Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Louis D. Greenwald
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires meningococcal vaccinations for new residential students at four-year institutions of higher education. *
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Requires hepatitis B vaccinations for high school students and new full-time students at institutions of higher education.**
Authorizes certain exceptions to local public contracts law. *
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs. *
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. *
Authorizes borrowing by public school district between June 22 and June 30 of the school budget year in certain circumstances.
Amends Casino Control Act to impose certain taxes and fees, raise certain fees and permit certain agreements; creates Casino Capital Construction Fund. **
Passed the General Assembly2
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Requires DHSS meningitis public awareness campaign to target pediatricians.
Out of committee14
Creates crime of committing offense in senior citizen zone. *
Establishes confidential data base to assist State Police in issuance of firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
The Annual Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
Provides that school board may contract with photographer for yearbook and may not prohibit use of pictures made by other photographers.
Requires DYFS to provide unified child care agencies evaluating homes of prospective approved home providers with results of child abuse record information checks.
Permits sending district board of education to have representative on receiving district board of education under certain conditions.
Appropriates $24,080,939,000 in State funds and $9,757,304,752 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2003-2004.
Appropriates $16,038,250 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires notice to and approval by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee of proposed expenditures by the EDA of certain withholding-backed economic development bond proceeds.
Extends deadline for Governor's annual budget message to Legislature to the 4th Tuesday in February; revises deadline for submission of Abbott districts' proposed budgets to Commissioner of Education. *
In committee34
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides PFRS death benefit of 3 1/2 times the annual rate of compensation in the event of accidental death occurring in the first year of creditable service.
Provides that, when candidacy for party nomination to public office or for political party office is uncontested, no primary election vote upon such nomination or party office shall be held.
Makes use of emergency ballots optional in each county.
Concerns Workforce Development Partnership Program and employer tax credits for customized training.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Directs that one sample ballot shall be delivered to each residence address where at least one resident thereof is registered to vote.
Adds passenger automobile insurance information to DMV database.
Makes failing to report insurance fraud a crime of third degree.
Creates State Police high technology crime unit; appropriates $1,000,000.
Establishes Statewide allogeneic cord blood bank, requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for cord blood banking and appropriates $5 million to DHSS.
Permits certain war-time veterans and military surviving spouses to receive enhanced homestead rebate amounts similar to the homestead rebate amounts allowed for senior and disabled residents.
Permits automotive collecting activities on residential property outside of ordinary public view.
Grants 90-day grace period for payment of property taxes by seniors and longer period for participants in senior freeze act.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Allows cosmetologist-hairstylists to operate mobile facilities when providing services.
Includes custom fabrication work under the prevailing wage act.
Increases period of dual membership allowed in service credit transfer between PERS and TPAF.
Requires contributions toward cost of certain public safety improvements of streets and highways.
Raises the percentage of net debt for municipalities for the purposes of bonding from 3 1/2% to 5%.
Provides that the Commissioner of Education may not subsequently increase tentative per pupil tuition rate charged for disabled students enrolled in private schools for the disabled.
Permits children to obtain county-issued digital photo identification cards.
Requires certain State departments to maintain toll-free telephone number for services and general information.
Exempts veteran's discharge certificate from State's open public records law; permits veteran and veteran's spouse to access discharge certificate.
Requires disclosure by contractor of cost of construction permits required for construction or reconstruction of residential premises.
Permits voting by mail for all elections in certain municipalities under certain conditions.
Increases penalties for intoxicated drivers under age 21.
Provides that total annual out-of-state travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Exempts certain county and municipally-owned water supply facilities from BPU regulation.
Supplemental appropriation for $5.0 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Excludes certain payments to affiliates from "points and fees" definition.
Carried from the Senate
Became law10
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; and provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
The Annual Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
Provides that school board may contract with photographer for yearbook and may not prohibit use of pictures made by other photographers.
Requires DYFS to provide unified child care agencies evaluating homes of prospective approved home providers with results of child abuse record information checks.
Appropriates $16,038,250 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires notice to and approval by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee of proposed expenditures by the EDA of certain withholding-backed economic development bond proceeds.
Extends deadline for Governor's annual budget message to Legislature to the 4th Tuesday in February; revises deadline for submission of Abbott districts' proposed budgets to the Commissioner of Education. *
Appropriates $24,080,939,000 in State funds and $9,757,304,752 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2003-2004.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems. ***
Permits the establishment of athletic codes of conduct; requires anger management counseling prior to resuming attendance. *
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.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act."
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Makes changes in the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Passed the General Assembly · 18
Establishes Child Labor Law Enforcement Fund. *
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing." *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants. *
Out of committee · 19
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.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions. *
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.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retire unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Designates March 16 as "Liberty Day" in New Jersey; memorializes Congress to pass legislation designating "Liberty Day" annually.
Reduces certain General Fund appropriations, allocates certain revenues and transfers and appropriates certain fund balances for fiscal year 2002 State budget puposes.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Permits purchase of service and salary credit in PERS for service with a bi-state agency created by interstate compact.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Establishes lawn watering restrictions; authorizes DEP to adopt water conservation regulations and to reduce water supply application backlog; and requires installation of automatic rain sensor devices under certain circumstances. *
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
In committee · 86
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Prohibits use of unmarked police vehicles for routine traffic stops.
Requires automobile insurers to maintain sales representation in urban rating territories.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Provides for State aid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; approriates $50 million.
Appropriates $2 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
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.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
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.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Supplemental appropriation of $5,150,000 to DHS for General Assistance County Administration costs.
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.
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.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Provides for additional annual State aid for the Capital City under the Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid program; appropriates $15 million for this purpose and $2.9 million for additional special municipal aid for Trenton.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DHSS.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Restricts bail options for second and subsequent offenses occurring while released.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour.
Establishes priority for the awarding of historic preservation project grants or funding of such grants to certain projects; changes lapsing requirements for historic preservation project grants.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Prohibits county agriculture development board member from submitting application to preserve farmland under farmland preservation program.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Exempts certain children's car seats from sales and use tax.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Limits annual budget increases of four year public institutions of higher education.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
Establishes special license plates for veterans of the Korean conflict.
Dedicates use of tobacco settlement monies for certain health-related purposes and appropriates $40 million in State funds and $40 million in federal funds to increase Medicaid inpatient reimbursement rates.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain charitable contributions.
Provides gross income tax credit for services volunteered to certain charitable and governmental organizations.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full time enrollment at four year institutions of higher education, county colleges and accredited post-secondary schools in New Jersey.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Supplemental appropriation of $17,302,599 for Extraordinary Needs Aid for certain school districts.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DLPS for urban search and rescue teams.
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.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Authorizes appointment of part-time county tax administrator.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Creates State contract set-aside program for businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to the "NJBEST college savings program."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires criminal background checks for employees of water providers.
Filed · 1
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants.