NJLM - June 2002 Legislative Bulletin

Legislative Bulletin
Updated June 14, 2002

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SENATE BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	S-234 Suliga, Joseph	Removes authorization for automatic renewal provisions in cable television franchises. *Municipalities can benefit from automatic renewal in many ways.*	Senate Commerce Committee	O
	S-276 Bucco, Anthony R. Sacco, Nicholas J.	Requires buildings with elevators to either utilize standardized fire recall keys or have installed therein elevator fire recall key lock boxes. See also S-397	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	A
	S-397 Sacco, Nicholas J.	Requires certain elevators to be retrofitted with standardized elevator fire recall keys.* See also S-276	Combined With S-276	A
	S-668 Codey, Richard J. Suliga, Joseph	Concerns the provision of CATV service and telecommunications service.	Senate Commerce Committee	A
	S-966 Turner, Shirley K. Sacco, Nicholas J.	Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and tracks having pedestrian traffic, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements. See also A-1796	2nd Reading in Senate Committee Amendments	A
	S-1140 Codey, Richard J. Rice, Ronald L.	Makes various changes to local cap law; brings fire districts under spending limitations. Severely hinder local units ability to maintain existing services to property taxpayers.	Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee	O
	S-1304 Cardinale, Gerald Baer, Byron M.	Concerns cable television competition. A good idea, but specifics run afoul of Federal laws and regulations.	Senate Commerce Committee	O
	S-1355 Bagger, Richard H.	Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.	Senate Judiciary Committee	A
	S-1503 Allen, Diane B.	Requires testing of school grounds for hazardous substances under certain circumstances. *This legislation is permissive; however, the League has requested funding for cleanup costs be included.	Senate Environment Committee	A*
	S-1511 Smith, Bob	Ends exclusion of indirect program costs from cleanup and removal costs.	Senate Environment Committee	A
	S-1536 Furnari, Gary J.	Increases certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans. See also A-2284	Senate State Government Committee	O
	S-1564 Bennett, John O. Codey, Richard J.	Requires public employers to deduct a representation fee in lieu of dues in certain circumstances. See also A-2372	2nd Reading in Senate Committee Amendments	O

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ASSEMBLY BILLS
REQ.	BILL NO. AND SPONSOR	BILL SUMMARY	CURRENT STATUS	LEAGUE POSITION A-Approve O=Oppose
	A-1728 Biondi, Peter J.	Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes	Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee	A
	A-1796 Bodine, Francis L. DeCroce, Alex	Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements. See also S-966	Assembly Transportation Committee	A
	A-2047 Roberts, Joseph J.	Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.	2nd Reading in Assembly	A
	A-2210 McKeon, John F.	Allows certain county or municipal public park access parking lots to be used also for commuter parking under certain circumstances.	Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	A
	A-2221 Hackett, Mims	Requires public institutions of higher education to assess each student a fee to be used to offset the cost of services provided by the municipality in which the institution is located. Should not be limited to public institutions of higher education. Should also include county colleges, hospitals, etc. Also private schools.	Assembly Education Committee	O
	A-2229 Roberts, Joseph J. Biondi, Peter J. Fisher, Douglas H.	Concerns public works contractor registration. Ultimately, would increase cost of municipal projects and narrows competition.	Assembly Labor Committee	O
	A-2230 Roberts, Joseph J.	Authorizes local government units to construct locally funded public indoor recreation facilities on certain types of parkland under certain conditions.	Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	A
	A-2241 Guear, Gary L. Bodine, Francis L.	Directs installation of audio-visual alarm systems in public buildings and places of public assembly to signal a need to evacuate. This is an unfunded, and very costly, mandate.	Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee	O
	A-2245 Merkt, Richard A.	Permits municipalities to designate segments of certain highways as recreation or government facilities zones with 25 MPH speed limits.	Assembly Transportation Committee	A
	A-2249 Weinberg, Loretta Johnson, Gordon M.	Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.	Assembly State Government Committee	A
	A-2270 Conners, Jack Conaway, Herb	Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction. The real estate closing process is the proper forum to address this issue.	Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee	O
	A-2281 Guear, Gary L. Friscia, Arline M.	Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation. This will be a financial burden on municipalities.	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-2284 McKeon, John F.	Increases certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans. *The N/55 Legislation already provided sufficient and generous pension enhancements to veterans.*	Assembly State Government Committee	O
	A-2285 Smith, Robert J.	Authorizes municipal court to impose certain sanctions on truant children.	Assembly Judiciary Committee	A
	A-2360 Smith, Robert J.	Requires payment in lieu of taxes to municipality when State college or university purchases property for use as student residence.	Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee	A
	A-2372 Sires, Albio	Requires public employers to deduct a representation fee in lieu of dues in certain circumstances. We believe this is unfair to employees who choose not to be a union member.	To Assembly Labor Committee	O
	A-2510 Gusciora, Reed	Ends exclusion of indirect program costs from cleanup and removal costs.	Proposed for introduction	A

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