Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Arline M. Friscia
Sponsored
Became law2
Approves $9,749,389 in State funding for certain "urban aid" local government park development projects.
Requires proof of valid motor vehicle insurance before release of impounded motor vehicle in certain cases.
Passed the General Assembly1
Prohibits public adjusters from entering into certain agreements and from obtaining a license under certain circumstances.
Out of committee4
Prohibits certain practices by homeowners' insurers.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,400,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Carteret Borough Municipal Center building repair costs.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
The "Family Income Security and Emergency Economic Stimulus Act."
In committee47
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.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Permits schools to require truant pupils to serve in-school suspension.
Increases penalties for parents of truants.
Permits court to require community service of juvenile with repeated unauthorized absences from school.
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.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Requires health care facilities to develop standards to maintain and safeguard evidence gathered during the treatment of sexual assault victims.
Prohibits discrimination with respect to prices charged by sellers of services.
"Job Destruction Penalty Act."
"The New Jersey Living Wage Act"; requires businesses receiving certain public benefits to pay employees at least $6.50 per hour.
Provides training grants to workers notified of permanent layoff; appropriates $30 million.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
Requires an early childhood endorsement to the instructional certificate for teachers of grades prekindergarten through three.
Requires provision in certain board of education subcontracting agreements to assess the subcontractor a fee.
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.
Establishes certain requirements regarding childhood immunizations.
Prohibits DHSS from restricting inclusion of off-site psychiatric service facility under acute care hospital's license if operated by hospital prior to January 1, 1999, solely because of its location.
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.
Directs DOT Commissioner to allocate $2.4 million in Transportation Trust Fund monies for new public, limited access road in Perth Amboy.
Allows weapons seized in domestic violence cases to be stored with local law enforcement agency rather than the county prosecutor's office.
Requires health insurance coverage for scalp hair prostheses and for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires inclusion of right of first refusal and reverter clauses in local government land sale contracts.
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.
Provides family leave insurance.
Prohibits imposition of prior authorization requirement upon pharmacist for monthly prescription drug purchases by Medicaid, NJ KidCare, GA and PAAD recipients.
Directs DEP to study the air pollution effect of certain non-road engines and recommend programs for reducing such effect; appropriates $200,000 for study.
Establishes special license plates for World War II Veterans.
Requires NJ KidCare program to provide all reasonable necessary assistance to applicants in completing applications to program.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Jewish Renaissance Foundation for Perth Amboy Medical Health Care Center.
Requires managed care plans to provide coverage for preventive treatment of diseases for which a person is genetically predisposed.
Increases physician fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement rates; appropriates $7 million in State funds and $7 million in federal funds.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Allows TPAF and PERS members to purchase up to one year of credit for official child-care leave.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Requires law enforcement agency to videotape interior of public school building.
Requires DCA to undertake study of residential rent levels in New Jersey; appropriates $50,000.
Eliminates waiting period for unemployment benefits claimed after September 11, 2001.
Imposes penalty for leaving child unattended in motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
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 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.*
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Changes certain organizational dates for 2001 for State, county and municipal political party committees.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Eliminates certain requirements applicable to members of the New Jersey National Guard who receive higher education tuition waivers and requires State to pay the tuition costs.
Passed the General Assembly · 11
Requires the licensing of bail runners as private detectives.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Provides for acquisition, receipt, warehousing and allocation or sale of certain surplus property, other than real property, for State, county, municipal or school district purposes, appropriates $75,000.*
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.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 35
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. *
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000. *
Establishes civil action against drug dealers.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Requires that new teachers hired by licensed child care centers to provide preschool classes to Abbott district students be certified.
Adds a new Governor's School and appropriates an additional $609,160 to the Governor's Schools in FY 2000.*
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act."
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.
FY 2000 supplemental appropriation of $10 million to DHS for capital construction for renovation and construction of child care centers to implement Work First New Jersey.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
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.
