Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
John H. Adler
Sponsored
Became law3
Concerns calculation of Second Injury Fund surcharges.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants.
Passed the Senate2
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Establishes the Education Mandate Review Study Commission in the Department of Education.
Out of committee14
Establishes Brownfields Redevelopment Grants Program; appropriates $150 million.
Creates "Faith Based Community Development Initiative" program in DCA.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
"Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Clarifies and expands categories of property which may escheat to State, reduces time for unclaimed property to escheat to State.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Adds two members to Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force.
Upgrades penalty for assault in certain cases. *
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services. *
Permits DOC to award inmates special credits for certain achievements.
Makes various revisions to the "New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
In committee41
The "Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 1992;" clarifies and strengthens ethical standards applicable to State officers and employees, special State officers and employees and members of the Legislature.
Increases the mandatory minimum sentence the court must impose for crimes involving the use of a handgun.
Establishes a public school class-size reduction program; appropriates $42,000,000.
Appropriate $3 million to NJ Agricultural Experiment Station for its "Millennium Agricultural Viability Initiative."
Establishes farm viability assistance program; appropriates $3 million.
Increases income eligibility limits for PAAD program by $5,000.
Provides for school and medical family leave.
Changes car and booster seat and seat belt requirements for certain children traveling in motor vehicles.
Encourages consistency of municipal planning documents with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Provides supplemental State aid in the case of the dissolution of a limited purpose regional school district or termination of a sending-receiving relationship.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from estate recovery under Medicaid.
Revises wills and estates.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Amends Punitive Damages Act to add Conscientious Employee Protection Act.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Prohibits employment at certain marine terminals of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Permits awards of local public contracts without public advertising for bids under certain circumstances.
Requires information on school district administrative spending be included in the budget referendum submitted to the voters, posted at budget public hearing, and printed on the sample ballot.
Limits school district per pupil administrative spending to 130% of the median per pupil administrative spending for districts of the same operating type, enrollment range, and district factor group.
Requires small school districts to share superintendents and school business administrators under certain circumstances.
Restricts school district transfers among budget line items to the last three months of the budget year.
Requires certain small municipalities to share services of certain licensed municipal professionals.
Upgrades the crime of criminal mischief under certain circumstances; creates new offense.
Requires Commissioner of Health and Senior Services to prepare a public health emergency response plan for biological threats, chemical weapons, and radiation based attacks.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
The "Smart Growth Tax Credit Act."
Directs ELEC to collect certain filing fees.
Provides immunity to volunteer architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, and professional engineers during certain emergencies.
Concerns notice of worker rights under the "Conscientious Employee Protection Act."
Revises laws concerning financial assistance for contaminated site remediation.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission."
Authorizes assessment of educational facilities construction fees by boards of education under certain circumstances.
Authorizes funding New Jersey Redevelopment Authority brownfield projects from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
Requires nonresident contractor to file bond to secure payment of sales and use taxes.
Excludes certain payments to affiliates from "points and fees" definition.
Revises current laws concerning ethics in State, county and municipal governments; requires greater disclosure by legislative agents and lobbyists; limits certain campaign contributions; prohibits nepotism; requires ethics training for legislators.
Supplemental appropriation for $5.0 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Carried from the General Assembly
Became law1
Authorizes funding for NJRA brownfield projects from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault at youth sports events.
Allows JRS member to reduce retirement allowance to provide survivor benefit.
Appropriates $12.475 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern New Jersey.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Requires DEP to not authorize transport of polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated material in coastal zone under certain circumstances. *
Establishes the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.
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. ***
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy. *
Establishes organic certification program in Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the Senate · 8
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Provides that total annual travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
Provides that instruction in world languages shall not be required in public schools during the 2002-2003 school year and specifies how instruction shall be provided in the following years. *
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees. *
Out of committee · 21
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers. *
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Requires that home care services providers give advance information to patients about their employees' training.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Creates the position of Inspector General.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. *
Allows corporation business tax credit for 25% of the cost of purchasing portable defibrillators. *
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
"Public Health Preparedness Act." *
Makes changes to the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances. *
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Prohibits use of social security numbers on deeds and mortgages.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Provides for expedited review of application for certificate of need for transfer of perinatal services within hospital or hospital system.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
In committee · 54
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; appropriates $2 million.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Provides for primary and comprehensive stroke centers at acute care hospitals; appropriates $14 million.
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Increases nonpublic pupil transportation to 30 miles from the pupil's residence.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Directs State acquisition of Heritage Minerals tract in Ocean county for new State park.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Appropriates $1,055,000 to Rutgers-Camden College of Arts & Sciences Department of Nursing to expand facilities.
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Makes prisoners responsible for their own support and maintenance and provides the State with a lien for the cost thereof.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Authorizes adoption of time-growth ordinances by municipalities.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Changes date for election of fire district commissioners from third Saturday in February to day of general election.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Requires disclosure to ELEC of receipts and disbursements by sponsor of nonpolitical fund-raising event honoring or otherwise substantially involving holder of any of certain elective public offices; limits uses of proceeds from such event.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Allows corporation business tax credit and gross income tax credit for employer expenditures to provide certain physical fitness benefits to employees.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Makes various changes to local cap law; brings fire districts under spending limitations.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Requires DEP to classify reservoirs as category one waters.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Removes limitation on punitive damages awards in civil actions arising from convictions for murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.
Restricts political contributions by certain entities doing business with State and units of local government.
Permits a farm income averaging credit under the New Jersey gross income tax.
Requires independent contractors to submit to background checks to work within certain industries.
Amends "Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act" to address terrorist and criminal acts.
Expands membership and revises authority of Fish and Game Council.
Requires adoption of model plan for county coordination of hazardous materials response.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes.