Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Robert J. Smith II
Sponsored
Became law5
Prohibits use of cell phone while driving school bus.
Permits the establishment of athletic codes of conduct; requires anger management counseling prior to resuming attendance. *
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. *
Criminalizes defrauding administration of a drug test. *
Prohibits employment at certain airports of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Passed the General Assembly11
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Prohibits managed care carriers providing prescription drug coverage from requiring covered persons to purchase prescription drugs that are in form of double-dose tablets or pills.
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Prohibits municipalities from using State funds for installation, purchase, replacement or restoration of boardwalks using tropical wood.
Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Prohibits harvest, landing, processing or sale of wild sargassum in NJ.
Prohibits use of social security numbers on deeds and mortgages.
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants. *
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility. *
Requires DHSS to report to Legislature on NJ EASE program.
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. *
Out of committee14
Classifies burglary of a residence as a crime of the second degree.
Prohibits the siting or construction of underground storage tanks within 100 yards of drinking water wells. *
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault at youth sports events.
Permits school districts to exceed the aid-in-lieu-of transportation amount when accepting bids for nonpublic school transportation in the case of subscription busing.
Authorizes free State park admission and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for persons with certain types of military service.
Increases voluntary municipal pension to survivors of volunteer firefighters or first aid squad members and extends payment to widowers of such persons.
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school. *
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutors' offices.
Provides for notification to pregnant women about mercury health advisories in consumption of fish. *
Requires radon testing and posting of radon test results at nonpublic schools.
The "New Jersey Freedom to Fish Act."
Establishes organic certification program in Department of Agriculture.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee54
Abolishes battleship commission and foundation; transfers funds to special account.
Requires mandatory random drug testing for certain conditional release defendants.
Criminalizes inadequate parental supervision under certain circumstances when juveniles commit criminal acts.
Revises requirements for certain handgun sales; requires ballistics identifiers be submitted to qualified databases.
Increases fine for failure to use child passenger restraint in motor vehicle.
Creates rebuttable presumption in certain cases of drugged driving.
Provides due process to county investigators in dismissal actions.
Appropriates $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Gloucester County Fire Academy.
Supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund grant to Gloucester County for historic church cemetery clean-up.
Requires notification of parent for treatment or procedures to be performed on unemancipated pregnant minors.
Establishes sales tax holidays for certain sales of personal computers and sales of school supplies and equipment from August 26 through September 2, 2001.
Appropriates $100,000 to DEP for Monroe Township water contamination study.
Creates the "Judicial and Prosecutorial Facilities Construction Assistance Act."
Establishes "Project Lifesaver Pilot Program" in Gloucester county; apropriates $1 million.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from the General Fund to the Department of the Treasury for a publicity program for the senior and disabled citizens property tax freeze reimbursement program.
Allocates certain costs of implementing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system.
Authorizes Girl Scouts license plate.
Requires automatic recount of vote in certain elections.
Establishes electronic system for monitoring dispensing of Schedule II through V controlled substances.
Excludes from gross income under the gross income tax certain U.S. military compensation paid to reservists and National Guard members.
Reduces fee and increases to five years validity of identification card permitting retired police officers to carry handguns.
Creates striped bass license plates.
Authorizes municipalities to provide free day care services to children of volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members.
Creates consumer complaint office in DCA regarding new home construction; requires publication of booklet explaining rights and warranties.
Revokes authorization to issue temporary water diversion permits.
Allows person to deduct alimony payments to determine eligibility for PAAD and Senior Gold prescription programs.
Requires payment in lieu of taxes to municipality when State college or university purchases property for use as student residence.
Allows berthing of houseboats at State marinas under certain circumstances.
Requires public notice of completion of cetain DEP environmental studies.
Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.
Criminalizes misrepresentation to law enforcement officer during a body search that defendant does not possess any potentially dangerous instrument.
Authorizes "Fallen Firefighter" license plates; establishes scholarship program for children of fallen firefighters.
Extends temporary registrations to 60 days for passenger vehicles of residents.
Changes age, permit term and firing range qualification for retired police officers authorized to carry firearms.
Provides for admissibility of results of single breathalyzer test if motor vehicle operator refuses to submit to subsequent test.
Requires DOBI to provide certain information to pinelands insurers.
Increases payment upon retirement for unused sick leave from a maximum of $15,000 to a maximum of $20,000.
Requires posting of signs near lakes in State parks and forests warning of thin ice.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DCA for grant to Gloucester Township for municipal aid.
