Gary Schaer

One bill recognizes "doxxing" as a crime of the fourth degree — even worse if the act results in serious harm.

NJ FamilyCare expansion could make 24,000 kids who are undocumented immigrants eligible for health insurance. The federal government wouldn't help pay for it.

Ambulance companies say they're severely short-staffed already and that if staffing waivers lapse next week, things will get far worse.

For the first time in 10 years, the state will provide funding from its budget to Urban Enterprise Zones. Some benefits will be capped to favor small business.

Water utilities would have 10 years to replace all lead service lines, though that would be a soft deadline, under a bill advanced Monday in the Assembly.

A legislative panel Monday endorsed a 10-bill package helping small businesses recover from the pandemic, including $100 million in federal funding and a variety of additional tax breaks.

Sarah Fajardo, policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, said the bills help vulnerable people in prisons and juvenile facilities.

Activists and sympathetic lawmakers have long expected the Legislature to vote on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants now that the election is over.

Gov. Phil Murphy's administration is facing new criticism over the people it has put on the payroll.

NJ adds two new consumer-protection laws to help college students – one making it easier to understand the costs, another helping those with loans.