Bills in the 2000–2001 Session, Senate.
Louis F. Kosco
Sponsored
Became law9
Provides for life sentence without parole eligibility for persons convicted of murder under certain circumstances.
The "Dormitory Safety Trust Fund Act."**
Removes time limitation on prosecuting offenses in certain cases when DNA evidence is available. *
Revises law concerning employment and training services. *
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning layoffs.
Establishes breast cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $90,000.
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.
Requires internal complaint against member of State Police to be filed within 45 days.
Revises law delineating cigarette packages to which tax stamp may not be affixed.
Passed the Senate8
Establishes Hospital Emergency Services Development Fund in DHSS to assist hospitals in creating emergency services clinics for patients who do not require acute care or trauma care; appropriates $9 million.
Exempts certain motorcycle operators from helmet law.
Permits certain nonprofit organizations to conduct an unlimited number of certain raffles without payment of fees.
Revises amount of motorcycle endorsement fee allocated to education fund.
Requires payment of restitution to victims.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder. *
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for water supply system interconnection study. *
Out of committee20
Establishes 65 mph speed limit on interstate and limited access highways.
The "County Corrections Officers Act"; clarifies rights, privileges, powers and protections afforded county corrections officers.
Supplemental appropriation of $690,000 to Division on Women in DCA to fund Grants to Displaced Homemaker Centers program.
Appropriates $2.0 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Extends by six months the recovery and refund periods for the sales and use tax refunds for flood victims of Hurricane Floyd.
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters. *
Provides Corporation Business Tax credit for acquisition and use of advanced technology vehicles.
Changes name of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission to the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Establishes 5-year "Breast Cancer Screening Grant Fund Program" in DHSS; appropriates $3.8 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund each year for 5 years. *
Makes certain technical corrections to N.J.S.2C:24-4.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DCA for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million.
Increases membership of parole board; provides for appointment of temporary members, accelerates processing of certain inmates' cases and appropriates $685,000.
Special legislation to permit permanent appointment of Robert Chinchar to the South Hackensack Police Department and enrollment in PFRS.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for high-technology crime investigations to protect children against Internet crime.
Appropriates $200,000 in capital funding to DMVA for State Police training facility in Sea Girt.
Excludes gratuities from calculation of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance premiums for limousine or livery services.
Requires criminal history record checks for hazardous material and tank vehicle endorsements to commercial driver licenses.
In committee38
Requires DEP to designate one site in a State park or forest in northern NJ for use of off-road motorcycles.
Requires certain businesses to employ full-time chemist, assist local fire departments in emergency planning; expands environmental hazardous substance list.
Requires payment of interest on mortgage escrow accounts.
Includes mortuaries and human blood and pathological waste from embalming within the requirements of the "Comprehensive Regulated Medical Waste Management Act."
Requires all school buses to be equipped with seats of a minimum height and seat belts.
Limits "holdover" status for offices requiring Senate confirmation.
Permits enforcement of seat belt law as primary action.
Requires automobile insurance premium reductions for completion of certain driving courses.
Requires Department of Education to develop materials for a child abduction prevention education program in grades K through 8.
Provides certain procedural changes in death penalty cases.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to DLPS to replace State Police weapons.
Prohibits certain violent inmates from talking to radio and television media.
Establishes educational requirement for appointment to State Police.
Precludes toll surcharge or fine for not having exact change when Parkway toll booths are unmanned.
Modernizes New Jersey emergency management laws.
Modernizes New Jersey emergency management laws.
Establishes Joint Commission on Governmental Performance Review and Evaluation in the legislative branch of government.
Prohibits members of the Legislature from holding local elective public office during their terms.
Establishes forensic laboratory fees for sexual assault; designates uses.
Supplemental appropriation of $55,000 to DHS for grant to Volunteer Center of Bergen County for Parent Aides for Teens program.
Requires sale and rental of video games to children in accordance with age-based rating system.
Establishes Department of State Police.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Establishes the Garden State New Millenium Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Specifies the crimes encompassed by the provisions of the "No Early Release Act," including murder.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million in tobacco settlement funds to N.J. State Commission on Cancer Research.
Establishes "Voto-Tedesco Community Notification Law."
Eliminates certain budget language which affects Bergen Regional Medical Center.
Permits use of special fictitious name ("John Doe") indictments when DNA evidence is sufficient.
