Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Peter J. Barnes Jr.
Sponsored
Became law2
Prohibits utilities from assessing late payment charges to certain customers and prohibits CATV companies from assessing late payment charges less than 30 days past due date of subscriber's bill. *
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
Passed the General Assembly8
Requires the licensing of bail recovery agents as private detectives. *
Awards good time or work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
Increases penalty for illegal firearms' sale within 1,000 feet of school.
Permits municipalities to designate stop or yield intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Makes it a fourth-degree crime to provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Out of committee13
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Repeals charter of New Jersey Detective Agency.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Permits use of preliminary breath testing devices to detect drunk driving.
Requires destruction of firearms replaced by police.
Provides certain reemployed PFRS retirees with choice concerning PFRS membership.
Permits instruction on backpack safety to be included in the curriculum of elementary, middle, and high school students as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. *
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Prohibits advertisements on county and municipal police, first-aid, and fire vehicles.
Expands law enforcement powers of certain DEP personnel.
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
In committee26
Provides that persons incarcerated for crimes against law enforcement officers are ineligible for good time and work credits.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Limits certain campaign contributions to $1,800 per year or per election; abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $1,000 income tax deduction.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Requires 10 percent premium discount for good drivers who are with same insurer five or more years.
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Directs Secretary of State to establish toll-free telephone service to facilitate contacting of Executive Branch State agencies.
Allows business tax credit to employers giving paid leave to employees for service with volunteer emergency services organizations.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Makes a series of amendments to statutes governing SCI.
Permits paid and unpaid leave of absence for certain public employees and purchase of PERS credit for such absences.
Directs DEP to acquire Oak Tree Pond tract in Middlesex County for new State park; and appropriates $6.8 million.
Upgrades lewdness to a crime of the fourth degree under certain circumstances.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to cover service of civil service.
Requires certain law enforcement officers to undergo psychological testing.
Bars expungement for possession of CDS with intent to distribute.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Establishes hiring preference for children of firefighters killed in the line of duty seeking appointmemnt to paid fire departments.
Enhances penalties for drag racing.
Creates a presumption of rehabilitation for employment purposes under certain circumstances.
Increases service retirement allowance for certain PFRS retirees who retired before January 18, 2000.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Makes certain DLPS employees members of PERS Prosecutors Part.
Amends "Waterfront Commission Act" to expand the commission's jurisdiction over waterborne freight and certain licensing and registration procedures.
Removes confidential employee status from investigators in Division of Criminal Justice.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Expands law enforcement powers of certain DEP personnel.
Establishes "Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing."
Clarifies that lifetime community supervision for sex offenders is parole supervision.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 33
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order. *
Upgrades penalty for assault in certain cases. *
Reduces blood alcohol level at which a person is considered to be guilty of drunk driving from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Extends time to file complaint for drunk driving from 30 to 90 days. *
Increases jail time for repeat offenders who drive while licenses revoked.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Concerns public works contractor registration.
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Removes occupational limitations for use of electric personal assistive mobility devices.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
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.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Empowers Federal Reserve law enforcement officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services. *
Provides additional retirement benefits for county and municipal employees who are members of PFRS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes a minimum per diem base pay of $100 for members of National Guard called to State active duty.
Provides State-paid health care benefits coverage through SHBP for certain National Guard members called to State active duty for 30 days or more.
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel motor vehicle lease without penalty.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 20
Requires scooter riders under 14 years old to wear helmets.
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Permits Director of ABC to grant plenary winery license under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes U.S. citizenship or lawful residence and State residency as requirement for purchasing firearm in New Jersey.
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of National Guard members on State active duty from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition and fees to students who are spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 46
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Authorizes special license plates for Office of Emergency Management volunteers.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
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.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.*
Authorizes payment of funeral expenses for certain public safety employees killed in line of duty.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Requires proceeds from sale of criminal memorabilia be deposited into escrow account for victims.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Provides relief to certain NJ Transit retirees.
Enacts the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school. *
Permits gaming investigator to carry firearm.
Establishes New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center and authorizes establishment of Foundation for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
Designates official entity constructing law enforcement memorial and museum.
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Requires Commissioner of Education to award a reasonable attorney's fee to school district or parent or guardian under certain circumstances in domicile proceedings.*
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use transported remains of victims of September 11, 2001 from World Trade Center in a memorial.
Establishes penalty for failing to comply with school crossing guard's signal to stop.
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. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
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 vehicles. *
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Prohibits sale and possession of certain air-powered pellet guns.
Upgrades penalties for certain fireworks violations.
