General Assistance County Administration costs.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Amends FY2001 annual appropriations act to prohibit expenditures on State contract with Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program by $5,000.
Directs Superintendent of State Police to establish a voluntary ballistics identifier program for interested handgun owners.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Requires disclosure of certain information by nonprofit organizations accepting State grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
Requires State and local civil service entities to grant paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighters' associations who attend State or national conventions.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Upgrades penalty for assaulting corrections officer.
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Permits the establishment of athletic codes of conduct; requires sports violence management counseling prior to resuming attendance.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Clarifies the use of external indices by the Director of the Division of Taxation in estimating certain sales tax liabilities.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Provides for establishment of Arts Advancement District Fund and 21 arts advancement districts within State.
Eliminates waiting period for unemployment benefits claimed after September 11, 2001.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Establishes the New Jersey State Endowment for Student Excellence Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $25 million.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.