Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Alex DeCroce
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires law enforcement officers and DMV to notify U.S. Department of State when persons with diplomatic immunity are involved in certain traffic incidents.
Out of committee2
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct an emergency response priority control system pilot program.
Exempts election board work on election day from calculation of unemployment benefits.
In committee27
"Parkway Barrier Toll Removal Act."
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes.
Limits duration of construction permits under certain circumstances.
Requires driver's license suspension until age 21 for student who causes school disruption requiring make-up day.
Requires annual inspection of roads and bridges and authorizes remedial action concerning materials stored near roads or bridges.
Concerns use of Transportation Trust Fund Authority funds.
Amends definition of Circle of Mobility.
Creates New Jersey Centennial of Powered Flight Commission.
Prohibits DEP from imposing certain requirements on residential or nonresidential developments utilizing septic systems.
Repeals law relating to transportation development districts and provides for establishment of transportation enhancement districts.
Increases SPRS cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Provides for continuing education for real estate brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons.
Revises law regarding the licensing and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Adds two members to Greenwood Lake Commission.
Raises EMT assessment and expands reimbursement eligibility.
Requires Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
Protects property record cards maintained by tax assessors from public disclosure.
Imposes mandatory term of imprisonment for impersonation offenses related to September 11, 2001 disaster relief efforts.
Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning physicians, podiatrists and nurses they insure.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Law and Public Safety to establish a public awareness campaign regarding child passenger restraint systems.
Requires chairman of the Victims of Crime Compensation Board to be selected by Governor from lists submitted by victims' rights groups.
Imposes financial liability on parents for certain vandalism and other deliberate property damage caused by their minor children.
Prohibits the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority from approving certain development projects within the Meadowlands complex.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Concerns Turnpike Authority's contracts for towing.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Exempts election board work on election day from calculation of unemployment benefits.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Increases loan to value amount permitted under mortgage guaranty insurance.
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."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Vetoed · 1
Requires parents to secure certain children in restraint system or booster seat when riding in limousines. *
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Makes theft of E-ZPass transponder a fourth degree crime. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 22
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Requires NJT to comment on certain local applications for development.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Provides temporary local budget cap exceptions and school district budget cap adjustments for certain insurance costs and security and public safety costs. *
Appropriates $11.05 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern New Jersey.
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11,118,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Makes various changes to casino gambling and use of proceeds thereof. *
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
Revises wills and estates.
Appropriates $14,548,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
The "Utility Facilities Relocation and Installation Act."
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Expands duties of racing commission to include advocacy of growth, development and promotion of horse racing.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
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 · 60
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Appropriates $204,514 to AOC for a Juvenile Central Registry.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Creates New Jersey Money Laundering Study Commission; appropriates $95,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to DLPS for grant to Playwrights Theatre.
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections.
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.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Appropriates $3,600,000 from the General Fund to rehabilitate Cape May Seashore Lines.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Requires that notices of hearing on certain zoning changes be by certified mail only.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million.
Establishes additional penalties for motor vehicle right-of-way violations to fund motorcycle safety education programs.
Codifies Urban Home Ownership Recovery Program (UHORP) in NJHMFA to promote revitalization, redevelopment and stabilization of urban neighborhoods.
Requires text of model codes to be reprinted in State regulations rather than incorporated by reference.
Concerns pro rata exemptions from loss assessments under the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program.
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes low interest mortage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe crossings, between railroads and public highways, and to request money from Transportation Trust Fund to make the safety improvements.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe locations along interstate highways and to annually request money from Transportation Trust Fund to correct safety deficiencies.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million to dredge Greenwood Lake in Passaic county.
Requires study of feasibility of establishing State pharmaceutical stockpile.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be displayed at or near major highway entrances to the State.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
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.
Clarifies that distracted driver may be charged with reckless, careless or unsafe driving.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Eliminates honorarium paid to State poet laureate.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Authorizes issuance of $400,000,000 in general obligation bonds for various Department of Human Services purposes; appropriates $5,000.
Requires quarterly reports to the Legislature on Governor's use of State helicopter and prohibits the use thereof for personal and political events.
Prohibits members of Legislature from holding more than one elective office.
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 Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
Requires DOE to make certain determinations concerning the provision of educational services to a child residing in a domestic violence shelter and modifies calculation of tuition under certain circumstances.
"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.
Decreases certain motor vehicle fines.
Requires individuals delivering voter registration forms to sign affidavit; requires Attorney General to submit reports on progress of Help America Vote Act.