Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Jack Conners
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Permits members of national Guard to receive tuition-free graduate school education.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
In committee26
Exempts certain children's car seats from sales and use tax.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Exempts sale of certain protective bicycle and skating helmets from sales and use tax.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time students; appropriates $29 million.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring that certain workers accept overtime work.
Extends property tax reimbursement benefits to certain low income veterans.
Establishes Statewide "Gun Buy Back Partnership Grant Program;" appropriates $2 million.
Provides a refundable gross income tax credit for certain prescription drug expenses.
Allows credit against corporation business tax for computer equipment donated to public schools in Abbott and certain other low-income districts.
Provides that the school district of residence for a child in a foster home shall be the present district of residence of the parent or guardian.
Authorizes municipalities to establish photo ID program for senior citizens; appropriates $100,000 from General Fund to DCA for 50% reimbursement of municipal costs.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriation of $6 million to the New Jersey Library Network for a New Jersey Virtual Library.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in State supplementary payments to SSI recipients.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
Provides that transportation of charter school student or aid in-lieu-of transportation will be provided based on certain maximum cost.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Requires disclosure of certain information by nonprofit organizations accepting State grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for a grant to Edgewater Park Township for the Roosevelt Pond Recreation Project.
Excludes certain premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
The "Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 2001;" clarifies and strengthens ethical standards applicable to State officers and employees, special State officers and employees and members of the Legislature.
Allows TPAF members to pay for service credit purchase with rollover contributions from another state's defined benefit plan.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 28
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.*
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.*
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Establishes required funding level for charter school students and revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.*
Increases pensions of certain retired public safety officer members of PERS, CPFPF and PFRS.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Permits aid to nonpublic schools for electronic textbooks.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
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.
Revises the Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount. *
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Makes various revisions to NJ Commission on Native American Affairs.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Permits assistant adjutant general for NJ Air National Guard to have rank of major general.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Eliminates certain requirements applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs.
Vetoed · 2
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.*
Passed the General Assembly · 19
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Provides for payment of annuity to former spouse of deceased PFRS retirant in certain cases.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Prohibits use of Transportation Trust Fund monies to purchase office equipment.
Authorizes Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish NJ Higher Education International Network.
Provides for the establishment of a pilot program to promote exports and makes technical clarification to "New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission Act of 1998."
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Increases loan to value amount permitted under mortgage guaranty insurance.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMAVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 64
Provides low interest loans to persons who need to acquire a new home because they have been forced to vacate their homes due to the presence of hazardous substances.
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.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Increases number of tuition-free credits that a member of the National Guard may earn in undergraduate study and extends credits to graduate study.
Makes FY2000 supplemental appropriation of $15,000 to DCA for a grant to Mt. Holly Gardens Community Center Inc.*
Increases maximum contribution by board of freeholders to county firemen's association and expands permissible uses of the funds.
Establishes public education campaign on dangers of designer drugs; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes a minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids and provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective program aid.
Appropriates $1,350,000 to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
Imposes 5% surcharge on fines imposed on persons convicted of drunk driving; creates "Drunk Driver's Victims Indemnification Fund."
Establishes free smoke detector program in DCA.
Authorizes procedures for identification and preservation of abandoned cemeteries.
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign about meningitis and higher education institutions to notify prospective students about meningitis vaccination; appropriates $50,000.**
Authorizes loan, from funds appropriated from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund under P.L.1999, c.99, for project approved by Economic Development Site Task Force.*
Prohibits assignment of former military personnel to certain automobile insurance rating tiers under certain circumstances.*
Grants paid leave of absence to representatives of New Jersey Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association to attend State or national conventions.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
Supplemental appropriation of $650,000 from the General Fund to DOL for transportation services for sheltered workshop clients.
Provides special license plates for Purple Heart recipients.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 82 as the "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide a security monitor system for Alzheimer's disease patients. *
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Allows physicians and dentists to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions. *
Prohibits police ticket quota for motor vehicle violations.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for grants for certain historic sites preservation projects. *
Appropriates $28,317 to reimburse Division of Fish and Wildlife for payment of Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission dues.*
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Provides that certain surviving spouses of veterans may continue to receive veterans' property tax deduction after remarriage.
Establishes an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."*
Establishes the New Jersey Export Matching Grant Program in the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission; appropriates $250,000.
Creates program to assist small or medium-sized companies in finding foreign business contacts for exporting; appropriates $250,000.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to develop a foreign trade zone incentive program; appropriates $250,000.*
Creates the offense of endangering an injured victim.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
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.
Mandates universal screening of newborns for hearing loss.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Accelerates by one year phase-in of veteran property tax deduction increase.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Supplemental appropriation of $25,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Willingboro Township for veterans' memorial.
Appropriates $4,960,536 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMAVA to assist homeless veterans.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMAVA; appropriates $348,000.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Clarifies military leave benefits for public officers and employees.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Prohibits removal of certain offenders from sex offender registry.
In committee · 172
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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 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.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Provides additional PERS death benefit coverage.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
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.
Supplemental appropriation for FY 1998 of $120,000 from General Fund to DMAVA for Agent Orange/Desert Storm Commission.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Revises law governing access to public records.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
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.
Increases income eligibility for PAAD for individuals with dependent children.
Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
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.
Provides for reduction of at least 15 percent in automobile insurance premium rates.
Waives registration fees for personal vehicles of volunteer firefighters.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DCA for a grant to Willingboro Township for the Willingboro Lakes Nature Preserve.
Allows exclusion of $500 in interest and dividends and $5,000 in long-term capitals gains under the gross income tax; adjusts gross income tax brackets.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Provides credit for time insured to insureds who change from one automobile insurer to another.
Establishes patient health care information confidentiality requirements.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain first-time home buyers.
Extends civil service veterans preference to veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Establishes local option mortgage assistance program for police officers and firefighters.
Establishes enhanced penalties for persons who illegally sell or transfer firearms that are subsequently used in a crime.
Provides mandatory 20-year term for use of a handgun during the commission of certain crimes.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Requires restitution be made under certain circumstances.
Establishes a civil action for the eviction or removal of persons who commit drug-related crimes on leased residential property.
Provides gross income tax and corporation business tax exclusions for certain capital gains from highway corridor redevelopment zone investments.
Permits joint negotiations by physicians with health benefits plans over terms and conditions of their contracts.
Increases penalties for domestic violence-related crimes and offenses if committed in the presence of a child.
Bars the State and other public entities from paying damages for sexual harassment suits against elected officials.
Requires noncustodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Limits amounts patients must pay to obtain copies of treatment records from health care professionals.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Provides for a Statewide network of prevention resource centers; appropriates $1,200,000.
Establishes Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
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.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
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.
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."
Permits enforcement of seat belt law as primary action.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Provides for interlock devices to curb drunk driving.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Requires insurers to cover costs of treating cystic fibrosis.
Requires screening of newborn infants for cystic fibrosis.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns in three years; requires trigger locking device accompany sales of handguns not identified as child-proof.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration standard for repeat drunk drivers.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Requires corrections officers to complete training course before assuming powers and duties.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Establishes special license plate to aid Deborah Hospital Foundation.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Provides for non-accidental death benefit of a survivor's pension for PFRS members with 10 years of service.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Prohibits smoking in shopping malls with certain exceptions.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Makes failing to report insurance fraud a crime of third degree.
Supplemental appropriation of $180,000 to DHS for grant to the Organization for the Advancement of Retarded Citizens, Inc. in Berlin, Camden County.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Makes changes to certain powers, functions, duties and proceedings of BPU.
Requires DOE to develop guidelines for the evaluation and identification of gifted students and establish program guidelines to address their special academic needs.
Provides that $5 million of unclaimed State Lottery prize money be used annually to establish and supplement public school gifted and talented programs.
Makes Division of Criminal Justice investigators and certain probation officers eligible for body armor grants.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Increases membership of Board of Public Utilities from three to five members.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Raises educational requirements for certain law enforcement officers; permits civil service municipalities to adopt higher educational requirements.
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.
Phases out sales and use tax on long-distance telecommunications services over six years.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $3 million for regional tourism councils and $500,000 for cultural tourism campaign.
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.
Broadens the criteria under certain circumstances, for eligibility for 100% exemption from property taxes for the surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Creates "gun free" school zones.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for a volunteer firefighter to respond to a fire under certain conditions.
Establishes farm viability assistance program; appropriates $3 million.
Appropriate $3 million to NJ Agricultural Experiment Station for its "Millennium Agricultural Viability Initiative."
Establishes the "Shelters for Victims of Domestic Violence Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $5 million.
Extends the period of "lemon law" coverage for certain new motor vehicles.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires interruptible gas customers to have a three-week supply of a fuel other than gas available to them.
Amends FY2001 annual appropriations act to prohibit expenditures on State contract with Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group.
Directs Superintendent of State Police to establish a voluntary ballistics identifier program for interested handgun owners.
Provides that DRPA is not a State agency for purposes of R.S.39:5-41.b.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
Increases income threshold for qualifying for farmland assessment.
Requires certain soil testing to be conducted on land considered for participation in farmland preservation program.
Requires certain landlords to pass through electric utility rate reductions to tenants.
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.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Prohibits unsolicited telephone sales calls to certain consumers.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to the DOE for aid to the Willingboro School District to assist with facilities reconstruction.
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.
Requires DHSS to prepare and make available to public consumer guide on reducing prescription drug costs; appropriates $200,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DCA for a grant to the city of Burlington to assist with construction of a city police department public safety building.
Waives hospital patient's informed consent requirement for certain emergency research activities.
Makes fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation of $40 million from the General Fund for State aid to municipalities for Business Personal Property Tax Depreciation Adjustment aid.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
Requires every second class county to establish office of deputy superintendent of elections; authorizes county committees to select nominees for superintendent in such counties; appropriates funds.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Allows refundable gross income tax credit for New Jersey working families with child care expenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Provides State-paid health care benefits to certain divorced spouses of certain retired State employees.
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.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Requires four-quadrant gates to be installed at grade crossings on South Jersey Light Rail Line.
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.
Allocates certain costs of implementing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Authorizes municipalities to impose up to 6% tax on hotel, motel and established guest house room charges.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DLPS for DNA testing of convicted criminals.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to the Department of Community Affairs for a grant to Burlington City for the marketing and advertising of the Cyberdistrict.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Establishes New Jersey Public Health Emergency Study Commission.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Eliminates requirement that municipalities keep certain certificates of searches for municipal liens as permanent record; requires Division of Archives and Records Management to promulgate retention schedule.
Allows NJ SAVER rebate eligibility for homestead owners not qualifying on October 1 to be based on their periods of homestead ownership during the tax year and allows for prorated rebate amount.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.