Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Martha W. Bark
Sponsored
Became law7
Permits use of hands-free wireless phones in moving vehicles. *
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Permits BPU to authorize the securitization of deferred balances of electric public utilities for the provision of basic generation service.
Reconstitutes membership of NJ Racing Commission and requires 4 of 9 commissioners to be owners or trainers of thoroughbred or standardbred horses. *
Establishes Jewish Heritage Trail Study Commission.
Makes certain changes regarding the regulation of the horse racing industry. *
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Passed the Senate7
Authorizes transfer of surplus from certain authority to certain municipality. *
Permits boards of education to establish prepaid lunch programs.
Upgrades tampering generally; upgrades tampering with prescribed medicine to second degree crime under certain circumstances. *
Allows counties and certain county bodies to provide funding assistance to constituent municipalities for purpose of eligibility for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Authorizes exemption of certain alternative electrical energy systems from real property taxation. *
Requires State to purchase "Energy Star" products in public contracts.
Requires the State to consider life-cycle costs when procuring certain supplies.
Out of committee14
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Changes definition of eligible claimant under senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement law.
Allows borrower whose loan is guaranteed by Small Business Administration an income tax credit for payment of guarantee fee.
Requires the award of Outstanding Scholars Recruitment Program scholarships to home-schooled students and prohibits the denial of a scholarship due to a student's lack of class rank.
Permits board of education to disqualify low bidder if any school district or the EDA in certain cases has had prior negative experience with the bidder. *
Allows veterinary students to take examination for licensure in the academic year in which they graduate.
Allows veteran to claim eligibility to receive veteran's property tax deduction after October 1 of pretax year.
"New Jersey Tourism Matching Grant Act;" appropriates $315,000.
Increases civil penalties for certain violations of "New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law."
Requires State to provide fire services in certain State facilities.
School bond validating act.
Creates the Office of Grant Assistance in DCA to assist counties and municipalities in applying for federal, State and private grants.
Revises disposition of realty transfer fee; requires that State share of fee be remitted first to each "Main Street New Jersey" municipality wherein property subject to fee is situate.
Establishes Forest Health Advisory Council in DEP. *
In committee79
Authorizes 50% retail sales tax exemption in historic districts.
Adds Haiti peacekeeping mission, Somalia operation and Bosnia operations to definition of "active service in time of war" for eligibility to receive veterans' property tax deduction.
Excludes income of school district residents who rank in the top 5% of income as reported on State Income Tax forms from calculation of district income for school aid purposes.
Provides additional supplemental stabilization aid to school districts located in Pinelands areas which experience declining enrollment.
Sets limit on the amount by which a school district's income used in calculation of State aid may increase over the previous year.
Reduces transfer inheritance tax on transfers to certain beneficiaries of decedents.
Allows county governments to join with State under certain circumstances for purchase of electric generation service and electric related service.
Permits counties and municipalities to collect fees and penalties for weights and measures regulations.
Requires an explanation of telephone touch-tone service charges.
Prohibits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Revises certain requirements concerning appraisals of land for farmland preservation purposes; and appropriates $200,000.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $250,000 in FY 2002 to the DOE for the Burlington County Superintendent of Schools to extend a tutoring program to all districts in the county.
Supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for grant to Burlington County Red Cross chapter for emergency response vehicle.
Exempts certain drivers from use of child passenger restraint systems and booster seats for certain children.
Increases civil penalties for violations of "Local Government Ethics Law."
Directs Commisioner of Transportation to designate reliever airport for Atlantic City International Airport.
Proscribes liability of architects in certain circumstances.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain United States military compensation paid to members of units of the NJ National Guard.
Authorizes cigarette retailers and wholesalers to participate in certain promotions of cigarette manufacturers.
Revises certain eligibility and reporting requirements for the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
Establishes the Pinelands Institute for Natural and Environmental Studies; appropriates $250,000.
Amends State Recycling Program allocations and appropriates $4 million.
Appropriates $13 million from 1996 Dredging Bond Act for Delaware River Deepening project.
