Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Michael Patrick Carroll
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Prohibits production of key based on motor vehicle identification number alone without certain identification. *
In committee33
Regulates use of human embryos fertilized in vitro.
Indexes for inflation taxable income brackets and capital gains under the gross income tax.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who allow their employees to telecommute.
Revises procedures for securing a permit to carry a handgun.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Prohibits Medicaid funding for abortifacients.
Designates New Jersey as "Bill of Rights State" on license plates.
Changes date of school board members election, special school elections and election of fire district commissioners to general election; establishes separate presidential primary in February; eliminates school budget elections.
Allows for a gross income tax deduction for any honorably discharged member of the US Armed Forces, reserve unit or national guard.
Dedesignates portions of Route 24.
Prohibits human cloning.
Provides for a presumption of joint physical custody in a child custody determination; addresses relocation.
Repeals grandparents visitation statute.
Makes certain bilingual education programs optional for a board of education.
Prohibits public and certain private affirmative action programs based upon race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin.
"The New Jersey Scouts Honor Act of 2000."
Prohibits discriminatory rental practices of government funded premises.
Concerns municipal rent control ordinances.
Clarifies definition of "a place of public accommodation" under the Law Against Discrimination.
Changes way electors for President and Vice President of the United States are selected in State.
Requires naturalized U.S. citizens to provide certain information on voter registration form.
Amends definition of "freshwater wetland" to exclude man-made swales, canals, ruts and drainage ditches.
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Prohibits alternate members of planning boards from voting on applications for variance relief in lieu of disqualified Class I or Class III members.
Provides special license plates for Purple Heart recipients.
Eliminates entitlement to workers' compensation cash benefits during imprisonment.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for sale of principal residence.
Allows Governor to appoint poet laureate who will serve at pleasure of Governor.
Requires principals and teachers of public schools to conduct an oral recitation before the opening of each school day.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention; appropriates $15 million.
Provides immunity against "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" suits.
Restores the phase-out of corporation business taxes on the regular income of subchapter S corporations.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits production of key based on motor vehicle identification number alone without certain identification. **
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Designates Morristown Memorial Hospital as the State's specialty acute care children's hospital for Morris and Union counties.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Concerns disbursement of certain funds in real estate transactions.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
Passed the General Assembly · 4
Requires the licensing of bail recovery agents as private detectives. *
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Establishes that traffic fine overpayments of $5 or less do not have to be refunded.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 10
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Directs HMFA to require shower rails in senior rental projects. **
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
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.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 35
Requires the Director of the Division of Taxation to establish a gross income tax payment system by credit card or debit card.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Directs Secretary of State to establish toll-free telephone service to facilitate contacting of Executive Branch State agencies.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Expands definition of antique cannon to include replicas.
Changes earliest date of construction or rehabilitation of housing granted credits without controls.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Reduces sales and use tax rate from 6% to 5.5% on July 1, 1999 and to 5% on July 1, 2001.
Bars imposition of sanctions imposed personally on elected officials on grounds arising out of votes cast in furtherance of the duties of their office.
Eliminates mandatory county appropriation of amount certified by county college board of school estimate.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Authorizes local government units to construct locally funded public indoor recreation facilities on certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Establishes special license plates to fund certain programs for pregnant women.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
The "Dam, Lake, Stream, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Allows hunters, anglers, and trappers to cover over or mask Social Security Numbers displayed on hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.