Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Steve Corodemus
Sponsored
Became law2
Allows meeting notices of certain public bodies to be available on the Internet.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Passed the General Assembly2
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Out of committee1
Requires DEP to find transport and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls contaminated material in coastal zone as inconsistent with State's coastal management program.
In committee8
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Requires health insurers to disclose how they establish usual, customary and reasonable fees for health care providers.
Requires HMOs and small employer health benefits plans that cover routine foot care to permit podiatric physicians to provide such services.
Creates low interest loan program for elevating single family homes in special flood hazard areas.
Defines routine foot care services under an insurance policy.
Limits minors' access to certain Internet materials in public schools and libraries.
Establishes Specialty Nurse Education and Training Pilot Program in DHSS; appropriates $5 million.
Appropriates $1 million to the DEP for watershed education grants.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires DEP to not authorize transport of polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated material in coastal zone under certain circumstances. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Provides for an attachment order to freeze certain funds or assets relating to terrorism.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Raises N.J. Environmental Infrastructure Trust's statutory debt ceiling to $1.6 billion.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Prohibits employment at certain airports of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Requires persons convicted of manufacturing or selling child pornography to register under Megan's Law.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
Permits property owners to waive requirements for certain land surveying work.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Passed the General Assembly · 20
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires local units and State legislators to be notified when local units within their legislative districts may be eligible for federal and State grants or benefits. *
Requires driver distractions to be noted in traffic accidents.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements. *
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Requires school districts to establish plans for responding to emergencies and crises.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Permits municipalities to make retroactive property tax deduction payments to veterans up to a maximum of $1,000 per veteran.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Prohibits use of social security numbers on deeds and mortgages.
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility. *
Out of committee · 17
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Revises statutes concerning computer crime.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Amends "Three Strikes" law to clarify that it applies to crimes committed on separate occasions regardless of the dates of conviction. *
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Revises scope of practice of optometrists.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Imposes penalty for contributing to high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status.
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 $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 $400,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
In committee · 59
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Provides that new ratables will be phased into the calculation of equalized valuation over a ten-year period in determining eligibility for State school aid.
Increases membership of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards to fifteen through addition of eight public members.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Limits record to be considered in hearing on denial of certificate of need application to documentary evidence presented by applicant prior to denial of application and other information used to determine denial of application.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Establishes program to increase collection of unpaid motor vehicle fines.
Requires disclosure to certain prison guards of AIDS status of inmates.
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles.
Modifies maximum age for police and fire department hires and for PFRS enrollment by permitting subtraction from actual age of up to five years for certain service.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Revises retirement provisions for PERS members who are veterans.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Prohibits fee waiver for inmate name change.
Modifies licensure requirements for optometrists.
Provides sales tax exemption for certain home improvement materials purchases.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Allows a deduction under New Jersey gross income tax of the cost incurred by a taxpayer in supporting a family member at least 65 years old, up to a maximum of $1,000.
Specifies criteria to determine degree of likelihood of development of lands proposed for acquisition for recreation and conservation purposes by local government units.
Shortens time period after which interest is charged for late payment of workers' compensation benefits.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Revises provisions of the consumer fraud act.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
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.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Allows State poet laureate to be removed from position; changes manner of designation of poet laureate.
Provides a thermal imaging camera to each fire organization.
Authorizes driver's license sticker to identify organ donor.
Authorizes issuance of P.O.W. plates for vehicles leased by former prisoners of war.
Provides that area surrounding a playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available to victims.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Increases permissible percentage of fair share housing obligation transferrable through regional contribution agreements.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of operations that have continued from "Desert Shield/Desert Storm."
Appropriates $5 million to the DEP for Black Creek and Wreck Pond dredging.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.