Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Anthony Impreveduto
Sponsored
Became law1
Amends law governing criminal history record background checks for individuals working with developmentally disabled in community agencies.
Passed the General Assembly3
Changes requirements as to when HMDC shall notify concerned municipalities of plans for development in district.
Requires a dealer to disclose missing or defective emission control equipment in a used motor vehicle under certain circumstances, and exempts certain motor vehicles from regulation.
Allows second in a set of personalized, courtesy, or special license plates on leased vehicles from different lessors with certain exceptions.
Out of committee7
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; appropriates $200,000.
"Gray Market Electronic Goods Warranty Disclosure Act."**
Provides consumer remedy for failure to deliver merchandise or service at time promised.
Prohibits certain deceptive written advertising concerning merchandise offered with a guarantee.
Authorizes municipalities to impose room tax on hotels with more than 100 guest rooms.
Permits school districts to purchase property with surplus funds without voter approval and without indicating the item separately in the district's budget.
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
In committee52
Requires criminal history record background checks for certain individuals working with the developmentally disabled.
Permits wine tastings and samplings by certain Class C alcoholic beverage licensees.
Prohibits HMOs from denying provider participation to orthotists, prosthetists and pedorthists willing to meet terms of HMO contract.
Permits pharmacists to change prescription dosage forms.
Imposes mandatory penalties on juveniles adjudicated delinquent for promoting gambling.
Creates Innovative Technologies Advisory Board in DEP.
Authorizes DMV to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Provides for fast track permitting of biotechnology related industries.
Requires health care facilities provide copy of bill to patients.
Allows employee selection of physician and medical services under workers' compensation.
Requires gift certificates to be valid until redeemed unless conditions and limitations are fully disclosed.
Requires NJT to install mile markers and develop emergency response access plan for railroad lines.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
Prohibits use of fees or fines imposed on certain vehicles operated on alternative fuel for certain air pollution control programs; reduces registration fees on certain vehicles operated on alternative fuel.
Directs DOT to permit alternative fuel vehicles to operate in high occupancy vehicle lanes and receive the same priority treatment.
Requires only at-fault accidents to appear on DMV driving records.
Allows excuse from jury service on grounds of obligation to care for a minor child only if the child is under age 12.
Requires verification of certain credit card applications before processing them.
Requires certain procedures and provisions for certain State contracts with nongovernmental entities.
Changes registration fees for manufacturers and contractors in the apparel industry.
Prohibits use of not at-fault accidents as a tier rating factor for automobile insurance.
Excludes Roth IRA rollover income from income measure under NJSAVER and homestead rebate program, gross income tax medical expense deduction, PAAD qualification and property tax "freeze" program qualification.
Provides for disclosure of the identity of a juvenile in a delinquency case to the superintendent of the school district where the juvenile is enrolled.
Makes supplemental appropriations of $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and $500,000 for additional services for boarder babies.
Requires notification to owners of property to which contamination has migrated or is migrating.
Prohibits HMOs participating in Medicaid program from denying provider participation if provider meets terms of contract; requires disclosure of reasons for termination of provider.
Provides 15 year carryforward of research and development tax credit under the corporation business tax for certain high-technology companies.
Allows sheriff's employees to retire at half pay after 30 years of service at age 55.
Withholds payment to operator of State's Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance Program in amount equal to damages levied by contract for failure to meet certain performance standards.
Reimburses private garages for cost of inspection equipment.
Prohibits the idling of a train engine for more than 20 minutes.
Provides special license plates for clergy.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Deprivatizes motor vehicle agencies.
Prohibits certain employment discrimination against certain volunteer firefighters responding to emergency calls.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.
Provides that Surrogate fees and other court fees be paid by check, money order or cash.
Concerns traffic control trucks.
Extends scope of licensure and increases certain license fees under cigarette excise tax; revises "Unfair Cigarette Sales Act of 1952"; dedicates 25% of license fee revenue for enforcement of unfair sales act.
Directs the State Board of Education to establish certification requirements for athletic coaches at public secondary schools.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.
Revises various provisions of the "Home Inspection Professional Licensing Act."
Authorizes Casino Control Commission to permit Atlantic City casinos to offer Internet casino gambling.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain laser vision correction surgeries.
Requires health insurers to provide certain reimbursement for hearing aids.
Enacts new law to regulate and license pharmacists.
Regulates rates for certain pay telephone calls.
Exempts certain motor vehicles from inspections.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Increases applicants' annual minimum allocation of transferable tax benefits under the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
"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.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
Removes 20-year title search as prerequisite for tax title holder's claim for $12 party search expense.*
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 25th anniversary of ending of Vietnam Conflict; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Concerns licensing of auto body repair facilities.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DHS for grant to Hudson Cradle.
Prohibits limitations on contractor's remedy for delay caused by local government and school contracting units. *
Revises certain education and experience requirements for out-of-state practitioners of mortuary science seeking licensure in New Jersey.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Permits issuance of home inspectors licenses to certain licensed professional engineers and architects.
