Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Leonard Lance
Sponsored
Became law5
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
Requires lessors of motor vehicles to notify lessees of any change in registration policies and procedures.
Regulates receipt of things of value by members and staff of Legislature and officers and staff of Executive Branch; recodifies criminal provisions concerning acceptance or offer or receipt of unlawful benefit by public servant. *
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.
Appropriates $3,000,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the Senate4
Requires State responsibility for tuition costs for certain children whose parents reside in a State facility.
Requires applicant for open space preservation moneys to provide statement concerning deer management on lands to be preserved using those moneys.*
Limits exchange of information between State officer or employee and bidders or prospective bidders prior to awarding of State or State authority contract.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Out of committee2
Lowers age of consent for minors to donate blood without parental permission to 17.
Modifies certain restrictions on bingo advertising; directs Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission to promulgate regulations on bingo advertising.
In committee56
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Increases pension payable to Judicial Retirement System member with more than five but less than 10 years' service mandatorily retired for age; allows such member to purchase certain JRS credit.
Requires insurance rate reduction for automobile equipped with fire extinguisher.
Specifies certain compensation levels for administrative law judges.
Permits Attorney General to refuse to provide for defense of certain State employees found to have engaged in discrimination, including sexual harassment.
Implements certain recommendations of Attorney General to curb drunk driving.
Phases out the transfer inheritance tax over two years.
Changes date for election of fire district commissioners from third Saturday in February to day of general election.
Authorizes Commissioner of Transportation to extend current ban on large trucks outside of National Network to 96-inch wide trucks.
Limits certain supplemental compensation upon retirement for local government employees to a maximum of $15,000.
Requires disclosure of appraisals conducted on land to be included in farmland preservation program.
Authorizes permit for farm produce sign.
Moves school, fire district and certain municipal elections to date of nonpartisan municipal elections.
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Clarifies and strengthens disclosure requirements for certain complimentary tickets received by candidates, officeholders, political party officials, political committees and continuing political committees.
Designates the State House Annex as the "Walter E. Foran Legislative Office Building."
Directs State public issuer of obligations to use competitive bidding process when investing proceeds from such obligations.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Authorizes a motion to dismiss in a cause of action arising from a defendant's valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.
Provides annual economic benefit to municipalities wherein nonpublic sludge disposal or processing facilities are located.
Regulates involvement of candidates and officeholders with issue advocacy organizations.
Provides procedure for approving airport expansion; provides assistance to affected property owners.
Requires DOT to identify unsafe locations along interstate highways and to annually request money from Transportation Trust Fund to correct safety deficiencies.
Reconstitutes Executive Commission on Ethical Standards with public members; requires certain public officers and employees to file financial disclosure statements and dispose of certain prohibited interests.
Prohibits political contributions by out-of-State casinos and certain individuals and business entities associated therewith.
Provides a school district budget cap adjustment for payments made by a district for charter school students.
Exempts certain transfer stations from the rate regulation of the Board of Public Utilities.
Revises operations of county educational audiovisual centers and authorizes establishment of regional centers.
Provides for the election of school board members at November general election.
Provides for inclusion of geologically significant sites and resources in natural areas system.
Prohibits contributions by administrator of Type II school district to candidates for member of district's school board; restricts employment by Type II school district of contributors to election campaign of member of district's school board.
Prohibits solicitation or acceptance of political contributions on public property; certain uses of campaign contributor information; and certain uses of information about persons doing business with public entities.
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Prohibits use of hand-held cellular telephones in moving motor vehicles as primary offense.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Limits certain supplemental compensation upon retirement for local government employees to a maximum of $15,000.
Implements recommendations on public contracts of State Commission of Investigation in report, "N.J. Enhanced Motor Vehicle Inspection Contract", issued March 2002.
Establishes a "Farm Market Directional Sign Program."
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Regulates retention of customer records by telecommunications service providers.
Requires family of juvenile in county detention center to reimburse county.
Restricts release of water from Spruce Run reservoir under certain circumstances.
Extends certain financial disclosure requirements under "Legislative Activities Disclosure Act of 1971" to "grass roots" lobbying conducted through direct mail and advertisements to general public.
Requires greater disclosure by lobbyists engaged in certain types of lobbying; appropriates $150,000.
Provides that budget cap adjustment for the opening of a new school facility may be taken over several budget years in certain circumstances.
Clarifies the deductibility of certain state taxes from entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Exempts volunteer first aid and emergency or volunteer ambulance or rescue squad associations from charitable registration fees.
Authorizes temporary handicapped parking permits for certain relatives of nursing home residents.
Requires State agency to advertise for bids before leasing real property to private entity for outdoor advertising purposes.
Makes supplemental appropriations of $40,065,000 for FY2004 to the Department of State to restore funding to FY2003 levels for certain arts, cultural and historical programs.
Limits materials which may be used in storm drains, sewer systems, and water retention and detention systems to noncombustible materials.
Permits appointment of person as police officer in non-civil service municipality if Police Training Commission full certification obtained when less than 35 years old.
Eliminates awards of punitive damages against public entities, and against public officers, employees and servants acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.
Eliminates sending district choice students and transfer students under federal law from the calculation of a district's low-income concentration rate if such students would reduce the rate.
Prohibits political contributions by persons or businesses investing or rendering advice regarding investment of certain State funds.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
Permits use of hands-free wireless phones in moving vehicles. *
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.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $64 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Extends deadline for Governor's annual budget message to Legislature to the 4th Tuesday in February; revises deadline for submission of Abbott districts' proposed budgets to the Commissioner of Education. *
Passed the Senate · 4
Authorizes digitized student identification program; appropriates $252,000.*
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
Provides funding mechanism for Fiscal Year 2004 business employment incentive program grants using certain unanticipated Fiscal Year 2003 State corporation business tax revenues.
Out of committee · 19
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
Directs the DOE to provide to every public school district George Washington's portrait to display; appropriates $90,000. *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP from "Water Supply Fund" for water supply system interconnection study. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 18 years of age and younger. *
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalities for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Modifies escheat law for bank accounts and eliminates certified mail requirement for notice concerning potential escheat. *
Provides official State recognition of Powhatan Renape Nation, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Inc., and Ramapough Mountain Indians as American Indian Tribes for certain purposes.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Outlines a program to improve highway safety.
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur on preserved farmland under certain circumstances.
In committee · 26
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires Department of Labor to adopt air quality standards for public school buildings and appropriates $250,000 to Department of Labor to enforce those standards.
Repeals prohibition against "negative check-off" fees on public institution of higher education tuition bills.
Establishes penalties for purchase and possession of tobacco by persons under age 18.
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Prevents abrogation of the reciprocal personal income tax agreement with Pennsylvania.
Enacts the Interstate compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Deletes language provision in FY 2003 annual appropriation act that delays State school aid payments and makes final aid payment at the option of the State Treasurer.
Allows owners of preserved farmland to reacquire development rights for land underlying and next to farm buildings or structures.
Requires Director of DYFS to provide employees with access to motor vehicles, cellular telephones and computers.
"Geologist Licensing Act."
Excludes from taxation under Corporation Business Tax certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation.
Concerns roadside signs on the Garden State Parkway.
Amends and supplements the "New Jersey Parentage Act," establishing new procedures concerning blood or genetic testing.
Allows certain business employment incentives (BEIP) to be taken as a credit under the corporation business tax.
Designated the "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Education and Research Program Act."
Requires State to purchase "Jersey Fresh" farm products.
Extends the mileage limit for receipt of transportation services for students in certain counties attending out-of-State nonpublic schools.
Limits criteria to be considered in evaluating forfeiture of pension benefits involving elected official.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.