Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Alfred E. Steele Rev.
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders. *
Out of committee3
Appropriates $13.3 million from the "Resource Recovery and Solid Waste Disposal Facility Fund" for grant to Passaic County Utilities Authority to pay for costs of a canceled solid waste facility project.*
Prevents consumer fraud in the preparation, distribution and sale of food represented as halal.
Requires AOC to record and track relationship between parties and children in certain family court matters.
In committee9
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 10 years.
Creates "gun free" school zones.
Makes fiscal year 1998 supplemental appropriation of $17,000,000 for special municipal aid by reducing certain excess appropriations.
Requires HIV testing for marriage license applicants.
Requires alternate route teachers to have baccalaureate degrees and changes certain certification requirements for vocational education teachers.
Supplemental appropriation for $10.0 million to DHSS for grants to community based substance abuse treatment and prevention agencies.
Places a moratorium on imposition of death penalty until Jan. 1, 2003; creates study commission in interim.
Supplemental appropriation of $884,000 to DOL for the Passaic County Summer Youth Program.
Permits promotion without promotional examination of municipal police officer with three awards.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; 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.
Requires public school sex education and AIDS education programs to stress abstinence.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Establishes certification program for persons who install, service, repair, inspect and maintain fire protection equipment; provides oversight by Department of Community Affairs.**
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
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."
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.*
Requires DHS to improve data collection on grandparents raising grandchildren and other forms of kinship care, and to conduct study on impact of Work First New Jersey program on these forms of care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Provides that marriage license applications and marriage licenses shall not contain information on race.
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination." *
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 19
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.
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.*
Requires certain new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.*
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.
Raises maximum age for appointment for exempt firemen to 45.
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Revises certain endorsements to the instructional certificate, requires certified teachers in licensed child care centers located in early childhood program aid districts, and establishes a loan program to assist in the attainment of certification. **
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Makes supplemental grants-in-aid appropriation of $1.5 million to the New Jersey Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs for expansion of delinquency programs. *
In committee · 47
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Establishes certain requirements regarding childhood immunizations.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
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.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
"New Jersey CARES Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
"Brain Injury Research Act."
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.
Eliminates no-fault divorce.
Establishes additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Requires State troopers to identify themselves, provide certain information, with certain exceptions.
Requires registration of family day care providers.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Requires children riding tricycles to wear helmets.
Appropriates $3.25 million for Great Falls development.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15,000,000 from General Fund to DCA for State aid for allocation to Jersey City and Paterson to relieve municipal property tax burdens in State-operated school districts.
Improves the formula for computing retirement allowances for certain PERS and TPAF members retiring on deferred, early, service or ordinary disability retirement allowances.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
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.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
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.
Provides for nonbinding referendum as to the permanent berthing of the Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey; makes an appropriation.
Appropriates $1.5 million to New Jersey Community Development Corporation to rehabilitate former locomotive works in Paterson.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
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.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
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.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.