Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
James S. Cafiero
Sponsored
Became law17
Revises fees and salaries of county clerks, registers of deeds and mortgages, sheriffs and surrogates, and use of fees to upgrade and modernize services of sheriffs' offices, pay salary increases and reduce county tax levies.
Provides for automatic purging of records of persons arrested or convicted of violating certain municipal ordinances.*
Makes fees for and manner of preparation of court transcripts subject to court rules.
Establishes 10 year limitation on surveyor's liability with exception for adverse possession cases.
Clarifies that municipalities may regulate nudity on certain lands within municipal borders.
Permits certain firefighters to be appointed and enrolled in PFRS regardless of age.
Allows certain historic hotels to receive liquor license without regard to population of municipality.
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.***
Designates methadone clinics as business use for zoning purposes.
Exempts campgrounds with swimming areas from DOH first-aid personnel and lifeguard requirements.
Establishes court awarded kinship legal guardianship status and creates three additional judgeships.
Appropriates $4,960,536 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants for certain historic preservation projects in southern New Jersey
Replaces one at large position on the Advisory Council on Community Affairs.
Clarifies military leave benefits for public officers and employees.
Appropriates $66,298,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government open space acquisition projects.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Changes population requirements for counties of fifth and sixth classes.
Passed the Senate9
Requires reimbursement of training and certification costs of certain police officers by appointing authority to former employer.
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Prohibits sale, distribution or installation of nonoperational air bags.
Upgrades penalties for sale of illegal drugs within 500 feet of outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities.
Creates limited licenses for barbering and hairstyling and a shop assistant specialty within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Allows court to grant adoption of children born in foreign country recognition and judicial comity in New Jersey.
Increases notary public fees.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMAVA and provides funding to existing nurse education program in DHS; appropriates $498,000. *
Exempts one-time payment for policyholders from Prudential reorganization to domestic stock insurer from calculation of income for PAAD and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
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Provides for issuance of general identification cards by county clerks.
Eases restrictions on issuance of personalized license plates.
Expands political subdivision employee appeal procedures.
Provides funding for county juvenile boot camps; appropriates $10,000,000.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
Requires State to grant paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement associations to attend State or national conventions.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHSS for defibrillator grants.
Appropriates from "Water Supply Fund" $5.5 million for assessment of Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer and $2 million for various water resource studies and assessments in Cape May County. *
Amends "Municipal Landfill Site Closure Remediation and Redevelopment Act" to include certain Pinelands municipal landfills.
Extends TPAF, PERS and PFRS veteran's status to certain participants in peace-keeping operations in Somalia and Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Provides for the reduction of the per pupil expenditure of certain constituent municipalities of regional school districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $625,000 in State aid to restore Lake Lily in Cape May County.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory.
Provides legislative authorization for certain projects of the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
Requires persons arrested for DUI be held in protective custody for 12 hours.
Appropriates $9 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes in pinelands area.
Excludes certain federal income tax rebates from PAAD, Senior Gold and Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement eligibility income.
Establishes Women's Commissions Network; appropriates $80,000.
Provides for special volunteer license for physicians who practice under certain limited circumstances.
Grants police powers to certain DOC administrators, associate administrators, superintendents and assistant superintendents; authorizes them to carry certain firearms.
Requires DOC to reimburse counties at uniform rate for housing State prisoners.
Provides that elderly persons shall be excused from jury service under certain circumstances and expands the juror source list to include volunteers. *
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Wildwood City to construct new Pedestrian Boulevard Connector from Pacific Avenue to the boardwalk.
Extends State-paid post-retirement SHBP benefits to State Police officers upon mandatory retirement with more than 20 but fewer than 25 years of service. *
Concerns carnival-amusement ride safety.
Appropriates $12,789,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for local government park development projects.
Establishes Operation Recognition to provide State-endorsed high school diplomas to veterans who left high school to serve in the armed forces during World War I or World War II.
Revises definition of "person with a disability" and "senior citizen" for certain purposes under consumer fraud law.
