Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Loretta Weinberg
Sponsored
Became law17
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Prohibits insurers from discriminating against insureds on the basis of domestic violence.
Requires that home care services providers give advance information to patients about their employees' training.
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination."
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Requires employer prior notification to employees if health benefits coverage is terminated and insurer prior notification to employer of premium increase. *
Clarifies responsibility of county to pay burial costs of indigent, unidentified or unclaimed deceased persons.
Provides that marriage license applications and marriage licenses shall not contain information on race.
Clarifies the exemption from advertising of annual extensions of pupil transportation contracts.
Increases the cigarette tax by 70 cents per pack. *
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Concerns certain tobacco product manufacturers.
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present.
Establishes New Jersey Obesity Prevention Task Force.
Establishes "Hospital Care Payment Commission" and "NJ Hospital Care Payment Fund" for collection of certain hospital bad debts.
"Domestic Partnership Act"; establishes domestic partnerships. *
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide substantially same protections against discrimination as provided under "Federal Fair Housing Act."
Passed the General Assembly25
Requires issuing agency to notify noncustodial parent's employer through National Medical Support Notice that child is required to be enrolled in parent's health benefits plan. **
Requires certificate of approval for home infusion therapy providers.
Requires child support to continue past the age of majority if the child has a mental or physical disability which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent.
Requires bidder for State contract to enter into agreement with minority or female business when set-aside subcontract required.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
The "Raincheck Policy Disclosure Act."
Permits certain licensed individuals, when advertising, to use their legal names, maiden names or nicknames under certain circumstances.
Allows certain directors and superindendents of State's toll road authorities to waive tolls under certain conditions. *
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
Establishes post-polio sequelae public awareness campaign.
Establishes binding arbitration procedure for Port Authority police officers.
Provides in-network benefits to patient with disability for services provided by out-of-network provider under certain circumstance.
Requires N.J. Firemen's Association to pay death benefits to members employed as law enforcement officers who die in terrorist attack.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities. *
Establishes voluntary Statewide physician joint purchasing alliance.
Provides same force and effect in NJ for adoptions of children born and adopted in foreign countries as for adoptions in other states.
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act."
Requires NJ Sports and Exposition Authority to notify and receive input from Hackensack Meadowlands District municipalities concerning certain Meadowlands complex projects.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission." *
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members on municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
Establishes voluntary Statewide joint purchasing alliance for persons covered by individual health benefits plans.
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Requires sheriff's offices in each county to maintain statistics and file quarterly reports concerning service of child support orders and warrants. *
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
Provides procedures for payment to out-of-network dentists when covered person receives payment directly from dental insurer. *
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Establishes separate Superior Court adoption fee for subsidized adoptions.
Urges New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority reserves to fund hospital charity care.
Concerns calculation of Second Injury Fund surcharges.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Makes certain physicans subject to inspection of their offices by DHSS. *
Requires DHS to place persons as monitors in facilities for developmentally disabled under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "Sexual Harassment Awareness and Respect for Everyone Fund" ("SHARE Fund") to support grants for sexual harassment training.
Clarifies duty of the AG to defend certain State employees in cases of sexual harassment.
Provides for certification of emergency medical technicians to administer glucagon and for administration of glucagon to certain school pupils.
"New Jersey Medical Service Corps Act."
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
Revises definition of destructive device to include weapons of 50 caliber or greater.
In committee80
Prohibits solicitation or acceptance of political contributions on public property; certain uses of campaign contributor information; and certain uses of information about persons doing business with public entities.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Designated the "Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act."
Increases contribution limit by counties and municipalities to volunteer first aid, ambulance and rescue squads.
Codifies New Jersey Supreme Court ruling concerning divorced parents' obligation to pay for children's post high-school education expenses under certain circumstances.
Requires criminal history background checks on certain child care workers, strengthens sanctions imposed upon child care centers for certain violations.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Allows personal exemption of $1,000, and tax credit, up to $500, under New Jersey gross income tax for medical expenses for family member 65 years of age or older.