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.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Mandates universal screening of newborns for hearing loss.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DOH.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability 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.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Prohibits removal of certain offenders from sex offender registry.
In committee · 118
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Makes supplemental appropriation from the General Fund for State aid to local government units and school districts to replace local tax loss attributable to certain change in taxable value of depreciable business personal property.
Supplemental appropriation for FY 1998 of $120,000 from General Fund to DMAVA for Agent Orange/Desert Storm Commission.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Requires restitution be made under certain circumstances.
Bars the State and other public entities from paying damages for sexual harassment suits against elected officials.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Establishes Kinship Foster Care Program in DYFS.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
"New Jersey CARES Act"; appropriates $1 million.
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.
Continues entitlement to senior property tax freeze although income ineligible for one year.
Prohibits managed care plans from retrospectively denying coverage for legitimate emergency health care.
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY2026 for smoking prevention and education services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations from FY 2000 through FY 2026 for community-based health care services from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Provides annual appropriations for hospitals and physicians that provide charity care, long-term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
Requires that all forms of public records be available for copying; sets uniform pricing policy for public records.
Concerns reimbursements to hospitals, physicians and podiatrists from the New Jersey Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Recovery Fund.
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.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Prohibits the imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for new fire protection systems.
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.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Clarifies and strengthens domestic violence training requirements for law enforcement officers; appropriates $250,000.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Requires criminal history background checks on certain child care workers, strengthens sanctions imposed upon child care centers for certain violations.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Re-establishes the Department of the Public Advocate; establishes new Division of Child Advocacy within the Department.
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration and Warranty Act."
Prohibits public school fund-raising activities which include door-to-door sales by students.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Requires payment of medical malpractice policy proceeds in certain circumstances.
Establishes the "Workplace Violence Safety Act."
Allows certain retirees to purchase health coverage in the State Health Benefits Program.
The "New Jersey Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association Act."
Provides family disability leave.
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.
Revises method for payment of certain foundation aid to county vocational schools.
Provides fiscal rewards to school districts with low administrative expenditures.
Broadens the criteria under certain circumstances, for eligibility for 100% exemption from property taxes for the surviving spouses of certain veterans.
Establishes a contract bond participation program in the NJ Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities' and Women's Enterprises; appropriates $5,000,000.
Limits rent increases for certain senior citizens.
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Makes health insurance carriers liable for medical malpractice.
Gives contractual preferences to gun manufacturers which have pledged to adopt and implement certain manufacturing, firearms design and market practices that will foster firearms safety.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program by $5,000.
Directs Superintendent of State Police to establish a voluntary ballistics identifier program for interested handgun owners.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Provides for nonbinding referendum as to the permanent berthing of the Battleship U.S.S. New Jersey; makes an appropriation.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Establishes Brownfields Redevelopment Grants Program; appropriates $150 million.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Upgrades penalty for assaulting corrections officer.
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Provides for issuance of receipt to voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be used as proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election.
"The New Jersey Electronic Voting Machine Act"; requires use of electronic voting machines in elections.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Subjects all Class II railroad property held in an inactive status for two consecutive tax years to local property taxation.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for breast cancer screening.
Subjects all Class II railroad property held in an inactive status for two consecutive tax years to local property taxation.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns predatory lending practices.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Provides State-paid health care benefits to certain divorced spouses of certain retired State employees.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Allocates certain costs of implementing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system.
Repeals law enforcement powers of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and requires State to provide support to municipalities and counties in administering and enforcing animal control, animal welfare, and animal cruelty laws.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defribrillator.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Criminalizes certain fraudulent solicitations and collections of funds relating to the events of September 11, 2001 and other mass disasters or acts of terrorism.
Establishes college scholarship program to pay tuition, room and board and certain other costs of children and spouses of persons killed or injured in the terrorist attack on 9/11/01.
Enacts the "September 11, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act."
Filed · 2
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.
Revises law concerning employment and training services.