Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Steve Corodemus
Sponsored
Became law5
Modifies $200 million annual spending cap for open space and farmland preservation projects approved by Garden State Preservation Trust.
Creates a committee in DOE to establish procedures for school districts' to use in offering instruction in world languages through nonpublic school organizations.*
Designates portion of Route 18 as "World War II Veterans' Memorial Highway"; appropriates $25,000.*
Authorizes North Jersey district water supply commission to participate in certain flood protection project; requires State to indemnify commission. **
Prohibits taking of menhaden in State coastal waters for fish meal reduction.
Passed the General Assembly2
Establishes Lake Restoration Legislative Advisory Task Force; appropriates $95,000.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.*
Out of committee18
Creates low interest loan program for elevating single family homes in special flood hazard areas.
Authorizes law enforcement officer memorial license plates for college scholarships for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Provides an exemption from advertising of annual extensions of pupil transportation contract bids if increase is not greater than CPI.
Defines routine foot care services under an insurance policy.*
Limits minors' access to certain Internet materials in public schools and libraries. *
Modifies daily limit for taking of striped bass.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Creates the "Uniform Electronic Transactions Act."
Makes supplemental Grant-in-Aid appropriation of $10,000 to the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to coordinate workshops on and disseminate for classroom instruction the video, "We Are Not Alone: Greek Jews and the Holocaust."
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in central NJ.
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.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Extends and changes statute of limitations for actions by the State pursuant to various environmental cleanup laws.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Appropriates $1.0 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
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.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $200,000 from the General fund to DCA for grant to South Belmar Borough for completion of municipal complex.
In committee15
Requires health insurers to disclose how they establish usual, customary and reasonable fees for health care providers.
Requires HMOs and small employer health benefits plans that cover routine foot care to permit podiatric physicians to provide such services.
Excludes certain deferred compensation of public school and charity employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes first priority of protecting water supplies when acquiring lands using certain dedicated open space monies.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Highlands Borough in Monmouth County for construction of new Emergency Management and Firehouse Building.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Avon Borough in Monmouth County for cost of engineering plans necessary to upgrade existing police department building.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Department of Community Affairs to fund $100,000 grant to Fair Haven for renovations to Fair Haven Fields.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Monmouth Beach Borough in Monmouth County for costs of improvements to Griffin Street.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $30,000 to the Department of State for a grant to the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society.
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.
Appropriates $2.3 million for Ellis Island restoration.
Allows meeting notices of certain public bodies to be available on the Internet.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act of 2000."
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA for ocean, water and first aid safety training grants to Urban Aid eligible cities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 38
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000.*
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.
"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.
Enacts the "Uniform Partnership Act (1996)."
Prohibits leaving animal unattended under inhumane conditions in vehicle.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
The "Private Well Testing Act"; appropriates $1million from safe Drinking Water Fund. *
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims Fund. *
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Establishes Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program; increases penalty for commission of certain sex offenses.**
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount. *
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DEP for the inventory, restoration, replacement and erection of historic markers.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening.
Appropriates $150 million from "1999 Statewide Transportation and Local Bridge Fund."
Changes deadline for filing certain nominating petitions for party offices and public offices filled at general election from 54th to 57th day preceding primary; requires double spacing on referenda petitions.
Increases maximum number of allowable members of county board of recreation commissioners from seven to nine and permits adoption of board seal. *
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Establishes hepatitis C education, prevention, and screening program and requires reporting of hepatitis C directly to DHSS. ***
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Amends CAFRA to exempt enclosure of certain commercial developments from DEP's permitting requirements.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Establishes cap on application fees for certain CAFRA and waterfront development permits.
Concerns graduated driver licensing and the responsibilities and standards of private driving schools.
Enters New Jersey in Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact.
Provides pension benefit to certain survivors of certain PFRS members.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
Permits certain municipalities to contract for property tax lien management services. *
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Establishes Office of Maritime Resources in DOT.
Appropriates $1,056,120 from "Garden State Historical Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Vetoed · 2
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Passed the General Assembly · 19
Strengthens requirements for issuance of driver's licenses to non-citizens.
Increases miles of highway eligible for 65 MPH designation; specifies segments for such designation.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Creates "Task Force to Study the Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal of Real Property"; appropriates $100,000.
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Requires DOT to identify dangerous traffic locations and to use Transportation Trust Fund to address location deficiencies.
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.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Requires State registrar to issue presumptive death certificate based on court order declaring a person dead.
Allows veterinary students to take examination for licensure in the academic year in which they graduate.
Out of committee · 47
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
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.
Provides low interest loans to persons who need to acquire a new home because they have been forced to vacate their homes due to the presence of hazardous substances.
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
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.*
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Appropriates $1,350,000 to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
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.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
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.*
Modifies maximum age for police and fire department hires and for PFRS enrollment by permitting subtraction from actual age of up to five years for certain service.*
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Permits simulated voting for minors at polling place.
Provides for annual support from General Fund and appropriates $150,000 for current fiscal year for oyster resource enhancement program.*
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
Requires DCA to establish procedures for electronic tax lien sales by municipalities.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Mandates universal screening of newborns for hearing loss.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Accelerates by one year phase-in of veteran property tax deduction increase.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
Provides for grants to clean up contamination discovered subsequent to underground storage tank removal or closure.
The "New Jersey Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2001."
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Appropriates $2.3 million to Rutgers College of Nursing to expand facilities in New Brunswick.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to DEP from "Water Supply Fund" for study to assess groundwater contamination from MTBE.
Allows prejudgement interest on certain claims under New Jersey Contractual Liability Act.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
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.
Increases penalty for causing death or injury of another while driving with suspended license.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Expands property tax exemption of firefighters' organizations which use property for income-producing activities.
Appropriates $101.3 million from "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund;" cancels appropriation made by P.L.1999, c.203.
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission.
Requires municipal approval for construction and operation of crematorium.
Mandates health insurance coverage for certain infant formulas.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
In committee · 49
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Permits ophthalmic surgeons to delegate pre- and post-operative care to other health care providers under certain circumstances.
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."
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions for services to crime victims.
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to fifteen through addition of eight public members.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Authorizes free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses for disabled veterans.
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Revises allocation of Clean Communities Account.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Reduces number of peremptory challenges allowed in criminal cases.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at a county correction officer, juvenile detention officer, any sheriff, undersheriff or sheriff's officer or any law enforcement officer an aggravated assault.
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.
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.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Clarifies and strengthens domestic violence training requirements for law enforcement officers; appropriates $250,000.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to DLPS for State Police High Technology Crime Unit.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Requires DEP to study health and status of menhaden fishery; appropriates $95,000.
Permits parking of vehicles with "Disabled Veteran" license plates in spaces reserved for the handicapped.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits fee waiver for inmate name change.
Modifies licensure requirements for optometrists.
Allows deduction against gross income for qualified conservation contribution.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Precludes toll surcharge or fine for not having exact change when Parkway toll booths are unmanned.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain home improvement materials purchases.
Directs DEP to assess groundwater contamination from MTBE and determine measures necessary to mitigate and remediate contamination; appropriates $500,000.
Requires NJT to study feasibility and estimate costs of rail passenger service between Trenton City and Wall Township along I-195 corridor; directs allocation of $300,000 from Transportation Trust Fund.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million in tobacco settlement funds to N.J. State Commission on Cancer Research.
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.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,950,000.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers's compensation benefits.
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Revises laws concerning siting of low-level radioactive waste disposal facility; repeals parts of the statutory law.
Filed · 2
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Allows life insurers to use forms in this State if approved in 40 other states.