Empowers United States Department of Defense police officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Provides that area surrounding a child care center and playground be designated as a drug free zone.
Permits Municipal Court to waive marriage license waiting period in emergency.
Revises qualifications for Director of Division of Parks and Forestry in DEP.
Designates Jersey tomato as State Fruit.
Clarifies that "entering " a public place for a drug deal is conduct included in C.2C:33-2.1.
Excludes from taxation under Corporate Business Tax certain sales of land for open space and farmland preservation.
Requires DYFS to take certain actions to ensure caseworker safety.
Requires pedestrians to yield right of way to authorized emergency vehicles and drivers to move over or slow down for parked authorized emergency vehicles.
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to assistant prosecutors.
Prohibits financial institutions from discriminating against individuals subject to State or federal activation into military service.
Provides checkoff on gross income tax returns for voluntary contributions to marine fisheries programs.
Clarifies law concerning collection of fish for scientific purposes with respect to National Marine Fisheries Service's set-aside program.
Prohibits financial institutions from discriminating against individuals subject to State or federal activation into military service.
Requires owner to report theft of firearm to police within 72 hours.
Filed1
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants.
Carried from the Senate
Became law7
Upgrades simple assault to aggravated assault at youth sports events.
Provides for notification to pregnant women about mercury health advisories in consumption of fish. *
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Grants certain rights, privileges and protections to investigators in the county prosecutor's offices.
Establishes organic certification program in Department of Agriculture.
Prohibits discharge of untreated or pre-treated wastewater from Superfund former landfill sites into publicly owned treatment works; and imposes certain remediation requirements on Superfund former landfill sites with radionuclide pollutants.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 37
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Lowers age of consent for minors to donate blood without parental permission to 17.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Designates main office building of DOT as "David J. Goldberg Transportation Building."
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Requires meningococcal vaccinations for new residential students at four-year institutions of higher education. *
Repeals certain statutory provisions concerning the taking and management of lobster and requires annual DEP report of lobster resource.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Requires DHSS to establish list of animal control officers found guilty of or liable for violating any animal cruelty law; and prohibits persons on that list from being animal control officers for a municipality. *
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.
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 persons convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register under Megan's Law.
Requires persons convicted of manufacturing or selling child pornography to register under Megan's Law.
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
Provides criminal penalties for unlawful solid waste disposal.
Upgrades motor vehicle and criminal penalties for leaving the scene of an accident.
Makes it an unlawful practice for retailers to sell or install motor vehicle window tinting without first informing customer of State restrictions.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses; and increases penalty for certain repeat offenders.
Provides legislative authorization for certain projects of the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Upgrades penalties for theft of identity and the selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting of false government documents; allows for civil action for victims of identity theft. *
Adds two members to Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
Outlines a program to improve highway safety.
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.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Passed the General Assembly · 30
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Regulates certain electronic mail solicitations.
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Establishes the New Jersey Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Study Commission.
Prohibits the sale of androstenedione to minors.
Provides for posting of radon testing results in public schools.
Establishes New Jersey Water Supply and Contamination Study Commission.
Upgrades penalty for misusing public utility employee identification badge; establishes penalties for making, selling or possessing simulated public utility employee identification badge.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Requires examinations of joint insurance funds and certain reporting by those funds.
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.
Requires retail mercantile establishments to notify customers when sell-by date of pre-packaged meat is extended.*
Removes return postage requirement for sample ballots for inactive voters.
Establishes certain customer protection requirements for cable televison customers.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Prohibits sale or distribution of cigarettes in packs of less than 20.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing." *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Clarifies definition of illegal gambling to address Internet gambling; voids credit card debt incurred through illegal gambling; authorizes State to recover illegal gambling losses. *
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission." *
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 45
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain police and firefighter members of PFRS.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations. *
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Appropriates $56 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Establishes driving while fatigued as recklessness under vehicular homicide statute.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Concerns compensation for care and treatment of public safety workers exposed to communicable diseases.
Permits certain authorized county zoo employees to possess and use certain firearms and devices for public safety purposes.
Requires certain background checks for assisted living administrators and applicants for certificate of need.
Eliminates fee for certain firefighter certifications.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Appropriates $368,700 to Agricultural Experiment Station for oyster revitalization.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Designated as the Senior Property Tax Freeze Protection Act; extends annual deadline for filing application for homestead property tax reimbursement to June 1. *
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
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.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Requires the Delaware River and Bay Authority to hold hearings prior to increasing tolls, charges or fares, requires submission of yearly reports, declares authority records to be public and requires a limit on authority expenses.
