Lawmakers moved Tuesday to push a bill that would leave more than a dozen of Murphy’s emergency orders in place New Jersey’s public health emergency order will expire, but Gov. Phil Murphy will still retain many of the broad powers he used to control the COVID-19 pandemic, under a bill cleared Tuesday by a key Assembly committee. Tuesday’s formal introduction of that bill and the first votes on the COVID-19 emergency legislation came just days after Murphy issued an executive order that extended an ongoing public health emergency for another 30 days. Murphy took that step after announcing earlier this month that he is feeling confident enough in the state’s ongoing pandemic recovery to ease many health and economic restrictions across the state beginning Wednesday.