Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Rose Marie Heck
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Includes security fraud as violation of consumer fraud act.
Establishes the Jewish Heritage Trail Study Commission.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
In committee106
Provides a 2001 gross income tax year deduction for charitable contributions made for efforts in relief of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Supplemental appropriation of $8 million to Division of Local Government Services in DCA to fund Tax Rate Reduction Award Program.
Upgrades simple assault committed against domestic violence victims to aggravated assault.
Classifies victim impact statements as confidential communications.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Establishes the "Domestic Violence Resource Center Demonstration program;" appropriates $750,000.
Requires reporting of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation against vulnerable adults.
Requires reporting of positive toxicology tests on newborn infants.
Imposes additional penalties on sex offenders; creates the "Sex Crime Victim Treatment Fund" to provide counseling and treatment to sex crime victims and their families.
Requires licensing of genetic counselors.
Requires payment of medical malpractice policy proceeds in certain circumstances.
Establishes "State Special Education Services Fund" in DOE to finance the cost of special education programs and services for public school students.
Creates New Jersey Money Laundering Study Commission; appropriates $95,000.
Bars possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
Exempts from sales tax certain sales by or to any senior citizens club organized for pleasure, recreation, or other nonprofitable purposes.
Supplemental appropriation of $90,000 to DLPS for grant to Playwrights Theatre.
Supplemental appropriation of $5,000,000 to DLPS to be allocated to the State Office of Emergency Management to fund a satellite telephone grant program.
Appropriates $1,620,000 to Environmental and Occupational Health Services Institute for airport emissions study.
Appropriates $1.2 million for the development of videoconferencing network in Family Part courtrooms and municipal courtrooms; making an appropriation.
Appropriates $2 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Reduces unemployment insurance taxes.
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to prepare an annual report on campus sexual assaults.
Supplemental appropriation of $55,000 to DHS for grant to Volunteer Center of Bergen County for Parent Aides for Teens program.
Establishes assessment and treatment services program in DHS; appropriates $1 million.
Establishes a procedure for the diagnosis of reading ability of kindergarten, first and second grade pupils.
Requires confidentiality of location of domestic violence shelters; imposes civil penalty for knowing disclosure.
Requires tenant rebates for municipal solid waste collection reimbursement amounts paid to landlords.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Designates prison telephone revenues for VCCB claims.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $2,000,000 to DCA for a grant to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault and member rape crises centers for rape care and prevention programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for high-technology crime investigations to protect children against Internet crime.
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Creates a New Jersey Commission on Work and Family and a State Agency Work and Family Program; appropriates $1,000,000.
Provides for funding of certain transportation projects to improve access to Meadowlands Sports Complex.
Establishes HealthEASE program in DHSS; appropriates $2,225,000.
Creates New Jersey Regulatory Improvement Advisory Council; requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis for certain State regulatory actions.
Establishes civil commitment procedure for violent predators.
Authorizes establishment of State tax amnesty.
Requires facilities that generate, store, or handle certain explosives to comply with the provisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act.
Establishes the State Public Safety Wireless Communications Coordinating Council; appropriates $500,000.
Authorizes counties, with voter approval, to impose special levy to fund water resources preservation and restoration projects.
Appropriates $950,000 from "Drought Management Fund" to DEP for drought monitoring and telemetry system.
Appropriates $500,000 to DEP from "Drought Management Fund" for water supply interconnection study.
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan.
Appropriates $500,000 from "Drought Management Fund" for repairs to Newark pumping station.
Requires private contractors to suspend from duties involving contact with pupils school bus drivers charged with certain crimes or offenses.
Doubles penalties for heavy-duty diesel trucks failing roadside emissions inspections.
Establishes Truck Safety Advisory Council; increases certain fees related to the operation of commercial motor vehicles to fund truck safety operations in the State Police; doubles motor vehicle points assessed when operators of heavy vehicles violate
Required DHS to develop prescreening application and expand outreach for food stamp program.
Requires DHS to make application for food stamp program available on website.
Requires county welfare agencies to assist food stamp applicants with verification.
Requires county welfare agencies to assign households eligible for food stamp benefits longest possible certification period.
Requires DHS to implement TANF-funded referral service for low-income food stamp applications.
Requires county welfare agencies to adjust office hours.
Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide rebates to Medicaid for lower drug prices in foreign countries.
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.
Allows a refundable gross income tax credit for education and training expenses for developmentally disabled children.