Provides economic impact aid to municipalities where State inmate population exceeds 75 percent of municipal population.
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Modifies licensure requirements for optometrists.
Requires every automobile operated in this State to be covered by liability insurance.
Changes membership of Advisory Board on Carnival-Amusement Ride Safety.
Provides increased representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending districts.
Increases PAAD income eligibility standards and requires certain recipients to pay higher copayments for prescriptions.
Authorizes certain municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to trim or remove trees in public right of way.
Authorizes certain agreements for projects relating to the Wildwood convention center facility.
Makes certain changes in the mortgage cancellation procedure.
Increases period of occupancy from 90 to 125 consecutive days to qualify for permanent resident exemption from sales tax on rentals of hotel rooms and other short-term accommodations.
Creates "Task Force to Study the Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal of Real Property"; appropriates $100,000.
Provides paid post-retirement medical benefits to certain board of education retirees.
Permits school bus drivers to exclude persons other than pupils from the bus for safety reasons.
Appropriates $3,600,000 from the General Fund to rehabilitate Cape May Seashore Lines.
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 AOC to record and track relationship between parties and children in certain family court matters.
Provides that certain offenders may spend the anniversary of the commission of a violent crime in solitary confinement.
Creates new motor vehicle offense; clarifies municipal prosecutors' duties concerning plea agreements.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Requires responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of individuals charged with DUI; authorizes impounding of vehicles operated by persons charged with DUI.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones; creates an additional joint urban enterprise zone.
Grants permanent status to the SCI; repeals Section 9 of P.L.1996, c.44 (C.52:9M-20).
The "New Jersey State Corrections Officers Act," clarifies rights, privileges, powers and protections afforded State corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers.
Creates matching grant program in DCA to assist counties in retrofitting county parks to enhance usage by handicapped children; appropriates $525,000.
Appropriates $13,000,000 to DEP from 1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund for certain non-port region dredging projects.
Requires public hearing, economic impact analysis and approval of certain advisory board before changing security classification or discontinuing security tower at State correctional facility.
Permits police officers to work as entertainers in certain businesses that sell alcoholic beverages.
Modifies eligibility requirements for participation in pretrial intervention program.
Prohibits defendants serving mandatory minimum terms from serving any portion of those terms in halfway houses or related facilities.
Provides paid post-retirement medical benefits for retired State employees.
Authorizes a 2001-2002 budget cap adjustment for certain school districts subject to a stabilization growth limit reduction in 1997-98.
Requires minimum of 30 days jail time and fine for second or subsequent prostitution offense.
Allows corporation business tax credit for one-half of the cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Requires telephone marketers to identify themselves and their business or organization before asking for a telephone subscriber by name or soliciting business from a telephone subscriber.
Extends validity and reduces fee for identity cards authorizing retired law enforcement officers to carry handguns.
Provides additional State aid to certain regional school districts which educate federally connected students.
Appropriates $250,000 to DLPS for State Police information systems to enhance criminal street gang law enforcement.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct one-half of their federal self-employment taxes from gross income under the gross income tax.
Creates the Office of Grant Application Assistance in DCA to assist counties and municipalities in applying for federal and private grants.
Allows enclosure or replacement of open-air structure for use as bath house or rest rooms without need to obtain CAFRA permit.
Regulates persons engaged in commercial telephone solicitations.
Requires health insurers to provide certain reimbursement for hearing aids.
Permits municipalities without full-time police forces to appoint Class I Special Law Enforcement Officers.
Creates NJ Hispanic-American State Holiday Study Commission; appropriates $75,000.
Increases to $25 the fee charged for unsterilized dogs of reproductive age.
The "State Multiple Dwelling Inspector Licensing Act."
Establishes effective date of 2000 Federal census.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes the Intercoastal Waterway and Back Bay Dredging Fund, dedicates $2,000,000 of the tax on motor fuels to the fund; prohibits collection of realty transfer fees if that amount is not appropriated to the fund.
Requires State registrar to issue presumptive death certificate based on court order declaring a person dead.
