Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, in the General Assembly and then the Senate.
Kevin J. O'Toole
General Assembly
Sponsored
Became law3
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Increases penalties for violations of Law Against Discrimination.
Requires sentence imposed on inmates for assault on corrections and law enforcement employees to run consecutively to other sentences.
Passed the General Assembly7
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Requires that election of freeholders in certain counties be held by district.
Expands jurisdiction of Palisades Interstate Park Commission to include Essex county.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.*
Permits public comment at meetings of municipal governing body.
Requires testing of newborn infants for maple syrup urine disease.
Prohibits local exchange telecommunications companies from assessing touch-tone service or similar service charges.*
Out of committee6
Permits simulated voting for minors at polling place.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Upgrades criminal simulation.
Ensures the authenticity of certain collectibles.
Requires BPU to enforce new FCC rules on slamming and to institute actions against telecommunications service providers pursuant to agreement with FCC.
Regulates employee leasing companies and employee leasing agreements.
In committee33
Clarifies that defendant who claims self-defense in prosecution for homicide or assault shall be entitled to introduce evidence of past child abuse or domestic violence committed by the victim.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to charge inmates' and detainees' incarceration costs and to place a lien to ensure payment.
Requires school, primary and general elections to be conducted by mail.
Requires certain sex offenders to serve part of sentence in general population prison.
Revises method for payment of certain foundation aid to county vocational schools.
Bars from public contracts for three years employers who are subject to federal sanctions for employment of unauthorized aliens.
Requires DOT to reimburse municipalities for deer carcass removal expenses.
Upgrades crime of unauthorized practice of medicine and law.
Provides that State employees shall have their principal residence in this State.
Requires tobacco products manufacturers to disclose certain information to Department of Health and Senior Services about the contents of the products.
Increases gross income tax deduction for dependent's higher education.
Replaces preference based upon race, ethnicity, national origin or gender in affirmative action programs with preference for persons who are economically disadvantaged.
Provides that gubernatorial debates shall be televised throughout the State; eliminates certain restrictions on eligibility to sponsor such debates.
Allows qualified urban enterprise zone vendors to sell motor vehicles at reduced sales tax rate.
Requires printing of prescription drug's expiration date on drug container label.
Extends line item veto authority of Essex county executive over county budget additional three years.
Creates pilot program in Essex County concerning domestic violence; creates additional Superior Court judgeship for Essex County; appropriates $275,000.
Provides that run-off elections under "Uniform Nonpartisan Election Law" are held the next Tuesday after the first Monday in June.
Requires student to stay in school and maintain at least 2.0 cumulative grade point average to acquire and retain driver's license.
Requires DEP to notify affected municipality of proposed reclassification of surface water quality; authorizes municipality to veto reclassification if found fiscally harmful to municipality.
Establishes standard of care for managed care entities.
Increases the "Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund" by $50,000,000 to finance the installation of automatic fire suppression systems in student resident halls at institutions of higher education.
Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education.
Supplemental appropriation of $15 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Extraordinary Aid Program.
Provides a thermal imaging camera to each fire organization.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHS for creation of domestic violence services unit in Essex County.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Authorizes green warning lights for trauma surgeons.
Requires interruptible gas customers to have a three-week supply of a fuel other than gas available to them.
Increases penalties for trafficking in nitrous oxide.
Requires telephone marketers to identify themselves and their business or organization before asking for a telephone subscriber by name or soliciting business from a telephone subscriber.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retired unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Clarifies the use of external indices by the Director of the Division of Taxation in estimating certain sales tax liabilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; 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.
Phases out the petroleum products gross receipts tax for fuel used to generate certain electricity.
Limits duration of construction permits under certain circumstances.
Revises administrative rule-making process.
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims Fund. *
Concerns prompt payment of and accrual of interest on life insurance proceeds.
Expands indemnification for school board members and employees and establishes a code of ethics for school board members.
Transfers certain State debt service appropriations savings for the purchase and retirement of certain State Pension Funding Bonds.
Requires the Administrative Director of the Courts to annually report on the school-based probation program.
Increases number of members of Fire safety commission to include representative of installers or manufacturers of fire suppression systems.
Appropriates $38,695,000 from the Developmental Disabilities' Waiting List Reduction and Human Services Facilities Construction Fund to DHS.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Authorizes North Jersey district water supply commission to participate in certain flood protection project; requires State to indemnify commission. **
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing. *
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability. *
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
"Foster Parent Licensing Act."
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services for presumptively eligible persons under federal law.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Vetoed · 2
Establishes single personal financial disclosure form for local government officers, candidates for Governor and member of Legislature, members of Legislature and school officials; revises criminal law on gifts to public servants. *
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Establishes sex offender Internet registry.
Establishes a New Jersey Sex Offender Registry available in pamphlet form by subscription or over the Internet.*
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Establishes the position of Inspector General for certain school districts.*
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Requires contract provisions regarding violations of federal immigration laws by public contractors.
Clarifies certain violations concerning changes in telecommunications service providers.
Specifies use of actual enumeration of State's population by Apportionment Commission and Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts.
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Out of committee · 29
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Prohibits certain practices by homeowners' insurers.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.*
Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, but not limited to, education of disabled pupils.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement. *
Concerns workers' compensation for members of paid fire departments.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Permits instruction on the dynamics of family violence and child abuse as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.*
Establishes the NJ Teacher Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
Clarifies procedures with regard to the payment of filing fees by inmates in connection with appeals from administrative determinations.
Requires that administrative rules be written in simple language. *
Requires CATV companies to offer rate discounts to eligible senior and disabled citizens.
