Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, General Assembly.
John V. Kelly
Sponsored
Became law9
Appropriates $39,895,889 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" and various Green Acres bond acts for local government open space acquisition or park development projects; and approves funding of certain local government park development projects.
Establishes certification program for persons who install, service, repair, inspect and maintain fire protection equipment; provides oversight by Department of Community Affairs.**
Increases number of members of Fire safety commission to include representative of installers or manufacturers of fire suppression systems.
Provides enhanced benefits to survivors of certain PFRS members.
Provides that landlord of commercial property must follow lease terms controlling disposal of abandoned tenant property.
Permits real estate brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons to engage in certain promotions offering free or discounted products and services.
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability. *
Changes interest rate for mortgage loans from PFRS.
"The Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act."
Vetoed1
Amends "The New Home Warranty and Builders' Registration Act" to enhance oversight and accountability.
Passed the General Assembly5
Requires long-term care facilities and hospitals to accept do not resuscitate orders under certain circumstances.
Establishes the position of Inspector General for certain school districts.*
Supplemental appropriation of $360,000 to Division of Fire Safety in Department of Community Affairs for incident management training programs.
Appropriates a sum not to exceed $350,000 for the reconstruction and restoration of Van Riper House in Nutley.
Places five-year moratorium on distribution and sale of irradiated food.
Out of committee15
Concerns workers' compensation for members of paid fire departments.
Establishes civil action against drug dealers.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of any device or equipment sold for residential use to detect, warn of, abate, or extinguish fires.
Requires automatic lawn sprinkler system to be equipped with device to override sprinkler when adequate rainfall has occurred.
Requires "truth-in-renting" statements to be made available on Internet and computer disk.
Increases certification period governing COAH from six to ten years under "Fair Housing Act."
Provides that certain surviving spouses of veterans may continue to receive veterans' property tax deduction after remarriage.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
Clarifies aggregate amount of compensation a PERS retiree can earn with public employers without reenrolling in PERS.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for water supply system interconnection study. *
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Codifies Urban Home Ownership Recovery Program (UHORP) in NJHMFA to promote revitalization, redevelopment and stabilization of urban neighborhoods.
Requires paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighter associations to attend State or national conventions.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Provides debt defeasance aid to Bergen County Utilities Authority from certain landfill closure escrow accounts, appropriates up to $23.5 million. *
In committee44
Provides for accidental disability retirement for certain PFRS members who participate in off-duty firefighting activities in a municipality other than the one in which they are employed.
Provides exemption from jury service for paid members of fire departments, fire patrols, first aid squads and rescue squads.
Requires public notice prior to closing of municipal fire station.
Provides for establishment of firefighter memorial.
Provides that ordinary death benefits to survivors of active PFRS members with at least 25 years' service shall be same as benefits to survivors of PFRS retirants.
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Permits firefighter paramedics certified by Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to provide advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital.
Sets forth criteria for calculation of sewer rates.
Establishes minimum registration fees for certain private passenger vans and noncommercial trucks equipped with wheelchair lifts.
Prohibits the imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for new fire protection systems.
Requires prospective police officers to undergo psychological testing and permits such testing of current officers.
Clarifies certain terms concerning motor fuel prices.
Provides that lien based on fines imposed by condominium association be reviewed prior to recording.
Makes health insurance carriers liable for medical malpractice.
Requires installation of sprinklers in all dormitories; creates loan program in NJHMFA; appropriates $70 million.
Designated the "Capital and Educational Facility Financing Act."
Increases permanently percentage of adjustment for retirants subject to Pension Adjustment Act by 2% per year until annual adjustment of 100% is reached.
Requires labeling of irradiated food.
Provides that EMT training of volunteer EMTs on paid squads and volunteer firefighters are eligible for reimbursement from EMT Training Fund.
Makes current version of State fire code applicable to existing buildings; removes exemption for State entities from fees and penalties.
Requires persons under 18 to wear helmets when bicycling, skating and skateboarding.
Makes supplemental Grant-in-Aid appropriation of $250,000 for a new Governor's School of Engineering/Technology at Rutgers, The State University.
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.
Prohibits lobbyist or legislative agent from being chair or vice-chair of political party committee.
Revises method of calculating sewer rates by municipal sewerage facilities.
Increases PAAD income eligibility levels.
Creates loan program for owners of row homes to install or replace certain fire walls.
Creates a Land Use Court.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child and dependent care expenses.
Requires text of model codes to be reprinted in State regulations rather than incorporated by reference.
The "State Multiple Dwelling Inspector Licensing Act."
