Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, in the General Assembly and then the Senate.
Paul A. Sarlo
General Assembly
Sponsored
Became law5
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Criminalizes desecration of human remains.
Requires Commissioner of Education to notify certain public officials upon receipt of an application for a charter school.
Empowers Federal Reserve law enforcement officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Passed the General Assembly3
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act." *
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Out of committee9
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.
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program. *
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Limits deductible to not more than $250 and copayment to 20 percent for automobile insurance basic medical expense benefits. *
Authorizes expansion of certain nonconforming uses under the Municipal Land Use Law.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Makes all fireworks subject to Explosives Act.
In committee7
Provides that charter schools may be established only in certain school districts and requires State to pay all tuition and transportation costs.
Provides for funding of rail line and station to Meadowlands Sports Complex and public-private operation of rail service.
Extends the initial inspections of new motor vehicles.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Requires value engineering clause in specifications for certain construction contracts under Local Public Contracts Law.
Provides for awarding of State contracts to multiple bidders under certain circumstances.
Appropriates $40,000 in FY2003 to East Rutherford Boro School District for a study skills program for at-risk pupils.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 48
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in licensed health care facilities.
Prohibits utilities from assessing late payment charges to certain customers and prohibits CATV companies from assessing late payment charges less than 30 days past due date of subscriber's bill. *
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 the establishment of athletic codes of conduct; requires anger management counseling prior to resuming attendance. *
Provides for voter registration at office of registrar of institutions of higher education.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act."
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires meningococcal vaccinations for new residential students at four-year institutions of higher education. *
Provides for an attachment order to freeze certain funds or assets relating to terrorism.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
"Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Authorizes temporary local budget relief for costs of certain employee benefit programs. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Clarifies that assessments for local improvements are continous lien on land from effective date ordinance or resolution authorizing assessment.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations. **
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Requires criminal history record background checks for health care professionals as condition of initial licensure.
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.
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.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Makes changes in the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Revises law concerning possession and release into the environment of certain animals.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Provides criminal penalties for unlawful solid waste disposal.
Revises procedures for issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Concerns certain tobacco product manufacturers.
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. **
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. *
Adds two members to Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force.
"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.
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.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Passed the General Assembly · 43
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Prohibits certain telephone solicitors from blocking caller identification equipment.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Requires local units and State legislators to be notified when local units within their legislative districts may be eligible for federal and State grants or benefits. *
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. *
Authorizes municipalities by resolution to bank Regional Efficiency Aid Program funds until such funds constitute one cent on the municipality's general tax rate.
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.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Permits NJ Transit Corporation to develop and fund programs for the coordination of public transportation service with ferry passenger service. **
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Requires school districts to establish plans for responding to emergencies and crises.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
Requires ownership label or notice on ATMs.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
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.
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Establishes certain requirements for sale of "E-Z Pass" transponders to nonresidents.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
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 that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Requires DHSS to report to Legislature on NJ EASE program.
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. *
Out of committee · 43
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance. *
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Requires sheriff's offices in each county to maintain statistics and file quarterly reports concerning service of child support orders and warrants. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Disqualifies certain persons from flight instruction; institutes background checks.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retire unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Concerns compensation for care and treatment of public safety workers exposed to communicable diseases.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Increases voluntary municipal pension to survivors of volunteer firefighters or first aid squad members and extends payment to widowers of such persons.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
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. *
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered children 18 years of age or younger.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Reconstitutes membership of NJ Racing Commission and requires 4 of 9 commissioners to be owners or trainers of thoroughbred or standardbred horses.
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutors' offices.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Permits thoroughbred breeder awards to owners and trainers of NJ-bred horses that win certain out-of State races.
Prohibits sale of products containing ephedrine alkaloids to minors under 18 years of age. *
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
Appropriates $40 million from Hazardous Discharge Fund of 1986 to Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for cleanup of contaminated sites; cancels previous appropriation; replaces canceled appropriation with $40 million from 1996 Environmental Cleanu
Releases certain purchasers of public property from reverter clause under certain circumstances.
Criminalizes fraudulent solicitation and collection of funds on behalf of charities.
Provides that State contract involving purchase of intellectual property will include escrow agreement.
"Pharmacy Quality Assurance and Error Prevention Act."
