Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Nicholas J. Sacco
Sponsored
Became law9
Requires backup monitoring device or rear cross-view mirrors on certain commercial delivery vehicles. *
Requires pharmacists, other providers of oxygen or oxygen delivery systems or patients to notify local fire department of existence of oxygen or oxygen delivery system in residential setting.
Requires landlords to maintain list of tenants for emergencies and clarifies that unit owners rather than common interest associations are required to file certificate of registration.
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.
Requires Department of Transportation to establish an emergency response priority control system study program. *
Allows UEZ municipalities to include certain marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance. *
Permits splitting any election district between two Congressional districts.
Removes requirement that elected officials in municipalities operating under commission form of government publish election and campaign expenses.
Abolishes New Jersey Highway Authority and transfers projects and functions to Turnpike Authority.
Passed the Senate1
Provides that instruction in world languages shall not be required in public schools during the 2002-2003 school year and specifies how instruction shall be provided in the following years. *
Out of committee7
Authorizes certain municipalities to establish safety requirements for certain bars and taverns.
Establishes September 11th memorial license plate to support scholarships for children of certain attack victims.
Authorizes appointment of two deputy municipal clerks in certain municipalities.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Entitled "The Motor Vehicle Security and Customer Service Act"*
Authorizes extension of rights of immunity and indemnification to entities participating in structured financing transactions.
Clarifies Motor Vehicle Commission's authority concerning certain licenses and permits.
In committee21
Makes prisoners responsible for their own support and maintenance and provides the State with a lien for the cost thereof.
Requires cross-acceptance of Hackensack Meadowlands Development District master plan.
Requires NJT to purchase alternative fuel vehicles.
Provides special license plates for clergy.
Authorizes school boards to adopt a drug testing policy of student athletes.
Eliminates motor vehicle registration fees for certain entities.
Requires changes in parking fees and police hiring policies to be approved by the Board of Commissioners of PA of NY and NJ and included in the minutes thereof.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Establishes housing requirements for certain sexually violent predators.
Provides Commissioner of Education access to State tax records of the relevant parties in the expedited proceedings contesting a board of education's removal of an ineligible student from the school district.
Requires DOT to provide traffic information through its website.
"Local Bridge Bond Act of 2001"; authorizes bonds for $250 million; appropriates $5,000.
Requires health insurance coverage for hair headpieces for patients receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout New Jersey Turnpike.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Provides for safety zones adjacent to railroad rights-of-way and restrictions on construction of crossings at-grade.
Requires certain elevators to be retrofitted with standardized elevator fire recall keys.
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
Requires that signs be posted on certain roads and highways memorializing victims of alcohol-impaired drivers.
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Permits use of Health Care Subsidy Fund for Medicaid expenses in FY2002; redirects $650,000,000 in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund; provides extended UI benefits. ***
Requires toll road authorities' towing & storage operators to inform motorists of towing fees; establishes penalties for non-compliance.
Requires buildings with elevators to either utilize standardized fire recall keys or have installed therein elevator fire recall key lock boxes. *
Changes loan rate and adjustment rate for retirement system established in first class city with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Permits local government units to issue refunding bonds to retire unfunded accrued liability resulting from early retirement benefits.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Authorizes nuclear plant guards to possess certain firearms and ammunition.
Reimburses certain urban enterprise zones for municipal account monies transferred to the General Fund during fiscal year 2003 and permits those zones to borrow from the enterprise zone assistance fund. *
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 acquistion and
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.
Appropriates $11.105 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Revises statutes concerning criminal history background checks; permits counties and municipalities to enact ordinance or resolution requesting background check for official governmental purpose. *
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space aquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populate
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space aquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $16,038,250 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $64 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Passed the Senate · 6
Requires identity check for flight instruction. *
Establishes pilot program in Department of Law and Public Safety using infrared sensors to facilitate roadside truck safety inspections.
Permits local construction code official to inspect traveling carnival-amusement rides.
Provides for notification to Public Defender of address of indigent defendant owing reimbursement for services rendered.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Establishes certain minimum Green Acres funding requirements for urban aid municipalities and densely populated counties under Garden State Preservation Trust Act. *
Out of committee · 15
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Requires inclusion of certain drugs in instructional programs on nature of drugs and repeals inoperative statutes.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and tracks having pedestrian traffic, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Requires law enforcement officers and DMV to notify U.S. Department of State when persons with diplomatic immunity are involved in certain traffic incidents.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Makes various changes to tenant security deposit laws.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Revises receivership statutes.
Provides non-forfeitable right to post-retirement medical benefits provided by law to certain public employees with 25 years of service.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
In committee · 13
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.
Permits municipal law enforcement officers to contract with nonprofit development corporations to provide private security services in certain cases.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Changes car and booster seat and seat belt requirements for certain children traveling in motor vehicles.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
"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.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district in certain municipalities.
Eliminates certain budget language which affects Bergen Regional Medical Center.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $135,000 for FY2004 to the Department of Education to restore funding to FY2003 level for the Commission on Italian American Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.