Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Robert J. Martin
Sponsored
Became law3
Revises and augments rules governing arbitration procedures in arbitration agreements.
Protects pupils from being required to supply certain identifying information on materials distributed in class and prohibits materials distributed to pupils from including the information in an obvious manner.
Exempts election board work on election day from calculation of unemployment benefits.
Passed the Senate3
Requires county college board of trustees to provide certain notices of layoffs.
Provides exemption from cleanup liability at Superfund sites to certain persons.
Requires school boards to mandate wearing of protective devices by pupils and teachers who are dealing with certain dangerous materials or processes and to ensure that teaching staff are properly trained. *
Out of committee3
Exempts teachers from foreign countries from teacher citizenship requirements and permits boards of education to temporarily employ such teachers.
Creates matching grant program in DCA to assist counties in retrofitting county parks to enhance usage by handicapped children; appropriates $525,000.
Increases maximum penalty for "State Uniform Construction Code Act" violations from $500 to $2,000.
In committee27
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Authorizes "cap banking" for school districts.
The "Teacher Continuing Education Requirement Act."
Permits students to satisfy high school graduation requirements by taking practical arts courses.
The "New Jersey Academically Gifted and Talented Student Education Act"; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Provides State aid to Abbott district charter school students to reach 90% of maximum T&E amount.
Provides annual State facilities aid payments to charter schools.
Adds two members to Greenwood Lake Commission.
Establishes State security officer program; levies $1 surcharge on traffic fines.
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes.
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Provides towers remedy for nonpayment of certain charges.
Establishes the National Board Certification Scholarship Program; appropriates $500,000.
Imposes financial liability on parents for certain vandalism and other deliberate property damage caused by their minor children.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in a public school complex.
Criminalizes interference with parole decisions.
Requires State Parole Board to keep records of communications with Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches; provides that such records shall be open to public.
Extends deadline for Privacy Study Commission report.
Concerns Turnpike Authority's contracts for towing.
Authorizes local unit to appoint insurance fund commissioners or its chief financial officer to oversee insurance fund.
Permits the board of trustees of a State college to raise the threshold for public advertisement of contracts to $25,000 if the purchasing agent is qualified.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Enacts the "Uniform Mediation Act."
Provides for the fingerprinting and photographing of persons arrested and convicted for lewdness.
Creates office of Secretary of Higher Education.
Authorizes local unit to appoint insurance fund commissioners, its chief financial officer or its municipal clerk to oversee insurance fund.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
Criminalizes deprivation of civil rights, including racial profiling, by public officials. *
Provides for instruction for elementary, middle, and high school students in the dynamics of domestic violence and child abuse.*
Increases the percentage of Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund grants which may be used within student-support facilities.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
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.
Clarifies fee schedules for certain service of process fees in the Special Civil Part of the Superior Court.
Clarifies that a power of attorney does not generally give the attorney-in-fact the authority to make gifts of the principal's property.
Passed the Senate · 5
Creates an Office of Professional Responsibility and Independent Review Board in, but not of, the Office of Attorney General within the DLPS to oversee complaints of misconduct and constitutional violations by personnel.
Provides that total annual travel expenses of a board of education shall not exceed $3,000.
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.
Limits contributions by certain public contractors; limits contributions by county and municipal political party committees. *
Out of committee · 19
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Permits absence from school resulting from suspension to be counted as unexcused absence.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Permits charter schools to construct facilities with federal funds.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch.*
"Public Health Preparedness Act." *
Establishes biological agent registry in DHSS.
"Fire Service Resource Emergency Deployment Act."
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
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.
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt core curriculum content standards for technology.
Upgrades penalities for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Protects certain helping dogs from discrimination.
Appropriates $185,376 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for New Jersey City University.
In committee · 41
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 and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
The "Safe Schools and Communities Violence Prevention and Response Plan Act of 2000;" appropriates $5,100,000.
Requires the State to pay the cost of providing a thorough and efficient education for pupils in certain State facilities.
Changes date of election of school board members and special school elections and eliminates school budget elections.
Requires prosecutor to instruct grand jury in the elements of justification in cases involving use of force by law enforcement officer.
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.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Establishes subcommittee of local emergency councils to develop school crisis response action plans; appropriates $3 million.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2 million to the Department of State for a grant to the John Harms Center for the Arts for debt reduction.
Establishes the State Commission of Investigation as a permanent agency.
"Health Care Claims Payment Responsibility Act."
Exempts Great Swamp watershed area from uniform residential site improvement standards.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide in-service, on-site training at State psychiatric facilities.
Requires disclosures by gubernatorial candidate's issue advocacy or other tax-exempt organization as condition of public financing.
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.
Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in foster homes.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Appropriates $50,000 to DHS for grant to Medical Needs Foundation in Mountain Lakes.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Establishes the State Public Safety Wireless Communications Coordinating Council; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes county transportation coordinator to provide all mandatory transportation services for school districts.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act."
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the Department of Higher Education.
Provides automobile insurance premium reduction of 10% for completion of medical and safe driving program for senior citizens.
Establishes the Excellence in Teaching Scholarship Program and appropriates $500,000.
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.
"New Jersey Automobile Insurance Competition and Choice Act."
Requires candidates for teaching certificates beginning in the 2004-2005 school year to receive training in classroom management.
Establishes child protective services investigation pilot program in Morris county; appropriates $90,000.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Appropriates $50,000 to the Morris Regional Public Health Partnership, Inc.
Provides free admission to certain county facilities for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads and their immediate families.
Establishes free smoke detector program in DCA.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DHSS for defibrillator training for police and firefighters.
Requires employers to provide time off from work for members of certain volunteer organizations to respond to fires under certain conditions.
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Provide that certain candidates are not required to achieve a 2.5 grade point average for teacher certification if they can provide evidence of successful substitute teaching experience.
Filed · 2
Requires report and recommendations to and a public hearing of the Senate and Assembly Education Committees with respect to certain information regarding part-time faculty at public institutions of higher education in New Jersey.
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects.