Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Wayne R. Bryant Esq.
Sponsored
Became law18
Reduces certain General Fund appropriations, allocates certain revenues and transfers and appropriates certain fund balances for fiscal year 2002 State budget purposes.
Requires Superintendent to prepare list of State Police employment titles, positions and qualifications; thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Requires building permit for work done pursuant to a home repair financing contract under certain circumstances.
The Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act. *
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Extends transmittal date of FY2002-03 gubernatorial budget message to Legislature to March 26, 2002.
Permits court, upon request of prosecutor, to examine reliability of the obligor or person posting cash bail, relationship to defendant, value and sufficiency of security offered and whether funds used to post bail or secure bond were acquired lawfully.
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Transfers moneys in excess of $40,000,000 from Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund to General Fund; limits future purpose of fund; authorizes fund to make loans to Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association.
Amends "Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act."
The Annual Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
Expands the economic development incentives for municipal rehabilitation and economic recovery in certain fiscally distressed municipalities.
Appropriates $1 million from 1996 Economic Development Site Fund for economic development grant to Gloucester City for waterfront infrastructure improvements; cancels previous appropriation of same amount.
Establishes the Tax Lien Financing Corporation.
Appropriates $16,042,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Requires notice to and approval by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee of proposed expenditures by the EDA of certain withholding-backed economic development bond proceeds.
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. *
Appropriates $24,080,939,000 in State funds and $9,757,304,752 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2003-2004.
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Requires physician cultural competency training as a condition of licensure.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Grants post-retirement death benefit in alternate benefit program if retiree had 25 or more years of NJ service credit regardless of age.*
Requires identity check for flight instruction. *
Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Out of committee12
Modifies the governance of the Human Relations Council.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain former State employees with 25 or more years State service.
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking municipal police and fire promotional examinations. *
The "Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation Act."
Authorizes creation of UEZ in Gloucester City, Camden County.
Redirects $125 million in payroll taxes from UI Fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund.
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide substantially same protections against discrimination as provided under "Federal Fair Housing Act."
Authorizes borrowing by public school district between June 22 and June 30 of the school budget year in certain circumstances. *
Makes supplemental appropriation of $11 million from the General Fund to DHSS for PAAD costs during FY2003 and amends certain provisions concerning certain revenues applicable to FY2003.
Imposes an outdoor advertising fee. *
Amends Casino Control Act to impose certain taxes and fees, raise certain fees and permit certain agreements; creates Casino Capital Construction Fund. *
In committee41
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Requires members of State Police to undergo annual performance evaluations.
Makes State Police employees subject to termination for certain unlawful conduct.
Requires every home improvement contractor to be bonded for his work.
Prohibits automobile insurers from denying agency to insurance producer solely because he writes in automobile insurance UEZs.
Allows persons on probation and certain persons on parole to vote; provides assistance in registering to vote to persons on probation, certain parolees and certain persons completing sentences.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Gloucester County for historic church cemetery clean-up.
Provides State-paid SHBP benefits in retirement to certain public employees having combination of State and local government employment.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million in State and federal funds to DHS to increase Medicaid reimbursement to federally qualified health centers.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Focus on Literacy - New Jersey.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Prohibits imposition of death penalty on mentally retarded defendants.
Establishes the New Jersey State Endowment for Student Excellence Scholarship Program for county college students; appropriates $25 million.
Provides the manufacturing equipment and employment investment tax credit under the corporation business tax for electric energy production.
Creates the "Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act."
Requires DEP confirm transfers of water allocation credits and approve transfers of permits under certain circumstances.
Requires withholding of child support payments to be prorated when more than one withholding order exists.
Requires non-custodial parent to purchase health benefits coverage for child.
Revises recipient contributions for emergency assistance under Work First New Jersey program.
Requires transportation services under Work First New Jersey program be provided for 24 months to recipients earning less than $12 an hour after leaving program.
Requires that 10% of State portion of Work First New Jersey emergency assistance funding be used to pay for development of low-income rental housing.
