Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Herb Conaway Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Out of committee4
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Establishes an agricultural tourism program and appropriates $95,000.
Prohibits police ticket quota for motor vehicle violations.
Mandates universal screening of newborns for hearing loss.
In committee56
Increases income eligibility for PAAD for individuals with dependent children.
Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
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.
Provides for reduction of at least 15 percent in automobile insurance premium rates.
Waives registration fees for personal vehicles of volunteer firefighters.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DCA for a grant to Willingboro Township for the Willingboro Lakes Nature Preserve.
Allows exclusion of $500 in interest and dividends and $5,000 in long-term capitals gains under the gross income tax; adjusts gross income tax brackets.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Provides credit for time insured to insureds who change from one automobile insurer to another.
Establishes patient health care information confidentiality requirements.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain first-time home buyers.
Extends civil service veterans preference to veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Establishes local option mortgage assistance program for police officers and firefighters.
Establishes enhanced penalties for persons who illegally sell or transfer firearms that are subsequently used in a crime.
Provides mandatory 20-year term for use of a handgun during the commission of certain crimes.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Requires restitution be made under certain circumstances.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Provides gross income tax and corporation business tax exclusions for certain capital gains from highway corridor redevelopment zone investments.
Permits joint negotiations by physicians with health benefits plans over terms and conditions of their contracts.
Increases penalties for domestic violence-related crimes and offenses if committed in the presence of a child.
Bars the State and other public entities from paying damages for sexual harassment suits against elected officials.
Requires noncustodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for a volunteer firefighter to respond to a fire under certain conditions.
Establishes farm viability assistance program; appropriates $3 million.
Appropriate $3 million to NJ Agricultural Experiment Station for its "Millennium Agricultural Viability Initiative."
Establishes the "Shelters for Victims of Domestic Violence Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $5 million.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to the DOE for aid to the Willingboro School District to assist with facilities reconstruction.
Requires DHSS to prepare and make available to public consumer guide on reducing prescription drug costs; appropriates $200,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DCA for a grant to the city of Burlington to assist with construction of a city police department public safety building.
Waives hospital patient's informed consent requirement for certain emergency research activities.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
Requires every second class county to establish office of deputy superintendent of elections; authorizes county committees to select nominees for superintendent in such counties; appropriates funds.
Requires notice of temporary disability benefit rights, including for pregnancy.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for New Jersey working families with child care expenses.
Provides State-paid health care benefits to certain divorced spouses of certain retired State employees.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Requires four-quadrant gates to be installed at grade crossings on South Jersey Light Rail Line.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to the Department of Community Affairs for a grant to Burlington City for the marketing and advertising of the Cyberdistrict.
Establishes New Jersey Public Health Emergency Study Commission.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Eliminates requirement that municipalities keep certain certificates of searches for municipal liens as permanent record; requires Division of Archives and Records Management to promulgate retention schedule.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction for repeat offender.
Allows NJ SAVER rebate eligibility for homestead owners not qualifying on October 1 to be based on their periods of homestead ownership during the tax year and allows for prorated rebate amount.
Allows wireless telecommunication equipment to be installed on existing structures on preserved farmland under certain conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 52
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Provides for mandatory minimum five year prison term without parole for persons convicted of certain firearms offenses with prior violent crime convictions. *
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.
Prohibits home solicitation of senior citizens for certain home improvement loans under certain circumstances.
Makes decisions rendered by independent utilization review organizations under Independent Health Care Appeals Program binding on insurance carriers.
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.*
Revises determination of "area in need of redevelopment" in "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law."
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Creates "Main Street New Jersey" program in DCA. ***
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Requires State Health Benefits Program managed care plans to give 90-days notice to enrollees if primary care physician is terminated from plan.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Adds pop-up survivor option to TPAF and PERS retirement allowance options.
Establishes required funding level for charter school students and revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.*
Designated the "Community Health Care Assets Protection Act."
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims Fund. *
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Increases penalties for violations of Law Against Discrimination.
Provides for payment of certain individual and provider claims against HIP Health Plan of New Jersey, Inc. and American Preferred Provider Plan, Inc.; appropriates $50,000,000 from the tobacco settlement proceeds.*
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Appropriates $45,000 to no-kill animal organization.
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.
Establishes Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program; increases penalty for commission of certain sex offenses.**
Revises the Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Establishes a Commission on Early Childhood Education in but not of the DOE.
Establishes an Office of Early Childhood Education in the DOE.
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount. *
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Provides for special volunteer license for physicians who practice under certain limited circumstances.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening.
Provides that prompt payment and claims payment enforcement laws apply to organized delivery systems.
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Permits New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority to refinance outstanding bonded indebtedness of hospitals that cease acute care operations or transition to alternative services.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHSS.
Makes various revisions to NJ Commission on Native American Affairs.
Establishes hepatitis C education, prevention, and screening program and requires reporting of hepatitis C directly to DHSS. ***
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Establishes the Spread the Word Program in DOE to provide donated books to certain elementary school children; appropriates $25,000. *
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services for presumptively eligible persons under federal law.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Permits assistant adjutant general for NJ Air National Guard to have rank of major general.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
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.
Vetoed · 2
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.*
Passed the General Assembly · 19
Requires destruction of firearms replaced by police; appropriates $400,000.*
Provides grants to county prosecutors to combat firearms trafficking; appropriates $5 million.*
Permits conveyance of surplus State real property at no cost to a county or municipality for certain public purposes. *
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Makes possession of tobacco products by minors illegal.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Provides for payment of annuity to former spouse of deceased PFRS retirant in certain cases.
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.*
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Provides for the establishment of a pilot program to promote exports and makes technical clarification to "New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission Act of 1998."
