Friday’s move is the latest in the Murphy administration’s efforts to mirror several aspects of federal-level “Obamacare,” including an individual mandate.

If the landmark vote this coming Monday to legalize marijuana for adult-use falls through, the Murphy administration will begin taking steps to dramatically expand the existing medical marijuana program, Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed Thursday.

In January, the Treasury said the state’s revenues were coming in well short of the 7.5 percent growth called for in the 2019 budget, held down mainly by weakness in income tax collections.

The collaboration will primarily focus on sharing resources and support for the organizations' strategic priorities and to align corporate attraction marketing and branding efforts.

Dozens of activists lined the committee room Wednesday to voice their opposition, support or desired changes to Gov. Phil Murphy’s $38.6 billion spending plan for the 2020 fiscal year, which starts July 1.

In Massachusetts, we have been following the ongoing debate in New Jersey to expand the number of liquor licenses that one entity can own. For decades, supermarkets and other entities in both states have been unnecessarily and unfairly limited under outdated laws that stymie business growth and customer convenience.

The governor's New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund would clock in at $500 million over its lifetime — half of it financed through proceeds from auctioned off tax credits, the other half matched by private venture capitalists, and all of it going toward financing startups looking to call New Jersey their home.

“I want Hollywood to be called New Jersey West," New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, and sponsor of the film tax credit legislation, said Wednesday at the Diversity in Film and TV Production Forum at Express Newark.

Only five days remain before a landmark vote in the state Legislature to legalize marijuana, and the state’s top Democrats are still scrambling to come up with the votes in both chambers – 21 in the Senate and 41 in the Assembly – to approve the measure.

Lawmakers in a key Assembly committee approved a measure that would allow owners of certain businesses to pay some of their state taxes through the businesses they own — a move proponents say will soften the impact of the federal $10,000 cap on state and local property tax deductions.

Committees in both the state Assembly and Senate approved a measure Monday that would legalize adult-use recreational marijuana, setting the proposals for a full-floor vote on March 25.

Committees in both the Assembly and state Senate approved a measure that would legalize adult-use recreational marijuana, setting the proposals for a showdown full-floor vote on March 25. Senate Bill 2703 passed by a 6-4 vote with one abstention in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday evening while its counterpart, Assembly Bill 4497, passed by a 6-1 vote with two abstentions at the Assembly Appropriations Committee that same day.