Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Clare M. Farragher
Sponsored
Became law2
"Structured Settlement Protection Act." *
Designates portion of State Highway Route No. 33 as the "Theodore J. Narozanick Highway;" appropriates $2,500.
Passed the General Assembly1
Modifies payment cap and definition of covered claim in certain insurance guaranty funds.
Out of committee6
Requires copies of all political district maps, and changes thereto, be filed with school boards and fire districts in affected municipalities.
Establishes procedure for licensed professionals to obtain restraining orders against clients or patients who have committed acts of violence.
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes New Jersey Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Fund.
The "New Jersey Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2001."
In committee35
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Spinal Cord and Head Injury Assistance Fund.
Permits counties and municipalities to withdraw from civil service.
Requires nurses and home health aides to be tested annually for tuberculosis.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Permits court to order defendant to post probation bond as condition of suspension or probation in criminal cases.
Establishes the "Tort Victim Compensation Fund."
Permits municipality to issue additional liquor license for racetrack.
Requires New Jersey base state IFTA licensees to obtain base state corporate surety bond covering fuel tax obligations.
Eliminates local personal property tax on business property of local exchange telephone companies and requires that the tax savings be reflected in rate reductions.
Extends local personal property tax to business property of all telecommunications service providers.
Establishes high risk health insurance pool for certain individuals.
Supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 from the General Fund to DHSS to enable county nursing homes to expand dental services.
Creates the offense of murder of a fetus.
Provides for recalculation of PFRS retirement allowance if retiree is reemployed.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Requires New Jersey Water Supply Authority to make payments in-lieu-of-taxes for certain projects.
Requires that the New Jersey gross income tax return include a line for reporting and paying New Jersey use tax due on out-of-state purchases with user-friendly instructions.
Authorizes school boards to establish a firearm safety program.
Provides certain immunities to certain licensed professionals volunteering on hotline.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Concerns pro rata exemptions from loss assessments under the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program.
Requires an insurance producer's license to market bail bond insurance.
Creates the offense of murder of an unborn child.
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Provides exception to definition of managing general agents.
Exempts certified shorthand reporters with at least 25 years experience from continuing education requirements.
Revises operations of New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association and Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Funds.
Establishes an Office of Child Advocacy.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Protection Act."
Requires immunization of children to varicella.
Authorizes certain persons to possess and use chemical device spray to defend against bear attack.
Provides for StateaAid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; appropriates $25 million.
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.
"Personal Lines Insurance Modernization Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
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.
Appropriates $30 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes municipal utilities authorities and school districts to join with municipalities to acquire lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Broadens education requirement for professional planning licensure.
Prohibits leaving animal unattended under inhumane conditions in vehicle.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Permits establishment of small employer health benefits purchasing alliances. *
Appropriates $205 million from "1999 Statewide Transportation and Local Bridge Fund," and reappropriates unexpended balances from 1983 and 1989 bridge bond funds.*
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Removes requirement that two-thirds of a savings bank's board must reside in New Jersey.
Removes the requirement that a savings bank must use the word "savings" in its name.
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Increases wine tax dedication for promotion account.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
Approves funding eligibility of certain farmland preservation projects in central NJ.
Increases maximum number of allowable members of county board of recreation commissioners from seven to nine and permits adoption of board seal. *
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Limits cost of Y2K examinations of domestic fraternal benefit societies and appropriates an amount necessary to pay balance of costs. *
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. *
Appropriates $14.75 million from the "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in southern NJ.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Provides pension benefit to certain survivors of certain PFRS members.
Appropriates $12,886,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $21,014,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 1
Requires that school districts receive written informed parental consent prior to administering certain surveys to their students.
Passed the General Assembly · 17
Enacts the "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001."
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Revises requirements for special municipal charter in consolidated municipalities.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Specifies use of actual enumeration of State's population by Apportionment Commission and Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
Requires DHS to improve data collection on grandparents raising grandchildren and other forms of kinship care, and to conduct study on impact of Work First New Jersey program on these forms of care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $45 million to DOT for road repair grants to counties and municipalities, for State road repair, and for State and local road and bridge repair with concrete.*
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 32
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Permits a child and dependent care credit against gross income tax.
Requires parental consent prior to the tattooing or body piercing of minors.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Requires motorists to reduce speed when approaching or passing equestrians.
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
Allows per diem compensation paid to election day workers to be excluded from gross income under New Jersey gross income tax.*
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Provides for the continuity of certain contracts, securities and instruments affected by introduction of the Euro.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Amends graduated driver's license law and 10 year driver's license law.*
Establishes Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council in DHS.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Permits sale of motor fuels at other than posted price on the Internet or through similar modalities. *
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in central NJ.
Excludes certain State education funds from the calculation of proportionate share under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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.
Provides free admission to certain county facilities for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads and their immediate families.
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.
Concerns overpayments to public utilities.
Appropriates $1,086,158 from 1995 Green Acres bond act for coastal Blue Acres acquisition projects by local government units.
Requires municipal approval for construction and operation of crematorium.
In committee · 45
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Creates the "Just Compensation Act," requiring non-prevailing party in civil cases to reimburse prevailing party for certain attorney's fees and costs.
Establishes Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
Requires physician to inform pregnant woman of the potential increased risk of breast cancer prior to performing an abortion.
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 gross income tax credit for taxpayer with dependent under age six.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
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.
Establishes special priority of acquiring lands in flood-prone areas for recreation and conservation purposes using monies from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Reduces sales and use tax rate from 6% to 5.5% on July 1, 1999 and to 5% on July 1, 2001.
Provides for DMV refunds of certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Provides for inactive status of licenses for certain local officials.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Phases out sales and use tax on long-distance telecommunications services over six years.
Prohibits school personnel from recommending or discussing medication for school pupils.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
"Medical Savings Account Option Act" for SHBP.
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.
Provides State Agriculture Development Committee with right of first refusal before farmland is acquired for recreation and conservation purposes through Garden State Preservation Trust.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
Clarifies who shall be licensed as an insurance producer.
Provides parity between school boards and municipalities with respect to prevailing wage threshold.
Exempts federally mandated safety-related activities at airports from freshwater wetlands permit requirement.
Grandfathers pre-1997 interlocal services agreements into Regional Efficiency Aid Program.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Requires use of electronic voting machines in elections; reimburses certain counties for funds spent on election equipment.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
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.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Authorizes mayors in municipalities operating under borough form of government to veto resolutions.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of persons with assistance dogs, establishes an ombudsman.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Filed · 3
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Allows life insurers to use forms in this State if approved in 40 other states.