Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph Charles Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DHS for grant to Hudson Cradle.
Out of committee1
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
In committee35
Prohibits 4-year college requirement for appointment to State Police.
Provides for immediate restoration of school board when local control is reestablished in State-operated district.
Provides for school board membership selection in Type I school districts following reestablishment of local control.
Permits unrestricted school board elections following State takeover.
Directs DOT Commissioner to establish demonstration project to maximize use of recycled materials in highway noise barriers.
Concerns subcontracting by public employers.
Raises monetary threshold for at-fault accident surcharges to $1,000 with index.
Changes legal notice publishing requirements for newspapers.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Establishes Office of Insurance Consumer Advocate; appropriates $200,000.
Requires insurers to reduce points used in assessing surcharges according to same schedule used by DMV.
Rectifies effects of certain discriminatory practices; creates Office of Public Contract Oversight and Public Contract Oversight Advisory Committee.
Requires non-custodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Provides for transfer of certain sheriff's employees to membership in PFRS.
Requires telephone companies to provide one out-of-service area telephone directory free of charge.
Prohibits use of territory in formulating automobile insurance rates.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Provides for supplementary payments of Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid from certain increases in annual State revenues.
Makes fiscal year 1999 supplemental appropriation of $103,007,000 for Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid program to replace savings from pension funding changes.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Allows members of certain municipal retirement systems to retain their membership if members vote to be covered under Social Security Act.
Directs NJ Transit to designate a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System station in Jersey City the Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Exempts certain individuals from payment of civil service examination fees.
Requires Commissioner of Personnel to change test questions between administration of examinations for law enforcement officer and firefighter titles.
Permits requirement of municipal residency prior to appointment as police officer or firefighter; permits municipalities to require residency for 2 years after appointment.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15,000,000 from General Fund to DCA for State aid for allocation to Jersey City and Paterson to relieve municipal property tax burdens in State-operated school districts.
Changes loan rate and adjustment rate for retirement system established in first class city with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
Includes the budgets of the various public independent authorities of the State in the Governor's annual budget message.
The "Educational Facilities Financing Act."
Provides a refundable earned income credit under the gross income tax equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.
Changes loan rate and adjustment rate for retirement system established in first class city with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
Prohibits DHS from requiring SSI recipients to enroll in HMOs to receive Medicaid.
Establishes Brownfields Redevelopment Grants Program; appropriates $150 million.
Changes termination date of Korean War to qualify for veterans pension under PERS.
Allows counties to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
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.
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.*
Phases out the petroleum products gross receipts tax for fuel used to generate certain electricity.
Allows PERS retiree to resume employment covered by PERS as teacher with higher education institution without suspension of benefits.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Revises law concerning award of State contracts to multiple bidders.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHSS.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
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."
Implements provisions of "Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Bond Act"; appropriates $8,498,674.
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 · 8
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings. **
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1.25 million. *
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.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.*
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 24
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones and UEZ-impacted business districts; creates three additional urban enterprise zones, one a joint zone. *
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.*
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Appropriates $336,000 to DHSS for urban rodent control programs in the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark.
Increases age for permit to purchase a handgun from 18 to 21 years; changes related laws on temporary transfer and exemptions.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
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.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DMVA for renovation and restoration of Jersey City Armory.
"New Jersey Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program Act;" appropriates up to $5,000,000 in unexpended federal TANF funds.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,250,000 to DCA for grants to Hoboken, Weehawken, West New York and Gutenberg for restoration and development of Hudson River piers for park and recreation purposes.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides benefit coverage to certain police, fire and emergency personnel.
Appropriates $101.3 million from "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund;" cancels appropriation made by P.L.1999, c.203.
In committee · 90
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
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 payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Prohibits railroad storage of hazardous substances and nighttime idling of train engines near residences.
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.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles.
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.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
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.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Permits person ineligible for Work First New Jersey benefits because of a drug distribution conviction to receive prescription drug benefits for life-saving or life-sustaining medications.
"The New Jersey Living Wage Act;" sets minimum wage and benefit standards for businesses contracting with or assisted by public bodies.
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."
"Brain Injury Research Act."
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.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
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.
Provides for payments in lieu of full property taxes for certain municipalities.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Directs State Police to file annual report with Governor and Legislature concerning motor vehicle stops.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Clarifies law enforcement officers' immunity from liability for injuries arising out of motor vehicle pursuits.
Commences taxation of real property located in Jersey City and Bayonne City owned by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which is currently exempt.
Sets minimum rate for State use of certain local correction facilities.
Provides for the inclusion of certain district factor group A or B districts based on 1990 census data within the Abbott district definition.
Requires designation of UEZ in municipality in which federal military installation has been decommissioned by Department of Defense.
Requires Apportionment and Redistricting Commissions to use only statistically sampled or adjusted population count for legislative and congressional redistricting.
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.
Directs BPU to establish time periods for subscribers to pay certain cable TV line installation charges.
Specifies certain compensation levels for administrative law judges.
Prohibits exclusion of prospective juror on grounds that the juror is bilingual.
Supplemental appropriation of $27.4 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Jersey City State fiscal year 2000 budget gap grant.
Makes various changes to cable television franchise fee.
Makes fiscal year 1998 supplemental appropriation of $17,000,000 for special municipal aid by reducing certain excess appropriations.
Appropriates $140,000 for Steuben House repairs.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Appropriates $1.0 million to DHSS for grant to North Hudson Community Action.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires State and local civil service entities to grant paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighters' associations who attend State or national conventions.
Modifies application of certain homeowners insurance deductibles in certain urban areas.
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.
Permits NJ SAVER rebate to be based on the greater of the 1997 tax year or current tax year equalized school tax rates.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Makes fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation of $40 million from the General Fund for State aid to municipalities for Business Personal Property Tax Depreciation Adjustment aid.
Supplemental appropriation of $130,000 to DLPS to be allocated to the Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy for a domestic violence counseling and shelter grant.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Specifies that school board members in type I school districts will serve terms of three years.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
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.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DLPS for DNA testing of convicted criminals.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defribrillator.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Appropriates $101.3 million from "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund;" cancels appropriation made by P.L.1999, c.203.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.