Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph V. Doria Jr.
Sponsored
Became law8
Permits charter schools to construct facilities with federal funds.
Permits cost of living adjustments for retired county employees and beneficiaries from certain county pension funds.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Provides that the three proprietary schools currently authorized to offer degree programs will have seats on the New Jersey Presidents' Council and that one proprietary school president shall sit on the executive board. *
The "Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation Act."
Appropriates $185,376 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for New Jersey City University.
Allows school boards to establish 457 deferred compensation plans for employees.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Passed the General Assembly4
Modifies application of certain homeowners insurance deductibles in certain urban areas.
Permits Director of ABC to grant plenary winery license under certain circumstances.
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technoloy initiative State aid for nonpublic school students. *
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Out of committee17
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Encourages the development of character education programs.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.*
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Establishes the Higher Education Master Plan Commission in the Legislative Branch of State government. *
Provides counseling and prenatal care information to pregnant women who test positive for HIV.
Allows counties and local contracting units to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage. *
Prohibits blocking of caller identification.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to increase the State share of certain county vocational school district school facilities projects.
Authorizes transfer of any title at any point during the term of a local unit lease purchase agreement or contract.
Provides that elected school board members serve until expiration of terms if school district elects to become a Type I school district.
Prohibits DEP from granting any exemptions from the requirement of registration for any proposed solid waste collection activity, solid waste facility or solid waste disposal operation.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
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Makes the cloning of a human being a crime of the first degree and provides that an individual's genetic information is the property of the individual.
Directs NJ Transit to designate a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System station in Jersey City the Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under individual health benefits plans.
Permits choice of provider for treatment of diseases and conditions covered under small employer health benefits plans.
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Requires managed care entities to offer option permitting enrollee to use health care provider of choice.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Makes certain changes regarding transfer of service credit among certain retirement systems and inclusion of certain service for meeting various threshold requirements, including paid health benefits coverage for retirees.
Provides for the inclusion of certain district factor group A or B districts based on 1990 census data within the Abbott district definition.
Provides additional funds for local units awarded federal grants for firefighting personnel, equipment, and fire safety education and enforcement.
Revises operations of Individual Health Coverage and Small Employer Health Benefits programs.
Caps supplemental compensation for unused sick leave for school administrators at $15,000.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county and county college employees and certain municipal employees who retire between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS who retire between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF who are employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions who retire between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $6 million to DMVA for renovation and restoration of Jersey City Armory.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Establishes Transportation Project Capital Fund.
Establishes a loan redemption program for teachers employed in public or nonpublic schools in the State.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Amends wrongful death act to expand damages available.
Creates E-ZPass "Bill of Rights."
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Creates a Land Use Court.
Changes criteria of vacancy in Legislature from extended absence from county to extended absence from district.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to UMDNJ for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Establishes the "Workplace Violence Safety Act."
Requires certain employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.
Designated the "Comprehensive Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Act;" appropriates $8 million.
Requires a program of educational improvement assessment in State-operated school districts.
Prohibits distributions by public utilities while not in compliance with BPU order.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Establishes the Garden State New Millennium Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Reduces to 5 years length of continuous residency requirement to qualify for homestead property tax reimbursement.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Establishes a working group in the DOE to develop an approach to returning State-operated school districts to local control.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 from the General fund to the Department of Education for apprenticeship training programs related to the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act."
Imposes 6% tax on certain political contributions.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts by the 2005-2006 school year and establishes a Statewide uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Establishes system of public financing for primary and general election campaigns for office of member of Legislature.
Requires DHSS to designate New Jersey Safety Net Hospitals.
Provides pension enhancement to certain future retirees of county pension fund.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in licensed health care facilities.
Prohibits insurers from discriminating against insureds on the basis of domestic violence.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Exempts teachers from foreign countries from teacher citizenship requirements and permits boards of education to temporarily employ such teachers.
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain State employees and employees of certain State autonomous authorities. *
Authorizes Commissioner of Education to make adjustments in the school budget and election calendar and to certain notification dates for the 2002-2003 school year.
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Authorizes appointment of two deputy municipal clerks in certain municipalities.
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Provides for the designation of successor contributors in the event of the death of the original contributor in the NJBEST Program and allows anyone to make a contribution to an account. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations, and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county, county college, and municipal employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
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."
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
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.
Amends local bond law regarding debt repayment schedules.
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 21
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.
