Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Guy R. Gregg
Sponsored
Became law6
Eliminates corporation business tax on regular income of S corporations.
Approves funding eligibility of certain farmland preservation projects in nothern NJ.
Modifies eligibility for temporary disability and unemployment benefits.
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Concerns payment obligations of certain partnerships and limited liability companies and certain of their partners and members under the corporation business tax.
Establishes off-track wagering facilities and account wagering system for parimutuel betting on horse races, changes certain requirements pertaining to simulcasting and makes an appropriation. *
Vetoed4
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Establishes off-track wagering facilities and account wagering system for parimutuel betting on horse races.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Passed the General Assembly2
Increases miles of highway eligible for 65 MPH designation; specifies segments for such designation.
Prohibits de-crediting by COAH of unit of affordable housing upon expiration of term of deed restriction.
Out of committee14
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Exempts certain child care centers in public school buildings from radon testing and certain other requirements.
Requires that administrative rules be written in simple language. *
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Creates Lake Hopatcong Commission; appropriates $3 million.
Restricts surgical debarking or silencing of dogs.*
Permits regional school boards to provide voters with information on the ballot as to the constituent municipality's share of district's budget.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Prohibits basing fees for certification of radon testers upon number of measurement devices used.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Approves Sussex County locations for certain projects by the State and certain nonprofit entities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes; and appropriates $2 million for additions to Stokes State Forest and High Point State Park.
Imposes liability on employers who discharge or discriminate against employees for displaying the American flag.
Limits contributions to legislative leadership committees and to certain political committees and continuing political committees; permits contributions by certain business entities. *
In committee43
Promotes citizen-friendly practices by local governments concerning certain minor subdivision applications.
Requires juveniles waived to adult court to be placed in adult incarceration facilities, separate from adult inmates.
Grants tenure to certain public school administrative personnel only for the duration of three-year contracts.
Permits DMV to authorize private driver training facilities to administer any portion of the exam for a driver's license or endorsement.
Eliminates leave for board employees to attend NJEA convention with full pay.
Amends "Family Leave Act" to cover medical leave.
Limits annual municipal, county and school district salary increases to percentage increase in CPI plus 1%.
Permits school boards to contract with certain organizations for education management services.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
"Property Tax Reduction Work Act"; permits local units to recruit residents to perform services in return for property tax vouchers.
Exempts boat and marine product sales from certain retail sales tax exemptions.
Requires voter approval of a school district lease purchase agreement.
Limits liability for the unauthorized use of certain financial institution account access devices.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Clarifies legislative intent concerning 65 MPH speed limit law.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $14,500,000 to the Department of Environmental Protection for State parks restoration and management.
Revises New Jersey's firearms statutes to conform with federal Brady Law.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
Revises membership of U.S.S. New Jersey Battleship Commission; expands powers to operate the berthing site.
Prohibits the sale of any gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether after enactment of certain federal legislation.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Authorizes AccessNJ program.
Permits motorist to use private inspection facilities at no charge; provides for reimbursement of participating private facilities.
Provides interest-free loans to private inspection facilities when enhanced inspection program suspended; authorizes reimbursement for cost of testing equipment if program terminated.
Establishes special license plates to fund promotion of NJ's skiing industry.
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
Establishes off-track wagering facilities and account wagering system for parimutuel betting on horse races.
Authorizes account wagering for parimutuel betting on horse races.
Authorizes local government units to construct locally funded public indoor recreation facilities on certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Invalidates votes cast for general election candidate who dies; provides candidate with next largest vote elected.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.4 million from the General Fund to the DEP for Spruce Run Creek projects in Hunterdon county.
Establishes a sales tax holiday in New Jersey from August 26 through September 1, 2001.
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.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Directs DEP acquisition of Hamburg Mountain in Sussex County for conservation purposes, and makes an appropriation.
Supplemental appropriation of $30,000 to DLPS for grant to Borough of Stanhope to purchase an emergency services vehicle.
Exempts certain drivers from use of child passenger restraint systems and booster seats for certain children.
Abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Authorizes the Director of the Division of Taxation to implement a federally-reimbursed State sales and use tax holiday.
Appropriates $13.3 million to the DEP for Clean Communities grants.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
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.
Modifies $200 million annual spending cap for open space and farmland preservation projects approved by Garden State Preservation Trust.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Requires insurers to provide certain notice concerning flood insurance.*
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.*
Phases out the petroleum products gross receipts tax for fuel used to generate certain electricity.
Recognizes validity of trust funds for pets.
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Expands certain veterans' benefits to certain participants in the Lebanon Crisis of 1958.
Allows certain disabled voters to receive absentee ballots automatically in certain circumstances.
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Permits aid to nonpublic schools for electronic textbooks.
Requires DCA to facilitate negotiations between municipalities and apartment owners for solid waste collection.*
Transfers certain State debt service appropriations savings for the purchase and retirement of certain State Pension Funding Bonds.
Appropriates $95,000 to DEP for grant to Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program (NORWESCAP) for venison donation program.
Appropriates $38,695,000 from the Developmental Disabilities' Waiting List Reduction and Human Services Facilities Construction Fund to DHS.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Adds a representative of a Statewide travel and tourism association representing various sectors of the industry to the New Jersey Tourism Advisory Council.
Appropriates $7.35 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Permits electronic filing and response in regard to certain workers' compensation petitions.
