Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Guy R. Gregg
Sponsored
Became law2
Restricts surgical debarking or silencing of dogs.
"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.
Out of committee1
Designates March 16 as "Liberty Day" in New Jersey; memorializes Congress to pass legislation designating "Liberty Day" annually.
In committee54
Permits school boards to contract with certain organizations for education management services.
Requires interpretive statements of State general obligation bond act public questions to include certain fiscal information.
"Property Tax Reduction Work Act"; permits local units to recruit residents to perform services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires voter approval of a school district lease purchase agreement.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
Concerns unemployment benefits for corporate owners and officers.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Death Tax Phase-Out Act; phases out the transfer inheritance tax over three years.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Establishes special license plates to fund promotion of NJ's skiing industry.
Repeals New Jersey Turnpike Authority's authorization to build the Route 92 Freeway extension through Middlesex County.
The "Export Promotion Tax Credit Act"; allows tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses for certain export and export promotion activity.
Prohibits de-crediting by COAH of unit of affordable housing upon expiration of term of deed restriction.
Authorizes local government units to construct locally funded public indoor recreation facilities on certain lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes.
Provides that certain municipal records concerning persons under age 18 will not be publicly accessible.
Adjusts the tobacco products wholesale sales and use tax rate.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.4 million from the General Fund to the DEP for Spruce Run Creek projects in Hunterdon county.
Establishes a sales tax holiday in New Jersey from August 26 through September 1, 2001.
Prohibits basing fees for certification of radon testers upon number of measurement devices used.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Directs DEP acquisition of Hamburg Mountain in Sussex County for conservation purposes, and makes an appropriation.
Supplemental appropriation of $30,000 to DLPS for grant to Borough of Stanhope to purchase an emergency services vehicle.
Exempts certain drivers from use of child passenger restraint systems and booster seats for certain children.
Abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Imposes liability on employers who discharge or discriminate against employees for displaying the American flag.
Authorizes the Director of the Division of Taxation to implement a federally-reimbursed State sales and use tax holiday.
Appropriates $13.3 million to the DEP for Clean Communities grants.
Authorizes AccessNJ program.
Requires impact statement for any proposed regulation affecting volunteer ambulance squads and fire companies.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Requires contracts between local governments and private inspection agencies to comply with "Local Public Contracts Law."
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Removes restrictions on purchase of apparel by State agencies; voids Executive Order No. 20 of 2002.
Modifies escheat law for bank accounts.
Appropriates $1.5 million to the DEP for the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
Provides explicit statutory authority for a trust to own an account under the NJBEST Program.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $75,000 to DHSS for grant to Sunrise House Foundation, Inc.
Clarifies the deductibility of certain state taxes from entire net income under the corporation business tax.
Revises definition of manufactured or mobile home under "State Uniform Construction Code Act."
The "Dam, Lake, Stream, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Exempts boat and marine product sales from certain retail sales tax exemptions.
Expands scope of New Jersey Regulatory Flexibility Act dealing with impact of rules on small businesses.
Provides funding mechanism for Fiscal Year 2004 business employment incentive program grants using certain unanticipated Fiscal Year 2003 State corporation business tax revenues.
Prohibits Governor from appearing in certain State-funded advertisements.
Requires satellite television companies to accept payment by cash, check, money order or credit card.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Establishes appeal process for farmland preservation grant applications rejected by State Agriculture Development Committee.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates March 16 as "Liberty Day" in New Jersey; memorializes Congress to pass legislation designating "Liberty Day" annually.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Bans intentional feeding of black bears. *
Authorizes payment of sales taxes by vendors under the sales and use tax and the advertising of "we pay the tax" days.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Designates Morristown Memorial Hospital as the State's specialty acute care children's hospital for Morris and Union counties.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Vetoed · 1
Changes compensation trigger for reenrollment of PERS retiree from $15,000 in aggregate to $15,000 per public employer.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 19
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
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 "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting the display of American flag. *
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Prohibits production of key based on motor vehicle identification number alone without certain identification. *
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Appropriates $38,445,876 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 66
Combines the filing of application for the NJ SAVER rebate, homestead rebate, homestead property tax reimbursement, and homestead property tax credit with the New Jersey gross income tax return.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Requires individual health benefits plan carriers to offer a new health benefits plan and permits small employer carriers to offer exclusive provider organization plan.
Clarifies that defendant who claims self-defense in prosecution for homicide or assault shall be entitled to introduce evidence of past child abuse or domestic violence committed by the victim.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes Community Dispute Resolution Commission to facilitate community association dispute resolution.
The "New Jersey Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act."
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.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Establishes loan program to rehabilitate military monuments; appropriates $600,000.
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center.
Requires DOC to notify prosecutor and victim whenever an inmate is transferred to an out-of-state correctional facility.
Requires NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to develop a foreign trade zone incentive program; appropriates $250,000.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Provides immunity to counties and municipalities for community service performed by certain juveniles; provides immunity to certain non-profit organizations for community service performed by adults and certain juveniles.
Exempts certain sales by rural electric cooperatives from sales tax and corporation business tax.
Eliminates mandatory county appropriation of amount certified by county college board of school estimate.
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.
"Family Home Occupation Act;" classifies certain home-occupations as accessory uses needing no use variances in residential zone; authorizes municipalities to limit or exclude certain warehousing, manufacturing or retailing activities.
Establishes an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Provides credit against gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain qualified mentors in "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program."
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Upgrades disorderly persons offense of shoplifting under certain circumstances.
Requires new automobile insurance territorial rating plans by January 1, 2003.
Updates statutory references from "persons with head injury" to "persons with traumatic brain injury."
Allows gross income tax deduction to certain self-employed business owners for one-half of their federal self-employment taxes.
Creates program and provides assistance for repair and remediation of significant and low level hazard dams.
Bans intentional feeding of deer.
Eliminates transfer inheritance taxes on Class C beneficiaries and nieces and nephews of a decedent.
Exempts certain municipalities from payment for certain State Police services.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Limits pain and suffering awards to $500,000 in medical malpractice actions.
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.
Deletes requirement that State Agriculture Development Committee and DEP jointly adopt rules establishing standards and requirements regulating improvements on lands acquired by the State for farmland preservation purposes.
Allows a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and the recipient's dependent child and spouse to receive tuition-free postgraduate education at any public institution of higher education.
Increases gross income tax exclusion for sale of principal residence.
Supplemental appropriation of $632,000 to Department of the Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer programs.
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Allows municipalities to appoint only one constable.
Allows Governor to appoint poet laureate who will serve at pleasure of Governor.
Prohibits filling of vacancy among candidates if vacancy occurs within 51 days prior to day of general election.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
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."
Appropriates certain additional federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Provides for temporary police chief appointment when activated military reserve police officer cannot take promotional examination.
Establishes child protective services investigation pilot program in Morris county; appropriates $90,000.
Requires parole board code of ethics to prohibit consultation between board and other State employees regarding parole decisions.
Requires parole board to adopt rules prohibiting undue influence in parole process.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Provides civil service preference to veterans of global war on terror.
Clarifies that Governor and Governor's staff are subject to certain ethical standards.
Allows military personnel extended period to qualify for exclusion of capital gain from income of the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
Excludes certain dependent care assistance to Armed Forces members from gross income tax.
Authorizes Eagle Scout license plate.
Repeals certain restrictions on future retail sales of handguns.
Prohibits Legislature and members thereof from employing convicted criminals.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.