Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Ronald S. Dancer
Sponsored
Became law1
Clarifies documentary requirement for distinguished service medal for individual who died while on active duty.
Out of committee1
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
In committee7
Requires public bodies to allow public comment at every meeting.
Authorizes extension of local employee health care waiver program to county employees.
Excludes from taxation income from certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation purposes.
Extends for five additional years use of special appraisal method when acquiring certain lands for open space or farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes the "Veterans Home Health Care Demonstration Program"; appropriates $1 million.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects. *
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
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. *
Creates "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program" for certain students under care and custody of DYFS.
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.
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. *
Passed the General Assembly · 9
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification 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 · 24
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
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 $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11,118,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Establishes publicity program for senior and disabled citizens property tax freeze reimbursement program.
Directs DYFS to fingerprint and photograph certain children under its supervision. *
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
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.
Appropriates $14,548,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Exempts from the sales and use tax sales made at concession stands located in State-owned veterans' homes.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
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 $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 $38,445,876 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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 · 16
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires State reimbursement to municipalities of cost of disabled veterans' total property tax exemption.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Requires Medicaid program to increase reimbursement for ambulance services provided to Medicaid recipients who are also Medicare eligible to Medicare rate.
Clarifies the deductibility of certain state taxes from entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Increases eligibility for Senior Gold program.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Limits the payment of transportation costs for homeless students.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.