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.
Proponents of the $300 million tax plan say it's not a new tax but merely replaces one a federal one being repealed. Critics say a pandemic is not the time.
Victims' advocates say laws proposed by New Jersey 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."
Some unauthorized immigrants would be eligible to obtain professional and occupational licenses in New Jersey, under a bill advanced by a Senate panel.
A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November, after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the Legislature.