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11 Aug: Rice Calls For Swift Action On Abandoned SCC Projects

NEWARK – Senator Ronald L. Rice outlined today several initiatives he is exploring in order to complete the clearing of properties purchased in anticipation of new school construction but now left abandoned after the School Construction Corporation’s (SCC) decision to cancel many of the projects planned for the Abbott districts.

“Yesterday, Assemblyman Craig Stanley and I toured Dewey Street in Newark, one of the neighbors most affected by the SCC decision,” said Senator Rice, D-Essex and Chair of the Joint Committee on the Public Schools. “What was once a vibrant neighborhood is now a virtual ghost town, as a majority of the homes are now boarded up after being purchased by the SCC in anticipation of building a new high school.”

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05 Aug: Rice Calls For State Investigation Of Window Guards

TRENTON – Senator Ronald L. Rice, who co-sponsored the State’s first legislative attempt to require window guards in apartments where children reside, today said he asked the State Department of Community Affairs to conduct a “top to bottom safety inspection” of the apartment complex where a young Newark boy fell to his death from a 15th floor window early Thursday evening.

“I want the State to determine if the complex had window guards where they were supposed to have them and whether all rules affecting quality of life issues were being followed,” said Senator Rice, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Community and Urban Affairs.

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07 Jul: Rice Bill For Education Of Planning And Zoning Board Members Becomes Law

TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Ronald L. Rice which requires members of a municipal planning or zoning board to complete a basic course in land use law and planning was signed into law today.

“By requiring more education we are making sure that the members of the planning and zoning boards have the knowledge to make the appropriate decisions,” said Senator Rice. Chairman of the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee. “A mandated course for the members is necessary because the field of land use law and planning has become so complex that the educational requirements are needed to ensure that board members can rule intelligently on applications that come before them.”

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06 Jul: Gill-Rice Bill To Help Seniors’ Move To Assisted Living Becomes Law

TRENTON – A bill, sponsored by Sens. Nia H. Gill and Ronald L. Rice to authorize seniors to terminate residential leases when they gain access to an assisted living facility, nursing home, continuing care retirement community or low or moderate income housing, has been signed into law by Acting Governor Richard J. Codey.

“It’s often a hardship, financially, for senior citizens when they must move from rental housing to assisted living or to a nursing home,” said Senator Gill, D-Essex and Passaic. “This new law provides some transitional support for families helping their elder loved ones get settled in an assisted living environment.”

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01 Jul: Rice-Gill Bill To Create Gangland Security Task Force Becomes Law

TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senators Ronald Rice and Nia H. Gill to create a 26-member Gangland Security Task Force to examine how to redirect the negative activities of adult and youth gangs to positive community involvement was signed into law today by Governor Codey.

Senator Rice said he wanted the Task Force to study the relationships between gangs, prison inmates and parolees while Senator Gill stressed the need to redirect children away from gang membership to positive community activity.

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23 Jun: Rice Calls For Additional Education For Planning And Zoning Board

TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senator Ronald L. Rice, to require municipal planning or zoning board members to take a land use law and planning course, received final approval in the full Assembly today.

“By requiring more education we are making sure that the members of municipal planning and zoning boards are equipped with the knowledge to make the right decisions,” said Senator Rice. Chairman of the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee. “Because the field of land use law and planning has become so complex, a mandated course for the members is necessary. We need to be sure that our members have the proper education so that they can decide intelligently on applications that come before them.”

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23 Jun: Senate Approves Gill-Rice Bill To Record Gang-Related Incidents

TRENTON – The Senate today approved a bill sponsored by Senators Nia H. Gill and Ronald Rice to require law enforcement officials to record whether criminal incidents are related to street gangs when periodic police reports are sent to the State Attorney General.

The bill, S-2125, also would require that fingerprint records include a designation as to whether a crime was gang related. The bill passed 37-0 and now awaits action in the Assembly.

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20 Jun: Rice Champions A Bill To Return Power Back Over To School Districts

TRENTON – Legislation, sponsored by Senator Ronald L. Rice which would establish a new State monitoring system to ensure student proficiency in the core curriculum, was approved by the full Assembly today.

According to Senator Rice, “The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (QSAC) is the only system that can rewrite the present school takeover laws and ensure that children are learning what the State requires.”

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13 Jun: When It Comes To Some Technology, We Need To Slow Down

Technology is power, but it can have both economic and social consequences. Technology-based businesses have become a fast growing commodity and a very lucrative industry around the world. Verizon has become one of the largest providers of communications services worldwide.

Currently, Verizon is profiting from the telephone, cellular phone and broadband internet connection services that it provides to New Jersey customers, and the company is hoping to increase its profits by expanding into a cable television service. I worry that Verizon’s efforts to bring a high-tech television service to New Jersey will discriminate against the poorer communities and hurt them financially.

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09 Jun: Rice-Vitale Bill To Increase Oversight In Aid To Disabled Individuals Approved In Committee

TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senators Ronald L. Rice and Joseph F. Vitale which would increase legislative oversight and public input into the State’s program to apply for federal Medicaid waivers for people with disabilities was approved by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee today by a vote of 8-0.

“The State Division of Developmental Disabilities has neglected to do its job by failing to apply for the appropriate waivers that could have saved the taxpayers of New Jersey nearly $20 million in funding for programs for the disabled,” said Senator Rice, D-Essex. “The Division has since acknowledged that it did not pursue federal matching funds for the past several years. I have concerns that the Division is leaving State government, and the people of New Jersey, with the burden of providing funds for necessary programs when the federal government is already providing money to those who apply.”

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