Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Reed Gusciora
Sponsored
Became law12
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. *
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline food stamp application form.
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Concerns indirect costs for the remediation of contaminated sites. *
Makes changes in the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances.
Revises law concerning Council on Developmental Disabilities to conform with federal law.
Adds two members to Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force.
Requires DEP to replace Standard Industrial Classification System with North American Industrial Classification System.
Authorizes funding for NJRA brownfield projects from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Imposes an outdoor advertising fee. ***
Vetoed1
Requires parents to secure certain children in restraint system or booster seat when riding in limousines. *
Passed the General Assembly10
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Requires the AG to develop guidelines for matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation. *
Prohibits certain telephone solicitors from blocking caller identification equipment.
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Concerns employee personnel files.
Prohibits sale of certain printers or printer devices with disabling computer mechanisms. *
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Permits disqualification of bidder under "Local Public contracts Law" with whom any contracting unit has had prior negative experience.
Out of committee19
Requires certain counties to establish County Airport Expansion Citizen Review Boards.
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.
Authorizes municipalities in certain counties to impose up to 3% tax on hotel, motel and established guest house room charges.
Revises lifeguard pension benefits.
Permits certain sheriff officers to enforce weight limits on certain trucks. **
Establishes protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under open space acquisition program. *
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan; appropriates $1.5 million from "Water Supply Fund" therefor.
Clarifies that a court may require the posting of full cash bail in cases involving serious crimes.
Revises laws concerning siting of low-level radioactive waste disposal facility; repeals parts of the statutory law.
Permits certain persons convicted of welfare fraud to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Addresses cellular telephone retailers, distributors and manufacturers providing voluntary "take-back" programs and recycling and reuse programs for cellular telephones; directs DEP Commissioner to establish task force examining these issues. *
Makes owner of residential rental premises criminally liable for consequences of certain housing violations.
Supplements Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission compact.
Restricts sales of automotive refinish coatings to licensed auto body repair facilities.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
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. *
Requires DEP Commissioner to establish list of environmentally responsible companies and recognition and grant program for certain exemplary companies; requires companies on list to be considered lowest bidder under certain circumstances. *
In committee81
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.
Allows certain State employee disciplinary matters to be submitted to binding arbitration.
Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality.
Requires new police officers to receive First Responder-D training.
Establishes program in advanced airway care for emergency medical technicians.
Requires certain tax-exempt institutions to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt institutional facilities and are enrolled in the district.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Authorizes conveyance of certain NJ National Guard property in Mercer county to Princeton township for public recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes Historic Trenton license plates.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims 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.
Authorizes adoption of timed-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Includes emergency contraceptives in protocols for sexual assault victims.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $700,000 to the College of New Jersey to renovate the WiIliam Green Farmhouse.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Requires DOT to provide traffic information through its website.
Allows gross income tax deduction for 50% of contributions of $100 or more to domestic violence shelters.
Prohibits heavy trucks or truck-trailer combinations on certain county roads.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Directs NJ Transit to study expansion of Princeton area passenger rail service; allocates $250,000.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles at weigh stations.
Creates grant program for nonprofit animal welfare organizations; appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits sale and distribution of matches and lighters to persons under 18 years of age.
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.
Provides additional PERS death benefit coverage.
Provides for purchase of certain out-of-state service credit in TPAF.
Authorizes Commissioner of Transportation to extend current ban on large trucks outside of National Network to 96-inch wide trucks.
Prohibits sale and possession of certain handguns commonly called "Saturday Night Specials."
Authorizes use of photo radar devices for enforcement purposes on certain local streets.
Establishes environmental standards for the sale of electricity.
Requires local decision to revoke liquor license be accorded great weight in appeal proceeding.
Prohibits BPU regulation of certain district heating and cooling systems.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain State employees who retire between April 1, 2002 and July 1, 2002.
Requires written agreements between manufacturers and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages.
Provides for legislative review and approval of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Establishes "Police Officer, Firefighter and Public School Teacher Home-buyer Assistance Act."
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Establishes Task Force on the Oversight of Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled.
Requires each board of education to offer instruction in comprehensive family life education.
Grants Pinelands Commission enforcement powers, establishes Pinelands Conservation Fund, and establishes Pinelands Enforcement Advisory Committee.
Permits certain persons convicted of crime or offense involving moral turpitude to assume office or employment in municipality operating under provisions of "Optional Municipal Charter Law."
Requires Attorney General to investigate security at Mercer County Corrections Center.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Provides that only citizens or legal residents of the United States may be employed in performing of certain State contracts.
Provides for Special Purple Heart license plates.
Creates Vehicles for the Future Study Commission.
Enhances penalties for illegally operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.
Limits disclosure of customer information by financial institutions to nonaffiliated third parties.
Prohibits taking of horseshoe crabs.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Provides State purchasing preference to fuel cell-powered equipment.
Permits municipalities to require bond from residential rental landlords in certain circumstances.
Provides for the purchase and use of recycled materials in public work.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of certain fuel cell-powered motor vehicles.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Provides for payment of standby water service under Condo Services Law.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examinations.
Establishes pilot program in Department of Law and Public Safety using infrared sensors to facilitate roadside truck safety inspections.
Adds option of receipt of employee's contributions plus portion of employer contributions when vested PERS member leaves PERS-covered service.
Exempts biodiesel from motor fuels tax.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain public employees having combination of State and local government employment.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Provides exemption from cleanup liability at Superfund sites to certain persons.
Makes certain DLPS employees who were formerly prosecutors members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Prohibits product testing with traditional animal test methods if federally recommended alternative test method exists, with certain exceptions; and provides for injunctive relief for violations.
Enacts the "New Jersey Parentage Act of 2003."
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Requires the approval of the Legislature for the elimination of the core curriculum content standards for world languages; and directs the State Board of Education to require the completion of 10 credits in world languages for a State-endorsed high schoo
Requires removal by developer of snow from streets and roads in new subdivisions under certain circumstances.
Allows holders of provisional licenses to carry three passengers when driving to or from school or after school extracurricular activity on school grounds.
Expands membership and revises authority of Fish and Game Council.
Requires nonpublic schools to establish procedures for the maintenance of, and access to, pupil records and authorizes parental review of tests.
Carried from the Senate
Became law6
Clarifies that a court may require the posting of full cash bail in cases involving serious crimes.
Establishes protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under open space acquisition program. *
Requires municipal court to find dog potentially dangerous under certain circumstances.
Revises laws concerning siting of low-level radioactive waste disposal facility; repeals parts of the statutory law.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
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 vehicle. ***
Co-sponsored
Became law · 56
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Prohibits imposition by water utilities of standby fees or charges for certain fire protection systems. ***
Permits certain persons aged 16 or 17 to be appointed to district boards of elections in certain circumstances.
Encourages the recycling and reuse of used computers.
Allows problem gamblers to request placement on Racing Commission's list for self-excluded persons.
Permits board of education to disqualify low bidder if any school district or the EDA in certain cases has had prior negative experience with the bidder. *
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.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Designates main office building of DOT as "David J. Goldberg Transportation Building."
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain State employees and employees of certain State autonomous authorities. *
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Restricts surgical debarking or silencing of dogs.
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.**
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
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. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations. **
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Provides for computation of New Jersey estate tax either in accord with the federal estate tax as of December 31, 2001 or a simplified method prescribed by Director of the Division of Taxation. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Requires public employers to deduct a representation fee in lieu of dues in certain circumstances.
Criminalizes desecration of human remains.
Creates "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program" for certain students under care and custody of DYFS.