Permits care and treatment of animals by certain persons and prohibits those persons from identifying themselves as veterinarians.
Appropriates $150,000 to DOL to provide continued assistance to deaf community through State Centers for Independent Living.
Permits the refurbishment of school buses to extend the life of the bus by eight years.
Dissolves the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority under certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million from General Fund to New Jersey Racing Commission.
Establishes single personal financial disclosure form for local government officers, candidates for Governor and member of Legislature, members of Legislature and school officials; revises criminal law on gifts to public servants.
Requires Governor's appointees to the Pinelands Commission to reside in the pinelands area.
Establishes Public Health Emergency Planning Commission and provides for public health emergency response plan.
Requires study of feasibility of establishing State pharmaceutical stockpile.
Requires successful bidder on State contract to certify that bidder does not support foreign terrorist organizations.
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Provides that payment for nonresident county college students is to be made by the county college located in the county of residence.
Revises the State appropriation cap and extends the cap to the entire State funds portion of the annual State budget.
Prohibits State from exporting water from the Pinelands.
Clarifies that only certain telecommunications carriers are covered by the prohibition on local right of way assessments and establishes authority for certain right of way use fees.
Creates commission to study ways to increase insurance competition in New Jersey.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Limits pain and suffering awards to $250,000 in medical malpractice actions.
Establishes minimum standards for thoroughbred live race schedules through 2007.
Limits minor's filing of medical malpractice actions for injuries to minor's 10th birthday.
Requires water purveyors to develop and implement leak detection programs.
"Senior Citizen Mile Based Automobile Insurance Act."
Provides that the amount of damages to be awarded in medical malpractice cases would be determined by a judge of workers' compensation.
Exempts qualified investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Prohibits relocation of black bears within the State.
Requires DHSS to send Senior Gold application to PAAD beneficiaries who become ineligible for PAAD.
Requires bidders on public works to specify certain conservation measures.
Establishes special purpose trust using money received by the State as abandoned unclaimed property.
Modifies various laws in regard to medical malpractice liability.
Extends deadline on EDA authorization to refinance county solid waste facility bonds from December 31, 2002 to June 30, 2003.
Eliminates certain fee and payment obligations of partnerships and other business organizations and decreases tax rate on investment companies.
Permits school pupils to self-administer medication for certain medical conditions.
Requires existing State buildings to be evaluated under certain energy and environmental performance standards and new State buildings to be designed and managed using those standards.
Requires Division of Building and Construction to conduct analysis of State buildings to determine energy and cost savings through use of alternative electrical energy equipment or technology.
Allows counties, municipalities and school districts to join with the State under certain circumstances for acquisition of alternative electrical energy systems.
Exempts certain insurers from exit requirements under certain circumstances.
Concerns rights of persons in military service.
Establishes an annual solar photovoltaic manufacturing incentive grant program.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from General Fund to Department of Banking and Insurance for additional insurance fraud investigators.
Makes changes in "Main Street New Jersey" program to encourage public-private partnerships; increases membership on Advisory Board.
Requires DEP to establish voluntary program for certification of alternative energy installers.
Revises State purchase of recycled paper and recycled paper products mandates.
Revises criteria for eligibility to receive senior and disabled homestead property tax reimbursement.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,044,000 for FY2004 to the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to restore funding to FY2003 levels for business assistance grants.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 for FY 2004 to the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to restore funding to FY 2003 levels for the NJ Manufacturing Extension Program.
Authorizes DOC to contract with certain nonprofit corporations for sale of inmate manufactured goods.
Allows exclusion of certain alternative energy and energy conservation patent income under the gross income tax and corporation business tax.
Requires new motor vehicle State purchases or leases be solely electric vehicles with certain exceptions.
Exempts residential electric vehicle charging systems from real property taxation.
Establishes $5000 direct State subsidy for the purchase or lease of a solely electric vehicle; appropriates such sums as are necessary.
Provides for an exemption to 50% of the tax imposed under the "Sales and Use Tax," P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1 et seq.) for retail sales of electric vehicles.
