Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Nellie Pou
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Appropriates $336,000 to DHSS for urban rodent control programs in the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark.
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
In committee11
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Revises Safe and Secure Communities program; reconstitutes panel; appropriates $9 million.
Provides protection for electricity customers.
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Requires employers and certain health care providers to notify insured pregnant women if their health insurance coverage is not subject to 48-hour maternity law.
Requires children riding tricycles to wear helmets.
Appropriates $3.25 million for Great Falls development.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DHS for grant to Community Action for Social Affairs, Inc. in Paterson.
Appropriates $1.5 million to New Jersey Community Development Corporation to rehabilitate former locomotive works in Paterson.
Establishes the "New Jersey Intergovernmental Transfer Fund" to dedicate unbudgeted federal intergovernmental transfer revenues for new or expanded health care programs.
Revises criteria for certain State contracts awarded to multiple bidders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
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 a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Authorizes State to establish intergovernmental transfer program in Medicaid program.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Makes certain technical corrections to N.J.S.2C:24-4.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Changes interest rate for mortgage loans from PFRS.
"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 · 9
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders. *
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Requires institutions of higher education to annually distribute and publicly post copies of the "Campus Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights."
Permits placement of electronic vehicle identification system transponder upon windshield or upper center of a vehicle's front identification mark. *
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination." *
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 20
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires criminal history record checks for all certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides; requires plan for similar checks to be conducted on other providers of home care services.*
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Establishes "Local Option Mortgage Assistance Program." *
Creates 12 additional Superior Court judgeships; establishes a Special Business Part in the Superior Court; provides for appropriations. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Allocates $2,000,000 in unexpended federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds to the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
In committee · 62
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
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.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
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.
Exempts certain children's car seats from sales and use tax.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
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 that ordinary death benefits to survivors of active PFRS members with at least 25 years' service shall be same as benefits to survivors of PFRS retirants.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 10 years.
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.
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Exempts books from the sales and use tax.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15,000,000 from General Fund to DCA for State aid for allocation to Jersey City and Paterson to relieve municipal property tax burdens in State-operated school districts.
Concerns certain practices of insurers; imposes civil penalties for violations.
Requires health insurance carrier of prospective adoptive parent to cover pregnancy costs of birth parent.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Establishes a contract bond participation program in the NJ Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities' and Women's Enterprises; appropriates $5,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund additional FY 1998 $1.0 million grant to Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development.
Creates "gun free" school zones.
Makes fiscal year 1998 supplemental appropriation of $17,000,000 for special municipal aid by reducing certain excess appropriations.
Supplemental appropriation for $10.0 million to DHSS for grants to community based substance abuse treatment and prevention agencies.
Provides family leave insurance.
Requires installation of sprinklers in all dormitories; creates loan program in NJHMFA; appropriates $70 million.
Gives contractual preferences to gun manufacturers which have pledged to adopt and implement certain manufacturing, firearms design and market practices that will foster firearms safety.
Prohibits DHS from requiring SSI recipients to enroll in HMOs to receive Medicaid.
Provides window of opportunity to file application for homestead property tax reimbursement to persons who did not apply by December 31, 1998.
Supplemental appropriation of $884,000 to DOL for the Passaic County Summer Youth 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.
Provides for nonbinding referendum as to the permanent berthing of the Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey; makes an appropriation.
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."
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Revises definitions in State's child abuse and neglect statutes.
Requires bidder for State contract to enter into agreement with minority or female business when set-aside subcontract required.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
"The New Jersey Electronic Voting Machine Act"; requires use of electronic voting machines in elections.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
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.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child and dependent care expenses.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.