Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Anthony Impreveduto
Sponsored
Became law7
Permits wine tastings and samplings by certain Class C alcoholic beverage licensees.
Requires gift certificates to be valid until redeemed unless conditions and limitations are fully disclosed.
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Enacts new law to regulate and license pharmacists.
Concerns eligibility of certain standardbred horses for Sire Stakes Program.
Revises statutes regulating the practice of veterinary medicine.
Reduces standard nonforfeiture rate for certain individual deferred annuities.
Passed the General Assembly6
Requires a dealer to disclose missing or defective emission control equipment in a used motor vehicle under certain circumstances, and exempts certain motor vehicles from regulation.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Provides for fast track permitting of biotechnology related industries.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Permits school districts to purchase property with surplus funds without voter approval and without indicating the item separately in the district's budget.
Subjects minor subdivisions to the provisions of the Map Filing Law.
Out of committee20
Requires instruction on compulsive gambling to be included as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. *
Requires NJT to install mile markers and develop emergency response access plan for railroad lines.
Authorizes municipalities to impose room tax on hotels with more than 100 guest rooms.
Requires verification of certain credit card applications before processing them.
Allows subsequent sets of personalized, courtesy, or special license plates on leased vehicles from different lessors with certain exceptions. *
Revises various provisions of the "Home Inspection Professional Licensing Act."
Increases applicants' annual minimum allocation of transferable tax benefits under the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program.
Makes permanent the 15 year corporation business tax research and development credit carryforward period for corporations making certain high-technology investments.
Includes certain payments by cigarette manufacturers in the price received for cigarettes by wholesalers and retailers.
Requires health care facilities provide copy of bill to patients.
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.
Increases the percentage of Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund grants which may be used within student-support facilities.
Authorizes local issuing authorities to receive certain monetary penalties and reimbursements from alcohol beverage licensees.
Releases certain purchasers of public property from reverter clause under certain circumstances.
Provides for the registration of daily money managers.
Requires HMOs that contract with DHS to reimburse hospitals for emergency services based on cost of those services.
Removes requirement that elected officials in municipalities operating under commission form of government publish election and campaign expenses.
Modifies certain provisions concerning automobile insurance.
Permits the incorporation of ophthalmic dispensers and technicians.
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Revises statutes regulating the practice of veterinary medicine.
Prohibits HMOs from denying provider participation to orthotists, prosthetists and pedorthists willing to meet terms of HMO contract.
Permits pharmacists to change prescription dosage forms.
Imposes mandatory penalties on juveniles adjudicated delinquent for promoting gambling.
Authorizes DMV to give refunds for unexpired portions of motor vehicle registration periods in certain cases.
Allows employee selection of physician and medical services under workers' compensation.
Provides consumer remedy for failure to deliver merchandise or service at time promised.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
Requires only at-fault accidents to appear on DMV driving records.
Requires school principals report student offenses to law enforcement agencies.
Authorizes Casino Control Commission to permit Atlantic City casinos to offer Internet casino gambling.
Requires health insurers to provide certain reimbursement for hearing aids.
Regulates rates for certain pay telephone calls.
Exempts certain motor vehicles from inspections.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Creates New Jersey Regulatory Improvement Advisory Council; requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis for certain State regulatory actions.
Changes requirements as to when HMDC shall notify concerned municipalities of plans for development in district.
Increases notary public fees.
Requires two-way communications equipment on school buses.
Extends scope of licensure and increases certain license fees under cigarette excise tax; revises "Unfair Cigarette Sales Act of 1952"; dedicates 25% of license fee revenue for enforcement of unfair sales act.
Creates Innovative Technologies Advisory Board in DEP.
Excludes Roth IRA rollover income from income measure under NJSAVER and homestead rebate program, gross income tax medical expense deduction, PAAD qualification and property tax "freeze" program qualification.
Prohibits HMOs participating in Medicaid program from denying provider participation if provider meets terms of contract; requires disclosure of reasons for termination of provider.
Directs the State Board of Education to establish certification requirements for athletic coaches at public secondary schools.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for certain laser vision correction surgeries.
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district in certain municipalities.
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.
Revises the requirements for licensure as a cosmetologist-hairstylist to permit an apprenticeship program.
Provides that instruction in world languages shall not be required in public schools during the 2002-2003 school year.
Clarifies county responsibility for costs related to county prosecutor.
Requires small employer health benefits plans to provide unlimited coverage for home health care and private duty nursing.
