Joseph Cryan

Eight bills on Monday's Assembly board list. None are ready for Senate votes, and amendments were made to the one that advanced affecting new New Jerseyans.

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.

New Jersey's school construction program has money to complete 11 existing projects by 2025, but nothing more. Reauthorization talks seem to have stalled.

Lawmakers consider ways to ease the struggles of businesses, now 10 months since the pandemic began.

Committee OK's extending seasonal licenses to January 2022 but balks at even longer extension. Bill to help breweries doesn't yet get a vote.

At a Senate hearing, testimony says it's because law enforcement is important that it needs to be improved to address racial inequities.

A half-dozen criminal justice and policing bills are endorsed by a Senate committee, setting most of them up for final approval on Thursday.

Firearms you can buy unassembled on the internet, homemade guns and plastic 3D guns are now banned in the Garden State.

The legislation would establish civil fines for possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana of $150 for a first offense, increasing to $200 and then $500.