Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Nia H. Gill Esq.
Sponsored
Became law2
Concerns witness fees in workers' compensation cases.
Establishes organic certification program in Department of Agriculture.
Out of committee2
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act." *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
In committee44
Prohibits the sale, importation, possession and carrying of handguns except by certain authorized persons.
Establishes central registry of domestic violence orders for use in evaluating firearm permit applications.
Prohibits hospital from denying admission or services to patient based on patient's HMO coverage, and requires HMO's to cover legitimate emergency health care.
Prohibits discrimination with respect to prices charged by sellers of services.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to DCED and EDA assistance.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Requires payment of minimum wage under public contracts.
Makes the cloning of a human being a crime of the first degree and provides that an individual's genetic information is the property of the individual.
Upgrades the crime of contempt of an order entered under the "Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991" to a crime of the third degree.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Increases minimum wage.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Clarifies law enforcement officers' immunity from liability for injuries arising out of motor vehicle pursuits.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Abolishes the death penalty in New Jersey.
Excludes certain income from consideration for PAAD eligibility.
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Requires health insurers and State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder under same conditions as other sickness.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Permits a mortgagor to cancel private mortgage insurance under certain circumstances.
Provides consumer protection with respect to electronic fund transfers.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans from, and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings, under the gross income tax.
Provides 5% workers' compensation premium reductions for employers who permit workplace inspections by insurers.
Increases workers' compensation benefits for dependents.
Concerns attorney's fees in workers' compensation cases.
Establishes Workers' Compensation Review Commission.
Increases certain workers' compensation benefits.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to award grants to certain school districts which are implementing a desegregation plan.
Makes certain promoting prostitution crimes subject to sentencing provisions of "No Early Release Act."
Consolidates nonpartisan municipal election procedures in Title 19 of Revised Statutes.
Prohibits certain provisions in employment contracts.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Creates New Jersey State Council on the Arts Donation Fund and provides for deduction from gross income of donations to fund.
Establishes the Administrative Law Judges Retirement System.
Concerns certain set aside contract requirements.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Directs BPU to provide for continuation of electrical service for certain residential customers during periods of excessive heat. **
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. *
Requires Superintendent to prepare list of State Police employment titles, positions and qualifications; thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
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.
Allows certain beneficiaries of certain deceased retirees to receive retirement allowance.
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutor's offices.
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use transported remains of victims of September 11, 2001 from World Trade Center in a memorial.
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Clarifies various provisions of law establishing the State's "no telemarketing call list."
Passed the Senate · 7
Provides that only citizens or persons authorized to work in the US pursuant to federal law may be employed in performing certain State contracts. *
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. *
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. *
Authorizes exemption of certain alternative electrical energy systems from real property taxation. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Out of committee · 27
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Provides for annual cost-of-living increase in amount of Lifeline Credit and Tenants' Lifeline Assistance payment.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers. *
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Requires erection of fire barriers in certain cocklofts. **
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order. *
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Requires employer notification to employees if health benefits coverage is terminated.
Creates study commission on the death penalty. *
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.*
"Public Health Preparedness Act." *
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examinations. *
Concerns offenses related to unlawful use of personal identifying information.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Establishes "Grandparenting Resource Center Pilot Program"; appropriates $1,500,000.
Allows qualified UEZ municipalilites to include UEZ funding assistance in order to be eligible for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Revises receivership statutes.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in Department of Community Affairs.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Increases membership of the State Board of Mortuary Science of New Jersey.
Requires State institutions of higher education and associated hospitals or medical facilities to obtain legislative approval of any name change.
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. *
Revises procedures for issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
In committee · 34
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; appropriates $2 million.
Allows credit against gross income tax liability for dependent care expenses or a heightened credit for the expenses of child care provided by a nationally accredited child care center.
Provides credit against corporation business tax for taxpayers supporting child care facilities for employees.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Allows gross income tax exclusion of $3,500 of interest and dividends.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for breast cancer screening.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Establishes the State Public Safety Wireless Communications Coordinating Council; appropriates $500,000.
Provides employment credit for military service for board of education employees.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Requires bidder for State contract to enter into agreement with minority or female business when set-aside subcontract required.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts from the New Jersey transfer inheritance tax transfers from decedents who died as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
Allows reduced sales tax rate for sales of motor vehicles in certain urban enterprise zones and UEZ-impacted business districts.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Increases State supplementary payment for residential health care facilities.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act."
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.