Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Paul DiGaetano
Sponsored
In committee24
Establishes minimal training standards for certain professionals providing spinal manipulations to patients.
Creates NJ Hispanic-American State Holiday Study Commission; appropriates $75,000.
"Public Health Preparedness Act"; appropriates $3.8 million.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Industry Assistance Program in the EDA; appropriates $20,000,000.
Enacts the "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001."
Provides for fingerprinting of certain applicants or employees and exchange of criminal history records.
Requires school districts to report to DOE certain information on students removed from school pursuant to "Zero Tolerance for Guns Act."
Appropriates $4 million to AOC to reduce juvenile probation officer caseloads.
Authorizes the establishment of youth courts to resolve certain complaints against juveniles.
Establishes the NJ Teacher-Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for Juvenile Justice Commission aftercare program.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million to the Department of State for a grant to NJIT for the Smart Gun Technology Development Program.
Limits the location of new charter schools to only Abbott districts.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Save Ellis Island, Inc.
Authorizes "Save Ellis Island" license plate.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Garfield City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Wallington Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Passaic City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Establishes School Asthma Protocol Task Force; appropriates $15,000.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Increases penalties for lying about conduct of law enforcement officer.
Amends "Three Strikes" law to clarify that it applies to crimes committed on separate occasions regardless of the dates of conviction.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in licensed health care facilities.
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
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. **
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Requires insurers that provide certain prescription drug benefits and State Health Benefits Program to cover costs of contraceptives. *
Directs DOE to identify the content standards and progress indicators for districts which choose to acquaint students with the non-violence philosophy of certain leaders.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 6
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Makes various changes to casino gambling and use of proceeds thereof. *
Appropriates $1 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to nonprofit organization "Save Ellis Island!" to restore Ellis Island, NJ.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
In committee · 41
Requires record keeping and sharing on minor delinquent activity.
Appropriates $2,431,028 to AOC to implement a program to identify and divert certain chronic juvenile offenders from court system to alternative dispositions.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Provides State tax credit allotments for wages paid to youths employed through the Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for high-technology crime investigations to protect children against Internet crime.
Provides for funding of certain transportation projects to improve access to Meadowlands Sports Complex.
Establishes HealthEASE program in DHSS; appropriates $2,225,000.
Exempts intra-facility bed transfers from certificate of need requirement.
Requires certain health insurers to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes transporting of firearms into State for purpose of an unlawful sale or transfer as a crime of the second degree.
Allows employee selection of physician and medical services under workers' compensation.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
Allows Attorney General to prevent halfway house placement of murderers.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Requires toll-free passage on State toll roads and certain interstate crossings on federal holidays.
Requires that chiropractors and physicians be reimbursed at same rate under various health and accident plans.
Provides grants to educational technology training centers to establish satellite facilities and maintain and upgrade equipment; appropriates $2.8 million.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Provides New Jersey sales tax amnesty program for small business.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
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.
Establishes the Garden State New Millennium Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Supplemental appropriation of $4.8 million in federal funds to DHS for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Reverses tax and revenue increase effects of the Business Tax Reform Act; reestablishes certain business location incentives and eliminates filing fees for certain returns.
Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to study feasibility of implementing "Community Mobility Training Program"; appropriates $75,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.