Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
John O. Bennett
Sponsored
Became law23
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Requires certain notices of special school elections; requires such elections to be held on certain days.
Provides that the family court has discretion to order performance of community service in addition to incarceration for certain delinquent child support obligors.
Concerns reforestation of lands by State entities.
Requires certain new employers to reimburse certain former employers for law enforcement training costs.*
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Amends shoplifting statute; establishes grading system similar to theft.
Exempts certain partnerships, firms or corporations associated with former member of Judiciary from current restrictions regarding holders of, or applicants for, casino licenses.
Adds two commissioners to North Jersey District Water Supply Commission.*
Exempts sale and repair of limousines from sales and use tax.
Increases certification period governing COAH from six to ten years under "Fair Housing Act."
Revises procedure for self-administration by school pupils of medication for asthma, appropriates $344,000. *
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Permits county contributions for management of self-liquidating solid waste utility to be outside budget cap limits. *
Requires cell phone use to be noted in traffic accidents.
Appropriates $6,871,462.01 from "Garden State Historic Preservaton Trust Fund" to provide capital preservation grants from certain historic preservation projects in northern New Jersey.
Creates shade tree and community forest preservation license plates for commercial vehicles.
Increases aid-in-lieu-of transportation amount and requires certain review of pupil transportation contracts by county superintendent. *
Changes primary election date for 2001 from June 5 to June 26; increases expenditure and public financing limits for gubernatorial candidates for that primary election; provides public financing for certain primary gubernatorial candidates; makes appropriation.
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.95 million.
Provides that chairmanship of the State Athletic Control Board would be a full-time position.
Requires municipal approval for construction and operation of crematorium.
Adds two public members to NJ Sports and Exposition Authority; removes ex officio membership of Attorney General.
Vetoed1
Establishes procedure for licensed professionals to obtain restraining orders against clients or patients who have committed acts of violence.
Passed the Senate13
Amends boating law to permit minor to operate certain small vessels.
Establishes the HOPE Scholarship Program Study Commission; appropriates $5,000.
Modifies workers' compensation benefits for certain volunteers injured while volunteering.
Establishes Task Force on Asthma in the Schools; appropriates $15,000.
Provides that disabled students at institutions of higher education are eligible for reasonable substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements.
Authorizes municipalities to provide free day care services to children of volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members.
Revises "Local Bond Law" provisions to simplify refunding bonds and permit electronic bid proposals.
Establishes "Eye Health Care Services Advisory Commission;" appropriates $25,000.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
Expands and clarifies law concerning crimes with bail restriction. *
Authorizes local expenditure cap exception for 2001 for certain municipal snow removal costs. *
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force appropriations $15,000.
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
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Exempts from reenrollment TPAF retirees who serve in certificated administrative or supervisory positions under one-year contract, subject to lifetime cap of two years. *
Eliminates certain basis calculation requirements for S corporation shareholders.
Provides gross income tax credit for active members of volunteer emergency services organizations. *
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments and school districts.
Appropriates $99,000 to DOC for Voice Verification parole pilot program.
Provides for continued small employer health benefits coverage for dependents in certain circumstances.
Allows banks and certain other lenders to act as title insurance producers.*
Clarifies certain duties of the municipal prosecutor.
Revises law concerning award of State contracts to multiple bidders.
Permits certain corporate mergers without shareholder approval or right of dissent.
Provides State employees with additional deferred compensation plan choices.
Provides that municipal remediation ordinances shall not apply to remediations conducted under DEP oversight.
Revises school bond law to simplify refunding bonds and permit electronic bid proposals.
Revises procedures for weighing vehicles transporting construction materials. *
Requires certain interruptible gas service customers to have a seven-day supply of fuel other than gas available to them.*
Authorizes the Legislative Services Commission to appoint an individual to hold more than one office or position in the Office of Legislative Services.
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 33 as the "Theodore J. Narozanick Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving children.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Authorizes special Navy Seabee license plates. *
Requires public institutions of higher education to ensure that teaching assistants have effective teaching skills.
Requires an insurance producer's license to market bail bond insurance.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to establish memorial program for members of the State Police who were killed in line of duty.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DEP for the inventory, restoration, replacement and erection of historic markers.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Makes supplemental appropriations of $31,539,500 from the General Fund for certain purposes. *
Changes petition filing deadline for 2001 primary election to 47th day before election for certain candidates; appropriates funds for public notices and county reimbursement. *
Increases voluntary municipal pension to survivors of volunteer firefighters or first aid squad members and extends payment to widowers of such persons.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Alters cap on tax due pursuant to Spill Compensation and Control Act.
