Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Samuel D. Thompson
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in licensed health care facilities.
Lowers age of consent for minors to donate blood without parental permission to 17.
Out of committee1
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
In committee44
Provides immunity from liability for certain recreational activities and from injuries caused by acts of God.
Prohibits pharmacists from disclosing certain information concerning prescription purchases for use in commercial solicitations unless authorized by consumers.
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Authorizes DMV to offer a red heart-shaped identifying symbol on personalized license plates.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Allows property taxpayers an additional year to file tax appeal after revaluation.
Includes auxiliary police officers in Emergency Services Length of Service Award Program.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Establishes that passenger vehicles other than police vehicles have a useful life of five years and allows local units to bond for such vehicles.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program" and appropriates $3,000,000.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Modifies composition of the State Employment and Training Commission.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4.4 million to DLPS for purchase and distribution of thermal imaging cameras for local police services.
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Provides additional fair share housing credit to municipalities in substantial compliance with terms of substantive certification for period beginning in 2000.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Establishes a hospital accounting management system and appropriates $2 million to DHSS.
Concerns basic skills training.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests for disabled veterans.
Establishes 5-year "Breast Cancer Screening Grant Fund Program" in DHSS; appropriates $3.8 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund each year for 5 years.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Exempts sales of returnable plastic containers and pallets from sales and use tax.
Excludes gratuities from calculation of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance premiums for limousine or livery services.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime.
Requires insurers and State health benefits programs to cover costs of AIDS vaccine.
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment districts in certain municipalities.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Requires health insurers to cover treatment ordered by health care provider for covered person based on generally accepted standards of health care practice, subject to appeal; creates Carrier Appeals Program.
Permits law enforcement personnel to examine account records of E-ZPass customers when theft of a transponder has been reported.
Dedicates $20 million annually in realty transfer fee revenues to pay for development, improvement, and repair of State parks, forests, recreation areas, historic sites, natural areas and fish and wildlife areas.
Requires interactive computer services to disable access to images, information, or data which depicts child engaged in prohibited sexual act.
Appropriates $13,708,385 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," federal funds, and 1978 Green Acres bond fund, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for "urban aid" and other local government open space acquisition an
Concerns medical malpractice procedures and liability.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
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 Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
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. **
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.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
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.
Regulates certain electronic mail solicitations.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technoloy initiative State aid for nonpublic school students. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 22
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Appropriates $13,708,385 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," federal funds, and 1978 Green Acres bond fund, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for "urban aid" and other local government open space acquisition an
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.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Reconstitutes membership of NJ Racing Commission and requires 4 of 9 commissioners to be owners or trainers of thoroughbred or standardbred horses.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
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.
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants 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 · 63
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Appropriates $204,514 to AOC for a Juvenile Central Registry.
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Exempts physicians who exceed speed limit while responding to emergency calls from penalties.
Supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Jewish Renaissance Foundation for Perth Amboy Medical Health Care Center.
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 black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
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.
"Parkway Barrier Toll Removal Act."
Extends veterans' property tax exemption to tenant shareholders in cooperatives and mutual housing corporations.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Establishes an Office of Child Advocacy.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Prohibits discrimination in the sale of malt alcoholic beverages by certain breweries to licensed wholesalers in the State.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Appropriates $13.3 million to the DEP for Clean Communities grants.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Requires criminal history record background checks for health care professionals as condition of initial licensure.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing.
Appropriates $4 million to AOC to reduce juvenile probation officer caseloads.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Provides immunity for certain nonprofit health care clinics that provide free services and creates volunteer physican license.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Modifies various laws in regard to medical malpractice liability.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Authorizes issuance of $400,000,000 in general obligation bonds for various Department of Human Services purposes; appropriates $5,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
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 Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Prescribes duties of drivers approaching police vehicle stopped along roadway and displaying flashing red light.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.