Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Joel M. Weingarten
Sponsored
Became law3
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000.*
Requires insurers to provide certain notice concerning flood insurance.*
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing. *
Passed the General Assembly2
Establishes sex offender Internet registry.
Establishes a New Jersey Sex Offender Registry available in pamphlet form by subscription or over the Internet.*
Out of committee9
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
"Highway Accident Property Tax Relief Act;" requires State to reimburse municipalities for costs of providing certain emergency services.*
Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, but not limited to, education of disabled pupils.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Requires election of freeholders by district in certain second class counties.
Directs the DOE to provide to every public school district George Washington's portrait to display; appropriates $135,000.*
Exempts from reenrollment TPAF retirees who serve in certificated administrative or supervisory positions under one-year contract.
Supplemental appropriation of $3,500,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Roselle Park in Union County for flood control project.
Allows corporation business tax credit for one-half of the cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
In committee36
Creates the "New Jersey Religious Freedom Act."
Provides for review of developments of intermunicipal impact by affected municipalities.
Establishes criteria for rate increase for water utility that causes environmental problems.
Prohibits pension fund deposits or investments in Swiss banks or financial institutions; prohibits using Swiss banks or financial institutions as financial advisors or intermediaries.
Permits counties and municipalities to withdraw from the civil service system.
Requires Director of Division of Local Government Services to prepare and provide to tax collectors information notice for certain taxpayers of assistance options in payment of certain delinquent real property taxes.
Requires 2/3 municipal approval of new county improvement authority debt exceeding lesser of $10 million or 10% of total outstanding improvement authority debt in certain counties.
The Death Tax Elimination Act; repeals the transfer inheritance tax.
Creates the "Just Compensation Act," requiring non-prevailing party in civil cases to reimburse prevailing party for certain attorney's fees and costs.
"Holocaust Victim Insurance Claim Registry and Relief Act."
The Capital Gains Incentive Act; provides a 50% capital gains deduction for certain capital gains under the gross income tax.
The Income Tax Indexation Act; indexes for inflation certain amounts under the gross income tax.
Requires public school districts to provide instruction on the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Authorizes timed-growth ordinances under "Municipal Land Use Law."
Limits eligibility for parole and probation for repeat offenders.
Requires insurance carriers to promptly acknowledge receipt of claims from health care providers and insured persons.
Requires contracts between managed care plans and participating health care providers be on standard form.
Restricts certain activities at public and private schools and child care centers when children are present; directs DHSS to minimize exposure of children to asbestos, lead and other environmental contaminants; appropriates $50,000 for notification costs.
Provides that persons who participated in Nazi persecution shall be ineligible to receive State benefits.
Increases compensation provided to poll workers under certain circumstances.
Provides coverage in a managed care plan for the health care services of a non-participating specialist in certain circumstances.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate officers and owners.
Creates State Debt Retirement Fund to use certain surplus State revenue to retire State long term debt.
Exempts from sales and use tax receipts from sales and use of energy and utility service to counties for their own use and consumption.
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.
Prohibits siting of sex offender treatment and incarceration facilities in densely populated counties.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program.
Requires retailers to display recall notices in certain circumstances.
Eliminates earned income limitation on eligibility under gross income tax for seniors' non-pension income exclusion.
Requires carry forward of property tax overpayments and delinquencies of $10 or less to following tax year.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Requires issue advocacy organization using certain candidate information in advertisement to disclose certain financial and other information.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA to fund municipal grants for purchase and installation of electrical storm identification devices.
Makes it a crime for an unlicensed person to ship alcoholic beverages into the State; establishes toll-free hotline to obtain certain alcoholic beverages.
Makes State aid payments contingent upon cooperation with Local Government Budget Review team audits and requires reviews periodically in Abbott school districts and municipalities.
Establishes "Truth in Taxation Commission" and requires annual income taxpayer benefit reports for households of all income taxpayers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
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.
Authorizes appointment of four alternates to combined planning and zoning boards.
Phases out the petroleum products gross receipts tax for fuel used to generate certain electricity.
Transfers certain DYFS property in Middlesex county to NJ Natural Lands Trust.
Limits duration of construction permits under certain circumstances.
Expands indemnification for school board members and employees and establishes a code of ethics for school board members.
Transfers certain State debt service appropriations savings for the purchase and retirement of certain State Pension Funding Bonds.
Requires sentence imposed on inmates for assault on corrections and law enforcement employees to run consecutively to other sentences.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 12
"State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act."
Upgrades the offense of theft of an object from a place of worship.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Requires that election of freeholders in certain counties be held by district.
Expands jurisdiction of Palisades Interstate Park Commission to include Essex county.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.*
Permits public comment at meetings of municipal governing body.
Requires testing of newborn infants for maple syrup urine disease.
Specifies use of actual enumeration of State's population by Apportionment Commission and Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts.
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.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 15
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement. *
Permits a child and dependent care credit against gross income tax.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Permits simulated voting for minors at polling place.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Makes volunteer firefighter appointed to paid position eligible for PFRS membership through age 40.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Clarifies procedures with regard to the payment of filing fees by inmates in connection with appeals from administrative determinations.
Upgrades criminal simulation.
Ensures the authenticity of certain collectibles.
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. *
Makes supplemental Grant-in-Aid appropriation of $10,000 to the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to coordinate workshops on and disseminate for classroom instruction the video, "We Are Not Alone: Greek Jews and the Holocaust."
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
In committee · 28
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows municipalities to double fines for moving motor vehicle violations in school zones.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Allows jury in death penalty case to consider defendant's prior criminal history.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
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 special priority of acquiring lands in flood-prone areas for recreation and conservation purposes using monies from Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund.
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 minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes counties and municipalities to charge inmates' and detainees' incarceration costs and to place a lien to ensure payment.
Requires certain sex offenders to serve part of sentence in general population prison.
Revises method for payment of certain foundation aid to county vocational schools.
Requires DOT to reimburse municipalities for deer carcass removal expenses.
Extends line item veto authority of Essex county executive over county budget additional three years.
Creates pilot program in Essex County concerning domestic violence; creates additional Superior Court judgeship for Essex County; appropriates $275,000.
Provides that run-off elections under "Uniform Nonpartisan Election Law" are held the next Tuesday after the first Monday in June.
Requires DEP to notify affected municipality of proposed reclassification of surface water quality; authorizes municipality to veto reclassification if found fiscally harmful to municipality.
Provides procedure for approving airport expansion; provides assistance to affected property owners.
Allows deduction against gross income for qualified conservation contribution.
Permits Attorney General to refuse to provide for defense of certain State employees found to have engaged in discrimination, including sexual harassment.
Requires sex offender designation on driver's license of Megan's Law registrant.
Expands frivolous lawsuit statute to allow recovery for frivolous motions in civil actions, including family court motions.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.