Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Melvin Cottrell
Sponsored
Became law3
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
"Foster Parent Licensing Act."
Appropriates $10.6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in southern NJ.
Passed the General Assembly1
Appropriates $50,000 to DMAVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Out of committee13
Renames the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation as the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
Requires long-term care facilities to provide a security monitor system for Alzheimer's disease patients. *
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
Prohibits use of non-fence materials to mark property boundaries unless such material is visible to certain persons; makes violation a crime of fourth degree.
Allocates handicapped parking fines to Independent Living Centers.
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.
Provides that the family court has discretion to order performance of community service in addition to incarceration for certain delinquent child support obligors.
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,650,000 to DLPS for local police video camera and audio recording equipment grants.
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Supplemental appropriation of $45,000 to DHS for a grant to Children's Tournament of Champions.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
In committee25
Changes the calculation of TPAF post-retirement death benefit.
Requires owner of closing mobile home park to provide relocation or compensation to mobile homeowners.
Extends the senior citizen's property tax deduction to certain qualified persons who reside in mobile home parks.
Permits certain TPAF veteran retirees to receive paid health benefits under State Health Benefits Program.
Designated the "Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act."
Eliminates option of waiving mandatory minimum terms in certain drug related cases and eliminates plea bargaining in those cases.
Requires certain information to be printed on invoices and delivery tickets for liquefied petroleum gas.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Provides for certain contracting arrangements by dental plan organizations.
Eliminates sales and use tax on maintenance of a residential septic system.
Grants local government budget cap exception for personnel costs of employees in military reserves and NJ National Guard activated for NATO action in Yugoslavia.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Provides overtime compensation to certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides that parents can be held civilly liable for personal injuries caused by their children in certain circumstances.
Authorizes Commissioner of Labor to issue certifications and promulgate regulations in connection with the siting, location and operation of mines and quarries.
Changes motor vehicle seating and seat belt requirements pertaining to child passengers.
Revises the solid waste services tax.
Appropriates $165,000 for the Popcorn Park Zoo.
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Adds the third degree crime of burglary to the list of third degree offenses for which the presumption of nonincarceration shall not apply.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for Osteoporosis Prevention and Education grants.
Provides minimum retirement benefit to TPAF and PERS members with 20 or more years of service.
Establishes Community Partners for Neighbors in Need program in DHSS; appropriates $3.5 million.
Allows certain surviving spouses to receive a PERS retirement allowance.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes a DYFS Review Panel; provides for additional positions; makes an appropriation. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Provides for presumption of death for persons exposed to catastrophic events.
Concerns certain public benefits available to persons affected by September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on US.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Permits a State employees' salary reduction program for qualified transportation benefits and increases the Travel Demand Management Program gross income tax exclusions for commuter transportation benefits.*
Recognizes validity of trust funds for pets.
Requires State Health Benefits Program managed care plans to give 90-days notice to enrollees if primary care physician is terminated from plan.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Appropriates $95,000 to DEP for grant to Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program (NORWESCAP) for venison donation program.
Eliminates certain minimum thoroughbred races for casino simulcasting; increases number of simulcast horse races casino may pay 6% of parimutuel pool; authorizes handicapping contests. *
Permits religious or charitable organization to lease property to other tax-exempt entities without loss of property tax exemption.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Amends CAFRA to exempt enclosure of certain commercial developments from DEP's permitting requirements.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Concerns graduated driver licensing and the responsibilities and standards of private driving schools.
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.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
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.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed · 2
Establishes single personal financial disclosure form for local government officers, candidates for Governor and member of Legislature, members of Legislature and school officials; revises criminal law on gifts to public servants. *
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees in Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.*
Passed the General Assembly · 22
Extends certain veterans' benefits to include veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
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. *
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services. *
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 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.
Authorizes public entities to use asphalt millings and recyclable concrete as a surface material for roads, pathways and parking lots. *
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination." *
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to the Disaster Fund for Children of New Jersey.
Authorizes the establishment of a central New Jersey consortium for driver safety; appropriates $90,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DLPS for grant to Chesterfield Township for the purchase of three police patrol vehicles.
Out of committee · 46
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Excludes Medicare Part B premiums in determining PAAD eligibility.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Requires at least 10% of residents in new assisted living facilities be Medicaid-eligible.
Exempts all pension income from gross income tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $650,000 from the General Fund to DOL for transportation services for sheltered workshop clients.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Directs Ocean County Soil Conservation District to conduct soil health study; appropriates $1.5 million.