Makes supplemental Grant-in-Aid appropriation of $10,000 to the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to coordinate workshops on and disseminate for classroom instruction the video, "We Are Not Alone: Greek Jews and the Holocaust."
Exempts from reenrollment TPAF retirees who serve in certificated administrative or supervisory positions under one-year contract.
Supplemental appropriation of $3,500,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Roselle Park in Union County for flood control project.
Makes supplemental grants-in-aid appropriation of $1.5 million to the New Jersey Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs for expansion of delinquency programs. *
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Allows corporation business tax credit for one-half of the cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Transfers the Bureau of Parole in the Department of Corrections to the State Parole Board.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
In committee · 40
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Establishes criteria for rate increase for water utility that causes environmental problems.
Prohibits pension fund deposits or investments in Swiss banks or financial institutions; prohibits using Swiss banks or financial institutions as financial advisors or intermediaries.
Requires Director of Division of Local Government Services to prepare and provide to tax collectors information notice for certain taxpayers of assistance options in payment of certain delinquent real property taxes.
The Death Tax Elimination Act; repeals the transfer inheritance tax.
"Holocaust Victim Insurance Claim Registry and Relief Act."
The Capital Gains Incentive Act; provides a 50% capital gains deduction for certain capital gains under the gross income tax.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Authorizes timed-growth ordinances under "Municipal Land Use Law."
Limits eligibility for parole and probation for repeat offenders.
Requires insurance carriers to promptly acknowledge receipt of claims from health care providers and insured persons.
Restricts certain activities at public and private schools and child care centers when children are present; directs DHSS to minimize exposure of children to asbestos, lead and other environmental contaminants; appropriates $50,000 for notification costs.
Provides that persons who participated in Nazi persecution shall be ineligible to receive State benefits.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits for misconduct.
Increases membership of Board of Public Utilities from three to five members.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Imposes assessments on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund.
Creates State Debt Retirement Fund to use certain surplus State revenue to retire State long term debt.
Exempts from sales and use tax receipts from sales and use of energy and utility service to counties for their own use and consumption.
Requires labeling of irradiated food.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Reduces unemployment insurance taxes.
Requires carry forward of property tax overpayments and delinquencies of $10 or less to following tax year.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Requires issue advocacy organization using certain candidate information in advertisement to disclose certain financial and other information.
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Requires DOC to reimburse counties at uniform rate for housing State prisoners.
Prohibits unsolicited telephone sales calls to certain consumers.
Makes right turn on red optional rather than mandatory.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to establish memorial program for members of the State Police who were killed in line of duty.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Senate
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Requires election of freeholders by district in certain second class counties.
Requires election of freeholders by district in certain counties.
In committee14
Requires election of freeholders by district in certain second class counties.
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at State juvenile facility employee or probation officer aggravated assault.
Clarifies contracting responsibilities between county executive and freeholders.
Appropriates $1 million to Department of State for Ramapo College of New Jersey to create Center for International Education and Entrepreneurship.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 to William Paterson University of New Jersey for asbestos removal projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to DHS for Urban Crisis Council Day Care Center.
Requires flag of U.S. or flag of NJ purchased with State funds be manufactured in U.S.
Criminalizes certain fraudulent solicitations and collections of funds for relief of a disaster or act of terrorism.
Establishes college scholarship program to pay tuition, room and board and certain other costs of children and spouses of persons killed or disabled in the terrorist attack on 9/11/01.
Permits appointment of election challenger who is not registered voter in county in which challenger is appointed to serve.
Criminalizes certain threats made against voters.
Provides that election day application of challenged voter seeking permission to vote will be heard by panel of two Superior Court judges.
Creates position of assistant county prosecutor for election law violations; makes an appropriation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
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.
Establishes a DYFS Review Panel; provides for additional positions; makes an appropriation. *
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.*
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
Permits simulated voting for minors at polling place.
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Clarifies procedures with regard to the payment of filing fees by inmates in connection with appeals from administrative determinations.
Prohibits certain practices by homeowners' insurers and insurance producers.
Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, but not limited to, education of disabled pupils.
Requires BPU to enforce new FCC rules on slamming and to institute actions against telecommunications service providers pursuant to agreement with FCC.
Regulates employee leasing companies and employee leasing agreements.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001. *
Transfers the Bureau of Parole in the Department of Corrections to the State Parole Board.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in nothern NJ.
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.
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.
Imposes liability on employers who discharge or discriminate against employees for displaying the American flag.
Exempts certain employing units from employee leasing company law.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Revises Medicaid reimbursement methodology for pediatric rehabilitation hospitals. *
Appropriates $15 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain local government units to acquire noncontaminated portions of Ciba Geigy lands in Ocean County for recreation and conservation purposes.
Passed the Senate · 4
Requires notification of certain persons of availability of federal earned income tax credit.
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising concerning merchandise with a manufacturer's rebate.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline food stamp application form.
Out of committee · 10
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Appropriates $38,695,000 from the Developmental Disabilities' Waiting List Reduction and Human Services Facilities Constuction Fund to DHS.
Authorizes North Jersey district water supply commission to participate in certain flood protection project; requires State to indemnify commission. *
Limits duration of construction permits under certain circumstances.
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000. *
"Foster Parent Licensing Act."
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services for presumptively eligible persons under federal law.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Establishes single personal financial disclosure form for local government officers, candidates for Governor and member of Legislature, members of Legislature and school officials; revises criminal law on gifts to public servants. *
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
In committee · 5
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Exempts 1996 and subsequent model year motor vehicles equipped with on-board diagnostic systems from emissions testing; requires check of functioning of on-board diagnostic system; directs AG to recover certain costs of enhanced inspection and maintenance program from federal government.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
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.