A longtime GOP lawmaker proposed a measure to let Garden State residents keep up to six pot plants for personal use, once the legal weed law is signed.
Bill sponsor says the change is needed to hold insurers more accountable. Business groups say it will lead to more lawsuits and higher premiums for all.
Senate votes 29-4 to decriminalize the posession of up to 6 ounces of marijuana. Assembly schedules a Monday voting session, but no word if a vote is planned.
Victims' advocates say laws proposed by NJ legislators don't go far enough to protect sex-crime accusers from being re-victimized by a legal process that critics have termed "court-ordered rape."
A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the legislature.
State Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) has introduced a measure that would prohibit electric utilities in New Jersey from shutting off service if it could put the life of someone seriously ill at risk.
Nailing down a law-abiding company to install your swimming pool, or just open it for the season, may become a more difficult task in the Garden State. And there's some concern it could become a more expensive task as well.