Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
E. Scott Garrett
Sponsored
Became law1
Bans intentional feeding of black bears. *
In committee22
Allows swimming in parks and forests without a lifeguard.
Provides immunity to counties and municipalities for community service performed by certain juveniles; provides immunity to certain non-profit organizations for community service performed by adults and certain juveniles.
Amends "Family Leave Act" to apply only to employers with 50 or more employees in New Jersey.
Reduces sales and use tax rate from 6% to 5.5% on July 1, 1999 and to 5% on July 1, 2001.
Requires insurers to notify employees if health coverage is terminated.
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
Permits corporation to be represented by officer or employee before planning board and county board of taxation.
Prohibits unauthorized disclosure of personal health care information by health insurer to another financial institution with which it merges or which acquires it.
Clarifies that tort option provisions of no-fault insurance law do not apply to motorcycles.
Exempts certain sales by rural electric cooperatives from sales tax and corporation business tax.
Allows school districts to administer certain surveys to students only after receiving written informed parental consent.
Allows school psychologists to treat minors in the private sector; provides for reimbursement therefor under health benefits coverage.
Bars imposition of sanctions imposed personally on elected officials on grounds arising out of votes cast in furtherance of the duties of their office.
Eliminates mandatory county appropriation of amount certified by county college board of school estimate.
Creates program and provides assistance for repair and remediation of significant and low level hazard dams.
Exempts certain municipalities from payment for certain State Police services.
Appropriates $3,400,000 to DCA to fund Watershed Moratorium Offset Aid.
Allows individuals a credit against gross income tax equal to 50 percent of fair market value of school supplies and equipment donated to a public school.
Reverses tax and revenue increase effects of the Business Tax Reform Act; reestablishes certain business location incentives and eliminates filing fees for certain returns.
Allows municipalities to appoint only one constable.
Allows school psychologists to treat individuals 21 and under in the private sector; provides for health benefits coverage therefor.
Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language for meeting high school graduation requirements.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Passed the General Assembly · 2
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
Out of committee · 2
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
In committee · 54
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Provides for funding of certain transportation projects to improve access to Meadowlands Sports Complex.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Requires registered voters to present photo ID when voting at polling place.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Amends the eligibility for additional supplemental stabilization aid for school districts with high senior citizen concentration.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
Prohibits sale of gasoline containing MTBE; directs DEP to seek waiver from EPA oxygen requirements for purpose of discontinuing use of MTBE; and establishes Transportation Energy Security Council to monitor good faith compliance effort.
Prohibits DEP from imposing certain requirements on residential or nonresidential developments utilizing septic systems.
Allows jury in death penalty case to consider defendant's prior criminal history.
Permits court to order defendant to post probation bond as condition of suspension or probation in criminal cases.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
"Post-Viability Protection Act."
Permits boards of education to establish comprehensive household safety education programs; appropriates $750,000.
Provides sentence of life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of murder in certain circumstances.
"Standards and Assessments Accountability Act."
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust to finance the cost of new septic systems.
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.
Exempts land used for farming purposes from transfer inheritance tax for decedents' transfers to immediate family members under certain conditions.
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.
Permits school boards to contract with certain organizations for education management services.
"Property Tax Reduction Work Act"; permits local units to recruit residents to perform services in return for property tax vouchers.
Requires voter approval of a school district lease purchase agreement.
Allows vendors to retain 1% of sales tax collected as consideration for collecting and promptly remitting the same.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Establishes special license plates to fund promotion of NJ's skiing industry.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $3.4 million from the General Fund to the DEP for Spruce Run Creek projects in Hunterdon county.
Prohibits basing fees for certification of radon testers upon number of measurement devices used.
Allows certain self-employed business owners to deduct their own pension plan contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
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.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Directs DEP acquisition of Hamburg Mountain in Sussex County for conservation purposes, and makes an appropriation.
Supplemental appropriation of $30,000 to DLPS for grant to Borough of Stanhope to purchase an emergency services vehicle.
Abolishes the formation and use of legislative leadership committees.
Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Provides access to the library record of a minor by the minor's parents or legal guardian under certain circumstances.
Prohibits public and certain private affirmative action programs based upon race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin.
Immunizes employers from civil liability for certain disclosures regarding employees and former employees.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Exempts residential water use reduction equipment and appliance purchases from sales and use tax.
Exempts volunteer fire companies from charitable registration fees.
Establishes a loan and loan redemption program for teachers of mathematics and science.
Deletes requirement that State Agriculture Development Committee and DEP jointly adopt rules establishing standards and requirements regulating improvements on lands acquired by the State for farmland preservation purposes.
Designated the Homestead Rebate Payment Protection Act; requires the payment of homestead rebates on or before July 31 annually.
Criminalizes certain fraudulent solicitations and collection of funds.
Establishes the required level of State aid for the Abbott districts.
Provides tax credits for certain participants in federal Environmental Performance Track Program.
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Allows Governor to appoint poet laureate who will serve at pleasure of Governor.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.