Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Gordon M. Johnson
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires certain towing operators to accept cash or credit or charge cards for payment of services.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Passed the General Assembly4
Permits municipalities to license and regulate self-service storage facilities and requires warnings against storage of hazardous materials on rental contracts.
Requires parolees to provide verified address as condition for release.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 7 years. *
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Out of committee4
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Enacts the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
In committee25
Grants paid leave of absence to representatives of New Jersey Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association to attend State or national conventions.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate.
Provides property tax relief to certain totally disabled veterans and provides for municipal reimbursement by State.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Clarifies authority of municipal court to issue subpoena directing release of certain information concerning subscriber of electronic communication or remote computing services.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Renames and expands scope of Commission on Racism, Racial Violence and Religious Violence.
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Requires candidates for initial teaching certificates to undergo criminal history record check.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the Office of the Attorney General within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Includes certain crimes of the third degree with crimes which have bail restrictions under P.L.1994, c.144; expands list of first and second degree crimes.
Requires pawnbrokers to provide photographs of persons pledging goods.
Establishes the Equity in Education Program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Requires sellers of residential real estate, including owners, to disclose to purchaser knowledge of termite damage to property.
Requires forfeiture of firearms by persons subject to final domestic violence restraining orders.
Upgrades criminal mischief under certain circumstances.
Requires Police Training Commission to develop basic training course for all law enforcement officers and advanced specialized courses applicable to position.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Concerns treatment of people with assistance dogs by NJTransit; establishes an ombudsman.
Authorizes DOC to contract with certain nonprofit corporations for sale of inmate manufactured goods.
Requires affidavit acknowledging that it is unlawful for auto body repair facility to inflate repair estimate to meet insurance deductible amount.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Provides for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 33
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Requires that home care services providers give advance information to patients about their employees' training.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Makes throwing bodily fluid at State juvenile facility employee or probation officer aggravated assault.
Requires employer prior notification to employees if health benefits coverage is terminated and insurer prior notification to employer of premium increase. *
Clarifies responsibility of county to pay burial costs of indigent, unidentified or unclaimed deceased persons.
"Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Criminalizes defrauding administration of a drug test. *
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Creates "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program" for certain students under care and custody of DYFS.
Modifies governance of Human Relations Council.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Empowers Federal Reserve law enforcement officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
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.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
"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.
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
Provides additional retirement benefits for county and municipal employees who are members of PFRS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
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. **
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide substantially same protections against discrimination as provided under "Federal Fair Housing Act."
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 36
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Requires racial and ethnic categories used in most recent federal decennial census be included on certain State forms. *
Makes theft of E-ZPass transponder a fourth degree crime. *
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires issuing agency to notify noncustodial parent's employer through National Medical Support Notice that child is required to be enrolled in parent's health benefits plan. **
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public. *
The "Raincheck Policy Disclosure Act."
Allows certain directors and superindendents of State's toll road authorities to waive tolls under certain conditions. *
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes post-polio sequelae public awareness campaign.
Makes it a fourth-degree crime to provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Establishes binding arbitration procedure for Port Authority police officers.
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." *
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.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities. *
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act."
Requires NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to notify and receive input from Hackensack Meadowlands District municipalities concerning certain Meadowlands complex projects.
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members on municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
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 · 47
Provides consumer protection with respect to electronic fund transfers.
Allows all persons on probation and parole to vote; provides registration assistance to persons on probation, parolees, and persons completing sentences. *
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. *
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Permits certain sheriff officers to enforce weight limits on certain trucks. **
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Establishes separate Superior Court adoption fee for subsidized adoptions.
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.
Provides certain reemployed PFRS retirees with choice concerning PFRS membership.
Permits police vehicles to use Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway without payment of tolls.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act. *
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
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. *
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates. *
Requires Commissioner of Education to award a reasonable attorney's fee to school district or parent or guardian under certain circumstances in domicile proceedings.*
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop.
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents. *
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
Provides that State contract involving purchase of intellectual property will include escrow agreement.
Prohibits advertisements on county and municipal police, first-aid, and fire vehicles.
