Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph R. Malone III
Sponsored
Became law5
Requires State Health Benefits Program managed care plans to give 90-days notice to enrollees if primary care physician is terminated from plan.
Approves funding eligibility of certain farmland preservation projects in central NJ.
Permits religious or charitable organization to lease property to other tax-exempt entities without loss of property tax exemption.
Amends CAFRA to exempt enclosure of certain commercial developments from DEP's permitting requirements.
Concerns graduated driver licensing and the responsibilities and standards of private driving schools.
Vetoed3
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. *
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees in Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.*
Adds two elected employee members to State Health Benefits Commission.
Passed the General Assembly7
Authorizes county vocational schools and technical institutes to employ non-certified persons in post-secondary and adult continuing education programs.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Extends the deadline for submission of a long-range facilities plan for certain school districts.
Authorizes public entities to use asphalt millings and recyclable concrete as a surface material for roads, pathways and parking lots. *
Authorizes the establishment of a central New Jersey consortium for driver safety; appropriates $90,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DLPS for grant to Chesterfield Township for the purchase of three police patrol vehicles.
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Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $650,000 from the General Fund to DOL for transportation services for sheltered workshop clients.
Makes fiscal year 2001 supplemental appropriations of $94,078,500: $57,080,000 from the General Fund and $36,998,500 from the Property Tax Relief Fund, and makes appropriations from other funds for clean water and sanitary landfill closure purposes. *
Directs Ocean County Soil Conservation District to conduct soil health study; appropriates $1.5 million.
Amends graduated driver's license law and 10 year driver's license law.*
Requires DCA to establish procedures for electronic tax lien sales by municipalities.
Creates a drunk driver visitation program.
Requires counseling for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for cruelty to animals.
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Enhances responsibilities and standards of private driving schools; appropriates $70,000.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million. *
Appropriates $1,400,000 to DHSS for grants to certain geriatric assessment centers.
Appropriates $200,000 for pilot program to provide commercial driver training to State Prison inmates.
Supplemental appropriation of $25,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Willingboro Township for veterans' memorial.
Appropriates $3,150,000 to DOE for aid to the Lakewood School District to offset school district budget deficit and for the appointment of a State monitor of the district. *
Raises threshold for public advertisement of contracts under "County College Contracts Law."
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires providers of goods and services to the State and casinos and certain subcontractors to register their business and obtain tax clearance certificates.
Concerns certifications of registration and promulgation of regulations in connection with the siting, location and operations of mines and quarries.
Allows State or local government employee having duties related to state of emergency to accumulate vacation leave until used or compensation is paid therefore.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
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Enacts the "Senior Citizens Protection Act;" authorizes municipalities to create senior citizen zones; imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Permits evidence of prior convictions or juvenile adjudications in certain criminal cases.
Prohibits sale of certain packaged food items.
Holds Probation Division of AOC liable for amount of child support to be withheld from obligor's income if an income withholding is not initiated immediately.
Permits regulation by ordinance of location of newspaper vending machines.
Permits the refurbishment of school buses to extend the life of the bus by eight years.
Requires voter approval of change in designated district of domicile for certain pupils who reside in a multi-district federal enclave.
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include door-to-door sales by students.
Requires State responsibility for the educational costs of children in foster homes.
Designates "John Bull" as NJ State steam locomotive.
Makes clear that use of county voter registration lists by public school of any type or public institution of higher education for certain purposes does not constitute commercial solicitation of voters.
Provides that distressed estate sales of parcels of property in retirement communities under certain conditions are bona fide sales for determining the assessed value of such property.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Requires annual inspection of potentially dangerous species facilities.
Establishes special license plate to aid Deborah Hospital Foundation.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to DLPS for State Police High Technology Crime Unit.
Requires a board of education providing certain services to nonpublic school pupils to provide consultation with representatives of the nonpublic school on any change in the provision of services.
Requires school districts to offer instruction in the prevention of violence; appropriates $1,000,000.
Provides sales tax exemption for purchase of automobile to replace stolen vehicle to extent of insuror's indemnification for theft.
Amends graduated licensing law.
Includes local emergency management volunteers in Emergency Services Volunteer Length of Service Award Program.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for certain unreimbursed charges for medical services to hospital care payment assistance eligible patients.