The "Working Families Property Tax Refund Act."
Provides procedure for school board to raise compulsory school attendance from age 16 to 18.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for full-time or part-time enrollment at New Jersey county colleges.
Establishes an Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs.
Requires certain investments by the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund.
Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to clean up graffiti on buildings.
Requires New Jersey Consumer Checking Accounts to provide for two free ATM withdrawals per periodic cycle.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Modifies number of signatures needed for petitions of nomination in certain municipal primary elections.
Concerns the depreciation of certain property under the corporation business tax.
Increases the cigarette tax by 60 cents per pack.
Requires certain inmates to participate in educational program.
Reduces polling place hours; establishes minimum and maximum poll worker pay with actual pay determined by counties.
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technology initiative State aid for nonpublic school students.
Requires the payment of homestead rebates by September 15 annually or by October 31 if the State Treasurer determines that earlier payment is detrimental to the State's budget.
Permits granting residency credit points to candidates taking certain municipal police and fire promotional examinations.
Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
Revises requirements concerning the withholding of tickets for advanced sales to places of entertainment.
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements.
Imposes a fee on certain telecommunications services; directs the use of fee revenue.
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Became law · 8
Permits use of Health Care Subsidy Fund for Medicaid expenses in FY2002; redirects $650,000,000 in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund; provides extended UI benefits. ***
Requires landlords to maintain list of tenants for emergencies and clarifies that unit owners rather than common interest associations are required to file certificate of registration.
"New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act." *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Reimburses certain urban enterprise zones for municipal account monies transferred to the General Fund during fiscal year 2003 and permits those zones to borrow from the enterprise zone assistance fund. *
Appropriates $13,708,385 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," federal funds, and 1978 Green Acres bond fund, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for "urban aid" and other local government open space acquistion and
Appropriates $11.105 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Passed the Senate · 3
Permits certain persons convicted of welfare fraud to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
Out of committee · 13
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.*
Increases the cigarette tax by 60 cents per pack and increases the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate on products other than cigars from 30% to 48%. *
Implements the federal "Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act" for purposes of the sales and use tax.
Permits local authorities to appropriate and transfer available surplus funds to municipality or county that created authority.
Provides additional core curriculum standards aid for county vocational school district students who reside in Abbott districts.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Imposes a State hotel and motel occupancy fee; authorizes a municipal hotel and motel occupancy tax by certain municipalities. *
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Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Creates two additional Superior Court judgeships for Gloucester County.
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.
Creates the offense of racial profiling.
Requires State Police to file reports on motor vehicle stops they initiate.
Establishes a Civilian Board of Review to review and investigate complaints and allegations of State Police misconduct.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and available to public.
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.
Makes clauses waiving right to sue in nursing home admission agreements void and unenforceable.
Requires State Police applicants to undergo psychological testing for racial bias.
Prohibits 4-year college requirement for appointment to State Police.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Permits certain municipalities to provide five years of revaluation relief abatements and revises restriction on Newark's use of payroll and parking tax revenue.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Establishes "Public Confidence-Police Integrity" telephone hotline.
"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 financial institutions and check cashing businesses to file certain transaction reports with the State; provides criminal penalties.
Provides for annual appropriation of certain State realty transfer fee revenues and General Fund monies for improvements to, and maintenance of, parks.
Makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a check cashing business to cash a check for consideration in the amount of $2,500 or more.
Establishes twelve-member "Election Law and Procedures Study Commission;" appropriates $150,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Makes various changes to local cap law; brings fire districts under spending limitations.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $100,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Community Affairs for the Friends of Teen Arts for arts education programming.
Concerns Motor Vehicle Commission service charges.
Authorizes municipalities to impose up to 4% hotel room tax; provided proceeds used to provide property tax relief.
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Designates the State agencies to be involved in the selection of school renaissance zones.
Establishes Gang Land Security Task Force.
Requires parent receiving adoption subsidy to arrange for medical examination and enroll adopted child in school.
Supplemental appropriation for $5.0 million to DHSS for a grant to the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.