Requires training course for judges and judicial personnel concerning certain cases.
Changes the copayment for PAAD when more than two prescription drugs are purchased during any given month and increases the income eligibility limits for the PAAD program.
Increases income eligibility for PAAD for certain individuals with dependent children.
Limits pain and suffering awards to $250,000 in medical malpractice actions.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Paramus Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Lodi Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Saddle Brook Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to South Hackensack Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Rochelle Park Township for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Authorizes digitized student identification program.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisionment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Designated the Homestead Rebate Payment Protection Act; requires the payment of homestead rebates on or before July 31 annually.
Requires amount by which actual State General Fund revenue exceeds anticipated State General Fund revenue for a fiscal year to be appropriated as State school aid.
Establishes mandatory participation in school breakfast programs.
"Adult Entertainment Tax Act."
Establishes forensic laboratory fees for sexual assault; designates uses.
Supplemental appropriation of $4.8 million in federal funds to DHS for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $6,460,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Education for the Teacher Quality Mentoring Program.
Authorizes weights and measures officers to issue a complaint and summons.
Changes appointment and removal process for the State poet laureate.
Creates new program in DCA to encourage short-term housing rental to recipients of emergency shelter assistance.
Appropriates $11.05 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern New Jersey.
Authorizes issuance of $400,000,000 in general obligation bonds for various Department of Human Services purposes; appropriates $5,000.
Revises the "emergency transportation tax act," reimposes the tax under certain circumstances and provides for use and refunds of certain tax collections.
Provides State extended UI benefits.
Authorizes Fish and Game Council to allow Sunday hunting of game animals.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Fair Lawn Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Authorizes special Navy Seabee license plates.
Directs the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to conduct an environmental impact study and traffic management and impact study.
Grants specific exemption from county Sunday closing laws for sale of certain sports and event-related merchandise souveniers.
Appropriates certain additional federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
Establishes the Graduate Student Loan and Loan Redemption Program; appropriates $500,000.
Provides gross income tax exclusion for distributions from deferred compensation plans of New Jersey State and local governments, their authorities, school boards, and public institutions of higher education, and the federal government.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
Supplemental appropriation to DHSS for $30 million for comprehensive tobacco control programs.
Excludes sale of household appliances costing over $1200 from retail sales tax exemption in urban enterprise zones.
Establishes the offense of incest.
Requires each municipality to establish a Reverse 9-1-1 system.
Permits student exemption from Hepatitis B vaccination requirement based on philosophical or moral objection.
Prohibits expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven vehicles.
Requires Attorney General to provide certain information to public on the internet regarding charitable contributions.
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Transfers law guardian program from Office of the Public Defender to Office of the Child Advocate.
Revises State funding formula for public education.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes Jewish Heritage Trail Study Commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 45
Prohibits firearm possession by persons convicted of domestic violence crime or domestic violence disorderly persons offense, convicted of stalking, or subject to domestic violence restraining order. *
Requires Commissioner of Human Services to streamline food stamp application form.
Prohibits use of cell phone while driving school bus.
Upgrades penalty for assault in certain cases. *
Encourages the recycling and reuse of used computers.
Permits board of education to disqualify low bidder if any school district or the EDA in certain cases has had prior negative experience with the bidder. *
Prohibits insurers from discriminating against insureds on the basis of domestic violence.
Requires that home care services providers give advance information to patients about their employees' training.
Prohibits discrimination by landlords against tenants based on source of income or age of children under "Law Against Discrimination."
Requires wanted person check before release or transfer of inmates or suspects. *
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to certain customers.
Extends time to file complaint for drunk driving from 30 to 90 days. *
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Requires employer prior notification to employees if health benefits coverage is terminated and insurer prior notification to employer of premium increase. *
Provides that marriage license applications and marriage licenses shall not contain information on race.
Requires certain public utilities to notify appropriate law enforcement official of service shutoffs to multifamily housing unit customers under certain circumstances. *
"Brain Injury Research Act."
Requires school districts to adopt harassment and bullying prevention policies.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Requires DHSS to establish list of animal control officers found guilty of or liable for violating any animal cruelty law; and prohibits persons on that list from being animal control officers for a municipality. *
Allows release of AOC records concerning domestic violence to surrogate in adoption proceedings. *
Requires criminal history record background checks for health care professionals as condition of initial licensure.
Creates "Statewide Tuition Waiver Program" for certain students under care and custody of DYFS.