Repeals certain provisions concerning the taking and management of lobster.
Authorizes establishment of sports and entertainment districts in certain municipalities.
Co-sponsored
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Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit. *
Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Requires managed care plans and SHBP to pay in-network health care facilities full contractual rate regardless of whether treating practitioner is in-network or out-of-network provider. *
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.*
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.
Establishes a DYFS Review Panel; provides for additional positions; makes an appropriation. *
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Provides credit for participation rates in small employer health benefits plans to employees who are covered under another group health benefits plan or Medicare.
Requires certain new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.*
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones.*
Requires licensure of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billing services. *
Allows PERS retiree to earn $15,000 aggregate annual compensation in PERS-covered employment without reenrollment. **
"Psychoanalysts State Certification Act."
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance prohibiting possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property by underage persons.*
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Establishes Homeowners Insurance Availability Advisory Committee.
Requires parental consent prior to the tattooing or body piercing of minors.
Provides for aggregation of pension credit to qualify for paid SHBP benefits in retirement.
Directs assessor to reassess or revalue complete taxing district in certain circumstances.
Appropriates $6,587,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to various nonprofit entities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMAVA for study of veterans needs.
Removes time limitation on prosecuting offenses in certain cases when DNA evidence is available. *
Ratifies New Jersey's participation in "National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact."
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Requires law enforcement agencies to impound vehicles of persons arrested for DWI and to issue responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of persons arrested for DWI.*
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devices to commit harassment or stalking.
Directs that certain juvenile justice records be available to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors on a 24-hour basis.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Revises law concerning employment and training services. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Provides additional means of verification of agreement to change electricity or natural gas suppliers.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey to support its Breast Cancer Awareness Project.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001. *
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Requires internal complaint against member of State Police to be filed within 45 days.
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Appropriates $10.8 million from various Green Acres bond funds for local government open space acquisition and park development projects.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Vetoed · 1
Revises eligibility criteria for senior citizen stabilization aid and increases the per pupil aid amount to $500.
Passed the Senate · 47
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHSS for public information regarding health insurance consumers' rights to appeal adverse decisions of insurer.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.3 million to DHSS for managed care oversight.
Requires insurance carriers to use "prudent layperson" definition for coverage of emergency health care.
Establishes a hospital accounting management system and appropriates $2 million to DHSS.
Establishes Hospital Emergency Services Development Fund in DHSS to assist hospitals in creating emergency services clinics for patients who do not require acute care or trauma care; appropriates $9 million.
Increases physician fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement rates; appropriates $7 million in State funds and $7 million in federal funds.
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.
Permits electronic sale of individual and small employer health benefits plans, on a direct basis.
Provides grants to hospitals to determine feasibility of converting underused facilities to other uses; appropriates $4 million. *
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Provides that disabled students at institutions of higher education are eligible for reasonable substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Requires public hearing by the Attorney General regarding conversion of certain nonprofit corporations under certain circumstances.
Provides special license plates for clergy.
Permits certain nonprofit organizations to conduct an unlimited number of certain raffles without payment of fees.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.*
Permits certain charities to renew registration by verification statement.
Increases capital improvement fund in New Jersey Education Facility Authority by $90,000,000 to finance installation of automatic fire supression systems in student resident halls at high schools and institutions of higher education.*
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.
Eliminates reduction of the death benefit for participants age 70 or more in the alternate benefit program.
Authorizes special license plates for Offices of Emergency Management volunteers.
Requires that student's disciplinary records be transferred to receiving district when student transfers districts.
Clarifies that Miranda rights are not applicable to persons asked to submit to breathalyzer.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
Increases annual contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads to $50,000.
Establishes special child care license plates to fund child care services.
Requires removal of site from contaminated site list within 60 days after completion of cleanup. *
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain qualified employees. *
Requires payment of restitution to victims.
Permits purchase of service credit in SPRS.
Establishes two categories of senior citizens stabilization aid and increases the per pupil aid amounts to $500 and $300.
