Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
David C. Russo
Sponsored
Became law8
Enacts the "Uniform Partnership Act (1996)."
Clarifies certain duties of the municipal prosecutor.
Amends "Uniform Anatomical Gift Act" regarding notification to designated persons about option to donate decedent's organs or tissues.
Creates the crime of possession of forged or altered retail sales receipts, universal product code labels and counterfeit checks; clarifies forgery statute.*
Provides certain retirement benefits for workers compensation judges.*
Clarifies that fees are due in Special Civil Part on levy if judgment reinstated or case settled. *
Revises eligibility for and amount of contributory death benefit coverage in JRS.
Authorizes use of the comprehensive enforcement program to collect unpaid municipal court fines.
Passed the General Assembly2
Upgrades disorderly persons offense of shoplifting under certain circumstances.
Permits placement of electronic vehicle identification system transponder upon windshield or upper center of a vehicle's front identification mark. *
Out of committee8
Provides for the establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments, inheritance or awards to pay for child support judgments.*
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from permitting direct solicitation of students for credit card accounts.
Creates 12 additional Superior Court judgeships; establishes a Special Business Part in the Superior Court; provides for appropriations. *
Makes fees for and manner of preparation of court transcripts subject to court rules.
Creates 24-hour hotline to receive complaints of computer crime.
Requires motor vehicle driver operating on a street or highway to make all reasonable efforts to remove accumulated ice or snow from the vehicle; creates fine.
Permits owners of certain properties to file tax appeals directly with Tax Court instead of the first filing with county board of taxation.
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years.
In committee13
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Establishes Institute of Law and Mental Health; appropriates $95,000.
Clarifies duties and responsibilities of municipal prosecutors.
Requires conspicuous posting of Nursing Home Residents Bill of Rights in each resident's room.
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Provides for direct supervision of county and municipal weights and measures officials by the State Superintendent.
Revises present statutes concerning procedures in civil actions relating to notice of pending actions, judgments, collection of judgments and public sales.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for Election Law Enforcement.
Creates certain new criminal offenses aimed at theft from carriers; amends theft statutes.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Governor's School of New Jersey.
Permits county improvement authorities to acquire property to be sold to low and moderate income households.
Appropriates $1 million to Department of State for Ramapo College of New Jersey to create Center for International Education and Entrepreneurship.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; 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.
Creates new motor vehicle offense; clarifies municipal prosecutors' duties concerning plea agreements.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Appropriates $26.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in northern NJ.
Changes interest rate for mortgage loans from PFRS.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 11
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Amends shoplifting statute; establishes grading system similar to theft.
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Delays implementation of cap on grants from Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Remediation, Upgrade and Closure Fund; authorizes reimbursement grants for remediation costs. *
Appropriates $6,587,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to various nonprofit entities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Prohibits smoking on school grounds.
Appropriates $5 million to the Judiciary for substance abuse programs for persons on probation.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
In committee · 19
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Requires municipal master plans under Municipal Land Use Law to be consistent with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Provides for interlock devices to curb drunk driving.
Requires mandatory retirement at age 70 for judges of the Division of Workers' Compensation; amends Public Employees' Retirement System.
Establishes Renewable Energy Trust Fund and Renewable Energy Research, Demonstration and Development Program in DEP.
Requires adoption of emissions portfolio standard under certain conditions.
Authorizes capitalization of income as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
The "School Environment Protection Act of 2000".
Provides affirmative defense against prosecution for child abandonment for parent who voluntarily delivers newborn child to emergency department of licensed general hospital.
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Revises statutes concerning computer crime.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million in tobacco settlement funds to N.J. State Commission on Cancer Research.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Establishes the Administrative Law Judges Retirement System.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.