Permits religious or charitable organization to lease property to other tax-exempt entities without loss of property tax exemption.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Appropriates $14.9 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in northern NJ.
Permits assistant adjutant general for NJ Air National Guard to have rank of major general.
Appropriates $26.5 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Requires State to sell and convey portion of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital property to Morris County.
Vetoed · 1
Requires that school districts receive written informed parental consent prior to administering certain surveys to their students.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
"State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act."
Requires at least one voting member for State authorities to start official meetings and public hearings.*
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Specifies use of actual enumeration of State's population by Apportionment Commission and Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts.
Authorizes Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish NJ Higher Education International Network.
Provides for the establishment of a pilot program to promote exports and makes technical clarification to "New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission Act of 1998."
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Upgrades disorderly persons offense of shoplifting under certain circumstances.
Allows cap banking in the 2001-2002 budgets of certain school districts with increased special education costs.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 39
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center. *
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.*
Provides immunity to counties and municipalities for community service performed by certain juveniles; provides immunity to certain non-profit organizations for community service performed by adults and certain juveniles.
Budget language exempting certain nursing facilities from certain regulations affecting nursing facilities.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Requires DOC to notify prosecutor and victim whenever an inmate is transferred to an out-of-state correctional facility.
Requires State responsibility for tuition costs for certain children whose parents reside in a State facility. *
Provides special license plates for Purple Heart recipients.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Prohibits DHSS from altering State's Medicaid reimbursement system affecting nursing facilities.
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
Prohibits police ticket quota for motor vehicle violations.
Establishes loan program to rehabilitate military monuments; appropriates $600,000.
Establishes an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."*
Establishes the New Jersey Export Matching Grant Program in the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission; appropriates $250,000.
Creates program to assist small or medium-sized companies in finding foreign business contacts for exporting; appropriates $250,000.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to develop a foreign trade zone incentive program; appropriates $250,000.*
Approves Sussex county locations for certain projects by the State and certain nonprofit entities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes; and appropriates $1 million for additions to Stokes State Forest and High Point State Park.
Increases the criminal penalties for manufacture or distribution of MDMA, known as "ecstasy," and MDA.*
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.*
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Accelerates by one year phase-in of veteran property tax deduction increase.
Appropriates $50 million to the DEP for dam repair assistance and dam safety enhancement.
Exempts certain sales by rural electric cooperatives from sales tax and corporation business tax.
Approves Sussex county locations for certain projects by the State and certain nonprofit entities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes; and appropriates $1 million for additions to Stokes State Forest and High Point State Park.
Provides mechanism for provision of municipal trash collection services or reimbursement to apartment buildings and complexes.
Replaces one at large position on the Advisory Council on Community Affairs.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct one-half of their federal self-employment taxes from gross income under the gross income tax.
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. *
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction. *
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in northern NJ.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Exempts 1996 and subsequent model year motor vehicles equipped with on-board diagnostic systems from emissions testing; requires check of functioning of on-board diagnostic system.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Revises law delineating cigarette packages to which tax stamp may not be affixed.
Appropriates $1.6 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture for specialty crop grant program.
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Requires part-time service by new PERS members to be credited at one half the length of that service for certain benefit calculation purposes.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on Class C beneficiaries and nieces and nephews of a decedent.
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Creates the "Just Compensation Act," requiring non-prevailing party in civil cases to reimburse prevailing party for certain attorney's fees and costs.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Ensures the confidentiality of the location of domestic violence shelters.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Clarifies determination of assessed value of certain petroleum refinery property subject to local taxation.
Exempts public entities operating public recreational facilities from liability for damages resulting from personal injury.
Disqualifies individuals who commit theft from their employers from receiving unemployment compensation.
Reduces number of peremptory challenges allowed in criminal cases.
Repeals surcharge paid by insurers of school boards not in SHBP; requires payment of surcharge amounts for FY97, FY98 and FY99 to schools boards.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
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 Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Prohibits accessing of encrypted and non-encrypted information under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Provides property tax relief grants for certain municipalities, appropriates $21.1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Clarifies that defendant who claims self-defense in prosecution for homicide or assault shall be entitled to introduce evidence of past child abuse or domestic violence committed by the victim.
Provides supplemental appropriation of $3 million for regional tourism councils and $500,000 for cultural tourism campaign.
Directs DEP to phase out the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a component of gasoline.
Prohibits public and certain private affirmative action programs based upon race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Clarifies definition of "a place of public accommodation" under the Law Against Discrimination.
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
Revises membership of U.S.S. New Jersey Battleship Commission, designates Foundation for the U.S.S. New Jersey Battleship as operator of battleship site and grants control over battleship to the commission.
Eliminates tax on certain litter generating products.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
"The New Jersey Scouts Honor Act of 2000."
Permits nonprofit organizations to auction alcoholic beverages.
Prohibits use of punch card type election ballot.
Bans intentional feeding of black bear population.
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of certain volunteer organizations.
Provides for availability of certain source codes used in counting votes to State and counties.
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 $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Bars profiting from sale of items owned by convicted persons.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Requires administrative rules adopted by State agencies to meet certain readability standards; creates Council on Administrative Rule Readability.
Permits certain qualified nonprofit organizations to participate in State purchasing contracts.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to change any date in the school budget and election calendar due to a conflict with a day of religious observance.
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Eliminates mandatory county appropriation of amount certified by county college board of school estimate.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Filed · 2
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Exempts certain sales by rural electric cooperatives from sales tax and corporation business tax.