Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Craig A. Stanley
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Concerns location of certain highway entry or exit ramps and schools.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree to tamper with electronic device installed in police patrol cars. *
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
In committee29
Provides for payments in lieu of full property taxes for certain municipalities.
Requires local units and school districts to file certain reports concerning debt levels.
Increases minimum wage.
Permits school boards to provide instruction concerning child abuse.
Increases number of public members of HMFA.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund a $6.5 million grant and a $6.5 million loan to offset an Irvington Township $13.0 million property tax increase.
Requires T & E amount used in the calculation of State school aid to be adjusted by regional cost factors.
Provides that State school aid shall be based on enrollment projections made by each school district.
Allows municipality to require current property taxes as condition of ABC license.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Provides enhanced penalties for certain crimes when victim is 70 years of age or older.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million from the General Fund for the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Expands study of impact of 65 MPH law to include assessment of the safe operating skills exhibited by drivers on those highways.
Provides enhanced penalties for certain crimes when victim is 65 years of age or older, or disabled.
Supplemental appropriation of $100 million to DOE for additional Early Childhood Program Aid to fund certified teachers in Abbott district day care center preschool classes.
Requires superintendent to prepare a list of State Police employment titles and positions and qualifications thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education; requires State to pay part of cost; establishes loan program.
Appropriates $73 million in FY 2000 to the Newark School District to eliminate the State operated district's budget deficit.
Changes the composition of public college and university governing boards to include two student representatives.
Requires DOT to study public safety hazards posed by certain entry and exit ramps.
Imposes mandatory prison terms for prostitution offenses within 1,000 feet of a school.
Establishes the Dana Christmas Scholarship Program; appropriates $50,000.
Permits municipalities to phase in valuation changes following revaluation for up to five years.
Limits the number of choice school districts to 10.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Directs NJ Highway Authority to remove toll booths at Irvington exit and entry ramps.
Extends polling place hours for school elections.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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 Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to NJIT for support of College Leadership New Jersey.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $8,498,674.
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Provides for acquisition, receipt, warehousing and allocation or sale of certain surplus property, other than real property, for State, county, municipal or school district purposes, appropriates $75,000.*
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 14
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Provides increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program. *
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Appropriates $336,000 to DHSS for urban rodent control programs in the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
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.
Codifies Urban Home Ownership Recovery Program (UHORP) in NJHMFA to promote revitalization, redevelopment and stabilization of urban neighborhoods.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
In committee · 56
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
Requires carriers which offer managed care plans to permit covered person to continue treatment for limited time with a physician no longer employed by or under contract with the carrier for certain health conditions.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Requires training for school bus drivers.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation from the General Fund for State aid to local government units and school districts to replace local tax loss attributable to certain change in taxable value of depreciable business personal property.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY2026 for smoking prevention and education services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Increases payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property owned by the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Provides for reestablishment of local school board six months after creation of State-operated school district.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Requires DOE to develop guidelines for the evaluation and identification of gifted students and establish program guidelines to address their special academic needs.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Directs DEP to establish toxic air pollutant monitoring stations in Bergen county and Passaic county; appropriates $420,000 therefor.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides for the exclusion of demonstrably effective program aid in the calculation of school budget caps.
Provides fiscal rewards to school districts with low administrative expenditures.
Prohibits a communications tower facility from being erected within 200 feet of a public or private school or a child care-center.
Makes various changes to cable television franchise fee.
The "Educational Facilities Construction Act."
Requires certain State actions before using general coefficient of deviation to mandate municipal revaluation.
Requires State reimbursement for municipal cost of tax map after revaluation in certain circumstances.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
Requires State and local civil service entities to grant paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighters' associations who attend State or national conventions.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child and dependent care expenses.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases; appropriations $50,000.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.