Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Shirley K. Turner
Sponsored
Became law4
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $11,118,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises law governing operation of Trenton War Memorial to allow State to present and promote programs.
Passed the Senate8
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the Office of Attorney General within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Law and Public Safety using infrared sensors to facilitate roadside truck safety inspections.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Permits certain persons convicted of welfare fraud to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Requires certain State officials to reside in New Jersey.
Provides that only citizens or persons authorized to work in the US pursuant to federal law may be employed in performing certain State contracts. *
Requires licensing and registration of energy use allocation systems according to procedures adopted by State Superintendent of Division of Weights and Measures.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
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Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places. *
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain State employees and employees of certain State autonomous authorities. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Allows credit unions to sell title insurance.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Authorizes criminal background checks for au pairs and nannies.
Establishes a 60-day amnesty period for certain motor vehicle surcharges. *
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. *
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
Requires school district to establish preschool recruitment program under certain conditions.
Requires elementary schools to include firearms safety awareness within implementation of health and physical education core curriculum content standard.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires payment to municipality for use of municipal services by for-profit lessee of property owned by county or county improvement authority.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to make adjustments in the school budget and election calendar and to certain notification dates for the 2002-2003 school year.
Creates study commission on the death penalty. *
Permits all municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring bond from seasonal rental landlords in certain circumstances.
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline food stamp application form.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.*
Establishes Unemployment Compensation Direct Deposit Program.
Concerns offenses related to unlawful use of personal identifying information.
Provides for computation of New Jersey estate tax either in accord with the federal estate tax as of December 31, 2001 or a simplified method prescribed by the Director of the Division of Taxation. *
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt core curriculum content standards for technology.
Permits board of education to obtain credit card for use by board's purchasing agent.
Clarifies the entities able to participate in school district joint self-insurance groups.
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Designates Pinelands Commission Fenwick Manor building as "Joseph P. Merlino Building." *
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Requires under "Fair Housing Act" that certain percentage of affordable housing be reserved for very low income households.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. *
Requires installation of protective fencing along certain overpasses.
Outlines a program to improve highway safety.
Provides for the designation of successor contributors in the event of the death of the original contributor in the NJBEST Program and allows anyone to make a contribution to an account.
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Authorizes adoption of time-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Authorizes municipal assessment of development impact fees following State guidelines and makes an appropriation.
Creates the offense of racial profiling.
Requires State Police to file reports on motor vehicle stops they initiate.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and available to public.
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.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations, and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS who retire during specified periods in 2002 and 2003.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between September 1, 2002 and January 1, 2003.
Creates tax credit program for businesses to assist in converting abandoned urban properties into affordable housing.
Requires COAH to credit any rehabilitated housing with affordability controls against municipal fair share housing obligation.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; appropriates $50 million.
Provides for deprivatization of motor vehicle inspection program when vendor contract concludes.
"Standards and Assessments Accountability Act."
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,900,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund grant to Trenton City, in Mercer County, for property tax relief.
Provides that charter school must give enrollment priority to certain students.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines with certain exceptions.
Requires increased allocation of balanced housing funds and amounts which may be spent from Housing Demonstration Fund for shelters; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Requires wearing of gloves in food preparation in food establishments.
The "Urban Heritage District Act."
Clarifies that statute making "good behavior" credits at Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center contingent upon participation in treatment program applies to all inmates.
Increases income threshold for qualifying for farmland assessment.
Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality.
Permits police to arrest certain motor vehicle offenders without warrant; requires intoxicated driver to be held until sober.
Requires Attorney General to investigate security at Mercer County Corrections Center.
Authorizes Historic Trenton license plates.
Establishes program in advanced airway care for emergency medical technicians.
Includes inhalant "propyl nitrite" as intoxicating drug under drunk driving statute.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Requires aftercare treatment program as part of community supervision.
Requires all EMT's to be trained and certified to perform cardiac defibrillation.
Upgrades penalties for assaults committed against medical security officers employed by the Department of Human Services.
Requires new police officers to receive First Responder-D training.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Establishes "Parenting for All Parents Pilot Program" in DHSS.
Excludes certain winnings from consideration for PAAD eligibility.
Includes emergency contraceptives in protocols for sexual assault victims.
Establishes public financing program for nomination and election of candidates for office of member of the Legislature; limits spending in such campaigns.
The "Family Income Security and Emergency Economic Stimulus Act."
Upgrades falsely incriminating another and fictitious reporting of an offense under certain circumstance.
Appropriates $2.1 million in unexpended federal funds to DHS for grant to Child Care Connection.
Requires the State to reimburse counties for costs incurred in connection with the operation of county prosecutors' offices.
Prohibits HMO from imposing certain restrictions regarding provision of health care services to enrollees.
Makes owner of residential rental premises criminally liable for consequences of certain housing violations.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Broadens exemption of school textbooks from sales tax to include recommended as well as required textbooks.
Requires notification of certain persons of availability of federal earned income tax credit and New Jersey earned income tax credit.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for sexual assault upon a minor.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
"Public Employees' Flexibility Act."
Allows certain retirees to reenroll in SHBP.
Requires primary and general elections to be conducted by mail.