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases; appropriations $50,000.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Supplemental appropriation of $400,000 to DHS for Urban Crisis Council Day Care Center.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Removes age 60 requirement for post-retirement death benefit in the alternate benefit program.
Establishes low interest mortage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Establishes New Jersey Nursing Shortage Study Commission.
Permits exemption of certain State lease agreements from competitive bidding process.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
Creates the Assisted Living Subsidy Fund in HMFA to assist low income residents in agency-financed assisted living facilities.
Filed3
Requires licensure or registration of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billings services.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.
Requires election of freeholders by district in certain counties.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Establishes sex offender Internet registry; appropriates $500,000.*
Provides for mandatory minimum five year prison term without parole for persons convicted of certain firearms offenses with prior violent crime convictions. *
Establishes Operation Recognition to provide State-endorsed high school diplomas to veterans who left high school to serve in the armed forces during World War I or World War II.
Appropriates $26.3 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
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.
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.*
Requires insurers to provide certain notice concerning flood insurance.*
Permits billing of tenants' organizations to maintain certain utilities to rental premises.
Allows candidate for school board to sign own nominating petition.
Makes a designated fire command structure a required element in county emergency operations plans involving responses to mutual-aid fires.
Revises funding provision of PFRS.*
Changes name of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission to the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Provides that municipal remediation ordinances shall not apply to remediations conducted under DEP oversight.
Eliminates possible price-driven rate increase in petroleum products gross receipts tax and sets tax rate at the current minimum rate floor.
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHSS.
"Leonard Cohen's Law"; concerns hospital patient transfers.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Removes requirement that a public utility employee's Social Security number appear on employee's identification badge.
Revises certain mandates, requirements and procedures for local governments. *
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Passed the General Assembly · 17
Upgrades assault committed against commercial vendors and merchants.
Requires one witness and an acknowledgment before a notary public in executing power of attorney.*
Supplemental appropriation of $2.6 million to DHSS for defibrillator grants.*
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services. *
Specifies use of actual enumeration of State's population by Apportionment Commission and Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts.
Requires school disticts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Establishes program to reduce risk from lead-based paint; requires inspection of rental properties for lead-based paint; creates lead-safe housing registry. **
Permits master deed of condominium to reflect proportional common and limited common elements interests of each owner as fractions.
Supplemental appropriation of $45 million to DOT for road repair grants to counties and municipalities, for State road repair, and for State and local road and bridge repair with concrete.*
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits under Medicaid.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Out of committee · 55
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Clarifies health insurance coverage requirements for Pap smears and requires same coverage under State Health Benefits Program.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DCA for a grant for the National Association for Children with Autism, Inc., in Livingston.
Requires licensure of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billing services.*
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.
Permits rehired firefighter to purchase PFRS credit for 3 years of layoff period.
Prohibits pharmacists from disclosing certain information concerning prescription purchases for use in commercial solicitations unless authorized by consumers. *
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Provides consumer remedy for failure to deliver merchandise or service at time promised.
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members.**
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers. *
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for services to sex offenders in secure Juvenile Justice Commission facilities.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
Prohibits automatic telephone dialing systems from automatically "hanging up" on telephone subscribers without initiating message.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.*
Increases employer contribution in alternate benefit program for college faculty from 8% to 9%.
Requires gift certificates issued for goods and services to be valid until presented in exchange for those goods and services.*
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Allows certain firefighters to enroll in PFRS regardless of age.
Requires collection of data on whether firearm used in offense was illegally possessed.
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
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.*
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation. *
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students; appropriates $2,500,000.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act." *
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
Appropriates $50 million to the DEP for dam repair assistance and dam safety enhancement.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Increases Public Health Priority Funding by $480,000.
Permits firemen's associations, firemen's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey to support its Breast Cancer Awareness Project.
Makes supplemental grants-in-aid appropriation of $1.5 million to the New Jersey Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs for expansion of delinquency programs. *
Appropriates $350,000 for New Bridge Landing Historical Site.*
Provides a gross income tax credit for 6% of certain charitable contributions that are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Excludes certain State education funds from the calculation of proportionate share under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."
Allows gross income tax deduction for purchase of residential fire safety equipment.
Prohibits health care facilities from requiring certain hourly wage employees to perform overtime work.
Extends and changes statute of limitations for actions by the State pursuant to various environmental cleanup laws.
Establishes a 3-year pilot program of fire safety evacuation training for certain care givers; appropriates $100,000.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Provides property tax exemption for maximum of two parsonages of any congregation of any religious corporation in the State.
