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Good Tuesday morning!
The virtual lame duck came to an end yesterday. In a few short days, the Legislature tackled marijuana legalization, a reorganization of the state’s largest health insurer and last but definitely not least a $14.3 billion tax incentive bill.
Credit: WBGO
Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) first introduced legislation in 2014.
Three weeks after Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation requiring New Jersey police to wear body cameras, the Legislature on Thursday voted to pay for the equipment touted as both a way to protect people from improper policing and protect officers from wrongful accusations of brutality.
Murphy signed two bills last month. One mandated that officers wear cameras most of the time when they are interacting with the public; the second set rules for using the cameras, when they can be turned off and for storing the recordings they made. The camera mandate was subject to funding from the Legislature.
TRENTON Among the bills that could reach Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk Thursday is one requiring school districts to include instruction on diversity and inclusion in elementary schools.
If the committee hearing on the bill, A4454/S2781, is any indication, there could be some contentious debate. Social conservatives say they’re concerned because the bill includes instruction related to sexual orientation, along with gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, religious beliefs and economic status.
“This program is basically instructing our youth on how to become transgender and/or homosexual,” said Catrina Albo, of Roxbury.
“You legislators that are passing this bill, you are pedophiles. You are child molesters,” said Eliezer Richter, a Lakewood rabbi, who said the plan isn’t teaching tolerance but rather tells kids “if it feels good, do it.”