Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez
Sponsored
Became law1
Makes it an unlawful practice for retailers to sell or install motor vehicle window tinting without first informing customer of State restrictions.
Passed the General Assembly4
Requires racial and ethnic categories used in most recent federal decennial census be included on certain State forms. *
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund. *
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Defines "mobile home park" as "multiple dwelling" for inspection purposes.
Out of committee4
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain literacy advocacy programs. *
Requires building permit for work done pursuant to a home repair financing contract under certain circumstances.
In committee30
Provides that student of limited English-speaking ability shall not be required to take certain tests.
Upgrades assault committed against commercial vendors and merchants.
Provides liability protection to organizations which lend child passenger restraint systems.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Provides reimbursement to municipalities for taxes lost due to totally disabled veterans' tax exemption.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
Requires DHS to provide functional services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
"Urban and Rural Centers Unsafe Buildings Demolition Grant Program Act," appropriates $15 million.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for attendance at New Jersey county colleges.
Expands membership of the State Board of Agriculture.
Prohibits State and local government purchase of products containing tritium.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
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.
Authorizes NJEDA to issue $8 million in bonds for financial assistance to child care centers.
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to fifteen through addition of eight public members.
Establishes review board to oversee implementation of the reform plan for DYFS.
Increases penalties for unauthorized access and damage to individuals' home computers or software.
Requires insurer that provides prescription drug coverage to provide verification of coverage to pharmacists from date that coverage becomes effective.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Provides for State aid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; approriates $50 million.
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Authorizes municipalities to require a special additional dog license for unsterilized dogs and establishes maximum fee that may be charged therefor.
Amends the "Fair Housing Act" to change details of regional contribution agreements.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires building permit for work done pursuant to a home repair financing contract under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Upgrades penalty for assault in certain cases. *
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Authorizes creation of UEZ in Gloucester City, Camden County. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Mandates use of New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs. *
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes a minimum per diem base pay of $100 for members of National Guard called to State active duty.
Provides State-paid health care benefits coverage through SHBP for certain National Guard members called to State active duty for 30 days or more.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Passed the General Assembly · 20
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Prohibits sale of certain printers or printer devices with disabling computer mechanisms. *
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of National Guard members on State active duty from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Revises requirements for DEP checklists.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 41
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
Establishes certain penalties for transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail. *
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Provides temporary local budget cap exceptions and school district budget cap adjustments for certain insurance costs and security and public safety costs. *
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Establishes local option mortgage assistance program for police officers and firefighters.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Appropriates $12.475 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern New Jersey.
Requires DEP confirm transfers of water allocation credits and approve transfers of permits under certain circumstances.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
The Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to nine through addition of two public members.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutors' offices.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates. *
Amends "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act."
Makes various changes to the "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting the display of American flag. *
Establishes the "Sexual Harassment Awareness and Respect for Everyone Fund" ("SHARE Fund") to support grants for sexual harassment training.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Expands the economic development incentives for municipal rehabilitation and economic recovery in certain fiscally distressed municipalities.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Appropriates $1 million from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund for economic development grant to Gloucester City for waterfront infrastructure improvements; cancels previous appropriation of same amount.
In committee · 88
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Allocates certain costs of implementing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Establishes special child care license plates to fund child care services.
Authorizes development of alternative water supply under certain circumstances.
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for temporomandibular joint disorders and craniomandibular disorders under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Survivors of the Shield" license plate for family members of law enforcement officers killed in line of duty.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Provides that DRPA is not a State agency for purposes of R.S.39:5-41.b.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DHSS.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
The "Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 2001;" clarifies and strengthens ethical standards applicable to State officers and employees, special State officers and employees and members of the Legislature.
Provides additional State aid to certain school districts which send students to Abbott districts.
Increases pharmacy dispensing fees under Medicaid and PAAD by $1.00 over three-year period; appropriates $6,481,000 in State funds and $3,325,000 in federal funds.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Prohibits managed care plans from refusing payment to or contracts with health care providers who engage in certain communications with patients.
Allows corporation business tax credit for the full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Provides that only citizens or legal residents of the United States may be employed in performing of certain State contracts.
Increases minimum wage.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for a grant to ASPIRA.
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to members of reserve components of US Armed Forces and NJ organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Raises to $150,000 in gross contributions the threshold requiring charitable organizations to file audited financial statements under the "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Requires installation of locks on underground storage tanks located at gasoline stations.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Requires permanent, full-time county fire marshals and assistant marshals authorized to coordinate, control or extinguish fires to be enrolled in PFRS.