Protects certain helping dogs from discrimination.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
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.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Adds two members chosen by public employees' labor organizations to State Health Benefits Commission.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations, and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county, county college, and municipal employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Permits use of reclaimed asphalt pavement on public highways maintained by local governments. *
Permits use of reclaimed asphalt pavement on public highways maintained by DOT and on the State's three toll roads.*
Revises law concerning possession and release into the environment of certain animals.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Requires DHS to consider character of staff of adoption agencies as condition of approval to operate.*
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
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. **
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. *
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. *
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Enhances the New Jersey Business Employment Incentive Program for targeted economic development and provides funding for incentives through New Jersey Economic Development Authority bonds.
Imposes a State hotel and motel occupancy fee; authorizes a municipal hotel and motel occupancy tax by certain municipalities.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 48
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. *
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Provides for access to certain energy customer information by appropriate parties for municipal aggregation.
Makes theft of E-ZPass transponder a fourth degree crime. *
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Prohibits managed care carriers providing prescription drug coverage from requiring covered persons to purchase prescription drugs that are in form of double-dose tablets or pills.
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Prohibits municipalities from using State funds for installation, purchase, replacement or restoration of boardwalks using tropical wood.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Prohibits delivery of unsolicitated credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize State services.
Concerns certain contracts to privatize county services.
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.
Prohibits harvest, landing, processing or sale of wild sargassum in NJ.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Changes the composition of public college and university governing boards to include two student representatives.
Imposes penalties for violations of renewable energy standards by electricity providers.
Expresses additional rationale for existing statutory prohibition of self-service dispensing of motor fuel at service stations.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Requires ownership label or notice on ATMs.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Changes in-service training requirement for licensed foster parents.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the minimum wage.
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act." *
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Establishes certain requirements for sale of "E-Z Pass" transponders to nonresidents.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Prohibits sale or lease of unsafe or recalled children's products and their use by licensed child care facilities. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes U.S. citizenship or lawful residence and State residency as requirement for purchasing firearm in New Jersey.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Clarifies definition of illegal gambling to address Internet gambling; voids credit card debt incurred through illegal gambling; authorizes State to recover illegal gambling losses. *
Requires employer notifications to workers regarding temporary disability benefits.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 54
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance. *
Provides consumer protection with respect to electronic fund transfers.
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Provides for receipt for voter at primary or general election; allows receipt to be proof of eligibility to vote in subsequent election; provides State reimbursement. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey-Local Open Space Acquisition.
Provides temporary local budget cap exceptions and school district budget cap adjustments for certain insurance costs and security and public safety costs. *
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Authorizes municipalities situated in regional growth areas within Pinelands Area to adopt timed growth ordinances under certain circumstances.
Prohibits possession of tobacco in a public place and its purchase by persons under 18. *
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 acquisition an
Appropriates $11.295 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central 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.
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.*
Appropriates $11,118,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program. *
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Provides certain reemployed PFRS retirees with choice concerning PFRS membership.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Designated as the Senior Property Tax Freeze Protection Act; extends annual deadline for filing application for homestead property tax reimbursement to June 1. *
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. *
Directs BPU to provide for continuation of electrical service for certain residential customers during sustained periods of excessive heat.
Provides SHBP coverage for certain services by marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers. *
Reconstitutes membership of NJ Racing Commission and requires 4 of 9 commissioners to be owners or trainers of thoroughbred or standardbred horses.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates. *
Requires the Delaware River and Bay Authority to hold hearings prior to increasing tolls, charges or fares, requires submission of yearly reports, declares authority records to be public and requires a limit on authority expenses.
Requires DEP to classify reservoirs as category one waters.
Regulates certain entities as Health Care Service Firms.*
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.
Requires building permit for work done pursuant to a home repair financing contract under certain circumstances.
Provides for notification to pregnant women about mercury health advisories in consumption of fish. *
Permits human stem cell research in New Jersey.
The "School Integrated Pest Management Act".
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Requires DEP to find transport and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls contaminated material in coastal zone as inconsistent with State's coastal management program.
Provides that State contract involving purchase of intellectual property will include escrow agreement.
Revises law governing operation of Trenton War Memorial to allow State to present and promote programs.
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
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.
"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. *
Provides criteria to be used by DEP when determining if certain wetlands are part of surface water tributary system.
Requires notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of automobile insurance policies to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Prohibits DEP from granting any exemptions from the requirement of registration for any proposed solid waste collection activity, solid waste facility or solid waste disposal operation.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
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.
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
In committee · 118
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Expands FamilyCare Health Coverage Program to cover single adults and couples without dependent children with incomes up to 133% of poverty level.
Grants paid leave for certain firefighters who are affiliates of certain Black or Hispanic firefighters' associations to attend State or national conventions.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Limits operation of personal watercraft in coastal wetlands.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Provides family leave insurance.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Permits person with criminal record to obtain certain employment if disqualifying offense was committed more than 10 years ago.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Repeals prohibition against "negative check-off" fees on public institution of higher education tuition bills.
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.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Establishes employment separation incentive program for certain Camden employees.
Upgrades crime of stalking when victim is 16 years old or less.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Establishes "Virtual Medical Monitoring Service Pilot Program" in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
"The New Jersey Electronic Voting Machine Act"; requires use of electronic voting machines in elections.
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.
Clarifies legislative intent with respect to use of certain monies included in the FY 2002 appropriations act.
Provides for additional annual State aid for the Capital City under the Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid program; appropriates $15 million for this purpose and $2.9 million for additional special municipal aid for Trenton.
Provides State in lieu aid to municipalities for certain tax-exempt group homes.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
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.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Directs DOT to reimburse local police departments for certain costs.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2001-2002 school year.
Designated the "Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act."
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Waives registration fees for personal vehicles of volunteer firefighters.
Requires annual audited financial reports of insurance companies.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
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.
Imposes civil penalty for the exhibition or use in a performance of a living bear, elephant, lion or tiger.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Repeals law relating to transportation development districts and provides for establishment of transportation enhancement districts.
Revises laws restricting operation of personal watercraft and permits local police enforcement.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Provides for the reduction of employee contribution rates when employer contribution rates are reduced in State-administered retirement systems.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Extends long-term foster care until the age of 21.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Creates E-ZPass "Bill of Rights."
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Requires that Port Authority of NY & NJ notify vehicle owner within 30 days of alleged electronic toll system violation.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA; appropriates $348,000.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing.
Requires insurers and State health benefits programs to cover costs of AIDS vaccine.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain motor vehicles certified under Phase II of the California Low Emissions Vehicle program.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Establishes special environmental crimes prosecutor.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Defines municipal powers to remove graffiti from buildings.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Requires that 10% of State portion of Work First New Jersey emergency assistance funding be used to pay for development of low-income rental housing.
Permits certain funds to be spent on temporary emergency housing; appropriates $1 million to DCA rental assistance program.
Establishes Fuel Cell Research Center at Rutgers; appropriates $500,000.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses.
Eliminates mandatory license suspension for nonpayment of insurance surcharge; authorizes payment options.
Directs State Police to develop hand alert for children to signal they are in danger.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Establishes ballast water management program.
Excludes certain contributions to deferred compensation plans from, and provides deduction for certain individual retirement savings under, the gross income tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Provides State extended UI benefits, and utilizes option for federal extended UI benefits.
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Provides for the protection of certain publicly-owned archeological sites and findings, and establishes penalties.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
"New Jersey Water Supply Infrastructure Act."
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
Requires installation of protective fencing along certain overpasses.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Provides for assessment, at municipal option, of additional realty transfer fee of $0.75 for each $500 of consideration or fractional part thereof recited in the deed in excess of $150,000, and provides for proceeds therefrom to be used for municipal ope
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Provides for enrollment in PERS of certain employees of the City of Newark.
Concerns employment status of minors with respect to workers' compensation.