Requires insurers to cover costs of treating cystic fibrosis.
Establishes open enrollment period for enrollees of insolvent health maintenance organization.
Modifies blood alcohol concentration standard for repeat drunk drivers.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
"Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2000."
Requires firearms identification cards display color photo; mandates firearms safety training for first-time applicants.
Gives contractual preferences to gun manufacturers which have pledged to adopt and implement certain manufacturing, firearms design and market practices that will foster firearms safety.
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DHSS.
Permits municipality to retroactively refund veteran's property taxes paid inadvertently.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for breast cancer screening.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Requires presumptive eligibility process for NJ FamilyCare Program.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursement to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Reduces minimum population necessary to receive public health priority funding to 20,000.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Provides PFRS accidental death benefit for policeman dying as result of accident or intentional act of another during member's attempt to prevent felony or apprehend felon.
Requires board of education to unseal and announce contents of bids for certain subcontracting only at regularly scheduled, public meetings of the board.
Appropriates $300,000 for grants to organizations providing services to crime victims and witnesses.
Requires DEP to increase number of radiation protection inspectors and enter agreements with the federal government to regulate sources of radiation Statewide.
Designates the Department of Education Building as the "Matthew Feldman Building."
Allows certain county utilities authority employees to purchase up to 2 years PERS credit under certain circumstances.
Requires public hearing by the Attorney General regarding conversion of certain nonprofit corporations under certain circumstances.
Authorizes the use of $100,000 to recruit and train respite care providers to serve persons with developmental disabilities.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Creates the Office on Women's Research and Policy and appropriates $150,000.
Amends Tort Claims Act to provide liability for damage caused by municipal sewer or water system under certain circumstances.
Abolishes certain transportation authorities operating toll roads and transfers their functions to Department of Transportation.
Appropriates $350,000 for New Bridge Landing Historical Site.
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Establishes "Governor's Advisory Council on Home and Community-Based Care."
Requires public bidding of projects in Hackensack Meadowlands.
Directs DHSS to prepare and disseminate informational materials about prescription drug programs for senior citizens and disabled persons.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Authorizes referenda by municipalities to permit sales on Sundays.
Limits the amount of the surety bond or credit guaranty for purchase by credit of cigarette tax stamps by distributors to one-half of the sales price of the stamps.
Establishes procedures to ensure compliance with the escrow fund requirements of certain cigarette and tobacco product manufacturers and establishes penalties for the violations thereof.
Concerns delivery and taxation of tobacco products.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced NJ SAVER rebates and homestead rebates.
Requires licenses in business of firearms repair to obtain ballistics identifiers before returning a rifle or handgun to its owner.
Permits newborn screening tests by qualified private laboratories.
Removes prosecution of domestic violence-related criminal cases from jurisdiction of the municipal court; places these cases with the Superior Court.
Requires DYFS caseworker to notify Division of Family Development and Medicaid if child or child's parent, legal guardian or caretaker relative cannot be located during child abuse investigation.
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file reports with ELEC.
Prohibits certain legislative offices and staff members from mailing or distributing mass political communications during legislative election years.
Requires disclosure of certain financial and other information by issue advocacy organizations using certain candidate information in advertisement.
Requires local public, educational, and governmental access channels and New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority to provide free airtime for legislative candidates.
Doubles penalties for violating campaign contribution and expenditure limits and renumeration restrictions.
Prohibits solicitation of political contributions on State property.
Requires ELEC to review its Internet site for format and content; imposes one-time assessment on legislative agents for ELEC Internet upgrade; makes an appropriation.
Expands campaign communications required to feature identification to include telephone calls made in regard to candidates and public questions.
Prohibits campaign contributions by certain business entities performing certain State or county contracts.
Establishes pilot program for CDL training.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits to businesses providing employment to qualified handicapped persons at sheltered workshops.