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.
Requires clinical trial sponsor to provide certain information to New Jersey residents concerning continued payment for medication after clinical trial. *
Prohibits sale of products containing ephedrine alkaloids to minors under 18 years of age. *
Appropriates $40 million from Hazardous Discharge Fund of 1986 to Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for cleanup of contaminated sites; cancels previous appropriation; replaces canceled appropriation with $40 million from 1996 Environmental Cleanu
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Amends "Three Strikes" law to clarify that it applies to crimes committed on separate occasions regardless of the dates of conviction. *
Extends limit for nonpublic school busing to 30 miles in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren Counties. *
Disqualifies juvenile delinquents whose offenses involve use or possession of a weapon, explosive or destructive device from obtaining either a firearms purchaser identification card or a permit to purchase a handgun.
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances.
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting the display of American flag. *
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
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.
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. *
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Requires certain long-term care facilities to provide list of certain services related to care of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
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The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for expansion and refurbishment of fire training facilities at Camden County Fire Academy.
Authorizes free admission to State parks and forests and free hunting, fishing, and trapping licences for retired members of NJ National Guard.
Appropriates $2 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Authorizes payment of unemployment benefits during leave related to birth and adoption.
Creates interest free loan program for State residents who are members of National Guard and Reserves called to federal active duty.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Revises provisions of the "Coastal Area Facility Review Act."
Establishes a computers for schools program in DOC.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
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.
Permits aid to State supervised municipalities to eliminate structural deficit.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to report directly to Governor.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Establishes the Office on Women's Health in DHSS.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Appropriates $50,000 to DMVA for transportation pilot program to provide veterans' medical transportation.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Increases TPAF cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Increases personal needs allowance to $50 for those persons currently residing in nursing facilities, State hospitals or State developmental centers.
Provides a refundable gross income tax credit for certain prescription drug expenses.
Establishes school property tax freeze program for resident homeowners age 65 or older and disabled homeowners.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Prohibits public employer from changing terms and conditions of employment prior to reaching agreement with public employee representative.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes Nursing Student Support Program.
Establishes minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Permits automotive collecting activities on residential property outside of ordinary public view.
Grants 90-day grace period for payment of property taxes by seniors and longer period for participants in senior freeze act.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Creates grant program for nonprofit animal welfare organizations; appropriates $100,000.
The "Multiple Dwelling State Tax Credit Act."
Creates continuing education and nurse recruitment pilot program in DMVA; appropriates $348,000.
Prohibits erection of communications tower facilities in certain circumstances.
Prohibits a communications tower facility from being erected within 200 feet of a public or private school or a child care center.
Prohibits employment discrimination by public employers against volunteer fire, ambulance, first aid or rescue personnel.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom" and members of reserve and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Extends eligibility for veterans' property tax deduction to residents of continuing care retirement communities.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Requires State Treasurer to provide long term care insurance plan for local public employers to offer to employees and retirees at own expense.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in calendar year 2006.
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.
The "School Employees Contract Resolution and Equity Act."
Requires the Pinelands Commission to include the recommendations of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service for protecting property from wildfire in all its future publications.
Establishes the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in the DEP and appropriates $200,000.
Directs State Police to develop hand alert for children to signal they are in danger.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Requires State contractors to provide employment information.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Provides gross income tax deduction for three years of nursing pay for new enrollees in nursing education programs.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Requires licenses in business of firearms repair to obtain ballistics identifiers before returning a rifle or handgun to its owner.
Authorizes municipalities to require conformity with traffic performance objectives as a condition of subdivision or site plan approval.
Regulates temporary help service firms as employment agencies, enforces collection of unemployment insurance taxes and other payroll assessments.
Clarifies provisions in "Law Against Discrimination" barring discrimination on the basis on familial status in employment.
Criminalizes certain acts involving invading a person's privacy.
Prohibits unilateral changing of terms and conditions of employment by public employers.
Requires disclosure by contractor of cost of construction permits required for construction or reconstruction of residential premises.
Affords exemption from "deadly force" justification standards for police using less-lethal ammunition.
Affords emergency services peer counselors confidentiality privileges.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Allows hunters, anglers, and trappers to cover over or mask Social Security Numbers displayed on hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses.
Filed · 1
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless driver is on board.