Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Elba Perez-Cinciarelli
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Provides for the licensure of certain crane operators. *
In committee6
Exempts from TPAF reenrollment reemployed retired certificated teachers.
Prohibits managed care plans from refusing payment to or contracts with health care providers who engage in certain communications with patients.
Requires development of State and county mosquito control plans; appropriates $5 million.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million to DCA to fund grant to Jersey City.
Requires certain change to school district teacher salary schedule under certain circumstances.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Provides for the licensure of certain crane operators. *
Co-sponsored
Became law · 46
"New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002."
Establishes criminal penalties for violations of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act" *
Prohibits insurers from discriminating against insureds on the basis of domestic violence.
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. *
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Increases public members on New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Authorizes local governments to finance animal shelter and care facilities operated by nonprofit organizations. **
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt core curriculum content standards for technology.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Requires persons convicted of manufacturing or selling child pornography to register under Megan's Law.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
Provides that the three proprietary schools currently authorized to offer degree programs will have seats on the New Jersey Presidents' Council and that one proprietary school president shall sit on the executive board. *
Authorizes Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Expands municipal power to address abandoned properties. *
Adds two members chosen by public employees' labor organizations to State Health Benefits Commission.
Makes changes in the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations, and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county, county college, and municipal employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Revises statutes regulating the practice of veterinary medicine.
Removes the home address of cosmetologist-hairstylist from displayed license.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Appropriates $185,376 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for New Jersey City University.
Credits all prior PERS service of county prosecutors in Prosecutors Part at no additional cost.
Makes it an unlawful practice for retailers to sell or install motor vehicle window tinting without first informing customer of State restrictions.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses; and increases penalty for certain repeat offenders.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Upgrades penalties for theft of identity and the selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting of false government documents; allows for civil action for victims of identity theft. *
Allows school boards to establish 457 deferred compensation plans for employees.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services. *
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes a minimum per diem base pay of $100 for members of National Guard called to State active duty.
Provides State-paid health care benefits coverage through SHBP for certain National Guard members called to State active duty for 30 days or more.
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel motor vehicle lease without penalty.
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 1
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Passed the General Assembly · 43
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Requires court, prior to granting a domestic violence victim's application to dissolve restraining order, to make a finding that domestic violence victim was not subject to coercion.
Establishes "Pledge for Life and Health" program for elementary school students.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
"Nursing Home Patient Protection Act."
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. *
Requires ballistic identifiers as a condition for sale of handguns and certain rifles; provides a voluntary ballistic identifier program for handgun and rifle owners. *
Regulates contractors engaging in home improvements. *
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires child support to continue past the age of majority if the child has a mental or physical disability which causes the child to be financially dependent on a parent.
Provides that DNA test results may be used in establishing parentage.
Creates crime of victimization of senior citizen and person with disability. *
Modifies application of certain homeowners insurance deductibles in certain urban areas.
Permits Director of ABC to grant plenary winery license under certain circumstances.
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
Requires children who wear eyeglasses to wear protective eyewear while participating in certain sports activities.
Provides official State recognition of Powhatan Renape Nation, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey, Inc., and Ramapough Mountain Indians as American Indian Tribes for certain purposes. *
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Requires lenders to provide debtors with amount necessary to cure debt and attach copy of 14 day notice to application for final judgment in certain foreclosure actions.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Establishes the Violence-Free Initiative Program in the Department of State.
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technoloy initiative State aid for nonpublic school students. *
Requires retail mercantile establishments to notify customers when sell-by date of pre-packaged meat is extended.*
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Prohibits transmission of certain unsolicited fax advertisements over telephone lines.
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Requires DHSS to send Senior Gold application to certain PAAD beneficiaries.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Provides contributory SHBP benefits to certain PFRS, CPFPF and PERS retirees.
Requires DHSS investigation and provides for receivership and imposition of enforcement remedies of nursing homes under certain circumstances.
Provides for automatic enrollment in PAAD and Senior Gold programs under certain circumstances.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides that cash assistance from DHS kinship care programs shall not be considered income for certain State-funded programs.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue technology education endorsements and requires the board to continue issuing endorsements for industrial arts. *
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of National Guard members on State active duty from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student who is called to active duty for certain military operations.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition and fees to students who are spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Revises requirements for DEP checklists.
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 23
Establishes the Ergonomics in Education Study Commission.
Allows all persons on probation and parole to vote; provides registration assistance to persons on probation, parolees, and persons completing sentences. *
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Allows PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Appropriates $100,000 to the Hudson-Essex-Passaic Soil Conservation District for two-year soil survey in Hudson County.
Eliminates reduction of the death benefit for participants age 70 or more in the alternate benefit program.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
Authorizes court to refrain from imposing driver's license suspension on defendant convicted of CDS offense if compelling circumstances exist. *
Requires reporting by certain persons of attemped or completed suicides by youth and establishes NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Makes certain reforms in the process of estimating and certifying State revenues for the annual State budget.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
"Grace's Law;" requires health insurers, State Health Benefits Program and NJ FamilyCare to provide coverage for hearing aids for covered persons 15 and younger. *
Requires DEP to implement California Low Emission Vehicle program beginning on January 1, 2009 under certain circumstances; establishes review commission; and establishes incentive for purchase or lease of zero emission vehicles. *
Prohibits DEP from granting any exemptions from the requirement of registration for any proposed solid waste collection activity, solid waste facility or solid waste disposal operation.
Requires the placement of defibrillators at public and independent institutions of higher education.
Requires the placement of defibrillators in certain public and nonpublic school buildings.
Provides for regulation of certain call center communications by Division of Consumer Affairs.
In committee · 47
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
Establishes the "Workplace Violence Safety Act."
Requires certain employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.
Designated the "Comprehensive Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Act;" appropriates $8 million.
Requires a program of educational improvement assessment in State-operated school districts.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for violence prevention programs.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
"Pharmacy Benefits Management Company Act."
Requires racial and gender balance in appointments to certain State entities.
Directs DHSS to prepare and disseminate informational materials about prescription drug programs for senior citizens and disabled persons.
Expands civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding; requires employers to provide daily break to breast-feeding mothers.
Authorizes school boards to adopt a drug testing policy of student athletes.
Requires criminal background checks of employees of private prisoner transport companies.
Requires DEP to implement Phase II of California Low Emission Vehicle program in calendar year 2006.
Extends senior citizen and handicapped citizen reduced fare program for travel at all peak and offpeak hours.
Reduces to 5 years length of continuous residency requirement to qualify for homestead property tax reimbursement.
Regulates operation of motorized scooters and motorized skateboards.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Increases motor vehicle property damages reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Requires State to pay expenses associated with nonpartisan municipal elections.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires licenses in business of firearms repair to obtain ballistics identifiers before returning a rifle or handgun to its owner.
Requires photographs on identification cards for health care professionals issued by professional licensing boards.
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Establishes Medication Management, Outreach and Support Programs in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
Imposes 6% tax on certain political contributions.
Provides that only physicians may perform needle electromyography or interpret nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts by the 2005-2006 school year and establishes a Statewide uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Restructures child protective services in DHS.
Clarifies that law enforcement agencies may access juvenile central registry information.
Establishes training academy in DYFS.
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Limits expansion or extension of airport runways under certain circumstances.
Establishes system of public financing for primary and general election campaigns for office of member of Legislature.
Requires certain testing and medical examinations of home-schooled children.
Provides pension enhancement to certain future retirees of county pension fund.