Imposes penalty for contributing to high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status.
Directs a study of sentencing reform for nonviolent drug and other low level offenders by UMDNJ.
Clarifies that use of ignition interlock device is mandatory for all drunk driving offenses and requires installation during license suspension.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Revises statutes concerning criminal history background checks; permits counties and municipalities to enact ordinance or resolution requesting background check for official governmental purpose.
Requires conspicuous labeling of certain alcoholic beverages made with gelatin.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission.
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The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
The "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
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.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Creates the "Grandparents' Court Liaison Program."
Directs the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Human Services to work with institutions of higher education in the development of certain family programs.
Requires HMFA to prioritize projects affordable to extended family care givers; amends Fair Housing Act to allow funding to programs supporting extended family care.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Permits municipality, local board of health or regional health commission to prohibit indoor smoking in public premises to protect public health.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Increases TPAF and PERS veterans retirement benefits for active members and retirees.
Abolishes the death penalty in New Jersey.
"New Jersey Online Privacy Protection Act."
Appropriates $2.5 million to DEP for Proprietary House restoration.
Repeals prohibition against "negative check-off" fees on public institution of higher education tuition bills.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Requires municipal master plans under Municipal Land Use Law to be consistent with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
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.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Prohibits black bear hunting for five years; requires development of plan for bear population control; and appropriates $95,000.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Requires DOT to reimburse municipalities for clean up or removal of litter or debris from a road under certain circumstances.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Revises statutes regulating the practice of veterinary medicine.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for a grant to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Gives contractual preferences to gun manufacturers which have pledged to adopt and implement certain manufacturing, firearms design and market practices that will foster firearms safety.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Supplemental appropriation for $31,490,000 to increase benefits in the Lifeline programs.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Supplemental appropriation of $574,736 to Piscataway Township School District for the educational costs of children housed on the Rutgers campus.
Permits eviction for good cause of tenants who are creating nuisance; requires court to notify landlord when restraining order has been issued barring tenant from residential rental property.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Establishes targeted breast cancer education and screening initiative in DHSS; appropriates $750,000.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Dedicates use of tobacco settlement monies for certain health-related purposes and appropriates $40 million in State funds and $40 million in federal funds to increase Medicaid inpatient reimbursement rates.
Concerns subcontracting agreements entered into by public school districts.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
The "Steep Slope Protection Act."
Directs Drinking Water Quality Institute to reevaluate maximum contaminant level for arsenic, MTBE and radium in drinking water; appropriates $300,000.
Exempts police from jury duty.
Requires hologram on motor vehicle insurance identification cards.
Requires police notification when driver license is suspended.
Increases cost of living adjustment in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain former public safety officers and their survivors.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Increases income limits for Home Care Expansion Program; appropriates $8 million.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Exempts senior citizens who qualify for Medicaid from certain motor vehicle registration fees.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Prohibits telephone solicitation of certain telephone subscribers.
Criminalizes the failure of a witness to report a crime in certain circumstances.
Prohibits dissemination of student personal information on the Internet without parental consent.
"Adolescents' Online Privacy Protection Act."
Requires a cost analysis in certain cases when a State department contracts out work.
Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy in excess of three years and requires the payment of increments pursuant to an expired policy in certain circumstances.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DMVA for construction of the State World War II Veterans Memorial.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Authorizes local officials to inspect commercial motor vehicles.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA; appropriates $348,000.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Requires collection of data on whether firearm used in offense was illegally possessed.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in calendar year 2006.
Upgrades crime of identity theft under certain circumstances.
Requires candidates for initial teaching certificates to undergo criminal history record check.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Prohibits taking of horseshoe crabs.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Increases motor vehicle property damages reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide detectors in single and two-family homes upon initial occupancy or change of occupancy.
Eliminates statute of limitations for kidnapping and increases statute of limitations for other serious crimes to 10 years.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Enacts "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2002."
Establishes a juror voluntary charitable contribution system.
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Criminalizes certain acts involving invading a person's privacy.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Requires submission of Juvenile Justice Commission master plan and county youth services plans every three years.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Permits only licensed chiropractors to perform spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Directs Commission on Higher Education to establish program to allow certain volunteers to enroll in four-year public institutions of higher education on tuition-free basis.
Authorizes the issuance of restraining orders in situtations where the domestic violence statutes do not apply; repeals section 2 of P.L.1999, c.47.
Appropriates $25,000,000 to restore funding to statutory level for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program.
Requires affidavit acknowledging that it is unlawful for auto body repair facility to inflate repair estimate to meet insurance deductible amount.