Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
LeRoy J. Jones Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Increases the maximum number of votes of a member of a mutual savings and loan association.
Out of committee7
Provides certain additional powers for county improvement authorities.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for AIDS services activities.
Provides interest free loans to nonprofit organizations for the upgrade or closure of underground storage tanks.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Requires CATV companies to offer rate discounts to eligible senior and disabled citizens.
Restricts certain coin-operated video games to persons age 17 or older.
Prohibits the disposal of used computers as solid waste.
In committee75
Prohibits the sale, importation, possession and carrying of handguns except by certain authorized persons.
Allows an adopted person 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate and other related information.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Upgrades the penalty for aggravated assault when the victim is a law enforcement officer who suffers serious bodily injury.
Concerns fees charged customers for certain consumer banking services.
Permits certain school districts to receive State aid for a lease purchase agreement.
Creates a Banking Law Revision Commission, appropriates $25,000.
Prohibits possession of certain bullets made with polymers.
Prohibits tobacco advertising within 500 feet of schools.
Expands jurisdiction of municipal arson investigators.
Provides grants to sheriffs' departments for body vests.
Prohibits children under 12 from riding in front seat of vehicle with passenger side airbag.
Appropriates $580,000 from General Fund for grant to Seton Hall University to establish a Center for State Health Policy.
Allows certain veteran PERS members to purchase service credit.
Requires police officers who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder to surrender their weapons.
Requires notification of police officer's supervisor when officer is diagnosed with mental disorder.
Requires Division of State Police to prepare annual report on certain civilian complaints against troopers and officers.
Requires bond counsel employed by public issuers to be admitted to practice of law in New Jersey and in compliance with State Supreme Court's bona fide office requirement.
Provides that certain facts may not be used in discipline of teaching staff member.
"Police and Communities Cooperative Commitment to Integrity and Public Safety Act;" appropriates $2,800,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to the Department of State for the Educational Opportunity Fund Program.
Exempts vehicles participating in funeral processions from payment of tolls.
Provides consumer protection with respect to electronic fund transfers.
Permits board of education to reduce or waive bond requirements of contractors.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DOH.
Requires criminal history background checks on certain child care workers, strengthens sanctions imposed upon child care centers for certain violations.
Establishes central registry of domestic violence orders for use in evaluating firearm permit applications.
Establishes time limit for certification of local unit budget by Director of Division of Local Government Services; establishes Local Budget Dispute Resolution Board.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Creates the offense of racial profiling.
Requires State Police applicants to undergo psychological testing for racial bias.
Requires independent report on State institutions and other facilities and impact of patients discharged from State psychiatric hospitals; appropriates $95,000.
Provides mandatory minimum term of parole ineligibility for carjackings committed with a firearm.
Upgrades tampering with public records under certain circumstances.
Provides a tax credit for certain qualified utility infrastructure alterations in special improvement districts.
Makes possession and sale of phony auto insurance identification cards a disorderly persons offense.
Prohibits sale and possession of utility knives by persons under 18 years of age.
Provides for the detection and treatment of sickle cell anemia in newborn children, appropriates $375,000.
Provides veto power to mayors and county executives in local budget process.
Defines members of certain cooperatives organized as "tenants" under law governing eviction procedures.
Establishes certain requirements regarding childhood immunizations.
Increases the penalty for failure by a parent to ensure that a child attends school.
Prohibits certain automobile insurance policies from specifying facilities for auto repairs.
Renames and expands scope of the Commission on Racism, Racial Violence and Religious Violence.
Requires applications for marriage licenses to include language informing applicants of their legal rights concerning domestic violence; appropriates $15,000.
Provides for the fingerprinting and photographing of persons arrested for simple assault.
Requires destruction of firearms obtained through amnesty or buy back programs.
Establishes Task Force on Asthma in the Schools; appropriates $15,000.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Directs the DOE to develop curriculum guidelines for elementary school pupils in financial management.
Amends the "Family Support Act."
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Permits probationers to drive to work in certain circumstances.
Prohibits persons under 21 from being employed by or owning package goods stores.
Requires access to day care center and school floor plans by emergency first aid squads.
