Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Christopher J. Connors
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Authorizes extension of municipal employee health care waiver program to other coverage.
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
In committee27
Establishes "Seniors Helping Seniors Who are Blind or Visually Impaired Demonstration Program" in DHS; appropriates $360,000.
Allows gross income tax filers to designate contributions to VetGroup, Inc. for services for veterans.
Authorizes special license plate for distinguished service medal recipients.
Regulates power vessels in certain environmentally sensitive areas.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Requires that chiropractors and physicians be reimbursed at same rate under various health and accident plans.
Requires permanent driver's license suspension for third drunk driving offense.
Provides immunity from civil liability for persons performing animal rescue and authorizes formation of emergency animal rescue response units.
Revises computation of accidental death benefit payable to beneficiaries of certain members of SPRS killed in line of duty.
Directs Commissioner of Transportation to use monies from Transportation Trust Fund for certain projects.
Authorizes free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses and State park admission for persons with certain types of military service.
Authorizes Naval combat service license plate.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Increases senior citizen stabilization aid to $500 and makes certain regional districts eligible for senior citizen stabilization aid.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Eliminates compulsory liability and no-fault automobile insurance; reinstates financial responsibility laws; applies doctrine of contributory negligence in motor vehicle accidents; permits file and use of rates.
Promotes polling place accessibility for certain individuals; appropriates $150,000.
Establishes the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in the DEP and appropriates $200,000.
Establishes State security officer program to augment security at State's nuclear power plants; levies $1 surcharge on traffic fines for funding.
Adds commissioner from the Board of Commissioners of Pilotage in the Division of Coastal Resources, DEP to the Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group.
Allows prosecutorial authorities to obtain information from toll collection monitoring systems and photo-monitoring systems under certain circumstances.
Allows municipalities to provide free or reduced fee beach badges to active military and NJ National Guard personnel.
Clarifies that punitive damages may not be awarded against public entities or public employees acting within the scope of their employment in any action.
Revises law governing emergency services volunteer length of service award programs.
Repeals "Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Requires removal of sodium azide from airbags prior to scrapping of vehicles.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Authorizes extension of municipal employee health care waiver program to other coverage.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Increases loan to value amount permitted under mortgage guaranty insurance.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 13
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Designated as the Senior Property Tax Freeze Protection Act; extends annual deadline for filing application for homestead property tax reimbursement to June 1. *
Requires that signs be posted on certain roads and highways memorializing victims of alcohol-impaired drivers.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Authorizes nuclear plant guards to possess certain firearms and ammunition. *
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 $16,042,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $3,000,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 81
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Provides for the reduction of the per pupil expenditure of certain constituent municipalities of regional school districts.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes "Small Downtown Business Incentive Program."
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Increases SPRS cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Requires State park and forest restroom facilities to include an exclusive family restroom.
Authorizes special Distinguished Flying Cross license plates.
Provides for special Bronze Star license plates.
Provides a gross income tax deduction from the State gross income tax for donations of certain environmentally sensitive or undeveloped lands, or an interest therein, to the State of New Jersey.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not unauthorized aliens.
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Increases minimum amount of PFRS ordinary disability retirement allowance from 40% to 50% of average final compensation.
Creates new penalty for convictions or juvenile adjudications of arson; establishes Arson Investigation Fund.
Establishes the Public School Educational Funding Commission.
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement.
Allows judgment for restitution of stolen public funds to be levied against convicted employee's pension contributions.
Excludes certain illegal aliens from workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Eliminates the New Jersey inheritance tax and repeals chapters 33 through 37 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes.
Imposes mandatory minimum terms of incarceration on juveniles who use guns to commit acts which, if committed by adults, would constitute serious crimes.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Exempts medical alarm equipment, services and telecommunications costs from the "Sales and Use Tax Act."
Directs State acquisition of Heritage Minerals tract in Ocean County for new State park.
Permits purchase of PFRS credit for certain pre-enrollment temporary service.
Creates the "School Tax Policy Funding Commission."
Increases income limits for Home Care Expansion Program; appropriates $8 million.
Establishes the "Unsolicited Telephone Sales Calls Act of 2000."
Concerns donations to certain charitable organizations.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of DYFS.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Authorizes nuclear plant guards to possess certain firearms and ammunition.
Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury; imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual conta
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires certification that persons directly or indirectly receiving State monies or privileges are not authorized aliens.
Enacts the "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001."
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Prohibits certain deceptive written advertising concerning merchandise offered with a guarantee.
Designated as the Senior Property Tax Freeze Protection Act; extends annual deadline for filing application for homestead property tax reimbursement to June 30th.
Provides additional retirement benefits for PERS and TPAF members employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Eliminates immediately the rate reductions and rate caps of electric public utilities for provision of basic generation service.
Authorizes BPU to allow electric public utilities to recover basic generation services transition costs over a term of not less than 20 years.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Increases SPRS "special" retirement benefit from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Increases penalties for driving while under the influence.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Extends supplemental workers' compensation benefits to workplace injuries and deaths occurring after December 31, 1979.
Directs DOE to provide to every public school a sign stating the national motto, "In God We Trust," and permits principals and teachers to display additional copies.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Prohibits employment at certain marine terminals of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Eliminates the industrial arts endorsement to the instructional certificate for public school teachers and replaces it with a technology education endorsement.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Requires the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, to operate a website concerning domestic security preparedness and response efforts.
Prohibits use of remote control technology in rail operations except when operated by certified locomotive engineer.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Prohibits additional jughandles on roads or highways in the State.
Abolishes the Victims of Crime Compensation Board and creates in its stead an Office of Victims' Services in, but not of, the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Establishes New Jersey Health Benefits Provider Network Study Commission.
Permits conversion of fines for violation of certain municipal ordinances into tax liens.
Requires local government notification of sex offender registration and prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, child care centers or playgrounds.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.