Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Byron M. Baer
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Sets warranty periods for converted planned real estate developments and creates a State-operated warranty security fund to pay certain claims against converters.
In committee13
"The Transloading Facility Safety Review Act."
Establishes rebuttable presumption of negligence for hazardous materials routing.
Revises provisions of the "Open Public Meetings Act" to ensure greater compliance.
"Auto Purchasers Bill of Rights Act."
Requires warehouses to report under Worker and Community Right to Know Act; establishes placarding requirement.
Provides that new 30-year period of CRDA obligation will apply to certain casino expansions.
Prohibits use of Swiss financial institution which holds assets of Holocaust victims in connection with sale of State temporary disability benefits plan.
Establishes certain project ranking procedures and criteria for Green Acres and coastal Blue Acres programs.
Modifies statute of limitations and eliminates certain defenses in civil cases seeking damages based on exposure to tobacco products.
Strengthens public disclosure and monitoring requirements of "Open Public Meetings Act".
Revises law governing access to public records.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate.
Requires certain independent expenditures in gubernatorial campaign to be reported simultaneously to ELEC; provides for payment to certain other candidates of amount equal to independent expenditure.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
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.
Requires criminal history record checks for all certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides; requires plan for similar checks to be conducted on other providers of home care services.*
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Permits school board to provide courtesy busing on a space-available basis and to charge parents for the costs.
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
The "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Credit Act"; appropriates $750,000.
Establishes civil action against drug dealers.
Requires State Police to file an annual report with regard to public complaints of misconduct on the part of officers.
Permits Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission to indemnify local government units from which it leases property.
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Prohibits certain practices by homeowners' insurers and insurance producers.
Provides for continuing education for marriage and family therapists.
Creates the offense of endangering an injured victim.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to assist in purchase and preservation of certain lands in Sterling Forest, New York.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."*
Requires BPU to enforce new FCC rules on slamming and to institute actions against telecommunications service providers pursuant to agreement with FCC.
Establishes the "Local Unit Electronic Technology Pilot Program and Study Act," and makes an appropriation.*
Makes certain acts of animal cruelty crimes of the fourth degree; requires juveniles adjudicated deliquent for certain animal cruelty offenses to receive court-ordered psychological counseling.***
Requires cell phone use to be noted in traffic accidents.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Establishes Office on Women's Health in DHSS.**
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation.*
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.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Passed the Senate · 19
Increases annual charity care amount to $345 million and appropriates $30 million in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid fee-for-service hospital rates.
Provides grants to hospitals to determine feasibility of converting underused facilities to other uses; appropriates $4 million. *
Requires police officers and correction officers to complete training course before assuming powers and duties.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Requires employees of nonpublic schools to undergo criminal history record checks.
Requires pharmacists, other providers of oxygen or oxygen delivery systems or patients to notify local fire department of existence of oxygen or oxygen delivery system in residential setting.
Permits counties to use forfeiture moneys for certain criminal offender information systems. *
Expands the category of persons who can administer oaths of office and of allegiance, where no other provision is made by law, to include those persons who can presently attest to oaths, affirmations and affidavits in other contexts.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Requires school districts to offer instruction in the prevention of violence; appropriates $1,000,000.
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act." *
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of each school day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs. *
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal. *
Prohibits issuance of DEP permits or approvals for activities associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Establishes an environmental testing laboratory in the Department of Environmental Protection; appropriates $3.0 million.
Out of committee · 19
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Permits aid to nonpublic schools for electronic textbooks.
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund. *
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Appropriates $99,000 to DOC for Voice Verification parole pilot program.
Repeals surcharge paid by insurers of school boards not in SHBP; requires payment of surcharge amounts for FY97, FY98 and FY99 to schools boards.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Provides funding for non-profit energy assistance organization.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"The Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act." *
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing. *
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000. *
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. *
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.
In committee · 38
"Dog Trainers' Licensing Act."
Appropriates $74,500 to NJ Historical Commission for study and identification of "Underground Railroad."
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Establishes PAAD Expansion Program.
Designated the "Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act."
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Requires that all forms of public records be available for copying; sets uniform pricing policy for public records.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child care expenses.
Dedicates use of tobacco settlement monies for certain health-related purposes and appropriates $40 million in State funds and $40 million in federal funds to increase Medicaid inpatient reimbursement rates.
Establishes fourth degree crime for parent who permits a minor to gain access to a firearm which is later used in a crime.
Requires that Abbott v. Burke parity remedy aid be allocated to county vocational school districts for students enrolled in those districts who reside in an Abbott district.
Requires buffer zone between security perimeter of county juvenile detention facility and certain adjacent properties.
Requires electric utility rate reductions to be passed through by landlord to residential tenants.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns within five years; during interim requires trigger locks accompany sales of handguns that are not child-proof; appropriates $500,000.
Provides annual appropriations for hospital and physicians that provide charity care, long- term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides for permanent disbarment of school bus contrators for certain violations and makes various changes to school transportation contracting practices.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
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.
Establishes limits on medical resident's hours.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2 million to the Department of State for a grant to the John Harms Center for the Arts for debt reduction.
"Parkway Barrier Toll Removal Act."
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $4.9 million to Fairleigh Dickinson University for the New Jersey Teacher Education, Technology and Distance Learning Project.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Increases pension benefits for certain retirees in certain municipal retirement systems.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
"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.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Supplemental appropriations of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Filed · 3
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 for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *