Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Paul R. D'Amato
Sponsored
Passed the General Assembly1
Prohibits applicant for, or holder of, casino license, and certain casino-related companies, as well as certain high-level employees thereof, from making contributions in connection with a recall election.
In committee35
Prohibits school board from issuing a credit card to a member of the board.
Increases maximum contribution by board of freeholders to county firemen's association and expands permissible uses of the funds.
Extends salvage designation to cover total loss damage to vehicle.
Provides for annual meetings between local board of education and municipal governing body.
Makes certain DEP coastal rules inoperative until completion of cross-acceptance process; appropriates $2,500,000 for grants to local governments in the coastal area.
Allows a deduction under New Jersey gross income tax of the cost incurred by a taxpayer in supporting a family member at least 65 years old, up to a maximum of $1,000.
Allows counties to require segregation of county taxes for school debt service from other county taxes on tax bills.
Extends validity and reduces fee for identity cards authorizing retired law enforcement officers to carry handguns.
Requires designated employees trained in the use of defibrillators to be available for high school athletic events; appropriates $1.2 million.
Establishes "Small Downtown Business Incentive Program."
Supports law enforcement efforts against criminal street gangs; appropriates $910,000.
Appropriates $250,000 to DEP for costs of well drilling to monitor groundwater quality.
Establishes for qualified urban enterprise zone vendors an annual tax review and certification.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for the American Red Cross.
Allows UEZ municipalities to include marketing, advertising and special event activities and other managerial and professional services as projects eligible for UEZ funding assistance.
Provides Corporation Business Tax credit for use of treated effluent in industrial facilities.
Allows gross income tax deduction for purchase of residential fire safety equipment.
Repeals certain provisions concerning the taking and management of lobster.
Prevents use of verbal threshold as a defense in damage claim for noneconomic loss if defendant was convicted of DUI in connection with claim.
Establishes designated driver license plates.
Waives $15 fee for Firefighters and First Aider special license plates for volunteers.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to establish common territorial rating plan for automobile insurance under certain circumstances.
Requires certain commercial vehicles to display safety information.
Increases maximum UCJF claim for personal injury damages from $15,000/$30,000 to $50,000/$100,000.
Imposes surcharge on drunk drivers to establish Drunk Driving Prevention and Education Grant Fund.
Increases amount recoverable from certain insurance guaranty funds.
Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning the medical practitioners they insure.
Provides for attachment of real property relating to terrorism.
"New Jersey Omnibus Automobile Insurance Restructuring Act."
Requires a State Revenue Forecasting and Certification Commission to establish binding estimates of State revenue for State budget purposes.
Provides options for municipalities wishing to dispose of inexpensive police held tangible property.
Establishes "New Jersey Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Policy Study Commission."
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for the Teacher Quality Mentoring Program.
Establishes "Alert Citizens--Safe Communities Fund" to provide annual grants to eligible citizen anti-crime organizations.
Supplemental appropriation of $500,000 for compulsive gambling treatment and education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Permits public comment at meetings of municipal governing body.
Allows problem gamblers to request placement on Racing Commission's list for self-excluded persons.
Concerns errors in estimating income for certain programs for aged and disabled persons.
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects. *
Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Provides for an attachment order to freeze certain funds or assets relating to terrorism.
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Mandates use of New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System.
Adds two members chosen by public employees' labor organizations to State Health Benefits Commission.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
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 · 18
Creates the Medical Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Commission.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Requires all EMTs to be trained and certified in the performance of cardiac defibrillation. *
Provides that information about location of a shelter for victims of domestic violence shall not be a public record.
Permits a school district to use certain funds to establish a scholarship foundation.
Requires insurers to inform insureds whether certain coverages extend to rental automobiles. *
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Adds member to Casino Revenue Fund Advisory Commission.
Provides for fast track permitting of biotechnology related industries.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
Provides that intersections with non-operational traffic control signals are to be treated as stop intersections under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Provides appropriations act provision concerning the transportation of school pupils in certain remote schools in certain counties.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
Exempts Holocaust reparations payments from legal process.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 35
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Increases drunk driving enforcement surcharge.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for hospice and palliative care programs.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Creates corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for certain costs of long-term care insurance policies.
Requires coverage for certain nonprescription formulas under certain health benefits plans, including SHBP. **
"Statewide Immunization Registry Act."
Authorizes municipalities situated in regional growth areas within Pinelands Area to adopt timed growth ordinances under certain circumstances.
Allows PAAD recipents margin of error in estimating income.
Provides $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Requires the licensing of certain security officers and the registration of their employers.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Disqualifies certain persons from flight instruction; institutes background checks.
Revises statutes concerning computer crime.
Establishes criminal penalty for Megan's Law registrant who gives false address; requires verification of address before registrant is released.
Establishes toll-free telephone hotline for reporting guns and other weapons in public schools.
Provides procedures for payment to out-of-network dentists when covered person receives payment directly from dental insurer. *
Concerns workers' compensation for occupational disease claims and workers' compensation benefits rates for surviving dependents.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain literacy advocacy programs. *
Establishes separate Superior Court adoption fee for subsidized adoptions.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids.
Establishes low interest mortgage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
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 casino gambling and use of proceeds thereof. *
Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses. *
Requires at least one member of Pinelands Commission to possess training knowledge, or experience in wildfire management or fire safety.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
Requires clinical trial sponsor to provide certain information to New Jersey residents concerning continued payment for medication after clinical trial. *
Establishes civil action for damages against organizations that support terrorism.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
In committee · 120
Directs UEZA to establish permanent enterprise zones.
Prohibits pharmacists from disclosing certain information concerning prescription purchases for use in commercial solicitations unless authorized by consumers.
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.
Establishes 5-year "Breast Cancer Screening Grant Fund Program" in DHSS; appropriates $3.8 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund each year for 5 years.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Establishes "State Special Education Services Fund" in DOE to finance the cost of special education programs and services for public school students.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to prepare an annual report on campus sexual assaults.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for high-technology crime investigations to protect children against Internet crime.
Creates a civil rape shield law.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Increases annual funding of Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Provides for extended terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed in places of worship and cemeteries.
Upgrades crime of unauthorized practice of medicine and law.
Authorizes municipalities to establish commercial incentive zones and sharing of retail sales tax proceeds therein.
Provides fiscal rewards to school districts with low administrative expenditures.
Increases loan limit amounts for modernizing emergency facilities, purchasing emergency vehicles and emergency equipment for volunteer emergency service organizations; appropriates $5 million.
Provides for annual deposit of 20% of county forfeiture funds by county prosecutor in county fund for alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to the DMVA for the Veterans' Oral History program to record veterans' account of war experiences.
Prohibits solicitation or acceptance of political contributions on public property; certain uses of campaign contributor information; and certain uses of information about persons doing business with public entities.
Waives driver's license and motor vehicle registration fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer members of first aid and rescue squads.
Regulates use of after market collision parts for motor vehicle repairs.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Reduces minimum age of a person to whom a prescription drug price may be discounted from 62 to 60 years of age.
Establishes the NJ Defense Industry Retention Program in the EDA; appropriates $15,000,000.
Reduces minimum population necessary to receive public health priority funding to 20,000.
Permits municipality to enact ordinance to curb gang related loitering and criminal activity.
Establishes State and local government gainsharing programs; appropriates $3.5 million.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
The "Education Incentive Funding Program Act;" appropriates $1 million.
Adds as an aggravating factor that the defendant used the internet to commit the offense against a child.
Requires a parent or guardian to sign consent form permitting pupil access to school district's interactive computer services.
Requires school boards to adopt a voluntary substance abuse testing policy for student athletes.
Appropriates $60,000 to AOC for an online database of juvenile services accessible to service providers and judicial staff.
The "New Jersey Higher Education Performance -Based Accountability Act."
Requires the Commission on Holocaust Education to monitor false information concerning the Holocaust disseminated over the Internet; appropriates $50,000.
Establishes the New Jersey Higher Education Internship Program; appropriates $5,000,000.
Supplemental appropriation of up to $1,000,000 to DLPS for domestic terrorism preparedness.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Establishes regional fetal alcohol syndrome diagnostic, treatment and education centers; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes Black Infant Mortality Reduction Advisory Council in DHSS; appropriates $150,000.
