Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Became law1
Permits local unit to assume outstanding debt of dissolved authority.
Passed the General Assembly2
"Polygraphist Licensing Act."
Provides immunity from civil liability for persons performing animal rescue and authorizes formation of emergency animal rescue response units.
Out of committee8
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000. *
Revises eligibility criteria for senior citizen stabilization aid and increases the per pupil aid amount to $500.*
Requires permanent driver's license suspension for third drunk driving offense.
Increases State aid to municipalities by adjusting for inflation; appropriates $328,725,000 for State aid.
Establishes the "Local Unit Electronic Technology Pilot Program and Study Act," and makes an appropiation.*
Designates State Highway Route No. 72 bridge over Manahawkin Bay as the "Dorland J. Henderson Memorial Bridge"; appropriates $2,500.
Expands law enforcement powers of certain DEP personnel.
Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate.
In committee42
Includes retirees under the PFRS mortgage loan program and makes the program permanent.
Clarifies duration limitations for energy conservation equipment contracts and establishes bidding exception under "Local Public Contracts Law."
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to Department of the Treasury to fund payment to Egg Harbor City for Pinelands Area Municipal Aid.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Requires that signs be posted on certain roads and highways memorializing victims of alcohol-impaired drivers.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Appropriates $100 million from the General Fund to the New Jersey ACCESS Program to extend health insurance coverage to additional families and persons.
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions to VetGroup, Inc. for services for veterans.
Requires fireworks operators to be licensed.
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Regulates power vessels in certain environmentally sensitive areas.
Increases homestead property tax rebates for certain senior, disabled and other claimants with gross income of $10,000 or less.
Precludes independent State entities from entering into certain agreements to enhance an employee's pension benefits.
Permits campgrounds to obtain title and dispose of abandoned travel trailers.
Eliminates compulsory liability and no-fault automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; applies doctrine of contributory negligence in motor vehicle accidents.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Supplemental appropriation for FY1999 of $2,100,000 from General Fund to DMAVA to fund initial construction of Mobilization and Training Equipment Site (MATES).
Authorizes extension of municipal employee health care waiver program to other coverage.
Eliminates strict liability for property owners who set controlled fires under the authorization of the DEP.
Raises "age of consent" for sexual relations from age 16 to age 18, making an adult guilty of sexual assault if the adult commits an act of sexual penetration with a 16- or 17-year-old.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without parole eligibility for sexual assaults committed against children.
Supplemental appropriation of $20 million to DEP for grants to municipalities.
Eliminates waiting period for child previously covered by certain contributory group health plans to qualify for NJ KidCare.
Precludes NJT from entering into certain agreements to enhance an employee's pension benefits.
Revises computation of accidental death benefit payable to beneficiaries of certain members of SPRS killed in line of duty.
Provides that county golf superintendents be in the political subdivision unclassified service.
Holds municipalities harmless with respect to apportionment of certain payments in lieu of taxes made by the State to municipalities under the "Garden State Preservation Trust Act."
Directs Commissioner of Transportation to use monies from Transportation Trust Fund for certain projects.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and State park admission for persons with certain types of military service.
Authorizes certain municipalities to hold regular municipal elections in November instead of May.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program by $10,000 beginning in tax year 2000.
Authorizes Naval combat service license plate.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and the New Jersey State Aquarium and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads.
Directs DEP to take over the ownership and maintenance of Pine Lake Dam, Manchester Township, Ocean county and investigate take over of similar dams; appropriates $100,000.
Allows jail wardens to transfer to and enroll in PFRS.
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Establishes "Interfaith Volunteer Caregiving Pilot Program" in DCA; appropriates $2.25 million.
Provides up to 13 weeks of emergency unemployment benefits.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
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.
Appropriates $39,895,889 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond acts for local government open space acquisition or park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government park development projects.
Permits local units to establish snow removal funds.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Increases pensions of certain retired public safety officer members of PERS, CPFPF and PFRS.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Authorizes 10-year lease purchase agreements and leasing arrangements for the acquisition of school buses.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Appropriates $9 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Increases loan to value amount permitted under mortgage guaranty insurance.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMAVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 26
Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate. *
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.*
Requires casinos to report to Attorney General the granting of credit for purposes of gambling to any officer of a municipality or county or to certain officers of a school district.