Modifies requirements to be licensed as a certified public accountant.
"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
Allows covered persons with out-of-network benefits in dental and health service corporations and dental plan organization plans to assign dental benefits to dentist of choice.
Passed the General Assembly · 12
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Authorizes county vocational schools and technical institutes to employ non-certified persons in post-secondary and adult continuing education programs.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.*
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network to RICO statute.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.*
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Includes certain payments by cigarette manufacturers in the price received for cigarettes by wholesalers and retailers.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 34
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Revises statutes regulating the practice of veterinary medicine.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Prohibits certain deceptive advertising concerning merchandise with a manufacturer's rebate.
Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury; imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury. *
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
"Psychoanalysts State Certification Act."
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act."
Revises references pertaining to podiatrists in statutes.
Requires certain notices of special school elections; requires such elections to be held on certain days.
Provides for continuing education for marriage and family therapists.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Specifies that students may practice acupuncture under the supervision of acupuncturists certified by the Acupuncture Examining Board.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Permits certain business operations by optometrists.
Requires gift certificates issued for goods and services to be valid until presented in exchange for those goods and services.*
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
Permits sale of motor fuels at other than posted price on the Internet or through similar modalities. *
Adjusts grandfather qualifications to apply for license as master plumber under certain circumstances.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DMVA for renovation and restoration of Jersey City Armory.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Increases the term of a municipal prosecutor.
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
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.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Establishes requirements for ticket brokers concerning the resale of tickets of admission to places of entertainment.
Exempts certain employing units from employee leasing company law.
In committee · 84
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
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 environmental standards for the sale of electricity.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
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.
Requires payment of minimum wage under public contracts.
Increases minimum income eligibility requirements for homestead property tax reimbursement program.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Includes mental health expenses under lifetime limit for major medical expenses in State Health Benefits Program.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Provides for one additional urban enterprise zone.
Authorizes school boards to adopt a policy on drug testing of student athletes.
Directs UEZA to designate expansion area of an existing urban enterprise zone.
Requires that all forms of public records be available for copying; sets uniform pricing policy for public records.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
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.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Creates strict liability and criminal sanctions for owners of certain trucks involved in certain fatal crashes.
Requires semi-annual safety inspections of certain trucks.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Establishes the Professional, Occupational and Trades Licensing Review Commission.
Imposes mandatory term of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole on persons who commit particularly brutal sexual assaults.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Provides for transfer of certain sheriff's employees to membership in PFRS.
Directs NJ Transit to designate a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System station in Jersey City the Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Improves the formula for computing retirement allowances for certain PERS and TPAF members retiring on deferred, early, service or ordinary disability retirement allowances.
Requires DEP to approve certain construction permit work plans and NJPDES permits within certain specified time frames.
Requires school principals report student offenses to law enforcement agencies.
Requires warehouses to report under Worker and Community Right to Know Act; establishes placarding requirement.
Designates steam locomotive #385 as the N.J. State steam locomotive.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
Requires facilities that generate, store, or handle certain explosives to comply with the provisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides additional State aid to certain school districts which send students to Abbott districts.
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Directs BPU to establish time periods for subscribers to pay certain cable TV line installation charges.
Requires NJT to comment on certain local applications for development.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Makes supplemental appropriation for grants-in-aid to pay New Jersey residents' legal expenses for a challenge to a change in the New York City nonresident earnings tax that discriminates against New York State nonresidents.
Supplemental appropriation of $27.4 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Jersey City State fiscal year 2000 budget gap grant.
Makes fiscal year 1998 supplemental appropriation of $17,000,000 for special municipal aid by reducing certain excess appropriations.
Provides a refundable earned income credit under the gross income tax equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.
"Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Prohibits Board of Psychological Examiners from expanding scope of practice of a psychologist through regulation.
Makes vehicle title fraud a third degree crime.
Requires employers to pay their employees when serving on a jury.
Eliminates certain restrictions on amount of bingo prizes and license requirement for certain raffles; relaxes restrictions on sale of alcohol during bingo; and permits more frequent conduct of bingo and raffles.
Permits certain licensed individuals, when advertising, to use their legal names, maiden names or nicknames under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $1.0 million to DHSS for grant to North Hudson Community Action.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program by $5,000.
"21st Century Transportation Trust Fund Extension 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.
Authorizes creation of 28th UEZ in Roselle Borough, Union County.
Provides for nonbinding referendum as to the permanent berthing of the Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey; makes an appropriation.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Entitles certain family members to copies of DMV notices concerning retesting.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Provides a host municipality benefit for a municipality sharing a common boundary with municipality wherein a transfer station is located.
Supplemental appropriation of $130,000 to DLPS to be allocated to the Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy for a domestic violence counseling and shelter grant.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2001-2002 school year.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
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.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Provides that time limitations in "New Jersey Parentage Act" do not apply to certain claims made under laws governing probate.
Clarifies requirement that fiduciary must act reasonably and in good faith.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.