Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
David C. Russo
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Prohibits use of smokeless tobacco in public schools.
Out of committee2
Amends "Landscape Irrigation Contractor Certification Act of 1991."
Validates certain marriages solemnized by persons who were not authorized to solemnize marriages.
In committee26
Creates "gun free" school areas.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from permitting direct solicitation of students for credit card accounts.
Establishes Institute of Law and Mental Health; appropriates $95,000.
Authorizes capitalization of income as primary appraisal method for assessment of county or municipally owned watershed lands.
Upgrades disorderly persons offense of shoplifting under certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $3 million from General Fund for Election Law Enforcement.
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the Governor's School of New Jersey.
Permits county improvement authorities to acquire property to be sold to low and moderate income households.
Appropriates $1 million to Department of State for Ramapo College of New Jersey to create Center for International Education and Entrepreneurship.
Requires nursing homes to permit use of electronic monitoring devices at request of resident.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Creates 12 additional Superior Court judgeships; establishes a Special Business Part in the Superior Court; provides for appropriations.
Allows workers compensation judges with nine years, six months of service to work up to six months beyond mandatory retirement age.
Authorizes Boy Scouts license plate.
Authorizes municipalities to prohibit retail sale of firearms within 1,000 feet of public or private school.
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Provides for appointment of not more than three alternate members to board of commissioners of municipally owned public golf course.
Requires certain persons to check drivers for license possession.
Increases penalties for motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.
Establishes a Special Medical Malpractice Part in the Superior Court.
Expands and clarifies law concerning crimes with bail restriction.
Establishes a Business Part in the Superior Court.
Eliminates punitive damages and assessments of attorneys' fees against public entities, and against public officers, employees and servants acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Requires individuals delivering voter registration forms to sign affidavit; requires Attorney General to submit reports on progress of Help America Vote Act.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Validates certain marriages solemnized by persons who were not authorized to solemnize marriages.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Revises procedures for issuance of bail bonds in this State.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
"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.
Vetoed · 1
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002." *
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 13
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Revises statutes concerning computer crime.
Grants PFRS membership for certain Division of Parks and Forestry titles; allows current DEP employees in titles to transfer from PERS to PFRS.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
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.
Provides victim of sexual assault with opportunity to consult with prosecutor on plea negotiations.
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.
In committee · 39
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Appropriates $5 million to the Judiciary for substance abuse programs for persons on probation.
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.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Establishes the Administrative Law Judges Retirement System.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
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 payment in lieu of taxes to municipality when State college or university purchases property for use as student residence.
Reorganizes NJSPCA and county societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
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.
Modifies escheat law for bank accounts.
Authorizes weights and measures officers to issue a complaint and summons.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Allows Governor to appoint poet laureate who will serve at pleasure of Governor.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Authorizes issuance of $400,000,000 in general obligation bonds for various Department of Human Services purposes; appropriates $5,000.
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002."
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.
Directs the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct an environmental impact study and traffic management and impact study.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees.
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Authorizes public-private partnerships for design, construction and operation of cogeneration facilities.
Provides emergency management personnel with legal counsel and special compensation under certain circumstances.
Limits political contributions by certain government contractors; revises disclosure standards applicable to State officials; expands disclosure for lobbyists; prohibits certain types of dual office holding.
Expands the authority of fire fighting, police, emergency medical, and emergency management departments, forces, squads, or other units to provide assistance outside their normal territorial jurisdictions.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.