Eliana Pintor Marin

Sweeping changes have already been approved for the seven-year, $14 billion tax incentive programs enacted in January.

Homestead benefits will be updated so they are finally calculated on more recent property tax information, under a state budget agreement announced Monday.

A bill ending many of the executive orders Gov. Phil Murphy has issued during the public health emergency this summer is scheduled for approval in the full Assembly Thursday.

State officials anticipate adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the state’s revenue forecast, but the good news for the budget will have to wait a few weeks because the tax filing deadline had been delayed to Monday, a month later than usual.

The money can be used to support public health expenditures; address the economic impacts of the pandemic; replace lost public sector revenue; provide premium pay for essential workers; and invest in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure, among other uses.

Secretary of State Tahesha Way said the state has brought together local officials and national experts in a working group on early voting because it’s committed to getting it right.

Unauthorized immigrants, small businesses, housing programs and schools among the topics addressed at the Legislature's first fiscal 2022 budget hearing.

State Sen. Mike Testa said Gov. Murphy is salivating at the chance to borrow $10B and likened him to Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" series begging lawmakers for that power.

Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin, who chairs the budget committee, said it’s going to be a long summer.

You wouldn’t think a bill that passed the state Legislature with 109 votes in favor and none against, boasting 30 sponsors and co-sponsors, would have even a bit of opposition.