Revises law regarding liability, indemnification, intellectual property rights, and warranty obligations under State information technology contracts; protects certain confidential information in connection with State information technology contracts.**
Provides that portions of faculty residence building held by colleges, schools, academies or seminaries that are used in part for consultations with students and for similar school purposes are exempt from taxation and remaining portions of faculty housing building are taxable.
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
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Establishes additional requirements for the approval of board of education lease purchase agreements.
Specifies certain compensation levels for administrative law judges.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for enrollment at a New Jersey College or university.
Concerns automobile insurance medical fee schedules and medical protocols.
Provides individual cause of action for unfair practices in the settlement of insurance claims and makes unfair practices subject to consumer fraud law.
Makes it a crime for an unlicensed person to ship alcoholic beverages into the State; establishes toll-free hotline to obtain certain alcoholic beverages.
Requires adoption of emissions portfolio standard under certain conditions.
Requires DEP review of areawide plans and projects' consistency thereto within 90 days of submission.
Authorizes counties, municipalities and sewerage authorities to impose intensity of use fee concerning sewer connectors.
Provides for "grandfathering" of certain persons as licensed professional counselors.
Allows certain State employees to receive paid post-retirement medical benefits.
Directs NJ Law Revision Commission to arrange for recompilation of statutory laws of the State.
Provides property tax exemption for fractional ownership by 100% disabled veteran in continuing care facility.
Provides affirmative defense against prosecution for child abandonment for parent who voluntarily delivers newborn child to emergency department of licensed general hospital.
Authorizes local government units to construct locally funded public indoor recreation facilities on certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Clarifies types of educational facilities exempted from regulation under CAFRA.
Regulates sale of certain mailing lists.
Allows any licensed auto body repair facility to join an insurer's network of facilities under certain circumstances.
Provides free admission to certain county facilities for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads and their immediate families.
Waives $15 fee for Firefighters and First Aider special license plates for volunteers.
Establishes the Garden State New Millenium Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Requires DEP decision on water quality management plans and amendments within 90 days of complete application.
Reduces the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to the DOT for "Innovation Garden State" highway signage program.
Establishes "Small Downtown Business Incentive Program."
Requires operational review and audit of State park and forest system and State wildlife management area system to determine resources necessary to maximize public benefit therefrom; appropriates $200,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $268,000 to DLPS to continue the Juvenile Justice Commission's Monmouth Day Program.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term of two years for leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Creates 12 additional Superior Court judgeships; establishes a Special Business Part in the Superior Court; provides for appropriations.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available.
Provides for the annual collection of certain fees collected by small used motor vehicle dealers.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for gains on "equity securities" purchased during the 30 days beginning October 4, 2001 and held for at least six months.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Establishes a college scholarship program for dependent children whose parents have died simultaneously.
Permits monthly payment of interest on fire districts bonds.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain U.S. military compensation paid to reservists and National Guard members.
Reallocates certain weights and measure definitions to a different section of law.
Increases penalty for falsifying information in driver's license application.
Filed2
Concerns certain public benefits available to persons affected by September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on US.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
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.
Authorizes law enforcement officer memorial license plates for college scholarships for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Requires licensure of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billing services. *
Creates a drunk driver visitation program.
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
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.
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Creates the offense of endangering an injured victim.
Allows physicians and dentists to jointly negotiate with carriers over contractual terms and conditions. *
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."*
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $29 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in central NJ.
Provides mechanism for provision of municipal trash collection services or reimbursement to apartment buildings and complexes.
Provides additional means of verification of agreement to change electricity or natural gas suppliers.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001. *
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Includes certified landscape architects as closely allied professionals in the architect's licensing law and law creating the Joint Committee of Architects and Engineers.
Transfers State Library to Thomas Edison State College.
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Designates U.S. Highway Route No. 9 southbound bridge over Raritan River as the "Ellis S. Vieser Memorial Bridge"; appropriates $2,500.
Appropriates $1,086,158 from 1995 Green Acres bond act for coastal Blue Acres acquisition projects by local government units.
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
Requires State to fund at least 80% of cost of Statewide poison control and drug information program.
Passed the Senate · 27
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. *
Prohibits person convicted of child abuse, domestic violence or stalking from purchasing or owning a firearm.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorizes special license plates for Offices of Emergency Management volunteers.
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.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Appropriates $2.5 million from 1996 Dredging Bond Act to fund completion of dredged materials reuse demonstration project in certain abandoned Pennsylvania coal mines, and regulates funding of certain dredging and dredged materials disposal projects. **
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.
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.
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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.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.*
Excludes income of school district residents who rank in the top 5% of income as reported on State Income Tax forms from calculation of district income for school aid purposes.
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Designates portion of Route 18 as "World War II Veterans' Memorial Highway"; appropriates $25,000.*
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund. *
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Establishes "Neighborhood Revitalization Mortgage Assistance Program;" appropriates $5 million.*
Subjects HMOs to law regulating insurance holding company systems and revises calculation of health insurance policy reserves.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
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.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Phases out business personal property tax on incumbent local exchange telecommunications carriers and replaces revenue with State aid funding, and reduces intrastate access charges and requires savings to be passed on to customers.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide a security monitor system for Alzheimer's disease patients. *
Extends certain veterans' benefits to persons who performed active service in U.S. Armed Forces during Cold War.*
Permits certain nonpublic school pupils to purchase bus transportation from boards of education or cooperative transportation services agencies.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"The Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act." *
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Approves funding eligibility of certain farmland preservation projects in central NJ.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs. *
Makes Regional Efficiency Aid Program applicable to all regional service agreements entered into prior to July 1, 1974.*
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount.
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHS.
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs.**
Appropriates $200,000 to the New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education for programs to promote an environmentally responsible citizenry.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $4 million to DLPS for Office of Inspector General school construction monitoring.
Establishes hepatitis C education, prevention and screening program and requires reporting of hepatitis C directly to DHSS. **
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000. *
Exempts health care supplies and equipment, purchased for use in providing health care services, from sales tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHS for DYFS violence prevention training grant.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $14 million. *
Dedicates $20 million annually in realty transfer fee revenues to pay for development, improvement, and repair of State parks, forests, recreation areas, historic sites, natural areas and fish and wildlife areas. *
Appropriates $14.75 million from the "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in southern NJ.
Establishes off-track wagering facilities and account wagering system for parimutuel betting on horse races, changes certain requirements pertaining to simulcasting and makes an appropriation. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Exempts state-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax. *
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. *
Clarifies that fees are due in Special Civil Part on levy if judgment reinstated or case settled.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Eliminates certain requirement applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs. ***
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Indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Provides for host municipality benefits from certain sewerage authorities.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
Prohibits electric public utilities from discontinuing service to certain customers for nonpayment of bills during certain time periods.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
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.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Establishes penalty for using cell phone while driving.
Provides immunity to governmental entities distributing emergency cell phones and pagers.
"Health Care Provider Joint Negotiation Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Redefines meaning of campaign contribution to be net after deduction for fund-raising event expense.
Requires DEP to conduct test of disputed noise level at entrance to residence during certain hours.
Creates the Commission on the Status of Minorities; appropriates $200,000.
Allows teachers certified in other states to receive provisional certification to teach in this State.
Authorizes municipalities to impose room tax on hotels with more than 100 guest rooms.
Establishes limits on medical resident's hours.
Permits in any homicide prosecution the display of a photograph of the victim during trial.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Expands definition of Circle of Mobility.
Allows for immobilization of obligor's motor vehicle for nonpayment of child support.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
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.
Permits certain county and municipal employees to waive benefits coverage under the State Health Benefits Program when covered by a spouse's benefits plan.
Exempts sale of certain residences located on State-owned open space from certain sale procedures and requirements.
Establishes Department of State Police.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Requires criminal history record background checks for martial arts instructors.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Exempts from sales and use tax equipment, machinery or apparatus used for pollution prevention or the control or elimination of air or water pollution or solid or hazardous waste.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Provides that defendants convicted of murder are subject to the provisions of the "No Early Release Act".
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMAVA to assist homeless veterans.
Prohibits unsolicited telephone sales calls to certain consumers.
Upgrades the crime of terroristic threats to a crime of the second degree.
Establishes a fund through which a receiving district would be reimbursed if it has to refund tuition moneys to a sending district because of an overpayment; appropriates $3 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
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.
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.
Allows credit unions to sell title insurance.
Allows certain part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
Allocates and appropriates $200 million from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for acquisition, for open space preservation purposes, of lands at imminent risk of development.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DMVA for grant to Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program.
The "Scrap Tire Management Act."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes low interest mortage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Eliminates certain requirement applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs.
Requires school facilities projects to maintain the character of historic school facilities.
Filed · 1
Provides for presumption of death for persons exposed to catastrophic events.