Continues tax exempt status of certain real property used by religious corporations during reconstruction of worship facility and thereafter.
Reduces blood alcohol concentration level for drunk driving conviction to 0.08% and provides enhanced penalties for certain drunk driving offenses.
Clarifies that interest earnings on moneys credited to Garden State Preservation Trust Fund Account in FY2000 are dedicated for open space, farmland, and historic preservation purposes.
Includes custom fabrication of project-specific materials under the prevailing wage act.
Establishes additional penalties for motor vehicle right-of-way violations to fund motorcycle safety education programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHSS for grant to The Valley Hospital for comprehensive care center.
Includes survivors of Port Authority police killed in the line of duty in the State tuition assistance program.
Includes certain payments by cigarette manufacturers in the price received for cigarettes by wholesalers and retailers.
Establishes the Dana Christmas Scholarship Program; appropriates $50,000.
Carried from the General Assembly
Passed the General Assembly1
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 44
Increases and indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit. *
Accelerates phase-in of the NJ SAVER rebate.
"Senior Gold Prescription Discount Act."
Requires managed care plans and SHBP to pay in-network health care facilities full contractual rate regardless of whether treating practitioner is in-network or out-of-network provider. *
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.*
Assures certain benefits to certain police, fire and emergency personnel under certain circumstances in regard to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 or pursuant to an Executive Order by the Governor.
Prohibits sale of certain merchandise at excessive prices during certain emergencies.
Prohibits driving while under the influence of inhalants or other substances containing toxic fumes or vapors.
Permits firefighter's associations, firefighter's relief associations and volunteer fire companies to conduct certain income-producing activities and retain tax-exempt status.*
Increases number of tuition-free credits that a member of the National Guard may earn in undergraduate study and extends credits to graduate study.
Authorizes law enforcement officer memorial license plates for college scholarships for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. *
Provides credit for participation rates in small employer health benefits plans to employees who are covered under another group health benefits plan or Medicare.
Increases veteran's property tax deduction.
Requires licensure of third party administrators of health and dental benefits plans and certification of third party billing services. *
Prohibits smoking on school grounds.
Raises maximum age for appointment for exempt firemen to 45.
Creates a drunk driver visitation program.
Prohibits persons who violate animal cruelty statutes from serving as animal control officers.
Clarifies penalty for possession of 50 or more marijuana plants with intent to distribute.
Extends period of restricted sale of poppies to raise funds to benefit veterans.
Requires acceptance of universal physician application for participation form by managed care carriers. *
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign about meningitis and higher education institutions to notify prospective students about meningitis vaccination; appropriates $50,000.**
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Increases penalty for causing death or injury of another while driving with suspended license.
Requires criminal history record background checks for child care center employees.
"Health Care Carrier Accountability Act."*
Ratifies New Jersey's participation in "National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact."
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
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.*
Criminalizes the use of the Internet and other electronic communication devices to commit harassment or stalking.
Appropriates $135 million to the DEP for dam, lake, and stream projects. *
Provides full PFRS credit for transferred PERS service of certain PFRS members. *
Mandates health insurance coverage for certain infant formulas.
Provides additional means of verification of agreement to change electricity or natural gas suppliers.
Revises PFRS funding to reduce local employers' contributions by $150 million for FY 2001. *
Increases age for permit to purchase a handgun from 18 to 21 years; changes related laws on temporary transfer and exemptions.*
Establishes the casino reinvestment development authority urban revitalization incentive program.
Appropriates $12 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for active members and retirees; revises calculation of assets and establishes benefit enhancement fund.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
Requires paid leave of absence to members of certain law enforcement and firefighter associations to attend State or national conventions.
Increases TPAF and PERS retirement benefits for certain active and retired employees. *
Requires four year digitized picture driver's license; tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal aliens; appropriates $1.5 million.*
Passed the Senate · 49
Increases value of Legislative Initiative Municipal Block Grant Program by $100,000,000 over three years.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DHSS for public information regarding health insurance consumers' rights to appeal adverse decisions of insurer.
Supplemental appropriation of $1.3 million to DHSS for managed care oversight.
Requires insurance carriers to use "prudent layperson" definition for coverage of emergency health care.
Establishes a hospital accounting management system and appropriates $2 million to DHSS.