Provides PFRS accidental death benefit for policeman dying as result of accident or intentional act of another during member's attempt to prevent felony or apprehend felon.
Establishes "The Project Exile and Operation Ceasefire Enforcement Act of 2000" to strengthen prosecution of firearms crimes; appropriates $5 million.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder. *
Appropriates $1,000,000 to DEP from "Water Supply Fund" for study to assess groundwater contamination from MTBE.
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Cancels certain "Water Supply Fund" appropriations; authorizes use of those amounts for water supply management purposes; appropriates $950,000 to the DEP for a drought monitoring and telemetry system.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for water supply system interconnection study. *
Appropriates $1.0 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years. *
Appropriates $250,000 to DEP for costs of well drilling to monitor groundwater quality. *
Establishes Water Quality Remediation Fund; appropriates $50 million.
Increases membership of Drug Utilization Review Board to include two advanced practice nurses.
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Permits establishment of small employer health benefits purchasing alliances.
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Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax on most sales, up to $25,000 annually, collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting same.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund. *
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of volunteer emergency services organizations. *
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Increases nonpublic pupil transportation to 30 miles from the pupil's residence.
Subjects HMOs to law regulating insurance holding company systems and revises calculation of health insurance policy reserves.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
The "Private Well Testing Act"; appropriates $1 million from Safe Drinking Water Fund. *
Makes decisions rendered by independent utilization review organizations under Independent Health Care Appeals Program binding on insurance carriers.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction. *
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Extends certain veterans' benefits to persons who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.*
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Provides that EMT training of volunteer EMTs on paid squads and volunteer firefighters are eligible for reimbursement from EMT Training Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for grant to promote recruitment of first aid volunteers.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Provides sales tax exemption for certain home improvement materials purchases.
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts. *
Provides State aid for any costs over $40,000 for a special education pupil.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Creates new motor vehicle offense; clarifies municipal prosecutors' duties concerning plea agreements.*
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Amends law governing criminal history record background checks for individuals working with developmentally disabled in community agencies.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds.*
Increases penalties for fraudulent motor vehicle insurance identification cards.
Concerns working hours of certain children. *
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount.
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Expands law enforcement powers of certain DEP personnel.
Establishes 5-year "Breast Cancer Screening Grant Fund Program" in DHSS; appropriates $3.8 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund each year for 5 years. *
Appropriates $10.6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in southern NJ.
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000.*
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of proverty level.
Designated the "Ombudsman for Abused and Neglected Children Act."
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of DYFS.
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
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. *
Provides for annual support from General Fund and appropriates $150,000 for FY1999 for oyster resource enhancement program.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for DYFS violence prevention training grant.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from the General Fund to the Department of the Treasury for a publicity program for the senior and disabled citizens property tax freeze reimbursement program.
Modifies appraisal process for certain lands to be acquired for open space or farmland preservation purposes.
Provides for prompt notification to health care licensing boards when health care practitioner suspected of injuring a patient or suspected of other wrongdoing.
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DLPS for child car safety seat grant program.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for child car safety seat public education campaign.
Exempts sales of certain child restraint systems, such as car seats, booster seats and locking baby carriers, from sales and use tax.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Increases membership of parole board; provides for appointment of temporary members, accelerates processing of certain inmates' cases and appropriates $685,000.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for public awareness campaign concerning "New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act."
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability. *
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. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Establishes public awareness campaign to reduce tobacco use among young women; appropriates $75,000.
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Increases SPRS cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
"Nurse Retention Stipend Program Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Appropriates $1.7 million to DLPS for State Police defibrillators.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care expenses. *
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain State employees who retire between April 1, 2002 and July 1, 2002.
Makes annual compensation paid to surviving spouses of certain blind or disabled veterans payable from date of veteran's death.
Appropriates $2,883,500 from "1995 Farmland Preservation Fund" and $11,754,020 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects.
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Indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
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 presumption that domestic violence restraining order is not violated by defendant's contact with plaintiff if parties have reconciled and are members of same household.