Requires DHS to improve data collection on grandparents raising grandchildren and other forms of kinship care, and to conduct study on impact of Work First New Jersey program on these forms of care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 56
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Requires all EMT's to be certified as EMT-Ds.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Permits members of national Guard to receive tuition-free graduate school education.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Increases number of tuition-free credits that a member of the National Guard may earn in undergraduate study and extends credits to graduate study.
Makes FY2000 supplemental appropriation of $15,000 to DCA for a grant to Mt. Holly Gardens Community Center Inc.*
Establishes a minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids and provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective program aid.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Requires licensure of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billing services.*
Appropriates $1,350,000 to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Imposes 5% surcharge on fines imposed on persons convicted of drunk driving; creates "Drunk Driver's Victims Indemnification Fund."
Provides tax credit for certain corporate taxpayers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain small business employers that provide health care benefits to employees.
Provides for the establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments, inheritance or awards to pay for child support judgments.*
Grants paid leave of absence to representatives of New Jersey Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association to attend State or national conventions.
Amends shoplifting statute; establishes grading system similar to theft.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Adds a new Governor's School and appropriates an additional $609,160 to the Governor's Schools in FY 2000.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Allows physicians and dentists to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions. *
The "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Credit Act"; appropriates $750,000.
Requires criminal history record background checks for child care center employees.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Requires health insurers that provide prescription drug coverage to issue standardized pharmacy identification cards. **
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."*
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for health care professionals and facilities concerning postpartum depression; appropriates $50,000.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey to support its Breast Cancer Awareness Project.
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Supplemental appropriation of $25,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Willingboro Township for veterans' memorial.
Appropriates $4,960,536 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMAVA to assist homeless veterans.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
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.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Prohibits removal of certain offenders from sex offender registry.
In committee · 144
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
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.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
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.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
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.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
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.
Exempts sale of certain protective bicycle and skating helmets from sales and use tax.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time students; appropriates $29 million.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring that certain workers accept overtime work.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Establishes Statewide "Gun Buy Back Partnership Grant Program;" appropriates $2 million.
Provides a refundable gross income tax credit for certain prescription drug expenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
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.
Requires insurer that provides prescription drug coverage to provide verification of coverage to pharmacists from date that coverage becomes effective.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Provides for a Statewide network of prevention resource centers; appropriates $1,200,000.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
"New Jersey CARES Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
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."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Permits enforcement of seat belt law as primary action.
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Establishes additional criterion for BPU approval of certain regulatory petitions by local exchange telecommunication companies.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Requires that all forms of public records be available for copying; sets uniform pricing policy for public records.
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
Repeals surcharge paid by insurers of school boards not in SHBP; requires payment of surcharge amounts for FY97, FY98 and FY99 to schools boards.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
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.
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Provides for interlock devices to curb drunk driving.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
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.
Clarifies and strengthens domestic violence training requirements for law enforcement officers; appropriates $250,000.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Prohibits insurers from discriminating against insureds on the basis of domestic violence.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Requires insurers to cover costs of treating cystic fibrosis.
Requires screening of newborn infants for cystic fibrosis.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Upgrades the crime of employing a juvenile in a drug distribution scheme; imposes a mandatory minimum term of ten years.
Requires corrections officers to complete training course before assuming powers and duties.
Permits regulation by ordinance of location of newspaper vending machines.
Establishes special license plate to aid Deborah Hospital Foundation.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
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.
Provides for non-accidental death benefit of a survivor's pension for PFRS members with 10 years of service.
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.
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.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Increases membership of Board of Public Utilities from three to five members.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Raises educational requirements for certain law enforcement officers; permits civil service municipalities to adopt higher educational requirements.
Directs DEP to establish toxic air pollutant monitoring stations in Bergen county and Passaic county; appropriates $420,000 therefor.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
"New Jersey Health Maintenance Organization Consumer Protection Act."
Provides additional $20 million in hospital charity care subsidy payments for fiscal year 1999.
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 fee-for-service Medicaid to reimburse for anesthesiologist services at 80% of the average HMO commercial rate.
Allows credit against corporation business tax for computer equipment donated to public schools in Abbott and certain other low-income districts.
Provides that the school district of residence for a child in a foster home shall be the present district of residence of the parent or guardian.
Authorizes municipalities to establish photo ID program for senior citizens; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to DCA for 50% reimbursement of municipal costs.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriation of $6 million to the New Jersey Library Network for a New Jersey Virtual Library.
"Health Care Provider Joint Negotiation Act."
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in State supplementary payments to SSI recipients.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Provides that transportation of charter school student or aid in-lieu-of transportation will be provided based on certain maximum cost.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Amends FY2001 annual appropriations act to prohibit expenditures on State contract with Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group.
Permits candidate for office to include professional designation on petition of nomination, ballot of any kind, canvas of votes or for any other purpose.
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.
Provides that DRPA is not a State agency for purposes of R.S.39:5-41.b.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Requires disclosure of certain information by nonprofit organizations accepting State grants for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
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.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Upgrades penalty for assaulting corrections officer.
Prohibits unsolicited telephone sales calls to certain consumers.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for a grant to Edgewater Park Township for the Roosevelt Pond Recreation Project.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Makes fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation of $40 million from the General Fund for State aid to municipalities for Business Personal Property Tax Depreciation Adjustment aid.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Supplemental appropriation of $130,000 to DLPS to be allocated to the Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy for a domestic violence counseling and shelter grant.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
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 minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
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.
The "Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 2001;" clarifies and strengthens ethical standards applicable to State officers and employees, special State officers and employees and members of the Legislature.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DLPS for DNA testing of convicted criminals.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defribrillator.
Prohibits nonprofit organization from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party except pursuant to written policy.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.