Increases physician fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement rates; appropriates $7 million in State funds and $7 million in federal funds.
Increases annual charity care amount to $345 million and appropriates $30 million in State and federal funds to increase Medicaid fee-for-service hospital rates.
Permits electronic sale of individual and small employer health benefits plans, on a direct basis.
Provides grants to hospitals to determine feasibility of converting underused facilities to other uses; appropriates $4 million. *
Modifies motor vehicle emissions testing at State official inspection facilities, and provides testing subsidy to licensed private inspection facilities, until June 30, 2000 or certain conditions are met.*
Provides for annual deposit of 20% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in county fund for alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Revises certain laws concerning cruelty to animals.
Establishes the HOPE Scholarship Program Study Commission; appropriates $5,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act." *
Requires public hearing by the Attorney General regarding conversion of certain nonprofit corporations under certain circumstances.
Provides special license plates for Purple Heart recipients.
Permits counties to use forfeiture moneys for certain criminal offender information systems. *
Requires reimbursement of training and certification costs of certain police officers by appointing authority to former employer.
Creates the crime of victimization of a senior citizen or a person with a disability.*
Increases capital improvement fund in New Jersey Education Facility Authority by $90,000,000 to finance installation of automatic fire supression systems in student resident halls at high schools and institutions of higher education.*
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation from the Declaration of Independence before the opening of each school day in grades 3-12; appropriates $10,000.
Clarifies that Miranda rights are not applicable to persons asked to submit to breathalyzer.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
Increases annual contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads to $50,000.
Prohibits sale and possession of dextromethorphan hydrobromide. *
Prohibits sale, distribution or installation of nonoperational air bags.
Imposes mandatory minimum 3-year prison term for theft of a firearm.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain qualified employees. *
Permits emergency management volunteers to display blue emergency warning lights on vehicles; permits certain emergency management duty officers to display red emergency lights and sirens on vehicles.
Permits purchase of service credit in SPRS.
Provides PFRS accidental death benefit for policeman dying as result of accident or intentional act of another during member's attempt to prevent felony or apprehend felon.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Establishes "The Project Exile and Operation Ceasefire Enforcement Act of 2000" to strengthen prosecution of firearms crimes; appropriates $5 million.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to DEP from "Water Supply Fund" for study to assess groundwater contamination from MTBE.
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Cancels certain "Water Supply Fund" appropriations; authorizes use of those amounts for water supply management purposes; appropriates $950,000 to the DEP for a drought monitoring and telemetry system.
Appropriates $1.0 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years. *
Appropriates $250,000 to DEP for costs of well drilling to monitor groundwater quality. *
Establishes Water Quality Remediation Fund; appropriates $50 million.
Establishes an environmental testing laboratory in the Department of Environmental Protection; appropriates $3.0 million.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.. **
Allocates $75,000 from the Cancer Screening - Early Detection and Education Program for lung cancer in women activities.
Permits establishment of small employer health benefits purchasing alliances.
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights by public officials.
Exempts one-time payment for policyholders from Prudential reorganization to domestic stock insurer from calculation of income for PAAD and Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.
Out of committee · 65
Renames Office on Minority Health in DHSS as Office on Minority and Multicultural Health and provides additional responsibilities for office; appropriates $1.5 million.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax on most sales, up to $25,000 annually, collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting same.
Imposes civil penalties on domestic violence offenders and establishes Domestic Violence Victims' Fund. *
Clarifies provisions of Law Against Discrimination with regard to employment discrimination on the basis of age.
Allocates certain motor vehicle surcharges for alcohol treatment programs.
Subjects HMOs to law regulating insurance holding company systems and revises calculation of health insurance policy reserves.
Increases additional penalty assessment for drunk driving; dedicates revenue to VCCB.
Provides additional juror compensation for certain jurors; appropriates $4,600,000.*
The "Private Well Testing Act"; appropriates $1 million from Safe Drinking Water Fund. *
Makes decisions rendered by independent utilization review organizations under Independent Health Care Appeals Program binding on insurance carriers.
Increases pensions of certain retired public safety officer members of PERS, CPFPF and PFRS.
Promotes competition in telecommunications market and ends certain personal property taxes and replaces that revenue.*
Excludes U.S. military pensions and survivors benefits of persons less than 62 years of age from gross income taxation.