Requires DHS to place persons as monitors in facilities for developmentally disabled under certain circumstances.
Directs Department of Personnel to establish pre-entry physical and psychological fitness standards for applicants for police training academies. **
Establishes the "Sexual Harassment Awareness and Respect for Everyone Fund" ("SHARE Fund") to support grants for sexual harassment training.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Permits court, upon request of prosecutor, to examine reliability of the obligor or person posting cash bail, relationship to defendant, value and sufficiency of security offered and whether funds used to post bail or secure bond were acquired lawfully.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
"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. *
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Permits certain emergency management volunteers to display blue emergency warning lights on vehicles.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Directs a study of sentencing reform for nonviolent drug and other low level offenders by UMDNJ.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
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Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Increases penalties for unauthorized access and damage to individuals' home computers or software.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Increases minimum wage.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Criminalizes depriving persons of their civil rights.
"New Jersey Online Privacy Protection Act."
Provides support for full-day kindergarten through the T&E budget.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $100,000.
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 "Survivors of the Shield" license plate for family members of law enforcement officers killed in line of duty.
Requires school principals report student offenses to law enforcement agencies.
Regulates rates for certain pay telephone calls.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires criminal history background checks on certain child care workers, strengthens sanctions imposed upon child care centers for certain violations.
Allows personal exemption of $1,000, and tax credit, up to $500, under New Jersey gross income tax for medical expenses for family member 65 years of age or older.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration standard for repeat drunk drivers.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Makes changes to the "Comprehensive Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act."
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
Provides PFRS accidental death benefit for policeman dying as result of accident or intentional act of another during member's attempt to prevent felony or apprehend felon.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Requires DEP to increase number of radiation protection inspectors and enter agreements with the federal government to regulate sources of radiation Statewide.
Designates the Department of Education Building as the "Matthew Feldman Building."
Allows certain county utilities authority employees to purchase up to 2 years PERS credit under certain circumstances.
Authorizes the use of $100,000 to recruit and train respite care providers to serve persons with developmental disabilities.
Amends Tort Claims Act to provide liability for damage caused by municipal sewer or water system under certain circumstances.
Abolishes certain transportation authorities operating toll roads and transfers their functions to Department of Transportation.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA; appropriates $348,000.
Creates PFRS deferred retirement option program (DROP).
Bars sex offenders from positions in youth serving organizations.
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
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."
Requires public bidding of projects in Hackensack Meadowlands.
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.
Authorizes proration of veterans' property tax deduction.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
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.
Directs DHSS to prepare and disseminate informational materials about prescription drug programs for senior citizens and disabled persons.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Provides that only citizens or legal residents of the United States may be employed in performing of certain State contracts.
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Limits the amount of the surety bond or credit guaranty for purchase by credit of cigarette tax stamps by distributors to one-half of the sales price of the stamps.
Prohibits use of credit information by property-casualty insurers in formulating underwriting rules.
Authorizes former mayors and deputy mayors to solemnize marriages.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Concerns delivery and taxation of tobacco products.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
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.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced NJ SAVER rebates and homestead rebates.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires licenses in business of firearms repair to obtain ballistics identifiers before returning a rifle or handgun to its owner.
Permits newborn screening tests by qualified private laboratories.
Removes prosecution of domestic violence-related criminal cases from jurisdiction of the municipal court; places these cases with the Superior Court.
Requires photographs on identification cards for health care professionals issued by professional licensing boards.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Clarifies that "entering " a public place for a drug deal is conduct included in C.2C:33-2.1.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Establishes pilot program for CDL training.
Requires certain change to school district teacher salary schedule under certain circumstances.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Prohibits siting of correctional facilities and treatment centers for sex offenders and sexually violent predators within one mile of any residential area.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Requires installation of locks on underground storage tanks located at gasoline stations.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Establishes New Jersey 2-1-1 Telephone System Task Force.
Prevents managed care plan from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager initiated by employer or carrier.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Requires adoption of model plan for county coordination of hazardous materials response.
Criminalizes impersonation of law enforcement officer.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Concerns employment status of minors with respect to workers' compensation.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires certain testing and medical examinations of home-schooled children.