Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Rafael J. Fraguela
Sponsored
In committee3
"Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Act."
Provides for compensation of teachers on appropriate salary guide and schedule after withholding of an increment.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Requires gift certificates to be valid until redeemed unless conditions and limitations are fully disclosed.
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 Adjutant General to issue service medal to commemorate 50th anniversary of ending of Korean War; appropriates $5,000.
Adds two members chosen by public employees' labor organizations to State Health Benefits Commission.
Expands list of crimes for which blood samples are collected for purposes of DNA testing.
Appropriates $185,376 from the Jobs, Education and Competitiveness Fund to the Commission on Higher Education for New Jersey City University.
Makes it an unlawful practice for retailers to sell or install motor vehicle window tinting without first informing customer of State restrictions.
Provides separate standards for handicapped access in public buildings versus multi-family dwellings.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Allows school boards to establish 457 deferred compensation plans for employees.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Passed the General Assembly · 8
Permits NJ Transit Corporation to develop and fund programs for the coordination of public transportation service with ferry passenger service. **
Allows State or State authority to terminate construction contract upon transfer of contractor's ownership or control; requires advance approval of subcontractor changes.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
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.
Out of committee · 17
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Requires erection of fire barriers in certain cocklofts. **
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Requires State payment of survivor's pension when volunteer fire fighter or emergency services worker suffers accidental death on duty.*
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates. *
Concerns permits to excavate within or disturb public highway or railroad rights-of-way under DOT jurisdiction. *
Establishes medical assistance on-line application pilot project in DHS.
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.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
"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. *
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.
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
In committee · 26
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Requires licensure of hospital in Union County to provide adult cardiac surgery services.
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.
Creates the offense of trafficking in and possession of counterfeit commuter tickets.
Increases the amount of certain retirement income excludable from gross income.
Designates "New Jersey, U.S.A." as State song.
Establishes optional will registry.
Reduces restoration fees for license suspensions involving one parking ticket.
Increases motor vehicle property damages reporting threshold to over $1,000.
Establishes standards for State and State authority design-build contracts and design-build-operate and maintain contracts.
Establishes procedures for issuance of certain bonds, notes and other obligations.
Requires State and State authorities to report to Legislature on certain contracts; requires State Auditor to review the financing of certain contracts.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Establishes Commission on Juvenile Involvement in Gangs; appropriates $95,000.
Requires photographs on identification cards for health care professionals issued by professional licensing boards.
Provides that civil service make-up examinations not include the same questions as the original examination.
Requires certain change to school district teacher salary schedule under certain circumstances.
Permits immediate expungement of court records where the person is acquitted or discharged or where the charges have been dismissed.
Permits purchase of temporary service credit in TPAF and PERS even if the service did not result without interruption in permanent employment.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
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.