Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law2
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones.*
Allows grace period for payment of rent for governmental assistance recipients. *
Passed the Senate8
Permits establishment of after school recreational and academic enrichment programs in school facilities in Abbott school districts.*
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Provides that certain obligations are eligible collateral under the "Governmental Unit Protection Act."
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Prohibits appointing authority from conducting credit check on job applicant unless approved by Merit System Board.
Permits municipality to phase in assessment increases following revaluation for up to five years. *
Concerns local housing authority crime reporting. *
Out of committee7
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for a grant to the West Ward Cultural Center, Inc., in Newark.
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program" and appropriates $1,500,000. *
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Requires surveillance cameras to be located in multiple dwellings housing senior and disabled persons.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
In committee38
Enacts the "Insurance Disclosure Act."
Permits imposition of continued residency requirement for police and firefighters hired under residency preference by civil service municipalities.
Protects certain politically active employees from retaliatory action by employers.
Clarifies ability of councils under "mayor-council plan" to inquire into municipal administration.
Increases the number of voting board members at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Eliminates provisions for a State-operated school district and establishes program to deal with fraud and mismanagement.
Establishes mechanism ensuring timely consideration of local budgets.
Provides a refundable earned income credit under the gross income tax equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.
Supplemental appropriation of $100 million to DOE for additional Early Childhood Program Aid to fund certified teachers in Abbott district day care center preschool classes.
Requires publication of information concerning automobile insurance rate increases.
Provides schedule for certification of teachers in licensed child care centers serving Abbott preschool students.
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Broadens affirmative action program in Division of State Police.
Grants paid leave of absence to members of the Portuguese-American Police Association of New Jersey to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Establishes the position of Inspector General for State-operated school districts.
Provides State aid to municipalities for certain group homes which are owned by tax-exempt entities.
Requires the Joint Committee on the Public Schools to provide for an independent evaluation of the State-operated school districts.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Appropriates $77 million in FY 2001 to the Newark School District to eliminate the State-operated district's budget deficit.
Establishes November 1 as the uniform age requirement for enrollment in a public school kindergarten program.
Permits retail dealers to dispense motor fuel sold over the Internet.
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Establishes arbitration procedure for resolution of contract disputes between public employees and employers.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund grant to Belleville, in Essex County, to fund budget shortfall.
Requires performance audit on Sports and Exposition Authority and creates "Sports and Exposition Authority Fair Employment Commission."
Prohibits charter schools from being located on the property of a mental hospital or psychiatric facility.
Requires charter school board of trustee members to undergo criminal background checks and mandatory training.
Requires charter schools to appoint a certified school business administrator.
Requires the Commissioner on Higher Education to annually review certain records of fraternity and sorority incidents of violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Eases certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs.
Requires municipalities to install curb ramps that contrast in color with the surrounding pavement; requires State to reimburse cost.
Requires professional domestic violence counseling upon finding of domestic violence or upon conviction for a domestic violence offense.
Provides that cashier's check, certified check or money order be accepted by the court in lieu of cash bail.
Requires tow truck operators to accept payment for services rendered in the form of cashier's checks, certified checks and money orders.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Belleville Township Police department for Belleville Community Court Program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Assures certain benefits to certain police, fire and emergency personnel under certain circumstances in regard to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 or pursuant to an Executive Order by the Governor.
Prohibits sale of certain merchandise at excessive prices during certain emergencies.
Prohibits police ticket quota for motor vehicle violations.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in nothern NJ.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Establishes requirements for ticket brokers concerning the resale of tickets of admission to places of entertainment.
Passed the Senate · 5
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Permits certain district factor group I or J school districts to receive supplemental school tax reduction aid.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Out of committee · 28
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
Makes FY 1999 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for capital construction for renovation and construction of child care centers to implement Work First New Jersey.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour after leaving program.*
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates. *
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand Respite Care for the Elderly Program.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
Provides State aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.*
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
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 the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"The Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act." *
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Prohibits home solicitation of senior citizens for certain home improvement loans under certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $690,000 to Division on Women in DCA to fund Grants to Displaced Homemaker Centers program.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds.*
Permits sale of motor fuels at other than posted price on the Internet or through similar modalities.*
Provides annual utility cost relief for persons using certain medical equipment at home.
Permits certain municipalities to provide five years of revaluation relief abatements and revises restriction on Newark's use of payroll and parking tax revenue. *
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $8,498,674.
In committee · 29
Appropriates $74,500 to NJ Historical Commission for study and identification of "Underground Railroad."
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Concerns special municipal aid and extraordinary municipal aid; appropriates $72,500,000 to DCA for aid and administrative costs.
Adds two commissioners to North Jersey District Water Supply Commission who must be residents of certain contracting municipalities.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Extends expiration date of certain municipally authorized taxes, clarifies State instrumentalities not exempt from local parking tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DHSS for reimbursement to participating health care providers of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey.
Requires electric utility rate reductions to be passed through by landlord to residential tenants.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Requires Apportionment and Redistricting Commissions to use only statistically sampled or adjusted population count for legislative and congressional redistricting.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Establishes limits on medical resident's hours.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires notification for potential license revocation of child care providers and certain health care facilities.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; appropriates $2 million.
"Medicaid Prescription Drug Benefit Act."
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Excludes victims of sexual or child abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
Establishes an annual State aid program to replace the local tax loss occasioned by certain changes in the valuation of depreciable business personal property of certain telecommunications companies.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Establishes the Dana Christmas Scholarship Program; appropriates $50,000.
Filed · 2
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.