Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
John A. Girgenti
Sponsored
Became law4
Raises maximum age for appointment for exempt firemen to 45.
Permits regional school boards to provide voters with information on the ballot as to the constituent municipality's share of district's budget.
Prevents consumer fraud in the preparation, distribution and sale of food represented as halal.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
Passed the Senate5
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Permits counties to use forfeiture moneys for certain criminal offender information systems. *
Requires inclusion of certain drugs in instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Establishes public education campaign on dangers of designer drugs; appropriates $50,000.
Increases capital improvement fund in New Jersey Education Facility Authority by $90,000,000 to finance installation of automatic fire supression systems in student resident halls at high schools and institutions of higher education.*
Out of committee3
Supplemental appropriation of $360,000 to Division of Fire Safety in Department of Community Affairs for incident management training programs.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
Directs DMV to reopen Paterson motor vehicle agency.
In committee11
Provides for establishment of health enterprise zones.
Clarifies duties and responsibilities of municipal prosecutors.
Increases ordinary term of imprisonment for crimes of aggravated sexual assault; provides for presumptive sentence of 20 years.
Extends prohibition of certain organizations to all public schools.
Includes public housing, park, building zone violators in extended term statute; sets minimum extended term of 5 years for school zone violators with prior distribution conviction.
Permits salary limitation on judges serving on recall basis to be exceeded in certain circumstances.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Supplemental appropriation of $5.9 million to Judiciary and DHSS for probation personnel, drug testing and drug treatment.
Requires DCA to prepare and publish fire inspection handbook.
Provides fire service equipment grants directly to governing fire organizations; appropriates $7 million.
Requires annual certification of certain fire inspections, establishes Fire Inspection Relief Entitlement grant program, appropriates $3.5 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Assures certain benefits to certain police, fire and emergency personnel under certain circumstances in regard to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 or pursuant to an Executive Order by the Governor.
Prohibits sale of certain merchandise at excessive prices during certain emergencies.
Requires criminal history record checks for all certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides; requires plan for similar checks to be conducted on other providers of home care services.*
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones.*
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
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.*
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Appropriates $6,871,462.01 from "Garden State Historic Preservaton Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants from certain historic preservation projects in northern New Jersey.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.95 million.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Passed the Senate · 13
Increases annual charity care amount to $345 million and appropriates $30 million in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid fee-for-service hospital rates.
Provides for annual deposit of 20% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in county fund for alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Imposes mandatory minimum 3-year prison term for theft of a firearm.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
Makes supplemental grants-in-aid appropriation of $1.5 million to the New Jersey Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs for expansion of delinquency programs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Requires payment of restitution to victims.
Establishes "The Project Exile and Operation Ceasefire Enforcement Act of 2000" to strengthen prosecution of firearms crimes; appropriates $5 million.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights by public officials.
Out of committee · 29
Makes a designated fire command structure a required element in county emergency operations plans involving responses to mutual-aid fires.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.*
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates. *
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
Revises funding provision of PFRS.*
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; 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.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs. *
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
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.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000.*
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs.**
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Appropriates $200,000 in capital funding to DMVA for State Police training facility in Sea Girt.
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the OAG within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Requires trials to be commenced within six months of indictment by State grand jury.
Excludes gratuities from calculation of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance premiums for limousine or livery services.
In committee · 43
Modifies budget language concerning rebates received by the PAAD program.
Modifies statute of limitations and eliminates certain defenses in civil cases seeking damages based on exposure to tobacco products.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Establishes PAAD Expansion Program.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
Establishes registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with mechanical devices for handicapped.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Makes fiscal year 1998 supplemental appropriation of $17,000,000 for special municipal aid by reducing certain excess appropriations.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DHSS for reimbursement to participating health care providers of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey.
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.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires all school buses to be equipped with seats of a minimum height and seat belts.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Provides annual appropriations for hospital and physicians that provide charity care, long- term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Requires Apportionment and Redistricting Commissions to use only statistically sampled or adjusted population count for legislative and congressional redistricting.
Establishes the position of Inspector General for State-operated school districts.
Provides State aid to municipalities for certain group homes which are owned by tax-exempt entities.
Includes retirees under the PFRS mortgage loan program.
Makes imposition of nonincarcerative penalties mandatory for persons, including juveniles, who are diverted for drug offenses.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of carbon monoxide detectors and any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
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.
Establishes limits on medical resident's hours.
Provides that certain offenders may spend the anniversary of the commission of a violent crime in solitary confinement.
Creates the "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act;" making an appropriation.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2 million to the Department of State for a grant to the John Harms Center for the Arts for debt reduction.
Establishes Department of State Police.
The "New Jersey State Corrections Officers Act," clarifies rights, privileges, powers and protections afforded State corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Excludes victims of sexual or child abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
Establishes an annual State aid program to replace the local tax loss occasioned by certain changes in the valuation of depreciable business personal property of certain telecommunications companies.
Permits municipalities without full-time police forces to appoint Class I Special Law Enforcement Officers.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Upgrades penalties for the crimes of manslaughter and eluding a law enforcement officer in certain circumstances.
Includes survivors of Port Authority police killed in the line of duty in the State tuition assistance program.
Filed · 2
Provides for presumption of death for persons exposed to catastrophic events.
Concerns certain public benefits available to persons affected by September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on US.