Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Robert W. Singer
Sponsored
Became law8
Directs BPU to provide for continuation of electrical service for certain residential customers during periods of excessive heat. **
Requires certain background checks for assisted living residence administrators and applicants for certificate of need.
Regulates certain entities as Health Care Service Firms. *
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Directs DYFS to fingerprint and photograph certain children under its supervision. *
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
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.
Passed the Senate3
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Eliminates requirement for informed consent for health care or emergency worker exposure to bloodborne pathogens in certain circumstances.
Out of committee15
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in State supplementary payments to SSI recipients.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Increases applicants' annual minimum allocation of transferable tax benefits under the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program.
Requires criminal history record background checks for health care professionals as condition of initial licensure.
Concerns eligibility of certain standardbred horses for Sire Stakes Program.
Revises eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes expansion of certain nonconforming uses under the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Eliminates informed consent requirement for law enforcement officer, firefighter or person providing emergency management services for exposure to bloodborne pathogens in certain circumstances. *
Affords tax exemption for portions of certain tax-exempt buildings used for exempt purposes by exempt entities; subjects portions of certain tax-exempt buildings to property taxation if leased to profit-making entity or used for nonexempt purposes.
Supplemental appropriation of $7 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Clarifies documentary requirement for distinguished service medal for individual who died while on active duty.
Provides that practice of polysomnography shall not be considered practice of respiratory care.
In committee70
Mandates training of school bus drivers.
Authorizes special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
"Patient Access to Eye Care Act."
Directs Ocean County Soil Conservation District to conduct soil health study; appropriates $1.5 million.
Revises certain requirements regarding the certification of animal control officers.
Grants to probation officers certain powers of enforcement and authority to carry firearms subject to Supreme Court rule; appropriates $3 million to Judiciary.
Requires health insurers to establish guidelines for bone density tests and provide coverage in accordance with the guidelines.
Provides for licensure of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Provides Corporation Business Tax credit for use of treated effluent in industrial facilities.
The Death Tax Elimination Act; repeals the transfer inheritance tax.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Allows surviving spouses who remarry to continue to receive PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits.
Provides minimum retirement benefit to TPAF and PERS members with 20 or more years of service.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement to assisted living providers.
Requires each board of education to employ a certain number of substance awareness coordinators.
Supplemental appropriation of $18 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission to benefit horsemen.
Allows certain surviving spouses to receive a PERS retirement allowance.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DLPS for grant to Chesterfield Township for the purchase of three police patrol vehicles.
Requires candidates for teaching certificates beginning in 2002-2003 school year to receive training in special education.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Permits Mobile Intensive Care Unit providers to transport patients to healthcare facilities.
Supplemental appropriation of $13,650,000 to DLPS for local police video camera and audio recording equipment grants.
"Free Market Automobile Insurance Act."
Establishes Community Partners for Neighbors in Need program in DHSS; appropriates $3.5 million.
Establishes a not-for-profit corporation to facilitate the Office of Recovery and Victim Assistance in providing aid and assistance to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Permits certain TPAF veteran retirees to receive paid health benefits under State Health Benefits Program.
Provides that certain special education treatment options or teaching methods shall be discontinued.
Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians.
Provides special education State aid for certain nonpublic school students.
Revises the calculation of State aid for school facilities projects.
Eliminates certain requirement applicable to members of a volunteer fire company, first aid, or rescue squad who receive postsecondary education tuition credits and requires the State to pay the costs.
Provides employment credit for military service for board of education employees.
Requires certain information to be printed on invoices and delivery tickets for liquefied petroleum gas.
The "Small Planned Real Estate Development Consumer Protection Act."
"County Corrections Officers Act."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax deductions for certain unreimbursed charges for medical services to hospital care payment assistance eligible patients.
Grants VCCB the authority to enforce crime victims' rights and to impose penalties for violations of those rights.
Provides that certain school districts will be accorded the same treatment and subject to the same requirements as Abbott districts.
Provides for the inclusion of district factor group A or B districts based on 2000 census data within the Abbott district definition.
Provides standards for professional guardians for elderly adults.
Supplemental appropriation of $17,302,599 for Extraordinary Needs Aid for certain school districts.
Revises statutes regarding physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Authorizes expansion of certain nonconforming uses under Municipal Land Use Law.
Extends eligibility for NJ Distinguished Service Medal to 25-year State residents.
Requires 60 days written notice of cancellation of certain insurance policies.
Makes certain clarifications to law authorizing criminal background checks of employees and volunteers of nonprofit youth serving organizations.
Requires injured parties covered by PIP to provide certain information to treating health care providers.
Requires blood alcohol testing for drivers in fatal accidents.
Increases from $300,000 to $1,000,000 the amount recoverable from certain guaranty funds on covered medical malpractice claims.
Amends guardianship law.
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Permits any full-time employee of school board to attend annual New Jersey Education Association convention without loss of pay.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare-eligible to Medicare rate.
Authorizes counties, municipalities and school districts to grant cost-of-living increases to certain retired veterans.
Revises laws concerning medical malpractice claims, procedures and liability insurance.
