Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, Senate.
Richard H. Bagger
Sponsored
Became law5
Disqualifies juvenile delinquents whose offenses involve use or possession of a weapon, explosive or destructive device from obtaining either a firearms purchaser identification card or a permit to purchase a handgun.
Provides for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Increases membership of certain county boards of taxation. *
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Passed the Senate4
Makes various technical and procedural amendments to the "Municipal Land Use Law."
Specifies definition of social worker employed in hospices.
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Out of committee5
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers. *
Sets State's mileage reimbursement rate at IRS rate for business use of automobile.
Permits certain persons aged 16 or 17 to be appointed to district boards of elections in certain circumstances.
Concerns workers' compensation benefits and certain volunteer emergency personnel.
Increases and indexes the maximum homestead property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
In committee17
Establishes cross-acceptance of local master plans; intermunicipal review of certain development applications.
Establishes Joint Commission on Governmental Performance Review and Evaluation in the legislative branch of government.
Allows counties to develop and submit to DHSS countywide animal control plans; appropriates $1,050,000.
Concerns conformity of State Uniform Tax Procedure Law refund procedures with federal tax refund procedures.
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.
Requires health benefits coverage for bone mass measurement.
Requires the suspension of driving privileges of persons convicted of offenses involving acts of graffiti.
Supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to fund grant for New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Madison Borough.
Directs DEP to conduct feasibility study of assessing air pollution sources in and around certain airports and military bases.
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places.
Specifies policy governing provision by State registrar of certified copies and certifications of vital records to applicants.
Revises statutes concerning computer crime.
Requires DOC to pay counties at uniform rate for housing State prisoners.
Establishes Bill of Rights license plate to fund New Jersey history programs.
Establishes special license plate to support education.
Appropriates $650,000 to DEP to purchase historic house in Kenilworth, Union County.
"New Jersey Telemarketing Consumer Protection Act."
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Repeals law creating State poet laureate. *
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes. *
Exempts certain investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Passed the Senate · 4
Authorizes municipalities to enact ordinances requiring developers to provide adequate off-street parking or contribute toward provision of parking, as condition of variance approval.
Provides for fingerprinting of certain applicants or employees and exchange of criminal history records.
Authorizes digitized student identification program; appropriates $252,000.*
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
Out of committee · 17
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002." *
Permits local governments to restrict smoking in public places. *
Creates "Faith Based Community Development Initiative" program in DCA.
Creates the "September 11th, 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act." *
Directs the DOE to provide to every public school district George Washington's portrait to display; appropriates $90,000. *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
Creates study commission on the death penalty. *
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Establishes special license plates to fund diabetes research and education.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalities for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Modifies escheat law for bank accounts and eliminates certified mail requirement for notice concerning potential escheat. *
Requires DOT to construct noise barriers on Interstate 78.
In committee · 46
Establishes the level of State school aid for the 2002-2003 school year; establishes the Save Our Schools Fund to finance increased State aid.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires municipal master plans under Municipal Land Use Law to be consistent with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Supplemental appropriation of $110,000 to Division of Housing and Community Resources in DCA to fund Project Shalom.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $73,000 for a grant to Union County College for Holocaust and Ethnic Studies Project.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to the DMVA for the Veterans' Oral History program to record veterans' account of war experiences.
Creates commission to study effectiveness of county government; appropriates $95,000.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Prohibits unsolicited telephone sales calls to certain consumers.
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million in State and federal funds to DHS to increase Medicaid reimbursement to federally qualified health centers.
Prohibits imposition of death penalty on mentally retarded defendants.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Authorizes adoption of municipal transfer of development rights programs.
Authorizes assessment of development impact fees by municipalities.
Specifies certain compensation levels for administrative law judges.
Establishes procedures for approval of certain applications for development affecting neighboring municipalities.
Regulates certain electronic mail solicitations.
Extends tax on litter-generating products; makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Forgives the reimbursement of State aid by former constituent district of a dissolved regional school district.
Imposes restrictions on future retail sales of handguns; mandates sales of personalized handguns when found available for retail sales purposes.
Permits direct shipping of alcoholic beverages from out of State to New Jersey consumers under certain conditions.
Establishes civil commitment procedure for violent predators.
Allows certain co-owners of homesteads on which property taxes have been paid to receive full and not proportionally reduced property tax deduction under the gross income tax.
Establishes rehabilitation as condition for parole of certain inmates.
Requires buildout analysis as part of master plan reexamination report.
Establishes a not-for-profit corporation to facilitate the Office of Recovery and Victim Assistance in providing aid and assistance to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The "Home Loan Protection Act."
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to DHSS for a grant to Tourette Syndrome Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Prohibits certain cabinet-level officers from engaging in outside employment for compensation.
Authorizes all judges of the United States Court of Appeals to perform marriages in New Jersey.
Promotes polling place accessibility for certain individuals; appropriates $150,000.
Provides for an enhanced homestead rebate for tenants who are disabled veterans equal to 18% of rent paid.
Permits municipalities to appoint paid fire chiefs for paid and certain part-paid fire departments; clarifies duties and responsibilities.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Reappropriates in fiscal year 2003 the unexpended balance of a supplemental appropriation to the DEP for a grant to Cranford Township for construction of the Cranford Northeast Quadrant Flood Control Project.
Establishes parental orientation program in the Abbott school districts.
Makes failure to report an offense against a child a crime under certain circumstances.
Provides supplemental State aid in the case of the dissolution of a limited purpose regional school district or termination of a sending-receiving relationship.
Deletes language provision in FY 2003 annual appropriation act that delays State school aid payments and makes final aid payment at the option of the State Treasurer.
"New Jersey Automobile Insurance Competition and Choice Act."
Requires DOT to sell portions of certain railroad right-of-ways to Union County for recreation and conservation purposes and to interested municipalities for senior citizen housing; and provides nonmatching grant from "Garden State Green Acres Preservati
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Allows adopted person access to his original birth certificate and other related information; appropriates $90,000.
Provides PERS retirement allowance to surviving spouse of former local government employee who did not enroll in PERS during years of service.
"School Tax Offset Aid Act."