Requires that State fee increases affecting counties, municipalities and local school boards shall not be applicable until next local budget year.
Increases annual income limits for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Reduces the remote limit for elementary school pupil busing from two miles to one mile.
Establishes involuntary outpatient commitment for certain persons with mental illness.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
Provides for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
The Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act. *
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Permits splitting any election district between two Congressional districts.
Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning physicians, podiatrists and nurses they insure.
Permits thoroughbred breeder awards to owners and trainers of NJ-bred horses that win certain out-of State races.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Revises method of computing seniority for certain law enforcement officers transferred to the State Police.
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. *
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Expands the economic development incentives for municipal rehabilitation and economic recovery in certain fiscally distressed municipalities.
Establishes the Tax Lien Financing Corporation.
Passed the Senate · 12
Authorizes special emblem for license plates of disabled veterans.
Permits school districts to exceed the aid-in-lieu-of transportation amount when accepting bids for nonpublic school transportation in the case of subscription busing.
Provides for notification to Public Defender of address of indigent defendant owing reimbursement for services rendered.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror. *
Modifies elements of the crime of stalking.
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.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of the global war on terror. *
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Establishes the Education Mandate Review Study Commission in the Department of Education.
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Out of committee · 22
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Permits children to obtain digital photo identification cards.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Creates limited licenses for barbering and hairstyling and a shop assistant specialty within the practice of cosmetology and hairstyling.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Specifies bona fide negotiations in eminent domain proceedings and clarifies establishment of compensation for business owners.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
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.
Allows qualified UEZ municipalilites to include UEZ funding assistance in order to be eligible for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
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. *
Removes certain unconstitutional portions of statute relating to gender requirements for county political party committee elections.
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs.
Extends authority for municipalities to establish transfer of development rights programs and sets forth parameters for creation thereof.
In committee · 46
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 special license plates for members of the Disabled American Veterans Department of New Jersey.
Requires health insurers to establish guidelines for bone density tests and provide coverage in accordance with the guidelines.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Increases nonpublic pupil transportation to 30 miles from the pupil's residence.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Appropriates $25,000 to DMVA for women veterans' memorial at the NJ veterans' cemetery at Arneytown.
Exempts New Jersey teachers' purchase of qualified teaching materials from sales and use tax.
Prohibits State from utilizing State Plan in permitting and funding determinations.
Establishes State aid program to reimburse CAFRA municipalities for property tax revenue losses due to new CAFRA rules; appropriates $10 million.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA and provides funding to existing nurse education program in DHS; appropriates $498,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to DHSS to promote women's awareness about heart disease and stroke.
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.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Authorizes "cap banking" for school districts.
Authorizes cities of the first class to contract with nonprofit organizations for the provision of water supply and wastewater treatment services.
Creates the "Judicial and Prosecutorial Facilities Construction Assistance Act."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Amends definition of veteran for certain military engagements.
Establishes ovarian cancer public awareness campaign in DHSS; appropriates $75,000.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Establishes Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Research Program in DHSS; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes civil commitment procedure for violent predators.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires testimony by health care providers to be given by persons licensed in this State and to conform to currently accepted medical standards.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Limits liability of physicians to their medical malpractice insurance coverage.
Increases SPRS "special" retirement benefit from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Enacts the Interstate compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Provides general municipal option to impose hotel occupancy tax; allocates revenue from such tax between municipality and county and prescribes use thereof.
Permits parents and legal guardians to obtain information on sex offenders residing within one-half mile.
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 the conditional hiring as a teacher under certain circumstances of persons who have made application for a certificate of eligibility to the State Board of Examiners.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Restores the phase-out of corporation business taxes on the regular income of subchapter S corporations.
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.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Requires display of special decal on vehicles operated by beginning drivers.
Makes certain anti-competitive practices of certain cable television companies a violation of the "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Authorizes colleges and universities to investigate the fitness of applicants for police officer.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Excludes from taxation under Corporation Business Tax certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation.
Prohibits Governor from appearing in certain State-funded advertisements.
Requires health care facilities to report certain information about their health care staff to their respective professional boards or DHSS.