Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Francis J. Blee
Sponsored
Became law9
Grants to certain probation officers in new unit certain powers of enforcement and authority to carry firearms subject to Supreme Court rule. **
Permits municipal clerk to designate other municipal official to receive and index filings under landlord registration law.
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Revises funding provision of PFRS.*
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.
Establishes hepatitis C education, prevention, and screening program and requires reporting of hepatitis C directly to DHSS. ***
Provides Medicaid coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services for presumptively eligible persons under federal law.
Provides pension benefit to certain survivors of certain PFRS members.
Passed the General Assembly3
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services. *
Modernizes New Jersey emergency management laws.
Out of committee22
Authorizes issuing special license plates to motorcycles.
The "Education Incentive Funding Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Budget language exempting certain nursing facilities from certain regulations affecting nursing facilities.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Requires the licensing of armored car security officers and the registration of their employers.
Prohibits DHSS from altering State's Medicaid reimbursement system affecting nursing facilities.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.5 million to the DHS for distribution of grants in equal amounts to all county ARCs.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million. *
Establishes loan program to rehabilitate military monuments; appropriates $600,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to the Department of Law and Public Safety for the State Athletic Control Board medical examinations for professional boxers.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Appropriates $2.3 million to the DEP for Absecon Bay/Lakes Bay dredging.
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
Allocates $2,000,000 in unexpended federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds to the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Supplemental appropriation of up to $1,000,000 to DLPS for domestic terrorism preparedness.
Establishes the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Allows gross income tax deduction for purchase of residential fire safety equipment.
Revises payment procedures for New Jersey Merit Rating Plan surcharges.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Establishes the New Jersey Commission on Programs for Gifted Students; appropriates $5,000. *
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission.
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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.
Requires DOE to develop guidelines for the evaluation and identification of gifted students and establish program guidelines to address their special academic needs.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Authorizes VCCB to make payments for tuition of crime victims and families.
Establishes "gun free" playground zones.
Provides for 12-month registration cycle for commercial motor vehicles.
Provides property tax relief grants for certain municipalities, appropriates $21.1 million.
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.
Requires DOT notice to municipalities of certain over width loads.
Establishes State and local government gainsharing programs; appropriates $3.5 million.
Permits annual county and municipal contributions of $1500 to not-for-profit inflammatory bowel disease organizations.
Makes Division of Criminal Justice investigators and certain probation officers eligible for body armor grants.
Permits parking of vehicles with "Disabled Veteran" license plates in spaces reserved for the handicapped.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Requires school boards to adopt a voluntary substance abuse testing policy for student athletes.
Revises certain procedures for the receipt of State matching funds against contributions and donations made to institutions of higher education and institutional foundations.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.
The "New Jersey Higher Education Performance -Based Accountability Act."*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain reconstructive surgery and habilitative treatments for craniofacial abnormalities.
Adds a second faculty member to the Commission on Higher Education.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Requires agencies to apply for federal funding prior to receiving State body armor replacement grants.
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Allows certain State criminal investigators to transfer to PFRS.
Establishes the New Jersey Higher Education Internship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Authorizes municipalities situated in regional growth areas within Pinelands Area to adopt timed growth ordinances under certain circumstances.
Establishes Hospital Emergency Services Development Fund in DHSS to assist hospitals in creating emergency services clinics for patients who do not require acute care or trauma care; appropriates $9 million.
Establishes regional fetal alcohol syndrome diagnostic, treatment and education centers; appropriates $1 million.
Repeals hospital payment requirement for Health Care Subsidy Fund and Health Care Quality Monitoring Fund and per adjustment admission charge.
Permits a school district to use certain funds to establish a scholarship foundation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Provides for mandatory minimum five year prison term without parole for persons convicted of certain firearms offenses with prior violent crime convictions. *
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 Jersey Cultural Trust.
"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.
Requires insurers to provide certain notice concerning flood insurance.*
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.*
Appropriates from "Water Supply Fund" $5.5 million for assessment of Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer and $2 million for various water resource studies and assessments in Cape May county.**
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 required funding level for charter school students and revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.*
Establishes the "Tony Pompelio Commemorative Scholarship Fund" for the children of crime victims.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Increases penalties for violations of Law Against Discrimination.
Eliminates parity remedy aid and additional Abbott v. Burke State aid in the calculation of tuition for school districts which send pupils to an Abbott district.*
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Requires the Administrative Director of the Courts to annually report on the school-based probation program.
Expands access to certain juvenile records; establishes right of victims to attend juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Establishes Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program; increases penalty for commission of certain sex offenses.**
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Revises law concerning award of State contracts to multiple bidders.
Provides that landlord of commercial property must follow lease terms controlling disposal of abandoned tenant property.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
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.
Permits certain disabled persons to purchase Medicaid coverage through federal "Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999."
Amends "Uniform Anatomical Gift Act" regarding notification to designated persons about option to donate decedent's organs or tissues.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Extends State-paid post-retirement SHBP benefits to State Police officers upon mandatory retirement with more than 20 but fewer than 25 years of service. *
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 $9 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Appropriates $6 million to DHSS for additional charity care payments to Atlantic City Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center.
Vetoed · 2
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.*
Allows covered persons with out-of-network benefits in dental and health service corporations and dental plan organization plans to assign dental benefits to dentist of choice.
Passed the General Assembly · 29
"State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act."
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Prohibits applicant for, or holder of, casino license, and certain casino-related companies, as well as certain high-level employees thereof, from making contributions in connection with a recall election.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.6 million to DHSS for defibrillator grants.*
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Exempts police from jury duty.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Creates the Commission on the Status of Minorities; appropriates $200,000.
"New Jersey Tourism Matching Grant Act;" appropriates $315,000.
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.*
Allows counties to require segregation of county taxes for school debt service from other county taxes on tax bills.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
Creates "Faith Based Community Development Initiative" program in DCA.*
Allows UEZ municipalities to include marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Supplemental appropriation of $45 million to DOT for road repair grants to counties and municipalities, for State road repair, and for State and local road and bridge repair with concrete.*
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000. *
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Establishes Intercoastal Waterway and Back Bay Dredging Fund; dedicates $2,000,000 of motor fuels tax to the fund. *
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Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate. *
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Requires all EMT's to be certified as EMT-Ds.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
Reduces minimum age of a person to whom a prescription drug price may be discounted from 62 to 60 years of age.
Requires refund of permit fee for State agency failure to issue permit pursuant to review schedule.
Establishes for qualified urban enterprise zone vendors an annual tax review and certification.
Increases maximum contribution by board of freeholders to county firemen's association and expands permissible uses of the funds.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devises to commit harassment or stalking.
Allows a deduction under New Jersey gross income tax of the cost incurred by a taxpayer in supporting a family member at least 65 years old, up to a maximum of $1,000.
Permits a child and dependent care credit against gross income tax.
Requires parental consent prior to the tattooing or body piercing of minors.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Establishes civil action against drug dealers.
Revises provisions of the consumer fraud act.
Allows per diem compensation paid to election day workers to be excluded from gross income under New Jersey gross income tax.*
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Modifies budget language concerning rebates received by the PAAD program.
Adds a new Governor's School and appropriates an additional $609,160 to the Governor's Schools in FY 2000.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Establishes the NJ Teacher Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Appropriates to $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Appropriates $4 million to AOC to reduce juvenile probation officer caseloads.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
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. *
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
FY 2000 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for capital construction for renovation and construction of child care centers to implement Work First New Jersey.
Establishes that police cruisers have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Supplemental appropriation of $332,200 to DHSS for grant to Dialysis Seminar and Support Group of New Jersey.*
Establishes Homeowners Insurance Availability Advisory Committee.
Ratifies New Jersey's participation in "National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact."
Requires at least 10% of tobacco settlement monies be used to fund substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Requires counseling for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for cruelty to animals.
Appropriates $28,317 to reimburse Division of Fish and Wildlife for payment of Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission dues.*
Requires health insurers that provide prescription drug coverage to issue standardized pharmacy identification cards. **
Requires State to fund at least 80% of cost of Statewide poison control and drug information program.
Requires that administrative rules be written in simple language. *
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million. *
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. *
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
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.
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. *
Permits students to satisfy high school graduation requirements by taking practical arts courses.
Provides mechanism for provision of municipal trash collection services or reimbursement to apartment buildings and complexes.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $180,000 to the Department of Education for the New Jersey Business/Industry Science Education Consortium.
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Exempts certain individuals from the provisions of the "Orthotist and Prosthetist Licensing Act."
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Extends and changes statute of limitations for actions by the State pursuant to various environmental cleanup laws.
Appropriates $250,000 to DEP for costs of well drilling to monitor groundwater quality. *
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. *
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million in State and federal funds to DHS to increase Medicaid reimbursement to federally qualified health centers.
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.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Creates six Superior Court judgeships to allow expansion of drug court program; provides appropriations for court staff and substance abuse treatment.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Appropriates $10.8 million from various Green Acres bonds funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
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Upgrades the penalty for aggravated assault when the victim is a law enforcement officer who suffers serious bodily injury.
Prohibits telephone solicitation of certain telephone subscribers.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Promotes citizen-friendly practices by local governments concerning certain minor subdivision applications.
Exempts boat and marine product sales from certain retail sales tax exemptions.
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."
Makes various changes to the State's criminal law concerning crimes against children.
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Authorizes special license plates for Office of Emergency Management volunteers.
Allows persons convicted of certain drug offenses who are admitted into residential drug treatment to qualify for Work First New Jersey and other benefits.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Prohibits pension fund deposits or investments in Swiss banks or financial institutions; prohibits using Swiss banks or financial institutions as financial advisors or intermediaries.
