Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Tom Smith
Sponsored
Became law3
Approves $16,001,500 in State funding for certain local government open space acquisition projects.
Increases maximum number of allowable members of county board of recreation commissioners from seven to nine and permits adoption of board seal. *
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHSS.
Passed the General Assembly3
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Increases the number of appointed board members for certain county vocational school districts from four to six.
Out of committee2
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure trust to make up to $100 million in loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Approves State funding for certain "urban aid" local government open space acquisition projects.
In committee17
Concerns the prompt payment of parties to State contracts and subcontracts.
Creates Public Contract Oversight Office; implements procedures concerning set-aside contracts in order to remedy certain discriminatory practices.
Requires the Department of Corrections to establish remedial reading programs for adult inmates.
Establishes Office of Assistant Commissioner of Education in Department of Corrections.
Allows municipalities to form Municipal Community Services Review Committees to review certain DHS, DOH and DCA proposed actions.
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Provides qualified immunity for volunteers providing health care services to indigent persons at a shelter or health care facility.
Authorizes special license plate for chiropractors.
Clarifies and strengthens domestic violence training requirements for law enforcement officers; appropriates $250,000.
Permits 10% resident hiring goal for laborers on public construction and redevelopment projects in certain municipalities.
Supplemental appropriation of up to $1 million from the General Fund as grant through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre.
Creates the "Neighborhood Association Victims' Bill of Rights."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for a grant to the Greater Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce for redevelopment efforts.
Prohibits the taking of menhaden for fish meal reduction in State coastal waters.
Requires approval of minutes of condominium association meeting prior to their availability to members.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000.*
Provides for mandatory minimum five year prison term without parole for persons convicted of certain firearms offenses with prior violent crime convictions. *
Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
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.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Permits a State employees' salary reduction program for qualified transportation benefits and increases the Travel Demand Management Program gross income tax exclusions for commuter transportation benefits.*
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Designates portion of Route 18 as "World War II Veterans' Memorial Highway"; appropriates $25,000.*
Requires the Administrative Director of the Courts to annually report on the school-based probation program.
Expands access to certain juvenile records; establishes right of victims to attend juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Increases membership of parole board; provides for appointment of temporary members, accelerates processing of certain inmates' cases and appropriates $685,000. *
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
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."
Vetoed · 1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly · 14
Requires destruction of firearms replaced by police; appropriates $400,000.*
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Establishes Lake Restoration Legislative Advisory Task Force; appropriates $95,000.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.*
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.
Prohibits local exchange telecommunications companies from assessing touch-tone service or similar service charges.*
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 40
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.
Provides increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program. *
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.*
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devises to commit harassment or stalking.
Requires certain new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.*
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.
Permits a child and dependent care credit against gross income tax.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances prohibiting gambling in a public place.*
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Establishes the NJ Teacher Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Appropriates to $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Appropriates $4 million to AOC to reduce juvenile probation officer caseloads.
Appropriates $204,514 to AOC for a Juvenile Central Registry.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Permits person registering to vote to declare political affiliation on voter registration form. *
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,120,000 from the General Fund as grants through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and New Jersey State Opera.**
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
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. *
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Extends and changes statute of limitations for actions by the State pursuant to various environmental cleanup laws.
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
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. *
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Requires payment of restitution to victims.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Madison Borough.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $200,000 from the General fund to DCA for grant to South Belmar Borough for completion of municipal complex.
In committee · 51
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Increases minimum wage.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
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.
Allows weapons seized in domestic violence cases to be stored with local law enforcement agency rather than the county prosecutor's office.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Authorizes NJEDA to issue $8 million in bonds for financial assistance to child care centers.
Provides for waiver of juvenile to adult court under certain circumstances.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
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.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Revises law concerning New Jersey Youth Corps.
Provides that committing a domestic violence-related crime in the presence of a child would constitute an "aggravating factor" to be considered by the court in sentencing.
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.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns in three years; requires trigger locking device accompany sales of handguns not identified as child-proof.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Changes legal notice publishing requirements for newspapers.
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 New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to videotape certain New Jersey veterans; appropriates $100,000.
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.
Requires installation of fire suppression systems in dormitories at institutions of higher education and provides grants and loans to assist institutions in complying with requirement; appropriates $25 million.
Requires health care provider participating in NJ KidCare program to provide all medically necessary health care services to eligible child which provider is qualified to provide.
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
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.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
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 DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.