Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Stephen Altamuro
Sponsored
In committee21
Requires health insurers to cover Lyme disease treatment costs.
Establishes a gross income tax credit for enrollment at a New Jersey College or university.
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy of child.
Permits certain federal Bureau of Prison officers to carry firearms at all times.
Permits absence from school resulting from suspension to be counted as unexcused absence.
Changes car and booster seat and seat belt requirements for certain children traveling in motor vehicles.
Increases maximum death benefit of group life insurance policies paid for by fire district maintaining a volunteer fire department.
Requires relatives seeking custody or guardianship of child under DYFS' care or custody to undergo criminal history record background checks.
Establishes the HOPE Scholarship Program Study Commission; appropriates $5,000.
Increases to $15,000 amount that counties may contribute annually to volunteer fire companies.
"Totally and Permanently Disabled Veterans' Property Tax Relief Act of 2001."
Concerns fire management and fire education in the pinelands area.
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who give good faith report of terroristic activity or threats.
Requires State Parole Board to keep records of communications with Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches; provides that such records shall be open to public.
Criminalizes interference with parole decisions.
Expands definition of special State officer or employee to include any person serving as employee or advisor of Governor-elect; prohibits such officer or employee from serving as representative before local public body.
Requires DOC to give prosecutors certified notices of certain inmate releases; requires written affirmation by commissioner and facility administrator before inmate release.
Revises definitions in State's child abuse and neglect statutes.
Modifies elements of the crime of stalking.
Allows certain dealers of used motor vehicles to send administrative fees to "Used Car Lemon Law Unit" on annual basis.
Allows hunters, anglers, and trappers to cover over or mask Social Security Numbers displayed on hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Passed the General Assembly · 3
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Authorizes a county college board of trustees to grant voting rights to the graduating class representative on the board and requires the board chairman to cast deciding vote in the event of a tie under certain circumstances. *
Out of committee · 9
Allows certain juvenile offenders to be placed in county jail.
Establishes driving while fatigued as recklessness under vehicular homicide statute.
Eliminates fee for certain firefighter certifications.
Requires at least one member of Pinelands Commission to possess training knowledge, or experience in wildfire management or fire safety.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Provides victim of sexual assault with opportunity to consult with prosecutor on plea negotiations.
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 $16,042,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in southern NJ.
Appropriates $45,220,823 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" and certain farmland preservation bond funds for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 14
Establishes matching grant program to assist counties in upgrading election equipment; appropriates $5 million.
Allows jury in death penalty case to consider defendant's prior criminal history.
Requires e-mailed unsolicited advertising materials to meet certain requirements.
Changes date of primary elections in year 2004 to first Tuesday in March.
Increases nonpublic pupil transportation to 30 miles from the pupil's residence.
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.
Establishes Joint Commission on Governmental Performance Review and Evaluation in the legislative branch of government.
Requires certain State officials to reside in New Jersey.
Requires review of certain privatization contracts.
Establishes "Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative" in Office on Minority and Multicultural Health; appropriates $3.6 million.
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.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.