[9] Weingarten sponsored a bill to impose state sanctions on Swiss Financial service institutions to prod the return of funds owed to the heirs of Holocaust victims.
[13] Together with Jack Collins, Weingarten sponsored a bill in the Assembly in January 2000 that would prohibit state and local laws that interfere with religion, except in cases where there was a compelling public interest.
Weingarten stated that the bill could be used to prevent routine autopsies on Orthodox Jews unless there was a question of foul play and would allow churches and synagogues to be exempted from local zoning and historic preservation laws unless an unsafe condition was created for traffic, as another example.
In 2000, Weingarten proposed legislation that passed unanimously in the Assembly to require the State of New Jersey to create a web site listing sex offenders, including their names, addresses, pictures and details of the crimes committed.
[15] On law enforcement matters, he crafted civil commitment legislation that requires pre-parole and pre-sentencing reports to include defendant's psychological history, in order to preclude the mis-sentencing or inappropriate release of violent criminals.