Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Sean T. Kean
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Prohibits requiring school and county college employees to search for or handle explosive devices.
In committee40
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Provides PFRS accidental death benefit for member who dies as result of accident met in performance of off-duty law enforcement or firefighting action.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Establishes a loan and loan redemption program for teachers of mathematics and science.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Creates new motor vehicle offense of engaging in a pattern of aggressive driving.
Doubles amount of certain retirement income that may be excluded from gross income under the gross income tax.
Restricts practice of midwifery to State-licensed registered professional nurse.
Establishes public awareness campaign to reduce tobacco use among young women; appropriates $75,000.
Increases income eligibility limit for homestead property tax reimbursement program beginning in tax year 2002.
Requires adoption of emissions portfolio standard under certain conditions.
Directs DEP to establish risk assessment program for industry and improved monitoring of hazardous air pollutants Statewide.
Establishes special license plates to fund juvenile diabetes research and education.
Allows State poet laureate to be removed from position; changes manner of designation of poet laureate.
Provides State employees with four hours paid leave annually for health screening tests.
Provides a thermal imaging camera to each fire organization.
Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Scholarship Program.
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available to victims.
Provides volunteer EMTs, volunteer firefighters mileage reimbursement; makes appropriations.
Requires electric utilities to provide reduced rates to volunteer fire companies and volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squads.
Concerns sale or rental of video games rated for mature and adults only audiences.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
Concerns prompt handling of certain water damage claims by insurers.
Provides individual cause of action for unfair practices in the settlement of insurance claims and makes unfair practices subject to consumer fraud law.
Extends proportion of payment of sales tax revenues into UEZ assistance fund in those zones designated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.367.
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Increases permissible percentage of fair share housing obligation transferrable through regional contribution agreements.
Dedicates funding from national tobacco settlement to tobacco use prevention and cessation services.
Appropriates $10,600,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Requires public hearing and security report before establishing, relocating, or expanding juvenile boot camps.
Prohibits sale and possession of certain shields, badges and cards.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Prohibits conflict of interests by governing board members or management employees of homeowners' associations.
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Permits certain public employees to attend meetings of certain public bodies.
Renames the State Parole Board as the State Parole Commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects. *
Requires meningococcal vaccinations for new residential students at four-year institutions of higher education. *
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. *
Requires persons convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register under Megan's Law.
Requires persons convicted of manufacturing or selling child pornography to register under Megan's Law.
Establishes Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in Department of Community Affairs.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses; and increases penalty for certain repeat offenders.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Amends Megan's Law to comply with requirements of federal Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act.
Upgrades penalties for theft of identity and the selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting of false government documents; allows for civil action for victims of identity theft. *
"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.
Clarifies documentary requirement for distinguished service medal for individual who died while on active duty.
Establishes New Jersey Obesity Prevention Task Force.
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 12
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Requires N.J. Firemen's Association to pay death benefits to members employed as law enforcement officers who die in terrorist attack.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act." *
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires DHSS to send Senior Gold application to certain PAAD beneficiaries.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing." *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility. *
Out of committee · 33
Authorizes certain counties to increase the number of appointed board members on county vocational school district boards of education. *
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
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.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Upgrades offenses involving use of false government documents.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
Establishes publicity program for senior and disabled citizens property tax freeze reimbursement program.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Requires DEP to find transport and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls contaminated material in coastal zone as inconsistent with State's coastal management program.
Requires backup monitoring device or rear cross-view mirrors on certain commercial delivery vehicles.
Provides that disabled students at institutions of higher education are eligible for reasonable substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy. *
Disqualifies juvenile delinquents whose offenses involve use or possession of a weapon, explosive or destructive device from obtaining either a firearms purchaser identification card or a permit to purchase a handgun.
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting the display of American flag. *
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
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. *
Clarifies the crime of soliciting or providing material support or resources for terrorism.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide training in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
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.
In committee · 48
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of goods donated to certain governmental, charitable and public safety organizations.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Concerns subcontracting by public schools and higher education institutions.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Concerns employment rights of teaching staff at schools and programs subject to State takeovers.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Creates PFRS deferred retirement option program (DROP).
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Permits the establishment of sick leave banks for school employees.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Requires State responsibility for tuition costs for certain children whose parents reside in a State facility.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Authorizes digitized student identification program.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisionment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to the income eligiblity limit under the State earned income tax credit.
Establishes the Excellence in Teaching Scholarship Program and appropriates $500,000.
Establishes the National Board Certification Scholarship Program; appropriates $500,000.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $6,460,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for the Teacher Quality Mentoring Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
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.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Authorizes establishment of trusts providing for deferred distribution of funds for minor beneficiaries of persons who die without a will.
Provides four-year phase-in of boat safety course requirement for operating power vessels and personal watercraft; reinstates age requirements for power vessel operation and exceptions to course requirement; appropriates $2 million for enforcement.
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.
Provides that persons who participated in Nazi persecution shall be ineligible to receive State benefits.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Authorizes special Navy Seabee license plates.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
"New Jersey Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act."
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to the Department of State for a grant to Algonquin Arts.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Concerns telemarketing political calls.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.