Provides gross income tax credit for certain first-time home buyers.
Establishes New Jersey Travel and Tourism Commission; appropriates $20 million for welcome center.
"New Jersey Tourism Matching Grant Act;" appropriates $315,000.
Prohibits Tier III sex offenders from living in publicly assisted housing located within 1,000 feet of schools and child care centers.
Modifies budget language concerning rebates received by the PAAD program.
Appropriates $1.7 million to DLPS for State Police defibrillators.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Establishes Intercoastal Waterway and Back Bay Dredging Fund, dedicates $2,000,000 of motor fuels tax to the fund; and prohibits collection of realty transfer fees if that amount is not appropriated to the fund.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for regular route bus service to complementary paratransit bus service.
Increases SPRS cost of living adjustment from 60% to 100% of Consumer Price Index.
Provides a gross income tax deduction from the State gross income tax for donations of certain environmentally sensitive or undeveloped lands, or an interest therein, to the State of New Jersey.
Requires DEP to assume responsibility for dredging of waterways providing boat access to lagoon communities; appropriates $6,000,000.
Establishes special dredging account; directs $5,000,000 of sales tax collected annually be deposited therein; directs DEP to administer account and dredging program with certain requirements.
Appropriates $26,140,000 for dredging projects and dredged material disposal projects related to navigational waterways.
Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide capital grants to veterans' organizations; appropriates $250,000.
Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million.
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
Prohibits unauthorized disclosure of personal health care information by health insurer to another financial institution with which it merges or which acquires it.
Revises notification process for suspending license for failure to pay parking ticket.
Directs New Jersey Highway Authority to designate Garden State Parkway as memorial highway to ex-POWs.
Requires State to reimburse counties for housing juvenile offenders at rate equal to their actual cost.
Establishes "Parenting for All Parents Pilot Program" in DOH.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer impersonation and electronic forgery.
Requires managed care entities to offer option permitting enrollee to use health care provider of choice.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Establishes the New Jersey Aquaculture Assistance Program.
Authorizes the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission to establish New Jersey Corporate Overseas Network Program.
Revises provisions of the consumer fraud act.
Establishes an "Export Mentor and Matchmaker Program;" appropriates $250,000.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Establishes "weapons free" school zones.
Excludes veterans' entitlements from income for determination of PAAD eligibility.
Excludes Armed Services combat zone pay from gross income taxation.
Increases income eligibility for Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement Program beginning in tax year 2002.
Exempts all pension income from gross income tax.
Establishes Violence Free School Zones for public elementary and secondary schools.
Creates "Faith Based Community Development Initiative" program in DCA.
Excludes certain education savings account earnings from taxation under the gross income tax, and makes certain educational benefits available to the beneficiaries of those accounts.
"Public Health Preparedness Act"; appropriates $3.8 million.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Regulates Internet pharmacies and electronic prescriptions.
Provides corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for employers who allow their employees to telecommute.
Establishes the NJ Teacher-Youth Mentoring Matchmaker Program in the DOE.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom" and members of reserve and State organized militia who serve at least 180 continuous days.
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Provides for expungement of certain records of victims of identity theft.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Establishes a grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students; appropriates $2,500,000.
Establishes Autism Registry in DHSS; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health; appropriates $3.6 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $690,000 to Division on Women in DCA to fund Grants to Displaced Homemaker Centers program.
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission for tourism promotion and grants to regional tourist councils.
Requires all health insurers to cover alcohol and drug addiction treatment under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.
Criminalizes third and subsequent drunk driving offenses.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Concerns certain claims eligible for coverage under New Jersey Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Fund.
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Exempts qualified investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Creates new program in DCA to encourage short-term housing rental to recipients of emergency shelter assistance.
Permits school boards to adopt a voluntary substance abuse testing policy for student athletes.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Makes position of treasurer of school moneys optional.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Provides additional State school aid to school districts with significant enrollment growth and low per pupil property and income wealth.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Deletes unintentional addition to statutes concerning Workers Compensation.
Creates special education license plate.
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.
Filed · 1
Requires medical malpractice insurers to provide certain information to DOBI concerning physicians, podiatrists and nurses they insure.