Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Sponsored
Became law2
Allows PERS retiree to resume employment covered by PERS as teacher with higher education institution without suspension of benefits.
Makes various revisions to NJ Commission on Native American Affairs.
Passed the General Assembly2
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Out of committee2
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Concerns local housing authority crime reporting.
In committee26
Broadens affirmative action program in Division of State Police.
Reallocates appropriated funds to pay disabled veterans' retroactive refund claims for property tax payments.
Provides lottery prizes over $600 be offset to satisfy alimony arrearages.
Requires registration of family day care providers.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Requires rental establishments to provide certain information; places certain restrictions on late charges.
Provides additional State school aid to hold certain Abbott districts harmless from aid loss between 1997-98 and 1998-99 school years.
Revises law concerning New Jersey Youth Corps.
Increases amount of realty transfer fees annually credited to the Neighborhood Preservation Nonlapsing Revolving Fund by $5 million.
Provides that committing a domestic violence-related crime in the presence of a child would constitute an "aggravating factor" to be considered by the court in sentencing.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Directs State Police to file annual report with Governor and Legislature concerning motor vehicle stops.
Authorizes special license plates for members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest Greek-letter organization established by Black college women in America.
Provides debt service aid to certain school districts in school year 1999-2000.
Requires payment to municipality for use of municipal services by for-profit lessee of property owned by county or county improvement authority.
Reduces sales tax rate on certain sales and admission charges at places of amusement in urban enterprise zone areas and provides that that sales tax revenue be for municipal purposes.
Provides financial assistance for higher education expenses of former Work First New Jersey recipients after leaving program.
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 issuance of receipt to voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be used as proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election.
"The New Jersey Electronic Voting Machine Act"; requires use of electronic voting machines in elections.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain public employees having combination of State and local government employment.
Clarifies legislative intent with respect to use of certain monies included in the FY 2002 appropriations act.
Provides for additional annual State aid for the Capital City under the Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid program; appropriates $15 million for this purpose and $2.9 million for additional special municipal aid for Trenton.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 32
"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.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Requires proof of valid motor vehicle insurance before release of impounded motor vehicle in certain cases.
Permits a State employees' salary reduction program for qualified transportation benefits and increases the Travel Demand Management Program gross income tax exclusions for commuter transportation benefits.*
Prohibits home solicitation of senior citizens for certain home improvement loans under certain circumstances.
Permits billing of tenants' organizations to maintain certain utilities to rental premises.
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes required funding level for charter school students and revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.*
Increases penalties for violations of Law Against Discrimination.
Provides funding for non-profit energy assistance organization.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Appropriates $45,000 to no-kill animal organization.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
Amends law governing criminal history record background checks for individuals working with developmentally disabled in community agencies.
Permits New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority to refinance outstanding bonded indebtedness of hospitals that cease acute care operations or transition to alternative services.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds 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.
Exempts children and victims for the payment of costs related to the maintenance and support of certain institutionalized individuals. *
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
Appropriates $10.6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in southern NJ.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $8,498,674.
Vetoed · 1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly · 12
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage. *
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Requires testing of newborn infants for maple syrup urine disease.
Authorizes renegotiation of solid waste contracts.
Creates "Faith Based Community Development Initiative" program in DCA.*
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 53
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones and UEZ-impacted business districts; creates three additional urban enterprise zones, one a joint zone. *
Provides for health monitoring after exposure to hazardous substances in residential dwellings.
Establishes registration program for persons who engage in the inspection and cleanup of hazardous contaminants found in former industrial buildings.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Requires all EMT's to be certified as EMT-Ds.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Establishes "Local Option Mortgage Assistance Program." *
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
Provides individual cause of action for unfair practices in the settlement of insurance claims and makes unfair practices subject to consumer fraud law.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,120,000 from the General Fund as grants through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and New Jersey State Opera.**
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Supplemental appropriation of $332,200 to DHSS for grant to Dialysis Seminar and Support Group of New Jersey.*
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
The "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Credit Act"; appropriates $750,000.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Requires that administrative rules be written in simple language. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure trust to make up to $100 million in loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Prohibits heavy trucks on certain sections of State Route 29. *
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities; appropriates $4.6 million in State and $3.6 million in federal funds. *
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DOH.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
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.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
Provides for aggregation of pension credit to qualify for paid SHBP benefits in retirement.
