Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Connie Myers
Sponsored
Became law9
Permits establishment of small employer health benefits purchasing alliances. *
Permits certain nonpublic school pupils to purchase bus transportation from boards of education or cooperative transportation services agencies.
Eliminates parity remedy aid and additional Abbott v. Burke State aid in the calculation of tuition for school districts which send pupils to an Abbott district.*
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Appropriates $95,000 to DEP for grant to Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program (NORWESCAP) for venison donation program.
Provides for community based deer management plans and special deer management permits in certain areas incurring deer damage; makes venison donation demonstration program permanent; and appropriates $25,000.
Increases wine tax dedication for promotion account.
Appropriates $7.35 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants to counties and municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11.8 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the General Assembly5
Limits liability of certain landowners who permit hunting, fishing, or trapping activities on their lands for a fee.
Authorizes payment of sales taxes by vendors under the sales and use tax and the advertising of "we pay the tax" days.
Provides additional State aid for school facilities projects in certain waiver districts.
Establishes that county counsel appointments made during certain periods will be temporary.
Allows farmers, under certain conditions, to engage in or accommodate certain nonagricultural business enterprises on perserved farmland. *
Out of committee9
Appropriates $34,000,000 from budgeted appropriations under the State Partnership Agreement Program for grant to Warren County Pollution Control Financing Authority to pay solid waste facility debt service costs. *
Requires State to fund at least 80% of cost of Statewide poison control and drug information program.
Extends civil service veterans preference to certain persons who served in Operation "Uphold Democracy" in Haiti.
Establishes certain requirements for land application of residual on agricultural land.*
Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop and implement a grade 1 Statewide diagnostic reading assessment. *
Appropriates $8,280,300 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Regulates self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements.
Exempts automotive repair dealers from the consumer fraud law under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $1.6 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture for specialty crop grant program.
In committee26
Concerns public and private immunity from liability due to hang gliding or paragliding on or from public or private property.
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.
Sets limit on the amount by which a school district's income used in calculation of State aid may increase over the previous year.
Authorizes municipalities to transfer development rights and participate in State Transfer Development Rights Bank.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.
Provides State Agriculture Development Committee with right of first refusal before farmland is acquired for recreation and conservation purposes through Garden State Preservation Trust.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
Requires acute care hospitals, nursing facilities and health care professionals to provide patients or residents with itemized bill.
Increases annual contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads to $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for grant to promote recruitment of first aid volunteers.
Requires board of education to provide course credit for certain courses.
Prohibits employment discrimination by public employers against volunteer fire, ambulance, first aid or rescue personnel.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
Reorganizes New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Provides parity between school boards and municipalities with respect to prevailing wage threshold.
Eliminates certain restrictions on transfer of plenary winery license.
Grants county planning board power to review site plans for land development affecting county roads.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles at weigh stations.
Establishes farm brewery and winery-brewery beverage license and permits farm wineries to produce hard cider.
Requires State to revise and readopt State redevelopment plan every six years.
Requires charter school to notify resident school district of enrollment of students for next school year no later than January 15 and resident district to approve any enrollment after that date.
Permits home-schooled students to participate in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Requires Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group to include a representative of New Jersey State First Aid Council.
Appropriates $180,000 to Warren County Soil Conservation District to update and digitize soil survey over three years.
Provides for binding arbitration of disputes between county governing body and the judiciary concerning courthouse facilities.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
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.
Approves $16,001,500 in State funding for certain local government open space acquisition projects.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
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.
Exempts children and victims for the payment of costs related to the maintenance and support of certain institutionalized individuals. *
Appropriates $12,886,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Eliminates certain requirements applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs.
Vetoed · 1
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Establishes Lake Restoration Legislative Advisory Task Force; appropriates $95,000.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Prohibits de-crediting by COAH of unit of affordable housing upon expiration of term of deed restriction.
Authorizes permit for farm produce sign.
Supplemental appropriation of $45 million to DOT for road repair grants to counties and municipalities, for State road repair, and for State and local road and bridge repair with concrete.*
Establishes State Capital Coordinating Council on Emergency Evacuation Routes and Procedures.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 26
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Revises "Solid Waste Management Act" to eliminate those parts of the statutory law that have been rendered obsolete, unconstitutional or unenforceable by the Carbone, Atlantic Coast and Waste Management v. Shinn decisions.
Authorizes municipalities to assume primary responsibility for the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste.
Revises statutory law to reflect changes in recycling law and regulations.
Provides for the termination of public utility rate regulation of solid waste collection and solid waste disposal.
Creates State obligation to subsidize recovery of stranded solid waste facility debt.*
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.*
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
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.*
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Establishes an agricultural tourism program and appropriates $95,000.
Requires counseling for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for cruelty to animals.
Excludes certain contributions to SIMPLE retirement plans from gross income under the gross income tax.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Makes certain acts of animal cruelty crimes of the fourth degree; requires juveniles adjudicated delinquent for certain animal cruelty offenses to receive court-ordered psychological counseling. **
Allows transport of dead deer in covered or closed vehicles.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Appropriates $50 million to the DEP for dam repair assistance and dam safety enhancement.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Exempts campgrounds with swimming areas from DOH first-aid personnel and lifeguard requirements.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $180,000 to the Department of Education for the New Jersey Business/Industry Science Education Consortium.
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. *
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million. *
In committee · 27
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Increases rate of juror compensation and provides for reimbursement for mileage.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
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 State Police toll-free hot line for reporting possible sex-related crimes involving juveniles over interactive computer services, appropriates $150,000.
Permits the refurbishment of school buses to extend the life of the bus by eight years.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Establishes "State Special Education Services Fund" in DOE to finance the cost of special education programs and services for public school students.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Modifies certain restrictions on bingo advertising; directs Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission to promulgate regulations on bingo advertising.
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
Authorizes school boards to establish a firearm safety program.
Authorizes Commissioner of Transportation to extend current ban on large trucks outside of National Network to 96-inch wide trucks.
Establishes organic certification program in Department of Agriculture; appropriates $160,000.
Changes earliest date of construction or rehabilitation of housing granted credits without controls.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members at State cost.
Creates the "Judicial and Prosecutorial Facilities Construction Assistance Act."
Prohibits courts from ordering parent to administer Ritalin to child.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Revises the calculation of State aid for school facilities projects.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.