Requires persons convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register under Megan's Law.
Requires persons convicted of manufacturing or selling child pornography to register under Megan's Law.
Requires Medicaid coverage of HIV drug resistance testing. *
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.
Establishes Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in Department of Community Affairs.
Establishes "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund." *
Upgrades crime of luring or enticing a child into motor vehicle, structure or isolated area to a crime of the second degree.
Requires DHS to consider character of staff of adoption agencies as condition of approval to operate.*
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
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. **
Amends Megan's Law to comply with requirements of federal Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act.
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. *
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
Establishes State Public Safety Interoperable Communications Coordinating Council.
Establishes the New Jersey Film Production Assistance Program. *
Directs DOC and DHS commissioners to develop regulations addressing unique security concerns posed by civilly committed sexually violent predators.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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 Office of the Child Advocate. **
Amends "Law Against Discrimination" to provide substantially same protections against discrimination as provided under "Federal Fair Housing Act."
Vetoed · 1
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002." *
Passed the General Assembly · 31
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.
Requires the AG to develop guidelines for matters involving death or serious bodily injury and motor vehicles offenses arising out of same incident.
Makes theft of E-ZPass transponder a fourth degree crime. *
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Provides that convictions records for a violation of the domestic violence laws are not subject to expungement.
Requires issuing agency to notify noncustodial parent's employer through National Medical Support Notice that child is required to be enrolled in parent's health benefits plan. **
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances. *
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Establishes the reckless discharge of a firearm as a crime of the fourth degree.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Increases the penalties for falsifying a driver's license and possessing a false driver's license.
Makes changes in Primary Care Physician and Dentist Loan Redemption Program.
Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Changes in-service training requirement for licensed foster parents.
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. *
Clarifies factors used to determine when child support orders can be terminated.
Requires DHS to give priority to temporary rental assistance over use of hotels or motels in emergency assistance to Work First New Jersey recipients.
"Kinship Legal Guardianship Notification Act."
Permanently disqualifies certain persons convicted of child endangerment from working with children.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Establishes "New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Financing." *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides penalties for injuring or killing search and rescue dogs.
Includes certain business practices of cable television companies as violations of "New Jersey Antitrust Act."
Permits appointment of up to four alternate members on municipal zoning boards of adjustment.
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. *
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 41
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million to DHSS to expand the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Adult Day Care Center Program.
Allows taxpayers to deduct adoption expenses from gross income.
Permits use of preliminary breath testing devices to detect drunk driving.
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Permits tax credit against gross income tax for certain adoption expenses.
Requires sheriff's offices in each county to maintain statistics and file quarterly reports concerning service of child support orders and warrants. *
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Eliminates 12-month residency requirement concerning cash welfare benefits.
"Tattooing and Body Piercing Practice Act."
Appropriates $5,291,621 from "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $11.05 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern New Jersey.
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Establishes driving while fatigued as recklessness under vehicular homicide statute.
Revises New Jersey's computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Establishes separate Superior Court adoption fee for subsidized adoptions.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Provides for the licensure of certain crane operators. *
Provides for mandatory participation in school breakfast program for certain schools. *
Revises health wellness insurance benefits.
Provides for notification of charges pending for a disqualifying crime or offense against a public or nonpublic school employee or a school bus driver who has previously undergone a criminal history background check. *
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
Regulates certain entities as Health Care Service Firms.*
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use transported remains of victims of September 11, 2001 from World Trade Center in a memorial.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Directs DYFS to fingerprint and photograph certain children under its supervision. *
Provides that disabled students at institutions of higher education are eligible for reasonable substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements.
Establishes the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission.
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.
Changes certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs.
Revises criteria for financing underground storage tank closures, upgrades and remediations.
Prohibits certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Reestablishes "Parents' Education Program" as "Children First Education Program"; requires parties involved in custody and parenting time proceedings to attend program.
Requires DYFS to provide unified child care agencies evaluating homes of prospective approved home providers with results of child abuse record information checks.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
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 · 89
Punishes certain acts involving invasion of privacy.
Creates Coordinating Committee on Youth in Department of State; appropriates $50,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1 million to the Department of State for model youth programs.
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Requires DHS and DHSS to provide information about federal and State benefits to persons providing kinship care.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to compile and provide certain staffing and patient care information to the public.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $4.4 million to DLPS for purchase and distribution of thermal imaging cameras for local police services.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Concerns basic skills training.