Provides certified municipal fire inspectors and fire officials having more than four consecutive years service with tenure in office. *
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMAVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain physicians with fee schedules.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
In committee · 99
Increases minimum wage.
Provides additional PERS death benefit coverage.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
Revises membership of U.S.S. New Jersey Battleship Commission; expands powers to operate the berthing site.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Reduces vesting requirement under State-administered retirement systems to five years' service.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Exempts sale of certain protective bicycle and skating helmets from sales and use tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.0 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Creates the "Just Compensation Act," requiring non-prevailing party in civil cases to reimburse prevailing party for certain attorney's fees and costs.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Imposes surtax on certain New Jersey wages and income of residents of a state that imposes taxes on New Jersey residents that it does not impose on its own residents.
Requires that all forms of public records be available for copying; sets uniform pricing policy for public records.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Revises notification process for suspending license for failure to pay parking ticket.
Requires public approval for privatization of fire services.
Establishes State Police toll-free hot line for reporting possible sex-related crimes involving juveniles over interactive computer services, appropriates $150,000.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Establishes the New Jersey Water Supply Management System Study Commission.
Clarifies that county prosecutor is State employee for purpose of New Jersey Tort Claims Act.
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.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Establishes task force to investigate the Farmland Assessment Act.
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Prohibits sex offenders from coaching youth sports teams.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.2 million to DLPS for State Police High Technology Crime Unit.
Requires school districts to offer instruction in the prevention of violence; appropriates $1,000,000.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Requires gift certificates to be valid until redeemed unless conditions and limitations are fully disclosed.
Requires NJT to install mile markers and develop emergency response access plan for railroad lines.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Adds two career service public employee members to the Pension and Health Benefits Review Commission.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles, compensation and layoffs.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Improves the formula for computing retirement allowances for certain PERS and TPAF members retiring on deferred, early, service or ordinary disability retirement allowances.
"Pharmacy Benefit Manager Act."
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Allows certain retirees to purchase health coverage in the State Health Benefits Program.
Requires legislative approval for granting of initial license to institution of higher education.
Provides family disability leave.
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.
Establishes special license plate for fire police officers.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to Division of Fire Safety in DCA to fund local firefighters' training and programs and division salaries.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
Requires hepatitis B immunization for admission to kindergarten or first grade and sixth grade at a public or private school.
Appropriates $2.3 million for Ellis Island restoration.
Prohibits certain employment discrimination against certain volunteer firefighters responding to emergency calls.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
Increases annual contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads to $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for grant to promote recruitment of first aid volunteers.
Requires board of education to provide course credit for certain courses.
Prohibits employment discrimination by public employers against volunteer fire, ambulance, first aid or rescue personnel.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Requires certain landlords to pass through electric utility rate reductions to tenants.
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.
Permits promotion without promotional examination of municipal police officer with three awards.
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 mailing land use law notices to condominium unit owners within prescribed notice area; requires condominium association to post land use law notices.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Permits samplings of alcoholic beverages by certain plenary retail consumption licensees.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act of 2000."
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.
Limits homeowners' association right to certain statutory lien; establishes alternative dispute resolution procedures; appropriates $99,000.
Provides certain enforcement powers to DCA concerning homeowners' associations; requires registration.
Authorizes DCA to establish bidding and conflict of interest guidelines for homeowners' associations.
Alters transition period for control of homeowners' association board; clarifies when developer has ceased actively selling under "The Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act."
Amends condominium laws to require certain standards in bylaws.
Establishes standards of fairness, due process and accountability for homeowners' associations concerning meetings, access to records and audits.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Requires New Jersey Turnpike Authority to establish memorial program for members of the State Police who were killed in line of duty.
Provides employment credit for military service for Board of Education employees.
Increases loan limit amounts for modernizing emergency facilities, purchasing emergency vehicles and emergency equipment for volunteer emergency service organizations; appropriates $5 million.
Provides income tax exclusion for portion of federal civil service pension representing foregone military pension benefit.
Revises the definition of Abbott district to include certain county vocational school districts.
Concerns arbitration for certain non-teaching school staff.
Concerns basic skills training.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Authorizes municipalities to license home improvement contractors.
Requires NJT to provide certain bus service in Bergen County; appropriates $2 million to acquire trolley replica buses for the required service.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Exempts certain veterans' organizations from charitable registration.
Requires retailers of customized home improvement products to offer payment plans.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Increases applicants' annual minimum allocation of transferable tax benefits under the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program.
Filed · 1
The "New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act;" appropriates $8.98 million.