Allows senior and disabled homeowners to collect both the NJSAVER rebate and the homestead rebate.
Requires school districts to share the costs of out-of-district placement for classified pupil whose parents share joint physical custody.
Require joint municipal planning board review of long-range facilities plans developed by regional school districts.
Requires the State to pay the cost of providing a thorough and efficient education for pupils in certain State facilities.
Requires applicant for special learner's permit to complete course in substance abuse driver education.
Requires registration of telemarketing companies.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Extends employment security to certified fire officials and inspectors under certain conditions.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMAVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Requires certain employees to have driver's license to operate motor vehicle on private property.
Provides supplemental State aid in the case of the dissolution of a limited purpose regional school district or termination of a sending-receiving relationship.
Requires public institutions of higher education to ensure that teaching assistants have effective teaching skills.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
Allows surviving spouses who remarry to continue to receive PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits.
Mandates training of school bus drivers.
Changes method of railroad franchise taxation.
Supplemental appropriation of $337,500 to DMAVA for personnel and equipment at the veterans memorial cemetery.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
Establishes hospital-based medication monitoring pilot program in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Revises criteria for awarding certain State contracts to multiple bidders.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to the Department of State for the Educational Opportunity Fund Program.
Revises the calculation of State aid for school facilities projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission to benefit horsemen.
Filed1
Requires providers of goods and services to the State and casinos and certain subcontractors to register their business with the Division of Revenue.
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Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
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.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Requires insurers to provide certain notice concerning flood insurance.*
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 transportation or in-lieu-of payments to certain nonpublic school pupils.*
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Establishes a Commission on Early Childhood Education in but not of the DOE.
Establishes an Office of Early Childhood Education in the DOE.
Revises mission of the New Jersey School of the Arts to provide assistance to secondary schools in meeting Visual and Performing Arts Standards.*
Expands definition of Circle of Mobility to include commuter rail service in Central New Jersey.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening.
Authorizes State to establish intergovernmental transfer program in Medicaid program.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to New Jersey Prostate Cancer Research Fund.
Provides for principal location of "New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center" in Phillipsburg, with satellite location in Netcong.
Increases maximum number of allowable members of county board of recreation commissioners from seven to nine and permits adoption of board seal. *
Extends transportation services to nonpublic school pupils who reside in certain regional and consolidated school districts that provide aid in-lieu-of payments. *
Makes supplemental appropriations of $31,539,500 from the General Fund for certain purposes. **
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
"Foster Parent Licensing Act."
Establishes the Spread the Word Program in DOE to provide donated books to certain elementary school children; appropriates $25,000. *
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Appropriates $14.75 million from the "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in southern NJ.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
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.
Appropriates $12,886,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
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"State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Extends certain veterans' benefits to include veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Establishes the position of Inspector General for certain school districts.*
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services. *
Provides for acquisition, receipt, warehousing and allocation or sale of certain surplus property, other than real property, for State, county, municipal or school district purposes, appropriates $75,000.*
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMAVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the Disaster Fund for Children of New Jersey.
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Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
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.
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.*
Appropriates $21,480,950,000 in State funds and $8,009,987,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2000-2001.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury; imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury. *
Renames the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation as the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
The "Education Incentive Funding Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Adds a new Governor's School and appropriates an additional $609,160 to the Governor's Schools in FY 2000.*
Requires at least 10% of residents in new assisted living facilities be Medicaid-eligible.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide a security monitor system for Alzheimer's disease patients. *
Appropriates $22,927,403,000 in State funds and $8,333,566,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2001-2002.
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
The "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Prohibits use of non-fence materials to mark property boundaries unless such material is visible to certain persons; makes violation a crime of fourth degree.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand Respite Care for the Elderly Program.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million. *
Exempts sale and repair of limousines from sales and use tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,650,000 to DLPS for local police video camera and audio recording equipment grants.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. **
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Appropriates $200,000 to New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education for programs to promote an environmentally responsible citizenry. *
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
Revises certain endorsements to the instructional certificate, requires certified teachers in licensed child care centers located in early childhood program aid districts, and establishes a loan program to assist in the attainment of certification. **
Makes certain acts of animal cruelty crimes of the fourth degree; requires juveniles adjudicated delinquent for certain animal cruelty offenses to receive court-ordered psychological counseling. **
Requires law enforcement agencies to impound vehicles of persons arrested for DWI and to issue responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of persons arrested for DWI. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Appropriates $10 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Permits students to satisfy high school graduation requirements by taking practical arts courses.
