Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Garry J. Furnari
Sponsored
Out of committee5
Provides for notification to Public Defender of address of indigent defendant owing reimbursement for services rendered.
Clarifies provisions of Law Against Discrimination with regard to employment discrimination on the basis of age.
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Appropriates a sum not to exceed $350,000 for the reconstruction and restoration of Van Riper House in Nutley.
Prohibits discrimination against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination."
In committee16
Requires financial institutions and check cashing businesses to file certain transaction reports with the State; provides criminal penalties.
Provides for annual appropriation of certain State realty transfer fee revenues and General Fund monies for improvements to, and maintenance of, parks.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a check cashing business to cash a check for consideration in the amount of $2,500 or more.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
Establishes registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with mechanical devices for handicapped.
Establishes Public Access Enhancement Fund for ELEC; appropriates such sum as necessary to conduct study to enhance public access.
Adds two commissioners to North Jersey District Water Supply Commission who must be residents of certain contracting municipalities.
Expands jurisdiction of municipal arson investigators.
Removes prosecution of domestic violence-related criminal cases from jurisdiction of the municipal court; places these cases with the Superior Court.
Establishes additional criterion for BPU approval of certain regulatory petitions by local exchange telecommunication companies.
Establishes a toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Provides that chiefs of police in PFRS do not have to retire until end of calendar year in which they attain age 65.
Excludes victims of sexual or child abuse from liability for payments for psychiatric care of abusive parents.
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 Excellence in Nursing Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Assures certain benefits to certain police, fire and emergency personnel under certain circumstances in regard to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 or pursuant to an Executive Order by the Governor.
Prohibits sale of certain merchandise at excessive prices during certain emergencies.
Requires criminal history record checks for all certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides; requires plan for similar checks to be conducted on other providers of home care services.*
Establishes a DYFS Review Panel; provides for additional positions; makes an appropriation. *
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Directs UEZA to establish extended enterprise zones.*
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for health care professionals and facilities concerning postpartum depression; appropriates $50,000.
Requires BPU to enforce new FCC rules on slamming and to institute actions against telecommunications service providers pursuant to agreement with FCC.
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.*
Establishes court awarded kinship legal guardianship status and creates three additional judgeships.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.95 million.
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Passed the Senate · 10
Permits municipal ordinance to increase fee for certificate of search for municipal liens.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Clarifies that child support judgments shall not be docketed until arrearage equals or exceeds amount payable for one month.
Increases capital improvement fund in New Jersey Education Facility Authority by $90,000,000 to finance installation of automatic fire supression systems in student resident halls at high schools and institutions of higher education.*
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal. *
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point type. *
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights by public officials.
Out of committee · 23
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates. *
Eliminates motor vehicle registration fees for certain entities.
Supplemental appropriation of $360,000 to Division of Fire Safety in Department of Community Affairs for incident management training programs.
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
Establishes programs through NJ KidCare for State financial assistance and subsidies to purchase employer-sponsored health benefits plans for certain dependent children.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs. *
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Permits electronic filing and response in regard to certain workers' compensation.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000. *
Limits cost of Y2K examinations of domestic fraternal benefit societies and appropriates an amount necessary to pay balance of costs. *
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.
Exempts children and victims for the payment of costs related to the maintenance and support of certain institutionalized individuals. *
Exempts state-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax. *
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Appropriates $200,000 in capital funding to DMVA for State Police training facility in Sea Girt.
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the OAG within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Requires trials to be commenced within six months of indictment by State grand jury.
In committee · 45
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Requires criminal history record background checks of currently certified nurse aides, personal care assistants and homemaker-home health aides not already checked.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits to cover costs of contraceptives.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Establishes PAAD Expansion Program.
Prohibits lobbyists and legislative agents from providing benefits to certain public officers and employees and prohibits those officers and employees from receiving these benefits.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Establishes fourth degree crime for parent who permits a minor to gain access to a firearm which is later used in a crime.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Mandates sale of child-proof handguns within five years; during interim requires trigger locks accompany sales of handguns that are not child-proof; appropriates $500,000.
Provides annual appropriations for hospital and physicians that provide charity care, long- term care initiatives and graduate medical education and research from "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Makes imposition of nonincarcerative penalties mandatory for persons, including juveniles, who are diverted for drug offenses.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Concerns use of child passenger restraint systems, booster seats and seat belts.
Provides for licensure of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
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.
Establishes limits on medical resident's hours.
Provides that certain offenders may spend the anniversary of the commission of a violent crime in solitary confinement.
Enhances responsibilities and standards of private driving schools; appropriates $70,000.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Establishes Brownfields Redevelopment Grants Program; appropriates $150 million.
Recognizes victims' civil action against companies affiliated with Nazi slave labor and requires Division of Investment to monitor those companies.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2 million to the Department of State for a grant to the John Harms Center for the Arts for debt reduction.
Establishes Department of State Police.
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Establishes fifteen-member "Early Voting Study Commission," appropriates $20,000.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Permits municipalities without full-time police forces to appoint Class I Special Law Enforcement Officers.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Provides for the certification of certain crane operators.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Disqualifies certain persons from flight instruction; institutes background checks.
Requires Attorney General to be responsible for payment of attorney fees of private counsel hired by member of the State Police under certain circumstances; appropriates $9,000.
Filed · 2
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.