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By DMUAdmin News & Releases Nicholas P. Scutari

21 May: Scutari Spreads The Importance Of Organ Donation

TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Nicholas P. Scutari, to require organ donation information to be put in public colleges and universities as a way to increase the number of donors in the State, was approved by the Senate Education Committee today.

“Dissemination of accurate information as well as the need for organ donation can lead to a greater number of donors,” said Senator Scutari, D-Middlesex, Somerset, and Union. “Every day, an average of 17 people who are waiting for organs in the United States die because no organs can be found for them. This means 6,000 people a year die waiting for organ transplants.”

By DMUAdmin Loretta Weinberg News & Releases

21 May: Weinberg Measure To Bring More Health Care Providers To Urban And Rural Towns

TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg to expand the State’s partial loan reimbursement program to include additional primary care practitioners who practice in underserved areas was approved by the Senate Education Committee today.

“There is a shortage of health practitioners in many urban and rural communities throughout New Jersey,” said Senator Weinberg, D-Bergen. “By extending the current loan reimbursement program we can help bring health services to our underserved areas.”

By DMUAdmin Loretta Weinberg News & Releases

21 May: Weinberg Bill To Revamp VCC Board Advances In Senate

TRENTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved a bill, sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, that would streamline a State board designed to provide financial awards to crime victims.

“This bill (S-218) will re-focus a good agency that got out of shape in middle age,” said Senator Weinberg. “”We want to ensure that victims of crime get the attention they deserve.”

By DMUAdmin News & Releases Richard J. Codey

18 May: Codey/Lesniak Bill Aims To Protect Nj Students From Burgeoning Loan Scandal

TRENTON – Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) and Senator Raymond J. Lesniak (D-Union) introduced a bill this week to safeguard New Jersey college students from the predatory pitfalls emerging from the growing national student loan scandal. Bill S2729 would establish tough new restrictions on the relationship between higher education and student lending institutions.

“To prey on students who are trying to build a better life for themselves is really just plain despicable,” said Sen. Codey. “The cost of an education is already quite considerable. We can’t let our students, some who are barely even adults, be intentionally misled into choosing a loan provider that could cost them thousands of dollars in extra interest.”

By DMUAdmin News & Releases Steve Sweeney

18 May: Senate Approves Sweeney Measure Requiring Background Checks For Employees Of Independent Contractors

TRENTON – The Senate today approved a measure sponsored by Senator Steve Sweeney that would require identity and criminal background checks for employees of independent contractors employed at industrial sites.

“This measure would serve as a preventative measure to help protect the State’s chemical plants and other related sites,” said Senator Sweeney, D-Gloucester, Cumberland and Salem. “Currently, independent contractors are able to hire workers without knowledge of their criminal history. It is imperative that we know the history of people who work at secure facilities like chemical plants, and other buildings that could be used in terrorist attacks. This bill is about protecting public safety.”

By DMUAdmin News & Releases Paul A. Sarlo

17 May: Sarlo Digital Media Tax Credit Bill Advances In Assembly

TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senator Paul A. Sarlo which would offer tax credit incentives to digital media production companies to relocate to New Jersey was approved by the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee today.

“Digital media production is a fast-growing component of our national economy, and by being at the forefront of business growth incentives for the industry, New Jersey can capitalize on a wonderful opportunity,” said Senator Sarlo, D-Bergen, Essex and Passaic. “We need to position the Garden State to be at the center of the digital media expansion, ensuring thousands of jobs for State residents and bringing in millions in new revenue to the State.”

By DMUAdmin News & Releases Nicholas J. Sacco

15 May: Sacco Praises Use Of DNA Database To Reverse False Conviction

NORTH BERGEN – Senator Nicholas J. Sacco, sponsor of the law that created New Jersey’s criminal DNA database, pointed to today’s news that new DNA evidence convinced a judge to vacate the 20-year-old rape and murder conviction of Byron Halsey as “one example of the power of DNA to find the truth in some of our toughest criminal cases.”

“Today’s ruling shows just how powerful a tool the State’s DNA database is for our law enforcement community,” said Senator Sacco, D-Bergen and Hudson. “Not only has it helped an innocent man get out of a life sentence, but it will ensure that the real perpetrator of these horrible acts will answer for what he did 20 years ago.”

By DMUAdmin News & Releases Richard J. Codey

15 May: Codey Introduces Bill To Ensure Highest Quality Emergency Care For Infants, Children

TRENTON – Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today introduced a bill in the Senate that would require all state designated children’s hospitals to have a pediatric emergency physician on duty at all times in emergency departments.

“Any parent will tell you that one infant death is one too many,” said Sen. Codey. “When babies in the United States are twice as likely to die than those in many other developed countries, clearly we need to do more. The first step is making sure that hospitals have the type of specialized care on hand to deal with conditions that are unique to newborns and infants.”

By DMUAdmin Joseph Vitale News & Releases

15 May: Vitale-Weinberg Bill To Prohibit Animal Testing Approved By Committee

TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senators Joseph F. Vitale and Loretta Weinberg which would prohibit animal testing when a federally-recommended alternative exists was unanimously approved by the Senate Economic Growth Committee today.

“Animal testing is cruel and inhumane, and whenever possible, companies should seek safer, less barbaric alternatives,” said Senator Vitale, D-Middlesex. “Our society’s decency standards, and technological innovations, have advanced to the point that needlessly harming animals for product testing can and should be avoided. However, certain profit-driven companies still see cruel animal testing methods as a viable business practice, and for those companies, we’re pushing this bill forward.”

By DMUAdmin Columns Loretta Weinberg

15 May: The Certainty Of Life In Prison Without Parole

Let’s face it – there’s really no such thing as closure for a family that loses a loved one to murder.

But putting a killer behind bars for life in a maximum security facility can help a murder victim’s family put the public part of their loss behind them.

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