Conforms administration of certain State-administered retirement systems and pension funds to Internal Revenue Code requirements; ensures members' rights to pension benefits.
Requires State agencies to submit notice of request for proposals or other documents pertinent to privatization contracts to certain State employees.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election and permits certain school districts to determine budgets without referendum.
Requires school districts to provide transportation services to pupils walking to school along a county or State highway.
Requires the State to pay all costs for operation of the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools.
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Reduces vesting requirement under State-administered retirement systems to five years' service.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Prohibits investment of certain public employee pension funds in tobacco manufacturers and distributors; provides for divestiture of existing holdings in such businesses.
Increases civil fines and penalties imposed by ELEC; remits moneys collected therefrom to General Fund for appropriation by the Legislature to commission.
Adds option of receipt of employee's contributions plus portion of employer contributions when vested PERS member leaves PERS-covered service.
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Neighborhood Community Centers.
Prohibits heavy trucks or truck-trailer combinations on certain county roads.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Limits certain campaign contributions to $1,800 per year or per election; abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Provides for the registration and regulation of sellers of travel.
Prohibits persons under 18 from smoking in public and purchasing tobacco products.
Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Establishes library material recycling programs for free county libraries.
"New Jersey Commercial Telephone and Commercial Electronic Mail Solicitation Consumer Protection Act."
Authorizes conveyance of certain NJ National Guard property in Mercer county to Princeton township for public recreation and conservation purposes.
Prohibits certain telephone solicitors from blocking caller identification equipment.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Provides for mail notice of certain telephone rate and tariff changes.
Clarifies that child support judgments shall not be docketed until arrearage equals or exceeds amount payable for one month.
Revises computer crime law and enhances law enforcement's ability to fight computer-related crime; appropriates $1.2 million.
Clarifies applicability of long term tax exemptions to land.
Requires the transfer of $15,000,000 in special legislative grant appropriations to provide an $11,000,000 appropriation to establish a Part-time Tuition Aid Grant Program and a $4,000,000 appropriation for the Education Opportunity Fund Program.
Requires certain counties to establish County Airport Expansion Citizen Review Boards.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Provides for increase and annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Permits security alerts and freezes upon consumer credit reports.
Regulates use of Social Security numbers.
Authorizes municipalities in certain counties to impose up to 3% tax on hotel, motel and established guest house room charges.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Permits certain persons convicted of crime or offense involving moral turpitude to assume office or employment in municipality operating under provisions of "Optional Municipal Charter Law."
Requires motor vehicle seller to provide purchaser at time of delivery with all documentation needed for DMV registration.
Requires SHBP coverage for certain new employees.
Concerns certain duties of Employment Security Council.
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
Directs State to purchase certain properties leased by Thomas Edison State College; makes appropriation therefor.
Establishes credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for puchase of certain qualified hybrid vehicles.
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program.
Excludes certain unemployment compensation recipients from paying civil service application fees.
Permits counties to establish a central municipal drug court.
Provides for payment of standby water service under Condo Services Law.
Establishes Task Force on Adoption Agency Closures.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Permits up to 10 children to be cared for by a registered family day care provider.
Permits a student to participate in a voluntary survey if the district sends prior written notification to the student's parents.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligibility limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Concerns employee personnel files.
Extends exemption from TPAF retiree reenrollment requirement to learning disabilities teacher-consultants, school psychologists, speech therapists and social workers.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates if vacancy occurs between 51st and 30th day prior to general election, except under certain circumstances; provides reimbursement of certain election-related expenses.
Provides State extended UI benefits, and utilizes option for federal extended UI benefits.
Provides for Special Purple Heart license plates.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
Requires nonpublic secondary schools to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt housing and are enrolled in the district.
Allows veteran or personal representative to withdraw honorable discharge papers from county clerk.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members.
Directs Attorney General to investigate security at Mercer County Corrections Center; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled.
Protects privacy of an individual's financial information by prohibiting disclosure without the prior informed, affirmative consent of the consumer.
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences.
Makes changes to the "Comprehensive Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act."
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires child to DYFS caseworker ratio of no greater than 25 to 1.
Prohibits taking of horseshoe crabs.
Establishes special license plates to fund women's heart disease research and education.
Requires DYFS district offices to adjust office hours and establish staggered work weeks for caseworkers.
Authorizes State Lottery Commission to participate in joint lotteries with net proceeds to fund NJHOPE Scholarship program.
Concerns automobile insurance rate filings; establishes Office of Automobile Insurance Ratepayer Advocate.
Establishes specialized child abuse and neglect investigation units in DYFS district offices.
Requires DYFS to inform county boards of social services when children receiving assistance under Work First New Jersey are placed in foster care.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Eliminates the industrial arts endorsement to the instructional certificate for public school teachers and replaces it with a technology education endorsement.
Enacts the "New Jersey Parentage Act of 2003."
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Requires representative of New Jersey Communications Officers Association to serve on 9-1-1 Commission.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Concerns collective bargaining between educational employers and employee organizations.
Requires nonpublic schools to establish procedures for the maintenance of, and access to, pupil records and authorizes parental review of tests.
