Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
Alan M. Augustine
Sponsored
Became law8
Permits municipalities and counties to install in-street pedestrian right-of-way signs under State guidelines.
Expands certain veterans' benefits to certain participants in the Lebanon Crisis of 1958.
Allows stalking victims protected by temporary restraining order to register to vote without disclosing street address.
Extends TPAF, PERS and PFRS veteran's status to certain participants in peace-keeping operations in Somalia and Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Provides transportation or in-lieu-of payments to certain nonpublic school pupils.*
Adds pop-up survivor option to TPAF and PERS retirement allowance options.
Revises law concerning award of State contracts to multiple bidders.
Extends transportation services to nonpublic school pupils who reside in certain regional and consolidated school districts that provide aid in-lieu-of payments. *
Passed the General Assembly4
Changes deadline for certain candidates to file financial disclosure statement with ELEC.
Provides for payment of annuity to former spouse of deceased PFRS retirant in certain cases.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Provides State-paid post-retirement medical benefits to certain former board of education employees.
Out of committee6
Modifies maximum age for police and fire department hires and for PFRS enrollment by permitting subtraction from actual age of up to five years for certain service.*
Provides for annual deposit of 20% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in county fund for alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for grants for certain historic sites preservation projects. *
Grants PFRS service credit to NJ Transit police officers for service credited in federal pension system; provides for retirement allowance offset.
Clarifies that definition of toxic chemical includes substances that are illegally inhaled or "huffed." *
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
In committee26
Grants certain privileges to drivers of authorized emergency vehicles.
Concerns removal of, and severance pay for, certain local personnel.
Establishes waiting period for employment of municipal governing body member in certain municipal positions.
Credits certain private college service toward paid health care benefits for certain county college retirees.
Allows driver's license suspension in 15 days from notice.
Revises criteria for urban enterprise zone sales tax exemption and disallows exemption for sales of building materials and construction supplies.
Creates new offense of unintentional vehicular homicide.
Permits advertising on exterior of school buses.
Provides holder in due course status to holders of negotiable instruments secured by a mortgage.
Requires certain "No Turn on Red" signs be installed on the mast of certain traffic control devices.
Changes and indexes monetary threshold for recording accident reports by DMV.
Provides that an area surrounding a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship shall be designated a drug free zone.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of goods donated to certain governmental, charitable and public safety organizations.
Provides for non-accidental death benefit of a survivor's pension for PFRS members with 10 years of service.
Increases the maximum income eligibility requirement for a homestead property tax reimbursement under the "property tax freeze law" to $25,000 annually.
Permits school nurse to designate additional trained school employees to administer epinephrine via epi-pen.
Permits local issuing authorities to submit written testimony concerning an applicant's request for removal of certain licensure disqualifications.
Reenacts a Statewide recycling tax on solid waste disposal.
Requires prescribers to use pharmaceutical numerical codes on New Jersey Prescription Blanks.
Requires adoption of automatic lawn sprinkler standards and compliance with standards for issuance of certificate of occupancy.
Permits DNA testing under certain circumstances of old evidence to establish innocence of person convicted.
Clarifies who shall be licensed as an insurance producer.
Requires State Health Benefits Commission to provide benefits to covered persons for treatment of amyloidosis.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Authorizes expedited conveyance of certain derivative State property interests.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
"New Jersey Safe Haven Infant Protection Act"; appropriates $500,000.*
Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Requires proof of valid motor vehicle insurance before release of impounded motor vehicle in certain cases.
Requires Commission on Cancer Research to encourage research on cancer pain management and palliative care.
Establishes New Jersey Pain Management Policy Advisory Council.
Provides hospital patients and nursing home residents with right to expect and receive appropriate pain assessment, management and treatment as integral component of their care.
Authorizes appointment of four alternates to combined planning and zoning boards.
Appropriates $3.25 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.*
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission. *
Permits establishment of small employer health benefits purchasing alliances. *
Authorizes excused absences by pupils who serve as district board of election members on day of any election.
Increases pensions of certain retired public safety officer members of PERS, CPFPF and PFRS.
