Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Michael J. Arnone
Sponsored
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Exempts private marinas from requirement to have first aid and lifeguard personnel on duty.
Broadens education requirement for professional planning licensure.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments and school districts.
Prohibits leaving animal unattended under inhumane conditions in vehicle.
Allows sewerage and utilities authorities to change names to water reclamation authorities.
Increases maximum fine for first violation of municipal ordinance.
Prohibits limitations on contractor's remedy for delay caused by local government and school contracting units. *
Requires as part of Regional Efficiency Aid Program that DCA conduct study of number and kind of interlocal services agreements entered into between local units since 1973.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
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Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Revises requirements for special municipal charter in consolidated municipalities.
Encourages the recycling and reuse of used computers.
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Requires motorists to reduce speed when approaching or passing equestrians.
Permits municipalities to adopt ordinances prohibiting gambling in a public place.*
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
Authorizes procedures for identification and preservation of abandoned cemeteries.
Phases in official advertising rate increases; provides for biennial rate adjustments thereafter upon CPI changes.*
Appropriates $550,000 to DEP for certain lake restoration projects from moneys appropriated but unexpended pursuant to P.L.1999, c.1 and P.L.1999, c.2.
Establishes pilot program for dual real property tax rate system.
Revises "Local Bond Law" provisions to simplify refunding bonds and permit electronic bid proposals.
Clarifies ordinance publication requirements.
Exempts certain sales of platinum and palladium and certain investment coins, medallions and currency from sales tax. *
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Provides five-year financial rewards to municipalities or fire districts that consolidate; appropriates $550,000.
Increases personal needs allowance to $55 for low-income persons residing in certain facilities; appropriates $4.6 million in State and $3.6 million in federal funds. *
Permits county contributions for management of self-liquidating solid waste utility to be outside budget cap limits. *
Pilot program to provide enhanced, direct property tax relief to encourage consolidation of "doughnut municipalities" and "doughnut hole municipalities;" makes appropriation for capital l projects grants in consolidated municipalities. *
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
Creates the Office of Grant Assistance in DCA to assist counties and municipalities in applying for federal, State and private grants. *
Provides free admission to certain county facilities for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads and their immediate families.
Revises disposition of realty transfer fee; requires that State share of fee be remitted first to each "Main Street New Jersey" municipality wherein property subject to fee is situate.
Concerns overpayments to public utilities.
Requires municipal approval for construction and operation of crematorium.
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Permits establishment of municipal citizens' advisory committees on regionalization and merger of services and functions; appropriates $60,000.
Requires a public utility to notify fire inspectors of certain residential power cut-offs.
Provides for cost of living adjustments in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain retirants from certain county pension funds.
Allows operators of school buses to obtain refunds of the motor fuels tax.
Restores certain exceptions to county and municipal cap laws for recycling.
Permits special emergency appropriations for snow removal costs.
Establishes "Sex Offender Relapse Prevention" telephone hotline.
Authorizes establishment of regional treatment centers for juvenile sex offenders.
Provides for DMV refunds of certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Increases penalties under "Local Government Ethics Law."
Permits appointment of subordinate official by small municipal form council if mayor's nominee fails confirmation within 30 days.
Authorizes municipality to fill school board vacancy in a regional school district in certain cases and clarifies procedure to replace resigning school board member in a Type II district.
Establishes "Families First" license plate to benefit domestic violence shelters.
Increases penalties for assaults committed by gangs.
Permits PFRS members to continue membership beyond age 65 under certain circumstances.
Provides refunds to homestead property taxpayers under gross income tax when State revenues exceed estimates.
Concerns unfair insurance claim settlement practices.
Provides for inactive status of licenses for certain local officials.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Creates New Jersey Local Bond Authority to lower cost of capital to local units.
Requires fee-for-service Medicaid to reimburse for anesthesiologist services at 80% of the average HMO commercial rate.
Grandfathers pre-1997 interlocal services agreements into Regional Efficiency Aid Program.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Requires firefighting sprinkler systems and fire and smoke detector systems in structures used to house racehorses, and annual inspection by the New Jersey Racing Commission for the same.
Authorizes cap exception for 2001 for certain municipal snow removal costs.
Establishes "Walk to Work" pilot program in DCA; appropriates $750,000.
Permits any two or more municipalities upon adoption of parallel ordinances to contract to become a single taxing district for tax base sharing purposes.
Provides paid dental insurance coverage to certain retired State employees.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Requires DCA to create program to reimburse 25% of purchase price of public works equipment purchased by counties for use by two or more municipalities within that county; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Provides local budget cap exceptions for certain insurance costs and domestic security preparedness and public safety costs; permits three-year payoff of accumulated deficits of local employee group insurance programs.
Allows problem gamblers to request placement on Racing Commission's list for self-excluded persons.
Provides property tax exemption for fractional ownership by 100% disabled veteran in continuing care facility.
Requires DCA to establish a rating system of municipal "quality for life" indicators.
Co-sponsored
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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.
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
Provides that Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall determine status of veterans in certain cases.
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Establishes New Jersey Prepaid Higher Education Expense Program.*
Eliminates corporation business tax on regular income of S corporations.
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.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
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 Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program; increases penalty for commission of certain sex offenses.**
Revises the Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Permits direct distribution of receipts from miscellaneous revenue to municipal real property taxpayers.
Allows problem gamblers to request placement on Casino Control Commission's list for self-excluded persons.*
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. *
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Establishes the Spread the Word Program in DOE to provide donated books to certain elementary school children; appropriates $25,000. *
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.
