Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Nicholas J. Sacco
Sponsored
Became law1
Broadens group of defendants from which blood samples for DNA testing must be drawn.
Passed the Senate6
Provides special license plates for clergy.
Requires rear cross-view mirrors on certain commercial delivery vehicles.
Requires pharmacists, other providers of oxygen or oxygen delivery systems or patients to notify local fire department of existence of oxygen or oxygen delivery system in residential setting.
Requires landlords to maintain list of tenants for emergencies and clarifies that unit owners rather than common interest associations are required to file certificate of registration.*
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.
Authorizes municipality to establish minimum security requirements for bars and taverns.
Out of committee9
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Eliminates motor vehicle registration fees for certain entities.
Requires State's three toll road authorities to comply with Treasury directive on acquisition of certain office furnishings.
Requires DOT to provide traffic information through its website.
Authorizes purchase by DOT of development rights associated with certain public use airports; appropriates $5 million.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an emergency response priority control system pilot program.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance.
In committee18
Makes prisoners responsible for their own support and maintenance and provides the State with a lien for the cost thereof.
Requires cross-acceptance of Hackensack Meadowlands Development District master plan.
Requires NJT to purchase alternative fuel vehicles.
Directs DOT to permit alternative fuel vehicles to operate in high occupancy vehicle lanes and receive the same priority treatment.
Authorizes school boards to adopt a drug testing policy of student athletes.
Appropriates $2 million for emergency projects at Ellis Island.
Requires changes in parking fees and police hiring policies to be approved by the Board of Commissioners of PA of NY and NJ and included in the minutes thereof.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Establishes housing requirements for certain sexually violent predators.
Requires buffer zone between security perimeter of county juvenile detention facility and certain adjacent properties.
Provides Commissioner of Education access to State tax records of the relevant parties in the expedited proceedings contesting a board of education's removal of an ineligible student from the school district.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors.
"Local Bridge Bond Act of 2001"; authorizes bonds for $250 million, appropriates $5,000.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
"Patient Protection Act."
Provides for safety zones adjacent to railroad right-of-way and restrictions on construction of crossings at-grade.
Requires certain elevators to be retrofitted with standardized elevator fire recall keys.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
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.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones.*
Increases the criminal penalties for manufacture or distribution of MDMA, known as "ecstasy," and MDA.*
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Provides for post-conviction DNA testing; allows post-conviction DNA profile information to be used in the investigation and prosecution of other crimes. *
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.95 million.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Passed the Senate · 8
Requires insurance carriers to use "prudent layperson" definition for coverage of emergency health care.
Provides for annual deposit of 20% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in county fund for alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Requires inclusion of certain drugs in instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police promotional examinations.
Imposes mandatory minimum 3-year prison term for theft of a firearm.
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 · 16
Provides for notification to Public Defender of address of indigent defendant owing reimbursement for services rendered.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates. *
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
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.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DHS for grant to Hudson Cradle.
Permits billing of tenants' organizations to maintain certain utilities to rental premises.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Appropriates $150 million from "1999 Statewide Transportation and Local Bridge Fund."
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Establishes offenses concerning the protection of railroad property and interference with transportation. *
Changes car and booster seat and seat belt requirements for certain children traveling in motor vehicles.
In committee · 28
Modifies statute of limitations and eliminates certain defenses in civil cases seeking damages based on exposure to tobacco products.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Establishes PAAD Expansion Program.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to clean up graffiti on buildings.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
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.
Permits municipal law enforcement officers to contract with nonprofit development corporations to provide private security services in certain cases.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DHSS for reimbursement to participating health care providers of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey.
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.
Establishes Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
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.
Provides annual appropriations for hospital and physicians that provide charity care, long- term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Exempts municipal incinerator authorities from motor vehicle registration fees.
Includes retirees under the PFRS mortgage loan program.
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.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
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.
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.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
"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.
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.