Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
John F. McKeon
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Allows certain county or municipal public park access parking lots to be used also for commuter parking under certain circumstances.
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. *
Makes various changes to tenant security deposit laws.
Removes the home address of cosmetologist-hairstylist from displayed license.
Revises law concerning possession and release into the environment of certain animals.
Passed the General Assembly1
Establishes premium assistance fund and task force concerning medical malpractice liability insurance.
Out of committee11
Prohibits tobacco and alcohol advertising within 500 feet of schools. *
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Clarifies commencement of taxability of portions of certain tax exempt buildings; continues tax exemption for portions of tax exempt buildings used for State mandated preschool and kindergarten purposes.
Permits police vehicles to use Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway without payment of tolls.
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
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.
Establishes registry of stroke cases in State.
Requires DEP to classify reservoirs as category one waters.
Clarifies that a power of attorney does not generally give the attorney-in-fact the authority to make gifts of the principal's property.
Provides criteria to be used by DEP when determining if certain wetlands are part of surface water tributary system.
In committee38
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to the Department of State for a grant to NJIT for the Smart Gun Technology Development Program.
Requires behind-the-wheel course for examination permit holders.
Eliminates one-week waiting period for workers' compensation.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHSS for grant to Jewish Community Centers Metro West.
Requires mandatory incarceration for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Requires health insurers and State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder under same conditions as other sickness.
Makes certain surviving spouses eligible for PFRS mortgage loan program.
Makes paid leave to attend police and firefighter conventions discretionary.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Establishes special environmental crimes prosecutor.
Increases certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans.
Authorizes certain municipalities to impose up to 6% tax on hotel room occupancy.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Holds parents civilly liable for damages from false fire alarms and bomb threats by their children and imposes mandatory penalties on juveniles who commit these acts.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHS for grant to Main St. Counseling Center.
Supplemental appropriation of $65,000 to DHS for grant to Noah's Ark Children's Association.
Establishes Fuel Cell Research Center at Rutgers; appropriates $500,000.
Raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
Establishes standard of review for excessiveness or inadequacy of jury awards in medical malpractice liability actions.
Upgrades penalties for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Prohibits discrimination by CATV companies against unaffiliated video programming vendors.
Revises procedure for withdrawal of property-casualty insurers from writing in this State.
Establishes 30-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Establishes standard of review for excessiveness of jury awards in medical malpractice liability actions.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Allows certain licensed check cashers to continue to operate within 2,500 feet of existing check cashers.
Increases veterans benefits for members and retirees of Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County.
Regulates teen nights by requiring security provided by police officers, prohibiting persons under age 15 from attending, and disqualifying registered sex offenders from employment.
Allows gross income tax deductions for contributions to, or purchases of credits from, a federally qualified tuition program.
Requires certain small municipalities to share services of certain licensed municipal professionals.
Permits graduated license fee schedule based on capacity for certain alcoholic beverage licenses.
Requires small school districts to share superintendents and school business administrators under certain circumstances.
Clarifies functions of land surveyor as distinguished from functions of licensed professional engineer.
Requires DCA to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furniture and furnishings purchased for use in residential premises and public buildings.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Clarifies that a power of attorney does not generally give the attorney-in-fact the authority to make gifts of the principal's property.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 33
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Prohibits use of cell phone while driving school bus.
Encourages the recycling and reuse of used computers.
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.
Requires DHSS to establish list of animal control officers found guilty of or liable for violating any animal cruelty law; and prohibits persons on that list from being animal control officers for a municipality. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations. **
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Authorizes certain exceptions to local public contracts law. *
Criminalizes desecration of human remains.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Mandates use of New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Requires DHS to consider character of staff of adoption agencies as condition of approval to operate.*
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Entitled "The Motor Vehicle Security and Customer Service Act."
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Adds two members to Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force.
Provides protections for insurance producers doing business with insurers transferring business to another company.
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
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 right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel motor vehicle lease without penalty.
Imposes a State hotel and motel occupancy fee; authorizes a municipal hotel and motel occupancy tax by certain municipalities.
"Domestic Partnership Act"; establishes domestic partnerships. *
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 22
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Prohibits certain telephone solicitors from blocking caller identification equipment.
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires child support to continue past the age of majority if the child has a mental or physical disability which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent.
Requires DHSS meningitis public awareness campaign to target pediatricians.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
"The Cellular Telephone Usage Disclosure Act."
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.
Establishes U.S. citizenship or lawful residence and State residency as requirement for purchasing firearm in New Jersey.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsements and requires the board to continue issuing endorsements for industrial arts. *
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.
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. *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition and fees to students who are spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 49
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Authorizes municipalities in certain counties to impose up to 3% tax on hotel, motel and established guest house room charges.
Prohibits the siting or construction of underground storage tanks within 100 yards of drinking water wells. *
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Provides that the school district of residence for a child in a foster home shall be the present district of residence of the parent or guardian.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
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 acquisition an
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Establishes confidential data base to assist State Police in issuance of firearms purchaser identification cards and handgun purchase permits.
Provides procedures for payment to out-of-network dentists when covered person receives payment directly from dental insurer. *
Concerns workers' compensation for occupational disease claims and workers' compensation benefits rates for surviving dependents.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Establishes protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under open space acquisition program. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Allows certain beneficiaries of certain deceased retirees to receive retirement allowance.
Prohibits serving water in restaurants unless specifically requested by patron.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Provides for disclosure of electronic fund transfer account information by a financial institution if permitted by federal law.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
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. *
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. *
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. *
Permits human stem cell research in New Jersey.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
Criminalizes fraudulent solicitation and collection of funds on behalf of charities.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Permits school pupils to self-administer medication for certain medical conditions. **
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. *
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
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.
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 vehicles. *
Requires notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of automobile insurance policies to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Requires Commissioner of Education to grant an equivalency or waiver under certain conditions.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
In committee · 36
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Permits certain self-employed individuals to purchase small employer health benefits plans.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Reallocates $675,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding within Division of Developmental Disabilities to provide grant to Arc of Essex county and Arc of Bergen-Passaic counties.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Appropriates $500,000 to South Orange for firehouse renovation.
Requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Provides that only citizens or legal residents of the United States may be employed in performing of certain State contracts.
Requires candidates for initial teaching certificates to undergo criminal history record check.
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.
Prohibits excessive rate increases in medical malpractice liability insurance premiums.
Reduces statute of limitiations for medical malpractice liability actions to three years; limits minor's filing to minor's 6th birthday.
"New Jersey Patient Safety Act"; makes self-critical analysis by health care facility privileged information.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Provides State purchasing preference to fuel cell-powered equipment.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Provides for impoundment of uninsured motor vehicles under certain circumstances.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
"New Jersey Water Supply Infrastructure Act."
Provides for awarding of State contracts to multiple bidders under certain circumstances.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Concerns employment status of minors with respect to workers' compensation.
Filed · 1
Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning physicians, podiatrists and nurses they insure.