Establishes a fund through which a receiving district would be reimbursed if it has to refund tuition moneys to a sending district because of an overpayment; appropriates $3 million.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort. *
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction. *
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
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Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Requires candidates for teaching certificates beginning in 2000-2001 school year to receive training in special education.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Appropriates $36,000 to the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School for C.H.A.N.G.E.S. Program.
Requires local approval as condition for prison siting or expansion.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Allows municipalities to form Municipal Community Services Review Committees to review certain DHS, DOH and DCA proposed actions.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Changes the calculation of TPAF post-retirement death benefit.
Requires owner of closing mobile home park to provide relocation or compensation to mobile homeowners.
Extends the senior citizen's property tax deduction to certain qualified persons who reside in mobile home parks.
Permits certain TPAF veteran retirees to receive paid health benefits under State Health Benefits Program.
Designated the "Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act."
Eliminates option of waiving mandatory minimum terms in certain drug related cases and eliminates plea bargaining in those cases.
Requires certain information to be printed on invoices and delivery tickets for liquefied petroleum gas.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Provides for certain contracting arrangements by dental plan organizations.
Eliminates sales and use tax on maintenance of a residential septic system.
Grants local government budget cap exception for personnel costs of employees in military reserves and NJ National Guard activated for NATO action in Yugoslavia.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Requires DOE to develop guidelines for the evaluation and identification of gifted students and establish program guidelines to address their special academic needs.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Provides for the establishment of county units to coordinate special education services for students with educational disabilities; appropriates $6 million.
Provides that $5 million of unclaimed State Lottery prize money be used annually to establish and supplement public school gifted and talented programs.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to videotape certain New Jersey veterans; appropriates $100,000.
Directs DEP to phase out the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a component of gasoline.
Provides fiscal rewards to school districts with low administrative expenditures.
Provides New Jersey certification as a school administrator or principal to any applicant with similar certification in another State.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Increases PAAD income eligibility standards and requires certain recipients to pay higher copayments for prescriptions.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.
Revises "Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund" bonded indebtedness cap from a floating cap or $550,000,000 of debt outstanding to a fixed cap of $550,000,000 of aggregate debt issued.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
Authorizes Commissioner of Labor to issue certifications and promulgate regulations in connection with the siting, location and operation of mines and quarries.
Changes motor vehicle seating and seat belt requirements pertaining to child passengers.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Revises the solid waste services tax.
Appropriates $165,000 for the Popcorn Park Zoo.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain reconstructive surgery and habilitative treatments for craniofacial abnormalities.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Adds a second faculty member to the Commission on Higher Education.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Prohibits school board members removed from office upon creation of State-operated district from serving on board during State operation of district.
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to impound vehicles of persons arrested for DWI and to issue responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of persons arrested for DWI.
Revises certain eligibility and reporting requirements for the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Requires that student's disciplinary records be transferred to receiving district when student transfers districts.
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of certain volunteer organizations.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to establish memorial program for members of the State Police who were killed in line of duty.
Eliminates criteria qualified voter must meet to receive military or civilian absentee ballot.
Adds the third degree crime of burglary to the list of third degree offenses for which the presumption of nonincarceration shall not apply.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and the New Jersey State Aquarium and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for Osteoporosis Prevention and Education grants.
Provides minimum retirement benefit to TPAF and PERS members with 20 or more years of service.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.7 million to DMAVA for capital improvements to Jersey City armory.
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.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Authorizes creation of 28th UEZ in Beverly City, Burlington County.
Establishes Community Partners for Neighbors in Need program in DHSS; appropriates $3.5 million.
Allows certain surviving spouses to receive a PERS retirement allowance.
Provides for appointment of additional sending district representatives to certain receiving district boards of education and expands voting rights of the representatives.
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The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.