Prohibits Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from permitting any entity to establish or operate a regional perinatal center without a certificate of need.
Establishes demonstration project to permit hospitals in Middlesex and Somerset counties to be exempt from certain certificate of need requirements for 5-year period.
Allows school boards to offer incentive to waive SHBP coverage to employees eligible for spouse's health care coverage.
Revises qualifications and specifies appointment titles of county corrections officers.
Prohibits use of remote control technology in rail operations except when operated by certified locomotive engineer.
Prohibits transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail or computer contaminant.
Criminalizes transmission of certain unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages.
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Revises "Respiratory Care Practitioner Licensing Act."
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Exempts crane operators engaged in tree care operations from licensure requirements.
Provides for cost of living adjustments in pension allowances and survivor benefits payable to certain retirants from certain county pension funds.
Requires certain Internet operators to remove defamatory materials and to disclose account information to defamed individuals.
Requires registration of qualified journeyman electricians and modifies exemption for certain electrical work by public electric utilities and homeowners.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program.
Increases the percentage of Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund grants which may be used within student-support facilities.
Revises "grandfathering" provisions for eligibility to be a licensed home inspector. **
Revises statutes regarding practice of physical therapy.
Removes requirement that elected officials in municipalities operating under commission form of government publish election and campaign expenses.
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Makes vehicle title fraud a third degree crime.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
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.
Increases membership of the State Board of Mortuary Science of New Jersey.
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. *
Provides criminal penalties for unlawful solid waste disposal.
Appropriates $185,376 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for New Jersey City University.
Empowers Federal Reserve law enforcement officers to make arrests for certain violations of New Jersey law.
Deregulates policy forms used by surplus lines insurers.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Provides protections for insurance producers doing business with insurers transferring business to another company.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. *
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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.
Imposes a State hotel and motel occupancy fee; authorizes a municipal hotel and motel occupancy tax by certain municipalities.
"Domestic Partnership Act"; establishes domestic partnerships. *
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Passed the General Assembly · 22
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Requires certain information to be included in a retailer's advertisement of merchandise for sale.
Makes theft of E-ZPass transponder a fourth degree crime. *
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements. *
Regulates issuance of honorary law enforcement badges.
Entitles certain family members to copies of DMV notices concerning retesting.
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Permits certain licensed individuals, when advertising, to use their legal names, maiden names or nicknames under certain circumstances.
Repeals provision allowing vehicles, under certain conditions, to enter and proceed through stop intersection without stopping twice.
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Authorizes creation of sports and entertainment district in certain municipalities.
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.
Revises continuing education requirements for dental hygienists.
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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. *
Out of committee · 37
Establishes certain penalties for transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail. *
Requires payment of prevailing wages in construction related to New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and EDA assistance. *
Requires NJT to comment on certain local applications for development.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
"Nutritionist Licensing Act."
Revises references pertaining to podiatrists in statutes.
Establishes a Learning Through Listening Program in public school districts to assist students with print disabilities.*
Establishes a community service/loan redemption program for pharmacists.
Provides for the registration and regulation of athlete agents.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Establishes United We Stand license plate to support United States State Department's Rewards for Justice Program. *
Extends by 15 days the times for distribution of a portion of the Energy Tax Receipts Property Tax Relief Fund aid to be paid to calendar year municipalities.
Prohibits certain persons from advertising themselves as possessing safety professional certification.
Permits fiduciaries to employ and compensate accountants from fiduciary funds and permits certain out-of-state banks to be treated similarly as New Jersey banks. *
Amends and supplements the "New Jersey Parentage Act," establishing new procedures concerning blood or genetic testing.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires that signs be posted on certain roads and highways memorializing victims of alcohol-impaired drivers.
Requires clinical trial sponsor to provide certain information to New Jersey residents concerning continued payment for medication after clinical trial. *
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
Exempts limousines used in connection with funeral services from the requirements that drivers have commercial driver's license.
Establishes Advisory Committee on Alternatively Accredited Medical School Clinical Clerkships and provides for clinical clerkships for students from foreign medical schools.
Requires backup monitoring device or rear cross-view mirrors on certain commercial delivery vehicles.
Provides that State contract involving purchase of intellectual property will include escrow agreement.
Requires landlords to maintain list of tenants for emergencies and clarifies that unit owners rather than common interest associations are required to file certificate of registration.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
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.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
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.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in certain public and nonpublic school buildings.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
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.