Authorizes counties to create environmental commissions.
Creates new penalty for convictions of juvenile adjudications of arson; establishes Arson Investigation Fund.
Appropriates $1,350,000 to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement. *
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.*
Provides reimbursement to municipalities for taxes lost due to totally disabled veterans' tax exemption and administrative expenses.
Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury; imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury. *
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance prohibiting possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by underage persons.*
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Provides for the reduction of the per pupil expenditure of certain constituent municipalities of regional school districts.
Permits sale of motor fuels at other than posted price on the Internet or through similar modalities. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Directs assessor to reassess or revalue complete taxing district in certain circumstances.
Concerns donations to certain charitable organizations.
Provides for aggregation of pension credit to qualify for paid SHBP benefits in retirement.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Establishes two categories of senior citizens stabilization aid and increases the per pupil aid amounts to $500 and $300.
Provides for proper closure of Southern Ocean Landfill, Inc. in Ocean Township, Ocean County, and revises the landfill contigency and closure program.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort. *
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 · 64
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
Establishes spend down eligibility category for PAAD.
Provides a gross income tax deduction from the State gross income tax for donations of certain environmentally sensitive or undeveloped lands, or an interest therein, to the State of New Jersey.
"The Senior and Disabled Citizens' School Tax Rebate Act."
Establishes a New Jersey Coordinating Council on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Generating Facilities.
Requires local approval as condition for prison siting or expansion.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases minimum amount of PFRS ordinary disability retirement allowance from 40% to 50% of average final compensation.
"People's Prison Act;" creates special correctional program for certain violent offenders.
Permits purchase of TPAF or PERS credit for certain service as remedial or supplemental teacher under Title I of federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Amends law regarding motor vehicle speed limits.
Establishes the Public School Educational Funding Commission.
Requires health care workers infected with HIV or hepatitis B virus to obtain informed consent from their patients before performing exposure-prone procedures.
Increases penalties for driving while under the influence.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's pension contributions.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Upgrades death by auto or vessel to first degree crime in certain circumstances.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of incarceration on juveniles who use guns to commit acts which, if committed by adults, would constitute serious crimes.
Requires class I, III and IV members of Municipal Planning Board to be U.S. Citizens and sets forth procedures for appointment of Mayor's designee.
Exempts medical alarm equipment, services and telecommunications costs from the "Sales and Use Tax Act."
Directs State acquisition of Heritage Minerals tract in Ocean County for new State park.
Permits purchase of PFRS credit for certain pre-enrollment temporary service.
Requires State to pay interest on gross income tax overpayments refunded more than 45 days after timely filing.
Provides for polygraph monitoring of sex offenders.
Appropriates $4.9 million from "1996 Economic Development Site Fund" to DEP for Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum/Tuckerton Seaport project.
Prohibits use of property tax for school funding in 1997-98 and thereafter.
Creates the "School Tax Policy Funding Commission."
Provides for interlock devices to curb drunk driving.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Increases membership of Board of Public Utilities from three to five members.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Directs DEP to phase out the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a component of gasoline.
Requires criminal history record checks for all certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides as a condition of recertification.
Requires that chiropractors and physicians be reimbursed at same rate under various health and accident plans.
Increases income limits for Home Care Expansion Program; appropriates $8 million.
Requires health care provider participating in NJ KidCare program to provide all medically necessary health care services to eligible child which provider is qualified to provide.
Prohibits certain employment discrimination against certain volunteer firefighters responding to emergency calls.
Prohibits black bear hunting.
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
Requires State park and forest restroom facilities to include an exclusive family restroom.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to make equitable in lieu of tax payment to certain municipalities.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Grant to Saint Francis Center, located in Long Beach Township, to construct a new swimming pool.
Establishes the "Unsolicited Telephone Sales Calls Act of 2000."
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Increases maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of DYFS.
Requires DEP assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes "Small Downtown Business Incentive Program."
Permits corporation with only one or two employees who are the only shareholders to opt out of workers' compensation.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Appropriates $13,000,000 to DEP from 1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund for certain non-port region dredging projects.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Authorizes nuclear plant guards to possess certain firearms and ammunition.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.