It is not immediately clear why the session was cancelled. The soonest Senate session is May 30.

Lawmakers are planning to combine a bill that would expunge low-level cannabis criminal offenses with another that would decriminalize possession of up to two ounces of marijuana.

After legislative leadership called it quits last week on a recreational cannabis bill, lawmakers are set to vote on a series of bills to expand the state’s medical program and to establish a process of expungement for low-level cannabis offenses.

The attorney for South Jersey power broker George Norcross sent letters to the homes of Gov. Phil Murphy and his administration demanding they preserve documents related to the controversial tax break program they are investigating, a move which could signal a lawsuit in the near future. In response, Jim Walden, counsel for Murphy’s Tax Break Task Force, lambasted the move ...

The governor was the latest state official seeking the resignation of State Board of Education member Jack Fornaro, following racially charged comments he allegedly made to Paterson school officials at a board meeting earlier this month. “My administration is committed to fostering a learning environment where all students are welcome,” Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday in a statement. “I will ...

Protesters drowned out the state Senate President as he pitched a plan at Rutgers New Brunswick Thursday night to cut state worker pensions and health care. Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, ultimately left after just 20 minutes into a town hall meeting that was scheduled to last nearly two hours. Sweeney planned to tout a package of bills he ...

The state Legislature’s top elected official formally rolled out long-awaited draft legislation for over two dozen bills collectively termed the “Path to Progress” proposals – aimed at cutting property taxes and reducing the state’s pension and health care liabilities. The Thursday afternoon move by Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, just as budget talks pick up, could set up yet ...

Gov. Phil Murphy disputed that any kind of bad blood between him and the senate president ultimately doomed efforts to legalize adult-use recreational marijuana. “He said to me privately on many occasions that he appreciated enormously my leadership and help on this,” Murphy said of Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, – his often-times political rival – at an unrelated ...

In a phone interview with NJBIZ, Kevin Quinn, the newly appointed chair of the Economic Development Authority's board of directors suggested his partiality toward “what’s more consistent with what the governor has started about the focus on how we create an innovation economy, which almost by definition will focus on small to medium-sized businesses.”

According to State Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio, that sum will come from the $1.1 billion surplus the state will have following the end of the 2019 budget, which closes on June 30.

Gov. Phil Murphy included $80 million in last year’s 2019 fiscal year budget from the taxation of recreational marijuana, only to take the revenue out just days before the end of negotiations.

Administration officials cautioned against any sort of celebration, though, arguing that most of the increase will come from one-time revenue sources that will dry up in July.