Amends graduated driver's license law and 10 year driver's license law.*
Creates a drunk driver visitation program.
Requires counseling for juveniles adjudicated delinquent for cruelty to animals.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. **
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.
Updates names of DHS facilities.
Redirects distribution to improve and promote the State standardbred breeding industry from contributions and awards to breeders and owners to purse supplements.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
Approves State funding for certain "planning incentive" local government open space acquisition projects in southern NJ.
Enhances responsibilities and standards of private driving schools; appropriates $70,000.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million. *
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. **
Requires law enforcement agencies to impound vehicles of persons arrested for DWI and to issue responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of persons arrested for DWI. *
Appropriates $1,400,000 to DHSS for grants to certain geriatric assessment centers.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Accelerates by one year phase-in of veteran property tax deduction increase.
Appropriates $8,280,300 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Increases Lifeline annual benefit to $300.
Supplemental appropriation of $25,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Willingboro Township for veterans' memorial.
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Appropriates $3,150,000 to DOE for aid to the Lakewood School District to offset school district budget deficit and for the appointment of a State monitor of the district. *
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMAVA to assist homeless veterans.
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Concerns certifications of registration and promulgation of regulations in connection with the siting, location and operations of mines and quarries.
In committee · 77
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
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.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Revises certain sections of the "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal providers of utility services and rural electric cooperatives.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Makes certain DEP coastal rules inoperative until completion of cross-acceptance process; appropriates $2,500,000 for grants to local governments in the coastal area.
Requires local approval as condition for prison siting or expansion.
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
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 additional penalities for DWI with child as passenger.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Enacts the "Senior Citizens Protection Act;" authorizes municipalities to create senior citizen zones; imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Permits evidence of prior convictions or juvenile adjudications in certain criminal cases.
Prohibits sale of certain packaged food items.
Permits regulation by ordinance of location of newspaper vending machines.
Requires voter approval of change in designated district of domicile for certain pupils who reside in a multi-district federal enclave.
Requires State responsibility for the educational costs of children in foster homes.
Designates "John Bull" as NJ State steam locomotive.
Makes clear that use of county voter registration lists by public school of any type or public institution of higher education for certain purposes does not constitute commercial solicitation of voters.
Provides that distressed estate sales of parcels of property in retirement communities under certain conditions are bona fide sales for determining the assessed value of such property.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Requires annual inspection of potentially dangerous species facilities.
Establishes special license plate to aid Deborah Hospital Foundation.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to DLPS for State Police High Technology Crime Unit.
Requires a board of education providing certain services to nonpublic school pupils to provide consultation with representatives of the nonpublic school on any change in the provision of services.
Requires school districts to offer instruction in the prevention of violence; appropriates $1,000,000.
Provides sales tax exemption for purchase of automobile to replace stolen vehicle to extent of insuror's indemnification for theft.
Amends graduated licensing law.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Provides that $5 million of unclaimed State Lottery prize money be used annually to establish and supplement public school gifted and talented programs.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Increases PAAD income eligibility standards and requires certain recipients to pay higher copayments for prescriptions.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain reconstructive surgery and habilitative treatments for craniofacial abnormalities.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Permanently denies convicted criminals access to public records containing victim's information; protects certain criminal investigatory files and crime victim information from public access.
Allows senior and disabled homeowners to collect both the NJSAVER rebate and the homestead rebate.
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to impound vehicles of persons arrested for DWI and to issue responsibility warnings to persons assuming custody of persons arrested for DWI.
Requires school districts to share the costs of out-of-district placement for classified pupil whose parents share joint physical custody.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Requires applicant for special learner's permit to complete course in substance abuse driver education.
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.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Extends employment security to certified fire officials and inspectors under certain conditions.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Eliminates criteria qualified voter must meet to receive military or civilian absentee ballot.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
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.
Requires certain employees to have driver's license to operate motor vehicle on private property.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Concerns basic skills training.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Allows surviving spouses who remarry to continue to receive PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits.
Mandates training of school bus drivers.
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,950,000.
Requires negotiation with employee majority representative for change in State employee compensation plan.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.
Supplemental appropriation of $337,500 to DMAVA for personnel and equipment at the veterans memorial cemetery.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Authorizes New Jersey Economic Development Authority to refinance county solid waste facility bonds.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Revises criteria for awarding certain State contracts to multiple bidders.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Revises the calculation of State aid for school facilities projects.
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission to benefit horsemen.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.