Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Robert J. Martin
Sponsored
Became law13
Establishes a minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids and provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective program aid.
Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, but not limited to, education of disabled pupils.
Exempts minors participating in science education programs under school and business supervision from certain child labor laws.*
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Provides for aggregation of pension credit to qualify for paid SHBP benefits in retirement.
Increases the amount of bonds issued for county college capital projects which qualify for State debt service aid support.
Revises rules concerning secured transactions; replaces chapter 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Concerns the ability of professional licensing boards to protect the public.
Provides for Medicaid reimbursement for certain health care services provided at schools in Newark.
Provides for post-conviction DNA testing; allows post-conviction DNA profile information to be used in the investigation and prosecution of other crimes. *
Establishes the New Jersey Commission on Programs for Gifted Students; appropriates $5,000. *
Concerns chapter 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Appropriates $101.3 million from "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund"; cancels appropriation made by P.L.1999, c.203. *
Passed the Senate3
Supplemental appropriation of $370,000 to the Department of Community Affairs for a grant to the E=mc2 program.
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Revises and augments rules governing arbitration procedures in arbitration agreements.
Out of committee14
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates. *
Allows certain disabled voters to receive absentee ballots automatically in certain circumstances.
Permits certain senior citizens to receive absentee ballots under certain circumstances.*
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.*
Concerns working hours of certain children. *
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount.
Changes date for election of school board members in State-operated school district from fourth to eighth year following creation of district. *
Clarifies definition of nonconforming spaces which may qualify for additional State school facilities aid and clarifies the minimum 40% State share of debt service. *
Gives county surrogate the option to deposit minors' funds in any federally insured bank within the United States.
Exempts teachers from foreign countries from teacher citizenship requirements and permits boards of education to temporarily employ such teachers. *
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million. *
Revises eligibility for and amount of contributory death benefit coverage in JRS.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Provides annual State facilities aid payments to charter schools.
In committee16
Provides public access to government records.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State March.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Provides for acquisition of flood-prone properties along Passaic river; and appropriates $15 million.
Limits annual increases in tuition in sending-receiving relationships.
Permits awarding of contract to most responsible of three lowest responsible bidders under "County College Contracts Law" under certain circumstances.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Exempts Great Swamp watershed area from uniform residential site improvement standards.
Authorizes "cap banking" for school districts.
Establishes a uniform age requirement Statewide for enrollment in a public school kindergarten program.
Permits State to convey excess State highway property at no cost if permanently dedicated for open space.
"Parkway Barrier Toll Removal Act."
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes, and appropriates $8 million therefor from Garden State Preservation Trust.
Permits students to satisfy high school graduation requirements by taking practical arts courses.
Requires health insurers to indicate cost of coverage for children covered by an adult's contract or policy.
Provides for appointment of additional sending district representatives to certain receiving district boards of education and expands voting rights of the representatives.
Filed2
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to various nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Requires managed care plans and SHBP to pay in-network health care facilities full contractual rate regardless of whether treating practitioner is in-network or out-of-network provider. *
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.
Increases number of tuition-free credits that a member of the National Guard may earn in undergraduate study and extends credits to graduate study.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
Requires State Police to file an annual report with regard to public complaints of misconduct on the part of officers.
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Provides for license plates identifying amateur radio operators.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001. *
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Creates six Superior court judgeships to allow expansion of drug court program; provides appropriations for court staff and substance abuse treatment.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
Allows State or local government employee having duties related to state of emergency to accumulate vacation leave until used or compensation is paid therefore.
Passed the Senate · 8
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
Provides grants to hospitals to determine feasibility of converting underused facilities to other uses; appropriates $4 million. *
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Provides special license plates for Purple Heart recipients.
Permits absence from school resulting from suspension to be counted as unexcused absence.
Permits corporation with only one or two employee who are the only shareholder to opt out of workers' compensation. *
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights by public officials.
Out of committee · 31
Excludes income of school district residents who rank in the top 5% of income as reported on State Income Tax forms from calculation of district income for school aid purposes.
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund. *
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full-time or part-time enrollment at New Jersey county colleges.
Subjects HMOs to law regulating insurance holding company systems and revises calculation of health insurance policy reserves.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
Requires Department of Human Services to provide in-service, on-site training at State psychiatric facilities.
Excludes certain deferred compensation of public school and charity, state and local government, and federal employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Makes decisions rendered by independent utilization review organizations under Independent Health Care Appeals Program binding on insurance carriers.
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to various nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Clarifies criminal statutes dealing with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
Allows counties to increase daily compensation for members of election boards from $100 to $150.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Creates an additional Superior Court judgeship in Morris County; makes an appropriation.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing. *
Increases penalties for fraudulent motor vehicle insurance identification cards.
Permits counties to increase the maximum daily compensation for members of election boards from $100 to an amount not to exceed $150.
Excludes certain federal income tax rebates from PAAD, Senior Gold and Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement eligibility income.
Requires State to sell and convey portion of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital property to Morris County.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Requires public institutions of higher education to ensure that teaching assistants have effective teaching skills.
Provides for prompt notification to health care licensing boards when health care practitioner suspected of injuring a patient or suspected of other wrongdoing.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Provides additional State aid to school districts implementing voluntary desegregation plans through the establishment of magnet schools.
Appropriates $200,000 in capital funding to DMVA for State Police training facility in Sea Girt.
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the OAG within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Requires trials to be commenced within six months of indictment by State grand jury.
Appropriates $1,056,120 from "Garden State Historical Preservation Trust Fund" to provide historic site management grants for certain historic preservation projects.
In committee · 32
Requires Attorney General to reimburse schools for costs of notification required by Megan's Law.
Modifies statute of limitations and eliminates certain defenses in civil cases seeking damages based on exposure to tobacco products.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to DLPS to replace State Police weapons.
Provides for permanent disbarment of school bus contrators for certain violations and makes various changes to school transportation contracting practices.
Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education.
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
Permits members of National Guard to receive tuition-free graduate school education.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.
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.
Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in foster homes.
Establishes the NJ Teacher-Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
The "Teacher Continuing Education Requirement Act."
Requires successful bidders on pupil transportation contracts to service a percentage of the unsuccessfully bid school bus routes for public and nonpublic students.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2 million to the Department of State for a grant to the John Harms Center for the Arts for debt reduction.
Appropriates $170,000 to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission for N.J. Highlands Preservation Project.
Requires the State to pay the cost of providing a thorough and efficient education for pupils in certain State facilities.
Establishes fifteen-member "Early Voting Study Commission," appropriates $20,000.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $4.9 million to Fairleigh Dickinson University for the New Jersey Teacher Education, Technology and Distance Learning Project.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
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.
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; directs AG to recover certain costs of enhanced inspection and maintenance program from federal government.
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 DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Allocates and appropriates $200 million from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for acquisition, for open space preservation purposes, of lands at imminent risk of development.
Permits "Family Support Act" to reimburse for documented, unreimbursed costs, appropriates $100,000.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Madison Borough.
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.