Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Ronald L. Rice
Sponsored
Became law6
Directs NJHMFA to transfer up to $25 million in unencumbered reserves to the State for housing and related purposes.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; and provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Changes certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs. *
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Concerns local housing authority crime reporting.
Provides that certain obligations are eligible collateral under the "Governmental Unit Protection Act."
Passed the Senate2
Requires business entities receiving State funds for housing construction to grant preference to local business entities and local building contractors in purchases of goods, services, supplies or equipment.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Out of committee14
Provides annual utility cost relief for persons using certain medical equipment at home.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Belleville Township for Police Department - Community Court Program. *
Directs NJHMFA to transfer up to $25 million in unencumbered reserves to the State for housing-related programs.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Provides a gross income tax deduction for certain water supply and sewerage charges.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
Supplemental appropriation to DCA of $29,432,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts. *
Provides separate standards for handicapped access in public buildings versus multi-family dwellings.
Allows a gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers for capital improvements made to a principal residence.
Establishes DCA oversight of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners and certain public authorities. *
Provides certain physical facility requirements for congregate housing.
Requires posting and distribution of rights of residents in congregate housing facilities.
In committee57
Suspends during certain State fiscal years the statutory dedications of State realty transfer fee revenues and temporarily cancels the direction to suspend that State revenue source.
Provides schedule for certification of teachers in licensed child care centers serving Abbott preschool students.
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001.
Establishes November 1 as the uniform age requirement for enrollment in a public school kindergarten program.
Specifies certain requirements for approval of a charter school application.
Establishes a three-year moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund grant to Belleville, in Essex County, to fund budget shortfall.
Prohibits charter schools from being located on the property of a mental hospital or psychiatric facility.
Requires charter school board of trustee members to undergo criminal background checks and mandatory training.
Requires charter schools to appoint a certified school business administrator.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; appropriates $2 million.
Permits certain special law enforcement officers to carry firearms at all times when in State.
Requires local business office of telecommunication company to be located in northern, central and southern region of State.
Exempts members of New Jersey Legislature from jury duty.
Allows certain licensed check cashers to continue to operate within 2,500 feet of existing check cashers.
Permits the sealing of certain criminal records.
Prohibits an employee or official of hospitals affiliated with UMDNJ from serving on its board of trustees.
The "Scrap Tire Management Act."
Increases monthly benefit payments for Work First New Jersey; appropriates $43 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $10.6 million to DHS for the NJ FamilyCare program.
The " Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance and Preservation Act."
Establishes the position of Inspector General for State-operated school districts.
Prohibits appointing authority from conducting credit check on job applicant unless approved by Merit System Board.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to annually review certain records of fraternity and sorority incidents of violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Requires professional domestic violence counseling upon finding of domestic violence or upon conviction for a domestic violence offense.
Establishes the "Senior Citizen and Person with a Disability Protection Act;" imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment.
Requires performance audit on Sports and Exposition Authority and creates "Sports and Exposition Authority Fair Employment Commission."
Concerns project labor agreements with certain labor organizations in connection with public works contract.
Prohibits certain disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Establishes a working group in the DOE to develop an approach to returning State-operated school districts to local control.
Raises age requirement of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 years old.
Enacts the "Insurance Disclosure Act."
Requires the appointment of the president of UMDNJ to the board of trustees of an affiliated hospital under certain conditions.
Permits municipalities hosting UEZs to establish set-aside programs favoring local businesses for construction projects using State funds.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Allows emergency medical technicians to transfer to and enroll in PFRS.
Extends transition period of State-operated school district superintendent from one to three years upon reestablishment of local control.
Increases penalties for illegally posted signs; specifies that local units are entitled to certain fine moneys.
Permits reduction of motor vehicle penalty points even if driver has license suspension for certain offenses in last 12 months.
Supplemental appropriation of $99,000 to DCA for a grant to Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey for funding Community Building Support Initiative.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Reduces from five to three years aggregate period of regular employment as full-time law enforcement officer prior to disability retirement required for retired law enforcement officers to carry firearms.
Permits certain housing nonprofits to join together with other local units in joint insurance funds.
Concerns the reporting to law enforcement agencies of certain alleged firearm and weapons violations of public school pupils.
Allows certain undocumented aliens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education.
Increases sales and use tax from 6% to 7%; dedicates increased revenues to certain purposes.
Requires school district to sell, lease or demolish district property that has been abandoned for six months.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Prohibits participating providers from charging HMO enrollees certain fees and establishes penalties therefor.
Designates the State agencies to be involved in the selection of school renaissance zones.
Clarifies role of community providers in early childhood education in the Abbott districts and specifies certain goals and services for that education.
Authorizes Secretary of State to establish NJ Black Cultural and Heritage Initiative Foundation.
Revises the definition of community provider and clarifies scope of community early childhood education facilities projects.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.
The "New Jersey School Improvement Accountability Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Directs HMFA to require shower rails in senior rental projects. *
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Increases membership of Drug Utilization Review Board to include two advanced practice nurses.
Passed the Senate · 5
Requires State forensic laboratories to be accredited.
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Establishes certain minimum Green Acres funding requirements for urban aid municipalities and densely populated counties under Garden State Preservation Trust Act. *
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA for a grant to ASPIRA. *
Authorizes double fine for third conviction for same violation of municipal ordinance. *
Out of committee · 15
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Provides economic impact aid to municipalities where State inmate population exceeds 75 percent of municipal population.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Requires payment to municipality for use of municipal services by for-profit lessee of property owned by county or county improvement authority.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Provides that marriage license applications and marriage licenses shall not contain information on race.
Makes various changes to tenant security deposit laws.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Revises receivership statutes.
Requires that owners of age-restricted multiple dwellings notify municipal emergency management coordinator of certain utility disruptions and prepare and maintain annual emergency evacuation plans.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. *
In committee · 25
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Permits certain municipalities to provide five years of revaluation relief abatements and revises restriction on Newark's use of payroll and parking tax revenue.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Prohibits use of territory in formulating automobile insurance rates.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Makes various changes to local cap law; brings fire districts under spending limitations.
Applies prevailing wage requirement to certain custom fabrication.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Imposes $1 per night hotel room surcharge to fund performing and creative arts.
Establishes "Governor's Advisory Council on Home and Community-Based Care."
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Revises notification process for suspending license for failure to pay parking ticket.
Doubles fine for third conviction for same violation of municipal ordinance.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
The "Responsible Pit Bull Ownership Licensing Act"; authorizes municipalities to require a license for a person to own, keep or harbor a pit bull.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.