Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Clare M. Farragher
Sponsored
Became law1
Concerns disbursement of certain funds in real estate transactions.
Out of committee1
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
In committee38
Requires nurses and home health aides to be tested annually for tuberculosis.
Requires copies of all political district maps, and changes thereto, be filed with school boards and fire districts in affected municipalities.
Establishes a mutual consent voluntary adoption registry in DHSS.
Permits court to order defendant to post probation bond as condition of suspension or probation in criminal cases.
Modifies payment cap and definition of covered claim in certain insurance guaranty funds.
Establishes the "Tort Victim Compensation Fund."
Permits municipality to issue additional liquor license for racetrack.
Requires New Jersey base state International Fuel Tax Agreements licensees to obtain base state corporate surety bond covering fuel tax obligations.
Establishes high risk health insurance pool for certain individuals.
Supplemental appropriation of $3,000,000 from the General Fund to DHSS to enable county nursing homes to expand dental services.
Provides for recalculation of PFRS retirement allowance if retiree is reemployed.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Requires organization that receives State family planning services funds to be separate from organization that provides abortion services.
Provides certain immunities to certain licensed professionals volunteering on hotline.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Concerns pro rata exemptions from loss assessments under the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program.
Requires an insurance producer's license to market bail bond insurance.
Creates the offense of murder of an unborn child.
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Increases pensions paid to surviving spouses under Prison Officers' Pension Fund.
Exempts certified shorthand reporters with at least 25 years experience from continuing education requirements.
Revises operations of New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association and Surplus Lines Insurance Guaranty Funds.
Establishes an Office of Child Advocacy.
"New Jersey Financial Information Privacy Protection Act."
Requires immunization of children to varicella.
Authorizes certain persons to possess and use chemical spray device to defend against bear attack.
Provides for State aid payment to certain municipalities for loss of ratables due to an overburden of tax-exempt property; appropriates $25 million.
Provides that portions of faculty residence building held by colleges, schools, academies or seminaries that are used in part for consultations with students and for similar school purposes are exempt from taxation and remaining portions of faculty housi
"Personal Lines Insurance Modernization Act."
Requires certification of lien for unpaid corporation business tax to be made witnin 15 days of application therefor; provides that lien not timely certified shall terminate.
Establishes special license plates to fund certain programs for pregnant women.
Requires restitution by theft of identity offenders; establishes a State Police Theft of Identity Crimes and Investigation Unit.
Designates Jersey tomato as State Fruit.
Appropriates $1,050,000 to DLPS for grants to counties for crisis intervention programs for law enforcement officers.
Limits pain and suffering awards to $500,000 in medical malpractice actions.
Allows imposition of $10,000 and $15,000 municipal fines on landlords for overcrowding.
Prescribes duties of drivers approaching police vehicle stopped along roadway and displaying flashing red light.
Requires court to abate or dismiss civil actions filed against insurance entities under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
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. **
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Passed the General Assembly · 5
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Requires motorists to reduce speed when approaching or passing equestrians.
Concerns overpayments to public utilities.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Out of committee · 14
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Requires person be licensed to operate or conduct semen bank.
Concerns workers' compensation for firefighters with cancer.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
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.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
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 $14,663,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in central NJ.
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee · 55
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
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.
Mandates training for judges and judicial personnel regarding problems and issues faced by grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
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 contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Appropriates $50 million to acquire real property in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd, pay relocation expenses, and compensate for lost property taxes.
Appropriates $7,000,000 for New Jersey Fire Engine and Equipment Museum.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Revises requirements for special municipal charter in consolidated municipalities.
Requires sending districts to pay for the tuition and transportation costs of their students attending approved vocational programs at certain comprehensive high schools.
Provides free admission to certain county facilities for members of volunteer fire companies or volunteer first aid or rescue squads and their immediate families.
Authorizes mayors in municipalities operating under borough form of government to veto resolutions.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Clarifies that the term "deadly weapon" includes an animal.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Provides that English shall be the official language of the State.
Provides incentive grants for school districts to establish educational foundations.
Reduces sales and use tax rate from 6% to 5.5% on July 1, 1999 and to 5% on July 1, 2001.
Appropriates $1,086,158 from 1995 Green Acres bond act for coastal Blue Acres acquisition projects by local government units.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Authorizes special license plate for ex-prisoners of war.
Provides State Agriculture Development Committee with right of first refusal before farmland is acquired for recreation and conservation purposes through Garden State Preservation Trust.
Provides parity between school boards and municipalities with respect to prevailing wage threshold.
Modifies Fair Housing Act and State Planning Act to assist in provision of affordable housing.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
Allows certain corporations to file consolidated corporation business tax returns.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Requires existing State buildings to be evaluated under certain energy and environmental performance standards and new State buildings to be designed and managed using those standards.
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.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Authorizes establishment of trusts providing for deferred distribution of funds for minor beneficiaries of persons who die without a will.
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.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
Extends the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse cases and creates new cause of action against certain persons in supervisory positions.
The "Dam, Lake, Stream, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Permits use of deadly force against black bears in certain cases.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.