Eliminates corporation business tax on regular income of S corporations.
Permits qualified retired law enforcement officers who were employed by law enforcement agencies outside the State to carry firearms.
Repeals surcharge paid by insurers of school boards not in SHBP; requires payment of surcharge amounts for FY97, FY98 and FY99 to schools boards.
Includes certain crimes of the third degree with crimes which have bail restrictions under P.L.1994, c.144.
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Provides that EMT training of volunteer EMTs on paid squads and volunteer firefighters are eligible for reimbursement from EMT Training Fund.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to DHSS for grant to promote recruitment of first aid volunteers.
Establishes the level of school aid for the 2000-2001 school year.*
Revises distribution of certain motor vehicle fine moneys.
Establishes a New Jersey Earned Income Tax Credit.
Requires municipality to issue zoning permit within 10 business days. *
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund for completion of Korean War Memorial in Atlantic City.
Expands access to certain juvenile records; establishes right of victims to attend juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Requires that school districts receive written informed parental consent prior to administering certain surveys to their students.
"FamilyCare Health Coverage Act."
Establishes the "New Jersey Individual Development Account Program," appropriates $2 million from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds.*
Increases penalties for fraudulent motor vehicle insurance identification cards.
Disqualifies a person adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile from obtaining either a handgun purchase permit or a firearms purchaser identification card in certain cases.
Provides for mandatory minimum five year prison term without parole for persons convicted of certain firearms offenses with prior violent crime convictions. *
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation. *
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.
Permits religious or charitable organization to lease property to other tax-exempt entities without loss of property tax exemption.*
Requires criminal history record background checks for health care professionals as condition of initial licensure.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving children.
Upgrades simple assault against a law enforcement officer under certain circumstances.
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,000,000.*
Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs; appropriates $350,000.*
Requires DCA to create program to reimburse 25% of purchase price of public works equipment purchased by counties for use by two or more municipalities within that county; appropriates $1 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $16.9 million in federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant funds to DHS.
Appropriates an amount, not to exceed $30 million, in certain State revenues for energy assistance programs.**
Permits direct distribution of receipts from miscellaneous revenue to municipal real property taxpayers.
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Amends "Uniform Anatomical Gift Act" regarding notification to designated persons about option to donate decedent's organs or tissues.
Establishes hepatitis C education, prevention and screening program and requires reporting of hepatitis C directly to DHSS. **
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000. *
Clarifies provisions concerning luring or enticing a child.
Directs DMV to reopen Paterson motor vehicle agency.
Exempts health care supplies and equipment, purchased for use in providing health care services, from sales tax.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2000.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from the General Fund to the Department of the Treasury for a publicity program for the senior and disabled citizens property tax freeze reimbursement program.
Provides for prompt notification to health care licensing boards when health care practitioner suspected of injuring a patient or suspected of other wrongdoing.
Exempts sales of certain child restraint systems, such as car seats, booster seats and locking baby carriers, from sales and use tax.
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.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Exempts state-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMAVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial. *
Supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA to fund grant to ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey to pay off mortgage on Statewide headquarters building.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care expenses. *
Permits assistant adjutant general for NJ Air National Guard to have rank of major general.
Requires trials to be commenced within six months of indictment by State grand jury.
In committee · 83
Indexes maximum homestead rebate benefit.
Prohibits prosecution of death row inmate for murder.
Changes compensation base of SPRS accidental death benefit pension for surviving spouses and children.
Makes various changes in civil service system concerning titles and compensation.
Permits certain small groups to combine for purpose of self-insuring or purchasing traditional insurance for health benefits.
Establishes criminal penalties for firearm owners responsible for minors gaining access to firearms subsequently used in a crime.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a check cashing business to cash a check for consideration in the amount of $2,500 or more.
Grants paid leave of absence to members of the Portuguese-American Police Association of New Jersey to attend State or national conventions.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for child care expenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $150 million to DHSS for reimbursement to participating health care providers of HIP Health Plan of New Jersey.
Requires buffer zone between security perimeter of county juvenile detention facility and certain adjacent properties.
Requires electric utility rate reductions to be passed through by landlord to residential tenants.
Prohibits the sale of any gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether or other ether oxygenates.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Promotes fairness in telephone competition through State aid funding of the replacement of the incumbent local exchange carrier personal property tax and the reduction of intrastate access charges.