Concerns sex discrimination in wage payment.
Amends State's guardianship law.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Prohibits certain terminal leave compensation for local elected officials.
Increases the cigarette tax by 65 cents per pack; redirects additional $140 million annually to health related programs and $25,000,000 to smoking cessation programs beginning in FY 2004.
Requires repayment of terminal leave sick and longevity compensation upon reemployment with State or local government.
"The Dunphy Family's Law"; establishes "ALS Research Fund."
"Patient Safety Act"; establishes medical error reporting system and provides "Good Samaritan" protections to certain health care professionals.
Appropriates $170,000 from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to DHSS to develop Palliative Care Network for Children and Youth.
Establishes Physician Regulation Study Commission and requires Board of Medical Examiners to take certain actions.
"Cigarette Sales Act; " facilitates collection of taxes on retail sales of cigarettes shipped from outside this State.
Expands duties performed by advanced practice nurses.
Permits physician assistants to prescribe controlled dangerous substances.
Makes total property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans retroactive to effective date of determination of total disability; requires State to reimburse municipalities for reimbursement of property taxes paid to veteran.
Requires North Jersey District Water Supply Commission maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes and Governor authority to remove commissioner for cause.
Requires the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners maintain minutes of meetings; provides Governor veto over minutes.
Prohibits awarding of certain municipal professional services contracts to members of the Legislature.
Requires certain testing and medical examinations of home-schooled children.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Concerns calculation of Second Injury Fund surcharges.
Uses New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority reserves to fund hospital charity care.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Provides procedures for payment to out-of-network dentists when covered person receives payment directly from dental insurer. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Lowers age of consent for minors to donate blood without parental permission to 17.
Permits public comment at meetings of municipal governing body.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Requires hepatitis B vaccinations for high school students and new full-time students at institutions of higher education.**
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Creates "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program" for certain students under care and custody of DYFS.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Modifies governance of Human Relations Council.
Establishes Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in Department of Community Affairs.
Requires DHS to consider character of staff of adoption agencies as condition of approval to operate.*
Makes it an unlawful practice for retailers to sell or install motor vehicle window tinting without first informing customer of State restrictions.
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.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. *
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 29
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation. *
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. *
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer information theft.
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts and higher education institutions.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process.
Authorizes counties to increase the number of appointed board members on county vocational school district boards of education.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Establishes premium assistance fund and task force concerning medical malpractice liability insurance.
Out of committee · 44
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance. *
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Establishes local option mortgage assistance program for police officers and firefighters.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
"New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act." *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.*
Concerns workers' compensation for occupational disease claims and workers' compensation benefits rates for surviving dependents.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Enacts the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school. *
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Establishes registry of stroke cases in State.
Validates certain marriages solemnized by persons who were not authorized to solemnize marriages.
Establishes the Jewish Heritage Trail Study Commission.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
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.
Permits human stem cell research in New Jersey.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents. *
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Establishes the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.
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.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger. *
Requires DEP to implement California Low Emission Vehicle program beginning on January 1, 2009 under certain circumstances; establishes review commission; and establishes incentive for purchase or lease of zero emission vehicles. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires DHSS to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures for physicians and facilities concerning women with bleeding disorders.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
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Requires State to pay for administrative costs of general public assistance administered by municipalities.
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Requires DHS to provide functional services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Resource Center Demonstration program;" appropriates $750,000.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to prepare an annual report on campus sexual assaults.
Establishes assessment and treatment services program in DHS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires confidentiality of location of domestic violence shelters; imposes civil penalty for knowing disclosure.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Repeals limit on increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $14 million.
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.
Establishes the Excellence in Nursing Scholarship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
"Job Destruction Penalty Act."
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Provides family disability leave.
Provides family leave insurance.
Increases physician fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement rates; appropriates $7 million in State funds and $7 million in federal funds.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Extends deadline for filing of tax appeals in certain circumstances.
