Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Samuel D. Thompson
Sponsored
Became law7
"New Jersey Adult Family Care Act." *
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Permits direct distribution of receipts from miscellaneous revenue to municipal real property taxpayers.
Revises procedures for weighing vehicles transporting construction materials. *
Permits electronic filing and response in regard to certain workers' compensation petitions.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Vetoed1
Excludes gratuities from calculation of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance premiums for limousine or livery services.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.*
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Authorizes municipal ordinances providing for repair and maintainance of dams which serve planned retirement communities.
Out of committee12
Prohibits pharmacists from disclosing certain information concerning prescription purchases for use in commercial solicitations unless authorized by consumers. *
Appropriates to $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $11.1 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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.
Establishes a hospital accounting management system and appropriates $2 million to DHSS.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
In committee26
"Municipal Tax Rate Referendum Act," requires voter referendum to exceed municipal cap on tax rate increases.
Authorizes DMV to offer a red heart-shaped identifying symbol on personalized license plates.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
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.
Allows property taxpayers an additional year to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Includes auxiliary police officers in Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Removes mandate that large municipalities appoint superintendent of weights and measures.
Establishes that passenger vehicles other than police vehicles have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Modifies composition of the State Employment and Training Commission.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
Requires DEP to direct repair of dam order to all residents abutting private lake served by dam.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4.4 million to DLPS for purchase and distribution of thermal imaging cameras for local police services.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Provides additional fair share housing credit to municipalities in substantial compliance with terms of substantive certification for period beginning in 2000.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Concerns basic skills training.
Establishes 5-year "Breast Cancer Screening Grant Fund Program" in DHSS; appropriates $3.8 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund each year for 5 years.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Requires negotiation with employee majority representative for change in State employee compensation plan.
Lowers age of consent for minors to donate blood without parental permission to 17.
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to change any date in the school budget and election calendar due to a conflict with a day of religious observance.
Clarifies certain business and recordkeeping requirements for optometrists.
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime.
Filed2
Requires DOT to prepare litter pickup and removal plan.
Requires negotiation with employee majority representative for change in State employee compensation plan.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 48
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 a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
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.
Approves $16,001,500 in State funding for certain local government open space acquisition projects.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
"Health Data Commission Act;" appropriates $94,000.
Provides hospital patients and nursing home residents with right to expect and receive appropriate pain assessment, management and treatment as integral component of their care.
Makes decisions rendered by independent utilization review organizations under Independent Health Care Appeals Program binding on insurance carriers.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Appropriates $800,000 from 1996 Dredging Bond Act to DEP for a grant for Thorns Creek - Waackaack Creek dredging project in Keansburg Borough. *
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Expands certain veterans' benefits to certain participants in the Lebanon Crisis of 1958.
Establishes required funding level for charter school students and revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.*
Requires NJT to award contracts for construction or improvement of capital facilities to lowest responsible bidder in certain circumstances.*
Allows certain disabled voters to receive absentee ballots automatically in certain circumstances.
Increases pensions of certain retired public safety officer members of PERS, CPFPF and PFRS.
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Eliminates corporation business tax on regular income of S corporations.
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.*
Requires the Administrative Director of the Courts to annually report on the school-based probation program.
Expands access to certain juvenile records; establishes right of victims to attend juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Requires period for which eligibility for Medicaid and NJ KidCare are determined be maximum permitted under federal law.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
Permits certain disabled persons to purchase Medicaid coverage through federal "Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999."
Modifies eligibility for temporary disability and unemployment benefits.
Increases maximum number of allowable members of county board of recreation commissioners from seven to nine and permits adoption of board seal. *
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
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.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Establishes the Spread the Word Program in DOE to provide donated books to certain elementary school children; appropriates $25,000. *
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Permits hospital to make payment arrangements with certain patients as condition of providing services.
Exempts children and victims for the payment of costs related to the maintenance and support of certain institutionalized individuals. *
Appropriates $12,789,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government park development projects.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
Changes certain organizational dates for 2001 for State, county and municipal political party committees.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $8,498,674.
Appropriates $1,056,120 from "Garden State Historical Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 2
Allows covered persons with out-of-network benefits in dental and health service corporations and dental plan organization plans to assign dental benefits to dentist of choice.
Prohibits discrimination in the sale of malt alcoholic beverages by certain breweries to licensed wholesalers in the State.
