Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Mims Hackett Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires that owners of age-restricted multiple dwellings notify municipal emergency management coordinator of certain utility disruptions and prepare and maintain annual emergency evacuation plans.
Passed the General Assembly2
Requires school districts to establish plans for responding to emergencies and crises.
"The Cellular Telephone Usage Disclosure Act."
Out of committee4
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Allows certain beneficiaries of certain deceased retirees to receive retirement allowance.
Requires Internet service providers to warn subscribers of possible toll charges for internet telephone access.
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.
In committee13
Directs BPU to require telephone companies to submit new dialing plans for certain intra-State calls.
Requires public institutions of higher education to assess each student a fee to be used to offset the cost of services provided by the municipality in which the institution is located.
Permits purchase of PERS credit for unpaid service as elected official.
Appropriates $500,000 to South Orange for firehouse renovation.
Requires written notice, transportation services, and payment for municipal services for out-of-district students enrolled in a district alternative education program.
Permits the sale of fuel in approved containers to the public on public highways maintained by the State's three toll road authorities.
Permits towing operators to provide emergency towing and storage services on NJ Turnpike under certain conditions.
Updates payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property owned by the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Requires testing of radon levels for sale or lease of residential properties.
Establishes in-house counseling services for DYFS employees.
Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.
Clarifies municipal and county jurisdiction over streets and permits municipalities to designate stop intersections on streets under municipal jurisdiction.
Allows local employers in SHBP to negotiate premium payments with unions.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Allows certain beneficiaries of certain deceased retirees to receive retirement allowance.
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space aquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Provides for voter registration at office of registrar of institutions of higher education.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Permits charter schools to construct facilities with federal funds.
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
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.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations. **
Allows certain county or municipal public park access parking lots to be used also for commuter parking under certain circumstances.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Revises receivership statutes.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Removes the home address of cosmetologist-hairstylist from displayed license.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Entitled "The Motor Vehicle Security and Customer Service Act."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
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.
"Domestic Partnership Act"; establishes domestic partnerships. *
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 20
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes 11-member "Internet Voting Study Commission." *
Permits registered voter to request and receive absentee ballot for any reason.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public. *
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 7 years. *
Revises "Charitable Registration and Investigation Act." *
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.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
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 · 33
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Makes volunteer firefighter appointed to paid position eligible for PFRS membership through age 40.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $13,708,385 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," federal funds, and 1978 Green Acres bond fund, and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for "urban aid" and other local government open space acquisition an
Creates Independent Prosecutor to investigate State Police misconduct.
Amends requirement for certain housing authority and redevelopment agency members to satisfactorily complete course of study.
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.
Permits certain motor vehicle offenders to apply for a restricted use license.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
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.
Provides SHBP coverage for certain services by marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers. *
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 human stem cell research in New Jersey.
Authorizes State Treasurer to sell surplus real property and improvements in Township of West Orange, Essex County to Kessler Institute.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Exempts rentals between closely related business entities from the sales and use tax.
Establishes 27-member New Jersey African-American Reconciliation Study Commission. *
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Establishes professional standards for county sheriffs and their employees.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger. *
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. *
Creates program in HMFA to assist participants in federal section 8 home ownership program.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
In committee · 56
Increases payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property owned by the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
Expands the Tuition Aid Grant program to part-time undergraduates.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Requires a program of educational improvement assessment in State-operated school districts.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHSS for grant to Jewish Community Centers Metro West.
Requires mandatory incarceration for motor vehicle theft offenses.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Makes paid leave to attend police and firefighter conventions discretionary.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Reallocates $675,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding within Division of Developmental Disabilities to provide grant to Arc of Essex county and Arc of Bergen-Passaic counties.
Increases certain TPAF and PERS retirement allowances for veterans.
Requires heir to undergo criminal background check before taking possession of firearm.
Permits police officer to impound uninsured motor vehicle.
Holds parents civilly liable for damages from false fire alarms and bomb threats by their children and imposes mandatory penalties on juveniles who commit these acts.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in calendar year 2006.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHS for grant to Main St. Counseling Center.
Supplemental appropriation of $65,000 to DHS for grant to Noah's Ark Children's Association.
Requires candidates for initial teaching certificates to undergo criminal history record check.
Requires State Police to establish trooper performance database and early warning system.
Permits persons convicted of certain third degree offenses to be employed by a school district or a DOE supervised entity after proving rehabilitation.
Raises minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Upgrades penalties for motor vehicle theft offenses.
"New Jersey Patient Safety Act"; makes self-critical analysis by health care facility privileged information.
Establishes 30-day grace period for consumer to cancel contract for cellular telephone service.
Provides for State assumption of the costs of the county prosecutors' offices.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Establishes New Jersey Rx Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
"New Jersey Fair Market Drug Pricing Act"; establishes New Jersey Rx Card Program to reduce prescription drug prices.
Creates a new crime of "video voyeurism."
Requires professional campaign fund raisers to register and file reports with ELEC.
Prohibits solicitation of political contributions on State property.
Prohibits siting of correctional facilities and treatment centers for sex offenders and sexually violent predators within one mile of any residential area.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Revises laws limiting access to sterile syringes and hypodermic needles to prevent spread of blood-borne diseases.
Increases veterans benefits for members and retirees of Board of Education Employees' Pension Fund of Essex County.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires Office of Attorney General to provide annual gang education seminars for school administrators.
Directs Commissioner of Community Affairs to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furnishings purchased by public and independent institutions of higher education.
Requires DCA to promulgate certain fire safety regulations concerning furniture and furnishings purchased for use in residential premises and public buildings.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns employment status of minors with respect to workers' compensation.