Prohibits lobbyists or legislative agents from providing benefits to legislators, staff and legislative candidates and prohibits those officials from accepting such benefits.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DHS for Social Services for the Homeless grant program and $2 million to DMVA to assist homeless veterans.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Requires municipal master plans under Municipal Land Use Law to be consistent with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Establishes the Commission on After-School Programs in DHS; appropriates $100,000.
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.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Supplemental appropriation of $4,000,000 to Division of Fire Safety in DCA to fund local firefighters' training and programs and division salaries.
Supplemental appropriation of $35 million to DHSS for charity care payments to hold harmless certain hospitals for FY2001 reductions in estimated allocations.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Increases penalties for possession of a weapon during drug offenses.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
"Nursing Student Incentive Loan and Loan Redemption Program Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Dedicates use of tobacco settlement monies for certain health-related purposes and appropriates $40 million in State funds and $40 million in federal funds to increase Medicaid inpatient reimbursement rates.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires that DMV suspension and revocation notices be given by certified mail.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Establishes Rail Transit Vital Site Preservation and Reservation Fund; appropriates $30,000,000.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Requires insurers to notify employees if health coverage is terminated.
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Requires dissemination of certain information about certain health care providers to the public.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Allows an adopted person 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate and other related information.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $180,600 to DHSS for a grant to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey, Inc.-The Family Life Institute.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Authorizes the New Jersey State Board of Mediation to recognize representatives for certain employees by card-check and other methods.
Requires e-mailed unsolicited advertising materials to meet certain requirements.
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer impersonation and electronic forgery.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Includes custom fabrication work under the prevailing wage act.
Establishes demonstration needle and syringe exchange program in DHSS
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour after leaving program.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Prohibits managed care plans from refusing payment to or contracts with health care providers who engage in certain communications with patients.
Designated the "Comprehensive Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Act;" appropriates $8 million.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing.
Requires insurers and State health benefits programs to cover costs of AIDS vaccine.
Requires health insurers to cover medically necessary expenses for preventing infertility in women undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Increases civil penalties for certain violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Requires health insurers and State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder under same conditions as other sickness.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Reallocates $675,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding within Division of Developmental Disabilities to provide grant to Arc of Essex county and Arc of Bergen-Passaic counties.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Supplemental appropriation of $690,000 to Division on Women in DCA to fund Grants to Displaced Homemaker Centers program.
Requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide rebates to Medicaid for lower drug prices in foreign countries.
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Establishes time limits on voluntary applications for out-of-home placement of children under DYFS' care or custody.
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Increases period of deferral for work activity requirements under the Work First New Jersey program for parent of newborn child from 12 to 24 weeks.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
"New Jersey Patient Safety Act"; makes self-critical analysis by health care facility privileged information.
Permits Legislature to void closing of State psychiatric hospital or developmental center.
Establishes mandatory participation in school breakfast programs.
Prohibits use of credit information by property-casualty insurers in formulating underwriting rules.
Requires written consent of person before any personal information reported to cancer registry can be disclosed by DHSS to certain agencies.
Establishes disaster needs and volunteer resources database program.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Requires training for staff working with persons with developmental disabilities; appropriates $2,104,740.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Requires State contractors to provide employment information.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Concerns medical malpractice liability and sets standards for expert witnesses; caps noneconomic damages; establishes prelitigation screening and mediation; modifies statute of limitations and joint liability; prohibits certain insurance rate increases.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Requires photographs on identification cards for health care professionals issued by professional licensing boards.
Requires restaurants using peanut products in food preparation to post signs stating that fact.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Permits a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Establishes the Equity in Education Program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Expands provisions of law requiring child-protection window guards in multiple dwellings.
Requires carriers to use chiropractor to make utilization management decisions concerning chiropractic services.
Requires affidavit acknowledging that it is unlawful for auto body repair facility to inflate repair estimate to meet insurance deductible amount.
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Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning physicians, podiatrists and nurses they insure.