Passed the General Assembly · 23
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.6 million to DHSS for defibrillator grants.*
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Requires contract provisions regarding violations of federal immigration laws by public contractors.
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
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. *
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
Establishes program to reduce risk from lead-based paint; requires inspection of rental properties for lead-based paint; creates lead-safe housing registry. **
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.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Establishes a quality enhancement grant program in the Department of Human Services to assist after-school programs; appropriates $3,500,000. *
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 84
Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate. *
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
"Parkway Barrier Toll Removal Act."
Requires all EMT's to be certified as EMT-Ds.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
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.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devises to commit harassment or stalking.
Permits a child and dependent care credit against gross income tax.
Requires parental consent prior to the tattooing or body piercing of minors.
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
Authorizes procedures for identification and preservation of abandoned cemeteries.
Allows per diem compensation paid to election day workers to be excluded from gross income under New Jersey gross income tax.*
Permits school board to provide courtesy busing on a space-available basis and to charge parents for the costs.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Establishes the NJ Teacher Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Appropriates $4 million to AOC to reduce juvenile probation officer caseloads.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Appropriates $204,514 to AOC for a Juvenile Central Registry.
Makes impersonating a law enforcement officer a crime of the fourth degree.
Modifies filing and confidentiality of reports of work related accidents. *
Concerns payment of temporary disability payments and workers' compensation settlements for the same injury or illness.
Provides for standardized protocol for autopsies performed in cases where suspected cause of death is SIDS.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Requires health insurers that provide prescription drug coverage to issue standardized pharmacy identification cards. **
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Appropriates $38,154,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government open space acquisition projects.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $29 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians, first responders and youth camp health directors to administer epinephrine.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Establishes New Jersey Medical Error Reduction Study Commission; appropriates $95,000.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
Appropriates $40,440,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government open space acquisition projects; including local "planning incentive" projects in southern NJ.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Allows certain municipal authorities to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
"New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act;" appropriates up to $5,000,000 in unexpended federal TANF funds.
Excludes certain State education funds from the calculation of proportionate share under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Appropriates $6,871,462.01 from "Garden State Historic Preservaton Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants from certain historic preservation projects in northern New Jersey.
Appropriates $502,201.99 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants from certain historic preservation projects in New Jersey.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Appropriates $145 million from "1999 Statewide Transportation and Local Bridge Fund."
Revises payment procedures for New Jersey Merit Rating Plan surcharges.
Replaces one at large position on the Advisory Council on Community Affairs.
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.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to DEP from "Water Supply Fund" for study to assess groundwater contamination from MTBE.
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. *
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Appropriates $66,298,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government open space acquisition projects.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in northern NJ.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition projects.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Exempts sales of returnable plastic containers and pallets from sales and use tax.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Expands property tax exemption of firefighters' organizations which use property for income-producing activities.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Appropriates $10.8 million from various Green Acres bonds funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Appropriates $1,086,158 from 1995 Green Acres bond act for coastal Blue Acres acquisition projects by local government units.
Designates U.S. Highway Route No. 9 southbound bridge over Raritan River as the "Ellis S. Vieser Memorial Bridge"; appropriates $2,500.
In committee · 46
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Clarifies the law concerning the administration of the drug epinephrine to students.
Allows persons convicted of certain drug offenses who are admitted into residential drug treatment to qualify for Work First New Jersey and other benefits.
Requires State Board of Nursing to regulate unlicensed assistive personnel and Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to adopt regulations governing their use by health care facilities.
Requires 2/3 municipal approval of new county improvement authority debt exceeding lesser of $10 million or 10% of total outstanding improvement authority debt in certain counties.
Limits eligibility for parole and probation for repeat offenders.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
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.
Authorizes taxicab operation in certain municipalities.
Eliminates waiting period for child previously covered by certain contributory group health plans to qualify for NJ KidCare.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program" and appropriates $3,000,000.
Exempts physicians who exceed speed limit while responding to emergency calls from penalties.
Prohibits imposition of prior authorization requirement upon pharmacist for monthly prescription drug purchases by Medicaid, NJ KidCare, GA and PAAD recipients.
Prohibits black bear hunting.
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
"Medical Error Reduction Act."
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Jewish Renaissance Foundation for Perth Amboy Medical Health Care Center.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Clarifies the use of external indices by the Director of the Division of Taxation in estimating certain sales tax liabilities.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes an Office of Child Advocacy.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Filed · 4
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Increases penalties for littering.
Revises law concerning employment and training services.