"New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act;" appropriates up to $5,000,000 in unexpended federal TANF funds.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMAVA to assist homeless veterans.
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
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.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of 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.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
In committee · 145
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
Provides that certain personnel of Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor are not confidential employees.
Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality.
Requires new police officers to receive First Responder-D training.
Establishes program in advanced airway care for emergency medical technicians.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Prohibits certain telephone solicitors from blocking caller identification equipment.
Requires certain tax-exempt institutions to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt institutional facilities and are enrolled in the district.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Establishes environmental standards for the sale of electricity.
Establishes demonstration projects for use of fertility control methods for deer and installation of certain roadside reflectors in certain municipalities; appropriates $250,000.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Provides for purchase of certain out-of-state service credit in TPAF.
Supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to Department of Community Affairs to fund West State Street sidewalk restoration program.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Makes supplemental appropriation from the General Fund for State aid to local government units and school districts to replace local tax loss attributable to certain change in taxable value of depreciable business personal property.
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions for services to crime victims.
Prohibits State Treasurer from selecting certain banks to act as custodian of State funds or fiscal agent of the State, or both.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Establishes priority for the awarding of historic preservation project grants or funding of such grants to certain projects; changes lapsing requirements for historic preservation project grants.
Waives registration fees for personal vehicles of volunteer firefighters.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
"New Jersey CARES Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Continues entitlement to senior property tax freeze although income ineligible for one year.
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY2026 for smoking prevention and education services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY 2026 for community-based health care services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations for hospitals and physicians that provide charity care, long-term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Changes the copayment for PAAD when more than two prescription drugs are purchased during any given month and increases the income eligibility limits for the PAAD program.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Establishes special priority of acquiring lands in flood-prone areas for recreation and conservation purposes using monies from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Supplemental appropriation of up to $1 million from the General Fund as grant through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Declares the rights of victims of sexual assault to victim advocacy services.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Establishes Renewable Energy Trust Fund and Renewable Energy Research, Demonstration and Development Program in DEP.
Requires adoption of emissions portfolio standard under certain conditions.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Directs DEP to establish toxic air pollutant monitoring stations in Bergen county and Passaic county; appropriates $420,000 therefor.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Provides for the exclusion of demonstrably effective program aid in the calculation of school budget caps.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes a contract bond participation program in the NJ Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities' and Women's Enterprises; appropriates $5,000,000.
Establishes Truck Safety Advisory Council; increases certain fees related to the operation of commercial motor vehicles to fund truck safety operations in the State Police; doubles motor vehicle points assessed when operators of heavy vehicles violate certain motor vehicle laws.
Places a moratorium on imposition of death penalty until Jan. 1, 2003; creates study commission in interim.
Requires certain counties to establish County Airport Expansion Citizen Review Boards.
Authorizes conveyance of certain NJ National Guard property in Mercer county to Princeton township for public recreation and conservation purposes.
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Requires health care provider participating in NJ KidCare program to provide all medically necessary health care services to eligible child which provider is qualified to provide.
Authorizes Historic Trenton license plates.
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.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program by $5,000.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Directs Superintendent of State Police to establish a voluntary ballistics identifier program for interested handgun owners.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Requires State and local civil service entities to grant paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighters' associations who attend State or national conventions.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Establishes Brownfields Redevelopment Grants Program; appropriates $150 million.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Requires individual and small employer group carriers to offer a new health benefits plan.
Upgrades penalty for assaulting corrections officer.
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Requires review of certain privatization contracts.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $700,000 to the College of New Jersey to renovate the WiIliam Green Farmhouse.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursement to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
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.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline food stamp application form.
Authorizes municipalities to impose up to 6% tax on hotel, motel and established guest house room charges.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Prohibits heavy trucks or truck-trailer combinations on certain county roads.
Designates main office building of DOT as "David J. Goldberg Transportation Building."
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Directs NJ Transit to study expansion of Princeton area passenger rail service; allocates $250,000.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Repeals prohibition against "negative check-off" fees on public institution of higher education tuition bills.
Requires local decision to revoke liquor license be accorded great weight in appeal proceeding.
Filed · 5
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Revises law concerning employment and training services.
Changes Commissioner of Personnel's authority concerning titles; requires public employers to negotiate with employee majority representative for change in titles.
Requires negotiation with employee majority representative for change in State employee compensation plan.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.