Nicholas Scutari

The labor department would have to assign full-time unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts under a bill responding to continuing frustrations.

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.

Cable and internet company says few customers exceed 1.2 TB threshold. Lawmakers says it's ill-timed when people are working and attending school at home.

Rules for adult-use recreational marijuana, which voters green-lighted in a Nov. 3 referendum, now await Gov. Phil Murphy's signature.

Latest and last group of amendments includes a cap on growers through 2022 and leaves business groups unhappy about workplace testing plans.

As lawmakers decide whether to require workplace impairment recognition experts, a police DRE group says the training is quite rigorous.

Legislation has been introduced in the Assembly that would move over into its own bill an amendment to downgrade penalties for psychedelic mushroom possession.

Senate adds random drug testing and tests for any suspicion to the bill, which evisions new industry of certified 'workplace impairment recognition experts.'

Senate and Assembly bills have some key differences in terms of how revenues would be spent and whether to limit growers as the industry gets started.

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.

As it's written now, New Jersey's proposed law for adult cannabis use does not block workers in certain professions from smoking or ingesting marijuana on their own time.

Municipalities can prohibit sales, but not until there's a state law on the books.