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New Jersey’s General Assembly passed a bill that aims to ensure access to meal programs in public schools across the state. Bill A-5164, sponsored by Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin and Assemblywomen Annette Quijano, Angela McKnight, and Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, has cleared the legislative hurdle. The legislation requires school districts to provide parents and guardians with […]
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New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way
Lawmakers heaped praise on New Jersey’s secretary of state for helping drive a huge response among state residents, despite a raging pandemic, to last year’s U.S. census count.
But they also used a wide-ranging budget hearing Monday to voice concerns about whether Gov. Phil Murphy has set aside enough money to ensure a new early voting law can be implemented statewide without major hiccups.
The Assembly Budget Committee hearing with Secretary of State Tahesha Way and other top Department of State officials was the latest as lawmakers in both houses review a $44.8 billion budget plan that Murphy, a first-term Democrat, has put forward for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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Wimberly, Reynolds-Jackson, Tucker & Giblin Bill to Support State Grants-In-Aid to Establish NJ Statewide Body Worn Camera Program Now Law December 23, 2020, 5:25 pm | in
Wimberly, Reynolds-Jackson, Tucker & Giblin Bill to Support State Grants-In-Aid to Establish NJ Statewide Body Worn Camera Program Now Law
(TRENTON) – Legislation enabling municipalities to purchase body cameras for local police officer, sponsored by Assembly Democrats Benjie Wimberly, Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, Cleopatra Tucker, and Thomas Giblin was signed into law Wednesday.
The new law (formerly bill A-4907) would provide a supplemental appropriation of $58,000,000 to the Department of Law and Public Safety toward Grants-in-Aid to establish a New Jersey Statewide Body Worn Camera (BWC) program to support police departments in purchasing this equipment. On or after January 1, 2022, a law enforcement agency that purchased body worn cameras prior to the effective
Reynolds-Jackson & Holley Bill Establishing Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA Passes Committee December 15, 2020, 3:36 pm | in
Reynolds-Jackson & Holley Bill Establishing Minority Depository Institution Coordinator in EDA Passes Committee
(TRENTON) – Aiming to identify and reduce potential barriers minority depository institutions face in participating in New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) loan programs, Assembly Democrats Verlina Reynolds-Jackson and Jamel Holley sponsor a bill to create an EDA position to address these concerns.
Depository institutions are financial institutions that largely obtain their funds through deposits from members of the public, such as banks and savings associations. A minority depository institution is an organization with a majority of its voting stock and a majority of its Board of Director positions held by people of color, while the community it serves is predominantly comprised of mi