Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Bob Smith
Sponsored
Became law1
Eliminates certain requirements applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs.
Out of committee3
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 $317,000 in FY 2001 to the DOE for aid to the Bound Brook School District for extraordinary costs of recovery from Hurricane Floyd. *
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
In committee20
Exempts nonprofit religious corporations from payment of fees for fire safety inspections of certain facilities.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Authorizes issuance of $50,000,000 in general obligation bonds to help finance library construction and renovation and appropriates $5,000.
The "New Jersey Clean Water Trust Fund Act."
Requires institutions of higher education to develop campus security plans.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Establishes a Lupus Erythematosus registry in the Department of Health.
Requires inclusion of community residences for the disabled in "fair share" affordable housing plans.
Establishes the Vendor Information Program; appropriates $400,000.
Requires Department of Labor to adopt air quality standards for public school buildings and appropriates $250,000 to Department of Labor to enforce those standards.
Increase penalties for failure to properly use child restraint systems in motor vehicles.
Supplemental appropriation of $574,736 to Piscataway Township School District for the educational costs of children housed on the Rutgers campus.
Provides for a nonbinding referendum on consolidation of all local and regional school districts into 21 county-based school districts.
Establishes more stringent financial and reporting requirements for health maintenance organizations.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 to Rutgers, the State University for institutional support.
Requires health benefits coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas.
Establishes the Academic Achievement Award Pilot Program in the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority; appropriates $500,000.
Repeals prohibition against "negative check-off" fees on public institution of higher education tuition bills.
Establishes vote-by-mail pilot program for 2003 annual school elections in certain counties.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
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.
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.*
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
The "Private Well Testing Act"; appropriates $1million from safe Drinking Water Fund. *
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Prohibits taking of menhaden in State coastal waters for fish meal reduction.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly · 7
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Expands scope of implied consent for BAC testing to include certain underage drivers who have consumed alcohol.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Allows farmers, under certain conditions, to engage in or accommodate certain nonagricultural business enterprises on perserved farmland. *
Out of committee · 19
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Allows public movers and warehousemen to use electronic warehouse receipts under certain circumstances. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Establishes that police cruisers have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. **
Requires pharmacies to display informational pamphlet about PAAD program; makes an appropriation.*
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.*
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Fund.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Allows certain former judges who resigned in good standing to perform marriages.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
In committee · 60
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 payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
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.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Adds the fact that the crime was committed against a child under the age of 16 as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
"Underground Facility Protection Enforcement Act."
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
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."
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Establishes special priority of acquiring lands in flood-prone areas for recreation and conservation purposes using monies from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund.
Provides enhanced penalties for certain crimes when victim is 65 years of age or older, or disabled.
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.
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns in three years; requires trigger locking device accompany sales of handguns not identified as child-proof.
Establishes first priority of protecting water supplies when acquiring lands using certain dedicated open space monies.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Provides for voter registration at office of registrar of institutions of higher education.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires that Abbott v. Burke parity remedy aid be allocated to county vocational school districts for students enrolled in those districts who reside in an Abbott district.
Prohibits black bear hunting.
"21st Century Transportation Trust Fund Extension Act."
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
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.
Authorizes UEZA to designate an additional zone.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members at State cost.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
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.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Criminalizes certain fraudulent solicitations and collections of funds relating to the events of September 11, 2001 and other mass disasters or acts of terrorism.
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.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.