Includes consideration of specific factor of pattern of domestic violence in determination of equitable distribution.
Filed1
Requires report and recommendations to and a public hearing of the Senate and Assembly Education Committees with respect to certain information regarding part-time faculty at public institutions of higher education in New Jersey.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
Permits use of Health Care Subsidy Fund for Medicaid expenses in FY2002; redirects $650,000,000 in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund; provides extended UI benefits. ***
Changes certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs. *
Directs BPU to provide for continuation of electrical service for certain residential customers during periods of excessive heat. **
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retire unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Clarifies that a court may require the posting of full cash bail in cases involving serious crimes.
Designated as the Senior Property Tax Freeze Protection Act; extends annual deadline for filing application for homestead property tax reimbursement to June 1. **
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
Concerns local housing authority crime reporting.
Provides for notification of charges pending for a disqualifying crime or offense against a public or nonpublic school employee or a school bus driver who has previously undergone a criminal history background check. *
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Appropriates $13,708,385 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," federal funds, and 1978 Green Acres bond fund, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for "urban aid" and other local government open space acquistion and
Appropriates $11.295 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central New Jersey.
Appropriates $11.105 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.
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Requires DEP to implement California Low Emission Vehicle program beginning on January 1, 2009 under certain circumstances; establishes review commission; and establishes incentive for purchase or lease of zero emission vehicle. ***
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Clarifies various provisions of law establishing the State's "no telemarketing call list."
Requires long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space aquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populate
Appropriates $14,663,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
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.
Appropriates $64 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
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Establishes the HOPE Scholarship Program Study Commission; appropriates $5,000.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Requires identity check for flight instruction. *
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
Specifies additional pre-layoff actions to avoid civil service layoffs.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Concerns cable television competition and urges the President and Congress to allow States to have certain regulatory power to create that competition. *
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $25,000. *
Establishes the Education Mandate Review Study Commission in the Department of Education.
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system and provides "Good Samaritan" protections to certain health care professionals.
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Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies. *
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers. *
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Establishes criminal penalties for violations of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act." *
Provides paid post retirement medical benefits to certain retired veteran State employees.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order. *
Permits charter schools to construct facilities with federal funds.
Exempts teachers from foreign countries from teacher citizenship requirements and permits boards of education to temporarily employ such teachers.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
Designates main office building of DOT as "David J. Goldberg Transportation Building."
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. *
Allows corporation business tax credit for 25% of the cost of purchasing portable defibrillators. *
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Makes various changes to tenant security deposit laws.
Permits corporation with one or two employees who are the only shareholders to opt out of workers' compensation.
Requires parents to secure certain children in restraint system or booster seat when riding in limousines. *
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks among school districts.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems. **
Provides additional retirement benefits for county, county college, and municipal employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Adds two members chosen by public employees' labor organizations to State Health Benefits Commission.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Revises law concerning Council on Developmental Disabilities to conform with federal law.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses; and increases penalty for certain repeat offenders.
Authorizes DCA to adjust certain county budgets to reflect certain county correctional facility costs. *
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program.
Enhances the New Jersey Business Employment Incentive Program for targeted economic development and provides funding for incentives through New Jersey Economic Development Authority bonds. *
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
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Mandates training of school bus drivers.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Increases aid-in-lieu-of transportation amount and requires certain review of pupil transportation contracts by county superintendent.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Removes authorization for automatic renewal provisions in cable television franchises.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DMVA for grant to Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
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.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Requires DOT to provide traffic information through its website.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Provides for safety zones adjacent to railroad rights-of-way and restrictions on construction of crossings at-grade.
Requires members of State Police to undergo annual performance evaluations.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million from the General Fund for the Social Services for the Homeless program.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 10 years.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Increases pension benefits for certain retirees in certain municipal retirement systems.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Authorizes Commissioner of Transportation to extend current ban on large trucks outside of National Network to 96-inch wide trucks.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Requires Attorney General to be responsible for payment of attorney fees of private counsel hired by member of the State Police under certain circumstances; appropriates $9,000.
Removes prosecution of domestic violence-related criminal cases from jurisdiction of the municipal court; places these cases with the Superior Court.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMVA to assist homeless veterans.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Prohibits use of territory in formulating automobile insurance rates.
Provides for certain ex-spouses of retirants to receive pension under SPRS.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Industry Assistance Program in the EDA; appropriates $20,000,000.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Promotes polling place accessibility for certain individuals; appropriates $150,000.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits use of involvement in non-at-fault accidents and selection of collision and comprehensive coverages as tier rating factors.
Creates commission to study ways to increase insurance competition in New Jersey.
Requires CATV companies to forward annually number and types of customer complaints to BPU.
Enhances certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Authorizes "Fallen Firefighter" license plates; establishes scholarship program for children of fallen firefighters.
Provides retirement allowance option to surviving spouses of deceased vested PERS and TPAF members.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Permits school pupils to self-administer medication for certain medical conditions.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain local government and school district employees who retire between April 1, 2003 and July 1, 2003.
Requires physicians to inform patients diagnosed with breast cancer of treatment options.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission."
Designates the State agencies to be involved in the selection of school renaissance zones.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.