Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Bernard F. Kenny Jr.
Sponsored
Became law6
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. ***
Changes loan rate and adjustment rate for retirement system established in first class city with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to change any date in the school budget and election calendar due to a conflict with a day of religious observance.
Increases the percentage of Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund grants which may be used within student-support facilities.
Clarifies fee schedules for certain service of process fees in the Special Civil Part of the Superior Court.
Makes various changes to "Long Term Tax Exemption Law."
Out of committee11
Designates certain persons to serve as nonpartisan agents to assist incapacitated absentee voters.
Requires erection of fire barriers in certain cocklofts. **
Establishes September 11th Memorial License Plate; dedicates fees therefrom to support a memorial and victims injured in attack.
Business Tax Reform Act; revises and updates the corporation business tax and establishes filing fees for certain returns.
Permits cost of living adjustments for retired county employees and beneficiaries from certain county pension funds.
Validates redevelopment activities of governing bodies of certain cities of the second class located in counties of the first class from 1993 to present.
Concerns public works contractor registration.
Redirects $325 million in payroll taxes from UI fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund, changes employer UI tax triggers.
"Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act." *
Establishes supplemental realty transfer fee on certain transfers.*
Modifies SHBP benefits for State employees; provides for alternate disciplinary review procedure for State employees pursuant to contract negotiations.
In committee26
Designates Jersey City Medical Center as the State's specialty acute care children's hospital for Hudson County.
Requires investigation and cleanup of industrial establishments to be developed for residential housing.
"The New Jersey Living Wage Act"; sets minimum wage and benefit standards for businesses contracting with or assisted by public bodies.
Requires the Governor's annual budget recommendations to establish the State share of public school costs at 50 percent by dedicating growth in certain State revenues.
Provides payment to local public employers for post-retirement health care benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Concerns the purchase of apparel by public bodies.
Permits municipal law enforcement officers to contract with nonprofit development corporations to provide private security services in certain cases.
Grants roadside diesel bus and truck emissions inspection authority to certain municipal police; grants authority to certain police for random inspections for size and weight.
Requires certain public school and child care center employees to hold CPR certification.
Provides low interest loans to persons who need to acquire a new home because they have been forced to vacate their homes due to the presence of hazardous substances.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,750,000 to Department of Community Affairs for a grant to the Park Performing Arts Center in Union City.
Requires State to reimburse counties for housing juvenile offenders at rate equal to their actual cost.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in the Abbott districts to assist students with print disabilities.
Authorizes school districts and charter school trustees to enter into interlocal service agreements with municipalities for school crossing guard services; gives boards of education primary responsibility to hire and assign school crossing guards.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,250,000 to DCA for grants to Hoboken, Weehawken, West New York and Gutenberg for restoration and development of Hudson River piers for park and recreation purposes.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Bans sale of mercury thermometers.
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district in certain municipalities.
Clarifies legislative intent with respect to use of certain monies included in the FY 2002 appropriations act.
Establishes "New Jersey Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Policy Study Commission."
Appropriates $1 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to nonprofit organization "Save Ellis Island!" to restore Ellis Island, NJ.
Makes various supplemental appropriations of $444,700,000 from the General Fund for various purposes for fiscal year 2003.
Modifies certain provisions concerning automobile insurance.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Permits person entitled to bring action for wrongful death based upon the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to commence action up until September 11, 2004.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires Department of Transportation to establish an emergency response priority control system study program. *
Eliminates remarriage prohibition for PFRS and SPRS accidental death benefits. *
Makes various changes to the "Neighborhood Revitalization State Tax Credit Act."
Provides appropriations act provision concerning the transportation of school pupils in certain remote schools in certain counties.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Establishes the Tax Lien Financing Corporation.
Appropriates $400,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Passed the Senate · 5
Increases membership of PFRS board of trustees from 11 to 19 members.
Establishes Inmate Education and Vocational Training Study Commission. *
Designates third Saturday in June of each year "Juneteenth Independence Day" in New Jersey.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $350,000 to DCA for a grant to ASPIRA. *
Provides funding mechanism for Fiscal Year 2004 business employment incentive program grants using certain unanticipated Fiscal Year 2003 State corporation business tax revenues.
Out of committee · 8
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,500,000 to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Newark City's plane crash costs.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Redirects $125 million in payroll taxes from UI Fund to Health Care Subsidy Fund.
Credits all prior PERS service of county prosecutors in Prosecutors Part at no additional cost.
Authorizes counties to increase the number of appointed board members on county vocational school district boards of education. *
Enhances the New Jersey Business Employment Incentive Program for targeted economic development and provides funding for incentives through New Jersey Economic Development Authority bonds. *
In committee · 18
Establishes "Child Care Center Capital Project Grant Fund Program" in DHS; appropriates $1.5 million.
Provides Corporation Business Tax credit for use of treated effluent in industrial facilities.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes "New Jersey Anti-Hunger Initiative"; appropriates $500,000.
Eliminates motor vehicle registration fees for certain entities.
Modifies definition of Abbott districts to include urban districts within DOE's district factor groupings A or B.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey; provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Bans consent searches of motor vehicles by State and local law enforcement officers.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 for an endowment to the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center to be established at Kean University.
"Dignity in Home Care Act"; provides for increases in Medicaid reimbursements to home health agencies for direct care worker salaries; appropriates $10 million in State and $10 million in federal funds.
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.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS of $1,560,000 to provide grants for rodent control programs in municipalities with Abbott school districts.
Phases in official advertising rate increases; provides for biennial rate adjustments thereafter upon CPI changes.
Establishes Quality Home Care Councils; appropriates $1.5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $300,000 to DHSS for a grant to Integrity, Inc.