Exempts children and victims for the payment of costs related to the maintenance and support of certain institutionalized individuals. *
Prohibits taking of menhaden in State coastal waters for fish meal reduction.
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.
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000. *
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 2
Allows covered persons with out-of-network benefits in dental and health service corporations and dental plan organization plans to assign dental benefits to dentist of choice.
Prohibits discrimination in the sale of malt alcoholic beverages by certain breweries to licensed wholesalers in the State.
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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 the crime of assault by animal.
Requires one witness and an acknowledgment before a notary public in executing power of attorney.*
Creates "Task Force to Study the Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal of Real Property"; appropriates $100,000.
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
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."
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders. *
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.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
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. *
Establishes program to reduce risk from lead-based paint; requires inspection of rental properties for lead-based paint; creates lead-safe housing registry. **
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.
Increases the number of appointed board members for certain county vocational school districts from four to six.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMAVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
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Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate. *
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Requires copies of all political district maps, and changes thereto, be filed with school boards and fire districts in affected municipalities.
Provides increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program. *
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000. *
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.
Allows per diem compensation paid to election day workers to be excluded from gross income under New Jersey gross income tax.*
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child and dependent care expenses.
The "Education Incentive Funding Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
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 $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Clarifies procedures with regard to the payment of filing fees by inmates in connection with appeals from administrative determinations.
Ratifies New Jersey's participation in "National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact."
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million. *
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
The "New Jersey Women's Micro-Business Credit Act"; appropriates $750,000.
Requires counseling for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for cruelty to animals.
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.
Requires AOC to record and track relationship between parties and children in certain family court matters.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
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 HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Requires that administrative rules be written in simple language. *
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Creates the "Uniform Electronic Transactions Act."
Expands the role of the county superintendent in pupil transportation matters and permits school districts to offer subscription busing to additional students.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."*
Establishes the New Jersey Export Matching Grant Program in the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission; appropriates $250,000.
Creates program to assist small or medium-sized companies in finding foreign business contacts for exporting; appropriates $250,000.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to develop a foreign trade zone incentive program; appropriates $250,000.*
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.*
Makes certain acts of animal cruelty crimes of the fourth degree; requires juveniles adjudicated delinquent for certain animal cruelty offenses to receive court-ordered psychological counseling. **
Establishes Joint Commission on Governmental Performance Review and Evaluation in the legislative branch of government.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Accelerates by one year phase-in of veteran property tax deduction increase.
Requires development of State and county mosquito control plans; appropriates $5 million. *
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million. *
Appropriates $7.65 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond funds for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in central NJ.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law.
Establishes the Garden State New Millenium Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
"New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act;" appropriates up to $5,000,000 in unexpended federal TANF funds.
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.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Allows counties to develop and submit to DHSS countywide animal control plans; appropriates $1,050,000.**
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Appropriates $58 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
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.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
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Revises certain real property assessment practices.
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.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
Extends deadline for filing of tax appeals in certain circumstances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $14,500,000 to the Department of Environmental Protection for State parks restoration and management.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Requires nurses and home health aides to be tested annually for tuberculosis.
Permits municipality to issue additional liquor license for racetrack.
Places limitations upon use of fees by county tax boards.
Increases property tax deduction for certain senior and disabled citizens.
Permits establishment of noise-free zones in municipalities and penalties for violations in such zones.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Provides a gross income tax deduction from the State gross income tax for donations of certain environmentally sensitive or undeveloped lands, or an interest therein, to the State of New Jersey.
"The Senior and Disabled Citizens' School Tax Rebate Act."
Directs State acquisition of Heritage Minerals tract in Ocean County for new State park.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
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.
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Establishes special license plate to aid farmland and open space preservation.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Establishes Workers' Compensation Review Commission.
Prohibits certain breweries from discriminating against wholesalers.
Excludes certain deferred compensation of public school and charity employees from current taxation under the gross income tax.
Establishes first priority of protecting water supplies when acquiring lands using certain dedicated open space monies.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Extends the senior citizen's property tax deduction to certain qualified persons who reside in mobile home parks.
Concerns removal of, and severance pay for, certain local personnel.
Establishes waiting period for employment of municipal governing body member in certain municipal positions.
Provides municipal tax assessors with the option of annually notifying property taxpayers by mail of current assessments and preceding year's taxes.
Limits duration of construction permits to five years.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides full or partial reimbursement to new veteran-owned small businesses of sales and use tax paid.
Requires New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to videotape certain New Jersey veterans; appropriates $100,000.
Requires NJT to comment on certain local applications for development.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Allows deduction against gross income for qualified conservation contribution.
Allows each House of the Legislature to adopt rules permitting certain ill legislators to participate in meetings of the house and its committees through remote electronic means.
Prohibits certain employment discrimination against certain volunteer firefighters responding to emergency calls.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
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.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Provides for automatic submittal of local government unit application for acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes to Garden State Preservation Trust under certain circumstances.
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Establishes Internet Voting Pilot Program for use at 2001 primary election.
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking, as condition of variance approval.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million in tobacco settlement funds to N.J. State Commission on Cancer Research.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to establish memorial program for members of the State Police who were killed in line of duty.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Permits municipalities to establish "Senior Citizen Affordable Housing Support Program;" combines property tax relief with COAH credit.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and the New Jersey State Aquarium and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads.
Exempts certified shorthand reporters with at least 25 years experience from continuing education requirements.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Establishes an Office of Child Advocacy.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
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.
Establishes World Trade Center Memorial Commission.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Authorizes municipalities by resolution to bank Regional Efficiency Aid Program funds until such funds constitute one cent on the municipality's general tax rate.
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The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.