Provides that teaching staff members would receive continuing professional development credit for certain training courses.
Allows adopted person 18 years of age or older or adoptive parent of minor child access to adopted person's original birth certificate and other information.
Establishes "Digital Divide Assistance Pilot Program;" appropriates $300,000.
Adopts the "Uniform Trade Secrets Act."
Allows municipalities to install and operate a hybrid fiber optic and coaxial telecommunications network for the purpose of providing telecommunications services.
Phases out business personal property tax on incumbent local exchange telecommunications carriers and replaces revenue with State aid funding, and reduces intrastate access charges and requires savings to be passed on to customers.
Establishes the "Mental Health Court Pilot Program."
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Provides for retroactive lump-sum accidental disability retirement payment.
"New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act;" appropriates $300,000.
Establishes restricted use driver license for certain parolees.
Requires high school seniors to complete a program of community service as a condition of graduation.
Provides statutory tenants' right to repair and deduct.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Requires performance audit on Sports and Exposition Authority and creates "Sports and Exposition Authority Fair Employment Commission."
Creates the "New Jersey Innocence Protection Act of 2000."
Requires neighbor notification prior to application of certain pesticides.
Limits rate increases for certain retirees under SHBP to increase in Consumer Price Index.
Provides for sales and use tax rebates and pass-through of cost savings to residential users of natural gas during winter heating season and makes appropriation therefore.
Revises the definition of Abbott district to include certain county vocational school districts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
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.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Establishes new procedures for the application for services provided to the developmentally disabled.
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.*
Prohibits dissemination of student personal information on the Internet without parental consent.
"New Jersey Adult Family Care Act." *
Establishes Managed Health Care Consumer Assistance Program; appropriates $500,000. *
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.*
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs. *
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.*
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Prohibits local exchange telecommunications companies from assessing touch-tone service or similar service charges.*
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 14
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Makes fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations of $153,359,000 from the General Fund and $55,082,685 from the Property Tax Relief Fund.
Regulates the construction or operation of solid waste marine transfer stations.*
Makes supplemental appropriation of $54,500,000 from the General Fund for Special Municipal Aid Act allocations.
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.
Exempts sale and repair of limousines from sales and use tax.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott district to assist students with print disabilities.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for health care professionals and facilities concerning postpartum depression; appropriates $50,000.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
In committee · 71
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 payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Supplemental appropriation of $424,000 to Board of Nursing.
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 certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
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.
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.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
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.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer information theft.
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Requires e-mailed unsolicited advertising materials to meet certain requirements.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer impersonation and electronic forgery.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
"New Jersey Online Privacy Protection Act."
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 1999;" appropriates $5,100,000.
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."
The "Health Care Insurer Accountability Act of 1998."
"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.
Allows jury in death penalty case to consider defendant's prior criminal history.
Prohibits reductions for certain Abbott districts in parity remedy State aid originally allocated for the 1997-98 school year.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Supplemental appropriation of up to $1 million from the General Fund as grant through State Council on the Arts for Crossroads Theatre.
Requires DOT to reimburse municipalities for clean up or removal of litter or debris from a road under certain circumstances.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
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.
Permits Attorney General to refuse to provide for defense of certain State employees found to have engaged in discrimination, including sexual harassment.
Establishes the Private Vocational School Student Tuition Protection Fund; consolidates administration of private vocational schools.
Makes various changes to cable television franchise fee.
Requires certain State actions before using general coefficient of deviation to mandate municipal revaluation.
Requires State reimbursement for municipal cost of tax map after revaluation in certain circumstances.
Requires health care provider participating in NJ KidCare program to provide all medically necessary health care services to eligible child which provider is qualified to provide.
Provides family leave insurance.
Appropriates $150,000 to Montclair Twp. for Nishuane Brook flood control.
The "Dormitory Fire Safety Act."
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
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.
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.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Makes right turn on red optional rather than mandatory.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Provides for issuance of receipt to voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be used as proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election.
"The New Jersey Electronic Voting Machine Act"; requires use of electronic voting machines in elections.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retired unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.