Permits counties to increase the maximum daily compensation for members of election boards from $100 to an amount not to exceed $150.
Provides for payment of certain individual and provider claims against HIP Health Plan of New Jersey, Inc. and American Preferred Provider Plan, Inc.; appropriates $50,000,000 from the tobacco settlement proceeds.*
Authorizes municipalities to limit solid waste and recyclable material collection activities to specified operating hours.
Provides that Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Infantile Autism shall be funded annually at $1.5 million.
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds. **
Provides school districts with additional State aid for special education pupils if costs exceed a certain amount. *
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 from General Fund for New Jersey Naval Militia Joint Command.*
Removes requirement that two-thirds of a savings bank's board must reside in New Jersey.
Removes the requirement that a savings bank must use the word "savings" in its name.
Provides for expedited approval process for certain applications by financial institutions and updates parity provisions for financial institutions.
Provides for the merger of subsidiaries into financial institutions.
Allows banks and certain other lenders to act as title insurance producers.*
Clarifies that the law concerning liability for underground storage tanks under certain circumstances applies to underground storage tank facilities.
Provides that prompt payment and claims payment enforcement laws apply to organized delivery systems.
Appropriates $150 million from "1999 Statewide Transportation and Local Bridge Fund."
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Vetoed · 2
Sets States mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.*
Adds two elected employee members to State Health Benefits Commission.
Passed the General Assembly · 13
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Requires the licensing of bail runners as private detectives.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Establishes Lake Restoration Legislative Advisory Task Force; appropriates $95,000.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Revises operations of Individual Health Coverage and Small Employer Health Benefits programs.
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. *
Establishes the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Out of committee · 24
Prohibits certain practices by homeowners' insurers.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Provides increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program. *
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devises to commit harassment or stalking.
Requires parental consent prior to the tattooing or body piercing of minors.
Appropriates $21,480,950,000 in State funds and $8,009,987,000 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2000-2001.
Grants paid leave of absence to representatives of New Jersey Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association to attend State or national conventions.
Adds a new Governor's School and appropriates an additional $609,160 to the Governor's Schools in FY 2000.*
Provides for the continuity of certain contracts, securities and instruments affected by introduction of the Euro.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Permits person registering to vote to declare political affiliation on voter registration form. *
Supplemental appropriation of $8,050,000 in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement for home health services.
The "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,120,000 from the General Fund as grants through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and New Jersey State Opera.**
Prohibits denial of PIP benefits on basis of consumption of alcohol.
Establishes that police cruisers have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Requires at least 10% of tobacco settlement monies be used to fund substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Permits disclosure of certain patient information by organized delivery systems for research purposes.
"Congestion Reduction and Transportation Trust Fund Renewal Act."
Requires ignition interlock device or registration revocation for repeat drunk driving; prohibits possession of unsealed alcoholic beverage in motor vehicle.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.*
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
In committee · 39
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 health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Requires timely release of medical records to former enrollee of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey or health care provider on enrollee's behalf.
Requires carriers which offer managed care plans to permit covered person to continue treatment for limited time with a physician no longer employed by or under contract with the carrier for certain health conditions.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Provides exception to definition of "at-fault accident" for accidents involving municipal snow removal equipment during snow emergency.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Requires disclosure of juvenile sex offenses in criminal background checks.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Changes date of filing of nominating petitions for fire district elections.
Enacts the "Ethical ATM Act of 1997."
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
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.
Provides for interlock devices to curb drunk driving.
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.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for hospice and palliative care programs.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Requires notice to certain public employees of their temporary disability benefit coverage status.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education.
Provides for continuation of PFRS membership in certain cases; requires cancellation of PFRS pension and reenrollment upon re-employment in certain cases; provides certain PFRS retirees with choice concerning PFRS membership.
Provides sales tax exemption for sales of food and beverages and admission charges by counties and municipalities on their own facilities.
Establishes separate presidential primary on last Tuesday in February.
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
Appropriates $7.5 million annually in tobacco settlement monies for cancer research.
Exempts federally mandated safety-related activities at airports from freshwater wetlands permit requirement.
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.
Requires State and county approval of transportation of solid waste by rail car.