Extends eligibility for certain veterans' benefits to veterans who served in combat operations.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell certain surplus real property to the Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey.
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
Designates five State songs.
Protects law enforcement officers' addresses from being released by governmental entities.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program;" appropriates $1 million.
Limits the payment of transportation costs for homeless students.
Increases State supplementary payment for residential health care facilities.
Requires contract for sale of real property to include requirement for inspection of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors located on property.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires notice of intention to file a deed of quitclaim.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires motorcycle manufacturers and dealers to post onto motorcycles labels that disclose certain information.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
Provides for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance. *
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing. *
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits. *
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 municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
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 installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Establishes the Tax Lien Financing Corporation.
Passed the Senate · 13
Establishes the HOPE Scholarship Program Study Commission; appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes municipalities to provide free day care services to children of volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain qualified employees.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror. *
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act."
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP.
Authorizes digitized student identification program; appropriates $252,000.*
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of the global war on terror. *
Out of committee · 42
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies. *
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers. *
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Permits certain charities to renew registration by verification statement.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides for mandatory terms of imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor; amends murder statute; requires lifetime parole supervision for certain sex offenders. *
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination." *
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Provides economic impact aid to municipalities where State inmate population exceeds 75 percent of municipal population.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Permits the incorporation of ophthalmic dispensers and technicians.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Requires hepatitis B vaccinations for high school students and new full-time students at institutions of higher education. **
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Makes various changes to tenant security deposit laws.
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.
Establishes Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in Department of Community Affairs.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalities for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Mandates use of New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing.
Provides protections for insurance producers doing business with insurers transferring business to another company.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
Enacts new law to regulate and license pharmacists.
In committee · 79
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Provides consumers greater protection in the issuance of consumer credit reports.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; appropriates $2 million.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to establish guidelines for placement of defibrillators in State buildings.
Expands and clarifies law concerning crimes with bail restriction.
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.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Provides that EMT training of volunteer EMTs on paid squads and volunteer firefighters are eligible for reimbursement from EMT Training Fund.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes "The Project Exile and Operation Ceasefire Enforcement Act of 2000" to strengthen prosecution of firearms crimes; appropriates $5 million.
Eliminates automatic liens and removes financial liability for certain family members of patients in psychiatric facilities, developmental centers or receiving other residential functional service.
Prohibits State from utilizing State Plan in permitting and funding determinations.
Establishes State aid program to reimburse CAFRA municipalities for property tax revenue losses due to new CAFRA rules; appropriates $10 million.
Eliminates statute of limitations on prosecution on certain sexual offenses.
Eliminates statute of limitations in civil cases involving certain sexual offenses.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
Allows gross income tax credit for certain child care expenses.
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district maintaining a volunteer fire department.
Excludes income of school district residents who rank in the top 5% of income as reported on State Income Tax forms from calculation of district income for school aid purposes.
Permits counties and municipalities to collect fees and penalties for weights and measures regulations.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Establishes State rental assistance program patterned after federal section 8 program; appropriates $50 million.
Appropriate $3 million to NJ Agricultural Experiment Station for its "Millennium Agricultural Viability Initiative."
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Exempts certain sales to nonprofit homeowners' associations from sales and use tax.
Supplemental Appropriation of $25 million to DEP to fund grant to Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority for Brick Township Reservoir.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Establishes an environmental testing laboratory in the Department of Environmental Protection; appropriates $3 million.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Requires training for school bus drivers and aides involved in transporting handicapped pupils; directs Legislature to appropriate necessary funding.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Establishes "Interfaith Volunteer Caregiving Pilot Program" in DCA; appropriates $2.25 million.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $337,500 to DMAVA for personnel and equipment at the veterans memorial cemetery.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Eliminates immediately the rate reductions and rate caps of electric public utilities for provision of basic generation service.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for research in Ataxia Telangiectasia.
Clarifies legislative intent with respect to use of certain monies included in the FY 2002 appropriations act.
Prohibits assessment on certain municipalities for State Police patrol services.
Provides for removal of tolls from the Garden State Parkway and the assumption of outstanding bonded indebtedness of the New Jersey Highway Authority.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Enacts the Interstate compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Deletes language provision in FY 2003 annual appropriation act that delays State school aid payments and makes final aid payment at the option of the State Treasurer.
Designated the "Capital and Educational Facility Financing Act."
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.
"Law Enforcement Charitable Integrity Act."
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from estate recovery under Medicaid.
"New Jersey Automobile Insurance Competition and Choice Act."
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities, limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
Makes certain anti-competitive practices of certain cable television companies a violation of the "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Provides paid leave to certain public employees to serve on statutorily created bodies.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Excludes from taxation under Corporation Business Tax certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation.
Revises "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations prohibiting overcowding of animals in kennels, pet shops and other retail establishments; establishes penalties.
Prohibits the sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires removal of sodium azide from airbags prior to scrapping of vehicles.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes.
Revises current laws concerning ethics in State, county and municipal governments; requires greater disclosure by legislative agents and lobbyists; limits certain campaign contributions; prohibits nepotism; requires ethics training for legislators.