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Amends "Three Strikes" law to clarify that it applies to crimes committed on separate occasions regardless of the dates of conviction. *
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.
Requires financial services firms to adopt certain practices to protect against the occurrence of conflict of interest in work they perform for Division of Investment or State Investment Council.
Requires school districts to notify DYFS of certain pupil absences. *
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.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Requires Commissioner of Education to grant an equivalency or waiver under certain conditions.
In committee · 36
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for temporomandibular joint disorders and craniomandibular disorders under certain circumstances.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Designated the "Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA; appropriates $348,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Establishes "Governor's Advisory Council on Home and Community-Based Care."
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.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
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.
Renames and expands scope of Commission on Racism, Racial Violence and Religious Violence.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Requires small employer health benefits plans to provide unlimited coverage for home health care and private duty nursing.
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.
Authorizes "Fallen Firefighter" license plates; establishes scholarship program for children of fallen firefighters.
Prohibits use of credit information by property-casualty insurers in formulating underwriting rules.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Provides that the Commissioner of Education may not subsequently increase tentative per pupil tuition rate charged for disabled students enrolled in private schools for the disabled.
Establishes procedures to ensure compliance with the escrow fund requirements of certain cigarette and tobacco product manufacturers and establishes penalties for the violations thereof.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Provides State extended UI benefits, and utilizes option for federal extended UI benefits.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Provides for civil action against person committing act of cruelty against domestic companion animal.
Requires drug facilitated sexual assault warning notices to be posted in bars.
Creates crime of criminal negligent homicide, negligent assault with a firearm and reckless endangerment.
Filed · 1
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.
Senate
Sponsored
Became law3
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space aquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
In committee10
Requires written agreements between manufacturers and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages.
Provides that charter schools may be established only in certain school districts and requires State to pay all tuition and transportation costs.
Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products.
Upgrades penalties for certain assaults committed against employees of public utilities.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Appropriates $40,000 in FY2003 to East Rutherford Boro School District for a study skills program for at-risk pupils.
Requires county colleges to award college credits to firefighters for certain courses completed at county fire academies.
Requires DOT to conduct study of Personal Rapid Transit to alleviate congestion and supplement rail transportation options.
Allows New Jersey Meadowlands Commission to establish a transportation enhancement district and assess fees for transportation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
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.
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retire unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Prohibits sale of products containing ephedrine alkaloids to minors under 18 years of age. **
Appropriates $40 million from Hazardous Discharge Fund of 1986 to Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for cleanup of contaminated sites; cancels previous appropriation; replaces canceled appropriation with $40 million from 1996 Environmental Cleanu
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Reconstitutes membership of NJ Racing Commission and requires 4 of 9 commissioners to be owners or trainers of thoroughbred or standardbred horses. *
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. *
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutor's offices.
Amends "Three Strikes" law to clarify that it applies to crimes committed on separate occasions regardless of the dates of conviction.
Permits thoroughbred breeder awards to owners and trainers of NJ-bred horses that win certain out-of State races.
Criminalizes fraudulent solicitation and collection of funds on behalf of charities.
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.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
The "Dam, Lake, Stream, Flood Control, Water Resources, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000. *
Establishes the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy. *
Clarifies various provisions of law establishing the State's "no telemarketing call list."
Passed the Senate · 4
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate.
Requires identity check for flight instruction. *
Permits certain lights and horns on emergency services volunteers' vehicles.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of the global war on terror. *
Out of committee · 4
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. *
Revises procedures for issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act."
"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.
In committee · 13
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Requires DOT to ban right turn on red at unsafe intersections, erect signs at crosswalks and considers pedestrian safety when distributing discretionary aid.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $135,000 for FY2004 to the Department of Education to restore funding to FY2003 level for the Commission on Italian American Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Limits materials which may be used in storm drains, sewer systems, and water retention and detention systems to noncombustible materials.
Appropriates $2,000,000 to DEP for flood control projects on the Saddle River.
Authorizes funding for flood control projects under the Shore Protection Fund.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Clarifies obligation of cemeteries to hold consumer prepayments for cemetery services in trust accounts.
Limits hours of service of drivers of commercial motor vehicles engaged in intrastate transportation of construction materials or equipment.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.