Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Melvin Cottrell
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Grants local government budget cap exception for personnel costs of employees in military reserves and NJ National Guard while on active duty. *
Out of committee2
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
In committee31
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.
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.
Allocates handicapped parking fines to Independent Living Centers.
Requires adult Work First New Jersey recipients to complete secondary education under certain circumstances and receive life skills training.
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.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,650,000 to DLPS for local police video camera and audio recording equipment grants.
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.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
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.
"Nurse Retention Stipend Program Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances. *
Requires notification for potential license revocation of child care providers and certain health care facilities.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Changes in-service training requirement for licensed foster parents.
Out of committee · 7
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Creates crime of committing offense in senior citizen zone. *
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Regulates certain entities as Health Care Service Firms.*
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members. *
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
In committee · 68
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
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 DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Concerns basic skills training.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMVA to assist homeless veterans.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Extends certain veterans' benefits to include veterans who served in NATO campaign and peacekeeping in Yugoslavia.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Redirects certain moneys in the Sanitary Landfill Facility Contingency Fund to landfill closure and landfill mining projects.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Provides overtime compensation to certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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 designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
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.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Designates "John Bull" as NJ State steam locomotive.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
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 incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Provides sales tax exemption for purchase of automobile to replace stolen vehicle to extent of insuror's indemnification for theft.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Appropriates $1,400,000 to DHSS for grants to certain geriatric assessment centers.
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.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
Allows surviving spouses who remarry to continue to receive PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits.
Authorizes the establishment of a central New Jersey consortium for driver safety; appropriates $90,000.
Revises criteria for awarding certain State contracts to multiple bidders.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DLPS for grant to Chesterfield Township for the purchase of three police patrol vehicles.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Revises the calculation of State aid for school facilities projects.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Considers certain employment agencies as Health Care Service Firms.
Provides that certain school districts will be accorded the same treatment and subject to the same requirements as Abbott districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $17,302,599 for Extraordinary Needs Aid for certain school districts.
Requires each board of education to employ a certain number of substance awareness coordinators.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.