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Permits school districts to purchase property with surplus funds without voter approval and without indicating the item separately in the district's budget.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Clarifies that school bus for purpose of upgraded penalties in "school zone" criminal drug laws includes any bus owned and operated by board of education or by private contractor.
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.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsements and requires the board to continue issuing endorsements for industrial arts. *
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. *
Revises requirements for DEP checklists.
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Prohibits sale of tobacco products in vending machines and establishes requirements for retail sales of tobacco.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Concerns workers' compensation for occupational disease claims and workers' compensation benefits rates for surviving dependents.
Permits use of Health Care Subsidy Fund for Medicaid expenses in FY2002; redirects $650,000,000 in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund; provides extended UI benefits. *
Limits ballot question on reclassification of school district to once every five years.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Provides for the licensure of certain crane operators. *
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school. *
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.
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Revises statutes regarding physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Requires health benefits coverage for certain therapies and applied behavioral analysis for the treatment of certain autism disorders.
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Requires public school districts to apply all attendance and courses studied at county juvenile detention centers toward district requirements for graduation.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
"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. *
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in certain public and nonpublic school buildings.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
Requires health care providers to offer parents of infants option to screen for disorders for which State does not require screening.
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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.
Appropriates $16 million to DHSS for grants of $2 million each to the State's designated children's hospitals.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Extends overtime pay requirements to certain workers.
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires health benefits coverage for prescription drugs for treatment of epilepsy.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Increases minimum wage.
Concerns disqualification from unemployment benefits.
Provides family leave insurance.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Expands Medicaid to cover additional disabled children.
Establishes special license plates supporting literacy programs.
Allows certain State employee disciplinary matters to be submitted to binding arbitration.
Requires certain tax-exempt institutions to reimburse school districts for the local educational costs of students who reside in tax-exempt institutional facilities and are enrolled in the district.
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Permits municipal ordinances regulating time, place, manner and frequency of blasting activities.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
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.
Establishes evidentiary privilege for environmental audits in certain cases.
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.
Permits municipality under State supervision to reduce operating costs through employee early retirement and termination incentive program.
Authorizes DMV to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
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.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Establishes pilot program for dual real property tax rate system.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursement to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
Authorizes Commissioner of Labor to issue certifications and promulgate regulations in connection with the siting, location and operation of mines and quarries.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Authorizes leave for parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Creates the "New Jersey Electronic Transactions Act."
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.
Appropriates $5 million to downtown business improvement loan fund in DCA.
"Preferred Provider Protection Act."
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Amends definition of Circle of Mobility.
Establishes "New Jersey Health Care Improvement Trust Fund."
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Concerns private entities that own, operate or manage correctional facilities or jails.
Provides for the reduction of employee contribution rates when employer contribution rates are reduced in State-administered retirement systems.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
"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.
Increases annual income limitation to receive senior and disabled citizens' property tax deduction to $15,000.
Prohibits public institutions of higher education from permitting direct solicitation of students for credit card accounts.
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.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
"Business Incentive for Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Directs the State Board of Education to establish certification requirements for athletic coaches at public secondary schools.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Exempts from TPAF reenrollment reemployed retired certificated teachers.
Prohibits managed care plans from refusing payment to or contracts with health care providers who engage in certain communications with patients.
Provides for awarding contract to one of three lowest bidders under "Local Public Contract Law."
Requires development of State and county mosquito control plans; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Save Ellis Island, Inc.
Authorizes "Save Ellis Island" license plate.
Directs DHSS to prepare and disseminate informational materials about prescription drug programs for senior citizens and disabled persons.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Authorizes school boards to adopt a drug testing policy of student athletes.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
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.
Requires State responsibility for tuition costs for certain children whose parents reside in a State facility.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Concerns certain claims eligible for coverage under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund.
Permits purchase of TPAF credit for certain nonpublic school service.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Allows school boards to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires photographs on identification cards for health care professionals issued by professional licensing boards.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Creates the "Court Facilities Act of 2004."
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Designates five State songs.
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.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Requires certain change to school district teacher salary schedule under certain circumstances.
Revises funding allocation formulas under the Garden State Preservation Trust Act.
Prohibits siting of correctional facilities and treatment centers for sex offenders and sexually violent predators within one mile of any residential area.
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Revises "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Revises requirements for DEP technical manuals.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Provides certain information obtained by a legislator be considered confidential and not subject to disclosure.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Requires certain testing and medical examinations of home-schooled children.
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Permits use of Health Care Subsidy Fund for Medicaid expenses in FY2002; redirects $650,000,000 in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund; provides extended UI benefits.