The Death Tax Elimination Act; repeals the transfer inheritance tax.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts located in municipalities which contain Regional Growth Areas.
Requires insurers to write their share of homeowners insurance in the shore area.
Prohibits school board from issuing a credit card to a member of the board.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Extends salvage designation to cover total loss damage to vehicle.
Concerns UI benefits for victims of domestic violence.
Provides for annual meetings between local board of education and municipal governing body.
Provides mandatory minimum term of one year imprisonment for persons convicted of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Establishes certain tax credits for donations of property to State for recreation and conservation purposes.
Clarifies that cooperative to condominium conversions are not subject to realty transfer fee.
Ensures the confidentiality of the location of domestic violence shelters.
Authorizes DEP to reduce or waive certain water pollution penalties.
"Pinelands Water Resources Protection Trust Bond Act"; authorizes bonds for $70 million; and appropriates $5,000.
Increases property tax deduction for certain senior and disabled citizens.
Makes certain DEP coastal rules inoperative until completion of cross-acceptance process; appropriates $2,500,000 for grants to local governments in the coastal area.
Permits establishment of noise-free zones in municipalities and penalties for violations in such zones.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Precludes independent State entities from entering into certain agreements to enhance an employee's pension benefits.
Permits campgrounds to obtain title and dispose of abandoned travel trailers.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Increases penalties for committing serious offenses while released on bail.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
Authorizes DMV to offer a red heart-shaped identifying symbol on personalized license plates.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Makes various changes to the individual and small employer health benefits programs.
Expands the types of insurance authorized for school board joint insurance funds.
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.
Provides that ordinary death benefits to survivors of active PFRS members with at least 25 years' service shall be same as benefits to survivors of PFRS retirants.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Requires prospective police officers to undergo psychological testing and permits such testing of current officers.
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.
Provides free tuition at college or university in New Jersey for surviving spouse or child of murder victim.
Requires insurers to cover costs of treating cystic fibrosis.
Requires screening of newborn infants for cystic fibrosis.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Excludes certain deferred compensation of public school and charity employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to DLPS for State Police High Technology Crime Unit.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Changes and indexes monetary threshold for recording accident reports by DMV.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Establishes "State Special Education Services Fund" in DOE to finance the cost of special education programs and services for public school students.
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Allows certain retirees to purchase health coverage in the State Health Benefits Program.
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.
Clarifies that Internet access service is not taxable under the sales tax and clarifies the tax collection responsibility of telecommunications service providers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Returns portion of realty transfer fee to beach municipalities for certain shore protection projects.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $3 million for regional tourism councils and $500,000 for cultural tourism campaign.
Prohibits marine transfer stations and intermodal container facilities from accepting solid waste that is not containerized.
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.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Provides for reporting and prevention of criminal activities in the public schools and for performance of community service by pupils guilty of misconduct; appropriates $400,000 for metal detectors in schools.
Supplemental appropriation for $10.0 million to DHSS for grants to community based substance abuse treatment and prevention agencies.
Requires installation of fire suppression systems in dormitories at institutions of higher education and provides grants and loans to assist institutions in complying with requirement; appropriates $25 million.
Provides interest-free loans to private inspection facilities when enhanced inspection program suspended; authorizes reimbursement for cost of testing equipment if program terminated.
Broadens group of defendants from which blood samples for DNA testing must be drawn.
Requires State to reimburse counties for housing juvenile offenders at rate equal to their actual cost.
Requires health insurers to provide health benefits coverage for treatment of pathological gambling.
Extends validity and reduces fee for identity cards authorizing retired law enforcement officers to carry handguns.
Establishes a loan and loan redemption program for certain students at Cook College of Rutgers University.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
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.
Upgrades penalties for sale of illegal drugs within 500 feet of outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities.
Requires DOC to reimburse counties at uniform rate for housing State prisoners.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
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.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members at State cost.
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
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.
Revises the State funding formula for the county colleges.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained; appropriates $125,000.
Requires health benefits coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas.
Establishes "Small Downtown Business Incentive Program."
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Excludes victims of sexual abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Extends certain veterans' benefits to persons who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
Requires automobile insurers to include rental automobile coverage information in buyer's guide.
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,950,000.
Changes Commissioner of Personnel's authority concerning titles; requires public employers to negotiate with employee majority representative for change in titles.
Excludes certain federal income tax rebates from PAAD, Senior Gold and Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement eligibility income.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Appropriates $13,000,000 to DEP from 1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund for certain non-port region dredging projects.
Provides for establishment of Arts Advancement District Fund and 21 arts advancement districts within State.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Exempts certain veterans' organizations from charitable registration.
Increases TPAF and PERS disability and veterans retirement benefits for active and retired employees.
Provides that security fee charged to assisted living residents is refundable if resident leaves facility.
Filed · 2
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.