Prohibits State from utilizing State Plan in permitting and funding determinations.
Establishes State aid program to reimburse CAFRA municipalities for property tax revenue losses due to new CAFRA rules; appropriates $10 million.
Modifies statute of limitations and eliminates certain defenses in civil cases seeking damages based on exposure to tobacco products.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Enhances retirement benefits for PFRS members.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
Establishes registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with mechanical devices for handicapped.
Designated the "Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act."
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 Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
Prohibits the sale of any gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether or other ether oxygenates.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to DLPS to replace State Police weapons.
Authorizes attorneys serving as part-time municipal prosecutors to also serve as defense counsel for criminal matters in the county.
Creates new $100 assessment for convictions of certain sexual offenses to fund counseling for victims and their families; establishes Sexual Offender Victim Counseling Fund.
Creates "gun free" school zones.
Requires approval by Attorney General of transfers of parolees from other states to New Jersey.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Provides exemption from jury service for paid members of fire departments, fire patrols, first aid squads and rescue squads.
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
Holds municipalities harmless with respect to apportionment of certain payments in lieu of taxes made by the State to municipalities under the "Garden State Preservation Trust Act."
Requires board of education to provide course credit for certain courses.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
Prohibits employment discrimination by public employers against volunteer fire, ambulance, first aid or rescue personnel.
Exempts physicians who exceed speed limit while responding to emergency calls from penalties.
Provides for access to certain energy customer information by municipal governments for municipal aggregation.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.
Redefines meaning of campaign contribution to be net after deduction for fund-raising event expense.
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.
Permits review of permanent orders concerning parenting time every three years.
Bans trafficking in bodily fluids for unlawful purposes.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Clarifies types of educational facilities exempted from regulation under CAFRA.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Appropriates $5 million to downtown business improvement loan fund in DCA.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Requires internal complaints against State and county corrections officers be filed within 45 days.
Establishes Department of State Police.
Requires audit of health insurer's claims payment records.
Applies 75% loss ratio to certain policies and contracts of health insurers.
Establishes special "Miss America Scholarships" license plate.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Provides corporation business or gross income tax credits for new job creation to businesses located in municipalities participating in the "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Requires the State to pay the cost of providing a thorough and efficient education for pupils in certain State facilities.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Provides that defendants convicted of murder are subject to the provisions of the "No Early Release Act".
Supplemental appropriation of $20 million to DOT for grants to counties and municipalities for extraordinary road maintenance and repairs.
Allows a deduction under New Jersey gross income tax of the cost incurred by a taxpayer in supporting a family member at least 65 years old, up to a maximum of $1,000.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million in tobacco settlement funds to N.J. State Commission on Cancer Research.
Establishes the "State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act" and appropriates $50 million for debt reduction and avoidance.
Establishes "Voto-Tedesco Community Notification Law."
Supplemental appropriation of $12 million to Commission on Higher Education for grants to county colleges that provide nursing education programs.
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.
Upgrades crime of leaving the scene of a fatal accident to a crime of the second degree.
Authorizes municipalities to prohibit retail sale of firearms within 1,000 feet of public or private school.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on all storm water drainage facilities under DOT jurisdiction; appropriates $1.25 million.
Exempts 1996 and subsequent model year motor vehicles equipped with on-board diagnostic systems from emissions testing; requires check of functioning of on-board diagnostic system; directs AG to recover certain costs of enhanced inspection and maintenance program from federal government.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
Prohibits passing by motor vehicles in school zones.
"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.
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DLPS for DNA testing of convicted criminals.
Provides for the convening of State constitutional convention to reform the system of property taxation for funding the public schools; appropriates $7 million.
The "Scrap Tire Management Act."
Provides handicapped parking identification for vehicles of assisted living residences.
Establishes a seasonal hunting license and sets fee.
Upgrades offense of assault against a lifeguard.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Directs DOE to provide to every public school a sign stating the national motto, "In God We Trust," and permits principals and teachers to display additional copies.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
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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.