Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Wayne R. Bryant Esq.
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides for the establishment of liens on net proceeds of settlements, judgments, inheritance or awards to pay for child support judgments.*
Requires child support order relating to health care coverage be enforced through National Medical Support Notice and indicate the party responsible for maintaining the coverage.
Passed the Senate9
Requires withholding of child support payments to be prorated when more than one withholding order exists.
Requires non-custodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Establishes "Local Option Mortgage Assistance Program."
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police promotional examinations.
Modifies the governance of the Human Relations Council.
Designated the "Camden Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act;" authorizes issuance of bonds and makes appropriations.*
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights by public officials.
Out of committee9
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full-time or part-time enrollment at New Jersey county colleges.
Requires that 10% of State portion of Work First New Jersey emergency assistance funding be used to pay for development of low-income rental housing. *
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour after leaving program.*
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Removes age 60 requirement for post-retirement death benefit in the alternate benefit program.
Prohibits home solicitation of senior citizens for certain home improvement loans under certain circumstances.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain public employees having combination of State and local government employment.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Focus on Literacy - New Jersey.
In committee39
Requires Department of Personnel to prepare certain report prior to privatization contract and requires employees who meet training and experience qualifications to be employed under privatization.
Requires nongovernmental entity which performs duties previously performed by State agency to provide employees performing those duties with benefits comparable to those formerly provided by State agency.
Provides procedure for school board to raise compulsory school attendance from age 16 to 18.
Requires individual who posts bail to prove funds were acquired lawfully in certain drug-related cases.
"Municipal Development Financing Act."
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Requires certain investments by the New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Establishes PAAD Expansion Program.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to clean up graffiti on buildings.
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Concerns special municipal aid and extraordinary municipal aid; appropriates $72,500,000 to DCA for aid and administrative costs.
Requires Superintendent to prepare list of State Police employment titles, positions and qualifications; thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Criminalizes depriving persons of their civil rights.
Requires members of State Police to undergo annual performance evaluations.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Requires the use of certain State surplus moneys to produce savings in State debt service due on State long term obligations and to avoid new long term obligations.
Changes the annual growth factor for the State Appropriations Limitation Act from personal income growth to increase in the consumer price index.
Requires building permit for work done pursuant to a home repair financing contract under certain circumstances.
Requires every home improvement contractor to be bonded for his work.
Prohibits automobile insurers from denying agency to insurance producer solely because he writes in automobile insurance UEZs.
Requires New Jersey Consumer Checking Accounts to provide for two free ATM withdrawals per periodic cycle.
Alters cap on tax due and tax on transfers under Spill Act of certain hazardous substances sold for use in or as fire retardants.
The "Working Families Property Tax Refund Act."
Makes FY 2001 supplemental appropriation of up to $500,000 from Unemployment Compensation Auxiliary Fund to DOL for a study of unemployment in areas having unemployment rates double the State average.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Creates Universal Charity License Plates.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for a matching grant to CAMcare Health Corporation for capital costs of a Downtown Health Center in Camden.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Gloucester County for historic church cemetery clean-up.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million in State and federal funds to DHS to increase Medicaid reimbursement to federally qualified health centers.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Requires the transfer of $15,000,000 in special legislative grant appropriations to provide an $11,000,000 appropriation to establish a Part-time Tuition Aid Grant Program and a $4,000,000 appropriation for the Education Opportunity Fund Program.
Prohibits imposition of death penalty on mentally retarded defendants.
Disqualifies certain persons from flight instruction; institutes background checks.
Establishes the New Jersey State Endowment for Student Excellence Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $25 million.
Provides the manufacturing equipment and employment investment tax credit under the corporation business tax for electric energy production.
Requires DEP confirm transfers of water allocation credits and approve transfers of permits under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
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.
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.
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.*
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for AIDS services activities.
The "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Credit Act"; appropriates $750,000.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree to tamper with electronic device installed in police patrol cars.*
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMAVA for study of veterans needs.
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 $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.
Transfers State Library to Thomas Edison State College.
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
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.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Provides the manufacturing equipment and employment investment tax credit under the corporation business tax for electric energy and thermal energy production.
Passed the Senate · 10
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Requires landlords to maintain list of tenants for emergencies and clarifies that unit owners rather than common interest associations are required to file certificate of registration.*
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
Changes phase-out of transitional energy facility assessment (TEFA) unit rate surcharges on certain energy sales. *
Out of committee · 34
Makes supplemental appropriation of $7.2 million from the General Fund for Inter-Departmental Account capital construction project costs of the Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey refurbishment.
Establishes "Drug Court Pilot Program" in Morris County.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.*
Provides paid post-retirement SHBP benefits to certain school police officers.
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.*
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of volunteer emergency services organizations. *
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
"New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act;" appropriates $300,000.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Eliminates corporation business tax on regular income of S corporations.
Requires State Police to file reports on motor vehicle stops they initiate.
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.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"The Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act." *
Permits billing of tenants' organizations to maintain certain utilities to rental premises.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Provides State employees with additional deferred compensation plan choices.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Establishes New Jersey Cultural Trust.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds.*
Permits certain municipalities to provide five years of revaluation relief abatements and revises restriction on Newark's use of payroll and parking tax revenue. *
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Creates two additional Superior Court judgeships for Gloucester County.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for Election Law Enforcement.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Appropriates $1,056,120 from "Garden State Historical Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
In committee · 41
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Appropriates $74,500 to NJ Historical Commission for study and identification of "Underground Railroad."
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Requires financial institutions and check cashing businesses to file certain transaction reports with the State; provides criminal penalties.
Provides for annual appropriation of certain State realty transfer fee revenues and General Fund monies for improvements to, and maintenance of, parks.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a check cashing business to cash a check for consideration in the amount of $2,500 or more.
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Broadens affirmative action program in Division of State Police.
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.
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.
"The New Jersey Living Wage Act"; requires businesses receiving certain public benefits to pay employees at least $6.50 per hour.
Establishes fourth degree crime for parent who permits a minor to gain access to a firearm which is later used in a crime.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns within five years; during interim requires trigger locks accompany sales of handguns that are not child-proof; appropriates $500,000.
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.
Reduces PERS employee contribution rate by 2% for calendar years 2000 and 2001 and under certain circumstances thereafter.
Requires State Police applicants to undergo psychological testing for racial bias.
Prohibits 4-year college requirement for appointment to State Police.
Creates the offense of racial profiling.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and available to public.
Appropriates $13 million from 1996 Dredging Bond Act for Delaware River Deepening project.
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.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
"Medicaid Prescription Drug Benefit Act."
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Reduces the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Excludes victims of sexual or child abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
Includes emergency contraceptives in protocols for sexual assault victims.
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.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
"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.
Amends and supplements fiscal year 2002 State appropriations act to eliminate certain restrictions on the New Jersey FamilyCare Health Coverage Program and makes additional appropriations available for the program.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
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.