Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph P. Cryan
Sponsored
Became law2
Increases jail time for repeat offenders who drive while licenses revoked.
Establishes supplemental realty transfer fee on certain transfers.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Out of committee3
Requires certain appointments to the board of trustees of a State College.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
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. *
In committee18
Requires disclosure of juvenile sex offenses in criminal background checks.
Requires drug and alcohol testing of adult inmates within 72 hours prior to furlough, work release or similar programs under certain conditions.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Prohibits purchase of pesticides by minors and prohibits sale of pesticides to minors.
Provides for awarding contract to one of three lowest bidders under "Local Public Contract Law."
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Authorizes transfer of development rights as means of implementing State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Establishes optional will registry.
Establishes disciplinary procedure for school board members when charged with certain crimes.
"New Jersey Water Supply Infrastructure Act."
Allows deduction from gross income for cash contributions to municipalities for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Provides for registration, certification and training for pharmacy technicians.
Authorizes municipalities and fire districts to require physician's certificate as condition for service or continuing service by volunteer fire fighters.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Establishes training academy in DYFS.
Concerns standards for the groundwater remediation of contaminated sites.
Requires criminal background checks for employees of water providers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
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. *
Permits board of education to disqualify low bidder if any school district or the EDA in certain cases has had prior negative experience with the bidder. *
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Requires meningococcal vaccinations for new residential students at four-year institutions of higher education. *
Requires certain public utilities to notify appropriate law enforcement official of service shutoffs to multifamily housing unit customers under certain circumstances. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Allows certain county or municipal public park access parking lots to be used also for commuter parking under certain circumstances.
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.
Modifies statute of limitations pertaining to fraudulent conveyance actions.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs. *
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Credits all prior PERS service of county prosecutors in Prosecutors Part at no additional cost.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Authorizes borrowing by public school district between June 22 and June 30 of the school budget year in certain circumstances.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel motor vehicle lease without penalty.
Adjusts local employers' contributions to PERS and PFRS over five years; provides exemption from municipal and county "cap" limitation; creates fund for certain excess assets to enhance PFRS special retirement. *
Modifies SHBP benefits for State employees; provides for alternate disciplinary review procedure for State employees pursuant to contract negotiations.
Passed the General Assembly · 16
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Permits municipality to create drug free zone around publicly assisted housing.
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
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 Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technoloy initiative State aid for nonpublic school students. *
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission." *
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
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.
Revises requirements for DEP checklists.
Out of committee · 23
Appropriates $11.05 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern New Jersey.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Increases membership and term of office of certain county tax board members.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Prohibits serving water in restaurants unless specifically requested by patron.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act. *
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Reimburses certain urban enterprise zones for municipal account monies transferred to the General Fund during fiscal year 2003 and permits those zones to borrow from the enterprise zone assistance fund. *
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use transported remains of victims of September 11, 2001 from World Trade Center in a memorial.
Requires clinical trial sponsor to provide certain information to New Jersey residents concerning continued payment for medication after clinical trial. *
Requires managed care carriers to provide certain physicians with fee schedules.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
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.
Creates the "September 11, 2001 Victims Compensation Act."
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger. *
In committee · 30
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes special license plates for veterans.
Clarifies intent of the Legislature to provide for mandatory driver's license suspension as a penalty for motor vehicle theft.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing.
Specifies policy governing provision by State registrar of certified copies and certifications of vital records to applicants.
Requires insurers and State health benefits programs to cover costs of AIDS vaccine.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Authorizes BPU to allow electric public utilities to recover basic generation services transition costs over a term of not less than 20 years.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Requires posting of warning signs concerning potential of infection, and provision of washing or disinfecting areas, at certain establishments or events where humans may come in contact with animals.
Requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Requires DOC to pay counties at uniform rate for housing State prisoners.
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.
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
"Patient Surgical Safety Act."
Modifies various laws in regard to medical malpractice liability.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Increases motor vehicle property damages reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Requires DOT to sell portions of certain railroad right-of-ways to Union County for recreation and conservation purposes and to interested municipalities for senior citizen housing; and provides nonmatching grant from "Garden State Green Acres Preservati
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Permits a person eligible to vote to register on certain election days.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Revises requirements for DEP technical manuals.
Increases PFRS disability, accidental death and special retirement benefits.