Creates "gun free" school zones.
Establishes rehabilitation as condition for parole of certain inmates.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,650,000 to DLPS for local police video camera and audio recording equipment grants.
Proposes a series of amendments to the statutes governing forfeiture.
Requires board of education to provide course credit for certain courses.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
Prohibits employment discrimination by public employers against volunteer fire, ambulance, first aid or rescue personnel.
Requires random drug and alcohol testing of certain drunk drivers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires DOT to conduct mosquito abatement on storm water drainage facilities; appropriates $1 million.
Requires testing for radon gas at public schools.
The Death Tax Elimination Act; repeals the transfer inheritance tax.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
Bans trafficking in bodily fluids for unlawful purposes.
Provides that certain offenders may spend the anniversary of the commission of a violent crime in solitary confinement.
Allows senior and disabled homeowners to collect both the NJSAVER rebate and the homestead rebate.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Raises PAAD income eligibility levels; requires certain recipients to pay higher copayments.
Amends eligibility for PAAD recipients.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Establishes firearms trafficking prosecutor.
Appropriates $2.0 million to the Division of Fish and Wildlife for bear management.
Provides consumers greater protection in the issuance of consumer credit reports.
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Establishes "Adopt a Stop" program for the cleanup and maintenance of bus shelters, bus stops, and bus and train stations.
Appropriates $460,200 to the DEP for dynamometer service contracts.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
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.
Requires development of State and county mosquito control plans; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes the "Unsolicited Telephone Sales Calls Act of 2000."
Requires that NJ FamilyCare Program cover pediatric medical day care services for all children covered by program.
Requires audit of health insurer's claims payment records.
Applies 75% loss ratio to certain policies and contracts of health insurers.
Directs every public school district to display George Washington's portrait, and encourages adoption of a George Washington lesson plan; appropriates $135,000.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Authorizes legal fees and costs against public entity filing legally groundless suits against citizens who are critical of the public entity.
Concerns predatory lending practices.
Creates the "Judicial and Prosecutorial Facilities Construction Assistance Act."
Expands crimes for which conviction, adjudication of delinquency or not guilty by reason of insanity will require collection of DNA sample for databank.
Establishes the "State Debt Reduction and Avoidance Act" and appropriates $50 million for debt reduction and avoidance.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
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.
Appropriates $250,000 to DLPS for State Police information systems to enhance criminal street gang law enforcement.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Allows certain juvenile offenders to be placed in county jail.
Improves the formula for computing retirement allowances for certain PERS and TPAF members retiring on deferred, early, service or ordinary disability retirement allowances.
Creates the Office of Grant Application Assistance in DCA to assist counties and municipalities in applying for federal and private grants.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Eliminates statute of limitations for prosecuting criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of child if DNA identity available.
Regulates persons engaged in commercial telephone solicitations.
Requires health insurers to provide certain reimbursement for hearing aids.
Requires police station signs along certain routes in municipalities; makes appropriation.
Requires DCA to prepare and publish fire inspection handbook.
Exempts 1996 and subsequent model year motor vehicles equipped with on-board diagnostic systems from emissions testing; requires check of functioning of on-board diagnostic system; directs AG to recover certain costs of enhanced inspection and maintenance program from federal government.
Authorizes bridge repairs by local governments after natural disaster without prior DEP approvals.
Provides fire service equipment grants directly to governing fire organizations; appropriates $7 million.
Requires annual certification of certain fire inspections, establishes Fire Inspection Relief Entitlement grant program, appropriates $3.5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $20,000 to DMAVA for grant to Italian American War Veterans of U.S. 66th annual national convention in Atlantic City.
Creates NJ Hispanic-American State Holiday Study Commission; appropriates $75,000.
Requires DEP to classify certain surface waters of the State as category one waters.
Limits county vocational school district tuition increases to its budget cap percentage.
Provides for the convening of State constitutional convention to reform the system of property taxation for funding the public schools; appropriates $7 million.
Clarifies legislative intent with respect to use of certain monies included in the FY 2002 appropriations act.
Requires State to reimburse trooper tuition costs; appropriates $700,000.
Tightens requirements for issuance of driver's license to legal alien; upgrades penalties for sale and possession of fake driver's license.
Filed · 2
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.