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Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Establishes State Pediatric Epilepsy Resource Program; appropriates $50,000.
Concerns reemployment services and training programs.
Requires health insurers to cover Hepatitis B vaccination costs.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.
Creates strict liability and criminal sanctions for owners of certain trucks involved in certain fatal crashes.
Requires semi-annual safety inspections of certain trucks.
Mandates basic training for certain newly-appointed entry-level firefighters and supervisory training for full-time firefighters promoted to certain positions.
Requires certain contracts and warranties to be printed in at least 10-point bold type.
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.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Establishes certain minimum levels for expenditures of dedicated open space monies for projects in urban areas and for recreation projects Statewide.
Supplemental appropriation for $250,000 to DHS for a grant to the New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership.
Establishes Task Force on Equitable Compensation; appropriates $95,000.
Requires certain businesses to post hazardous substance warning placards under certain circumstances.
Supplemental appropriation of $22.9 million in General and federal Funds to DHSS for supplemental charity care.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2001-2002 school year.
Establishes criminal penalties for operating or participating in pyramid promotional schemes.
Permits municipalities to enter into agreements with other municipalities to create Highway Corridor Redevelopment Zone Commission; authorizes measures to stimulate economic activity within highway corridor redevelopment zones.
Enhances tax relief under the NJ SAVER and Homestead Rebate Act.
Provides additional State aid to certain school districts which send students to Abbott districts.
"Home Improvement Contractors' Registration Act."
Prohibits Board of Psychological Examiners from expanding scope of practice of a psychologist through regulation.
Permits certain business operations by optometrists; prohibits certain conduct.
Requires that chiropractors and physicians be reimbursed at same rate under various health and accident plans.
Authorizes county vocational schools and technical institutes to employ non-certificated persons in post-secondary and adult continuing education programs.
Imposes mandatory life imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault against minor or victim who suffered serious bodily injury; imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual conta
Includes mental health expenses under lifetime limit for major medical expenses in State Health Benefits Program.
Provides gross income tax deduction for health care plan costs.
Provides for one additional urban enterprise zone.
Directs UEZA to designate expansion area of an existing urban enterprise zone.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Directs NJ Transit to designate a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System station in Jersey City the Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
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 minimum salary of $40,000 for teaching staff members in school districts and educational services commissions.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Makes certain changes with respect to employment discrimination.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Makes apparel manufacturers and contractors liable for labor law violations of contractors.
Establishes moratorium on issuance or renewal of private inspection facility licenses for facilities not operating on or before December 31, 2001; prohibits such facilities from charging more than $25 for on-board diagnostic system testing.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for sexual abuse; clarifies accrual of certain causes of action and modifies the Charitable Immunity Act.
Makes failure to report an offense against a child a crime under certain circumstances.
Establishes moratorium until July 1, 2003 on cancellation and nonrenewal of medical malpractice liability insurance and prohibits premium increases during that time.
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.
Prohibits premium increases in medical malpractice liability insurance for claims unless they result in settlements, judgments or awards.
Increases the term of a municipal prosecutor.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Concerns certain claims eligible for coverage under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund.
Authorizes former mayors and deputy mayors to solemnize marriages.
Permits purchase of TPAF credit for certain nonpublic school service.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Establishes Task Force on Adoption Agency Closures.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Requires "rounding" of dollar amounts in returns and other forms in determining liability for certain taxes.
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
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.
"Tabitha's Law"; requires parent or guardian to notify school administrators if pupil will be absent; requires school to notify parent in event of unexcused pupil absence.
Provides certain information obtained by a legislator be considered confidential and not subject to disclosure.
Requires school crossing guard to use stop sign and increases penalty for failure to yield right-of-way in crosswalk patrolled by school crossing guard or in school zone.
Concerns employment status of minors with respect to workers' compensation.
Eliminates authority of municipalities and boards of education to indemnify officers, employees and servants for punitive damages awards.
Establishes Joseph V. Doria, Jr., Ed.D New Jersey Legislative Fellows Program; appropriates $50,000.
Requires DHSS to designate New Jersey Safety Net Hospitals.
Provides pension enhancement to certain future retirees of county pension fund.
Deletes references to Drug Utilization Review Council and provides for use of federal Orange Book.
Eliminates punitive damages and assessments of attorneys' fees against public entities, and against public officers, employees and servants acting within the scope or under color of their office, employment or agency.