Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Gary W. Stuhltrager
Sponsored
Became law1
"Athletic Training Licensure Act."
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires employers to provide workers' compensation accident reports to certain employees.
Provides for the payment of legal fees incurred to secure certain workers' compensation payments.
Out of committee7
Requires real property contracts to contain clause giving notice of availability of list of hazardous discharge sites and sanitary landfill facilities.*
Permits litter control programs employing inmates of county correctional facilities to be eligible for Clean Communities Account funds; revises allocation and administration of funds.
Imposes 5% surcharge on fines imposed on persons convicted of drunk driving; creates "Drunk Driver's Victims Indemnification Fund."
Denies construction permits when applicant is delinquent on local property taxes.
Lowers to age 14 the age at which the railroad immunity act would not preclude recovery for certain injuries.
Supplemental appropriation of $254,000 to Department of Community Affairs to fund $254,000 grant to Bridgeton City for State aid shortfall concerning South Woods State Prison.
Alters cap on tax due and tax on transfers under Spill Act of certain hazardous substances sold for use in or as fire retardants.
In committee22
Establishes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault crimes; provides for increased penalties.
Modifies civil liability provisions of law governing assault firearms.
Permits five-year reappointment of certified county purchasing officials.
Removes advertising requirement for county college security service contracts and extends maximum length of contract to three years.
Creates "Nuclear Impacted Municipal Assistance Fund" to provide aid to municipalities surrounding Salem nuclear facility.
Requires school districts to provide pupil transportation from location of child care provider in certain instances.
Extends the limit for transportation of students in sparsely populated rural school districts to 30 miles.
Appropriates $50,000 to the Department of Environmental Protection for environmental information center.
Provides for services for handicapped students classified as communication handicapped in private schools.
Provides for public inspection of plans to prevent and respond to discharges of certain hazardous substances at certain facilities.
Requires DOL to preserve all records concerning disputed unemployment compensation claims for two years and to release records for use in civil actions.
Permits nonresident employee of local unit with residency requirement to reside outside local unit without loss of employment.
Authorizes salaries of deputy county clerk and deputy surrogate at 90% of salaries of county clerk and surrogate respectively.
Establishes special license plate to aid farmland and open space preservation.
Provides for mailing of school board election sample ballots to residences rather than individual voters.
Clarifies the factors used by the family court in determining whether, and to what extent, a non-custodial parent should contribute towards a child's post-high school education expenses.
Provides that public school employees and certain public employers may negotiate over educational enhancement.
Requires mandatory retirement at age 70 for judges of the Division of Workers' Compensation; amends Public Employees' Retirement System.
Establishes throwing of bodily fluids at county corrections officers, county sheriff's department employees, employees of juvenile detention facilities, and State and local law enforcement officers as aggravated assault.
Permits establishment of self-service fleet fueling stations.
Authorizes multi-year banking of water in municipal aquifer storage and recovery systems.
Determines the enforceability of standard form contracts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
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.
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Appropriates $14.75 million from the "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes in southern NJ.
Appropriates $10.6 million from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $12,886,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for direct easement purchases by State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 1
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 4
Amends shoplifting statute; establishes grading system similar to theft.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Increases penalty for causing death or injury of another while driving with suspended license.
Requires DEP confirm transfers of water allocation credits and approve transfers of permits under certain circumstances.
In committee · 7
"The 10-20-Life Law."
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Provides additional State aid to certain school districts which send students to Abbott districts.
Creates two additional Superior Court judgeships for Gloucester County.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.