Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Larry Chatzidakis
Sponsored
Became law4
Authorizes municipal utilities authorities and school districts to join with municipalities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides a school district budget cap adjustment for expenses related to the opening of a new school facility.
Increases permissible time period of dual membership in transfer of service credit between PERS and TPAF.
Appropriates $1,056,120 from "Garden State Historical Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Passed the General Assembly1
Prohibits DMV from releasing certain information in driving records.*
Out of committee4
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.*
Allows physicians and dentists to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions. *
Cancels certain "Water Supply Fund" appropriations; authorizes use of those amounts for water supply management purposes; appropriates $950,000 to the DEP for a drought monitoring and telemetry system.
Expands powers of certain county bridge commissions to undertake additional projects including terminals, terminal facilities, transportation facilities or any other facility of commerce or economic development activity within a county. *
In committee25
Eliminates the presumption of nonincarceration.
Requires reimbursement of training and certification costs of certain police officers by appointing authority to former employer.
Provides that an attorney does not have to represent a corporation in a property tax appeal.
Excludes certain cafeteria plan benefits from gross income under the gross income tax.
Concerns determination of connection or tapping charges by municipal sewerage utility authorities.
Prohibits use of car phone while driving.
Requires timely payment for completed appraisals of real property.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to refinance solid waste facility debt.
Establishes penalty for using cell phone while driving.
Permits special school elections to be held only on certain dates in January, March, September or December.
Allows borrower whose loan is guaranteed by Small Business Administration an income tax credit for payment of guarantee fee.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to refinance solid waste facility debt.
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Requires the award of Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program scholarships to home-schooled students and prohibits the denial of a scholarship due to a student's lack of class rank.
Prohibits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 in FY2001 to the DOE for aid to the Willingboro School District to assist with facilities reconstruction.
Directs Commisioner of Transportation to designate reliever airport for Atlantic City International Airport.
Concerns predatory lending practices.
Provides additional State aid to certain sending school districts.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
Prohibits delivery of unsolicitated credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Permits board of education to disqualify low bidder for a school facilities project when there have been two instances of prior negative experience with the bidder by other school districts or the EDA.
Establishes the Pinelands Institute for Natural and Environmental Studies; appropriates $250,000.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
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.
Subjects HMOs to law regulating insurance holding company systems and revises calculation of health insurance policy reserves.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Appropriates $95,000 for Oak Tree Disease Survey.*
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Appropriates $10.6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in southern NJ.
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.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly · 15
Extends certain veterans' benefits to include veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Revises HMFA loan program for remediation of radium-contaminated water supplies of single family residences.
Establishes Lake Restoration Legislative Advisory Task Force; appropriates $95,000.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Repeals certain provisions concerning the taking and management of lobster.
Requires DOT to identify dangerous traffic locations and to use Transportation Trust Fund to address location deficiencies.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Prohibits local exchange telecommunications companies from assessing touch-tone service or similar service charges.*
Adds Haiti peacekeeping mission to definition of "active service in time of war" for eligibility to receive $100 veterans' property tax deduction.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Allows veterinary students to take examination for licensure in the academic year in which they graduate.
Out of committee · 16
Reappropriates $1 million from 1996 Lake Restoration Fund to DEP for financing of restoration of Strawbridge Lake from moneys appropriated but unexpended pursuant to P.L.1999, c.1 and P.L.1999, c,2,
Increases number of tuition-free credits that a member of the National Guard may earn in undergraduate study and extends credits to graduate study.
Makes FY2000 supplemental appropriation of $15,000 to DCA for a grant to Mt. Holly Gardens Community Center Inc.*
Requires certain new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.*
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Excludes federal and other public or private financial aid received by NJ for open space or farmland preservation purposes from $200 million annual appropriations cap for projects approved by Garden State Preservation Trust.
Permits counties and municipalities to collect fees and penalties for weights and measures regulation.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Permits care and treatment of animals by certain persons and prohibits those persons from identifying themselves as veterinarians.
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
In committee · 36
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Amends the eligibility for additional supplemental stabilization aid for school districts with high senior citizen concentration.
Provides supplemental State aid to certain regional school district constituent municipalities to offset any tax increase associated with regionalization.
Establishes grant and loan funds in the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to provide funds for public school construction and renovation and county vocational school equipment.
Provides paid post-retirement SHBP benefits to certain school police officers.
Prohibits tendering unsafe intermodal equipment to a motor carrier.
Requires State to reimburse each municipality in which a State psychiatric hospital is located for its documented public safety costs.
"New Jersey Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Provides additional supplemental stabilization aid to school districts located in Pinelands areas which experience declining enrollment.
"Pinelands Water Resources Protection Trust Bond Act"; authorizes bonds for $70 million; and appropriates $5,000.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
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.
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.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Supplemental appropriation of $180,000 to DHS for grant to the Organization for the Advancement of Retarded Citizens, Inc. in Berlin, Camden County.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides full or partial reimbursement to new veteran-owned small businesses of sales and use tax paid.
Requires New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to videotape certain New Jersey veterans; appropriates $100,000.
Reduces transfer inheritance tax on transfers to certain beneficiaries of decedents.
Requires escort vehicle for emergency fire vehicle in certain instances.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Amends State Recycling Program allocations and appropriates $4 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.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
"Anesthesiologist Assistant Licensing Act."
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for grant to Burlington County Red Cross chapter for emergency response vehicle.
Amends "New Jersey Licensed Lenders Act" to add definition of "appraisal fee."
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.