Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Sharpe James
Sponsored
Became law1
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree to tamper with electronic device installed in police patrol cars.*
Passed the Senate4
Clarifies that cruelty to animals includes the use of an animal to injure another animal. *
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Out of committee7
Concerns location of certain highway entry and exit ramps and schools.*
Provides certain additional powers for county improvement authorities.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million from the General Fund for the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 10 years.
Requires Ombudsman for Institutionalized Elderly to disclose results of investigation of abuse or exploitation of elderly person to family member or guardian of elderly person.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose alcoholic beverages tax under "Local Tax Authorization Act."
Permits certain municipalities to provide five years of revaluation relief abatements and revises restriction on Newark's use of payroll and parking tax revenue. *
In committee15
Permits board of education to reduce or waive bond requirements of contractors.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DOH.
Requires workers' compensation actions against State and local governmental entities to be brought in county where action arose.
Establishes certain requirements regarding childhood immunizations.
Establishes time limit for certification of local unit budget by Director of Division of Local Government Services; establishes Local Budget Dispute Resolution Board.
Rectifies effects of certain discriminatory practices; creates Office of Public Contract Oversight and Public Contract Oversight Advisory Committee.
Prohibits simultaneous holding of certain elective public offices.
Requires State Police applicants to undergo psychological testing for racial bias.
Prohibits 4-year college requirement for appointment to State Police.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHS for creation of domestic violence services unit in Essex County.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Increases pension benefits for certain retirees in certain municipal retirement systems.
Clarifies that acting county prosecutor is entitled to same salary as county prosecutor.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
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.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Provides the manufacturing equipment and employment investment tax credit under the corporation business tax for electric energy and thermal energy production.
Passed the Senate · 5
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal. *
"Sports and Entertainment District Financing Act." *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $65,000 to the Department of Community Affairs for a grant-in-aid to The American Society for Public Administrators.
Out of committee · 18
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of volunteer emergency services organizations. *
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Requires State Police to file reports on motor vehicle stops they initiate.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"The Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act." *
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Establishes Department of Agriculture operating loan program for farmers participating in farmland preservation; appropriates $5,000,000. *
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Requires surveillance cameras to be located in multiple dwellings housing senior and disabled persons.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000. *
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to NJIT for support of College Leadership New Jersey.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
In committee · 37
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Designated the "Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act."
Provides a refundable earned income credit under the gross income tax equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Broadens affirmative action program in Division of State Police.
Extends expiration date of certain municipally authorized taxes, clarifies State instrumentalities not exempt from local parking tax.
Establishes fourth degree crime for parent who permits a minor to gain access to a firearm which is later used in a crime.
Requires criminal history background checks on certain child care workers, strengthens sanctions imposed upon child care centers for certain violations.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Increases minimum wage.
Creates the offense of racial profiling.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and available to public.
Requires Superintendent to prepare list of State Police employment titles, positions and qualifications; thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Criminalizes depriving persons of their civil rights.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Provides State aid to municipalities for certain group homes which are owned by tax-exempt entities.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Creates the Commission on the Status of Minorities; appropriates $200,000.
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.
Prohibits automobile insurers from denying agency to insurance producer solely because he writes in automobile insurance UEZs.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Appropriates $77 million in FY 2001 to the Newark School District to eliminate the State-operated district's budget deficit.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Requires the Commissioner on Higher Education to annually review certain records of fraternity and sorority incidents of violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Excludes victims of sexual or child abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
Includes emergency contraceptives in protocols for sexual assault victims.
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.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
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.
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.