Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle

Legislation aimed at ensuring that no public services are privatized in New Jersey unless there is cost savings has been approved today by an Assembly committee.

Legislation which cracks down on human trafficking in New Jersey is now law.  Known as the Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection and Treatment Act, the bipartisan measure was signed today.

New Jersey would provide lifetime workers compensation benefits to surviving spouses of fire and police personnel who die in the line of duty under a bill that has passed the full Assembly. The measure is sponsored by Assembly members Annette Quijano, Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Jason O’Donnell, Ruben Ramos and Nelson Albano.

Legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen) to rid state statutes of archaic and derogatory language used to describe people with developmental, cognitive or psychiatric disabilities was approved Monday by the full Assembly.

Tonight's Late Show lineup goes a little something like this. Never got to this one, and I’m dying to hear what you have to say about it. Do you feel that the “grow your own Pot-Guy” John Ray Wilson…the guy with MS from Somerset… should be granted clemency…...

With changes coming To NJ’s Anti-Bullying measures…such as a million dollar set-aside for those districts that don’t have enough funds to implement it…do you feel we still place too much of the burden on our schools to parent our kids...

Stacey Proebstle wrote a wonderful article today on the efforts of Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle of Bergen County to upgrade the existing anti bullying legislation here in New Jersey. Changes such as hiring anti bullying specialists in schools…...

In light of an independent report on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, lawmakers in both states are calling for a roll back  of the bi-state agency's most recent round of toll hikes and asked Governors Christie and Cuomo to support their Port Authority reform legislation.