Establishes nine-member Title 19 Revision Commission; appropriates $175,000.
Exempts intra-facility bed transfers from certificate of need requirement.
Directs Medicaid to establish community spouse resource allowance and income limits at highest levels permitted by federal law; appropriates $9 million in State funds and $9 million in federal funds.
Allows weapons seized in domestic violence cases to be stored with local law enforcement agency rather than the county prosecutor's office.
Establishes the "New Jersey False Claims Act."
Creates pilot program in Essex County concerning domestic violence; creates additional Superior Court judgeship for Essex County; appropriates $275,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHS for creation of domestic violence services unit in Essex County.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Appropriates $1 million to DEP for grants for certain historic site preservation projects.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Establishes the crime of Bias Intimidation.
Allows worker selection of treatment providers under workers' compensation.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Requires insurers to cover costs of treating cystic fibrosis.
Requires health insurers to offer coverage for hearing aids.
Provides for establishment of county offices for the disabled; making an appropriation.
Requires notice of temporary disability benefit rights, including for pregnancy.
Broadens eligibility for certain veterans' benefits by eliminating requirement of service during specified dates or in specified locations.
The "Public Surface Water Supply Protection Act."
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.
Amends definition of Circle of Mobility.
Allows certain volunteer firefighters, rescue and first aid squad members to claim $5,000 income tax deduction.
Regulates the sale of laser lighting devices and their possession by persons under 18.
Permits sentencing as repeat sex offender if adult defendant had been previously adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile for a sex offense.
Appropriates $1.5 million to DOT to construct sound barriers along Route 208 in Fair Lawn Borough, Bergen County.
Denies custody and visitation rights to minor child by family members of individuals convicted of certain crimes.
Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education loan payments.
Incorporates balanced and restorative justice principles in juvenile justice system.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Provides for public access to government records; protects certain government records from public disclosure; establishes Privacy Study Commission and appropriates $95,000 to commission.
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.
Entitles representatives of WACS, WAVES, Women Marines and Vietnam Veterans of America to leave of absence with pay to attend conventions.
Expands mission of NJ organized militia in DMVA and increases size and rank of leadership.
The "Mobile Telephone Act."
Directs DEP to establish additional chemical surface water quality monitoring stations and maintain existing chemical and biological stations; appropriates $800,000 over two fiscal years.
Establishes low interest mortage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
"The 10-20-Life Law."
Authorizes AccessNJ program.
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers.
Cancels certain "Water Supply Fund" appropriations; creates "Drought Management Fund" in DEP; appropriates $2.1 million of canceled appropriations to "Drought Management Fund."
Establishes New Jersey General Accounting Office.
Concerns the location of hazardous substances in flood plains.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Requires criminal history record background checks on certain volunteer sports personnel.
Reallocates $675,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding within Division of Developmental Disabilities to provide grant to Arc of Essex county and Arc of Bergen-Passaic counties.
Increases minimum PFRS special retirement allowance from 65% to 70% of final compensation.
Expands eligibility for reimbursement from Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund and amends powers and duties of Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Garfield City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Wallington Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Passaic City for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Appropriates $100,000 to DCA for grant to Oradell Borough for cost of Saddle River Flood Management Plan.
Reduces statute of limitations for medical malpractice liability actions to four years.
Provides standards for expert witnesses in medical malpractice actions against physicians.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Modifies various laws in regard to medical malpractice liability.
Establishes the Excellence in Teaching Scholarship Program and appropriates $500,000.
Establishes the National Board Certification Scholarship Program; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Eliminates the alternative minimum assessment under the corporation business tax.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Permits use of hands-free wireless phones in moving vehicles.
Requires New Jersey Transit Corporation to study feasibility of implementing "Community Mobility Training Program"; appropriates $75,000.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Establishes a joint legislative and executive branch State Revenue Forecasting Integrity Commission to provide a revenue forecast for annual State budget purposes.
Requires prior legislative approval of certain contracts and expenditures of New Jersey Redevelopment Authority.
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.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Prescribes duties of drivers approaching police vehicle stopped along roadway and displaying flashing red light.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Requires that certain gift certificates be redeemable at full face value.
Provides for annual adjustment in allowance paid to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities.
Imposes penalty upon political subdivision of State that unlawfully denies person military leave benefits.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Requires that State fee increases affecting counties, municipalities and local school boards shall not be applicable until next local budget year.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.